CaptureBar
Menubar Screen Capture Suite
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Menu bar screen capture for Mac — screenshots, video, GIFs, OCR, colour picker, scrolling capture, and annotation, all from a single keystroke.
CaptureBar lives in your menu bar and turns screen capture into one keystroke.
Shoot a crisp screenshot, record a quick video or GIF, grab text from anything on screen with OCR, or pluck an exact colour from a pixel — all without leaving the app you're in.
KEY FEATURES
• Screenshots — full screen, single window, menu bar, or any region you drag
• Screen recording — MOV video or animated GIF, with a configurable length cap
• Scrolling capture — stitch long web pages and documents into one tall image
• OCR — select a region and copy the text straight to your clipboard
• Colour picker — sample any pixel, output as Hex, RGB (0–255), RGB (0–1), or HSL
• Annotation — arrows, boxes, highlights, blur, and text, auto-opened after each shot
• Pin to screen — keep any capture floating above your other windows
• Mockups — drop captures into device frames for clean shares
• Stage Mode — hide the Dock, desktop icons, and other windows for clean shots
• Presets — save your favourite resolution, style, and options for one-tap reuse
• Naming templates — {app}, {resolution}, {date}, {time} tokens for tidy filenames
• Custom hotkeys — separate shortcuts for photo, video, OCR, and stop-recording
• Countdown timer — time your shot before capture
• Capture history — browse, reopen, or re-share anything from your last 100 grabs
• Copy to clipboard — skip the file, paste straight into chat or docs
• Multi-display — pick which screen to capture
WHY CAPTUREBAR
No account. No cloud upload. No tracking. Captures live on your Mac, in the folder you choose.
Built for developers, designers, writers, and support teams who send a lot of screenshots and want them to look sharp without opening a heavy editor.
REQUIRES
• macOS 14 Sonoma or later
• Screen Recording permission (requested on first capture)
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Record with sound
Capture system audio, your microphone, or both alongside video recordings.
Microphone recording requires macOS 15.
Choose your image format
Save as PNG, JPEG, or HEIC, with a quality slider for the lossy formats.
Redact in one click
Blur out sensitive details straight from the post-capture toast.
Pick the exact window
The window picker now lists individual windows rather than just apps -
including full-screen apps - with titles so you can tell them apart.
Resolution presets for window captures
Presets now apply to window captures too, and scaling preserves the
original aspect ratio instead of stretching.
Refinements
The post-capture toast now appears just below the menu bar instead of over
your screenshot, and offers Open Folder to jump straight to the file.
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
The developer, Joseph Morton, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Joseph Morton
- Size
- 1.1 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- CaptureBar Pro Lifetime $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Joe Morton