Everything You Need to Capture Perfectly
Screention combines a precision capture engine, a professional annotation suite, and beautiful background styling into one lightweight app — available free on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Precision Region Capture
Click and drag to capture any area of your screen with pixel-perfect accuracy. A real-time dimension indicator and arrow-key fine-tuning ensure you never miss a pixel.
- ✓Click-and-drag selection with live border feedback
- ✓Real-time dimension display (e.g. 1304×849)
- ✓Arrow key nudge for ±1px adjustments
- ✓Shift + arrows to expand or contract the selection
- ✓Dimension tooltip auto-repositions to stay on screen
Professional Annotation Toolbar
A full annotation toolkit sits at the bottom of every capture. Draw arrows, rectangles, circles, freehand lines, blur sensitive data, highlight text, and more — all with a curated professional color palette.
- ✓Arrow tool to point out specific areas
- ✓Rectangle & circle overlays to frame regions
- ✓Freehand pen for custom markup
- ✓Blur tool to redact sensitive information
- ✓Highlighter for emphasizing text
- ✓12 professionally curated annotation colors
- ✓Undo / Redo support
Stylized Backgrounds
Make screenshots pop with beautiful backgrounds. Choose from solid colors or gradient presets, control padding, border radius, and shadow depth — perfect for presentations, portfolios, and social media.
- ✓Solid & gradient background modes
- ✓21+ professional color presets
- ✓Custom hex color input
- ✓Padding slider (0–100px)
- ✓Border radius slider (0–60px)
- ✓Shadow depth slider (0–40px)
- ✓Recently used configs panel for quick re-use
Annotation Color Picker
Pick the perfect color for every annotation. The advanced color picker gives you preset swatches, a custom hex input, and a recently-used history — so your style stays consistent across captures.
- ✓Instant color presets (12 key colors)
- ✓Custom hex value field
- ✓Recently used colors history
- ✓Color applies immediately to active tool
- ✓Consistent across all annotation types
Dimension Indicator
Always know exactly what size you're capturing. The floating dimension badge shows live width × height during selection and auto-repositions so it never leaves the screen.
- ✓Live dimension feedback during drag
- ✓Displays exact pixel dimensions (e.g. 1304 × 849)
- ✓Smart positioning — never clips off-screen
- ✓Automatically appears above or below selection
- ✓Ideal for designers and developers needing exact sizes
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OCR Text Extraction
Extract text from any screenshot instantly with built-in OCR powered by Tesseract.js — fully offline. Copy code snippets, error messages, or any text directly to your clipboard.
- ✓One-click extraction via Ctrl/Cmd+E
- ✓100% offline — no API calls needed
- ✓Copy extracted text to clipboard instantly
- ✓Multi-language support
- ✓Works on code, UI text, and printed documents
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Smart Screenshot Gallery
Every screenshot is automatically saved and organized in a beautiful built-in gallery. Search by filename, preview instantly, add notes, or open the file in your system explorer.
- ✓Automatic organization by date
- ✓Filename search with instant filtering
- ✓Inline preview without opening a separate app
- ✓Add notes and descriptions to any screenshot
- ✓One-click to open in system folder
- ✓Copy to clipboard directly from gallery
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Customizable Global Hotkeys
Trigger Screention from anywhere on your system with global keyboard shortcuts. Configure your own combinations with the built-in hotkey recorder and detect conflicts instantly.
- ✓Default: Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + A to start capture
- ✓Hotkey recorder — just press your desired combo
- ✓Real-time conflict detection
- ✓Shortcuts persist across app restarts
- ✓Configure per-action shortcuts in Settings
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Auto-Start on Login
Enable Screention to launch automatically when your system starts. It loads silently to the system tray so it's always ready when you are — with zero startup delay.
- ✓Toggle auto-start from Settings
- ✓Starts minimized to system tray
- ✓Zero visible startup delay
- ✓Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux
- ✓Does not interrupt your workflow on login
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Seamless Automatic Updates
Stay on the latest version effortlessly. Updates download in the background and install with one click. You stay in control — no forced restarts, ever.
- ✓Background update downloads
- ✓Real-time download progress bar
- ✓One-click install and restart
- ✓Auto-install on app quit option
- ✓No forced updates — you choose when to apply
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Cross-Platform Native App
One app, every platform. Screention runs natively on Windows, macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon), and Linux with an identical interface and the same powerful features everywhere.
- ✓Windows 10 and 11 (x64, ARM)
- ✓macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
- ✓Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and more)
- ✓Native system tray integration
- ✓Consistent UI and shortcuts across all OS
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Privacy First — 100% Local
Your screenshots never leave your device. There is no cloud, no account, and no data collection. All processing happens entirely on-device — your data is yours alone.
- ✓Zero data collection or telemetry
- ✓No account or sign-in required
- ✓Offline-first architecture
- ✓GDPR and HIPAA friendly
- ✓You own and control all your screenshots
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Lightning Fast Performance
From hotkey press to active selection in under 100ms. Screention is built with Electron and a highly optimized renderer — minimal memory, zero lag, smooth annotation rendering.
- ✓Hotkey to active capture in < 100ms
- ✓Real-time annotation rendering at 60fps
- ✓Minimal memory footprint (~80MB)
- ✓No jank or stutter on any platform
- ✓Optimized for both high-DPI and standard displays
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Ready to Experience All of This?
Download Screention for free and start capturing, annotating, and stylizing your screenshots like a pro — in seconds.
Free forever · No account required · Windows, macOS & Linux