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Loved by designers, marketers, and professionals

Your Mac takes the screenshot. Sowiks does the rest.

Take a screenshot on Mac, annotate it, and turn it into a link — in one click.

Free to start. Download and capture in seconds.

Sowiks screenshot editor product preview

Best screenshot app for Mac for those who care about pixels

Powerful capture, editing, and sharing tools — designed for professionals

Advanced Capture

Area, window, full screen, scrolling, and OCR capture with your own hotkeys.

Built-in Editor

Annotate, draw, highlight, and blur right after you capture.

Highlight What Matters

Dim the rest of the image and draw attention to the most important part.

Add Text

Insert clear, editable text with different fonts, sizes, and styles.

Step Numbers

Add numbered labels to create easy step-by-step guides.

Blur Private Information

Quickly hide passwords, email addresses, and other sensitive information before sharing.

Color Picker

Grab any color's hex code straight from the screenshot — the cursor picks it up automatically. Press Tab to copy it.

Overlay Screenshots

Place one screenshot on top of another. Move, resize, and compare them with ease.

Resize Screenshots

Resize your screenshot to any size before exporting. Drag the corners or crop it to fit perfectly.

Beautiful Backgrounds

Add a solid color, gradient, or transparent background to make your screenshots look clean and professional.

Combine Screenshots

Capture up to 10 screenshots and combine them into one gallery with a shared link or ZIP file.

OCR Extraction

Copy text straight out of any screenshot.

Screenshot Collections

Keep your captures organized with collections and tags.

Cloud Storage

Upload to your Sowiks cloud and open your screenshots from any Mac or the web.

Instant Sharing

One-click links with optional expiration and password protection.

Capture

Capture exactly what you need

Whether it's a specific region, a full window, or a scrolling page, Sowiks handles it all with pixel-perfect precision.

  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Scrolling capture
  • Retina support
Area
Window
Full Screen
Scrolling
Pen demo
Pen
Draw freehand in any color and stroke width.
Edit

Edit with precision

Add context to your screenshots with a powerful set of annotation tools. Highlight, blur, or add text in seconds.

Share

Share links, on your terms

Care about security? Turn any screenshot into a link with one click. Set an expiration time and add a password so it stays visible only to the people you shared the link with.

  • Link expiration
  • Password protection
  • One-click copy
sowiks.app/s/aX9k2
Expires in7 days
Password••••••
Original4.8 MB
Compressed0.9 MB
Up to 80% smaller, same sharp quality
Optimize

Smaller files, same quality

Sowiks compresses every screenshot automatically, so they upload faster and take up far less of your storage with no visible drop in quality.

Collections

Take and share the collection of screenshots with a single link

Sometimes one screenshot is not enough. If you are making instructions or working in customer support, there is no need to share each screenshot separately. With Sowiks Collections Screenshot features, you can take up to 10 screenshots, edit them one by one, and share all of them as a single screenshot with one link.

Best for:

  • Instructions and onboarding
  • Bug fixing explanations
  • Marketing funnels examples, statistics reports
  • UX/UI reviews
  • Customer support
  • IT setup
  • Just in case
One link10 screenshots
Record

Lights. Screen. Action.

Need to show your whole screen? Or just one part of it? No problem. You can record your screen, camera, voice, and even the sound around you. Highlight important details with arrows or spotlights, blur anything you want to keep private, and when you're done, your recording is instantly ready as a shareable link. No huge video files cluttering up your desktop.

Screen recording demo

No commitments, start for free

You have 100 MB of free storage for cloud, including link sharing, and no limits for local storage on your MacBook.

Free

Everything you need to capture and edit

$0forever
  • Unlimited local capture and editing
  • All capture modes plus OCR
  • 100 MB cloud storage
  • Shareable links (expire after 30 days)
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LIFETIME

Solo

Pay once. Yours forever.

$14.99one-time
  • Everything in Free
  • 1 GB cloud storage
  • Permanent share links
  • No Sowiks branding
  • All future updates
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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Sowiks.

How do I crop a screenshot on Mac?
Take a screenshot with Sowiks and it opens straight in the editor — pick the Crop tool, drag the handles around the part you want to keep, and the rest is trimmed away. No need to open Preview or Photos to crop a screenshot on Mac.
How do I paste a screenshot on Mac?
Sowiks copies your finished, annotated screenshot to the clipboard, so you can paste it into Slack, an email, a doc or any app with Cmd+V. OCR text grabs copy the same way, ready to paste.
How do I edit a screenshot on Mac?
Every screenshot you capture with Sowiks opens in a built-in editor with tools for pen, arrows, text, shapes, highlight, blur and more — so you can edit a screenshot on Mac without switching to another app.
How do I extract text from an image on Mac?
Use the OCR tool in Sowiks: drag over any text in a screenshot or image and it's copied to your clipboard, ready to paste. It's the fastest way to extract text from an image on Mac — no retyping.
Is there a free trial?
There's no trial because there's a free plan with 100 MB of cloud storage at no cost. Upgrade to Solo ($14.99, one-time) whenever you want more.
How is my data handled?
Your screenshots are private by default. Share links are unguessable, and on Solo they never expire unless you delete them.
How do I get Solo?
Solo is a one-time $14.99 purchase inside the Sowiks Mac app. It unlocks 1 GB of cloud storage and permanent, unbranded links on your account.

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