SimplShot

SimplShot is a free macOS tool for capturing, annotating, editing, and refining screenshots, images, and PDFs. It is built for people who need to turn visual material into polished output without switching between separate tools.

Its feature set includes annotations, quick edits, templates, and export. The annotation tools mentioned include freehand drawing, shapes, arrows and lines, highlights and dimming, pixelation for sensitive content, measurements, numbered callouts, custom backgrounds, OCR, a color picker, and keyboard shortcuts. It also opens PDFs directly, including single-page and multi-page documents, and lets users jump between pages, add annotations, and export a polished screenshot. A separate batch capture feature lets users define custom window sizes and capture an app window in all of them in one click.

SimplShot is described for developers, technical writers, support teams, indie makers, course creators, QA engineers, and others who capture, annotate, and share screenshots, PDFs, or images. The page gives examples such as documenting app sizes, annotating spec PDFs, preparing launch assets, creating tutorial screenshots, redacting personal data, and writing bug reports. Templates can save styling choices such as backgrounds, padding, shadows, and corner radius, and a watermark feature allows an image such as a logo or signature to be positioned, sized, and saved into a template for future captures.

It is a native macOS application and requires macOS 14 or later. The product is free forever, open source, and requires no account; the page also states that there is no tracking. It is presented as a screenshot and PDF annotation tool.