Capture & Markup
Draw on it the second you take it
Arrows, boxes, highlighter, text and real redaction — the editor opens on capture, and the original file is never touched. Notchy, free.
No round trip through Preview
Capture, point an arrow at the broken button, ⌘C. The shot never has to become a Desktop file you open in something else first.
Redaction that actually hides
A solid block, not a blur. If you are pasting a screenshot of a terminal into a ticket, the token has to be gone rather than smudged.
Full resolution out
Marks are geometry, flattened at the capture's true pixel size — a Retina grab doesn't come out half-size or soft.
Lands on the shelf, as always
The annotated copy stages on the file shelf next to the original capture, ready to drag into a chat.
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Searchable clipboard — filter by text, file name, or OCR'd words
- On-device OCR — copy a screenshot, get its text (Apple Vision)
- Window snapping — drag a window to the notch to tile it
- App Launcher — pin apps to the notch, open with one tap
- Text snippets — TextExpander-style pastes from the ⌘K palette
- One-tap screen capture to clipboard + shelf
- Color eyedropper — sample any pixel, hex auto-copied
- System-wide mic mute for every meeting app at once
- Keystroke HUD for demos & screencasts (secure-input safe)
- Keyboard cleaning lock with countdown island (⌘⎋ unlocks)
- Menu-bar icon hiding — Bartender-style separator & chevron
- Live CPU / memory / network stats flyout
- Open GitHub PR count in the notch (Keychain-stored token)
- iPhone-style call island — Answer/Decline FaceTime on the notch
- Notch Terminal — real VT100/xterm shell in a PTY, its own tab
- Privacy Indicator — pill when any app's camera or mic goes live
- Caps Lock HUD — brief island on every toggle
- Full Charge island with adjustable threshold + low-battery sound
- Alt HUD styles — edge-pinned bar or circular gauge off the notch
- Audio-reactive Now Playing visualizer (real FFT of system audio)
- Custom closed-notch idle animation — drop in your own Lottie JSON
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon
Screenshot annotation — FAQ
Which tools does the editor have?
Arrow, rectangle, ellipse, straight line, highlighter, text, and redaction — plus seven colours, three stroke weights, and undo/redo on ⌘Z. That is the set a screenshot actually needs: point at the thing, box the thing, hide the thing.
Does it blur sensitive information?
It redacts rather than blurs, deliberately. A blur can often be reversed enough to guess a token or an email; a solid block cannot. If you are hiding a credential in a bug report, hiding it properly is the only useful behaviour.
When does the editor open?
Right after any capture, if you want it to — one toggle, “Annotate After Capture”, in Settings › Notifications. It covers shots taken from Notchy and system captures with ⇧⌘4 / ⇧⌘5 alike (the latter needs “Screenshot to Shelf” on, so Notchy sees the file). The shot is already on your clipboard and shelf before the editor appears, so closing it without drawing loses nothing.
Can I annotate a screenshot I already have?
Yes. Copy any image and run “Annotate Screenshot” from the ⌘K palette, which covers shots you took with ⇧⌘4 as well as images from anywhere else.
Does it overwrite my original file?
Never. Saving writes an “annotated” copy next to the capture and stages it on the shelf; the clean original stays exactly where it was. Editing is non-destructive until you export.
Will the marks look soft on a Retina screenshot?
No. Marks are stored as geometry rather than pixels and are burned in at the capture's real pixel size on export, so a Retina grab exports at full resolution with crisp arrows.