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Shotnix

Free, open-source screenshot tool, screen recorder, and video editor for Mac. Auto-zoom, smooth cursor, captions, OCR, scrolling capture, and annotations. Native, private, no account.

  • Completely free
  • macOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Shotnix is a screen capture program, available on macOS. Other documented uses: video editing.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Free, open-source screenshot tool, screen recorder, and video editor for Mac.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Free Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings: scrolling capture, OCR, annotation, and a video editor with auto zoom, captions, and webcam.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Free Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings: scrolling capture, OCR, annotation, and a video editor with auto zoom, captions, and webcam.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Shotnix is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub OMARVII/Shotnix (MIT)

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