Software · Video editing
winter_shot
🖼️ Free open-source macOS screenshot & screen recording app — freeze-frame capture, 9 annotation tools, background beautify, OCR, and a Screen Studio-style recording editor with click-to-zoom.
- Completely free
- macOS
- Open source
- No account
Overview
winter_shot is a screen capture program, available on macOS.
Features described in its GitHub repository: 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 macOS screenshot & screen recording app — freeze-frame capture, 9 annotation tools, background beautify, OCR, and a Screen Studio-style recording editor with click-to-zoom.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
- “🖼️ Free open-source macOS screenshot & screen recording app — freeze-frame capture, 9 annotation tools, background beautify, OCR, and a Screen Studio-style recording editor with click-to-zoom.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of winter_shot is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.
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: 9 November 2026
- Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub winterzxzz/winter_shot (MIT)
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