Common Shot

Screenshots straight to the clipboard.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Drag, click, or Return.

Drag for an area, with its size and a loupe; click for the window under the pointer; Return for the whole screen.

Sized for prompts.

Shots go to the clipboard as PNG, at most 1568 pixels on the long edge, with what they cost in Claude tokens. Full resolution is a setting.

Recent shots, close by.

The menu bar panel keeps your recent shots by day. Click one to copy it again, or drag it out as a file.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonShot.zip, unzip it, and move Common Shot to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Shot.
  3. Allow Screen Recording Common Shot asks for it to capture what you pick. Flip the switch in System Settings.
  4. Set it up Press ⇧⌘2, drag over part of the screen, and paste. Click a window instead to take only that window.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- shot. Every step, with checksums, is in the install guide.

More Common Tools.

Common Command Press ⌥Space, type a few letters, press Return: apps, System Settings panes, files, sums, and web searches in one quiet panel. Common Stats CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, storage, and battery in the menu bar, with a real menu of graphs under it. Common Bar Moves the menu bar icons you rarely use into folders, clear of the notch, and opens any one of them right where its folder is. Common Keys Fixes words typed on the wrong keyboard layout, for every keyboard macOS has, and keeps each app on the language you write there. Common Color Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and the color is on the clipboard as hex, CSS, SwiftUI, or AppKit, converted correctly from the display’s color space. Common Battery The level, the time left, what the battery is doing, and alerts when it runs low or reaches your charge level. Common Glyph A character, a sticker, an emoji, an animated GIF, or a word: as many as you like, each its own menu bar item.