Area, window, full-screen. Scrolling shots that actually stitch. Select text inside any image with OCR. Record your screen with mic and system audio. Annotate, pin, share — all in one flow.
Built for the way you actually work. Fast hotkeys, native performance, thoughtful defaults.
Drag a rectangle, get a pixel-perfect PNG. Real-time size readout, teal selection border, snap to multiples of 8.
Click any window to grab it — transparent shadow preserved, content only, no desktop bleeding through.
Scroll through any page, chat thread, or document — we stitch it into one long image using Apple's Vision framework.
Select a region and ParaScreen runs OCR on-device. The text goes straight to your clipboard — no menus, no upload.
Record full screen, a window, or just a cropped area. Toggle microphone and system audio independently. Pause and resume mid-record.
Arrows, rectangles, highlight, blur, text. Pixel-snap cursor tracking. Save lands back in your capture library, not a new file.
Stick a capture as a floating window. Useful for referencing a design while coding, or a quote while writing.
Remap any capture action. Letters, digits, arrows, F1–F20. Single-key shortcuts for function keys, combos for everything else.
Every capture organized in a grid. Resize the window, scroll the history, click to preview or re-annotate.
Tap each feature to see how it really works.
Pick a region, scroll the page, hit stop. ParaScreen captures frames as you go and uses Apple's Vision framework to align them with sub-pixel accuracy — no visible seams, no ghosting, no stacking.
Press one hotkey, drag over anything with text — a receipt, a PDF page, a login form, a terminal output — and ParaScreen runs on-device OCR. The text is in your clipboard before you finish the drag.
Choose full screen, a window, or drag out an area. Toggle mic and system audio independently. A clean recording HUD lives at the top of your screen — pulsing red dot, timer, pause, stop.
Before each recording, pick your region and your audio inputs. System audio captures whatever macOS is playing — music, meeting voices, alerts. Microphone captures you. Both, either, or neither.
Open any screenshot in the annotator. Arrow, rectangle, highlight, blur, or add a text note. Colors, stroke widths, and undo — with cursor tracking that's accurate to the pixel.
Every capture action is remappable. Letters, digits, symbols, arrows, function keys. Function keys can be bound without modifiers — everything else requires at least one. Conflicts resolve automatically.
ParaScreen is a local app, period. Every screenshot, recording, annotation, and OCR pass runs on-device using Apple's native frameworks. There's no account to sign up for, no cloud to sync with, no telemetry to opt out of. You won't find a single outbound request in the capture pipeline — because there isn't one.
Our capture pipeline makes zero network calls. Run Little Snitch or Lulu and watch — nothing in, nothing out.
Text recognition and scrolling stitching both use Apple's Vision framework, locally. No cloud model in the path.
Captures save to a folder you control. Uninstalling ParaScreen leaves your files behind — because they're yours.
ParaScreen is in early access. Use every feature, no account required. If you like it, consider supporting us when we launch paid tiers.
No — Apple Silicon (M1 or later) only. ScreenCaptureKit and Vision's on-device OCR depend on the Neural Engine for real-time performance, so Intel support isn't planned.
Never. OCR and scrolling-screenshot stitching both run entirely on-device using Apple's Vision framework. There's no network code in the capture path. Everything stays on your Mac.
We grab a frame every 180ms while you scroll, then use VNTranslationalImageRegistrationRequest to compute the exact pixel offset between consecutive frames. The non-overlapping rows get stitched onto a running canvas. Scrolling backwards crops the stitch shorter.
Yes. ScreenCaptureKit captures system audio without a kernel extension or a virtual audio driver. Toggle it on in the recording setup panel.
By default, ~/Library/Application Support/ParaScreen/captures/. You can change the folder in Settings → General. All captures are also indexed in a browsable library.
Every action. Any key. Single function-key bindings allowed. Conflicts auto-resolve by swapping. See Settings → Shortcuts.
Not planned. The scrolling-screenshot feature is built-in on iOS, and ScreenCaptureKit is macOS-only. ParaScreen is a Mac-first app.