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Annotation editor
Arrows, boxes, step numbers, speech balloons, highlighter and a smart eraser — plus blur and pixelate for anything that shouldn't leave your machine.
Native macOS menu bar app
Capture it.Mark it up.Paste the link.
SwiftX takes a screenshot from hotkey to shareable URL without you touching another app. Annotation, effects, recording and your own upload destinations — one pass, no round trips.
Signed, notarized and on Homebrew. Capture, editing, recording and uploads all work today — see what’s next.
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⌘⇧4to capture
One motion
Four beats between seeing it and sending it
Every step after the hotkey is something you configured once and never think about again.
- 01Press
Capture
A hotkey dims the screen. Drag out a region, or hover a window to snap to its edges.
- 02Mark
Annotate
Arrows, step numbers and blur land straight on the shot — no trip through another app.
- 03Send
Upload
It goes to your own bucket or host in the background while you carry on working.
- 04Paste
Link is ready
The URL is on your clipboard before the window closes. Paste it and move on.
What you get
Everything the screenshot needs before it’s useful
Marking up, hiding the parts nobody should see, recording the bug instead of describing it, and getting it somewhere other people can open.
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Screen recording
Record a window or a region to H.264, HEVC, GIF or WebM, with system and microphone audio and pause/resume mid-take.
- Capture full screen⌃⇧3
- Capture region⌃⇧4
- Capture active window⌃⇧5
- Grab text on screen⌃⇧O
Global hotkeys
Bind any capture, tool or workflow to a key combination that works from any app, whether or not SwiftX is in front.
51 image effects
Adjustments, filters, manipulations and drawings you can stack into a preset and apply automatically to every capture.
Amazon S3
Storage
Backblaze B2
Storage
Azure Blob
Storage
Nextcloud
Self-hosted
ownCloud
Self-hosted
Seafile
Self-hosted
Chevereto
Image host
Google Drive
Connected account
YouTube
Connected account
OneDrive
Connected account
Custom
.sxcu
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Your own destinations
Upload to storage you control, a self-hosted server, an image host, or a connected Google Drive, YouTube or OneDrive account — then get the URL back on your clipboard. No SwiftX account, no SwiftX servers.
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Text and codes on screen
Pull text straight off the screen with Vision-powered recognition, or read a QR code without reaching for your phone.
Always there
It lives in the menu bar, not in your Dock
SwiftX has no window to find and no app to switch to. It sits in the menu bar waiting for a hotkey, and gets out of the way the moment your link is copied.
- Real global hotkeys that fire from any app
- Watch a folder and upload anything dropped in it
- Drive it from the command line or a swiftx:// link — sharex:// links work too
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Capture region⌃⇧4
Capture window⌃⇧5
Record screen⌃⇧6
Grab text on screen⌃⇧O
Pick a colour⌃⇧C
Open history⌃⇧H
Last upload2.4 MB · 0.8s
Coming from Windows
Your ShareX config comes with you
SwiftX reads the same uploader and preset files, keeps a compatible history database, and works with the browser extensions you already have installed. The destinations you spent an evening getting right keep working. ShareX is a separate project — SwiftX is not affiliated with it.
.sxcuCustom uploaders
.sxieEffect presets
.jsonHistory database
Questions
The things people ask first
Two ways: download the .dmg straight from the GitHub releases page, or tap the SwiftX repo with `brew tap retrohazard/swiftx https://github.com/RetroHazard/SwiftX`, install with `brew install --cask swiftx`, and get updates through `brew upgrade`. Builds are signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized, so Gatekeeper opens them without a right-click or a trip to System Settings. Building from source works too, if you'd rather compile it yourself.
Try it on your own screen
Free and open source, for macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
brew tap retrohazard/swiftx https://github.com/RetroHazard/SwiftX && brew install --cask swiftxv2026.7.1 · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · signed and notarized