Better Shot

Better Shot is a fast, lightweight screenshot tool built with Tauri + React. It provides a powerful yet simple workflow for capturing screenshots, editing them with backgrounds/effects/annotations, and exporting quickly.

Background Clean screenshot workflows usually need three things: capture fast, polish fast (background/shadow/roundness), and annotate fast (arrows, labels). Better Shot is a macOS-native app that keeps everything local and lightweight.

Capture Modes

• Region capture: Select any area of your screen (??2, enabled by default)
• Fullscreen capture: Capture your entire screen (??F, enable in Preferences)
• Window capture: Capture a specific window (??D, enable in Preferences)

Image Editing

• Background library: Curated wallpapers, Mac assets, and mesh patterns
• Custom backgrounds: Solid colors and transparent checkerboard
• Effects: Blur + noise controls
• Shadow + roundness: Tune depth and corner radius
• Export: Save at high quality for docs, decks, and social

Annotation Tools

• Shapes: Circle, rectangle, line, arrow
• Text: Add text with adjustable size
• Numbered labels: Auto-incrementing badges for step-by-step callouts
• Editability: Select, move, and delete annotations
• Styling: Colors, opacity, borders, alignment

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

• Text extraction: Extract text from screenshots using OCR
• Full image processing: Recognizes text from the entire edited image including annotations
• Copy to clipboard: Easily copy extracted text for use elsewhere
• Automatic preprocessing: Image enhancement (grayscale, contrast, brightness) for better accuracy
• Auto-rotation: Automatically detects and corrects rotated text
• Offline support: OCR works fully offline with bundled Tesseract.js and language data

Workflow

• Global shortcuts: Capture from anywhere, even when hidden
• Auto-apply: Apply default background and save without opening the editor
• Clipboard: Copy to clipboard after capture/export
• Preferences: Save directory, defaults, and shortcut settings persist
• Menu bar: Accessible from the menu bar
• Native performance: Rust + Tauri