Screendrop

Screendrop is a native, local-first macOS menu bar application for capturing, annotating, recording, editing, compressing, and sharing screenshots and screen recordings. It captures displays, windows, or selected areas; provides configurable hotkeys and after-capture workflows; and includes a floating preview stack, offline History, non-destructive annotation with redaction and mockup effects, and a recording studio with separate screen, camera, microphone, system-audio, cursor, click, and keystroke data. Recording projects support timeline edits, zooms, reconstructed cursors, camera layouts, captions, transcript-based cuts, social aspect ratios, and reusable style presets. On-device speech recognition provides transcription, karaoke-style captions, filler-word removal, silence trimming, and a notch-native teleprompter. Optional self-hosted sharing uses a Cloudflare Worker, R2, and D1: the Worker authenticates uploads, stores media and metadata, and returns share links for screenshot viewers or Loom-style recording pages with transcripts, comments, playback controls, and scrub previews. Captures, projects, annotation sidecars, and transcripts remain on the Mac unless explicitly uploaded, and there is no central Screendrop account or hosted server. The project is distributed as a DMG or Homebrew cask, requires macOS 26.4 or newer according to its README, and is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal.