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Kowalski is a fast, native screenshot tool for Mac. Capture anything, mark it up in seconds, copy the text inside it, and find it again later.
Kowalski is a fast, native screenshot tool for Mac. Capture anything, mark it up in seconds, copy the text inside it, and find it again later.
Fast to grab, quick to explain, easy to find again.
The screen freezes the moment you press the shortcut. Pick an area, a window, or the whole screen, with a pixel magnifier and 1-pixel nudging.
Hover a browser and Kowalski highlights just the web page. Move up to the toolbar and it takes the whole window.
Capture a whole web page in one image. Kowalski scrolls for you and stitches every frame, keeping sticky headers in their place.
Arrows that bend, boxes, circles, text and callouts, highlighter, numbered steps, spotlight and a magnifying lens.
Hide passwords, names and numbers with a blur you can move and resize anytime. The original stays untouched until you export.
Select an area and the text inside it lands on your clipboard: images, videos, apps that don't let you select. Works offline.
Click a window to capture it on its own with a soft shadow, on a transparent background, your wallpaper or a color.
Keep a screenshot floating above everything. Make it translucent and click through it to compare a design with the live page.
Every capture is kept on your Mac. Search them by the words inside the image, star favorites, reopen in the editor.
A small thumbnail after every capture: copy, save, edit, pin, or drag it straight into Slack, mail or your code editor.
Your screenshots never leave your Mac. No account, no cloud, no tracking.
Built in Swift for macOS. A tiny download that lives in your menu bar and is ready the instant you need it.
Capture, annotate, copy. That's it.
No subscription. Try everything free for 14 days.
After the trial, capturing and copying keep working for free.
Capturing and copying keep working. The editor, scrolling capture, text recognition and window backgrounds need a license.
Yes. Everything, including text recognition, runs on your Mac. A license is checked online about once a week, and keeps working for 30 days without a connection.
Only on your Mac: on the clipboard, in the folder you choose, and in Kowalski's history (which you can limit or turn off). Nothing is uploaded.
macOS requires Screen Recording permission for any app that takes screenshots. Accessibility is optional: it lets Kowalski find areas inside windows and scroll pages for scrolling capture.
Yes, on up to three Macs you use. You can move a license to another Mac from Settings › License.
Yes. Turn off ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 in System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts › Screenshots and record them in Kowalski's Settings.
Write to us within 14 days of buying and you'll get a full refund, no questions asked.