Your first capture

The whole loop, once, so the rest of the docs have something to attach to.

1. Capture it

Press ⌘⇧C. The screen freezes and the overlay appears.

Hover something — a panel, a dialog, a window — and Sealshot highlights it. Click to take exactly that, or drag across any region instead. The capture opens in the editor.

2. Mark what matters

Pick the arrow from the toolbar and point at the thing you mean. Add step badges if there’s an order to follow; they number themselves as you click.

Each tool remembers its own color and stroke, so your next arrow looks like this one.

3. Hide what shouldn’t leave

If there’s anything sensitive on screen, click Smart Redact — Sealshot scans the capture on your Mac for emails, card numbers, API keys, and IDs, and proposes redactions for you to review. Use solid fill rather than blur for real secrets: it’s unrecoverable in the export.

See Smart Redaction.

4. Send it

⌘S writes a flattened PNG with your annotations baked in — or copy straight to the clipboard and paste into a ticket or chat.

Sharing something sensitive? ⇧⌘E exports an encrypted .sealshare package with a generated passcode and an optional expiry date. See Sharing & export.

5. Find it again later

You don’t have to name or file anything. Sealshot OCR’d the capture on arrival and generated a title, summary, and keywords, so weeks later you can search for a phrase that was in the image — an error message, an invoice number, a vendor name.

Where to go next

• Workflows — the same five stages applied to real jobs: explaining a bug, publishing a manual, recording a walkthrough, sharing something sensitive, pulling data out of a screenshot.
• Tips & tricks — the shortcuts and settings most people never find.
• Capture modes — fullscreen, delayed, scrolling, Live Capture, and recording, across all your displays.
• The editor — annotation, crop and focus, and everything the canvas can do.
• FAQ — privacy, licensing, hardware, and recovery.