Guides
Guides
Practical articles about the screenshot problems that come up on a Mac — finding an old capture, getting a secret out of an image before you send it, capturing a page taller than the screen, turning pixels back into text. Written to be useful whichever tool you use, with the parts Sealshot handles marked as such.
How to Search Screenshots on Mac
Your screenshots folder is a wall of "Screenshot 2026-03-14 at 09.41.22". Here is how to search the text inside them instead.
Read the guide →How to Redact Sensitive Information from Screenshots on Mac
Why blurring and pixelation leak, what actually removes data from an image, and how to check before you send.
Read the guide →How to Take a Scrolling Screenshot on Mac
Capturing a whole page when the window only shows a third of it — what works on macOS and what each method costs you.
Read the guide →Screenshot OCR on Mac
Getting text back out of an image, without uploading the image to anybody's server.
Read the guide →Best Screenshot Workflow for QA and Bug Reports
The capture-to-ticket loop, and how to close it without a round trip of "which button did you click?"
Read the guide →Open Source CleanShot X Alternative
What "open source alternative" should actually mean when you are choosing a Mac capture tool, feature by feature.
Read the guide →Private Screenshot App for Mac
Your captures are a record of everything you have looked at. Questions to ask before an app gets that.
Read the guide →How to Detect API Keys and Tokens in Screenshots
The screenshot of your terminal has a token in it. How to catch that before it reaches a public thread.
Read the guide →More on the way. Something you keep running into and cannot find an answer for? Tell us — this list is written from what people actually ask.