We've redefined the standard of screen capture. Beneath the intuitive interface lies a world of captivating features that will amplify your insights with unprecedented clarity.
Deskeen presents the most elegant way to capture moments. Every frame on your screen becomes a meaningful story. No complex setup needed—just focus on you and the moment. Deskeen transforms the entire experience.
From the very first click, Deskeen flows with a distinctive simplicity that seamlessly connects every feature. What begins at your fingertips transcends mere capture to become perfect communication.Simple yet powerful—start your new experience today.
All the essential screenshot features you need are built right in: Capture Area, Capture Previous Area, Capture Window, Capture Fullscreen, and Capture with Timer. Access them through the menu or use your preferred keyboard shortcuts for lightning-fast captures.
But here's where Deskeen truly shines—we've hidden some remarkable features that will transform how you capture screens.
Freeform and Precision capture modes, available exclusively in Capture Area mode.
Freeform mode gives you complete freedom to select any area you want with intuitive ease, while Precision mode delivers pixel-perfect accuracy for those moments when every detail matters. Freeform mode has an incredible hidden gem: hold the Control key while dragging to activate Instant Screen Pin — this captures your selection without creating a file, perfect for quick reference. Press the Space key to instantly capture any window beneath your cursor.
Precision mode lives up to its name with arrow key controls that let you adjust your capture area pixel by pixel. Hold Shift to move in convenient 10-pixel increments. And yes, you get the same powerful Instant Screen Pin feature—just one click away.
Could essential features get any simpler or more robust? Ready to discover what Deskeen can really do?
Recording your screen is as effortless as taking a screenshot. Capture any area you want or record specific windows with precision and ease. Choose your preferred encoder from H.264, HEVC, fine-tune video quality with frame rates of 15, 24, 25, 30, or 60 FPS, and select your ideal audio format from AAC, ALAC, or FLAC.
Every recording captures all system audio from your Mac plus microphone input, giving you complete audio control. When you're done, easily export your videos as Animated GIFs or extract Audio files—whatever your project needs.
Introducing Presenter Overlay—a game-changing feature that uses your Mac's connected camera to show you alongside your screen recording. Position your overlay anywhere you want for the perfect presentation setup.
We've also included handy utilities like cursor highlighting and click effects to make your recordings more engaging and professional. Combine these with Deskeen 2's powerful Screen Annotation feature, and the possibilities are truly limitless.
Screen and window recording with Deskeen is beautifully simple and incredibly powerful.
Deskeen doesn't just capture images—it intelligently reads and extracts text, barcodes, and QR codes from every screenshot automatically. Our advanced text recognition supports 14 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Line breaks are preserved to maintain the original formatting, and when text and barcodes appear together, Deskeen recognizes each element separately—ensuring no information is ever lost. Everything is automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to paste wherever you need it.
The original captured image is saved alongside the extracted content, so you can always reference the source whenever needed.Experience smart capturing that never misses a detail—whether it's text or code, Deskeen reads it all!
The intelligent color picker that knows where your colors came from. Deskeen's color picker doesn't just capture colors — it remembers exactly where you found them. Every color comes with a snapshot of its source, making it effortlessly identifiable later.
Seamlessly adjust your view Three picker sizes and six zoom levels are just a gesture away. Use your mouse wheel or trackpad to switch between picker sizes, and hold Option for precise zoom control.
22 formats Endless possibilities. Transform any captured color into 22 different formats across Web, macOS, iOS, .Net, Java, and Android. Because great color should work everywhere.
Pin your ideas, right where they belong Screen Pin transforms your screenshots into digital sticky notes, elegantly pinned to your screen exactly where you captured them.
Perfect memory. Perfect placement. Your screenshots stay precisely where they belong. Every time you open them, they return to their original position — just as you intended.
Magic in transparency. A simple scroll of your mouse or trackpad gesture unveils Screen Pin's magical transparency control. Compare, contrast, and create with unprecedented precision.
Effortlessly powerful. Drag and drop to save. Copy to clipboard in an instant. Instantly recognize and translate text in image. And yes, lock your pins in place when you need them to stay put. Everything you need, right where you need it.
Instant Screen Pin is a revolutionary feature built on our Screen Pin foundation. Traditionally, capturing means creating files, then viewing those files—a seemingly natural process that actually involves many unnecessary steps.
But what if you just want to capture and view without saving? That's exactly what Instant Screen Pin solves.
You decide whether to save after seeing the result—giving you complete control over your workflow. Instant Screen Pin provides nearly all the powerful features of regular Screen Pin. In Freeform mode, simply hold Control while dragging. In Precision mode, just click the Instant Screen Pin icon in the selection guide UI. Simple. Powerful. Revolutionary.
Express your thoughts effortlessly with essential features like Redact and Counter for handling sensitive information and collaboration. Integrated macOS Markup functionality lets you add text, freehand drawings, and various shapes with professional precision.
Redact mode offers 10 colors, 3 checkerboard patterns, plus pixel and blur effects to securely hide sensitive information. Counter features drag-to-resize functionality with 13 colors and 9 font types—plus custom color support.
The integrated macOS Markup editing environment is truly remarkable, with real-time editing capabilities using your iPhone or iPad for seamless cross-device workflows.
Easily restore original images, and enjoy standard features like drag-and-drop saving, sharing, and clipboard copying. Deskeen 2 adds integrated text recognition, translation, and Apple Intelligence functionality. Deskeen makes editing your captured screenshots incredibly easy and intuitive.
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Annotate directly on your Mac screen—show and explain in real-time!
Screen Annotation lets you draw, highlight, and annotate directly over whatever's currently displayed on your Mac screen. Whether it's documents, web pages, or apps—mark them up with pens, lines, shapes, and text.
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Experience more dynamic and comprehensible screen work with Screen Annotation.
Naturally, you can capture screenshots and screen record while using Screen Annotation. These captures are automatically labeled in Capture History for easy identification.Turn endless web pages into single, complete images!
Scrolling Capture automatically stitches together long web pages or documents from top to bottom, creating one seamless image. No more multiple screenshots—just scroll and let Deskeen capture everything continuously.
One click preserves entire long-form content perfectly—incredibly convenient!
Automatically capture multiple screens in sequence!
Page Capture automatically captures slide presentations, long web pages, or any multi-screen content in sequence. Set it up once, and Deskeen handles the page-turning and capturing automatically. Perfect for capturing every slide in HTML presentations or Keynote slides, creating video summaries by capturing YouTube frames at intervals, systematically capturing web page sections while scrolling, or documenting every screen in multi-page applications. The process is amazingly simple: specify your target application, set the navigation key (spacebar, arrow keys, etc.), define the number of images and wait time, then hit capture—Deskeen handles everything else automatically. Works seamlessly whether content flows horizontally (slides) or vertically (scrolling pages).
Comprehensive Options Include:
Set it once, and completely automate repetitive capture tasks—absolutely convenient!
Instant access to your most-used features plus insightful capture analytics.
Deskeen's widget is genuinely useful—execute any function with a single click while viewing easy-to-understand statistics that analyze your capture patterns and workflow habits.
Perfect for those moments when you can't remember keyboard shortcuts, when you want to focus on just your most frequently used features, or when creating your own personalized toolkit for maximum efficiency.
Arrange your preferred functions in the widget, and use Deskeen anytime with simple clicks—no need to memorize shortcuts. It's surprisingly more convenient than you'd expect! Your daily work flow, beautifully visualized. Deskeen organizes your daily captures to show how your work progresses, giving you insight into just how much you accomplish each day.
The Deskeen widget isn't trying to be extraordinary—it focuses on immediate convenience and revealing your work patterns to help you understand and optimize your productivity.
When capturing your screen, you want options. Maybe you need a quick copy to clipboard. Perhaps you want to save it as a file. Or you might want to review it later. Capture Preview is the answer. It's a powerful yet simple way to do more with your captures. Pin them to your screen for quick reference. Annotate them with precision. Copy them instantly or save them for later — all right where you need them. And it works the way you do. Position Capture Preview on either edge of your display through Settings. With multiple monitors, it follows your focus seamlessly, making your workflow more intuitive than ever.
All your captured content lives in Capture History, where powerful features make organization effortless. Access your captures instantly, annotate with precision, and manage your library with intuitive tools designed for the way you work.
A complete suite of tools at your fingertips Restore Instantly Bring back any capture, anytime, anywhere. Your content is always ready when you need it. Powerful Features Made Simple From Quick Look to Screen Pin, every tool is thoughtfully designed for seamless workflow. Annotate captures, copy to clipboard, or use AI-powered renaming — all with just a click.
Smart Management Set custom retention periods to keep your library organized automatically. Your captures, managed your way.
Seamless Tags Integration Leverage the power of macOS Finder tags to organize and find captures effortlessly.
Advanced Filtering Find exactly what you need with intelligent filtering across screenshots, videos, text, and colors. Navigate your captures with precision and speed.
More than just tags. Incredibly integrated. Tags in Deskeen aren't just labels — they're seamlessly recognized by macOS Finder the moment you apply them to your images. Search through your tagged screenshots instantly after export or iCloud sync. With native support for macOS tag colors, your organized collections stay vibrant across your entire ecosystem — from Mac to iPhone and iPad — when synced through iCloud. From basic organization to deep system integration, Deskeen's revolutionary approach to tagging transforms how you manage your screenshots. It's not just powerful. It's precisely what you'd expect from a Mac app.
AI integration. Reimagined. Seamlessly integrated with OpenAI and Claude, Deskeen analyzes your screenshots to suggest intelligent filenames. It's just the beginning of our AI journey. Get ready for even more remarkable AI features ahead. Magic happens with AI. And this is only the beginning.
iCloud Sync in Deskeen. Seamlessly intelligent. Intelligently seamless. Sync your content exactly how you want it - by date, image dimensions, or file size. When you change sync preferences, Deskeen doesn't just delete your existing data. It intelligently archives everything, ensuring your synchronized content stays protected. Any changes you make — whether it's updating tags or editing files — sync instantly across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad through iCloud. Check your latest work anywhere, anytime. It's beautifully simple. Incredibly intuitive. And with Live Tags, it's more powerful than ever.
Instantly organize your entire desktop with a single click. Whether you're screen sharing, presenting, capturing, or recording, Deskeen intelligently safeguards your privacy by concealing sensitive information. Transform your cluttered workspace into a pristine desktop environment — all with just one click or shortcut.
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