# The Screenshot App Your Mac Should Have Shipped With > Frame is a free Mac screenshot app from Ential. Capture any area, window or web page, mark it up, redact it and search every capture by its text. Canonical page (authoritative, may be newer than this text): https://www.ential.com/frame --- Capture any area, window or full web page with a single shortcut. Mark it up, hide the private bits, then find it again by the words inside it. All of it happens on your Mac. [Download for Mac3.1 MB](/frame/download) See what it does Free Version 1.4 macOS 14 Sonoma or later Apple silicon [Made by Ential](/) ## Capture Anything Without Reaching for the Mouse 5 global shortcuts cover every kind of capture, from any app. Apple's own screenshot keys keep working alongside them. Grab Exactly the Part You Need Drag around anything on screen. Escape cancels. Get a Clean Shot of Any Window Click a window and Frame captures just that window. Capture the Whole Screen Takes the whole main display at once. The menu bar also has a 5-second delayed capture. Stitch a Long Page into a Single Image Press the shortcut again after each half-screen scroll. Frame lines up the overlap for you. Open Every Capture You Have Taken Your full history, searchable by the words inside each image. Try it here: hold ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ and press a number from 3 to 7. Every shortcut can be rebound in Settings. ## Mark It Up Before You Hit Send Arrows, boxes, highlights, numbered steps, spotlight, redaction and pixelation, all in a single compact toolbar. Have a go on the screenshot below. Text stays editable after you save Redaction flattens text first, so nothing slides out from under it Crop, resize and add a padded gradient background ## Your Captures Keep Working After You Take Them Frame reads, names and files every capture as it lands, so it is easy to find, reuse and share later. ### Find Any Capture by the Words Inside It Frame reads every capture on your Mac with Apple's Vision framework. Search covers the title, filename, source app and every word it recognised. Type in the box above to try it. ### Save a Whole Web Page from Its Link Paste a URL and Frame loads the page in its own browser, scrolls it to wake lazy images, then saves it as a single image as tall as 24,000 pixels. ### Keep a Reference Floating Above Your Work Pin any capture above every window. Move it, resize it and fade it back while you compare, trace or copy from it. ### Get Files That Name Themselves Frame names each file from the first useful line of text it finds, then adds the time and a short ID. Finder stops filling up with files called Screenshot. ### Pull the Text out of Any Image Right-click a capture in the library to copy its recognised text or its QR code contents. QR links copy as text and never open by themselves. ### Turn a Long Scroll into a Single Image Scroll half a screen, press ⌃⌥⌘6, repeat. Frame matches the overlapping pixels, stitches the frames together and rejects any frame that does not line up. ### Drop Captures Straight into Any App New captures wait at the edge of your screen. Drag one into a chat, an email or a doc, or hover it to edit, copy, save or pin. ## Your Screenshots Stay on Your Mac Frame has no servers, no account and no analytics. Everything it captures, reads and names lives in folders on your Mac. Nothing Leaves Your Mac Captures, recognised text and the search index stay in your user Library. Exports go to a folder you choose. Start Without an Account There is no sign-up, email or licence key. Download it, open it and press a shortcut. Text Recognition Runs Locally Apple's Vision framework reads each capture on the device, so private screens never pass through an AI service. Built Native in Swift SwiftUI and AppKit, with no Electron. The app is 4.5 MB and waits quietly in your menu bar. ## Put Frame on Every Mac in Your Team We built Frame for our own team at Ential and decided to share it. It is free to download and free to keep. There is no trial and no paid tier. [Download for Mac3.1 MB](/frame/download) Free Version 1.4 macOS 14 Sonoma or later Apple silicon ### Open Frame in 3 Steps 1 Drag It into Applications Open the zip, then drag Frame into your Applications folder so it keeps a stable home. 2 Approve It Once Frame is not notarised by Apple yet, so macOS stops the first launch. Click Done, open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway, then confirm with your password. 3 Allow Screen Recording Switch Frame on under Screen & System Audio Recording, then quit and reopen it. macOS files still screenshots under this permission. Frame never records video or audio. Prefer Terminal? This clears the download flag for Frame only. xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Frame.app Copy ## Questions Before You Download Is Frame really free? Yes. There is no trial, no paid tier and no account. We built Frame for our own team at Ential and decided to share it. Why does macOS say it cannot verify Frame? Frame is not notarised by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. Click Done, then open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. You only do this once per version. Which Macs does it run on? Apple silicon Macs (M1 and newer) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. An Intel build is not available yet. Does Frame record my screen? No. macOS files still screenshots under the Screen & System Audio Recording permission, so Frame asks for it. Frame never records video or audio, and it only captures when you ask. Where do my screenshots go? Your library and search index stay in your user Library on your Mac. Exported copies save to a folder you pick in Settings, as PNG or JPEG. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Will it clash with the built-in macOS shortcuts? No. Frame's defaults use Control, Option and Command together, so Apple's own screenshot shortcuts keep working. You can rebind any Frame shortcut in Settings. Can it capture a page that scrolls? Yes. Scrolling capture stitches frames as you scroll any app. Full web page capture loads a URL in its own browser and saves pages as tall as 24,000 pixels. ## Get Tools Like Frame Built for Your Business Frame started as an internal tool at Ential. We build custom automations and software for businesses too. Start your audit See our free tools --- Ential Pty Ltd (ABN 30 408 729 275) · hello@ential.com · https://www.ential.com