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A key, a drag, a few marks, Ctrl+C.
A light capture tool, plus the things that read the screen: a colour picker, a pen for presenting, and text recognition for agents.
Screen recordingComing soon · free
What it does.
Capture
Drag an area, or pick a window or a display. Boxes, arrows, pen, words and mosaic. Ctrl+C copies to every device, Ctrl+Shift+C to this one, Ctrl+S saves.
- Key
- Alt+S
- Platforms
- Win: works
- Mac: works
- Linux: not yet
- Permission
- macOS: Screen Recording
Colour picker
A loupe over the screen; click to copy the colour as hex, rgb or hsl.
- Key
- Alt+Shift+C
- Platforms
- Win: works
- Mac: works
- Linux: not yet
- Permission
- macOS: Screen Recording
Presentation mode
Draw on the live screen while you present: pen, highlighter, laser pointer, eraser, clear all.
- Key
- Alt+Shift+D
- Platforms
- Win: works
- Mac: not yet
- Linux: not yet
Text recognition
Reads the text in a capture with its position, on the computer itself (the OS’s own recognition). Today it is for agents.
- Platforms
- Win: works
- Mac: works
- Linux: not yet
Dashed: from the CLI and agents only, no keys there. Struck through: not on that system yet.
With an agent.
Add the MCP server once, and your agent can use the tools below. Tools that look need read access; tools that change something need write access, and stay off until you allow them in natdal.
“Capture the settings screen, hide anything personal, and write a manual.” Capture, read the text, mask what must not be seen, mark the rest.
claude mcp add inkshot -- inkshot mcp| Tool | Access | What |
|---|---|---|
| list_displays | — | displays and what works here |
| list_windows | read | the windows on screen |
| capture_screen | read | capture a display, a window or a region |
| read_text | — | text in a capture, with rectangles |
| annotate | — | boxes, arrows, text; fill, mosaic or blur to hide |
| save_image | — | save the picture as a PNG |
| get_color | read | the colour at a point |
| copy_image | write | copy to the clipboard, and your devices |
| presentation | write | presentation mode on or off |
Permissions.
natdal asks for these when you turn the feature on. Without them the extension keeps running, limited, and says what is missing.
- macOS: Screen Recording · Capture, Colour picker