Screenshots in the desktop app

The desktop app (2.0.0 or newer) takes screenshots from anywhere on your computer and opens them in the same screenshot editor as recordful.app.

Take a screenshotCopy Anchor Link

Start one any of these ways:

• Press Ctrl+Alt+S (⌘⌥S on a Mac), from any app, even with Recordful's windows closed. You can change the shortcut.
• Click the camera button on the floating toolbar.
• File → Take Screenshot.
• Take Screenshot in Recordful's tray menu (the menu bar on a Mac).
• Library → Screenshots → New screenshot.

The screen freezes first, so open menus and hover states stay in the shot. Then:

• Click a window to take just that window.
• Click the desktop to take the whole screen.
• Drag an area. It's taken when you let go.
• Press Esc to cancel.

It works across monitors. On a Mac it needs the Screen Recording permission, the same one recording uses (see First launch on a Mac).

Always readyCopy Anchor Link

Closing Recordful's windows doesn't quit it: it keeps running in the system tray (the menu bar on a Mac), so the shortcut works any time. The first time, a notification tells you where it went. To quit, open the tray menu and choose Quit.

Recordful also opens at login, quietly into the tray with no window, so the shortcut works right after you start your computer. Turn this off in Settings → Recording → Open at login.

Change the shortcutCopy Anchor Link

Open Settings → Recording → Screenshot shortcut, click the shortcut, and press the keys you want: at least one of Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) or Alt with a key, or an F-key or Print Screen on its own. Esc cancels and Reset goes back to Ctrl+Alt+S.

If another app or the system already uses those keys, Recordful says so and keeps the shortcut you had. The toolbar's tooltip, the menus and the Library always show the shortcut you chose.

Where it goesCopy Anchor Link

As soon as you take it:

1. The picture is copied to the clipboard, so you can paste it straight away.
2. It's saved as a PNG in Pictures/Recordful, named like Screenshot 2026-11-12 at 20.31.04.png.
3. It opens in its own window with the screenshot editor.

Edit itCopy Anchor Link

The editor is the same one as on recordful.app:

• Mark up: arrows, shapes, pen, highlighter, text, numbered steps, spotlight, blur, pixelate and crop.
• Style: looks, wallpapers, frames, shadow, 3D tilt and a watermark.
• Export as PNG, JPEG or WebP at 0.5× to 3×, or copy it.
• Share to X, Threads or Forg. Recordful copies the picture and opens the post page. Paste it there.

Edits are saved on your computer as you go. The PNG in Pictures/Recordful is never changed, so the original is always there. The Library button in the editor takes you back to the app's Library.

The starting lookCopy Anchor Link

A new screenshot starts on a wallpaper photo picked to match its colours: a blue page gets a blue wallpaper, a white page a soft lilac one, a dark editor a dark one. It's always a photo, never a gradient, with rounder corners. The web editor, the Chrome extension, the desktop app and AI agents all start this way.

If you turned on Remember my look, your saved look is used instead.

Find it againCopy Anchor Link

Library → Screenshots shows every screenshot as you last edited it. From there you can open one, show it in its folder, or move it to the trash. To add a picture you already have, paste it or drop it onto the Screenshots page.

In the cloud (Pro)Copy Anchor Link

With Recordful Pro, each screenshot is also kept in your cloud Screenshots folder. It's private until you share it. Get link gives you a link to share; if you're signed out it asks you to sign in first, and on the free plan it opens the upgrade page.

Cloud screenshots show in the Library too, and open in the app's editor.