Beautiful screenshots in two keystrokes.
Glance lives in your menu bar. Capture any area, window or screen, frame it on a polished background, mark it up — and it's on your clipboard, ready to paste into Slack, docs or a tweet.
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From raw grab to polished image. Automatically.
Glance does the boring part for you, so every screenshot you share looks like it was made on purpose.
Area, window or full screen from a global shortcut. Click a highlighted window to capture it on its own — even the parts hidden behind other windows.
Every display freezes the moment you press the shortcut. Open menus, tooltips and hover states stay put while you select — and end up in the capture.
Gradient backgrounds, padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow — applied automatically. Glance remembers your style for the next shot.
Say what you mean, right on the screenshot.
Five tools, one key each. Everything stays editable — move, resize, recolour or undo any change.
Smooth, tapered arrows. Hold Shift to snap to 45°.
Box an area. Hold Shift for a square.
Click, type, Enter. Double-click a label to edit it.
Number the steps in a flow — each click adds the next.
Real block-averaged pixelation for emails, names and tokens.
Pick one before drawing, or select any annotation to recolour it.
- Copy & close
- ⌘C
- Save PNG & close
- ⌘S
- Undo
- ⌘Z
- Redo
- ⇧⌘Z
- Delete annotation
- ⌫
- Zoom to fit
- ⌘0
Out of sight until you need it.
No Dock icon, no windows in your way. Glance waits in the menu bar and turns three keystrokes into a screenshot worth sharing.
- 01Capture
Press the shortcut. The screen freezes — drag to select an area or click a window.
⇧⌘1 - 02Polish
Your favourite background, padding and corners are already applied. Add an arrow or two.
A - 03Paste
Copy the finished, Retina-sharp image and drop it into any app.
⌘C
Your screenshots never leave your Mac.
Screenshots exist only in memory, on your clipboard, or in the folder you save them to. Nothing is collected, uploaded or shared.
No accounts, no uploads, no analytics. Glance never talks to the internet.
Recent Captures live in memory and disappear when you quit.
Access is limited to Screen Recording, Downloads and the folder you choose.
Swift, ScreenCaptureKit, SwiftUI and AppKit. No Electron, no web views.
Questions, answered.
Which Macs does Glance run on?
Glance requires macOS 27.2 or later. It's a native Swift app built on ScreenCaptureKit.
Why does Glance ask for Screen Recording permission?
macOS requires it for any app that captures the screen. Glance asks on your first capture — allow it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording.
Where are my screenshots saved?
Copy (⌘C) puts the image on your clipboard. Save (⌘S) writes a PNG to Downloads, or any folder you choose in Settings → Export. Existing files are never overwritten.
Can I change the shortcuts?
Yes. Record your own global shortcuts for each capture mode in Settings → Shortcuts. No Accessibility permission is needed.
Can I keep a transparent background?
Yes — choose the “None” background to export a transparent PNG, shadow included.
Does Glance upload anything?
No. Glance has no network access at all — no accounts, no cloud, no analytics.
Your next screenshot is two keystrokes away.
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