Sowiks: Screenshot & Recording

Sowiks is a Mac menu bar tool for capturing, marking up and sharing screenshots and screen recordings. Window capture with hotkeys and the built-in editor are free with no account: arrows, shapes, text, numbered step counters, blur for sensitive data, and backgrounds with padding and shadows for nicer shares. The paid Solo tier adds area and scrolling capture for long pages, OCR to pull text from any image, and screen recording with GIF export, live annotation and click ripples.

Finished captures can be shared as a secure link in seconds. The free tier is genuinely usable, but scrolling capture and recording, the features that set it apart, need Solo. It suits developers filing bug reports, support teams and anyone writing tutorials who shares visual context many times a day.