PNG, JPG or WebP · up to 40 MB each · up to 12 at a time
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About PrettyCap
PrettyCap turns a raw screen grab into something worth posting. Drop in a PNG, JPG or WebP and it lands on a gradient background with padding, rounded corners, a drop shadow and, if you want one, a macOS window bar. Draw shapes, labels and stickers to explain it, then blur out anything private before you share it. Every one of those is a layer you can reselect and change. Export a PNG, WebP or JPEG at up to 3x, or copy it straight to your clipboard. Queue up a dozen and one styling pass covers them all. No account, no watermark, and the image never leaves your browser.
Drop one file anywhere on the page or a dozen at once, click the drop zone to browse, or just press Ctrl/Cmd + V to paste from your clipboard. PNG, JPG and WebP up to 40 MB each, and up to 12 in the queue at a time.
Pick one of 20 backgrounds, or set your own two colours. Then tune padding, corner radius, shadow depth and window chrome, and choose the canvas format you need. Drag the screenshot to reposition it, or reach for the toolbar under the canvas: shapes, labels, stickers, a focus area, and Redact for anything private. The preview redraws as you drag.
Choose PNG, WebP or JPEG and 1x, 2x or 3x. PrettyCap shows the exact output dimensions and measures the file size before you commit. Then export to download it, or Copy to drop a PNG straight into Slack, a doc or an issue. With several screenshots queued, one styling pass covers all of them and Export all sends the whole set down as a single ZIP.
Screenshots are rarely neutral. They carry customer names, invoice totals, internal dashboards, unreleased UI, a colleague's email address in a browser tab. Uploading one to a stranger's server to add a gradient behind it is a bad trade.
So PrettyCap doesn't. Your file is read by the browser's own File API, drawn onto a
<canvas> element and encoded back into a PNG, WebP or JPEG by the
same browser. There is no upload endpoint to send it to.
Don't take our word for it: open your browser's network tab, style a screenshot and export it. Nothing goes out.
Yes. Every background, every export format and scale, and the clipboard copy are free. There is no account to create and no watermark on the image you download.
No. Your file is read by the browser, drawn onto a canvas element and encoded back into a PNG, WebP or JPEG on your own machine. The site is a handful of static files with no upload endpoint, no analytics and no third-party scripts.
PNG, JPG and WebP up to 40 MB each, and up to 12 in the queue at once. You can export as PNG, WebP or JPEG, with a quality slider for the two lossy formats; clipboard copies are always PNG, because that is the only type browsers accept reliably. A source is only scaled down if it exceeds what a browser canvas can hold (about 40 megapixels, or 16,000 pixels on a side), so a long full-page capture keeps its detail. Exports are capped the same way.
Pick Redact from the toolbar under the canvas and drag across anything private. PrettyCap rebuilds the screenshot with those pixels replaced before anything is drawn, so the original is gone from the preview, from the blurred backdrop and from every export. There is no layer to peel off. It covers the area in blocks coarse enough to swallow a line of text, but each block still keeps the average colour of what it covered, and researchers have reconstructed pixelated text from exactly that. For keys, tokens and addresses, cover the area with a shape whose fill is solid and fully opaque instead: PrettyCap burns that into the screenshot the same way, and a flat fill leaves nothing to average.
Your styling and export settings (background, padding, corners, shadow, chrome, canvas format, screenshot size, scale, file format and quality) are saved in this browser's local storage so you do not rebuild the look every visit. Your screenshots and every layer on them are never saved; they are gone the moment you reload. Reset style clears the saved settings as well.
Only your styling and export settings, written into the part of the URL after the #, which browsers never send to a server. No image, no file name and none of your layers can reach it, because none of them are styling. Opening someone else's link applies their look and offers you an Undo that puts your own back.
Yes. Drop in up to 12 and they queue up. One styling pass covers the whole set, while each screenshot keeps its own layers and position. Export all encodes every one of them and hands you a single ZIP, assembled in your browser like everything else.
Two of them. Redact replaces the pixels it covers, and a shape whose fill is solid and fully opaque is burned in the same way. Both are deliberately destructive, so there is no layer to peel off the exported file. Everything else is an overlay: labels, stickers, focus areas, outlines and see-through fills all sit on top and can be selected, moved, restyled or deleted at any time. The property panel tells you which of the two a shape currently is, and changing its fill opacity changes the answer.
Yes. The app caches itself on your first visit and keeps working with no connection. You can also install it from your browser's address bar and run it in its own window.
Inset only unlocks when PrettyCap finds one flat colour around the whole edge of your screenshot. It then extends that exact colour outward, up to 120 pixels, so the frame grows without a visible seam. Screenshots with busy or gradient edges cannot use it.
Ctrl or Cmd + V pastes a screenshot from your clipboard, Ctrl or Cmd + S exports the image, and Ctrl or Cmd + C copies it to your clipboard as a PNG. V, R, T, S, F and X switch between the move, shape, text, sticker, focus and redact tools. With the preview focused, the arrow keys move whatever is selected (the screenshot when nothing is), Home recentres the screenshot, Enter places a layer that the arrow keys move and Shift plus the arrow keys resize, Delete removes it, and Escape clears the selection. In the layer list, the arrow keys walk the stack and Alt plus the arrow keys reorder it. With a queue, the arrow keys move between screenshots when the strip has focus.
Yes. On small screens the editor stacks the preview above the controls, and you pick an image with the normal file picker. Export and copy work the same way.