Shotik

Why another screenshot tool?

Shotik is ShareX-style region capture with annotations, built around two ideas:

1. AI-first. Screenshots today often go to Claude/ChatGPT in a console, not to people. Shotik makes that zero-friction.

2. Speed without dialogs. Capture → already in the clipboard, already on disk, ready to paste.

Related MCP server: win-capture-mcp

Features

✦ Smart Clipboard

After every capture the clipboard holds both formats at once: the PNG image and the file path as text. Ctrl+V into Claude Code pastes the image; Ctrl+V into a plain terminal pastes the path. No switching.

✦ Built-in MCP server

Connect once:

claude mcp add shotik --transport http http://127.0.0.1:7464/mcp

and Claude gets these tools:

Say “look at my screen” — and Claude sees it. Say “look here” — and just draw a box with your mouse.

✦ Repeat last area (Shift+PrtSc)

Same region, fresh pixels, instant, no overlay. Perfect for iteration loops: fix the CSS → Shift+PrtSc → Ctrl+V to Claude → “see it now?”. Survives restarts.

✦ Flameshot-style overlay with annotations

Freeze-frame, magnifier with pixel-perfect HEX picker, boxes, arrows, pen, highlighter, pixelate your secrets, text, numbered markers — all inside the overlay, before saving. Hovering highlights the window under the cursor; click captures it (hold Alt to disable snapping).

✦ PowerToys Command Palette / Win+S

The installer adds Start Menu commands that show up in PowerToys Command Palette and Windows search: Shotik Area Screenshot, Shotik Full Screen, Shotik Repeat Last Area. CLI works too: Shotik.exe --capture region|full|repeat.

✦ And the rest

• Pin a shot on top of every window exactly where you cut it (wheel = zoom, right-click = menu)

• OCR the selection via built-in Windows OCR (offline, your installed languages)

• Color picker — C in the overlay copies the pixel HEX

• History gallery, toasts with previews, multi-monitor, HiDPI

• Native look: light/dark theme and accent color come from the OS and switch live

• English & Russian UI (follows the system language, switchable in Settings)

Hotkeys

In the overlay: Enter/double-click — copy · Ctrl+S — save as · P — pin · T — OCR · A — copy for Claude · F — whole screen · 1..0 — tools · [ ] — stroke width · Ctrl+Z — undo · arrows — nudge selection · Esc — cancel.

Install

Prebuilt: Releases → Shotik-Setup-x.x.x.exe (installer with shortcuts) or Shotik-x.x.x-portable.exe (single file, no install).

From source:

git clone https://github.com/gorka2354/shotik && cd shotik
npm install
npm start

Windows 10/11 required (Node.js ≥ 20 for building from source). The app lives in the tray; closing the window minimizes it, quit via the tray menu.

macOS (experimental): .dmg builds (arm64 & x64) are produced in Releases. Default hotkeys are ⌘⇧2 / ⌘⇧1 / ⌘⇧7; OCR uses Apple Vision; window hover-snap is Windows-only for now. Builds are unsigned: right-click → Open on first launch, and grant Screen Recording permission. The maintainers have no Mac — feedback and PRs are very welcome.

Microsoft Store: packaging is ready (npm run dist:store builds the MSIX), pending a Partner Center listing — see docs/STORE.md.

Monitors: multi-monitor and mixed resolutions are fully supported (capture and overlay are computed per display, HiDPI-aware). Known limitation: with mixed DPI scale factors the window hover-snap highlight can be a couple of pixels off.

For contributors: ghost mode

E2E tests never touch your desktop: windows are placed off-screen, the desktop is replaced by a fixture image, global hotkeys are not registered, and everything is driven over HTTP /test/* endpoints:

$env:SHOTIK_TEST='1'; $env:SHOTIK_GHOST='1'
$env:SHOTIK_FAKE_SCREEN='test\fake-screen.png'
npm start -- --hidden
# POST http://127.0.0.1:7464/test/trigger {"mode":"region"}
# POST http://127.0.0.1:7464/test/input {"events":[...]}   — synthetic input
# POST http://127.0.0.1:7464/test/capture-page              — window UI snapshot

The README demo GIF is robot-filmed too: node test/film-cinematic.js drives the cursor with eased steps (~200 frames + a manifest), and node test/render-camera.js applies a virtual follow-camera (lazy cursor tracking + push-ins) and encodes the GIF. Simple storyboard variant: film-demo.js + make-gif.js.

Architecture

src/
  main/        main process: capture (desktopCapturer), history, OCR (WinRT / Apple Vision),
               MCP server (zero-deps streamable HTTP), windows, settings, i18n
  overlay/     selection overlay: canvas rendering, annotations, toolbar
  app/         main window: gallery, Claude page, settings
  pin/ toast/  pinned shots and notifications

The only runtime dependency is Electron. No bundlers, no frameworks, no native modules.

License

MIT