Q U I C K Y

Capture in a flash.
Screenshots & clips, zero friction.

Quicky is an original open-source macOS capture utility for fast screenshots and short screen clips. Capture, copy, rename, delete, and reveal — all close at hand, so quick visual notes never interrupt your flow.

⬇ Download Quicky.dmg or build from source

★ OPEN SOURCE · MIT MACOS 13+ LOCAL-FIRST · NO CLOUD

01 · CAPTURE

Every capture, one keystroke away.

Full screen, exact area, or a recorded clip — Quicky stays out of the way until you need it, then gets out of the way again.

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Full-screen snaps

Instant PNG of the whole display with a single global hotkey. Quicky hides itself during capture, so it never photobombs your shot.

⌘⌥1 · PNG

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Free-form area selection

A native crosshair overlay that captures exactly the region you drag. No auto-snapping, no fighting the tool — pixel-perfect, every time.

⌘⌥2 · EXACT REGION

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Zone clips

Short screen recordings of any region, powered by ScreenCaptureKit. Pause and stop from anywhere with global shortcuts.

⌘⌥R · SCREENCAPTUREKIT

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Local capture vault

Everything lands in ~/Pictures/Quicky. Browse, rename, copy, reveal, and delete from the sidebar or the detail view.

YOUR DISK · YOUR FILES

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Customizable hotkeys

Every screenshot and recording action can be rebound. On-screen shortcut badges keep the current bindings visible next to each button.

GLOBAL SHORTCUTS

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Clipboard-ready

Copy any snap straight to the clipboard and paste it into chats, docs, and issues. Menu bar controls keep everything one click away.

MENU BAR · ONE CLICK

02 · SHORTCUTS

Muscle memory, by default.

The defaults below work system-wide from day one — and every one of them can be remapped in Settings.

Snap the full screenCaptures every pixel of the active display

⌘⌥1

Pick an areaCrosshair overlay · captures exactly what you drag

⌘⌥2

Open / start recording controlsChoose a zone and start a clip

⌘⌥R

Pause recordingFreeze the clip without ending it

⌘⌥P

Stop recordingFinish the clip and file it in the vault

⌘⌥S

03 · INSTALL

Running in under a minute.

Quicky ships as a classic drag-to-Applications DMG. It is not Apple-notarized yet, so first launch takes one extra click.

Download the DMG

Grab the latest Quicky.dmg from GitHub Releases and open it.

Drag to Applications

Drop Quicky.app onto the Applications shortcut inside the DMG window.

Approve first launch

Run the bundled First Launch Quicky.command, or Control-click the app and choose Open. This only clears Gatekeeper quarantine.

Allow Screen Recording

Enable Quicky once in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, then hit Refresh in the app.

FIRST LAUNCH · TERMINAL ALTERNATIVE

# prefer the command line? same result:
$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine \
    /Applications/Quicky.app
$ open /Applications/Quicky.app

# build & run from source instead:
$ git clone https://github.com/gianpmarc/Quicky.git
$ cd Quicky && ./script/build_and_run.sh

# requirements: macOS 13+ · Swift 5.9+

04 · PRIVACY

Your pixels never leave your Mac.

No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud sync. Quicky is a native Swift app that writes files to your disk — and that's the whole story.

Local vault only. Captures live in ~/Pictures/Quicky as regular files you fully control.
Silent permission checks. Refresh re-checks Screen Recording without re-prompting you.
Open source, MIT. Every line auditable on GitHub — build it yourself if you prefer.

05 · ROADMAP

Where Quicky is headed.

✓ Free-form area selection ✓ Zone clips · ScreenCaptureKit ✓ Custom global shortcuts Multi-display capture parity Lightweight annotation editor Optional microphone capture Export presets & share destinations Notarized release artifacts

Capture in a flash.Screenshots & clips, zero friction.