Orca Snap · Mac menu bar app · Included with Orca Time
Screenshots that look like you meant them. Straight from the shortcut.
Orca Snap lives in your menu bar. Hit a shortcut, grab an area, a window or the whole screen, and it opens straight into a beautify editor: padding, rounded corners, shadow, a proper background. Annotate it, redact it, and send it, all before the person you are talking to has replied.
macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel. Sign in with your Orca Time account: no separate purchase. macOS asks for Screen Recording permission on your first capture, once. Notes on the install page.
Shortcut, polish, send. Seconds, not minutes.
The whole point is that the good-looking version is the fast version.
Capture with a shortcut
⌥⇧3, 4 or 5 from anywhere: full screen, an area, or a single window. Or click the menu bar icon. The shortcuts are yours to change in-app.
The editor opens itself
Every capture lands in the beautify editor: padding, rounded corners, shadow and a background already applied. Annotate, redact, undo. Or just hit copy.
Send it anywhere
Copy to the clipboard, save as a PNG, or drag it straight into Slack, Teams, an email, a doc. Recent snaps wait in the menu bar tray.
The beautify editor
From screengrab to send-ready.
A raw capture goes in. Padding, rounded corners, a shadow and one of six background presets, including two Orca brand gradients, come out. Then the annotations: arrow, box, text and highlight to point at the thing, pixelate to hide the thing, and undo when you change your mind.
Point, don't paragraph
An arrow at the right pixel replaces three sentences of "see the button near the top, no, the other one". Box it, label it, highlight the line that matters, and the screenshot carries the explanation itself.
Redact what isn't theirs
Pixelate the email address, the API key, the client name in the next tab, before the image goes anywhere. And undo is always there, so being decisive with the tools costs nothing.
On-device OCR
The text in the picture is text again.
Someone sends you a screenshot of an error, an address, a config file. Snap it, and copy the text straight out. The recognition runs on your Mac, using Apple's Vision framework, so it works on any snap and nothing is uploaded to do it.
- Any snap, any text. Error messages, tables, terminal output: if it is readable, it is copyable.
- On your Mac, full stop. OCR runs on-device through Apple Vision. No cloud service, no account needed for it, no image leaves the machine.
- One click. Copy the text from any capture, current or from the recent tray.
Where snaps go
Clipboard, PNG, or just drag it.
Copy the finished snap to the clipboard, save it as a PNG, or drag it straight out of the editor into any app that takes an image: chat, email, tickets, docs.
The menu bar tray keeps your recent snaps a click away, so the screenshot you took ten minutes ago does not mean a trip to the desktop or a rummage through Downloads.
Your screen is sensitive. Snap behaves like it.
A screenshot tool sees whatever you see. So this one keeps everything local and asks properly before it starts.
Snaps stay on the Mac
Captures live on your machine. Nothing is uploaded anywhere by Orca Snap: a snap only leaves when you copy, save or drag it somewhere yourself.
OCR without a cloud
Text recognition runs on-device through Apple's Vision framework. The image is never sent off to be read.
Permission, asked once
macOS asks for Screen Recording permission on your first capture, in the standard system dialog. Grant it once and Snap never asks again.
Why not just ⌘⇧4
The built-in shortcut takes the picture. Snap makes it worth sending.
The macOS screenshot is fine for a throwaway. But the moment a screenshot is going to a client, a colleague or a bug report, the raw grab needs work: crop it, point at the thing, hide the thing next to it, make it not look like a ransom note.
That work usually means a detour through Preview, or a design tool, or squinting at Markup, and by the third screenshot of the day nobody bothers. So the ugly, unexplained, unredacted version gets sent instead.
Snap folds the detour into the capture. The editor opens itself with the polish already applied, the annotation tools are two clicks, and the redaction is right there. The presentable version becomes the path of least resistance.
Licensing
Your Orca Time licence now includes Orca Snap.
Included with Orca Time
Free with an active Orca Time licence
- No separate purchase
- Sign in with your Orca Time account
- Yours while the licence is active
One account, both apps
If your team runs Orca Time, you already own Orca Snap: download it and sign in with the same account. Nothing to buy, nothing to expense, no new seat to provision.
Not on Orca Time yet? It is the menu bar time tracker with no tracking effort, at £2.79 per seat per month, and Snap now comes with it. Two menu bar apps for the price of the one.
Seats and questions: chris@simmance.ai. Manage your account at time.simmance.ai.
Make the next screenshot the good kind.
macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel · Included with an active Orca Time licence | Install notes, including the one-time Screen Recording permission