Instructions

macOS

FastShot lives in your menu bar and can capture any screen, window, or selected area. After capture you can annotate, copy, save, pin, or run on-device OCR.

Requirements: macOS 12.3 or later · Apple silicon or Intel.

1. Allow Screen Recording

1. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording (on some versions: Screen & System Audio Recording).
2. Turn FastShot on.
3. If macOS asks you to quit and reopen the app, do that once.

2. Capture something

Use the menu-bar icon, the app window, or a global hotkey:

• Full screen — capture the entire display.
• Area — drag a rectangle over the region you need. Press Esc to cancel.
• Window — pick a specific app window.
• Scroll — capture content taller or wider than the screen (see below).

By default, FastShot can copy the result to the clipboard and open a preview so you can edit right away. Change this in Settings.

3. Scrolling screenshots

1. Start an area or scroll capture and frame the content you want.
2. Inside that frame, scroll the target app yourself — vertically, horizontally, or both.
3. Scroll steadily so neighboring frames still overlap a little.
4. Choose Done when finished. FastShot stitches the frames locally.

4. Edit, OCR, pin, and save

• Annotate — arrows, shapes, text (choose font and size), blur or mosaic for private areas.
• OCR — recognize text on your Mac with Apple Vision. Copy the result; nothing is uploaded.
• Copy — ⌘C places the image on the clipboard.
• Save — ⌘S writes a PNG (or your preferred format) to the save folder.
• Pin — keep a capture floating above other windows while you work.
• History — reopen recent captures from the app. If you move or delete the file in Finder, restore it or capture again.

5. Default global hotkeys

These work system-wide after Screen Recording is allowed. Customize them anytime in Settings → Hotkeys.

Editor shortcuts while previewing a capture:

6. Useful settings

• Save folder — pick a folder with the system chooser. If access is lost later, choose it again.
• Menu bar / Dock — keep FastShot in the menu bar for quick capture; show or hide the Dock icon.
• Start at login — optional.
• Sound & notifications — toggle capture feedback.

Android

FastShot can capture from other apps using Android’s screen-capture permission, a floating button, Quick Settings tiles, and notification actions.

1. First-time setup

1. Install FastShot from Google Play.
2. Open the app and complete onboarding.
3. When Android asks to start capturing your screen, allow it. This is the MediaProjection prompt — required for system-wide screenshots.
4. If you want the overlay button, allow Display over other apps (draw over / appear on top).
5. Optional: allow notifications so capture actions stay one tap away.

2. Ways to capture

• In-app — choose a capture mode from the home screen.
• Floating button — drag it anywhere; tap or use the gesture you configured in Settings.
• Quick Settings tiles — swipe down twice → Edit (pencil) → drag FastShot tiles into the panel. Use the Area tile for a region capture.
• Notification action — tap Capture from the persistent notification while the service is running.
• App shortcut — long-press the FastShot icon for quick actions.

3. After capture

• Review shots in the in-app gallery.
• Delete what you don’t need from the gallery or your device files.
• Share through the system share sheet when you want to send a screenshot elsewhere.

Tips that save time

• On Mac, grant Screen Recording before testing hotkeys.
• For long pages, keep a steady scroll speed and leave a little overlap between frames.
• Use blur or mosaic before sharing anything with personal data.
• OCR is local — ideal for copying text from a UI without retyping.
• If a history item can’t open, the image file was moved or deleted outside FastShot.

Need help? See Support or email skylyllove@gmail.com.