Clipboard, screenshots, and recording that polishes itself — one free app.
A tiny menu-bar app for macOS: a searchable clipboard history, region capture with markup, and screen recording that auto-zooms to your clicks and lands on a clean background. Everything you’d normally pay for across three separate apps — together, and free.
Grab any region, instantly
A native crosshair selects any part of the screen and the shot is on your clipboard before you let go — no save dialog, no folder full of files.
Mark it up before you send
Box and text tools with undo and redo — point at the exact thing that’s wrong, then hit Copy. The markup bakes right into the image.
Everything you copied, one keystroke away
The last 40 clips — text and screenshots — in a searchable panel right at your cursor. Click one to paste it into whatever app you’re in.
Record a window or any region
Press Space to grab a single window the way you’d take a screenshot, or drag any region. Narrate with your mic and mark up live with a pen that fades — clicks and all bake into the video.
Zoom to the click, automatically
Drafty follows your clicks with a smooth camera move — not a jump cut — pushing in on whatever you’re pointing at and easing back out when you move on. The emphasis a good demo needs, with nothing to edit.
On a clean background, in any shape
Set the recording on a gradient or solid backdrop with rounded corners and a soft shadow, then export the shape you need — 16:9 for anywhere, square for X, vertical for Reels and Shorts.
Maccy, CleanShot and Screen Studio — in one app
Maccy manages your clipboard, CleanShot does screenshots and recording, and Screen Studio does the auto-zoom-and-background polish. Drafty does the core of all three — in one menu-bar app, for free.
| Maccy | CleanShot X | Screen Studio | Drafty | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $29+, then renew | Paid | Free |
| Clipboard history (text + images) | ✓ | captures only | — | ✓ |
| Region screenshots | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Markup & annotation | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Screen recording + mic | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Record a single window | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-zoom to your clicks | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backgrounds & aspect export | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| OCR & scrolling capture | — | ✓ | — | — |
| Cloud sharing | — | ✓ | export only | — |
| Open source · local-only | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
CleanShot keeps a history of your captures, not a general clipboard. Screen Studio’s deeper timeline editing is beyond Drafty’s scope — Drafty covers the auto-zoom and backgrounds. OCR, scrolling capture and cloud sharing are on Drafty’s list.
Get Drafty for Mac
A few megabytes, no account, no nag screens. Free.