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LuxShot for Mac

Menu bar OCR and screen capture tool with instant text recognition.

By lukebuild. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

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LuxShot at a glance

Version
1.0.1
Released
26 February 2026
Download size
424 KB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
lukebuild
GitHub stars
57

About LuxShot

Minimalist macOS OCR tool. Open-source, privacy-first, and built with SwiftUI.

How to install LuxShot on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for LuxShot and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.0.1 from lukebuild's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to LuxShot show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: LuxShot_v1.0.1.zip (424 KB).

What is new in LuxShot 1.0.1

### Bug Fixes
* Fixed an issue where the app required macOS 26.2 to run. The minimum requirement is now broadly set to **macOS 14.0+**. (#1)

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