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Cropped: capture, crop, compress and share
Cropped is a native screenshot, annotation and screen recording app for Mac, Windows and Linux (Beta) that also crops, resizes, trims and shrinks your images and videos. Everything happens on your own computer: your files are never uploaded.
It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on 64-bit Windows 11, and as a Beta on Ubuntu 24.04 or later with GNOME. Try it free for 14 days with no signup or card, then keep it with a one-time lifetime license that includes every update.
What you can do with Cropped
- Take a screenshot: of an area, a single window or the whole screen, with a shortcut, a timer or Repeat last area.
- Record your screen with sound: computer sound and your microphone on Mac and Linux, your microphone on Windows, up to 120 fps on 120 Hz screens.
- Annotate a screenshot: with arrows, boxes, circles, text, drawing, a focus area, and blocks that hide passwords and private details.
- Crop and resize images to an exact size: by ratio, by hand or with smart crop, and export every social media size at once.
- Look up social media image sizes: for X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest and more.
- Optimize and compress images: to WebP, AVIF, JPEG or PNG, with a quality, a maximum size or a file-size limit.
- Compress videos and make GIFs: as MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM or GIF, with presets for the web, email and sharing.
- Trim and crop a video: cut the start and end, keep several clips and crop to 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9.
- Join videos and add music or a voiceover: on a timeline with split, reorder and per-clip volume.
- Use Cropped from Claude, Cursor or Codex: as AI tools (MCP) that take screenshots, annotate, crop, resize, shrink and edit, and make new images with your own OpenAI or Gemini key.
Everything in Cropped
Capture
- Area and full-screen screenshots from a shortcut or the Drop Zone
- One-click window capture, with its shadow on a transparent background on Mac
- Pixel-exact selector with a frozen screen and magnifier
- Screen recording at 30 or 60 fps, or 120 on 120 Hz screens, with computer sound, microphone or both
- Pause, resume, restart or discard; Cropped's windows stay out of the video
- Quick Trim before a recording is optimized; the original is kept
- Annotate with arrows, boxes, circles, X marks, text, numbered steps, drawing, focus mask, blur, hide and crop
- Captures auto-optimized, copied to the clipboard, dragged into any app
- 5-second timer, repeat last area, capture history
- Every shortcut editable, Mac screenshot keys optional
Images
- Crop with rotate, flip, exact sizes and smart crop
- Resize by width, height or scale; compress to a quality
- WebP, AVIF, JPEG and PNG
- Before-and-after comparison with real file sizes
- Presets and collections, shareable by link or JSON
- 51 platform sizes for X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok and 7 more
- Batch: settings apply to every image in the queue
- Agent / LLM preset for lighter screenshots in AI chats
Video & GIF
- Trim, crop, resize and choose the frame rate
- Video editor: join videos and images, split, reorder and trim on a timeline
- Your own music under the video, a recorded voiceover and each clip's volume
- Clip picker: hover the timeline, press + to keep a part, drag its ends; kept clips export joined
- MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and GIF
- H.264, HEVC, AV1 and VP9; AAC or Opus audio up to 5.1
- Aim for a quality, an average bitrate or a maximum file size
- Preset groups for the web, email, sharing and more
- HDR clips converted instead of failing
- GIF to MP4 and back, with loop, color and dithering controls
Drop Zone & app
- Floating Drop Zone in any corner of your desktop
- Drop a batch: progress bar, one success card and Undo
- Drag results into Finder, Mail, Slack or a browser
- Select several captures or results and drag them out together
- Arrange several screenshots into one image, evenly spaced on the background you pick
- AI tools for Claude, Cursor and Codex: screenshots, annotation with numbered steps, framed presentation shots, image and video edits
- Full menu bar and keyboard shortcuts
- Light, dark or follow the system
- Runs on your computer; originals are never touched
- Mac (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux (Beta)
- Lifetime license, every update included, works offline
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Questions, answered
What happens when the 14-day trial ends?
Nothing is charged and nothing is deleted. Cropped keeps opening and editing files and saving results you already finished; new exports wait until you activate a lifetime license. Buy whenever you are ready.
How many computers can I use it on?
One license is for one person, on the Mac, Windows and Linux computers you personally use. There is no device count. It works offline, quietly confirms the license about once a month when you are online (up to 90 days offline in a row), and stays active through updates. License terms
What does the EARLY10 code do?
It takes $10 off the $24.99 one-time price in Stripe Checkout, so you pay $14.99. Copy it from the pricing section and enter it in the discount code field at checkout. It is an introductory offer for new purchases, with no end date announced yet; it ends when the introductory period is over.
Is screen capture included, and on which computers?
Yes, with the same license and nothing extra to buy. Screenshots, screen recording and annotation are in Cropped for Mac, Windows and Linux (Beta). The Mac version needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 Sonoma or later. On Windows, recordings take your microphone; computer sound isn't recorded there yet. The Linux Beta runs on Ubuntu 24.04 or later with GNOME and records computer sound and your microphone.
Are updates included?
Yes. Every desktop update is included in the one-time price, with nothing extra to buy for new versions. Cropped checks for updates itself, and the full history is on the updates page. See what shipped
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Ask within 30 days of purchase for a full refund, no questions asked. Send the email you used at checkout through the contact page and it goes back to your original payment method. Refund policy
Does anything leave my computer?
Your images and videos are processed on your device and are never uploaded. Diagnostics are off by default. Activation and the monthly license check send only your license details to the licensing service. Privacy & diagnostics
Windows shows a SmartScreen warning. Is the installer safe?
Yes. SmartScreen warns about installers from smaller publishers until enough people have run them. Choose More info, then Run anyway. The Mac builds are signed and notarized by Apple.
Is there a mobile version?
It is on the way: iOS is in TestFlight testing and Android is in development. The desktop license covers Mac, Windows and Linux; mobile will be offered separately when it launches.
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