FrameCastRoundup
Best scrolling screenshot apps for Mac
Pricing notes as of October 27, 2026. Figures can change — confirm on each vendor’s site before you buy.
macOS’s Screenshot app captures the whole screen, a window, or an area, but nothing taller than the display, and it can’t join two screenshots into one. Apple’s support pages list no scrolling or stitching mode. These apps add one or both.
Each app’s features and price below come from its own website, checked October 27, 2026. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Side-by-side
| App | Scrolling screenshots and stitching | Price |
|---|---|---|
| FrameCast | ⇧⌘1 offers Scrolling: drag over a page, chat, or document and scroll, and it becomes one screenshot up to 32,000 px tall, with a header or bar that stays put kept once. Or Several Areas: join areas from any window, top to bottom or side by side, with a live preview. | Free in the Mac app, with no account. Uploading a screenshot as a link needs sign-in. |
| CleanShot X | Scrolling Capture works in every app, scrolling vertically or horizontally. Separate screenshots can be combined by dragging another into the Annotate window. | Basic is $35 one-time with a year of updates (renewals $19 a year). Pro is $10 per user per month, billed yearly. |
| Shottr | Scrolling Capture of long pages or chats in any app, up to 20,000 px by default and 200,000 px at most. Combine Screenshots puts several captures on one canvas with Add Capture. | Free to download and use; after 30 days it asks you to consider upgrading. Basic is $12 and Friends Club $30, each a one-time purchase for one user on up to five computers. |
| Snagit | Scrolling Capture grabs long windows or web pages into one image; on Mac it needs Accessibility permission. Combine Images joins two or more images with templates or by dragging them onto a canvas. | Individual is $39 per user per year, billed yearly. Business is $48 per user per year. No one-time option is listed. |
| Xnip | Scrolling Capture for web pages, chats, documents, and code. Joining separate screenshots isn’t listed. | Free on the Mac App Store, with a watermark on free screenshots. In-app purchases remove it, listed from $4.99. |
| macOS Screenshot | No scrolling capture and no stitching. Preview can merge PDFs, not join images into one. | Free, built into macOS. |
| Chrome DevTools | “Capture a full size screenshot” in Device Mode saves a whole web page. It works only on pages open in Chrome. | Free, built into Chrome. |
Where FrameCast fits
Free, and it stitches both ways
A scrolling screenshot of a long page, or separate areas joined top to bottom or side by side with a live preview, at no cost and with no watermark.
Part of one free Mac app
The same app records your screen with instant links, edits video, copies text from anything with ⇧⌘2, marks up screenshots, and keeps a searchable clipboard history.
The keys you already press
FrameCast can take over ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4, and ⇧⌘5, and adds ⇧⌘1 for stitching, so a long screenshot is one shortcut away in any app.
Fair tradeoffs
CleanShot X and Shottr are mature screenshot tools with deep annotation; CleanShot X also scrolls horizontally, and Shottr scrolls up as well as down. FrameCast’s scrolling capture scrolls down. Snagit fits teams already using TechSmith. For a single web page in Chrome, its full size screenshot costs nothing.
Sources checked
- Mac App Store
- Apple: Take a screenshot on Mac, checked October 27, 2026
- CleanShot X features, checked October 27, 2026
- CleanShot X pricing, checked October 27, 2026
- Shottr, checked October 27, 2026
- shottr.cc/purchase.html, checked October 27, 2026
- Snagit features, checked October 27, 2026
- techsmith.com/store/snagit, checked October 27, 2026
- Xnip, checked October 27, 2026
- Mac App Store listing, checked October 27, 2026
- Chrome DevTools Device Mode, checked October 27, 2026
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