Overview

Bigshot is a macOS screenshot app that lives under the notch. It captures the screen five ways, annotates and measures in its editor, keeps captures in a Library, and can save them into a code repository where Claude Code and Codex can read them.

Start here

• Getting started: install, permission, first capture

Using Bigshot

• Capture modes: Display, Window, Area, Smart, Frame, and what happens after a capture
• The island: Notch View, Peek View, Expanded View, the pod, and the menu bar
• The Capture Editor: crop, shapes, arrows, text, steps, redaction, measuring, colour picking, Live Text
• The Library: browsing, search, export, tags, moving between Projects, Keep and automatic cleanup
• Projects and screenshot context: saving into a workspace, task tags, sharing screenshots with agents
• Code Lens: the code behind part of the screen, what the Code map reads, and why it only knows your own code
• Hooks and LLM connections: running Claude Code, Codex or an API on every capture
• Workflows: step-by-step recipes

Reference

• Shortcuts
• Settings
• Licence and updates
• Troubleshooting

At a glance