Peg 0.5.0

Menu-bar screenshot tool for macOS. Free, MIT, no account, no telemetry.

What's in this release

• Snip — ⌃⌥X frames a region or a window and saves it on mouse-up; ⌃⌥A opens the tool bar instead
• Inline annotation — rectangle, ellipse, arrow, pen, marker, text, mosaic, blur, drawn straight on the frozen screen
• Scroll capture — manual scrolling, stitched by row fingerprints, works upwards too
• GIF recording — ⌃⌥G, up to ~17 s at 12 fps, with a red frame showing the recording area
• Clothesline — recent shots hang under the menu bar with timestamps; hover to preview, click to copy, drag anywhere, ⌥-drag to pin where you drop
• Pins — any shot floats above other windows, zoomable with the scroll wheel; copied text pins as a dark code card
• Clipboard walk — ⌃⌥V starts from the newest copy and walks back through recent copies and older shots on disk
• History, settings, custom shortcuts — ⌃⌥H, ⌃,, and every shortcut is rebindable in settings

Installing

1. Unzip

2. Double-click install.command — it moves Peg into /Applications, clears the quarantine flag and opens it

   macOS blocks apps that are not notarised and calls them "damaged"; the file is fine, Gatekeeper just refuses to run it. If you would rather do it by hand:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Peg.app

3. First snip asks for Screen Recording; grant it, then quit and reopen Peg

Requires macOS 14 or newer, Apple silicon. Not notarised: there is no paid Apple Developer account behind this, so the step above is unavoidable.