Show HN: Screendrop – open-source cleanshot alternative
Screendrop is an open-source macOS app currently in beta, designed for capturing and sharing screenshots and screen recordings. It operates from the menu bar, allowing users to capture full screens, windows, or specific areas, and offers various annotation tools. The app supports cloud sharing through a Cloudflare setup, ensuring user privacy by storing captures locally by default.
- ▪Screendrop is a native macOS menu bar app for screenshots and screen recordings.
- ▪The app allows users to annotate captures and supports cloud sharing via Cloudflare.
- ▪Screendrop keeps a local history of captures and does not require a paid backend for cloud functionality.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/fayazara/screendrop |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 10:03:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T10:20:00.361Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T10:20:00.361Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | LkJ2Ph4z89Ku · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Screendrop Beta -- Screendrop is under active development. Expect rough edges, missing features, and breaking changes between releases. Feedback and bug reports are welcome via GitHub Issues. Screendrop is a native macOS menu bar app for taking screenshots, recording the screen, annotating captures, and sharing them when needed. It is built for a fast local workflow: capture something, preview it immediately, mark it up, save it, copy it, or upload it from the same floating preview. The app is designed to stay out of the way. It runs as a menu bar utility with no main window, keeps a local capture history, and only talks to the network when you explicitly configure cloud sharing or check for updates. What It Does Capture the full screen, a selected window, or a selected area.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.