Kiri

Screenshots, text recognition, and screen recording. Your captures stay local.

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Kiri is a screenshot and screen recording app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Annotate screenshots, copy text from images, and keep your captures on your computer.

Features

• Capture a window or region, crop it, add drawings, text or mosaic, and pin screenshots as floating references.
• Copy text with local OCR and read QR codes from images.
• Record MP4 with optional system audio and microphone, or make a silent GIF.
• Trim and reorder clips from one video, then export a new MP4.
• Search, tag, favorite, and export local captures. Recover accidental deletions from Trash.

Get started

1. Press ⇧⌘A on macOS or Shift+Ctrl+A on Windows / Linux X11, then select a window or drag a region.
2. Choose Screenshot, Record, or OCR.
3. Press Enter to confirm a screenshot or Esc to cancel. Screenshots are copied to your clipboard and saved in the library.

Before annotating or recording, click the sliders button to edit the selection's width and height in pixels directly beside its edges.

Captures stay local. Remote OCR is optional and asks before each upload. Linux setup, Wayland shortcuts, and platform limits are covered in the Linux guide.

Setup & help · Video editing · Report a bug · Contributing

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who writes code, reports issues, tries Kiri, or shares it (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

Special thanks to @kerwin2046 for the initial Linux support, and @LLLin000 for the Windows text-scaling fix.

All contributors

Community

Thanks to the people in V2EX, LINUX DO, Appinn, and NodeLoc for trying Kiri, sharing feedback, and spreading the word.

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