The AI-first screenshot tool

Your AI is guessing.
Give it a nudge.

Stop arguing with AI. Just show it. Drag a screenshot into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any tool — one screenshot beats ten prompts.

Stop re-prompting. Drag, drop, done.

macOS 13.0 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel By downloading, you agree to our Terms of Use. Provided as-is with no warranty.
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How it works

From screenshot to shared context.

Capture the screen. Mark the important part. Paste it wherever work happens.

1

Capture the thing

Grab a region, window, or screen the moment you see something worth explaining.

2

Mark what matters

Add arrows, boxes, notes, blur, and highlights so people know exactly where to look.

3

Paste it where work happens

Drop clear visual context into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Slack, Jira, GitHub, or your next product discussion.

Nudgy app annotating a screenshot with arrows, highlights, and notes

Who it's for

Built for the messy middle
of tech work.

Nudgy is for the people who spend their day turning screenshots into decisions, fixes, feedback, and faster AI prompts.

Product Managers

Grab screenshots from Slack, apps, or customer reports and mark them up for tickets, slide decks, and quick team alignment.

Turn visual feedback into clearer next steps.

Designers

Call out spacing, hierarchy, alignment, copy, and visual polish without writing a design-review novel.

Precise feedback, less back-and-forth.

Developers & Engineers

Show bugs, broken states, layout issues, and implementation details with one clear marked-up screenshot.

Make the issue obvious.

Support & Success

Turn customer screenshots into clear internal context so product and engineering can understand the issue faster.

Customer context, cleaned up visually.

Sales Engineers

Capture product moments, demo issues, integration questions, and customer feedback without slowing down the conversation.

Fast visuals for technical conversations.

When words are too slow, Nudgy helps the screenshot do the talking.

AI-ready screenshots

Capture it. Mark it up.
Drop it into your AI.

Every major AI tool reads images natively. Nudgy lets you drag or paste an annotated screenshot straight into your conversation. Your AI sees exactly what you see — no describing, no guessing.

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Privacy-first

Your screenshots.
Your machine.
Nobody else's.

In an era of cloud-everything and AI-everywhere, Nudgy takes the opposite approach. Your visual context stays local by default. No surprises.

No cloud required

Screenshots are saved to your Mac. Nothing is uploaded anywhere unless you explicitly choose to share.

No account needed

Download it, use it. No sign-up, no login, no email verification. Just a tool that works.

Built for sensitive work

Annotating proprietary UI, internal tools, or client work? Your screenshots stay on your machine. We can't see them even if we wanted to.

No analytics or tracking

We don't track usage, collect telemetry, or phone home. The app runs entirely offline.

Scrolling capture

Grab the whole page.
macOS can't do this.

Built-in screenshots give you fullscreen or a selected area. Nudgy captures beyond the viewport — entire threads, long documents, full pages — then drop it into AI for a summary instead of reading every page.

Scroll-capture into AI
Slack Threads
Long PRDs
Contracts
Error Logs
Full Webpages
DocuSign
Code Files
Email Threads
GitHub Issues
Spreadsheets

Features

Everything you need to show what you mean.

Capture, annotate, and share — without the bloat. Built for speed, clarity, and AI-ready visual context.

Capture Anything

Grab a region, window, or full screen without breaking your flow. One global shortcut from anywhere on your Mac.

Annotate Fast

Use arrows, shapes, blur, highlights, and notes to point attention where it belongs. Mark what matters in seconds.

Built for AI Context

Paste marked-up screenshots into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools so they can understand the visual problem faster.

Useful Everywhere

Share clearer screenshots in Slack, Jira, GitHub, slide decks, support threads, or product reviews. Paste into the tools where work already happens.

Lightweight by Design

Nudgy stays focused on capture and annotation. No bloated workflows, no feature creep. Fast, simple, stays out of the way.

Local-First

Your screenshots stay on your Mac. No cloud, no accounts, no uploads unless you choose otherwise. Built for sensitive work.

How you share

Four ways out. Zero friction.

However you work, there's a fast path from screenshot to shared context. Every capture is always saved — nothing disappears.

Copy to Clipboard

One click and the annotated image is on your clipboard. Paste into any app, any chat, any document.

Copy File Path

Get the local file path for terminal workflows. Ideal for CLI tools like Claude Code that read images from disk.

Drag & Drop

Drag the thumbnail directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, or any app that accepts images. Fastest path from capture to context.

Always Saved

Every capture is saved to your Downloads folder — even drag-and-drop. Unlike macOS native, nothing is ephemeral.

Tiny legs. Big busywork shredder.

Nudgy moves fast, stays out of the way, and helps your screenshots say what your paragraph was trying to.

Pricing

Simple pricing for faster visual feedback.

Less explaining, fewer back-and-forths. Free forever for local screenshots.

Monthly Annual Save up to 55%

Free

Start building with visual context. No account needed.

Free
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  • 25 screenshots / month
  • Full annotation tools
  • Save locally
  • Links and expiry control
  • Animated GIFs
  • Cloud storage
  • Always latest version

Pro

For daily AI builders who need unlimited flow.

$ 4 /mo

billed as $23.88/year

Get Early Access

Available soon · No card required

  • Unlimited screenshots
  • Full annotation tools
  • Save locally (unlimited)
  • 5 links / month (24 Hour Expiration)
  • 5 animated GIFs / month (watermarked)
  • Always latest version

Pro+

For power vibe coders and teams.

$ 9 /mo

billed as $48/year

Get Early Access

Available soon · No card required

  • Unlimited screenshots
  • Full annotation tools
  • Save locally (unlimited)
  • Unlimited links + full expiry control
  • Unlimited GIFs, no watermark
  • 5 GB cloud storage
  • Always latest version

Ready when you are.

Free. No account required.

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Questions

FAQ

What is Nudgy?

Nudgy is a lightweight Mac screenshot tool for capturing, annotating, and sharing visual feedback. Grab any part of your screen, mark it up with arrows, shapes, blur, highlights, and text, then paste it into AI tools, Slack, Jira, GitHub, or wherever work happens.

It's built for speed. One shortcut to capture, a few clicks to annotate, and you're done.

Who is Nudgy for?

Nudgy is for vibe coders, product managers, designers, developers, support teams, sales engineers, and anyone in tech who needs to explain what's on screen quickly.

If you've ever spent three paragraphs describing a UI bug you could have just circled, Nudgy is for you.

Can I use Nudgy with AI tools?

Yes. Nudgy is useful for giving Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and similar tools better visual context. Capture the screenshot, mark what matters, and paste it into your AI workflow.

Annotated screenshots remove ambiguity from prompts. AI models understand images natively — a marked-up screenshot with an arrow pointing at a bug gives far more context than a paragraph trying to describe it.

How is Nudgy different from a normal screenshot?

A normal screenshot shows the screen. Nudgy helps you show what matters.

With arrows, circles, highlights, blur, and text labels, you can point attention exactly where it needs to go. The result is a screenshot that actually communicates — not just a raw capture that requires a paragraph of explanation alongside it.

Why not just use built-in macOS screenshots?

macOS gives you fullscreen or selected area — that's it. No annotation, no scrolling capture. The moment you need to circle a bug or add context, you're opening Preview and losing your flow.

Nudgy also does scrolling capture — something macOS can't do at all. Grab an entire Slack thread, a 20-page PRD, a lengthy DocuSign contract, or a full error log in one shot. Paste it into AI and get a summary instead of reading hundreds of pages. That's huge for generating tickets from context, digesting long documents, or giving AI the full picture instead of a cropped fragment.

Capture, annotate, paste — one step, not three apps.

Does anything get uploaded or sent to a server?

No. Nudgy runs entirely on your Mac. No cloud, no server, no analytics, no telemetry. Your screenshots never leave your machine unless you explicitly choose to share them.

This matters especially if you're working on proprietary code, internal tools, or client projects. Your visual context stays private.

How fast is the workflow?

A couple seconds. For vibe coding workflows where you just need to show AI what's on screen, it's virtually instant — shortcut, drag, paste.

If you're adding annotations like arrows or highlights, you're still done in a few seconds. The global shortcut triggers from anywhere, so you never leave the app you're working in.

Is it really free?

The core product is free forever. Capture, annotate, save locally — no limits on that for 25 screenshots per month, no account required.

Pro tiers unlock unlimited screenshots, shareable links, animated GIFs, and cloud storage for teams that need more. But the free version is a fully capable tool, not a trial.