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Repeatable screenshots of your macOS apps

Use Pose to take offline, repeatable screenshots of your app. Any screen, in any state. Click, type and drive your app, then capture details, the window or the whole desktop. Update your shots for each release with almost no effort.

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Pose's gallery: three shots of Spot On listed in the sidebar, and each shot's light and dark pictures side by side, with the time it was taken.
Every screenshot on this page was taken by Pose, from a pose file. Here Pose shows the pictures it took for Spot On's website.

Change the UI. Update screenshots automatically.

You moved a button, and now all the pictures on your website, in your docs and in the App Store are out of date. Retaking them by hand takes an afternoon, and they never quite match the ones you took last time. With Pose you get the same screens at the same size, in the same order, with the same demo data.

Redesign as often as you like: your screenshots keep up.

Easy visual recipes

Each shot is a list of simple, clear steps you set in a visual editor. Click together a user journey of any length with actions: click, double click, press keys, type text, wait for labels, choose from menus and resize the window. Then take a screenshot of part of the window, the whole window or the whole screen.

A shot open in Pose: five steps that click Shortcuts, press Command N, type a name, press Return and capture the window, with the picture they took on the right.
A shot in Pose's visual editor: five steps that add a shortcut in Spot On, and the light and dark pictures they took.

Reliable and predictable

Every shot starts from the same state, with the same demo data, so shots never get in each other's way. Pose follows the best practices of UI automation, and leaves you room to bend them when you need to.

Pose's project setup: the app to shoot, the folder and format for the pictures, light and dark, and the startup steps that run after every launch.
The project settings for Spot On's website: the app, where the pictures go, light and dark, and the steps that run after every launch.

A plain text file you can read

Behind the visual editor is a pose file, in a simple syntax you can learn in ten minutes. It lives with the rest of your code, and it is versioned and reviewed like anything else. Your team will understand it on first read.

Every new pose file comes with a full set of examples to copy, and the Reference is one click away.

Interested in the syntax? 

# Settings for every shot
app build/My App.app
appearance light and dark

startup
resize window 900 x 700

shot settings
press cmd+,
wait for "General"
capture window
A pose file in Pose's text view, with the Reference open over it: a searchable list of instructions, each with an example and a button to insert it.
The same pose file as text, with the Reference open: every instruction with an example, ready to insert.

Don't guess, pick straight from your app

Use the app you are shooting as your reference while you edit.

Not sure what a button is called? Open your app with a click and pick from every label on the screen.

Unsure about the size? Drag the window until it is just right, and Pose remembers it. Need to focus on a detail? Draw the area over a picture of the screen, for the perfect shot every time.

Pick Label over the whole screen: Spot On open in front of Pose, and a panel listing the labels found in Spot On's window, each with a Use button.
Pick Label with Spot On open: every label macOS can see in its window, each one a click away from your step.

Let your agent write it once

Copy the instructions into your favourite coding agent. It reads your source, finds the labels and launch arguments to reach each screen to showcase, and writes the pose file. Then you press Run.

The agent writes the script once. From then on it is an offline, repeatable script that stands on its own.

Right on your Mac

Pose drives your app from a script on your Mac and takes the pictures right there. There is no service to upload to, no AI model and nobody in between. It works even with the network off.

Wherever your app is shown

One pose file keeps every picture of your app current, wherever it appears.

Made for real apps

Free for 7 days. $19 once.

The licence is yours for ever, with every update to this major version, on up to five Macs. No subscription.

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Also from us: Can Opener and Spot On.

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Every instruction

A pose file is made of these lines and nothing else. Italic words are yours to fill in, [square brackets] mark a part you can leave out, and | separates the choices.

Steps

What a shot does, in order. They also go in startup, before each shot and after each shot.

ActionSyntaxExample
WaitPause for a moment. wait seconds seconds wait 1.5 seconds
Wait for somethingWait until a label is on screen, 10 seconds at most unless you say. wait for "label" [up to seconds seconds] wait for "General" up to 20 seconds
ClickClick the element with this label: its title, description, value, placeholder or identifier. click "label" click "Shortcuts"
Click a pointClick a point in the window, in points from its top-left corner. click at x y click at 120 40
Double clickDouble click, by label or at a point. double click "label" | at x y double click "Untitled"
Press keysA key combination. Add without focus to press it while the app is not in front. press keys [without focus] press cmd+shift+k
TypeType text into the field that has focus. type "text" type "hello world"
Click the menu bar iconClick the app's own icon in the menu bar. click menu bar item click menu bar item
Resize the windowSet the window's size in points, fill the screen, or go full screen. resize window width x height | maximized | full screen resize window 900 x 700
Capture the windowSave the window, or the one with this title. capture window ["title"] capture window "Settings"
Capture part of the windowSave an area of the window: width × height at left, top. capture window area width x height at x y capture window area 400 x 500 at 0 0
Capture with menus and popoversThe window and anything drawn over it, cut to its shape. capture window with overlay capture window with overlay
Capture part of the screenA rectangle placed from the window's top-left corner. For menu bar menus. capture screen width x height at x y capture screen 560 x 380 at -180 0
Capture the whole screenThe display the window is on, menu bar and Dock included. capture full screen capture full screen

Shots and blocks

How a pose file is laid out. Put an empty line before each shot and each block.

ActionSyntaxExample
Start a shotIts name becomes the picture's file name. shot name shot 01-settings
Get the app readySteps that run once after every launch, before the first shot. startup startup
Before every shotSteps that run before each shot's own steps. before each shot before each shot
After every shotSteps that run after each shot's capture, such as closing what it opened. after each shot after each shot
CommentA note for people. Pose skips it. # text # The welcome screen

Settings

Lines above the first shot, for every shot. A shot may repeat some of them for itself.

ActionSyntaxExample
AppThe app to shoot. The only line you must have. app path app build/My App.app
Save toThe folder for the pictures. Screenshots next to the pose file unless you say. save to folder save to website/assets
AppearanceShoot light, dark or both. appearance light | dark | light and dark appearance light and dark
FormatThe file format of every picture. output format png | jpeg | webp output format webp
Launch argumentPassed to the app at launch, such as a setting or a flag. argument name [value] argument -sidebarSelection dashboard
Environment variableSet for the app at launch. environment name value environment DEMO_MODE 1
Copy demo dataCopied in before every launch. {tmp} is a fresh folder for that launch. copy source to destination copy demo/library to {tmp}/library
Wait for the windowWait for the app's first window after launch. wait for window [up to seconds seconds] wait for window up to 20 seconds
RestartLaunch the app afresh for every shot, or keep it open between them. restart yes | no restart no
DesktopShow only the wallpaper, the menu bar and the app in screen captures, or the screen as it is. desktop clean | as is desktop clean
BackgroundPut every picture on an image of your own. background image | none background design/wallpaper.png
PlaceWhere the capture sits on the background, in pixels. place center | at x y place at 200 120
ShadowA drop shadow under the capture on the background. shadow on | off shadow off
Switch the Mac's appearanceFor apps that ignore Pose's own light and dark: the whole Mac switches, then goes back. switch mac appearance switch mac appearance

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