Last updated: May 2026
BeautyShot is a desktop app that helps you compose Mac App Store screenshots. It does not collect, transmit, or store any personal information about you.
Only the windows and files you explicitly act on. When you click Take, BeautyShot uses Apple's ScreenCaptureKit to capture the windows you've selected (you grant Screen Recording permission once via System Settings). When you save, BeautyShot writes PNG files to the folder you picked through the standard macOS Open Folder dialog. Nothing is sent anywhere — the captures stay on your machine.
To set up a clean shot, BeautyShot can briefly resize the source app's window via Accessibility (you grant Accessibility permission once via System Settings) and read the foreground app's menu titles so it can render them in the synthetic menu-bar overlay. For dual light/dark captures, BeautyShot toggles your system appearance via an AppleScript to System Events (you grant Automation permission once when prompted) and restores your original setting at the end of the run. None of these touch your data — they're system-level UI requests.
The Mac App Store version: nothing. There are no analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, no “phone home”, no advertising, no tracking. The app does not initiate network connections.
The direct-download version (from bendansby.com/apps/beautyshot) checks for software updates by fetching a public appcast.xml file from this domain. No identifiers are sent with the request.
None. BeautyShot does not embed any third-party SDKs, analytics frameworks, or trackers.
BeautyShot is a developer tool. It is not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.
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Questions? ben.dansby@gmail.com.