Glance Desktop · Free & open source

Make your screenshot
make sense.

Capture the detail. Mark what matters. Share the context.
A native screenshot editor for macOS and Omarchy.

Download Glance Source on GitHub

Built in Rust · No account needed · Local editing

Glance’s practice screenshot with a spotlight highlighting two steps and a circular magnifier, framed with a purple Lava backdrop. — Made in Glance. Spotlight + magnifier + Lava backdrop, using the built-in practice canvas.

From screenshot to shared context

A little clarity goes a long way.

Capture

Grab an area or your screen. Open an image, paste from the clipboard, or drop a file into the editor.

Make your point

Add arrows, text, highlights, and numbered steps. Spotlight what matters or magnify a small detail. Move, restyle, and undo.

Send the context

Copy an image, save a PNG, or explicitly share a temporary glance.sh link your coding agent can fetch.

Give it a finished frame

Still image. Moving backdrop.

Padding, rounded corners, shadows, and solid or gradient backgrounds. Eight animated backdrops export as looping GIFs or MP4s.

Glance’s spotlight and magnifier on the synthetic practice canvas. — Bring the detail forward.

A blue and turquoise Liquid backdrop rendered by Glance. — Liquid, one of eight motion styles. Shown here as a still frame.

Release 0.5.0

Meet your new screenshot tool.

Latest release & checksums

macOS

Apple Silicon · macOS 12+

Download for macOS

Unzip, move Glance.app to Applications, and open it. Grant Screen Recording permission for capture, then quit and relaunch.

This early release is ad-hoc signed and isn’t notarized. macOS may block opening it. Intel builds aren’t available.

macOS setup guide ↗

Omarchy

Experimental

x86_64 · Arch Linux · Hyprland / Wayland

Download Arch package

Install the package with pacman. Capture, clipboard, dialogs, and FFmpeg dependencies are included; a working Vulkan driver is required.

sudo pacman -U ./glance-desktop-*.pkg.tar.zst

Targets Omarchy’s Hyprland desktop. Other Linux desktops aren’t validated. Animated backdrops render on the CPU.

Omarchy setup & capture shortcuts ↗

Linux x86_64 archive Release notes & SHA-256 checksums Build from source

Your screenshots stay local.

Capture, editing, and file export work offline. Uploading to glance.sh is optional and happens only when you choose to share a link. Shared links usually expire after about 30 minutes.

Want an agent to work directly with the editor? The opt-in local MCP companion can read and edit the native canvas.

Early days. Useful already.

Glance edits one image at a time. Save or copy before replacing an image or quitting; editable sessions aren’t persisted. Desktop OCR, scrolling capture, and automatic updates aren’t available yet.

MIT licensed. Report a bug, read the usage guide, or use Glance in your browser.