--- title: "Heretic Lazy Shot — Capture, Annotate, Beautify Screenshots" description: "Desktop screenshot app with annotation, GPU-accelerated beautification compositor, and built-in MCP server for AI agents. macOS and Windows. Free trial, then €14.99 one-time for a lifetime license." canonical: https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot locale: en --- # Heretic Lazy Shot — Capture, Annotate, Beautify Screenshots > Markdown twin of https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot > Fetch this instead of the HTML page: same content, a fraction of the bytes. > Site structure and the full page list for agents: https://giglabo.com/llms.txt Desktop screenshot app with annotation, GPU-accelerated beautification compositor, and built-in MCP server for AI agents. macOS and Windows. Free trial, then €14.99 one-time for a lifetime license. - Type: page ## What Heretic Lazy Shot is Heretic Lazy Shot is a professional desktop screenshot tool: capture, annotate, beautify, ship. It pairs a GPU-accelerated compositor with a built-in MCP server, so AI agents can drive the whole loop for you instead of you clicking through it. Everything runs locally — no cloud, no subscription. ## Capture Free-form region, window or full display, keyboard-first. A searchable window picker, per-monitor hotkeys across up to 10 displays, a live 4× magnifier loupe with pixel coordinates, a dimension label, snap-to-region, Shift for a square, Alt for center-out, Space to freeze. Filename tokens and auto-copy to clipboard round out the capture loop. ## Annotate Eleven tools, each on a single keystroke: arrows, lines, rectangles, circles, pencil, marker, text, blur, spoiler, numbered counter, eraser. Eight colour swatches plus an HSV picker, stroke width 1–48 px, a 50-step undo/redo history, and a separate markers metadata layer with reusable presets and labels. ## Beautify A GPU-accelerated compositor turns a raw grab into something presentable: many canvas presets (social formats, aspect ratios, custom), a catalog of 46 backgrounds, gradients, configurable drop shadows, rounded corners, and content-aware Balance & Inset cropping. Export to PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF or BMP, including drag-and-drop export. ## Agents drive it (MCP) A built-in Model Context Protocol server exposes every core action, so Claude Desktop and Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and any MCP-compatible agent can capture, annotate and beautify on your behalf — one prompt, zero clicks, and scriptable workflows. The MCP server runs locally like the rest of the app. A free cookbook on GitHub carries six worked recipes for driving Lazy Shot from an agent, the full 23-tool reference and copy-paste MCP configs: https://github.com/GigLaboCom/lazy-shot-cookbook ## Platforms, privacy and data - Native desktop builds for **macOS** (primary) and **Windows** (secondary), built with Tauri 2 for native performance. - Screenshots, markers, drafts and settings stay on your machine, in a local SQLite database under `~/.heretic-lazy-shot`. No cloud upload, no telemetry on content, and no account required to capture, annotate and beautify. ## Pricing - **Free trial with every download** — no credit card required. The full annotation, compositor and MCP feature set is available before you buy. - **Lifetime license, pay once, no subscriptions.** Two SKUs: a single-device license (regular price €29.98) and a three-device pack (regular price €59.98). A time-limited launch discount runs on the page for the opening batch of licenses — check the pricing section for the current price. - Free updates for life for license holders, and a 14-day money-back guarantee: reply to the email carrying your license key and it is refunded. ## Documentation - [Getting started](https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot/docs/getting-started) — install, activate the trial, bind hotkeys, first screenshot in under 3 minutes. - [MCP tools](https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot/docs/mcp-tools) — full reference of every MCP tool with prompt recipes for Claude, Cursor and Copilot. - [Keyboard shortcuts](https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot/docs/shortcuts) — every action as a single keystroke, with a printable cheat sheet. - [Canvas & presets](https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot/docs/compositor) — backgrounds, shadows, ratios, Balance & Inset, custom presets and export. - [Integrations](https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot/docs/integrations) — step-by-step MCP client setup with copy-paste configs and working prompts. - [Changelog](https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot/docs/changelog) — version history; every update is free for license holders. - [Product blog](https://giglabo.com/blog/hls) — posts about Heretic Lazy Shot. Related local-first product: [MnemoVi](https://giglabo.com/products/mnemoria/applications/mnemovi-local-video-knowledge-base), which does for your video what Lazy Shot does for the still frame. ## Related - HTML version of this page: https://giglabo.com/heretic/applications/heretic-lazy-shot - Site map for agents: https://giglabo.com/llms.txt