Keyboard Shortcuts

Every tool lives under a single key. No modal soup, no ribbon menus.

Capture

ActionmacOSWindows
Region⌘ ⇧ 4Ctrl Shift 4
Window⌘ ⇧ 5Ctrl Shift 5
Display⌘ ⇧ 3Ctrl Shift 3
Last capture again⌘ ⇧ RCtrl Shift R
Cancel selectionEscEsc

Selection modifiers

ModifierBehaviour
ShiftConstrain to square
Alt / OptionDraw from center
SpaceFreeze screen / pan selection
Arrow keysNudge by 1 px (Shift = 10 px)

Annotation

Inside the editor, each tool is a single letter:

KeyTool
AArrow
LLine
RRectangle
OCircle / ellipse
PPencil
MMarker
TText
BBlur
SSpoiler
CCounter (numbered)
EEraser

Editor actions

ActionmacOSWindows
Undo⌘ ZCtrl Z
Redo⌘ ⇧ ZCtrl Shift Z
Open compositor⌘ BCtrl B
Copy to clipboard⌘ CCtrl C
Export⌘ SCtrl S
Close editorEscEsc

Style tweaks

KeyEffect
18Pick colour from the 8-swatch palette
[ / ]Decrease / increase stroke width
Shift + [ / ]Jump width by 8 px

Compositor

ActionmacOSWindows
Cycle canvas presetTabTab
Toggle shadow⌘ ⇧ DCtrl Shift D
Toggle background⌘ ⇧ GCtrl Shift G
Reset canvas⌘ 0Ctrl 0
Export as WebP⌘ ⇧ WCtrl Shift W

Library

ActionmacOSWindows
Open library⌘ LCtrl L
Search⌘ KCtrl K
Re-open last shot⌘ ⇧ OCtrl Shift O

All shortcuts are rebindable under Settings → Hotkeys. Per-monitor hotkeys and chorded combos are supported.