Questions and answers

Yes. Everything that runs on your Mac is free: screenshots, the editor, screen recording, scrolling capture, text from the screen, clipboard history and dictation. The Web app plan adds the cloud: sharing any capture as a link, encrypted storage, your Library on the web and comments. The Web app plan is €4,99 a month or €49,90 a year, with a 14-day free trial.

One menu-bar app for everything you capture on a Mac: copy, screenshot, record and dictate, with a link to share when you want one, instead of a separate app and subscription for each.

Any Mac on macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Dictation needs macOS 26 and Apple Intelligence, because the transcription and the tidy-up run on the Mac itself.

Not yet. catu is a Mac app. An iPhone app is planned for early 2027. Links you share open in any browser, on any device, so the people you send them to need nothing.

From the Mac App Store, where every update arrives automatically. Until the launch, leave your email on catu.app and you’ll get one message when it’s out.

It can. catu uses ⇧⌘2 for screenshots, ⇧⌘3 for recordings and ⇧⌘5 for text from the screen, so macOS’s own ⇧⌘3 and ⇧⌘5 keep working until you turn them off in System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts › Screenshots. Settings › Shortcuts in catu explains the one-time change.

Press ⇧⌘3, drag the area or pick a window, and switch on the microphone, your camera and the Mac’s own sound on the recording bar before you press Start. Pause with ⌥⇧⌘3 and stop with ⇧⌘3 again. The recording is ready at once, with a Trim button if you want to cut the ends.

Up to 10 minutes per recording, not counting pauses. That keeps files quick to upload and watch. For something longer, stop and start a second recording.

Yes. Turn the camera on in the recording bar and you appear in a bubble in the corner of the recording, mirrored as you expect. Turn it off at any point while recording.

Yes. Choose Scrolling Capture from the menu, pick the window, and scroll to the bottom. catu stitches the page into one image and opens it in the editor.

Press ⇧⌘5 and drag over the text you can see on screen. catu reads it and puts it on your clipboard as text, so you can paste it anywhere. It works on anything you can see, including images, videos, and apps that don’t let you select text.

The editor adds arrows, lines, shapes, text and numbered steps, blurs or pixelates anything private, hides only the text in an area, magnifies a detail, spotlights a part of the picture, and crops. Then copy it, save it, or share it as a link.

macOS keeps only your last copy. catu keeps your last 30, searchable from the menu bar: text, links, colours, images and files. Click one or press ⌘1 to ⌘9 to copy it back. Anything copied from a password manager, or that looks like a password, is never kept.

Hold ⌥Space and talk (you can change the shortcut in Settings). Let go and what you said is on your clipboard, ready to paste, tidied up by Apple Intelligence: no ums, proper punctuation, a new line when you say so. Everything happens on your Mac. No audio is kept and nothing is sent anywhere. It needs macOS 26 and Apple Intelligence turned on.

Screen Recording, to take screenshots and recordings and read text from the screen. Microphone and Camera, only when you switch them on in the recording bar or use dictation. catu doesn’t use Accessibility: dictation runs on a normal shortcut and you paste the result yourself. catu asks for each one the first time it’s needed and explains it.

No. A catu link opens in any browser, on any device, with no account and no app. They can watch, read, and comment under a name of their choosing. Only the person sharing needs the Web app plan.

Click the link button on the card that appears after a capture, or on a recording when it ends. catu encrypts the file, uploads it, and puts the link on your clipboard, ready to paste. With the Web app plan you can also upload while you record, so the link is ready the moment you stop.

Yes, both, from the clip’s page in your Library. A password is asked for before the clip opens. Links can expire after 7, 30 or 90 days, or never. You can change either at any time without changing the link.

Only if you allow it. Downloads are off for every clip unless you turn them on in that clip’s settings. When they’re off, viewers watch on catu with no Download button.

People who open your link can comment, with their name if they’re signed in or a name they type if they’re not. On a recording a comment can be pinned to a moment, so clicking it jumps the video there. You decide per clip whether anyone, only signed-in people, or nobody can comment, and you can remove comments or block a guest.

Yes, if you want. catu emails you the first time a link you shared is opened, and when someone comments, at most once an hour per clip. Each has its own switch in Settings, and every email has a link to turn it off.

100 GB of encrypted storage, with clips up to 2 GB each. Your Library shows how much you’ve used, and deleting a clip frees its space at once.

Only people with the link, and only while it works. Clips are encrypted on your Mac before they’re uploaded and stored encrypted. Nothing you capture leaves your Mac unless you share it, and you can delete any clip, or add a password, at any time.

In the European Union: the account database in Ireland and the encrypted files in Paris. Your clips are encrypted before they leave your Mac, and the privacy policy lists every provider involved.

€4,99 a month, or €49,90 a year, which is two months free. The Web app plan starts with a 14-day free trial: you add a card, and nothing is charged if you cancel before the trial ends. Prices include no tax; it’s added where it applies.

They stay, and so does your Library. Links you already shared keep working and people can still watch and comment. What stops is uploading new clips and setting links to last more than 30 days, until you subscribe again.

No. The Web app plan is a cloud subscription, bought on catu.app in your account’s Settings. The Mac app is the same for everyone and never shows a purchase.

In Settings › Plan on catu.app, click Manage billing. You can switch between monthly and yearly, update your card, download invoices, or cancel. The Web app plan stays until the end of the period you’ve paid for.

With your Apple ID, or with a code sent to your email. The Mac app uses Sign in with Apple. You can add two-step verification with an authenticator app, with backup codes in case you lose it.

It does the jobs of all of them from one menu-bar icon: screenshots and markup, screen recording with a share link, scrolling capture, text from the screen, clipboard history and dictation. The Mac side is free, and the cloud side costs less than most of those apps on their own.