Region
Drag a rectangle over exactly what you want — drag handles plus a live size readout keep the corners exact.
Feature breakdown
Everything MycoCap can do
Capture, annotate, share, keep, customise and automate — every command and setting the app ships with.
01
Capture
seven ways in, three ways to start
Window
Point at the window you want and click — the tray’s Capture window hovers over every open window so you pick by pointing. Prefer a list? That is a separate command under More.
Full screen
The monitor under the cursor by default, or every monitor at once when you have more than one. Multi-monitor layouts keep their real arrangement.
Last-used region
MycoCap remembers your previous rectangle. One gesture re-grabs the identical area — ideal for repeat screenshots of the same panel.
Image from clipboard
Already have a picture copied? It arrives as a capture and follows your usual destination — straight into the editor, or through the toast first.
Scrolling capture
Select a region and scroll the content yourself — MycoCap watches the region, stitches the frames into one tall image, and handles sticky headers.
Copy text from screen
Grab a region and get its text, ready to copy — with a one-click cover offered for sensitive finds before anything moves.
Start it from anywhere
MycoCap only has a tray icon, so starting a capture is the whole interface. Pick whichever habit suits you.
- Tray menu — right-click the mushroom for every capture mode, plus history and settings.
- Hotkeys — the Print Screen family is mapped out of the box, and every binding is configurable.
- Timed delay — three, five or ten seconds, so you can open a menu or hover a tooltip before the shutter fires.
Default hotkeys
Shipped bindings. Change any of them in Settings → Hotkeys.
- Ctrl + Print Screen — capture region
- Alt + Print Screen — capture window
- Ctrl + Shift + Print Screen — capture full screen
- Shift + Print Screen — last-used region
- Ctrl + Shift + T — copy text from screen
- Ctrl + Shift + G — scrolling capture
- Ctrl + Shift + P — pin the last capture
Windows 11 keeps bare Print Screen for the Snipping Tool, so the region capture defaults to Ctrl + Print Screen. If a config has region capture on bare Print Screen, MyCoCap shows a one-time notification and offers to move it to a safe combination. Every binding is configurable.
Pin to screen
Ctrl + Shift + P floats your last capture above other windows as an always-on-top snapshot. Nothing is saved: the pin lives in memory until you close it.
- Make it yours — zoom it, rotate it, flip it, or fade its opacity to taste.
- Click-through — let clicks pass straight to the window behind; the tray can always switch it back, so it can never trap you.
- Invisible to other captures — Windows is asked to leave the pin out of other apps’ screenshots, and MycoCap’s own captures exclude it by default.
- One tray to rule them — every pin is listed under the tray’s Pinned images submenu, each with its own toggles.
02
Annotate
a real editor, not a scribble overlay
The editor opens with your capture on a canvas and a tool strip docked beside it. Nothing is destructive: every mark lands on its own layer, and a saved project reopens with all of them still editable.
- Docked tool strip — every tool in one column beside the canvas, so nothing covers what you are drawing.
- Editable layers — saved .mycocap projects keep shapes and text as objects you can move and change later; a confirmed crop is baked into the pixels.
- Non-destructive obfuscation — pixelate or blur a region and it stays reversible until you export.
- A separate Redact tool — when a region must leave for good, Redact paints one opaque block. Redaction covers pixels in the exported image. A saved .mycocap project keeps the original pixels plus the cover as an element, so treat project files as sensitive — flatten or export before sharing.
- Align, distribute, group — share an edge or centre with one command, space elements out evenly, or keep a group moving as one.
- Element list — every element gets a row, with per-element visibility and lock, and rectangles can carry a corner radius of your choosing.
- Arrows
- Lines
- Rectangles
- Ellipses
- Text
- Speech bubbles
- Step labels
- Highlighter
- Freehand
- Emoji
- Crop
- Obfuscation
- Redact
Smart redaction, run on demand
On demand, MycoCap scans the capture for sensitive patterns and drops opaque Redact covers over every match in one undoable batch. Undo, or run the scan again with a wider pattern set.
04
Find & keep
the screenshot you took last Tuesday
Capture history holds up to 100 grabs, stored locally, once you tick “Keep a history of recent captures” in the first-run wizard — the box starts unticked, so nothing is written until you opt in. It is the safety net for the screenshot you took but never saved.
- Search across titles, source apps, file names and timestamps.
- Reopen any entry in the editor as a flat image — annotation layers live in saved projects, not history.
- Pin the ones you want to keep past the rolling limit so they are never trimmed.
- Re-upload an old capture to a new destination without retaking it.
100recent captures, rolling
0sent to a server
1tick you give it in the wizard
100entries max, pinned included
History only starts when the “Keep a history of recent captures” box in the first-run wizard is ticked — it is off by default, and skipping the wizard counts as leaving it off. When it runs, it lives entirely on your disk. You can clear it or turn it off at any time.
05
Make it yours
four themes, thirty-nine languages
Themes that switch live
Change the theme and the whole app repaints instantly — no restart, no relaunch of the tray icon.
System
Follows the Windows light/dark setting.
Light
Bright and paper-like for daytime work.
Dark
Neutral dark, easy on the eyes at night.
MycoCap Green
The light cream theme with the brand’s green accents.
Languages
MycoCap offers 39 languages — English, Dutch and German are installed by default, and the other 36 are optional components. Most translations are partial; any missing string falls back to English.
Language can be chosen in the app or set at launch with --language <code>, which saves the choice.
Portable settings
The portable build keeps everything in a single MycoCap.ini next to the executable. Point --ini-directory <directory> somewhere else and you can carry your whole configuration on a USB stick.
06
Automation & CLI
headless capture and redact
MycoCap exposes two action verbs for scripts and scheduled tasks, plus global flags that work everywhere. No window is drawn, nothing waits for input, and the exit code tells you whether it worked.
capture
Take a fullscreen capture to a file without opening the editor. Headless capture supports --fullscreen only; region capture needs the interactive overlay.
> MycoCap.exe capture --fullscreen --output shot.png shot.png exit 0
redact
Run detection over an existing image and obfuscate what it finds, without a human in the loop.
> MycoCap.exe redact C:\Shots\shot.png --output C:\Shots\shot-redacted.png --json {"status":"ok","input":"C:\\Shots\\shot.png","output":"C:\\Shots\\shot-redacted.png","matches":3,...} exit 0
Flags worth knowing
- --exit
- Ask the running instance to exit over an authenticated named pipe, then exit yourself; fails if no instance is running.
- --reload
- Send a reload-configuration command to the running instance, then exit.
- --no-run
- Exit immediately without starting or showing MycoCap.
- --language <code>
- Set and persist the UI language (for example
en-US), then continue. - --ini-directory <directory>
- Use a specific folder for
MycoCap.iniinstead of the default location. - --openfile <files>
- Open one or more existing images straight into the editor.
A scheduled redaction job
Drop a line like this into Task Scheduler and a folder full of screenshots gets scrubbed every night.
> Get-ChildItem .\shots\*.png | ForEach-Object { MycoCap.exe redact $_.FullName --output ($_.FullName -replace '\.png$', '-redacted.png') --json }
Apart from the background update check, automation is the only place MycoCap acts without a click, and it only ever writes where you told it to.