How to take a scrolling screenshot on Mac

Select only the content that should scroll

Start a normal Clipture capture, draw around the scrollable part of a webpage, conversation, or document, and choose Scrolling Capture. A small controller stays beside the selection while the page moves.

Clipture sends smooth scroll input to the frontmost app, waits for the content to settle, and captures the next section. A live thumbnail shows how the long image is growing. Press Esc or Stop at any time.

Stitching based on visible overlap

Each new frame is compared with the previous frame to locate the shared content. Clipture removes the overlap and appends only the new section. This is more reliable than assuming that every app scrolls by an exact fixed distance.

When the content no longer moves, Clipture captures the final section and opens the same preview used by regular screenshots. You can annotate the long image, copy it, save it, or place it on the clipboard.

Permissions and compatible content

Automatic scrolling is available in Clipture's direct-download Mac edition; the Mac App Store edition does not include it. The direct edition uses macOS Accessibility permission only to send scroll input and derives the moving area from captured frames instead of inspecting another app's interface. It works best with webpages, chat histories, and documents whose content moves vertically. Fixed headers, animated pages, and virtualized lists can affect stitching, so the preview is shown before export.