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Paste a screenshot, mark what matters, blur out the names, dress it up with a margin and a window frame if you like, copy it. Up to six pictures become a numbered guide — and none of it ever leaves your device.

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What is it?

A screenshot is quickly taken, and then the one thing missing is the point of it: an arrow on the button, a number per step, a bar over the name that is nobody's business. This tool does that in the browser, in ten seconds — and if the picture is going into a newsletter, a presentation or onto Instagram, one click puts a margin, a background and a window frame around it.

When one picture is not enough, it becomes several: up to six screenshots can be strung together as steps, each with its own annotations and a line of text. The result is one long picture — the steps below one another, each with a numbered circle and its line above it — which can be copied, saved or shared like any other.

The difference to the usual services: the image is not uploaded. It is opened in the browser, edited there and copied from there to the clipboard — there is no server it could land on, not even one belonging to hajime.at. With screenshots that is more than a formality: they often show more than you think when you send them.

How it works

1. Bring in the image: paste it with ⌘V or Ctrl+V, drag it into the window, pick a file — or press K on a computer to capture the screen. After the capture, cropping is already open: drag out the area, Enter.
2. Make a guide of it, if several pictures belong together: when an image is already there, the app asks about the next one — replace it, or add as step. The steps then sit below the stage as thumbnails, where they can be reordered and deleted, with the text line for the open step underneath.
3. Mark it up: arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, pen, text and numbered circles for instructions. The highlighter marks text like a felt pen, the spotlight dims everything except the area that matters.
4. Hide what does not belong: pixelate or blur an area.
5. Beautify, if the picture is to be shown: margin, a background of colour, gradient or the image itself blurred, rounded corners, shadow, a window frame like on a Mac or an iPhone, and an aspect ratio for social media. The preview shows the finished picture straight away.
6. Copy it and paste into mail, chat or a document — or save it as PNG, JPG or WebP, and pass it on through the share menu on a phone. From the second step on, Scope decides whether the whole guide goes out or only the open step.

Beautifying does not change the image itself: it is a setting for the output and can be switched off at any time. A style you need often can be kept as a preset — three come with it: Newsletter, Instagram and Simple. The style belongs to the whole guide, not to the single step.

Who is it for?

For anyone who would rather show something than describe it: “you click here” with an arrow is shorter than three sentences.

In a club for instructions to the members — “this is how you sign up” in four pictures instead of four paragraphs — in training for the marked-up tournament list, at home for the error message going to support, with your own name under a block of pixels. And for anyone who needs pictures for newsletters, presentations or social media without opening a graphics program.

What you get

• Toolsselect, arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, pen, highlighter, text, counter, redact, spotlight, crop
• Bringing in an imagepaste, “Paste from clipboard” button, drag in, pick a file, capture the screen followed by cropping
• Mac shortcutone key combination captures an area and opens the app with the picture — instructions in the settings
• Redactingpixelate or blur, burnt into the image when you save
• Guideup to six steps, each with its own image, its own annotations, its own crop and one line of text; order can be changed; output as one long picture with a numbered circle above every step
• Beautifymargin in four steps; background as colour, one of six gradients or blurred; corners; shadow
• Window frameMac with window title, neutral or iPhone, each light or dark
• Aspect ratiofree, 16:9, 4:5, 1:1 or 9:16 — the whole image stays visible
• Presetsup to six styles of your own, three to start with
• Outputclipboard, or a file as PNG, JPG or WebP at single or double size; with several steps either the whole guide or only the open step
• Operationevery tool on a key, unlimited undo and redo, a separate stack per step
• LanguagesGerman, English, Italian

What it cannot do

So that nobody waits for it: no image editing — no filters, no colour correction, no layers. No background images of your own, no watermark. No screen recording as video and no whole scrolling page in one piece — only a browser extension can do that. No text recognition. And no sharing by link: that would need a server holding the image — exactly what is not meant to exist here.

The guide has its limits too: six steps, one line of text per step, no intermediate headings, no reordering with the mouse — two buttons on every thumbnail change the order, so that it works with the keyboard as well.

Planned but not here yet: the guide as a PDF with one page per step.

Privacy and technology

Runs entirely in the browser, as a single page. The image is processed on your device and never transmitted anywhere — no account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, no third-party libraries. Through the share menu the tool can be added to the home screen; after that it works without an internet connection.

So that a closed tab costs you nothing, the app keeps a draft in the browser every 30 seconds while you work — every step with its image, annotations and text, plus the style; next time, Open last draft brings it all back. The draft never leaves the device. Discard, or Delete draft under Settings, removes it — worth doing on a computer that others use too. Presets and the style you used last also stay in the browser.

Six screenshots can outgrow the space the browser allows. If that happens, the app says so and carries on — it just stops saving the draft.

What the browser cannot do is hidden rather than shown as an error: capturing the screen works on a computer, not on an iPhone; the share menu exists on phones and in Safari, not in Firefox.

Common questions

Is my image uploaded anywhere?

No. There is no server that could accept it — the page loads nothing and sends nothing. The image only lives in your browser; so that nothing gets lost, the app keeps it as a draft on the device while you work.

Can what I pixelated be made visible again?

Not in the finished image. Pixelating and blurring are burnt into the pixels when you copy or save. The same goes for the blurred background when beautifying: it is made from the already redacted image, never from the original.

Does beautifying change my image?

No. Margin, background, frame and aspect ratio are settings for the output. A switch decides whether they are applied when you copy and save; the image and the markings underneath stay unchanged.

How do I turn several pictures into a guide?

Bring in the first picture as usual and annotate it. With the second one the app asks whether to replace the first or to add as step — “add” starts the guide. And so on, up to six steps; every step has its own image, its own annotations and a line of text underneath it (“tap Sign up”). At the end, Scope next to Copy, Save and Share stands on “Whole guide”: that makes one long picture with all the steps below one another, each with its number and its line. The file is called “Guide” with the date.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes: pick an image from your photos or paste one, mark it up, beautify it, pass it on through the share menu. The guide works there too: the step bar sits between the picture and the tools, and the beautify settings are in a sheet that folds out from the bottom edge. Only capturing the screen is not possible on a phone — that works on a computer.

How do I take a screenshot in the first place?

On a Mac with ⌃⌘⇧4 — with Ctrl it goes straight to the clipboard, ready to paste here. On Windows with Windows+Shift+S. Or right here: K captures the screen; ideally pick a window or a tab, because with the whole screen the browser window is part of the picture.

Can a key combination take me straight into the app?

On a Mac, yes, through the Shortcuts app. A shortcut with the action “Run Shell Script” captures an area and opens the app in Chrome, which pastes the picture right away once you have allowed it. The exact line is in the app under Settings. Safari does not read the clipboard by itself — there it takes one more ⌘V. A web page on its own cannot claim a system-wide key combination.

Can I carry on later?

Yes. The draft is saved by itself while you work; next time, Open last draft brings back every step with its image, annotations and text, and the style. A draft from an earlier version, holding just one picture, opens as a guide with a single step — nothing is lost. Clearing the browser data loses draft and presets; Safari clears a site's storage after seven days without a visit anyway.

Does the image stay behind on the computer?

As a draft in the browser, yes — until you discard it or choose Delete draft under Settings. With a guide, all the steps are in there. On a borrowed or shared computer that belongs to finishing up, especially with pictures showing names or account details.

Something missing? Something wrong?

If you notice anything — a mistake, a suggestion, or a tool that is not here yet — write to me. I am glad about every message, though I cannot always reply straight away.

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