SightlineWhere captures go
Captures go into ~/Pictures/Screenshots unless you choose another folder with Save to in Settings > Capture. Agent captures go into the Agent folder inside it.
| Settings > Capture | What it does |
|---|---|
| Format | PNG, JPEG or WebP. JPEG and WebP have a Quality; WebP can be Lossless. Transparent images stay PNG. |
| Resolution | Best (Retina) keeps every pixel, Standard (1x) halves a Retina capture. |
| Include cursor | Puts the pointer into screenshots. |
| Name screenshots from what is in them | On Macs with Apple Intelligence, names say what the screenshot shows. Add the date to the name keeps the date in front. |
| Play sound | The capture sound. |
| After capture | Copy to clipboard, Save to folder, or Copy and save. |
| Then show | Thumbnail, Open editor or Pin to screen. |
Screenshots are named like Sightline 2026-10-24 14.03.11.png, recordings Sightline Recording 2026-10-24 14.05.40.mp4, replays Sightline Replay ....
Clean-up
- Move to the Trash in Settings > Capture moves captures Sightline saved in the save folder to the Trash after 7, 30 or 90 days or a year, or never. Files you put there yourself are left alone.
- Move agent captures to the Trash in Settings > AI Agents does the same for the Agent folder: never, after 1, 7 (the default) or 30 days.
- Things go to the Trash, not away, so you can still put them back.
Editable captures
With Keep saved captures editable on in Settings > Editor (the default), Sightline keeps the original of every capture you edit on this Mac. Open the saved file again and the marks, crop, Style look, clips, volumes, zooms, pointer, keys and camera come back, ready to change. The file itself stays a normal PNG, JPEG, WebP or MP4 that opens anywhere.
- Blurred content never goes into the saved file. The original with the unblurred pixels stays in Sightline's own storage on your Mac.
- Originals are kept as long as the capture is kept. With clean-up set to never, they stay for 90 days after you last opened the capture. A recording's camera, keys and drawn pointer stay as long as the recording is in the save folder.
- Deleting a capture in Sightline removes its original a day later, so Undo and Put Back in Finder still bring back an editable capture.
- Kept for editing in Settings > Capture shows how much space the originals take. Delete… removes them all, which makes saved edits final.
- Save writes over the opened file, Save as Copy keeps it.
- Agents can continue your edits:
open_in_editorrestores them and saysrestored_edit: true.
Opening files
Open File... (⌘O) opens PNG, JPEG and WebP images and MP4 and MOV recordings from anywhere in the editor. A file opened from Finder or with Open File that has no Sightline edits opens in view mode: just the picture or the video, with Share, Copy and an Edit button. Edit, View > Edit Mode (⌘E) or a tool's letter switches to the tools, and ⌘E switches back. Opening a file that is already open brings its window forward. Several images opened together, from Finder, Open File or History with ⌘-click or ⇧-click, share one editor window with a column of thumbnails on the left; the arrow keys switch between them, ⌘W closes the one you see, and Save All, Copy All and Export All are in the chevron next to Save. Export All asks for the format and quality like Export, shows how far it got and can be stopped. Apply to All Pictures in the Style panel gives every picture the same look, and Image > Adjust Size of All Pictures… makes them smaller by a percent or to a width. Delete moves a capture you just took to the Trash right away, and asks first for a file you opened, unless you turn off Ask before deleting in Settings > Editor; in a window with several pictures, ⌘Z brings a deleted one back. Drag a thumbnail from the column into Finder, Mail or any other app, and drop pictures on the column or choose File > Add Pictures… to add them. Edit image from clipboard opens a copied picture. History (⌃⌥H) shows the captures in the save folder and the Agent folder, plus screenshots you only copied, with search over the text inside screenshots, favorites and filters.