ten seconds, tops ↓

Install the free beta

Pick whichever feels like home. All three install the same signed build and the app updates itself from there.

macOS 14 Sonoma or newer · Apple Silicon & Intel · free
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One line in Terminal

Downloads the latest release, installs to /Applications and launches it. That's the whole script — read it first if you like.

curl -fsSL https://lovelyscreenshots.com/install.sh | sh

Homebrew

Homebrew 6 asks you to trust third-party taps first — that's the second line. The xattr line is the one-time Gatekeeper skip (see the note below).

brew tap kusmiderdev/lovely && brew trust kusmiderdev/lovely
brew install --cask lovely-screenshots
xattr -cr "/Applications/Lovely Screenshots.app"

Plain old ZIP

No terminal needed.

Download from GitHub →
  1. Unzip and drag Lovely Screenshots into Applications (important — don't run it from Downloads).
  2. Double-click it. macOS will say it "could not verify" the app — that's expected, see below.
  3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, click "Open Anyway", confirm. Once — never again.

Why does macOS warn about it?

The beta is code-signed with a stable developer certificate but not notarized by Apple — notarization requires a $99/year Apple Developer account, and we'd rather spend beta season shipping features you ask for. The warning is Gatekeeper's default for any app outside that program, not a judgement about this one.

What you can check yourself: the app runs 100% on your Mac (screenshots, OCR and even the AI search never leave it), the installer script is readable, and every release ships with a sha256 checksum on the releases page. The 1.0 release will be notarized.