Guide · Scroll capture
How to take a scrolling screenshot of a long page on Mac
A normal screenshot cuts off the bottom. Scroll capture gets the whole thing — one tall image, no stitching by hand.
Webpages, Slack threads, and long designs rarely fit one screen. If you need a full-length shot to share or keep, macOS’s built-in screenshot app can’t do it — it only grabs what’s visible. That’s what scroll capture is for.
What scroll capture does
Instead of one static frame, scroll capture records a page as you scroll and sews the frames together into one seamless, tall image. You end up with the whole article, thread, or design in a single file you can save or send.
- One tall image, not a stack of screenshots.
- Auto-stitched so lines and edges line up cleanly.
- Copied to your clipboard ready to paste the moment you finish.
How it works in iShot
Hit the scroll-capture tool, then scroll up or down yourself — iShot watches and captures. When you hit the bottom, press your finish key and it stiches + copies the full length shot.
Because you control the scrolling, it works on pages that auto-scroll tricks can’t handle — chat apps, editor panes, and other apps with moving content.
When scrolling captures work best
- Full-length webpages and long articles.
- Conversation threads you want to archive or share.
- Multi-screen design specs and flow diagrams.
Captured it and need to highlight the important part? Here’s the fastest way to annotate a screenshot on Mac.