Support

Questions, problems or ideas: thekamdude@gmail.com. Every message is read.

Getting started

• Pensile lives in the menu bar: look for the Pensile logo. It has no Dock icon.
• Press ⇧⌘1 to capture. The first time, macOS asks for Screen Recording permission: allow Pensile in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Screen & System Audio Recording, then press ⇧⌘1 again.
• Menu bar icon › Record Screen, or Record on the bar under an area you've chosen, starts a recording. Stop it from the strip under it, the menu bar or ⇧⌘1; Settings › Recording chooses the sound, the pointer and a countdown.
• Press ⇧⌘2 to switch between the open line and your chosen compact view. In Settings, choose a stack in the corner or a put-away tab, and what happens when the stack is left alone. Drag either endpoint to move it; cross the endpoints to flip the line.
• Drop files on the line, or right-click files in the Finder › Services › Add to Pensile.
• Menu bar icon › New Note writes a sticky note.

On iPhone and iPad

• Share a screenshot to Pensile from the share sheet in any app, or tap + for photos, files, a new note or what you copied.
• Tap an item to open it; tap the paper beside the items, or drag a page, to turn it. The menu beside + switches between Album, Slides, Corkboard, Menu Board and Receipt Printer.
• To sync with your Mac, turn on iCloud in Pensile's settings on both, with the same Apple Account.

Common questions

The shortcut does nothing. Another app may use ⇧⌘1. Choose another in Pensile's Settings.

Captures show only the desktop. Screen Recording permission is off. Turn it on for Pensile in System Settings, then quit and reopen Pensile.

Where are my screenshots? In Pensile's own folder, or the folder chosen in Settings. Menu bar icon › Open Screenshots Folder shows it.

I'd like the pictures to stay on top. Turn on Keep the stack above other windows and Keep desktop pins above other windows in Settings. Off, as they start, they come forward whenever you use Pensile.