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# AppUnbound
> A curated marketplace for independent macOS software. Every app is a one-time
> purchase, DRM-free or licensed with an offline key. No subscriptions, no
> accounts required to run what you bought, no telemetry.
AppUnbound writes its own comparison pages. Developers who sell here cannot
edit, approve, or pay for them, and we take the same cut of a sale either way.
Claims about other products carry the date they were last verified and link to
that product's own pricing page.
## Comparison pages
- [Screenshotr vs CleanShot X](https://appunbound.com/alternatives/cleanshot-x-alternative): Yes. Screenshotr is a direct CleanShot X alternative for Mac users who capture, annotate, redact, style and export screenshots. Both apps provide area, window, full-screen and scrolling capture, on-device OCR, annotation, backgrounds and floating screenshots. Screenshotr costs $9 once and goes further for launch assets with reusable visual presets, exact platform canvases, editable multi-slide Launch Kits and permissioned MCP access for Codex and Claude Code. CleanShot X costs $29 once and is still the better choice if you also need screen recording, capture history or built-in hosted share links. Last checked August 2026.
- [CleanShot X vs Screen Studio: which should you buy?](https://appunbound.com/alternatives/cleanshot-x-vs-screen-studio): It depends on the job. CleanShot X ($29 once) is the better capture utility if you need screenshots plus video, searchable capture history, hosted links and URL automation. Screen Studio ($9/month billed yearly) is the better pick if your work is polished auto-zoom demo videos with iPhone or iPad recording. If what you actually want is the job without the licence model, AppUnbound covers each side as a one-time purchase: Screenshotr for screenshots and ScreenSumo for auto-zoom demos. Last checked August 2026.
- [ScreenSumo vs Screen Studio](https://appunbound.com/alternatives/screen-studio-alternative): Yes, for the thing most people buy a screen recorder for. ScreenSumo is a $19 one-time-purchase macOS app that produces the same style of polished demo — automatic click-following zooms, motion-blurred cursor, gradient background, webcam bubble, 4K and 9:16 export — with no subscription and no account, and every frame rendered locally. Screen Studio is $9/month billed yearly ($108/year) and is still the better buy if you record iPhone or iPad, need hosted share links, or want the deeper editor of a much older product. Last checked August 2026.
- [PixelRead vs TextSniper](https://appunbound.com/alternatives/textsniper-alternative): Yes — PixelRead is a direct TextSniper alternative for Mac users who want to do more than copy inaccessible text. Both apps turn a selected screen region into editable text on-device, copy it to the clipboard and can read it aloud. PixelRead costs $0 once and adds on-device translation, Apple Intelligence actions for summarizing, rewriting, extracting and asking, cross-app selected-text actions, and a visual history of 12 captures. TextSniper remains the better choice for Macs on macOS Catalina through Sonoma, QR and barcode recognition, repeating the previous capture area, custom OCR words, or the smallest download. Last checked August 2026.
## Products
- [PixelRead](https://appunbound.com/app/pixelread): Capture text. Translate it. Understand it. $0 once. macOS 15.2 or later.
- [Screenshotr](https://appunbound.com/app/screenshotr): From screenshot to launch-ready. $9 once. macOS 14.0 or later.
- [ScreenSumo](https://appunbound.com/app/screensumo): Turn screen recordings into polished videos. $19 once. macOS 14.0 or later.
## About the marketplace
- [Why buy here](https://appunbound.com/why): Curation, ownership, privacy and safety as the reason to buy outside the App Store.
- [For developers](https://appunbound.com/developers): How selling on AppUnbound works, including payouts and the revenue split.
- [IndieLicense](https://appunbound.com/licensing): Open-source Ed25519 offline licensing used by apps sold here.
- [Refunds](https://appunbound.com/refunds): 14 days, no argument.
## Terms we use
- One-time purchase: paid once, the purchased version keeps working indefinitely. No recurring charge.
- DRM-free: no copy protection and no server check to run the app.
- Offline licence key: an Ed25519-signed string verified locally against a public key inside the app. No internet or account needed to activate.
- Updates year: an optional, separate purchase covering one year of updates. Never required to keep using what you bought.
