I capture screenshots and add annotations to them several times a day. Most of the time, it's because I need to give an AI more context about what I'm seeing.
I wanted an easier way to do it, so I built Screen for me, a screenshot app for macOS and Linux.
The shortest possible capture loop
The goal was simple: capture an area, a window, or the full screen, annotate it when needed, and share it without breaking the flow of whatever I was doing.
After taking a screenshot, Screen for me shows a small overlay where you can copy it, save it, open the editor, or drag it directly into another app. The editor has the tools I use most often, including arrows, boxes, text, highlights, and pixelation.
The point is to make a small task I repeat every day take as little time as possible. Screenshots don't need a complicated workflow.
Trying Tauri
Another goal was to try Tauri.
I've never used Electron, so I can't compare the development experience. Tauri promised smaller package sizes, and that was the selling point for me.
The experience has been very pleasant. The app feels small and fast, and I could build it for both macOS and Linux from the same codebase.
Claude reviews Codex, and Codex reviews Claude
I used both Claude and Codex while building the app. They both understand Tauri very well, and they're surprisingly capable of finding bugs in each other's work.
The process can be... interesting.
You ask one of them to review the code, and it says everything looks good. Then you ask the other one, and it finds a bug. You go back to the first and ask, "Is this a valid bug?" And it replies, "Yes, it is."
Which makes me wonder why it didn't find it the first time.
Using both has still been useful. A second opinion catches things the first review misses, even when both opinions come from an AI.
AI: you can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
Free and open source
Screen for me is free, open source, and MIT-licensed. You can download it from screenforme.app or read the source code on GitHub.
There's no Windows release yet because I don't have a Windows machine available for building and testing it. Maybe someday.
Summary
If capturing, annotating, and sharing screenshots is also part of your daily work, give Screen for me a try and let me know what you would improve.
And if the name makes you think of Iron Maiden, you are absolutely right.
