Bingsu vs CleanShot X
CleanShot X is a paid Mac app, $35 once or Pro at $10 a month, for screenshots and recordings with its own cloud links. Bingsu is free: it takes screenshots and scrolling pictures with markup, records with your camera, and lets AI agents record over MCP. Pick CleanShot X for text recognition, pinned screenshots and hosted links.
Last updated October 2026
Side by side
CleanShot X is a paid Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings, with annotation, scrolling capture and its own cloud for links. Every claim about CleanShot X links to the page that says so.
| Topic | Bingsu | CleanShot X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, for any use. | Basic is $35 once with a year of updates; Pro is $10 per user a month billed yearly. Source |
| Screenshots | A screen, window, app or area, copied and saved; scrolling pictures; markup with arrows, boxes, text, numbers, pen and highlighter. | Area, window and fullscreen, scrolling capture (vertical and horizontal), annotation, pinned screenshots and text recognition. Source |
| Recording | Window, app, display or area, with camera bubble, separate sound tracks and a full editor. | Screen recording with a camera bubble, MP4 or GIF, zooms in Studio Mode. Source |
| Links | A share page you publish on your own host, encrypted by default. | CleanShot Cloud: one-click links, 1 GB on Basic, unlimited on Pro. Source |
| Computers | Mac. On Windows and Linux, Bingsu for Chrome takes screenshots of the page. | Mac only. Source |
| AI agents | 17 MCP tools: an agent takes screenshots and records its own windows after you allow it once. | A URL scheme for automation. Source |
When CleanShot X is the better pick
- You copy text out of screenshots every day.
- You pin screenshots on top of other windows while you work.
- You want hosted links without running your own host.
Moving to Bingsu
On a Mac, download Bingsu and choose Take Picture or Take Scrolling Picture. In Chrome, Bingsu for Chrome takes the visible part, an area or the full page.
CleanShot X’s details were checked in October 2026. Something out of date? Write to hello@bingsustudio.com.
Questions
Is there a free CleanShot X alternative?
Bingsu is free and takes screenshots, scrolling pictures and recordings with markup and a camera bubble. It has no text recognition or pinned screenshots, which CleanShot X has.
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Next time, show it.
Record it once and send a link. Or let your agent do the recording.