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CleanShot X pricing
CleanShot X publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, CleanShot X pricing is $29/one-time across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- $29/one-time
- Model
- One-time purchase
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
CleanShot X plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Pro | $8/month | 3 | Entry tier |
| CleanShot X | $29/one-time | 3 | +$21/one-time, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Cloud Pro
$8/monthThe entry tier. It covers per user, billed annually, branded sharing domains and self-destruct links, sso for team accounts.
CleanShot X
$29/one-timeOver Cloud Pro, this tier adds:
- Permanent licence, keep the app forever
- 1GB of cloud storage included
- One year of app updates, optional 19 USD per year after
What the product covers
The full CleanShot X feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Annotation toolbar
- Scrolling capture
- Cloud sharing links
- Self-cleaning desktop
- Quick GIF and video recording
- All in one clipboard
People bring CleanShot X in for a support or design team that shares annotated screenshots constantly and wants a polished result without extra editing steps, someone who frequently captures long web pages or documents and wants a single stitched scrolling screenshot, a user who wants a screenshot with no desktop clutter visible in the background without manually tidying first, a team that wants branded shareable links with custom domains rather than generic hosted image urls. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CleanShot X are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Utilities
Too few utilities tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CleanShot X (this page) | $29/one-time | One-time purchase | - | |
| Calsense | On request | quote | - | vs CleanShot X |
| Find My | Free | Free, built into Apple hardware and iCloud | - | vs CleanShot X |
| Google Lens | Free | Free, bundled into other Google apps | - | vs CleanShot X |
| Hazel | $42/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs CleanShot X |
| Karabiner-Elements | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CleanShot X |
| Kap | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CleanShot X |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the CleanShot X badges page.
Before you pay for CleanShot X
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between $8/month and $29/one-time, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare CleanShot X against the tools that do have one before committing.
CleanShot X runs on mac, and is published by Antoine Lucas (Pika) of France. The full record is on the CleanShot X review, and the rest of the category is under best utilities tools.
CleanShot X pricing questions
- How much does CleanShot X cost?
- CleanShot X publishes 2 tiers, from $8/month for Cloud Pro up to $29/one-time for CleanShot X. The cheapest paid tier is $8/month.
- Does CleanShot X have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: CleanShot X is listed as One-time purchase. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Cloud Pro and CleanShot X on CleanShot X?
- CleanShot X costs $29/one-time against $8/month, and adds permanent licence, keep the app forever, 1gb of cloud storage included, one year of app updates, optional 19 usd per year after.
- Is the CleanShot X plan on CleanShot X worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is permanent licence, keep the app forever, 1gb of cloud storage included, one year of app updates, optional 19 usd per year after. It costs $29/one-time against $8/month for Cloud Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which utilities tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 utilities tools listed alongside CleanShot X have a free tier: Find My, Google Lens, Karabiner-Elements, Kap, Deluge.
- What am I actually paying for with CleanShot X?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a support or design team that shares annotated screenshots constantly and wants a polished result without extra editing steps, someone who frequently captures long web pages or documents and wants a single stitched scrolling screenshot, a user who wants a screenshot with no desktop clutter visible in the background without manually tidying first.
- Does CleanShot X charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these CleanShot X prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare CleanShot X against before paying?
- The closest utilities tools in this directory are Calsense, Find My, Google Lens, Hazel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CleanShot X covering price, platforms and features.