Every team has felt this: a bug report with a photo of a phone, taken at an angle, thumb in frame, three layers of JPEG compression. Nobody can tell what's actually wrong.
TetherShot is a tiny macOS menu-bar app that fixes the input quality at the source. It grabs a real framebuffer at native iPhone resolution (1179x2556), drops it in a folder you choose, and copies it to your clipboard in the same instant.
Where it earns its keep:
- Designers — review a build on-device, then paste exact pixels into Figma.
- QA — attach crisp, full-res evidence to every ticket.
- Support reps — capture a customer repro without juggling hardware buttons.
- Docs teams — ship clean app screenshots, no cropping required.
One hotkey, anywhere:
npm install -g tethershot
tethershot install
# then hit Cmd+Shift+7 to capture
USB mode is instant full-res via AVFoundation. Wi-Fi mode runs cable-free and captures even when the phone is locked.
Local-first: no account, no telemetry, MIT open source.
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