Bench tips & how-to guides

Short, focused walk-throughs — each one solves a single task in Bench, so you can land on a question and leave with an answer.

Add arrows and annotations to a Mac screenshot Read ›

Point at the thing you actually want people to look at — with arrows, boxes, highlights, and text that don't look like they were drawn in 2008.
Blur sensitive text in a screenshot on Mac Read ›

Hide API keys, email addresses, and customer names in a screenshot before you share it — properly, not with a black rectangle anyone can move.
Crop a screenshot before sharing it Read ›

Trim out the empty space, the messy menu bar, and the unrelated tabs — fast — before anyone else sees your screenshot.
Record your Mac screen with audio Read ›

Capture your Mac screen with system sound, your voice, or both — without wrestling with virtual audio drivers.
Record a single window on Mac (not the whole screen) Read ›

Capture just the app you care about — Slack, Figma, your browser — without the rest of your desktop showing up in the video.
Take a screenshot and share a link in one keystroke on Mac Read ›

Skip the upload step entirely — capture a region of your Mac screen and walk away with a shareable URL already in your clipboard.
Where Bench saves screenshots locally on your Mac Read ›

Find the original PNGs and recordings Bench stores on your Mac — and what each file is for.