Professional-grade screenshots and recordings without the subscription tax. Built for macOS, by someone who got tired of paying for bloat.
macOS 13+ • Free forever • Open source
Pure Swift and AppKit. Launches in under a second. No Electron bloat, no web views pretending to be native.
Screenshots land in a strip that hugs your screen edge. Click to edit, drag to rearrange. No hunting through Finder.
Click rings and keystroke bubbles burn directly into your recordings. No post-processing.
No trials, no limits, no nag screens. Everything works. Support if you want, not because you have to.
Region, window, fullscreen, and scrolling window capture.
Record a region, a single window, or your entire screen.
Arrows, shapes, text, callouts, marker, blur, spotlight, emoji, steps, counters, and rulers.
Solid colors, gradients, mesh, or your actual desktop wallpaper.
Auto-scroll with Vision-based stitching and sticky header detection.
Set a 3, 5, or 10 second timer with a visual countdown overlay.
Mouse click rings and keystroke bubbles burned into recordings. Customizable colors and placement.
Extract and search text across all captures. Runs locally via Vision — nothing leaves your Mac.
Auto-detect emails, phone numbers, API keys, and credit card numbers in screenshots.
Trim video clips to the frame and export as animated GIFs — all from the strip.
Save annotation styles as templates. Store reusable elements for consistent branding.
Full-screen slideshow of your captures with keyboard navigation and video playback.
Optionally mirror captures to your iCloud Drive for backup. Your data, your cloud.
Built-in update checker keeps you on the latest version without any fuss.
Share via AirDrop, Messages, Mail, or any macOS share extension right from the strip.
No dependencies, no frameworks. Just AppKit and ScreenCaptureKit doing what they do best.
Recording runs in a separate process. Main app crashes? Your recording continues.
Text recognition via Vision framework. Your screenshots never leave your Mac.
MIT licensed. Fork it, learn from it, or contribute to it. No secrets.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/portablesheep/snipsnap/master/scripts/install.sh | bashGrab the latest DMG from GitHub Releases
brew install xcodegen
git clone https://github.com/portablesheep/snipsnap.git
cd snipsnap && xcodegen generate
open SnipSnap.xcodeprojRequires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
All global shortcuts customizable in Preferences
SnipSnap is free and always will be. If you find it useful and want to help keep it maintained:
Every dollar goes toward keeping this maintained and adding features people actually want.
No. SnipSnap requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later because it uses ScreenCaptureKit.
You should! It's great for basic captures. SnipSnap is for when you need annotations, OCR, session management, or recording features.
Nope. OCR runs locally via the Vision framework. Cloud sync is optional and only mirrors to your own iCloud Drive.
Yes. MIT license means commercial use is fine. No attribution required.