All features

All features

Learn more about everything Snappyshot offers — capture, overlay, markup, recording, sharing, pin, history, and OCR.

Capture

Every shot starts from the menu bar.

Area, window, fullscreen, scrolling, OCR, All-in-One, MP4, and GIF live in one compact panel. Self-timer, freeze, Retina scale-down, and a hide-desktop option keep the frame clean before you click.

Quick Access

The overlay is the whole workflow.

After each shot a floating panel appears: copy, save, annotate, open Background Studio, pin, share a link, or drag the image into another app. Swipe it away, or restore it from History.

Markup

Point at the problem. Hide the rest.

Fourteen tools cover the usual bug report and the polished changelog screenshot: arrows, counters, spotlight, pixelate, blur, crop, and more.

Background Studio

Turn a raw grab into a post.

Ten built-in presets, padding, aspect, auto-balance, and a custom image so product shots look finished before they leave your Mac.

Recording

MP4 or GIF, then trim in place.

Record with FPS, cursor, system audio, microphone on macOS 15+, click ripples, keystrokes, and a camera bubble. Trim range, mute, and quality without exporting to another app.

Sharing

Links on storage you already own.

Connect anything that speaks the S3 API, or a custom upload endpoint. Snappyshot copies a public URL or a signed link that expires. Object keys carry a random token, so a URL cannot be edited into someone else’s capture.

On the Mac

Pin, history, OCR, and a clean desktop.

Keep a shot above other windows. Filter history by image, video, or GIF. Copy text and QR payloads on-device. Hide desktop icons and optionally swap wallpaper while you capture.

Capture

Every shot starts from the menu bar.

Area, window, fullscreen, scrolling, OCR, All-in-One, MP4, and GIF live in one compact panel. Self-timer, freeze, Retina scale-down, and a hide-desktop option keep the frame clean before you click.

Crosshair and magnifier while draggingWindow padding, shadow, and wallpaperScrolling capture for pages that run longRetake the last area without re-aiming
Area capture · live
Dragging a capture region over a Figma settings screen

Quick Access

The overlay is the whole workflow.

After each shot a floating panel appears: copy, save, annotate, open Background Studio, pin, share a link, or drag the image into another app. Swipe it away, or restore it from History.

Copy, save, annotate, pin, shareDrag into Slack, Mail, Figma, or a browserUpload progress on the overlay itselfRestore the last overlay from History
Quick Access · live
Quick Access overlay on a Mac desktop after capture

Markup

Point at the problem. Hide the rest.

Fourteen tools cover the usual bug report and the polished changelog screenshot: arrows, counters, spotlight, pixelate, blur, crop, and more.

PenHighlightArrowCurveLineRectangleFillEllipsePixelateBlurSpotlightCounterTextCrop
Markup · live
Annotating a billing screen and redacting a card number

Background Studio

Turn a raw grab into a post.

Ten built-in presets, padding, aspect, auto-balance, and a custom image so product shots look finished before they leave your Mac.

Mint, Dusk, Paper, Ink, Sky, Citrus, Forest, Lilac, Studio, GoldPadding, aspect, and auto-balanceDrop in your own background image
Background Studio
A design file ready for Background Studio

Recording

MP4 or GIF, then trim in place.

Record with FPS, cursor, system audio, microphone on macOS 15+, click ripples, keystrokes, and a camera bubble. Trim range, mute, and quality without exporting to another app.

15 / 30 / 60 FPS and quality presetsClick ripples and on-screen keystrokesCamera bubble and mic (macOS 15+)Trim, mute, and re-export
Record MP4 · live
Recording a project dashboard with camera bubble

Sharing

Links on storage you already own.

Connect anything that speaks the S3 API, or a custom upload endpoint. Snappyshot copies a public URL or a signed link that expires. Object keys carry a random token, so a URL cannot be edited into someone else’s capture.

S3, R2, B2, Spaces, MinIO, or your own POST endpointPublic URLs or expiring signed linksOptional auto-upload after every captureShared Links manager to re-copy, open, or deleteLocal network fallback while Snappyshot is running
Share to your bucket
Share overlay showing an S3 link after upload

On the Mac

Pin, history, OCR, and a clean desktop.

Keep a shot above other windows. Filter history by image, video, or GIF. Copy text and QR payloads on-device. Hide desktop icons and optionally swap wallpaper while you capture.

Pin with opacity, nudge, lock, and click-throughHistory tags and 7–90 day retentionOn-device OCR and QR payloadsHide icons, pause notifications, launch at login

Shortcuts

Default keys, ready to learn.

Capture Area⇧⌘4
Capture Window⇧⌘5
Capture Fullscreen⇧⌘6
Scrolling Capture⇧⌘7
Text / QR OCR⇧⌘T
All-in-One⇧⌘2
Record MP4⇧⌘R
Record GIF⇧⌘G
History⇧⌘H
Pin last capture⇧⌘P
Hide overlays⇧⌘U
Retake last area⇧⌘Z

Space locks a square. F freezes. Return starts a scrolling capture after you select a region.

Upgrade your Mac screen capture workflow today.

Open the Xcode project, pick a signing team, and run. Allow Screen Recording — and Camera, Microphone, or Accessibility if you use those options.