Capture, then choose
Area, window or full screen, with global shortcuts and the native macOS selection. The overlay lets you copy without saving, save to the desktop, pin it on top, or drag it straight into Finder or any app.
Capture it.
Then decide.
Snappy is a lightweight screenshot tool for your Mac. Grab an area, a window or the whole screen, then copy, save, annotate or pin it from a floating overlay, without cluttering your desktop.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · unsigned build, see install
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Snappy 0.2 — what's new
Capture an area and copy it without saving a file. Select any text on screen and it lands in your clipboard. Annotate with arrows, boxes and pixelated blur, then export at the original resolution. Pinned shots stay on top of everything until you dismiss them.
Shots this week
Drag anywhere to capture
500 × 210
Without JavaScript this is a still of a capture: the selection, its size, and the overlay that follows.
Drag on the desktop to capture. Nothing leaves this page.
Features
Three things, no ceremony.
Every shot lands in an overlay first. Nothing hits your desktop until you say so.
Text from anywhere
Select a region and the text inside it lands in your clipboard. French and English, powered by Apple's Vision framework, fully offline.
Annotate and export
Arrow, rectangle, highlight, text and pixelated blur. Exported at the original resolution, every time.
Install
Two minutes, one permission.
The build is not notarized, so macOS asks twice. Once you're through, it just works.
Or build it yourself. Swift Package Manager, no Xcode project.
# installs Snappy.app into /Applications bash scripts/build-app.sh
1
Download the DMG
Grab the latest release and drag Snappy.app into /Applications.
2
Open it once, the hard way
On first launch macOS refuses it. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Right-click › Open no longer works on macOS 15.
3
Allow screen recording
Accept the Screen Recording prompt, then quit and relaunch Snappy. It can't capture anything before that.
Shortcuts
Three shortcuts to remember.
All of them are yours to change in Settings.
| Capture an area or a window | ⌘⇧1 |
| Capture the whole screen | ⌘⇧2 |
| Copy text from a region (OCR) | ⌘⇧0 |
Use as default, in Settings, swaps macOS's own ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 for Snappy.
Take the shot. Keep your desktop.
Free, open source, and lighter than the app it replaces.