Screenshots · Annotation · Recording · macOS
Instant captures, a real annotation editor, and screen recording you can watch before you keep it — in one fast native app. One low price. No subscription, ever.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · universal (Apple Silicon & Intel) · 3.2 MB · No account
What it does
Everything the Windows Snipping Tool taught you to expect — and everything Apple’s built-in screenshot tool leaves out.
Press ⌃⇧4 — or a button on your mouse — and drag. Region, window, or full screen, with an optional 3/5/10-second timer.
Every capture opens for markup: pen, highlighter, arrows, shapes, text, numbered callouts, crop — with full undo and zoom.
Record a region, window, or the whole screen. Press stop and the video plays back in the editor — save it, rename it, or bin the take.
The capture is on your clipboard before you reach for a copy button — and it re-copies itself as you annotate. What you see is what pastes.
Black-out bars and pixelation hide names, emails, and account numbers before a screenshot ever leaves your Mac.
Drag over an error dialog, a paused video, a photo — the text lands on your clipboard. Reads QR codes too. PRO
Float a capture above every window while you work from it. Drag any corner to resize; one click to dismiss. PRO
Name every capture in the carousel, then save as PNG or JPEG at full Retina quality — or send it straight out through the macOS share sheet.
Built like an instrument
Not a cross-platform port with borrowed icons. Every glyph in Snippy Snip is drawn on the same grid at the same hairline weight, so the toolbar reads as one object — and the app tells you what it knows: dimensions, file size, zoom, which page you’re on.
Open it and you land here: pick a capture mode, see exactly where your files go, and learn the two shortcuts that mean you’ll rarely open this window again.
Comparison
macOS ships a basic screenshot utility. Snippy Snip picks up where it stops.
| What you get | Built-in macOS | Snippy Snip |
|---|---|---|
| Region / window / full-screen capture | ✓ | ✓ |
| Opens instantly in a markup editor | — | ✓ |
| Arrows, shapes, highlighter, callout text | limited | ✓ |
| Redaction and pixelation tools | — | ✓ |
| Snip lands on the clipboard automatically | — | ✓ |
| Clipboard stays in sync as you annotate | — | ✓ |
| Watch a recording before you keep it | — | ✓ |
| Name captures before saving | — | ✓ |
| Mouse-button / custom hotkey trigger | — | ✓ |
Work even faster
Bind Snippy Snip’s capture shortcut (⌃⇧4) to a button on the Logitech MX Master 3S. Grabbing anything on screen becomes a single button press — no key combo, no reach. It’s the setup we actually use.
Want the whole desk dialed in? Get the mouse + MX Keys combo →
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Pricing
Other tools charge $39 every year. Snippy Snip Pro costs less than lunch — once.
No subscription · Every update included, forever · No account required · No telemetry
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We’ll send you a code that takes Snippy Snip Pro to $14 — one payment, every update included, forever. You’ll also hear from us when we ship something new, which is rarely and never more than we’d want to receive ourselves.
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Questions
No — and it never will be. You pay once and the app is yours, every update included — minor, major, forever. No two-year window, no paid upgrades, no version-2 tax: the app you buy keeps getting better for as long as we ship. And Snippy Snip runs entirely on your Mac — if we ever build something genuinely new that costs money to run (a cloud service, say), it would be its own optional product, never a gate on your app or its updates.
Any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. It’s a small native app — quick to download, instant to launch.
All screenshot capture modes and the full annotation editor, free forever. The one-time Pro license adds recording, full-page web capture, OCR, pinned shots, backdrops, and the capture timer.
No — the image is on your clipboard the instant the capture opens, and it re-copies itself as you annotate. Draw an arrow, blur something out, crop — then just paste.
Yes — that’s exactly how it was born. Assign your mouse button (e.g. in Logi Options+) to the keystroke ⌃⇧4 and every press starts a new snip; ⌃⇧5 starts and stops recordings.
No telemetry, no analytics, no account. Captures never leave your Mac unless you copy, save, or share them yourself.
Right now — checkout is open. Snippy Snip Pro is $19: one payment, yours forever, every update included. Questions? Email [email protected].
