Screen-Snip

A small yet powerful **macOS app** for taking & editing screenshots! Inspired by Greenshot on Windows - the goal is to make a tiny app that can do the basics and look great while doing it.

🖥️ Features, Tools, and Settings

Features

• Take screenshots!
  • With a global hotkey even when the app is in the background.
• Multi monitor support.
• Retina display ready.
• Open Images for editing.
  • Native “Open With” integration in Finder.
• Copy to Clipboard / Save / Save As.
• Undo / redo!
• Paste objects on canvas from clipboard.
• Rotation support for rectangles, text, and pastes from clipboard.
• Hold SHIFT while rotating to snap every 15 degrees.
• Pinch to zoom / Double tap to zoom / cmd + scroll wheel to zoom.
• Snip Gallery to view snips by date.
• Liquid Glass first design.
• Privacy focused - no network access or data collection - your snips are purely yours.

Tools

Tool	Shortcut	Notes
Take Screenshot	⌘ , ⇧ , 2	Command + Shift + 2
Pointer Tool	⌘ , 1	Moves objects around
Pen Tool	⌘ , 2	Draw lines.
Arrow Tool	⌘ , 3	Draw lines with arrows.
Highlighter	⌘ , 4	Highlights.
Rectangle Tool	⌘ , 5	Draw squres / rectangles
Oval Tool	⌘ , 6	Draw circles / ovals
Badge Tool	⌘ , 7	Incremental Numbers
Text Tool	⌘ , 8	Insert text. Colored backgrounds optional.
Crop Tool	⌘ , 9	Crops.
Reset Zoom	⌘ , 0
Zoom In	⌘ , +
Zoom Out	⌘ , -

Settings

These settings are customizable by you.

• File Save Destination
• Save Format
  • PNG
  • JPG (With Quality Slider)
  • HEIC (With Quality Slider)
• Downsample Retina Screenshots
  • If you take a screenshot on a Retina or High-DPI display, it will downsample it to 1x immediately.
• Automatically Save on Copy
  • When you take a screenshot, it can automatically save to disk.
• Downsample Retina Screenshots for Copy
  • If a High-DPI screenshot exists, we can automatically downsample it to 1x for easier & quicker sharing.
• Fit Images to Window
  • You can view your snips in “actual” size, or enhance them to take the full window size.
• Hide Dock Icon
  • Since the app runs in the background, you may not want a visible dock icon constantly.
• Start on Logon
  • Start the app when logging into your Mac.

🖥️ Install & Minimum Requirements

• macOS 26.0 or later
• Apple Silicon & Intel (Not tested on Intel)
• ~20 MB free disk space

⚙️ Installation

Mac App Store

OR

Download from Releases. It’s signed & notarized!

⚙️ Build it yourself!

Clone the repo and build with Xcode:

git clone https://github.com/gbabichev/Screen-Snip.git
cd Screen-Snip
open "Screen Snip.xcodeproj"

📝 Changelog

1.1.1

• Fixed rectangle tool not showing the users color during drawing when the display is in “Fit” mode.

1.1.0

• Added rotation for Rectangle Tool, Text Tool, Pasted object tool.
• New Icon
• Snip Gallery now shows the date of snips in the Window Titlebar.
• Adjusted Snip Gallery to load fresh snips, instead of stale snips.

1.0.4

• Added keyboard navigation to move between thumbnails in the bottom row.

1.0.3

• Resolved issue with screen cursor not always displaying properly.
• Optimized window close/reopen behavior during certain captures.

1.0.2

• Resolved regression with “Open With Screen Snip” not working in Finder.

1.0.1

• Improved permissions UI when launching app.

1.0

• Initial Release.

📄 License

MIT — free for personal and commercial use.

Privacy

Privacy Policy

Support

Support

Progress

Work in Progress

Completed

- Undo & Redo - Add Text fields with font colors, sizes, and background fill. - Click onto text area to adjust it. Not spwan new text boxes. - Add lines with arrows. - Objects should be eraseable with delete key. - Add auto increment numbers. - Add Crop. - Lines, Arrows, Shapes, numbers, etc should all be moveable objects. - Add a highlighter - Open existing file - Paste on top & move stuff around. - Add User Settings - User defined save folder. - User defined output type (PNG / JPG / HEIC) & quality slider. - Refresh snaps button. - Limit snap previews to ~10. - Add a Snap Browser - Multi-Monitor snaps. - Global system hotkey for screenshots. - Handle 1x, 2x (Retina) snaps. - User setting to downsample retina in clipboard - User adjustable setting for Snap "fills" or "fits". - Adjust liquid glass in app icon. - Add cmd+scroll with mouse. - Add pinch to zoom on trackpad. - User friendly menus. - Hotkeys for tools. - Working Menu Bar commands with icons. - Add circle shape. - Adjust tools so i can also move objects around in the same tool. - Remove the double ContentView for the two modes. - line, oval, rect need to have separate colors not share the same color. - Fix line colors changing. - Pen colors, shape colors, etc should be saved across app launches. - Update Pen & Oval tool menu bars being weird. - Fix RAM usage. - Refresh thumbnail on click / copy to clipboard. - Update Snap Gallery so I can see dates. - Add File and Edit Menu Bar entries. - Fix arrow design. - Add double tap to zoom on mouse & trackpad. - Add cmd0, cmd+, cmd- for zoom controls. - Remove debug prints. - User adjustable dock icon. - Fix crop, text, badge after reworking the canvas. - Rework settings UI - Add Right click Open With menu. - Start on Login. - Redesign permissions UI. - Redesign screen / mouse UI during screenshots. - Add "Help" section with support contact info. - Fixed cursor not always displaying correctly during capture. - Added better UI for screen capture. - Optimized window closing/opening behavior. - Added keyboard navigation between existing thumbnails. - Add rotate to Rectangle, Text, and Paste. - Update Gallery Window UI to better show the date of images being displayed. - Modified Zoom so that it can zoom out past 1 to -2x </details>

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