Snaps is a tiny menu bar app for macOS. Press a shortcut, grab an area, a window or the whole screen, then paste it anywhere. A glass preview floats in the corner so you can drag it straight into any app, or double-click it to mark it up.
No windows to manage and no files to dig out of your Desktop. Snaps stays out of the way until you need it.
Drag over any area, click a window, or grab the whole display under your cursor.
Every capture is copied the moment you take it. Paste it into Slack, Messages, Figma, Docs, anywhere.
A glass thumbnail floats in your corner. Drag it into any app or folder, or hover for copy, save, pin and open.
Double-click any preview or gallery card to open the editor. Point with arrows, add a note, blur what's private, then hit Done. The preview, the gallery and your clipboard all get the annotated version.
Built natively for macOS with the Liquid Glass look, so it feels at home on your Mac.
Uses the native macOS selection UI, so it's fast, precise and familiar.
No save dialogs. Your capture is on the clipboard before you let go of the mouse.
A floating glass thumbnail you can drag into any app. It tidies itself away when you're done.
Press ⌃⇧G and your recent captures drop down across the top of the screen. Click to copy, drag to share.
Previews appear in whichever corner you like, set with one click from the menu bar.
Move your cursor to another monitor and your previews hop over with it.
Sensible defaults that don't clash with the built-in macOS screenshot keys. Change any of them in Settings.
⌃ Control · ⇧ Shift. Everything is also one click away in the menu bar.
Snaps is a free, MIT-licensed open source project. There's no trial, no pro tier and no catch. Download it, use it, fork it.
Yes. Snaps is free and open source under the MIT license. There are no paid features, no accounts and nothing to upgrade to.
Any Mac running macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. It's a universal app of about 2 MB.
macOS requires it for any app that captures the screen. Allow Snaps in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, then relaunch it. Snaps never records video or sends anything anywhere.
Every release is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without Gatekeeper warnings. The full source is on GitHub if you'd like to check it, or build it yourself.
To your clipboard, always. Unsaved captures live in a private cache for 7 days so the gallery can show them. Turn on Save to folder in Settings to keep a copy on your Desktop or any folder you choose.
Yes. Double-click the floating preview or a gallery card, or click its pencil button, to add arrows, text and blur. Done saves the annotations into the capture and copies it. To open every capture in the editor automatically, turn on Open in the editor in Settings.
Yes. Open Settings from the menu bar icon to record new shortcuts, pick a preview corner, set how long previews stay, and toggle the capture sound, window shadows and launch at login.