Snipp

Snipp is a lightweight macOS screenshot tool for capturing, previewing, copying, saving, and annotating screenshots without interrupting your workflow.

Built with Tauri, Rust, React, TypeScript, and Fabric.js.

Features

• Capture a selected area with a configurable global shortcut
• Capture the full screen from the menu bar or settings window
• Preview each capture before saving it
• Copy, save, edit, delete, or drag captures into another application
• Annotate screenshots with rectangles, ellipses, arrows, lines, text, and redaction
• Undo and redo editor changes
• Add padding, backgrounds, gradients, and rounded corners
• Choose a custom save location
• Automatically copy captures or edited images to the clipboard
• Continue running from the macOS menu bar

Installation

Download a nightly build

Warning

Snipp does not currently have a stable release. The tip release is an automatically generated prerelease built from the latest commit on main.

Download the appropriate DMG from the Snipp tip release:

• aarch64 for Apple Silicon Macs
• x64 for Intel Macs

Open the DMG and drag Snipp into your Applications folder.

The current builds are not notarized. If macOS blocks the application after installation, remove its quarantine attribute:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Snipp.app

Only do this for a build downloaded from the official Snipp repository.

Build from source

Prerequisites

• macOS
• Node.js 20.19+ or 22.12+
• npm
• Latest stable Rust toolchain
• Xcode Command Line Tools

Install the Xcode Command Line Tools if needed:

xcode-select --install

Clone the repository and install its dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/codehakase/snipp.git
cd snipp
npm ci

Run Snipp in development mode:

npm run tauri:dev

Create a production build:

npm run tauri:build

Build artifacts are written under src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Editor view

Usage

Capture an area

1. Launch Snipp. It will continue running in the macOS menu bar.
2. Press ⌃⇧S (Ctrl+Shift+S) by default.
3. Drag to select an area of the screen.
4. Use the preview to:
   • Copy the image to the clipboard
   • Save it to the configured folder
   • Edit it in the annotation editor
   • Delete it
   • Drag it directly into another application

The preview closes automatically after a few seconds if it is not used. A capture is not written permanently to disk until you choose Save or save it from the editor.

Capture the full screen

Open the Snipp menu bar menu and choose Capture Full Screen, or open Snipp and use the corresponding quick action.

Permissions

Snipp requires macOS Screen Recording permission to capture the screen.

On first use, allow Snipp under:

System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording

Restart Snipp if macOS asks you to do so.

Development

Run the frontend checks and build:

npm test
npm run build

Run the Rust tests:

cd src-tauri
cargo test

Reporting issues

• Report a bug
• Request a feature

License

Snipp is available under the MIT License.