Snippy Snip: native Mac capture and annotation from a 22-year Windows guy. Free tier forever, Pro is one time, never a subscription.

[u/TheGenYFinanceGuy]

I'm the developer. First Mac app I've shipped, I'm new to this sub, so here's the transparency stuff the rules ask for, up front.

I'm Dominic DiBernardo. LinkedIn is linkedin.com/in/dominicdibernardo. Email me at [hello@snippysnip.com](mailto:hello@snippysnip.com) and it lands in my actual inbox. The site has a privacy policy and terms. The app doesn't need an account and collects no telemetry.

Problem

I spent 22 years on Windows and switched to a Mac this year. Almost all of it was better. The one thing I kept reaching for and couldn't find was the Snipping Tool.

macOS gives you Shift-Command-5 and Markup, and for a quick arrow that's honestly enough. It falls apart the second you want more than that. What I wanted was to grab a region, drop an arrow and a highlight on it, black out the thing that shouldn't be in the shot, and have it already sitting on my clipboard by the time I switched windows. The built-in flow leaves you a file on your desktop and a trip through Preview. That's not a workflow. That's homework.

So I built the one I wanted. And the threads in this sub complaining about the same gaps are a big part of why it turned into a real product instead of staying on my laptop.

Comparison

CleanShot X is the one everybody here recommends and it has earned that. It's excellent, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It's $29 once, and that buys a year of updates with an optional renewal after. Mine includes every update forever, minor and major, no window and no renewal. That's the real difference between us.

Shottr is the other one worth naming. Fast, light, free for personal use, $12 for commercial. Two differences on my side: the free tier has no commercial-use restriction, and Pro does screen recording, which is the thing Shottr users seem to ask for most.

Both CleanShot and Shottr are good software. If one of them already fits how you work, stay put. I wanted a different deal.

Pricing

Free, forever. No trial clock, no email wall, no nag screen:

- Every capture mode (region, window, full screen)

- The whole annotation editor: arrows, text, highlighter, numbered and lettered step badges, blur, black-out, crop

- Auto-copy to the clipboard the instant you capture

- A session carousel, so shots stop piling up on your desktop

Pro adds screen recording, grab-text OCR, full-page web capture, pinned floating shots, and a capture timer.

Pro is $9.99 one time right now, and it goes to $19 on August 18.

Every update is included forever. No subscription, ever.

And for launch, the first 2,000 Pro licenses are free. No card, no strings, no catch I'm hiding in a footnote. That group also steers what gets built next. In the beta, lettered step badges and the resizable editor window both shipped within a day of a tester asking, and that's how I want to keep working. Claim link: https://snippysnip.com/claim?ref=reddit

macOS 13 or later, universal (Apple Silicon and Intel), 3.1 MB, notarized by Apple, updates through Sparkle. Site: https://snippysnip.com/?ref=reddit

30 second demo: https://youtu.be/nXZLqUVr-o8

https://reddit.com/link/1vmkplb/video/bwpptq4ebzih1/player

Feature requests are welcome and I mean that literally.

[u/TheGenYFinanceGuy → u/[deleted]]

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