The screenshot
studio in your menu bar.

Snapline is a native macOS screenshot app that lives in the menu bar. It captures regions, windows, and displays; stitches scrolling pages into one tall image; records the screen to MP4 and GIF; annotates with re-editable vector tools; and OCRs every capture on device, so screenshots can be searched by the text inside them. It requires macOS 14 or later and is sold as a one-time purchase; the download is a 9 MB DMG.

No. Snapline is a macOS app only, for macOS 14 or later, and it comes from snap-line.app. A Windows screenshot app on the Microsoft Store is also called Snapline; it is a separate product by another developer, with its own pricing and privacy terms, and nothing on this site describes it.

No. You buy Snapline once and the license is yours permanently. The purchase includes a year of new versions; after that the app keeps working exactly as it is, and you can renew whenever a newer version is worth it to you.

The full app is free for 14 days: every feature, no card, no account. After the trial a real chunk of the app stays open: history, the editor, text recognition, and translation all keep working. Capturing is the part you buy: a one-time license, not a subscription.

As many as your license covers. One seat is one Mac, and a seat moves anytime: deactivate in Settings on one Mac, activate on another. There's no account to sign in to.

Nothing you capture, and nothing about how you use it. Capturing, OCR, and translation all run on your Mac, and your captures are ordinary local files; nothing is uploaded anywhere unless you export it yourself. What the app does send is for licensing and updates: activation and the daily license check carry your key (a trial needs none) and a salted hash that identifies this Mac, and a trial's start is stored with the two-letter country of the connection. Snapline asks for Screen Recording, which is what capturing the screen requires; microphone or camera access only if you switch on Microphone or Camera for a screen recording; and Input Monitoring only if you switch on Show Keystrokes, whose keys are drawn straight into the recorded frames and never stored or sent anywhere. Recorded audio and video stay inside the movie file on your Mac. The privacy policy lists all of it, including how this website counts its readers.

Only if you turn that on, and only when you say so. Snapline's MCP server ships off, and updating does not turn it on. Switching it on lets an assistant running on your Mac (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex or Antigravity) read the captures already in History. Taking new captures is a separate switch, on in a new install, and a capture raises an Allow or Deny card under the menu bar icon that names the assistant and the window it wants; you choose whether Snapline asks every time, once per session, or not at all, and a card nobody answers within 20 seconds is a refusal. Every capture an assistant takes shows a notice naming it. The server listens on 127.0.0.1 only and refuses anything that reaches it from a web page. Snapline itself sends nothing over the network for this, but what the assistant does with what it receives, including sending it to its own provider, is governed by that assistant's policy, not Snapline's.

Open Settings → MCP, start the server, and pick your assistant under Connect an assistant. Snapline shows a copy-ready snippet for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and Antigravity with the address and the token already filled in, and says where it goes; for Claude Code and Codex, Install Skill adds Snapline's Agent Skill so the assistant knows when to look. The token lives in your Keychain. Then ask the assistant to look at a window. It takes about two minutes. The setup guide has each client's snippet.

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. Snapline is signed with an Apple Developer ID and installs like any Mac app: open the DMG, drag it to Applications. Homebrew users can run brew install --cask snapline instead; the official cask installs the same signed build.

Your license key arrives by email right after checkout. Paste it into Snapline once; one quick online check claims this Mac's seat, and after that everything works offline.

The built-in tool captures what's on screen, once, and forgets it: no scrolling capture, no history, no text search. The full rundown is in Snapline vs. the built-in macOS tool. Against other paid apps the difference is architectural: Snapline keeps everything local and searchable instead of building around a sharing cloud; that one is Snapline vs. CleanShot X. Weighing more than one option? See every CleanShot X alternative, the three-way Shottr vs CleanShot X (vs Snapline), or all the comparisons on one page.

PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or WebP, chosen in Settings, with one Quality slider for the lossy formats. A shot already taken can be converted from its Quick Access card or from History; the file is replaced in place and the History entry stays where it was. WebP cannot hold an image wider or taller than 16,383 pixels, so a very tall capture is saved as PNG and the app says so.

No. Both go on the clipboard with a PNG rendition on the same item, so an app that reads neither format still gets the picture.

Hold ⌥⌘S instead of tapping it. After half a second (longer if you set a longer Delay Until Repeat in Keyboard settings) the Capture Menu opens at the pointer: one wheel with Screenshot, Scrolling Capture, Record, Self-Timer, Capture Text, Capture Set, Open from Clipboard and History. Rest on a mode to see its options, such as Region, Window and Display, or 3, 5 and 10 seconds for the self-timer, and click one; or press a number key for the mode and another for its option. Esc steps back and a click outside closes it. A tap of ⌥⌘S still starts a capture at once. If you moved Capture to another shortcut, hold that one instead, and Settings → Shortcuts also offers an Open capture menu row of its own, unbound until you set it. The hold needs no extra permission.

Yes. Press ⌥⌘E (Capture Text) and drag over any text on screen, in a video, an image, a slide in a call or a dialog that won't let you select, and the text is on your clipboard, recognized on your Mac. No screenshot is saved. Lines that wrapped on screen paste as paragraphs, a table can be copied as tab-separated cells and code with its indentation, and each read is kept in History as a searchable text clip unless you turn off Keep text clips in History. The full walkthrough, with the free Live Text route too, is how to copy text from anywhere on your Mac's screen.

macOS itself can't: neither ⇧⌘5 nor QuickTime offers a zoom while a recording runs, so the usual answer is to zoom in an editor afterwards. Snapline does it live. Press ⌥⌘Z mid-take and the recording pushes in to 2× on whatever the pointer is over, eased over a third of a second; press it again to come back out. The framing then follows the pointer, moving only once it nears the edge. The same action is on the floating recording control and in the menu bar.

It works on region, window and whole-display recordings, and because the zoom is composited into the frames, a trim, a Convert to GIF and a share all keep it, with nothing to re-export. A yellow guide on screen shows what is being filmed while you're zoomed in and never appears in the movie. It cannot be removed from a finished recording, so a stray press is undone by pressing again while the take is still running.

Yes. Record with ⌥⌘R, then click GIF on the finished recording's card or choose Convert to GIF… in History. The Trim Editor opens in Convert mode: crop the frame over the player, set the range on the scrubber, and pick Chat (800 px, 10 fps), Docs (half size, 15 fps) or Full (every pixel, 20 fps), or your own size, frame rate up to 30 fps, 1× to 2× speed, dithering and loop. It quotes the file's size and conversion time before you click and warns past 10 MB, where GitHub and most chat apps stop playing a GIF inline. Recordings up to three minutes convert; untick "Show these options each time" and the GIF button converts straight away with your last options. The full walkthrough, with the free Gifski and ffmpeg routes too, is how to convert a screen recording to GIF on Mac.

Yes. A GIF opens in Snapline's own player, with a frame scrubber and a counter that reads position over total in frames and seconds. Every GIF remembers the recording it was converted from, so Adjust GIF… reopens the Trim Editor on that recording with the GIF's crop and range already set. Change the crop, the range or any option and click Replace GIF: the new GIF takes the old one's place, same History entry and same file name. The export runs beside the original and is swapped in only when it succeeds, so cancelling or a failure leaves the GIF you had untouched.

Email support@snap-line.app and we'll get you sorted. To request a feature or report a bug in the open, where others can add to it, join the Snapline Discord.