Everything between the key press and the send.

Four ways to capture, each on its own key: a region, a window, the full screen, or a whole page that scrolls further than your screen.

Region

Drag any rectangle. A pixel loupe helps you land on the exact pixel.

Windows and buttons

Hover and Snappington outlines the window, panel or button under the cursor, found through Windows UI Automation. Click to take it.

Full screen

The whole screen in one key press, straight into the editor.

Scrolling capture

Click a window or drag a region, and Snappington scrolls it for you and stitches one tall image: articles, dashboards, chat threads, documents and long lists. Sticky headers and sidebars appear once, not on every screenful. Esc keeps what you have so far.

Presets

Save a mode, a delay, effects and a destination together, and run them from the tray or their own hotkey.

Delay and cursor

Wait a few seconds for menus and hover states. Capture the pointer as its own object, so you can move or delete it later.

More than 20 tools. Every mark is saved as data in the file, so it stays editable after you save.

Arrows and lines

Straight or curved, with arrow, circle, square or no heads.

Shapes

Rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, triangle, diamond and star, outlined, filled or both.

Callouts

A rectangle, rounded or oval bubble with a tail you drag to the thing you mean.

Text

Rich text, word by word: bold, italic, underline, colour and size, from a small toolbar that appears as you type.

Steps

Numbered badges for sequences, as numbers or letters.

Highlighter and pen

The highlighter straightens its strokes and can draw rectangles. The pen draws freehand.

Magnify and spotlight

A lens that enlarges part of the capture, with an optional connector. A spotlight that dims everything else, with soft edges if you like.

Stamps

52 built-in stamps, plus any folder of your own images.

Blur and redact

Blur and pixelate are cosmetic. Redact is permanent: the pixels are replaced on save and export. Why it matters

Styles

Gradient fills, a hand-drawn sketch style, and presets you save and reuse.

Crop, resize, rotate

Stored as numbers, not baked into the pixels, so you can undo them at any time.

Cut out and fill

Take a band out of the middle and close the gap, or fill a selected area from its surroundings.

Pages and combine

Several captures in one document, or side by side in one image, with templates.

Guides

Smart guides line things up as you move, resize and draw.

These run on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to do them.

Grab Text

Copy the text out of any capture, read by the text recognition built into Windows. The library searches it too.

Smart Redact

Finds email addresses, phone numbers, card numbers, IBANs and SSNs in a capture and puts a redaction over each one.

Remove Background

One click cuts the subject out, on your PC, in well under a second. The model (about 5 MB) downloads once, the first time you use it.

MP4 or GIF, with sound and a camera if you want them.

Region, window or screen

The same overlay as screenshots. Start and stop with Alt Shift R.

System audio and microphone

Recorded as separate tracks, so you can balance them afterwards.

Webcam

Recorded alongside the screen and placed as a camera bubble in the editor.

Pause and retake

Pause with Alt Shift P, or throw away everything since the last pause and try that bit again.

Straight to GIF

For tickets and docs, record a GIF directly.

Straight to the editor

Press Stop and the video editor shows the first frame in under half a second.

Zooms that follow your clicks, a proper look, cuts and speed changes, and an export queue for MP4, GIF, M4A and subtitles.

Tour the video editor

Click through a task once and get a step guide in Word, HTML, Markdown or PDF.

How Step capture works

Plain folders on your disk, with tags and search on top.

Your folder

Captures and recordings live in Pictures\Snappington, or any folder you choose.

Tags

Add them, rename them, merge two into one.

Search

By name, by tag, and by the text inside your images.

Batches

Select several to tag or delete at once. Deleted files go to the Recycle Bin, not into thin air.

Out of Snappington and into wherever it’s going. Nothing uploads by default.

Formats

PNG, JPEG and WebP images, or the editable .snpt file.

Copy and drag

Copy to the clipboard, or drag the capture straight into a chat, an email or a document.

Destinations

Slack, Google Drive, OneDrive, or your own HTTP server. You connect them; Snappington never uploads on its own.

Every page

Export one page or all of them from a multi-page document.

A tool that runs on your PC and keeps your work in files you can read.

Open format

A .snpt file is a ZIP with PNGs and JSON, described by a JSON Schema. Read the format

Command line

snappington validate, info, export and thumbnail for scripts and batch jobs.

No telemetry

No usage data sent anywhere, and nothing uploads unless you set up a destination. Privacy

No hidden copies

Snappington never keeps originals or backup images inside a file, so a redaction can’t be undone by someone you send it to.