What's New

Performance

• Screenshot activation is now near-instant — pressing the screenshot shortcut now shows the capture overlay in under 30ms, even on repeated use. Previously, subsequent activations could take up to 6 seconds.
• Fullscreen & window screenshots show previews faster — the quick preview now appears immediately after capture, without waiting for file saving to finish. Saving happens silently in the background.
• Text recognition (OCR) no longer has a cold-start delay — previously, using OCR after a few minutes of inactivity caused a 5+ second wait. Now it responds in under half a second every time.
• Editor zoom is smoother — zooming with trackpad pinch or scroll wheel is now fluid and responsive, with no more stuttering at higher zoom levels.
• Panning while zoomed in is smoother — dragging the canvas with the hand tool no longer lags.

New Features

• Quick Preview position setting — choose which corner of the screen the preview appears in: Bottom Right (default), Bottom Left, Top Right, or Top Left. Find it in Settings > Quick Preview.
• Auto-hide toggle for previews — choose whether previews disappear automatically after a few seconds, or stay on screen until you swipe or close them. Find it in Settings > Quick Preview.

What's New

• Smoother captures and recordings
  Starting a screenshot or recording should feel quicker and more responsive, especially when you jump straight into saving, editing, or recording.

• Faster preview popups
  Your preview window now appears more smoothly when you finish a capture, while the app stays lighter in the background when you are not using it.

• More reliable setup and license screens
  Opening onboarding or Settings repeatedly should feel more stable, with fewer chances of buttons or status updates acting strangely behind the scenes.

• Better wallpaper browsing
  Browsing large custom wallpaper collections should feel lighter and less memory-hungry, while keeping the currently selected wallpaper quick to view and use.

What's New

• Camera overlay on Mac
  Using your webcam in recordings should work more reliably. If a permission window doesn’t appear when you ask for camera access, the app can take you to the right place in Settings, with short tips on the permissions screen. If ScreenSnap Pro isn’t listed there yet, installing the latest version of the app again often sorts it out.

What's New in ScreenSnap Pro

• Choose your default screenshot format
  You can now pick whether screenshots and editor exports save as PNG, JPEG, WebP, or AVIF.

• More flexibility for sharing
  Stick with PNG for maximum quality, or choose smaller formats when you want files that are easier to send and upload.

• Clearer format choices in Settings
  The screenshot format setting now includes simple guidance so it is easier to choose the option that fits your workflow.

• Better support for modern image formats
  ScreenSnap now works more smoothly with newer formats like AVIF when opening, exporting, and managing images.

• Save As still gives you control
  Even with a default format selected, you can still choose a different format anytime you use Save As.

What's New

• Smarter performance behind the scenes — Reduced unnecessary background work so ScreenSnap makes better use of your Mac's CPU, GPU, and memory (RAM), helping the app feel lighter while keeping captures fast when you need them.
• Improved resource handling — Cleaned up temporary capture elements more efficiently and trimmed extra startup activity, which helps reduce overhead and supports a more stable experience over longer sessions.

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What's New

• Overall polish — Refined the app's UI and UX and improved overall stability for a smoother, more reliable experience.

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What's New

• Custom file naming — Added a new File Name Pattern setting. Use tokens like {{datetime}} and {{UUID}} to customize saved screenshot names.
• Smarter saves — Your naming pattern now applies to screenshots, edited image exports, and recordings, with automatic duplicate handling.
• Faster tool access — The active grouped tool icon now opens the same tool dropdown as the chevron.
• Cleaner control panel — Removed hover motion and extra chevron chrome for a calmer, more polished tool panel.
• Steadier text controls — The text style dropdown now keeps a fixed width and no longer resizes the control panel.
• Settings tab fix — The control panel now stays hidden on Settings, Shortcuts, and Cloud even after screenshot refreshes.

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What's New

• General improvements — Stability tweaks, minor UI polish, and under-the-hood fixes for a smoother experience.

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What's New

• Cleaner video sound — Screen recordings now sound much smoother and more polished, especially when capturing app audio.

• Camera overlay for recordings — You can now add your camera while recording and keep it visible as a floating preview.

• More control while recording — It is now easier to choose what shows up in your recording, including your cursor and camera.

• Less clutter on screen — You can hide desktop icons before recording and have them come back automatically when you are done.

• A more polished recording flow — Starting, pausing, and finishing a recording now feels more natural and dependable.

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What's New

• Faster screenshot capture — Taking a screenshot now feels quicker and more responsive, especially when starting a new capture.

• Smoother first editor open — The editor now opens faster on first launch and avoids the awkward empty-state flash before your screenshot appears.

• Smoother wallpaper switching — Background and wallpaper changes now fade more smoothly instead of switching with a harsh blink.

• Better control panel layout — The tool panel was reorganized to make the main tools easier to reach, with a cleaner and more focused layout.

• Cleaner hand and move tools — The hand/move controls were simplified, updated visually, and made more consistent with the rest of the toolbar.

• Improved dropdown behavior — Tool menus now open in smarter directions when space is tight, so they are less likely to get cut off near the bottom of the screen.

• Better color and slider controls — Color selection and tool settings were cleaned up visually and made easier to use.

• More reliable cursors — Cursor behavior was improved across tools like move, pencil, screenshot capture, and color picking so the app feels more consistent.

• More stable zooming and drawing — Drawings now stay in place more reliably when zooming, and effects like pixelate behave properly even on zoomed screenshots.

• Improved Spotlight behavior — Spotlight now layers correctly with other annotations, so it no longer appears behind older drawings.

• Better export reliability — Exports now preserve wallpapers and backgrounds more reliably, matching what you see in the editor more closely.

• Pinned screenshot OCR fix — Text recognition from pinned screenshots now works properly again.

• Better editor window behavior — If the editor is open in the background, regular screenshots no longer force it to jump in front unless you explicitly open the editor.

• Capture quality and accuracy fixes — Selection, crop alignment, and screenshot bounds were improved to make captures feel more precise.

• General stability improvements — Many smaller issues were fixed across screenshot capture, dropdowns, annotation tools, editor loading, and overall app behavior.

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What's New

• Faster Cloud Previews — Items in Cloud now open more smoothly, with quicker playback and a better chance of using files already saved on your Mac before loading them again.

• Better Recording Experience — Screen recording is now cleaner and less distracting, with the editor staying out of the way while you record.

• More Reliable Editor Controls — The editing toolbar now behaves more consistently, stays available when you need it, and comes back properly after switching between sections.

• More Background Options — Added support for a transparent background, giving you more flexibility when preparing images for different uses.

• Unlimited Screen Recording — You can now record screen videos without the previous time limit, making it easier to capture longer sessions in one go.

• Faster, Smoother Editing — The overall editing experience now feels quicker and more responsive, with smoother interactions throughout the editor.

• Polished Navigation — Moving between Editor, Cloud, and Settings feels more stable, with fewer odd UI states and smoother transitions overall.

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ScreenSnap V3 — Major Release

Complete Editor Redesign

This release represents a ground-up redesign of the ScreenSnap experience. The editor has been completely reimagined with a unified, modern interface.

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New Left Navigation Sidebar

A brand new navigation sidebar gives you quick access to everything — your editor, cloud uploads, keyboard shortcuts, and settings — all from one place.

Stunning Visual Overhaul

• Animated Background: Beautiful floating orbs with gradient effects throughout the app
• Frosted Glass Design: Modern blur effects across all panels for a sleek, premium look
• Consistent Visual Style: Every part of the app now shares the same polished aesthetic

Unified Single-Window Experience

Everything now lives in one window. Settings, keyboard shortcuts, and onboarding are all built directly into the editor — no more juggling multiple windows.

Redesigned Onboarding

• Beautiful full-screen welcome experience
• Faster setup — get started in seconds
• Can be relaunched anytime from the menu

Simplified Editing

• The control panel is now always visible while editing
• Cleaner header with fewer buttons
• More intuitive workflow

Refreshed Settings & Shortcuts

• Clean, left-aligned layout
• Better organized sections
• Easier to scan and configure

Updated Menu

• Quick access to Settings directly from the menu
• New Shortcuts option for fast keyboard customization
• Welcome Guide to revisit the onboarding anytime

Cloud Tab Improvements

• Cleaner layout with better spacing
• Filters are easier to find and use

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ScreenSnap V3 — A completely reimagined screenshot experience.

New Features

Capture Delay

You can now add a timed delay before any screenshot is taken. This gives you a few seconds to prepare the screen — open a menu, hover over a tooltip, or arrange windows exactly how you want them before the capture happens.

• Works with all capture types: area, fullscreen, and window
• Choose from 3, 5, 7, or 10 second delays
• Quickly toggle the delay on or off from the tray menu without opening settings
• Change the delay duration directly from the tray submenu
• Enable, disable, and configure the delay in Settings

What's New in ScreenSnap

New: Spotlight Tool

A brand new annotation tool that lets you highlight a specific area of your screenshot by dimming everything around it with a dark overlay. Perfect for drawing attention to a particular UI element or detail.

• Draw a rectangle to spotlight any region
• Adjustable overlay darkness via slider
• Supports multiple spotlight areas at once
• Hold Shift to constrain to a perfect square
• Move and delete spotlight areas in hand mode
• Fully exported in saved images and clipboard copies

New: Line Tool Improvements

• Angle snapping — Hold Shift while drawing a line to snap to 0, 45, 90, 135 degree angles. Previously, 0 (horizontal) and 90 (vertical) angles were missing.
• Live preview fix — Perfectly straight horizontal and vertical lines now show up while you're drawing them, not just after releasing the mouse.

Improved: Editor Empty State

• Bigger, more visible animated icon when no image is loaded
• Cleaner look with sidebar and header hidden until you open an image
• Opening an image from the empty state now activates the arrow tool and shows the control panel automatically, matching the behavior of other entry points

Improved: Settings Sidebar

• Inset color picker and auto button moved to the same row as the section title for a cleaner, more compact layout
• Fixed a layout shift where changing the inset slider value would push the color pickers around

Improved: Performance

• Faster startup — Machine ID is now cached after first launch instead of being recalculated every time, saving up to 2 seconds on macOS
• Faster startup — Non-essential modules (preview, GIF recording, OCR, auto-updater) are now loaded on demand instead of all at once
• Smoother drawing — Pencil strokes build incrementally instead of recalculating the entire path on every point
• Smoother rendering — Annotation overlays update more efficiently using batched DOM operations
• Faster exports — Removed unnecessary delays in the save and copy-to-clipboard pipeline
• Reduced GPU usage — Removed invisible blur effects from opaque UI elements that were wasting GPU resources
• Lighter event handling — Color picker mouse tracking only runs while the picker is active, instead of listening globally at all times
• Async file operations — File reads and writes no longer block the UI during cloud uploads, saves, and image loading

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where changing tools and taking a new screenshot would leave the previously selected tool inactive until manually re-selected
• Removed unused code and cleaned up dead files

What's New in ScreenSnap Pro

Instant Editor Opening

The editor now opens instantly in all scenarios. Previously, there was a 2–3 second delay showing a black window before the UI appeared.

• Instant launch from screenshots — When you take a screenshot, the editor appears immediately with your image ready to edit. No more black screen while waiting for the UI to load.
• Instant launch from tray menu — Opening an empty editor from the tray menu is now equally fast. Previously, the loading overlay was stuck visible until a failsafe timeout kicked in.

Editor Auto-Hides During Screenshot Capture

The editor now automatically hides itself when you initiate a new screenshot, so it won't appear in your captures. It restores automatically once the capture is complete.

Open Images Directly from Finder

You can now right-click any image in Finder and use "Open With > ScreenSnap Pro" to edit it directly.

What's New in ScreenSnap Pro

Beautiful GIF Recording

GIF recording has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. The result — smooth, vibrant GIFs with no visual artifacts.

• Stunning quality — GIFs now look clean and accurate with smooth color transitions, no more blocky patches or flickering dots in dark areas.
• Vibrant colors — Colors in your GIFs now match what you see on screen, even in colorful scenes with lots of detail.
• Sharp on Retina displays — GIF recordings on high-resolution screens are now crisp and detailed.
• Works out of the box — Everything you need for perfect GIF recording is built right into the app. No extra software required.

Recording UX Improvements

• ESC cancels area selection gracefully — Pressing ESC while drawing a recording area now brings back the recording toolbar instead of closing everything.
• Smarter controls for GIF mode — Microphone and system audio buttons are now automatically disabled when recording a GIF, since GIFs don't have sound.
• Cleaner toolbar — Removed distracting tooltip popups when hovering over recording buttons.

Fix for some Mac on Intel chip were crashing.

Added support for Macs running on Intel chip.

What's New in ScreenSnap Pro

Sharper Screenshots on Non-HiDPI Displays

Screenshots captured on external monitors or displays with lower pixel density are now crisp and sharp. Previously, captures could appear blurry due to incorrect resolution handling on non-Retina screens.

• Fixed fullscreen capture blur — Fullscreen screenshots no longer upscale beyond the display's native resolution. The old behavior applied a quality multiplier to logical pixel dimensions, which caused artificial upscaling and visible blur on non-HiDPI monitors.
• Accurate display scaling — All capture paths (area selection, fullscreen, and window) now use the actual display scale factor instead of assuming 2x Retina. This ensures the correct resolution is requested for every type of monitor.
• Higher-quality window captures — Window screenshots now capture at the display's full native resolution instead of being capped at 1920x1080.
• Pixel-accurate selection dimensions — The selection overlay now shows actual pixel dimensions during capture. On Retina displays, you'll see the true output resolution (e.g. 600 x 400px) rather than CSS points.

What's New in ScreenSnap Pro

Cloud Uploads Gallery

Your cloud uploads now have a dedicated home. Open the Cloud Uploads tab in the sidebar to browse everything you've shared — screenshots, videos, and GIFs — all in one beautiful grid.

• Browse and preview — Double-click or press Space to open a full-size preview. Navigate between files with arrow keys.
• File details at a glance — Select any upload to see its name, type, size, dimensions, and upload date in the sidebar.
• Filter by type — Quickly narrow down to just Images, Videos, or GIFs with one click.
• Copy share links — Grab the share link for any file instantly. It's copied to your clipboard and ready to paste.
• Download in any format — Save cloud images locally as PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, or PDF — right to your Downloads folder.
• Open in Editor — Pull any cloud image directly into the ScreenSnap editor for annotations.
• Delete from cloud — Remove files you no longer need. The file and its share link are permanently deleted.
• Storage summary — See how many files you have and total storage used at the bottom of the gallery.

Multi-Select and Bulk Actions

Select multiple files at once for faster management.

• Cmd+click to pick individual files, or Shift+click to select a range.
• Selected files are highlighted with a checkmark badge.
• A floating action bar appears with Copy Links (all selected) and Delete (bulk remove).
• Press Delete on your keyboard to bulk-delete, or Escape to clear your selection.

Right-Click Menu

Right-click any upload for quick access to all actions — Copy Link, Open in Browser, Open in Editor, Save As, and Delete — without needing the sidebar.

Upload Progress

When you upload a file to the cloud, a live progress card now appears in the gallery grid with a spinner animation, so you always know an upload is in progress.

Screen Recording — Now in MP4

Screen recordings are now saved as MP4 (H.264) by default, which means they open natively on your Mac — no extra apps needed. Recordings use hardware acceleration for smooth performance and smaller file sizes.

• Up to 5 minutes of recording for video, 30 seconds for GIF.
• Choose Video or GIF format before you start, right from the recording toolbar.
• Microphone audio — Optionally record your microphone. Pick which mic to use from the dropdown, and your choice is remembered.
• Multi-monitor support — The recording toolbar appears on whichever monitor you're using. When recording a display, other screens are dimmed so you know exactly what's being captured.
• Recording controls — Stop, pause, restart, or discard your recording at any time. Click the timer to stop.
• Invisible to recordings — The recording toolbar is hidden from the capture, so it never appears in your videos.

Faster Video Thumbnails

Video uploads now generate lightweight thumbnails, so the cloud gallery loads instantly — no more waiting for full video files to render a preview.

Smarter File Sizes

Recording quality has been optimized across all presets to produce significantly smaller files while keeping visuals sharp. Uploads can now be up to 300 MB.

More Cloud Storage

Your cloud upload limit has been increased from 2,000 to 10,000 files per license.