ScreenFlowy
Step 01
Snap it
From any app, press ⇧⌘A and frame the part you want. A window and the whole screen have hotkeys of their own, and a long page takes a scrolling capture.
ScreenFlowy SnapScreenshot tool for Mac
Make every screenshot look like a poster.
One hotkey, and the shot arrives with its background, corners and shadow already set. Mark what matters, hide what's private, and drag it straight into a chat.
Completely free
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · 15 languages
Scrolling capture
Scrolling capture.
A whole page in one shot.
Select an area once and scroll: Snap stitches as you go. Web pages, long chats, documents and code come out as one clean image.
- Anything that scrolls, in one piece
- Works in any app
Sticky headers appear once, and a video playing on the page won’t throw the stitch off.
Style · Background · Markup
Drag it, swap it, draw on it.
Drag a slider and the padding, corners, shadow and background blur follow at once; click a background and a wallpaper, a colour or a picture of your own drops in; pick a tool and arrows, boxes, numbered steps and redaction go straight on.
Size · Signature · Export
Pick a size, sign it, save it.
Click a size and the canvas takes that shape, the shot whole, centred and as sharp as it was; turn on the watermark and every image carries your name, with past work a click away in history; then choose a format and save.
The right size for wherever it goes
Auto, square, portrait and landscape ratios, plus the recommended sizes of the common social networks, one click each. The shot always sits whole and centred, never cropped, and when it is bigger than the preset the canvas grows with it, so nothing gets softened.
Sign it, and keep the drafts
Turn on the watermark and every export carries your name in the corner, in words you choose. Everything you make goes into history on its own: click one and it reopens with its style and marks intact, ready for more edits.
Any format, one keystroke
Switch between PNG, JPEG and WebP right in the bottom bar; for JPEG and WebP a quality slider trades detail against file size. ⌘S saves straight to your default folder, or Save As, copy, or drag the image out of the window.
Presets · Drag and drop
Presets you reuse. Images you drag away.
Save the look you like as a preset and the next screenshot takes it in a single click; drag the finished image straight into a chat, a document or onto the desktop, without saving it first and hunting for the file.
Three steps
Snap it. Style it. Send it.
Step 02
Style it
The shot opens in the editor with its background, corners and shadow already set. Click a preset for a different look, or pick a tool to mark what matters and hide what’s private.
Step 03
Send it
Press ⌘C and paste it into a chat, press ⌘S to save it to your default folder, or drag the image straight into a document, an email or onto the desktop.
Markup tools
Nine tools.
Pick one and draw.
Eight colours, one click to switch. Every mark can be moved, adjusted or undone.
Box
Frame the part that matters so the eye finds it at once.
Circle
Ring a button or a number, softer than a box.
Arrow
Point straight at it; both ends stay draggable.
Pen
Circle and underline freehand; the line smooths out as you let go.
Text
Click and type. Double-click to change it later.
Redact
Pixelate, blur or block it out, and let auto‑redact cover sensitive details first.
Spotlight
Dim everything else so the eye lands in one place.
Magnifier
Enlarge small print in place, without ever uncovering what you redacted.
Step numbers
Click to drop 1, 2, 3. Delete one and the rest renumber.
The details
- System
- macOS 14 or laterOn a Mac with Apple silicon.
- Capture
- Region, window, screen, scrollingEvery display at once, too, and a picture already on your Mac can be opened, pasted or dragged in to be styled.
- Hotkeys
- ⇧⌘A · ⇧⌘E · ⇧⌘DRegion, window and screen, from any app. Each one can be changed to a combination of your own.
- Export
- PNG, JPEG, WebPWith a quality slider for JPEG and WebP.
- Languages
- 15 languagesEnglish, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia.
- Price
- Completely freeFrom the Mac App Store, as a separate app from ScreenFlowy.
Questions
Before you ask.
How is this different from the Mac’s own screenshots (⇧⌘4)?
The Mac gives you the screenshot as it is. Snap gives you something close to finished: the background, corners and shadow already set, the tools to mark what matters and hide what’s private right there, and a long page captured as one tall image by scrolling. The result copies or drags straight into a chat, and switches to the sizes social networks use in a click.
What are the system requirements, and which permissions does it need?
macOS 14 or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon. The first time you capture, macOS asks you to allow Screen Recording, which every capture relies on. In a scrolling capture, the Scroll down button also needs Accessibility; scroll with your mouse or trackpad instead, and Snap never asks for it.
Is the automatic redaction reliable?
It saves a lot of work, but it can miss things. Turn on Auto redact sensitive data in the redaction panel and Snap reads the text in the image, on your Mac, and covers email addresses, links, phone numbers, ID and card numbers, keys and tokens, and whatever follows a label such as “Password:” or “Account:”. Text that is blurry, very short or unusual can slip through, so look at the result before you share it, and cover anything it missed with the redaction tool.
Can I get the text out of a screenshot?
Yes. Click Run OCR, then Copy Text, and the text in the image goes to the clipboard with its lines as they were. Recognition runs on your Mac and reads your interface language first, with English as a fallback.
Can I use my own background, or a transparent one?
Both. Besides the three built-in wallpaper sets, gradients and solid colours, you can pick any colour from the colour wheel or use a picture of your own, with a blur on top if you like. Choose None as the background and save as PNG or WebP for a transparent image that sits on any document or slide. Save a combination you like as a preset and it is one click away next time.
Can I change the hotkeys?
Yes. The defaults are ⇧⌘A for a region, ⇧⌘E for a window and ⇧⌘D for the screen; in settings, hold ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃ and press a letter to record your own. Scrolling capture and the other commands without a default can each get one too. If a new combination takes over another app’s shortcut, settings says so right there.
Where do my images go? Is anything uploaded?
Nothing is uploaded. Snap does not use the network at all: capture, text recognition, redaction and export all happen on your Mac, and there is no account to sign up for. The full story is in the privacy policy.
⌘S saves to your default folder, ScreenFlowy Snap in your Pictures folder unless you choose another in settings; Save As lets you pick a place each time. Everything you make also goes into history on its own, the latest 100 images, ready to reopen and keep editing; delete them one by one or clear them all, cached files included.
Do I need ScreenFlowy to use Snap?
No. They are two separate apps and either works on its own, sharing one set of background wallpapers, so they look alike. The Record with ScreenFlowy button at the right of Snap’s toolbar opens ScreenFlowy if you have it, and its page if you don’t yet.
Does it cost anything, and when is it out?
It is completely free, with no in-app purchases. Snap is being prepared for the Mac App Store alongside ScreenFlowy, and this page will link straight there once it is live; questions before then go to support.
