Snapline
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Capture, annotate, record, and scroll-capture, then find any shot again by the text inside it. Snapline is a fast, native screenshot app for macOS that turns everything you grab into something you can use right away.
macOS 14+ · full app free for 14 days · then a one-time license, no subscription, no account
30-day refund, no questions askedEvery chord is rebindable, with a live shortcut recorder in Settings.
Hit ⌥⌘L, pick a region or a window, and scroll it yourself. Snapline joins the frames live while a preview grows beside you. Sticky headers and docked footers are detected automatically and kept once, not once per join. Scroll back up, pause to read, overshoot with elastic bounce: none of it corrupts the stitch.
The result is one tall PNG that behaves like any screenshot: annotate it, search it, pin it.
Snapline only reads pixels. It never scrolls for you, never injects input, and needs nothing beyond the Screen Recording grant to do it.
A full vector toolset, with redaction that actually redacts (blur, pixelate, or solid) and a non-destructive crop. Every shape stays a shape: annotations are stored as vectors, so you can reopen a shot a week later and nudge the arrow.
An eyedropper copies any pixel as hex or rgb(), a measure tool reads distances in pixels or points, and the Background stage wraps a shot in a backdrop before it goes somewhere public.
⌥⌘R records a region, a window, or a whole display, straight to MP4. Everything that makes a take worth watching is already in the record bar, and every overlay is drawn into the frames themselves, so trims, GIFs and shares keep it.
Flip on Camera and your webcam floats over the recording as a bubble, a real window the capture films, so it lands in the movie exactly where you drop it. Drag it, nudge it with the arrow keys, pick a camera, a shape and a border.
Turn on Highlight Clicks and a ring animates at every mouse click, on display and region recordings.
The keys you press appear in a capsule at the bottom of the movie, shortcuts in real ⌃⌥⇧⌘ symbols. Input Monitoring is asked for once, only when you switch it on.
Your mic and what the Mac plays each land on their own track, in sync with the picture. Both stay off until you ask.
Recordings land as H.264 MP4. Anything up to three minutes converts to a GIF: pick Chat, Docs or Full, and read the file size before you click.
Pause mid-take from the menu bar and the paused time is simply absent from the file, no editing afterward. Finished recordings trim in place: same entry, same card, new length.
Every screenshot is OCR'd in the background, on your Mac, in your preferred languages. Search invoice and the shots that say it surface instantly.
Every capture lands on a card, its actions labelled around the picture. Convert, compress or redact in place, and the result is already on your clipboard.
The moment a capture lands on its card it is ready to leave: drag it straight into a message, a doc, an issue, or a folder. No Finder window to open, no Downloads folder to dig through, no flow to break.
The same drag works from the History shelf and from the editor's Drag me chip, so a shot from last week leaves as easily as the one you just took. Recordings drag out the same way.
The rest of what the menu-bar app does, one card each.
A region, a window, or a whole display. ⌥⌘S, rebindable.
Arm a set and every shot joins the strip. Finish, and they lay out as one image.
Pick captures in History and flatten them into one image. The originals stay.
Float a capture above every app. Reference that stays put while you work; see how to pin a screenshot on Mac.
One scan finds emails, card numbers, and API keys, and covers each. On device.
Every capture beside its recognized text, in copyable blocks. Translated on device, if you like; see how to extract text from a screenshot on Mac.
Hover any pixel for a loupe and its value. Click to copy it as hex or rgb().
PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or WebP, with one Quality slider for the lossy three.
An edge shelf for recent shots, a day-grouped gallery for the rest. Star what stays for good.
One toggle hides your desktop icons behind a wallpaper, an image, or a flat color while you capture.
Stage the menu or tooltip you want in the shot. It counts down where you can see it and fires by itself.
A recording cut short by a crash or a power cut comes back on the next launch, playable to the last frame.
Open a PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or HEIC with ⌘O, Open With, or a drop on the menu-bar icon. Copied an image? ⌃⌘V opens it straight from the clipboard.
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Snapline
Written entirely in Swift and AppKit, Snapline launches instantly, stays light on memory, and feels like part of macOS.
Captures, OCR, and translation are all processed on your Mac and stay there. Screen Recording is the only permission Snapline needs.
Activation is one quick online check; after that Snapline needs no connection and no account: capturing, OCR, and translation all run on your Mac.
Already own it? Renew your year of updates.
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 5 MB DMG.
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.
No. 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. 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.
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.
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, or the three-way Shottr vs CleanShot X (vs Snapline).
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.
Yes. Record with ⌥⌘R, then click GIF on the finished recording's card or choose Convert to GIF… in History. A window offers Chat (800 px, 10 fps), Docs (half size, 15 fps) and Full (every pixel, 20 fps) presets, or your own size, frame rate up to 30 fps, 1× to 2× speed, dithering and loop, and quotes the file's size and conversion time before you click. It 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.
Email support@snap-line.app and we'll get you sorted.
macOS 14+ · a 5 MB DMG · signed and notarized by Apple
