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 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. 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, 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.

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.