SnipSimple

For macOS 14 Sonoma and later

Snip, mark up, share.
Simple, light, affordable.

SnipSimple is a screenshot app for Mac that keeps your workflow simple and quick. Capture, mark up right where you are, and share an image or a link in one keystroke.

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Simple · Light · Shareable · Affordable

SnipSimple marking up a chart: a red box and arrow on the tallest bar, a check mark and the note Best week yet, the email address pixelated, with the toolbar below the selection.
Recorded in the real app.Mark up in place and share a link, skip the editor with Quick Capture, or set a style once.
  • 01Edit in placeThe toolbar appears under your selection.
  • 02Copy a link⌘U puts it on your clipboard.
  • 03Style, set oncePresets and filters are ready by default.

01Simple

One hotkey.
Three keys in all.

No account, no sign-in, no onboarding. Press ⌃⌘A and SnipSimple works on top of whatever you were looking at.

  1. The desktop dims the moment you press the shortcut, and the screen holds still while you choose an area. 01

    ⌃⌘A freezes the screen

    The whole screen stops and dims, so nothing moves while you choose. Your first few times, a hint at the bottom shows the keys.

  2. Dragging over a chart: the selected area shows its size above it and the toolbar underneath. 02

    Drag, or press Space

    Drag over any area. Space picks the whole window under the pointer. Esc cancels.

  3. After ⌘U, a Link copied notice appears and the snipsimple.app link is pasted into a chat. 03

    Return, ⌘S or ⌘U

    Return puts the image on your clipboard. ⌘S saves a PNG to Downloads. ⌘U copies a link.

One toolbar. 7 tools, 3 sizes, 6 colours.

It appears right under what you selected. What you see on screen is exactly what gets copied.

The SnipSimple toolbar: rectangle, ellipse, arrow, pen, text, emoji and mosaic tools, the frame button, undo, redo, cancel, save, upload and copy, with sizes and colours below.
  • Rectangle, ellipse, arrow, pen, textIn red, yellow, green, blue, black or white.
  • EmojiClick to place a sticker, drag to move it.
  • MosaicPixelates what’s underneath, so a password or an email address can’t be read.
  • Undo and redo⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z.
A chart being marked up in SnipSimple: a red box around the tallest bar, an arrow pointing at it, a check-mark emoji, the note Best week yet and the email address pixelated, with the toolbar below.

Or skip the toolbar.

⇧⌘4

Quick Capture. Select, let go, and it’s copied. No toolbar at all.

⇧⌘3

Quick Upload. Select, let go, and the link is copied. Without Cloud it shows the plans instead.

One setup step: these are also the macOS screenshot keys, so turn those off in System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts › Screenshots, or pick your own keys in Settings › General.

Quick Capture recorded in the real app: Shift Command 4, drag over a chart, let go, and the image is pasted straight into a chat. No toolbar.
SnipSimple's General settings: capture shortcut Control Command A, Quick Capture shortcuts Shift Command 4 and Shift Command 3, files saved to Downloads.

02Light

Under 3 MB.
Then it gets out of the way.

SnipSimple lives in the menu bar and waits for the hotkey. No analytics, no tracking. It only goes online to upload, or to check your purchase with the App Store.

  • Under 3 MBThe whole app.
  • About 15 MBMemory while it waits.
  • 0%CPU while it waits.
  • No Dock iconMenu bar only.
  • No third-party codeThe app has no outside dependencies.

Memory and CPU measured on a copy that had been waiting in the menu bar for 2.5 hours. How that compares with CleanShot X

SnipSimple vs CleanShot X

Share links for
$7.99 a year.
Not $120.

Need screen recording? CleanShot X is great. Want screenshots that are fast, tiny and cheap to share? That’s us.

SnipSimpleCleanShot X
App size2.2 MB74 MB
Memory while idleAbout 15 MBAbout 206 MB
CPU while idle0%About 1%
Share links$7.99 a yearCloud. ⌘U gives a link, no sign-up. Links kept 90 days.$120 a yearPro, $10 per user per month billed yearly
Pay once$29.99Lifetime: all frames, filters and colours. Links need Cloud$35Basic, 1 year of updates (then $19 a year) and 1 GB of cloud
Screen recording, scrolling capture, text recognition (OCR)Not in SnipSimpleYes

Size, memory and CPU: measured on our test Mac, Oct 2026. CleanShot X 5.0.1, both idle in the menu bar. Size is what Finder shows in Get Info. CleanShot X prices from cleanshot.com/pricing, checked 21 Oct 2026. CleanShot X is a trademark of its owner; prices may change.

04Affordable

Free forever.
Links for about 67¢ a month.

The core never needs a subscription. You pay only to share links, and Cloud starts with a free trial.

See full pricing Compare with CleanShot X

Free

Free forever

Capture, every markup tool and mosaic. Copy or save. Quick Capture. The white-border frame and 2 filters.

Cloud

$7.99 / year

Free trial

About 67¢ a month. Uploads to SnipSimple Cloud with ⌘U or Quick Upload. All frames, filters and colours.

Lifetime

$29.99 once

All frames, filters and colours, paid once. Everything stays on your Mac. Links and uploads need Cloud.

Ready when you are

Get SnipSimple

Coming soon to the Mac App Store. Free to start. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

See the plans

Mac App Store link coming soon.