Features & Shortcuts
Snapzy gives you a fast, native capture flow with a built-in editor for annotations. Most actions are reachable from the menu bar, but keyboard shortcuts are where it shines.
Core Features
- Capture modes — fullscreen, area, application window, scrolling page, subject isolation, and OCR text extraction. Hide desktop icons and widgets for clean captures.
- Screen recording — full screen or single application, with optional system audio and microphone. Mouse click highlights, keystroke overlays, live annotations, and Smart Camera metadata for Follow Mouse edits.
- Annotation editor — 13 tools (arrows, shapes, blur, highlight, counter, watermark, pencil, mockup backgrounds with a 3D renderer, remove background, crop-aware auto-crop) for screenshots and recordings. Zoom and pan, drag-to-app, and configurable tool shortcuts.
- Video editor — trim with a visual timeline, zoom segments with auto-focus (Follow Mouse), wallpaper backgrounds, custom export dimensions, and animated GIF viewer.
- Quick Access — floating panel after every capture with copy, edit, drag-to-app, open, and delete actions.
- Capture History — floating panel and full browser with type/time filters, filename search, and one-click reopen in Annotate or Video Editor.
- Cloud uploads & history — optional manual uploads to your own S3 or R2 bucket.
- Shortcuts — fully configurable global shortcuts with per-shortcut on/off control and system conflict detection.
- Local first — captures live on your Mac. No telemetry, no required cloud.
Capture Shortcuts
Trigger any capture mode from anywhere in macOS.
Recording Shortcuts
Tools Shortcuts
Open Snapzy companion windows directly via keyboard.
Annotate Actions
Used while the annotation editor is focused.
Annotate Tool Keys
Single-key tool switches inside the editor. Badges show which editor each tool applies to.
Tool Limitations — Crop (C) and Mockup backgrounds are exclusive to the full Annotate editor window and are not available in the Capture Markup inline overlay.
Annotate Reference
Standard macOS shortcuts that work in the annotation editor.
Conflict with macOS defaults? Snapzy reuses ⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4, ⌘⇧5 — the same keys macOS uses for its built-in screenshot tool. To make Snapzy the primary handler, disable the macOS shortcuts in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Screenshots. All Snapzy shortcuts can also be remapped in Snapzy → Preferences → Shortcuts.