Snip - AI-powered macOS Screenshot Tool
Capture. Annotate. Find anything.
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Rex Wang

Snip - AI-powered macOS Screenshot Tool - Capture. Annotate. Find anything.

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Snip is a free, open-source macOS screenshot tool with on-device AI. Capture any region with Cmd+Shift+2. Annotate with arrows, text, blur, and AI object segmentation. A local vision model auto-names, tags, and categorizes every saved screenshot. Find anything later by describing it — semantic search powered by local embeddings finds the right screenshot instantly. Segment objects and animate them into GIFs. No cloud, no API keys. 100% private, runs entirely on your Mac.

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Rex Wang
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Hey everyone! We're the team behind Snip. We built this because we were drowning in screenshots — hundreds of them piling up on the Desktop with names like Screenshot 2025-11-14 at 3.42.17 PM.png. We could never find the one we needed. Snip fixes this with a simple workflow: Cmd+Shift+2 to capture, annotate if you want, and save. A local AI running on your Mac automatically names, tags, and categorizes every screenshot. When you need to find something later, just describe it — "that Slack message about the deployment" — and semantic search finds it instantly. A few things we're proud of: 100% local AI — no cloud, no API keys, no data leaving your Mac. Uses Ollama with a vision model running on Apple Silicon. Clipboard-first — press Esc and the annotated screenshot is on your clipboard in under 5 seconds. Saving to disk is optional. AI object segmentation — select any object in a screenshot with one click (powered by SlimSAM), cut it out, or even animate it into a GIF. Liquid Glass UI on macOS Tahoe — built to feel native. It's free, open-source (MIT), and installable via Homebrew: brew install --cask rixinhahaha/snip/snip We'd love to hear what you think — especially what features you'd want next. Happy to answer any questions!