Screenshots and screen recordings that stay out of your way.
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A GitHub account is required to post. Include your macOS version and what you were doing when the problem happened — it usually saves a round trip.
In ~/Pictures/Snip by default. You can change the folder in Settings ▸ General ▸ Location, and Snip will keep using it from then on.
Snip needs Screen Recording permission, and macOS ties that permission to a specific copy of the app. Open System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Screen Recording, make sure Snip is enabled, then quit and reopen Snip. After an app update you may have to approve it again.
It is the only way macOS allows an app to capture the screen. Snip captures only when you ask it to — a shortcut, a menu bar item, or a button. It never captures in the background.
Only if you turned on microphone audio for screen recordings, in Settings ▸ Recording. Leave that off and Snip never touches the microphone.
Snip lives in the menu bar, not the Dock — look for the Snip mark near the clock. Click it to capture, record, or open your library.
Settings ▸ Shortcuts. Click a shortcut, press the keys you want, and it takes effect immediately. The ⊗ button clears one.
Three ways: drag a capture straight out of the library into Slack, Mail, or Finder; use Copy Last Capture in the menu bar; or, while marking one up, use Copy & Close (⌥⌘C) to put the annotated image on the clipboard and close the editor in one step.
macOS 15 or later.