Snip collects nothing. It has no accounts, no analytics, and no servers — it makes no network connections at all.
Everything Snip creates stays on your Mac: your screenshots, your recordings, and your settings. None of it is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to be sent to.
What stays on your Mac
- Captures. Screenshots, screen recordings, and exported GIFs are written to
~/Pictures/Snip, or to whatever folder you choose in Settings. They are ordinary files that belong to you: move them, back them up, or delete them like any other file.
- Settings. Your preferences — shortcuts, capture format, save location — are stored in Snip's own preferences on your Mac.
Permissions Snip asks for, and why
- Screen Recording. Required by macOS for any app that captures the screen. Snip captures only in response to something you do: a keyboard shortcut, a menu bar item, or a button. It does not capture in the background.
- Microphone. Requested only if you turn on microphone audio for screen recordings. The audio is recorded into your movie file and nowhere else. Leave the option off and Snip never accesses the microphone.
- Folder access. Snip writes to your Pictures folder, or to a folder you pick yourself. It reads nothing else.
What Snip does not do
- No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or usage tracking
- No accounts, sign-in, or user identifiers
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers
- No third-party SDKs
- No network connections of any kind
Sharing
Nothing is shared with anyone, because nothing is collected. When you drag a capture into another app or share it yourself, that file goes wherever you send it — at that point it is governed by that app's or service's own privacy policy, not this one.
Children
Snip collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date below.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or anything else: open an issue.