Your capture.
Your control.

Processing stays on your Mac.

Snip is a macOS app for capturing and annotating screenshots, extracting text from them, and recording your screen with the audio you choose. Screenshots, annotations, text recognition, screen recordings and any audio you enable are processed on your Mac. Snip does not send them, or usage activity, to the developer and does not operate an upload, streaming or hosting service.

The app has no account system, advertising SDK, analytics SDK or tracking. It does not sell your content or share it with third parties. This policy describes the native app first; the separate section below covers this website's hosting.

Images and clipboard access.

Snip accesses screen content when you request a capture or a recording and macOS has granted Screen Recording permission. It opens files you choose and reads image content from the clipboard when you choose Paste. Snip does not start captures or recordings on its own. A screen recording you start continues while you use other apps until you pause or stop it.

A successful new screenshot is written to your Mac’s clipboard automatically as PNG and TIFF data, and saved as a PNG. Cancelling a capture, or opening or pasting an image, leaves your clipboard unchanged. Annotations and redactions reach the clipboard only when you choose Copy image. Save writes a PNG to a location you choose, and Studio processes its background and styling locally.

Screen recording and optional audio.

Recording starts only when you choose Record and Start Recording. You decide whether system audio and the microphone are included; microphone permission is requested only if you enable it. Snip’s own control windows are excluded from the recording.

The recording is encoded on your Mac and saved as one local MP4 — Movies/Snip/Recordings for direct builds, or the app container’s Application Support/Snip/Recordings for sandboxed builds. Nothing is uploaded, streamed or hosted by us. Save As, Show in Finder and Copy File act on that local file, and sharing it with anyone else is a manual step you take.

If a recording is interrupted, finalized segments may remain on disk so Snip can offer recovery. When a final MP4 is published successfully — including through a successful recovery — those temporary segments are removed. Finalized segments from an interrupted recording can remain if they are never recovered. Completed PNG and MP4 files stay on your Mac until you remove them; quitting Snip does not delete them.

Extract Text (Apple Vision).

Extract Text runs Apple Vision locally on the rendered, visible pixels of the current image. The recognized text is held in memory for you to review and edit; it is placed on your clipboard only when you choose Copy Text, and it is not written into the saved PNG. No image or text is uploaded, and no API key or account is used.

Automatic saving and retention.

Each capture is automatically saved as a flattened PNG. Editing a capture updates that PNG, and starting a new capture saves the previous image and its annotations first. Local direct builds use Pictures/Snip; sandboxed builds use the app container's Application Support/Snip/Captures folder. Show Snips opens the applicable folder.

These files stay on your Mac until you remove them. Snip does not automatically delete them when you close the window or quit. Separate editable annotations and undo history exist only in the current editing session. Snip also stores local preferences such as your capture delay and window placement.

A capture may be saved before you apply Redact. Later edits update that file, but do not remove earlier exports, clipboard copies or backups. Redaction is not a promise of secure erasure from storage or backup systems.

Your choices and controls.

You can revoke capture permission in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording (called Screen Recording on some versions of macOS). Microphone access is separate and can be revoked under Privacy & Security → Microphone. Opening or editing an existing image does not require these permissions.

Use Show Snips to find automatic image files, and Show in Finder in Recording Preview to reveal a recording. Both PNG and MP4 files stay on your Mac until you delete them in Finder. Clear or replace clipboard content through macOS. Quitting ends Snip’s in-memory editing session; it does not delete saved PNGs or MP4s. Sharing an image, video, audio or extracted text with another app or person is a manual step you take, and the destination handles it under its own policies.

Sharing with other apps.

You control whether to paste or upload an exported image to a chat, AI service or another destination. Those services have their own privacy policies. Files saved into a folder managed by a backup or cloud-sync service may be copied by that service according to your settings. Snip does not provide its own cloud sync.

Purchases and App Store transaction processing are handled by Apple under Apple's policies. Snip does not collect payment-card information.

If you contact support.

We receive the email address, message and any files you choose to send. We use them to respond, troubleshoot the issue and maintain necessary support records. They may be processed by our email provider to deliver and store the correspondence. Do not send confidential screenshots unless they are needed to explain the issue.

Support correspondence is kept as needed to address the request and meet applicable obligations. You can contact us to request deletion of your support correspondence; some information may need to be retained where legally required.

This website.

This site is hosted through Lovable. Your browser sends connection information, such as your IP address and request details, to the hosting service when you visit, and the hosting provider handles those requests under its own privacy policy. We have not added analytics scripts, advertising, tracking pixels, a contact form or unnecessary cookies to these pages.

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The app's local media processing described above is separate from any voluntary support correspondence you send by email. We will update this policy if Snip's data handling changes and show the new date on this page.