On KDE Plasma, Snim takes screenshots straight from KWin, Plasma's compositor. Press the hotkey and the area selector is there at once, with no permission dialog in the way, every single time.
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Your keyboard's screenshot key can open Snim instead of the system tool: Print Screen on Windows and Linux, Shift+Cmd+3, 4 and 5 on macOS. Snim frees the key for you and gives it back just as…
Make a raw screenshot presentable in one click: set it on a solid, gradient or wallpaper background with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow. Ready for docs, slides, posts and READMEs…
Select any part of the screen and Snim copies the text in it to your clipboard. Perfect for error messages, text inside images and videos, or apps that will not let you select. Recognition runs on…
Turn a screen recording into an animated GIF or WebP that plays inline almost anywhere: chats, issues, pull requests and docs. Trim the recording first, then export just the part that matters.
Put yourself in the corner of a screen recording: a round, live webcam bubble that is recorded along with your screen. Handy for walkthroughs, demos and bug reports, where a face and a voice explain…
Pause a recording while you look something up or set up the next step, then pick up where you left off. The pause is cut out of the file, so the video plays straight through with no frozen frames…
Install and update Snim the way your system expects: a .deb or .rpm on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, a Flatpak on any Linux distribution, and a Homebrew cask on macOS. No building from source and no…
Snim runs natively on Windows 10 and 11, with the same capture, annotation, recording, OCR and upload features as on Linux and macOS. Install it for your user without admin rights, or keep a…