⌘⇧S and the overlay is there. Drag, click, or fullscreen. The screenshot is already on your clipboard before the animation ends. No Finder. No export. No thinking.
Drag to select area 1920 × 1080 The built-in way
SwiftSnap
That's not a minor improvement. That's a different workflow.
The sequence
⌘⇧S. From anywhere. Zero startup time.
Drag an area. Click a window. Or grab the full screen.
Already copied. A glass toast confirms it. No dialogs.
⌘V into Slack, Figma, Notion, email. Done.
Under the hood
No Electron. No web view. No runtime overhead. SwiftSnap is a ~8 MB binary built entirely with Apple frameworks.
Apple's hardware-accelerated capture framework. The same API used by FaceTime screen sharing. Zero-copy buffer pipeline — the frame goes from GPU to clipboard without touching disk.
Native macOS Tahoe materials — not CSS backdrop-filter. Real .glassEffect() modifiers, real vibrancy, real depth. The toolbar and overlays are indistinguishable from system UI.
Universal binary, optimized for M-series. Idles at <15 MB RAM. Launches in under 100ms. Lives in the menu bar — no dock icon, no window, no footprint.
No analytics. No telemetry. No network calls. Your screenshots never leave your Mac unless you paste them somewhere. The binary is notarized and sandboxed.
Capabilities
⌘⇧S is registered system-wide via Accessibility API. Works from any app, any space, any fullscreen context. The overlay appears before your finger lifts.
Capture → NSPasteboard in one tick. No intermediate file. No save dialog. The image is on your clipboard by the time the capture animation plays. Paste anywhere immediately.
Area selection with pixel-precise crosshairs, window detection that highlights on hover, and single-click full-screen. All in one floating glass toolbar.
PNG, JPG, or WebP. Pick once, it sticks. Or auto-save to a folder with timestamped filenames. Clipboard-only mode for zero disk footprint.
No dock icon. Recent captures in a popover — click to copy again. Quick access to settings, format switching, and launch-at-login. Invisible until you need it.
It becomes muscle memory in a day. ⌘⇧S, drag, paste. You'll wonder how you ever tolerated the old way.
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