Snapline – menu-bar screenshot app that searches shots by their text

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Snapline — the screenshot studio in your macOS menu bar

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The screenshot<br>studio in your menu bar.

Capture, annotate, record, and scroll-capture — then find any shot again<br>by the text inside it. Snapline is a fast, native screenshot app for<br>macOS that turns everything you grab into something you can use right away.

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Replay the capture

⌥⌘SCapture

⌥⌘RRecord

⌥⌘LScrolling capture

⌃⌘SHistory shelf

Every chord is rebindable, with a live shortcut recorder in Settings.

One minute of Snapline.

Capture, stitch, search, annotate, pin, trim — the whole studio, back to back.

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You scroll. It stitches.

Hit ⌥⌘L, pick a region or a window, and<br>scroll it yourself. Snapline joins the frames live while a preview grows<br>beside you. Sticky headers and docked footers are detected automatically<br>and kept once, not once per join. Scroll back up, pause to read,<br>overshoot with elastic bounce: none of it corrupts the stitch.

The result is one tall PNG that behaves like any screenshot: annotate<br>it, search it, pin it.

Snapline only reads pixels. It never scrolls for you, never injects<br>input, and Screen Recording stays the only permission it ever asks for.

docs.example.com<br>sticky — kept once

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Annotate like you mean it.

A full vector toolset: pen, highlighter, arrows, shapes, text, numbered<br>counter badges, and redaction that actually redacts: blur, pixelate, or<br>solid. Crop is non-destructive, with rule-of-thirds guides.

Every shape stays a shape. Annotations are stored as vectors, so you can<br>reopen a shot a week later and nudge the arrow.

An eyedropper reads any pixel through a magnifying loupe — click and the<br>color is on your clipboard as hex or rgb(). A measure tool reads<br>distances the same way: drag a ruler between two points and the label<br>says how far, in pixels or in points. And when a shot is headed<br>somewhere public, the Background stage wraps it in a gradient or solid<br>backdrop with padding, rounded corners, and a shadow.

Select<br>Crop<br>Pen<br>Highlighter<br>Line

Arrow<br>Rectangle<br>Ellipse<br>Text

Redact<br>Counter<br>Eyedropper<br>Measure<br>Background

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Record. Pause. Trim. GIF.

⌥⌘R drags a region, locks a window, or<br>takes a whole display, straight to H.264 MP4 with ScreenCaptureKit. While<br>you record, the menu bar becomes a transport control: pause mid-take and<br>the paused time is simply absent from the file, with no editing afterward.

Finished recordings trim in place: drag the In and Out points, apply,<br>same file, same card. Anything up to a minute converts to a looping GIF<br>with one click.

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the menu bar, while recording — left half pauses, right half stops

Find the shot by what it says.

Every screenshot is OCR'd in the background, on device, in your preferred<br>languages. Search invoice, or a code identifier, and the shots<br>containing that text surface instantly. Copy a capture's text straight<br>from its card.

The Text View opens any shot beside its recognized text, grouped into<br>copyable blocks (a paragraph, a heading, a run of code) and translates<br>them on device, original always in view.

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Everything in the studio.

Capture anything

A region, a window, or a whole display. Press ⌥⌘S and it's on its way; every shortcut is rebindable.

Scrolling capture

Grab a whole long page as one tall image. You scroll; Snapline stitches live and keeps sticky headers once.

Screen recording

Record a region, a window, or a display straight to H.264 MP4, with pause and resume right in the menu bar.

GIF

One-click GIFs

Turn any recording up to a minute into a looping GIF, ready to drop into an issue or a chat.

Trim in place

Drag the In and Out points on a scrubber and apply. Same file, same card, shorter recording.

Re-editable annotations

Arrows, shapes, highlights, text, and numbered counters, stored as vectors so every shape can be nudged later.

Backgrounds

Wrap a shot in a gradient or solid backdrop — padding, rounded corners, drop shadow — ready for the post or the doc. Still editable later.

Eyedropper

Hover any pixel for a magnified loupe and its value; click to copy as hex or rgb(). Colors come from the capture itself, ready for CSS.

Real redaction

Blur, pixelate, or solid-box the sensitive parts before a shot leaves your Mac.

Smart Redact

One scan finds emails, card numbers, API keys — and, opt-in, faces and people — each covered with its own deletable redaction. On device.

Search by what it says

Every screenshot is OCR'd on device. Type invoice and the shots that say it surface instantly. Code payloads count too — a QR code's URL finds its capture.

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Copy the text

Open any capture beside its recognized text, grouped into copyable blocks: paragraphs, headings, code. QR...

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