snipitClick a window, snip a window
Hover anything and the window under your cursor lights up — one click captures its exact bounds. Or drag any region across any of your monitors, with marching ants and a live size readout.
Free & open source · Windows 10/11
Snip it. Record it. Send a link.
snipit-good is a tiny capture tool that lives in your tray. Pixel-sharp screenshots, MP4 screen recordings, and private share links — all two keystrokes away.
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Ctrl + Shift + S→drag a region, or just click a window→it's on your clipboard.
// The basics, done properly
Capture at the speed of thought
The overlay is pre-loaded and waiting — the hotkey only has to show it. No launcher, no ceremony, no watermark.
Recordings without the ritual
Record any region straight to MP4 that pastes anywhere. System audio and microphone mix into one track — mute or bring in the mic live, pause and resume, and adjust the frame before rolling.
Annotate without fear
Pen, highlighter, shapes, arrows, text and pixelate — with undo, redo and crop. Saving an edit creates a new variant; the original stays untouched and every variant stays re-editable later.
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// Nothing disappears
Every capture, kept
Nothing is auto-deleted. Every snip and recording lands in a folder you choose, with a readable
name like rec-20260703-141822.mp4.
The floating bar keeps your last three within a glance. The library keeps everything — scroll your whole history, replay recordings, and re-edit any image. Edits nest under their original as variants, so a screenshot and its annotated versions read as one family.
Delete something? That's always your call, never the app's.
// Muscle memory in one afternoon
How it works
Press Ctrl+Shift+S
The screen freezes and dims instantly — every monitor at once. Press Tab to flip between Snip and Record.
Drag — or just click
Drag out a region, or hover a window and click to capture its exact bounds. Recording? Fine-tune the frame, then hit Record.
Paste it — or share it
Captures land on your clipboard and in your library. Hit the link icon and a private URL is ready to paste instead.
// Straight answers
Questions you should ask
Is it really free?
Yes. snipit-good is MIT-licensed and the full source is on GitHub. No ads, no trials, no watermarks — and you can read exactly what it does.
Why does it ask me to sign in?
Captures unlock with a free mtnauth.com account. It's what ties share links to you — so you can see their view counts and revoke them later. Once verified, the app keeps working even when you're offline.
Windows warns about an unknown publisher.
The installer isn't code-signed (certificates cost more than this free project earns — which is nothing). Click More info → Run anyway, or audit and build from source if you'd rather trust the compiler than us.
Where do my captures live?
Locally, in Pictures\snipit-good (configurable). Nothing leaves your machine unless you click
Share — then that one file is uploaded for its link, and deleting the link deletes the upload.
How private are share links?
Each link contains a 128-bit random id — unguessable in practice — served over HTTPS with search engines told to stay out. For sensitive clips, add a password, an expiry date, or a view limit; revoking a link deletes the file from storage immediately.
Can I self-host the share service?
The app talks to a small HTTP API and the endpoint is configurable — point SNIPPIT_SHARE_API
at any compatible service you run yourself. Everything else in the app works entirely without it.
Your next screenshot is two keys away
Free, open source, 40 MB-ish, and it stays out of your way until you need it.
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