Open source · GPL-3.0Snip is a screenshot and screen recording tool for Omarchy and Hyprland, modelled on CleanShot X. It captures areas, windows and long pages, has an editor for annotations, records the screen, and keeps a history you can search by the text in each capture.
Snipcurl -fsSL https://snipshotx.com/install.sh | bashRuns on Omarchy, or Arch Linux with Hyprland. The script builds and installs a pacman package; run it again to update.
Capture an area or a window, annotate it however you want, and copy it to the clipboard.
With Studio on, Snip records the pointer separately from the screen. When the recording stops, the video editor opens with a zoom at each click and each stretch of typing, and the view follows the pointer. Each zoom's level can be changed.
Records an area of the screen as a video or a GIF, with a microphone if you pick one. The microphone's level is shown before you start, so you can check it's the right one.
snip recordSelect an area, press Start, and scroll the page yourself or let Auto-Scroll do it. Snip stitches the frames into one tall image.
snip scrollSelect a region and its text is copied to the clipboard. Recognition runs locally with Tesseract.
snip textEvery capture is kept, with the text recognised in it, so you can find a capture by the words it contains. Enter restores the selected one to a card.
snip search connection refusedThe screen freezes when you press the shortcut, so the capture is what was on screen at that moment. The magnifier shows the pixel under the pointer and its hex colour. Alt keeps the selection square, Ctrl grows it from the centre, Space moves it. Selections are exact at any display scale, including rotated monitors.
snip areaPress Space during a capture and click a window. It's captured with Hyprland's rounded corners and a shadow, on your wallpaper. Hold Shift for a transparent background.
Text comes in seven styles and arrows in four. Drag the middle of an arrow to bend it.
Pixelate, Blur and Black out hide what's under them in the saved image, not only on screen. Spotlight dims everything outside the area you choose.
Puts the capture on a gradient or your wallpaper, with padding, rounded corners and a shadow.
Each capture appears as a card in the corner. Copy, save, annotate or pin it from there, or drag it into another app.
Keeps a capture above other windows. Scroll over it to change its opacity, Ctrl+scroll to resize it.
Studio redraws the pointer. Its size, smoothing and click ripple are set in the editor.
Numbered markers. Each click places the next number.
The highlighter snaps to lines of text. There are also a pen, rectangles and ellipses.
Sets the background to 1:1, 16:9, 4:5 and other ratios.
Text capture also reads QR codes and offers to open the link.
Covers the bar with your wallpaper. Click again to bring it back.
Snip is written in Rust with a Qt Quick interface. It runs on Hyprland only.
Colours come from the current Omarchy theme and corner radius from Hyprland. Switching themes updates Snip without a restart.
Snip adds an icon to Omarchy's bar. Searching “Snip” in the launcher opens Settings and lists each capture action.
snip area · snip text · snip edit FILEEvery action has a command, so it can be bound to any key or used in scripts.
~/.config/snip/config.tomlThe Settings window writes this file and keeps your comments. Edits made by hand apply immediately.
Captures, their recognised text and the history are stored in a local SQLite database. Nothing is uploaded.
CleanShot's default shortcuts, bound through Hyprland. Print Screen can be added, and any action can be rebound in Settings.
Snip follows the workflow of CleanShot X, a screenshot app for macOS: an overlay that appears instantly, a card for each capture, and an editor for annotations. Snip is an independent project and isn't affiliated with CleanShot X or its makers.