📸 Free & open source · MIT · macOS + Windows

One keystroke.
Screenshot saved and copied.

A tiny, native screenshot tool that grabs your whole screen, saves a PNG to the folder you choose, and drops it on your clipboard — all in a single silent hotkey. No overlay, no mode-picking, no digging through folders.

Get it on GitHub See the problem it solves
⌃⌥⌘S on macOS  ·  Ctrl Alt S on Windows

The problem

The screenshot friction QA knows too well

When you're testing, you capture constantly — repro steps, failures, odd UI states — to drop into bug tickets and test evidence. But the built-in tools make you pick one thing at a time.

What the OS gives you

  • macOS: a shortcut either saves a file or copies to the clipboard — never both.
  • Windows: Win+PrtScn saves a file but skips the clipboard; the Snipping Tool does both but forces an overlay and a click.
  • So you capture twice, hunt for the file, or lose the exact state you were testing.
  • Multiply that by dozens of screenshots a day, every day.

What QuickSnap does

  • One silent hotkey — no overlay, no dimming, no mode buttons.
  • Captures the whole screen instantly.
  • Saves a timestamped PNG to your evidence folder and copies it to the clipboard.
  • Paste straight into the Jira ticket. Keep the file for the test record. One motion.

How it works

Three steps — and step 1 is the only one you do

Press the hotkey

Anywhere, in any app. ⌃⌥⌘S on macOS, Ctrl+Alt+S on Windows.

Whole screen is captured

Silently — no overlay, no interruption to whatever you were doing or watching.

Saved & on your clipboard

A PNG lands in the folder you chose, and the same image is ready to paste anywhere.

Features

Small on purpose

⌨️

One-keystroke capture

A global hotkey that works from any app, even full-screen video.

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Saved and copied

Both outputs, every time — a file for the record, the clipboard for the ticket.

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Your folder

Point it at Pictures, Desktop, Downloads, or any evidence folder you like.

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Native & lightweight

No Electron, no bloat. Menu-bar on Mac, tray on Windows — out of your way.

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Free & open source

MIT-licensed. Read every line, fork it, make it yours.

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Zero dependencies

Just the OS frameworks — nothing phones home, nothing to trust but the code.

Cross-platform

macOS & Windows

🍎 macOS

Native Swift + AppKit, using ScreenCaptureKit. A menu-bar app, no Dock icon. macOS 14+.

🪟 Windows

Native C#/.NET tray app. Fills the gap Win+PrtScn and the Snipping Tool leave open. Windows 10/11.

Roadmap

What's next

QuickSnap stays small — but a few things are on the way, starting on macOS.

✏️ Annotate mode — coming soon

A second hotkey captures the screen and opens a quick, no-frills editor — drop an arrow, box, or circle, and add text at the size you want to call things out. When you're done, a single Save & Copy button flattens the markup, saves the PNG to your folder, copies it to the clipboard, and closes — turning a raw capture into a clear bug report in seconds.

Arrow Box Circle Text + font size Save & Copy

Region & window capture

Grab a selected area or a single window, not just the whole screen.

Launch at login

Always ready in the menu bar / tray the moment you start your machine.

Installer builds

A signed macOS build and a Windows installer for one-click setup.

Open source

Built in the open

QuickSnap is free and MIT-licensed, built by Nihir Kumar. The full source for both the macOS and Windows apps lives on GitHub — issues, forks and stars welcome.

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