Mauvely Snap
A screen capture tool whose library is an ordinary folder. In development — not yet available to download.
Snap is a screenshot tool built for people who document software: capture, organise, annotate, and hand the result to Compose as a ready-to-caption block.
Open the Snap docs
Capture modes, the library, shortcuts.
What is built
An honest feature-by-feature status.
The idea
The library is a folder. A collection is a directory. A capture is an ordinary PNG. There is no database, no import step, and no proprietary container — you can open the whole library in a file manager, back it up with any tool, and keep every file if you uninstall Snap.
Annotations are the one thing that cannot live inside a PNG, so they sit beside it in a small
.snap.json file. The image itself stays a plain image any application can open; annotations are
burned in only when a capture is exported, copied, or sent to Compose.
What works today
- Region, whole-screen, window and delayed captures
- A library view over your capture folder, with collections, filters, search and sorting
- Global capture shortcuts that fire from the system tray with the window closed
- Optional sign-in (not required for anything currently implemented)
What is not built yet
- The annotation editor — numbered steps, callouts, spotlight, crop
- Screen recording
- Scrolling capture
- Send to Compose
- Cloud backup of the library
Platforms
Windows is the target. Snap builds and runs on Linux, and that build is maintained, but it is not shipped: a Wayland client is not permitted to read the screen, so the compositor owns the selection interface and region, window and full-screen capture all collapse into a single “let the user choose” prompt. That is a materially different product rather than a port.