Snaplume is a free, open-source screenshot and screen-recording app for Windows and Linux. Smart capture, a full editor, OCR, QR codes, video recording and compression, GIF export. 100% offline: no account, no cloud, no telemetry.
One small app to capture, explain, record and share, without sign-ups or uploads.
Press Print Screen, click a window or drag a region: the capture is saved, named and in your gallery.
Annotations stay editable after saving. Move that arrow or renumber those steps tomorrow.
No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no ads. Your screenshots never leave your PC.
MIT licensed and built in the open with C#, .NET 10 and Avalonia.
Vector mockups drawn from the real interface.
Everything below works offline, on Windows and Linux. Only the H.265, AV1, WebM and animated WebP video formats need the optional ffmpeg module.
Your screenshots, recordings and settings are plain files on your PC, in folders you choose. Snaplume goes online only when you ask, and only to GitHub.
The interface follows the system language automatically, or the one you pick, and the theme can follow the system's light or dark mode.
Windows 10 version 2004 or later, or Windows 11, 64-bit; or a recent Linux distribution, x64 or ARM64. No .NET installation needed.
Snaplume-Setup-<version>.exe
Classic setup with a Start menu shortcut and an uninstaller. Recommended for most users.
Download the installerSnaplume-<version>-portable.zip
Unzip anywhere (even a USB stick) and run Snaplume.exe. Settings stay in the folder.
Deploying to many PCs? Each release also ships Snaplume-<version>-x64.msi, an all-users MSI package for Intune, Group Policy or msiexec /qn.
Windows SmartScreen warning? The builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows may say it "protected your PC" the first time. Click More info › Run anyway. Each release ships a SHA256SUMS.txt file to verify your download.
snaplume_<version>-1_amd64.deb (or arm64)
Install it with sudo apt install ./snaplume_<version>-1_amd64.deb. GStreamer, ffmpeg and Tesseract come with it.
snaplume-<version>-1.x86_64.rpm (or aarch64)
Install it with sudo dnf install ./snaplume-<version>-1.x86_64.rpm. Its dependencies come with it too.
Using Wayland? (the default on Ubuntu and Fedora) Captures and recordings go through the system's portals, which ask for your permission once. Windows are not detected under the mouse (drag to select) and clicks are not highlighted in videos. Global shortcuts need KDE or GNOME 48+ (elsewhere, bind a system shortcut to snaplume --capture region), and on GNOME the tray icon needs the AppIndicator extension. An X11 session has every feature. Verify your download with SHA256SUMS-linux.txt.
Default global hotkeys, all configurable in the settings.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Region, window or element | Print Screen |
| Full screen | Shift + Print Screen |
| Active window | Alt + Print Screen |
| Repeat last region | Ctrl + Print Screen |
| Region with timer | Ctrl + Shift + Print Screen |
| Start / stop a video | Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen |
| Region, instead of the Snipping Tool (Windows, option in Settings › Hotkeys) | Win + Shift + S |
# Scriptable command line (snaplume on Linux)
Snaplume.exe --capture screen --exit
Snaplume.exe --capture region --delay 5 --workspace "Bug reports"
Snaplume.exe --capture scrolling
Snaplume.exe --record screen --duration 30 --exitYes. Snaplume is open source under the MIT license: free for personal and commercial use, with no ads, no trial and no premium tier.
Yes. There is no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Snaplume goes online only when you ask, and only to GitHub: to check for a new version (from Settings › About, or daily if you turn that on; off by default), to download an update, or to fetch the optional ffmpeg module. Each download is checked against a SHA-256 before it is used. Text recognition (the Windows OCR engine, or Tesseract on Linux) and QR codes run locally.
Yes, since version 1.2: a .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu and an .rpm for Fedora, on x64 and ARM64. An X11 session has every feature.
Under Wayland, the system's portals ask for your permission the first time; windows are not detected under the mouse (drag to select) and clicks are not highlighted in videos; global shortcuts need KDE or GNOME 48+ (elsewhere, bind a system shortcut to snaplume --capture region); on GNOME, the tray icon needs the AppIndicator extension.
It adds the video formats H.265, AV1, WebM and animated WebP. Recording, MP4 H.264, compression to a maximum size and GIF export work without it, so it stays out of the download: about 81 MB that most people never need.
On Windows, install it from Settings › Video: Snaplume downloads an LGPL build and checks it against a SHA-256 written in the app before installing it. An ffmpeg already in your PATH is used as is. On Linux, the system's ffmpeg is used.
Settings › About checks for a new version. Download and install fetches the package that fits your installation (installer, MSI, portable zip, .deb or .rpm) into a folder of your own, checks its SHA-256 against the published list, and checks it again right before installing it.
The executables are not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen does not recognize them. Click More info › Run anyway. You can compare the file with SHA256SUMS.txt from the release, or build Snaplume yourself from the source code.
A hotkey can belong to only one application, and Snaplume tells you when one is taken. Quit the other tool or pick other shortcuts in Snaplume's settings. On Windows 11, also turn off Settings › Accessibility › Keyboard › Use the Print screen key to open screen capture. To use Win+Shift+S for Snaplume, turn on the option in Settings › Hotkeys.
In Pictures\Snaplume by default (you can change it), as regular PNG, JPEG, WebP or MP4 files. Each workspace is a sub-folder, or any folder you choose: another drive, a project folder, a network share. Removing a workspace that has its own folder never deletes your files. Annotations are kept beside them in a hidden .snaplume folder so they stay editable.
A zip you can run from anywhere, including a USB stick, without installing anything. An empty file named portable next to Snaplume.exe keeps the settings in that folder.
Windows 10 version 2004 (May 2020 Update) or later and Windows 11, on 64-bit (x64) PCs; and recent Linux distributions, in an X11 or Wayland session, on x64 or ARM64.
Report bugs, suggest ideas, translate the interface or send pull requests on GitHub. Each language is a single JSON file.