Snippy

Snippy is a lightweight, blazing fast tool for capturing, annotating, and saving screenshots directly within your browser. It is fully open source and completely non-commercial: no ads, no accounts, no paid tiers, and no data collection — just a screenshot tool. Key Features: - Free & Open Source: MIT-licensed with the complete source on GitHub (github.com/mjacobs/snippy). No ads, no upsells, nothing to buy. - Instant Activation: Click the extension icon or press Ctrl+Shift+S (Cmd+Shift+S on Mac) to start selecting. - Smooth Selection: The live viewport freezes in time, letting you drag and select any custom area precisely with real-time dimensions feedback. - Modern Editing Canvas: The captured selection instantly opens in a clean, glassmorphic editing tab. - Comprehensive Annotation Set: Mark up your crops with freehand pens, custom-thickness rectangles, high-contrast text layers, and directional arrows. - Dynamic Highlighting & Blurring: Apply neon yellow highlighters to accent elements, or instantly pixelate/blur sensitive credentials and private data. - AI-Powered Lens (Optional): Connect a personal Google Gemini API key to unlock state-of-the-art vision capabilities—including accurate text extraction (OCR), detailed code explanations, contextual translation, tabular data extraction, and freeform chat about your captures. - High-Performance Exports: Copy the finished result directly to your clipboard to paste in messaging apps, or download as a high-fidelity white-compensated JPEG image. How to Use Snippy: 1. Navigate to the webpage you wish to capture. 2. Click the Snippy icon in your toolbar, or press the Ctrl+Shift+S shortcut. 3. Left-click and drag across the screen to define your crop area, then release. 4. Your crop opens in the Snippy Editor. Annotate or edit to your liking! 5. Click "Copy Image" to copy directly to your clipboard, or click "Download JPEG" to save the file locally.