SnaplyYour screen never leaves your machine.
Screenshots catch things you did not mean to share: a password manager mid-unlock, a client’s numbers, a private message in the window behind. Snaply is built so that none of it can travel.
No account
There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to. Install Snaply and it works. It never asks who you are, so it never learns.
No uploads
Nothing syncs, nothing backs up, nothing is queued for later. Your screenshots stay in the folder you pointed Snaply at, and that folder is on your disk.
No telemetry
No analytics, no crash reports, no usage counters, no update pings. Snaply does not phone home, because there is no home to phone.
Locked down by build
The part of Snaply that draws your screenshots runs sandboxed. It can only read the folder you chose plus its own thumbnail cache — not the rest of your disk.
What Snaply keeps, and where.
All of it sits on your own PC. Uninstalling Snaply leaves every screenshot exactly where it was — it has never moved or renamed your files behind your back.
Your settings
A small JSON file in your Windows user folder: which folder to watch, your shortcuts, theme, window size, and what is on the shelf.
Thumbnails
Small WebP copies of screenshots you have actually scrolled past, so the grid stays quick. Clearing the cache is a button in Settings.
Shelf entries
Paths only. The shelf remembers where a file is rather than copying it, so dropping a 2 GB video on Snaply does not duplicate it.
The one thing that can leave.
When you pull text out of a screenshot, you can send it straight to Google, ChatGPT or Translate. That opens your browser and hands over the text you selected — so Snaply asks the first time, before it does it, and you can decline.
Recognising the text does not need that. It runs on your machine in about half a second, using an English model bundled inside the app, and works with the network unplugged.
Permissions it asks for.
On Windows, reading and showing your screenshots needs nothing at all. Capturing a region needs no special permission either. Snaply asks for no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no location, and no background network access.
On macOS, when that build is ready, capture will require Screen Recording permission — that is Apple’s prompt, granted by you, and only ever used when you trigger a capture.
This website.
No analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising scripts, and no cookie banner because there are no cookies to consent to. Nothing here tries to work out who you are.
The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard server request logs the way any web host does. There is no login, and nothing on the site asks you for personal details.
Questions about any of this are fair, and the answer should be checkable rather than taken on trust — see how it is built or read the pricing page, which has no upsell hiding in it either.