Windows 11 · Snipping Tool companion

SnapSnip

Every screenshot, named after the app and window it came from.

SnapSnip rides alongside Snipping Tool. Press Win+Shift+S or Print Screen as always, and the capture is saved as something like Outlook — Q3 forecast — 2026-04-29 142301.png, with window titles redacted on your machine first.

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A folder of Screenshot 2026-04-29 142301.png

Every capture Snipping Tool saves gets a name like Screenshot 2026-04-29 142301.png: no app, no window, no context. A month later the folder is a few hundred files that all look the same from the outside, and the one you need is somewhere in the middle.

SnapSnip reattaches that context at capture time, from the window's own metadata and never from the image, and embeds it as structured XMP that file search, ExifTool and your own scripts can read without parsing filenames.

Your screenshot folder becomes something you can search, not a graveyard.

Named, redacted, found, cleaned up

Snipping Tool is unchanged. SnapSnip works on what it saves.

Nothing leaves your PC

Named at capture

Win+Shift+S or Print Screen, and the file is named for the app and window it came from. The same context is embedded as XMP metadata that any XMP-aware tool can read.

Redaction comes first

Window titles can carry customer names, ticket numbers and document titles. Three preset policies, Strict, Balanced and Permissive, plus per-app overrides: trust your code editor, lock down your password manager.

Profiles and a preview

One-click Redaction Profiles for how you work: Developer, Healthcare, Finance, Streamer. A side-by-side preview shows exactly what was redacted and what wasn't, before you rely on it.

New in 0.3

Library and Collections

Browse every screenshot by the app and window it came from, and gather the right ones into named Collections for a doc, a deck or a Store listing. Collections export copies; your originals stay where they are.

New in 0.3

Review clean-up

SnapSnip finds exact copies, near copies and blurry photos in a folder you choose. You decide each one, or keep a burst together as a set. Set-aside files move into a _review folder. Nothing is deleted, and every run can be undone.

Fail-closed

If redaction ever errors, the capture still saves, with a timestamp-only filename, never an unredacted title.

See it work

Sample library, no real files
SnapSnip Review: four exact copies of a beach photo, the original marked Keep and the copies Set aside
Exact copies. Four copies of the same beach photo. Keep the original, set the copies aside, and nothing moves until you apply.
SnapSnip Review: a burst of near-identical kitten photos with Keep all as a set
Near copies. A quick burst of your cat. Keep the one you like, keep them all as a set, or set the rest aside.
SnapSnip Library: sample screenshots grouped by the app they came from
The Library. Your screenshots grouped by the app they came from, with the window, monitor and site SnapSnip recorded at capture.
SnapSnip Collections for a doc, a deck and a Store listing
Collections. Gather the shots for one destination, a doc, a deck or a Store listing, and export named copies.
SnapSnip redaction preview: original and redacted window titles side by side with the rule that fired
See what redaction changed. The original title, the redacted one, and the rule that fired. Originals stay in memory only.
SnapSnip Privacy Dashboard showing redaction counts and median protection time
Counts, never content. A counts-only privacy dashboard: how many of each kind were redacted and how fast, never the content itself.

How it's built

A Windows tray app that listens for the capture keys, reads the window at that moment, and writes the name and the metadata before the file settles.

Windows 11 22H2 or later
.NET 10 · WPF

The tray app

Settings, the Library, Review and the Privacy Dashboard, with dark and light themes that follow Windows. .NET 10 ships inside the package.

C++/WinRT

The keyboard hook

A low-level hook that notices Win+Shift+S and Print Screen and snapshots the foreground window's app and title at that instant.

XMP v1

A frozen metadata schema

The context is written as a published, frozen v1 XMP schema: a public contract, so any XMP-aware tool can read it.

SQLite

The library index

A local index of your screenshots that powers the Library, Collections and duplicate finding. It lives on your PC with everything else.

What leaves your machine: nothing

No network calls
No network
SnapSnip makes no network calls. There is no cloud redaction: the rules are regular expressions, run locally.
Counts, not content
Its telemetry is rule counts only, and it stays on this PC: never window-title content, never URLs, never image content. The Privacy Dashboard shows a counts-only view, so you can check the promise without exposing what it protected.
Originals in memory only
The unredacted title lives in memory for one capture, then it's gone. There is no on-disk vault of originals, by design.
Nothing deleted
Review clean-up only moves files you approve, only into a _review folder, and every run can be undone. Collections export copies and never move the originals.

Where it ended up

Every Microsoft Store install since launch, plotted by country. Dot area is proportional to install count.

Lifetime installs
Requires Windows 11 22H2 or later. Windows and Snipping Tool are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; SnapSnip is an independent 626 Labs product and does not modify Snipping Tool. 626Labs LLC · Imagine Something Else. · Lab · Privacy