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Welcome to Snapbak
Why we built a featherweight capture app for Mac and what comes next.
Today we’re launching the first public version of Snapbak — a featherweight capture app for Mac that brings screen recording, screenshots, GIF exports, voice dictation, and AI notes into one tiny installer.
Why Snapbak exists
If you build software, you probably use four or five different tools to capture and explain your work:
- A screen recorder for demos.
- A screenshot tool for annotations.
- A dictation app for long prompts.
- A bug reporter that needs console logs and network context.
Each tool is good at one thing. Together they’re heavy, expensive, and never quite talk to each other.
Snapbak replaces that stack with one app that stays out of your way until you need it.
What’s in v1.0
- Polished recordings — auto‑zoom, cursor effects, captions, and transcript editing.
- Screenshots + Smart Redact — capture, annotate, and automatically blur sensitive info.
- GIF exports — turn a recording into a loop that fits under chat and GitHub limits.
- Voice dictation — speak and text appears in any app, offline and private.
- AI notes — automatic summaries, chapters, and action items from recordings.
- Chromium extension — attach console, network, and user‑action context to bug reports.
What “local‑first” means
Local‑first software keeps your data as files on your machine and does its computing there, using the network only when you explicitly choose to. The opposite shape sends every capture to a server, keeps it in someone else’s database, and meters you for access to your own work. The distinction matters for capture tools specifically, because what they record — your screen, your voice, your customers’ data — is the most sensitive material a work machine holds. Local‑first is why Snapbak works on a plane, why uninstalling it actually removes it, and why our roadmap’s cloud features are all opt‑in switches rather than defaults.
Built for privacy
Your recordings and voice stay on your Mac unless you explicitly enable a cloud feature. We don’t see your screen, we don’t store your audio, and we don’t train models on your data.
Free for the first 100 users
We’re giving Snapbak away free to our first 100 early‑access users. After that, we’ll introduce paid plans while keeping a generous free tier.
— Saksham