Callouts instead of scribbles
Badges 1, 2, 3 with a short comment each, pointed at the exact spot. The numbers keep themselves in order when you delete one.
A Snipping Tool alternative for when a pen is not enough
Snipping Tool is already on your PC, and it is fine for a quick grab. When a screenshot has to explain something, WellSnap adds numbered callouts, a real blur, and a way to send a whole set of screenshots in one go.
Press Print Screen. The screen freezes.
Open menus and tooltips stay put. Drag over the part you need.
PrtScKeyboard shortcutsArrows, boxes, a marker and text
One key per tool. Shift snaps arrows to 45°.
Blur that cannot be undone
Built from the pixels around the box, so there is nothing to recover.
Numbered callouts with comments
A click drops a number. The comment stays on the picture or goes as text.
One more, and one more
Each screenshot in a set gets a letter, its callouts become A1, A2, B1.
ShiftEnterSend several screenshotsThe whole set goes into a chat at once
Your comments and the pictures arrive as one message.
WinAltVSend several screenshotsOr as one picture
For email and tickets: all screenshots on one sheet, comments under each.
CtrlVCombine screenshotsPrint Screen opens Snipping Tool? One click fixes it
WellSnap takes the key over, and you can give it back at any time.
Quiet updates, private by design
Updates install while you are away. Screenshots never leave your computer.
WellSnap and Snipping Tool side by side
| Feature | WellSnap | Snipping Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no ads | Included with Windows |
| Open source | Yes, GPL-3.0 | No |
| Windows | Yes, 64-bit | Yes, Windows 11 (Snip & Sketch on 10) |
| macOS | Yes, macOS 14 and later | No |
| Arrows, boxes and text | Arrow, box, pencil, marker, text | Pen, highlighter, shapes with arrows |
| Blur | Mosaic that cannot be reversed, or solid fill | Quick redact for emails and phone numbers |
| Numbered callouts | Yes, with comments | Not listed |
| Several screenshots as one album | Yes, up to 26 | Not listed |
| Comments and pictures pasted as one message | Yes, Win+Alt+V | Not listed |
| Several screenshots in one image | Yes, with headings and comments | Not listed |
| Uploads | None, nothing leaves your computer | No, saves to the Screenshots folder |
| Print Screen on Windows 11 | Takes the key over in one click, restores it on request | It is the app Print Screen opens |
Not listed means the feature is not mentioned in the vendor's own documentation or store page. Compared in October 2026; tell us on GitHub if something changed.
Blur anything
Snipping Tool's Quick redact finds emails and phone numbers. WellSnap blurs whatever you draw a box over: a token, a face, a total, a browser tab.
Sets for chats
Take several screenshots with Shift+Enter and paste them all at once: as an album in Telegram, as attachments in WhatsApp or Discord, or joined into one image for email.
The same tool on a Mac
WellSnap runs on macOS 14 and later with the same tools and shortcuts.
When Snipping Tool is the better choice
Snipping Tool can record the screen, export a GIF, copy text from a screenshot with OCR, wait a few seconds before capturing, and snap a whole window. WellSnap does none of that. If those are what you need, keep Snipping Tool for them; both apps can live side by side.
Switching takes a minute
- Give Print Screen to WellSnap in Settings, Shortcuts. Win+Shift+S keeps opening Snipping Tool.
- Ctrl+C copies, Ctrl+S saves to your Desktop or the folder you pick.
- The Restore button gives Print Screen back to Snipping Tool at any time.
Questions and answers
Does WellSnap replace Snipping Tool?
It takes over the Print Screen key if you ask it to. Snipping Tool stays installed and still opens with Win+Shift+S.
Does WellSnap save every screenshot automatically?
No. A screenshot goes to the clipboard when you copy it and to a file only when you press Save, so your folders stay clean.
Ready the next time you press Print Screen
Install takes a few seconds and needs no admin rights on Windows.