Snagit is a screen capture and recording program for Windows and macOS that turns onscreen content into annotated images, visual instructions and narrated videos. Its capture window selects what to record, while Snagit Editor provides the tools to explain a screenshot, assemble a guide or remove unwanted parts of a recording.
Capture areas, delays and presets
A capture can cover the full screen, a window or a region drawn around the content you need. Exact dimensions help when an image must fit a particular space. Scrolling capture extends the selection beyond the visible screen, allowing a long web page or a wide table to become one image. When Snagit detects a scrollable area, arrows let it scroll and capture automatically.
Delayed capture leaves time to open a menu before the screenshot is taken. Frequently used settings can become presets with their own keyboard shortcuts, including a chosen destination for the result. You can send an image to the editor for changes, copy it to the clipboard or direct it to another application.
Annotating and editing screenshots
Snagit Editor adds explanations directly to a capture. Arrows point to controls, callouts connect written notes to specific areas, and numbered markers show the order of actions. Magnification enlarges a small detail within the image. Quick styles and themes retain chosen colors and fonts across annotations, so a series of instructions can use the same visual conventions.
Editing also extends to the content inside the screenshot. Text recognition lets you copy, change or delete captured text, while Smart Move identifies interface elements that can be repositioned. A captured cursor can be moved, resized or removed. Cropping and resizing adjust the image as a whole; the Cut Out tool removes an internal section and joins the remaining parts together.
Step Capture
For a process spread across several screens, Step Capture takes screenshots as you click and drag, then assembles them into a numbered visual guide. Recording can be paused while you perform actions that do not belong in the guide.
The resulting steps open in Snagit Editor, where you can change their text, replace screenshots, adjust image framing and add explanatory callouts. Adding, deleting or moving steps also updates their numbering. Step Capture does not record text entry or keyboard shortcuts as actions, so instructions that depend on those operations need additional steps or written explanation. Finished guides can be shared by link or exported to destinations such as Word and PowerPoint.
Image simplification
The Simplify tool replaces text and interface details with plain shapes, leaving selected parts of a screenshot available for explanation. Auto Simplify generates these objects, and a Detail control changes how much of the image it covers. You can then move, resize or remove individual objects and choose a color palette for the simplified image.
Unrelated labels and interface details can disappear while the control being explained remains visible. Snagit retains the original image behind the objects for reference during editing.
Smart Redact
Smart Redact scans a captured or opened image for information such as email addresses, phone numbers and credit-card details. Its controls let you select the data types to obscure and choose blur, pixelation or black bars. The analysis runs locally on the device. The Blur tool also allows areas to be obscured manually when you need to cover a particular part of an image before sharing it.
Snagit screen recordings
Snagit records a selected screen region with optional microphone narration, system sound and a camera feed. The camera can appear over the screen recording, with controls for its placement and shape. Cursor highlights and click animations identify onscreen actions, while Screen Draw adds arrows, shapes and numbered markers during the recording itself.
The recording opens in the editor as an MP4. Timeline selection handles mark sections to cut, including material at the beginning, end or middle. A selection can instead become a separate video or animated GIF. Snagit can also combine and reorder recordings from its library, or extract a video frame as an image for further annotation.
Capture library and sharing
The library stores screenshots and recordings together. Filters for date, application or webpage narrow the collection, and custom tags group captures by a subject or project. SNAGX supports editing screenshots across Windows and Mac; image exports include PNG, JPEG, WebP and PDF, alongside video and GIF outputs.
Sharing destinations include Office applications and cloud storage. Share Link uploads an image or video to Screencast and copies its link for sending to others, where comments can accompany the shared content. Snagit is paid subscription software; the individual plan includes hosting for up to 25 videos on Screencast. Automatic captions and chapter summaries belong to Screencast Pro rather than the desktop recording editor.
