A lightweight macOS menu bar app that instantly captures presentation slides from your screen. Press a keyboard shortcut, click the slide's background, and it's cropped to your clipboard — ready to paste into GoodNotes, Notability, or any other app via Universal Clipboard.
- Press ⌘⇧2 — screen dims instantly
- Click the background color of the slide you want to capture (not on text or images)
- SlideSnap detects the slide boundaries automatically
- The cropped slide is copied to your clipboard and saved to
~/Documents/SlideSnap/
You can also drag to select a custom region if auto-detection doesn't work for your layout.
Press Esc to cancel at any time.
- Go to Releases and download SlideSnap-Installer.dmg
- Open the DMG and drag SlideSnap to Applications
- On first launch, right-click the app → Open (required since the app isn't notarized)
- Grant Screen Recording permission when prompted (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording)
- Clone the repo and open
SlideSnap/SlideSnap.xcodeprojin Xcode - Select your team in Signing & Capabilities
- ⌘R to build and run
- Grant Screen Recording permission when prompted
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Capture a slide | ⌘⇧2, then click the slide's background color |
| Manual selection | ⌘⇧2, then drag to select a region |
| Cancel | Esc |
| Open saved captures | Menu bar icon → Open Captures Folder |
| Quit | Menu bar icon → Quit |
- Click on the solid background color of the slide, not on text or images. The app uses that color to find the slide edges.
- Works great with Universal Clipboard — capture on your Mac, paste on your iPad.
- Slides are saved as PNGs in
~/Documents/SlideSnap/as a backup. - If multiple slides are stacked vertically with separators, it detects only the one you clicked.
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
- Screen Recording permission