SnapSteps
Mac App Store · coming soon
SnapSteps turns the thing you just did on screen into a numbered, annotated step-by-step guide - entirely on your Mac. No account, no upload, no browser tab.
Region captured · added as step 1 of 4 Screen read only when you press the shortcut
The flow
The same motion every time: capture what you did, put it in order, mark it up, hide what must not ship, export. Keyboard-first at every stage.
A global shortcut grabs a region or a single window, on demand. Drag in or paste images you already have, photos included. The screen is read only in the moment you press the shortcut - never on a timer, never in the background.
Each step gets a number, a title and body text. Reorder steps and the numbering follows - no stale badges left behind. A whole document can be assembled without reaching for the mouse.
Arrows, boxes, ellipses, callouts and numbered badges. Every annotation is a vector drawn over an untouched original - delete it and the screenshot is back, byte for byte. Correct, restyle or re-export a manual months later.
Blur and pixelate tools, plus an on-device scan that finds things like - email addresses, phone numbers, card numbers and key-like strings - and suggests a redaction for each hit. Nothing is uploaded; there is no API key to supply.
PDF with a cover page, table of contents, your logo, an accent color and page numbers. Manuals live in a documented open format, so your work stays readable without this app.
The guarantee
The app ships without the network entitlement, so it cannot transmit anything even in principle - there is no setting to check and no toggle to trust. Screenshots of internal systems, admin panels and customer records never leave the machine they were taken on.
The sensitive-text scan runs on the Apple Vision framework, on device. Your manuals are ordinary files in a documented open format, stored where you choose.
The price
$0
$29 one time
Built for technical writers, IT and sysadmin teams writing SOPs and runbooks, trainers making onboarding material, and support teams answering the same question for the tenth time.
Questions
Yes - by construction. The app binary carries no network entitlement, so macOS itself prevents it from opening a connection. Capture, editing, redaction scanning and export all run locally.
They stay in files you choose on your own disk. Nothing is collected, uploaded or logged - see the privacy policy, which is three paragraphs because there is nothing to disclose.
English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian - the interface and the exported documents alike, so a manual can ship in the reader's language.
No. Unlimited manuals, unlimited editing, every tool. After your first clean export, exported documents carry a small "Made with SnapSteps" footer line - the $29 Pro unlock removes it permanently. JSON export never has the line.
That is the macOS permission that allows taking a screenshot. SnapSteps reads the screen only at the moment you press the capture shortcut, and the image goes straight into your document - nowhere else.