Tethersnap 0.2.0

The app now always states what it currently sees.

Changes

• Status chip at the bottom-trailing corner of every screen, stating the current connection state (e.g. "No console detected on USB").
• Wider grid margins.

Install

Download the DMG, drag Tethersnap to Applications. Signed and notarized; Gatekeeper opens it without warnings.

On the console: System Settings > Data Management > Manage Screenshots and Videos > Copy to PC via USB, connected from the console's bottom USB-C port (not the dock) with a full-data cable.

SHA-256: 05aeee76c35ad702846b4809f0719999a8dcf1bfa5ec031479aa1c3af685f5f3

Tethersnap is an independent open-source project, not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Nintendo.

Tethersnap 0.1.0

First release: export Nintendo Switch 2 screenshots and videos to your Mac over USB.

macOS has no MTP support and the Switch-1-era bridges fail against the Switch 2, so Tethersnap speaks baseline PIMA 15740 (PTP) directly over IOUSBHost. Hardware-validated end to end against firmware 22.5.0: connect, enumeration, thumbnails, byte-exact exports.

Install

Download the DMG, drag Tethersnap to Applications. Signed and notarized; Gatekeeper opens it without warnings.

On the console: System Settings > Data Management > Manage Screenshots and Videos > Copy to PC via USB, connected from the console's bottom USB-C port (not the dock) with a full-data cable.

Highlights

• SwiftUI app: auto-connect, thumbnail grid, flat or group-by-game views, rubber-band and keyboard selection, preview, drag-out to Finder, Export All with skip-existing and progress
• tethersnap CLI: probe / list / pull
• Robust protocol layer: session-desync self-healing, stale-session recovery (survives other MTP apps wedging the console), capture dates preserved
• English and Simplified Chinese

SHA-256: 644ca115360183e73a0a19b4b00b66571c9d9345ad0a6163992d46471a046cd0

Tethersnap is an independent open-source project, not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Nintendo.