A modern open-source screenshot and visual editing tool for Linux.
Capture, customize, and transform your screenshots into beautiful visuals with a simple and elegant workflow.
GlowSnap is an open-source Linux productivity tool designed to make screenshots more powerful and beautiful.
It helps you capture your screen, organize your screenshots, and turn them into polished visuals with modern editing tools, customizable styles, and a clean user experience.
Built with simplicity and performance in mind, GlowSnap aims to bring a premium screenshot workflow to Linux.
Turn raw code and screenshots into polished, professional assets in one click. Perfect for content creators, developers, and testers on Linux.
- Full screen screenshots
- Area selection capture
- Screenshot gallery
- Full-screen image viewer
- Free drawing
- Arrows and shapes
- Number annotations
- Text editing
- Custom colors and opacity
- Crop tools
- Experimental screen recording
- Native Linux integration
- More recording features coming soon
GlowSnap is currently in active development.
A Flatpak release is coming soon:
Coming soon on Flathub
- Go — Backend and native system integration
- Wails — Desktop application framework
- React + TypeScript — User interface
- Tailwind CSS — Styling
- shadcn/ui — UI components
- Konva — Canvas-based editing
- Screenshot capture
- Screenshot gallery
- Basic editor
- MIT open-source release
- Stable Linux release
- Flatpak distribution
- Advanced image effects
- Better annotation tools
- Cloud-free sharing workflow
- Productivity tools ecosystem
- More native Linux integrations
Contributions are welcome!
Whether you are a developer, designer, tester, or Linux enthusiast, you can help improve GlowSnap.
Check out our contribution guide:
CONTRIBUTING.md
GlowSnap is licensed under the MIT License.
You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software.
GlowSnap is not only a screenshot tool.
The goal is to build a collection of beautiful, simple, and open-source productivity tools designed specifically for Linux users.