Lifetime Mac
Screenshots, recording & annotation

Xnapper

Auto-padded, auto-redacted screenshots for posting in public

Price: $29.99 once

This versionThe next major is a new purchase

Price read on xnapper.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

One year of updates included; another year costs 60% of what you first paid

The full picture

After your year of updates runs out the app does not stop: the pricing page states that you can use the last version you have forever and that "there is no expiration date". You only pay again for newer builds, at 40% off. Watch the purchase channel, because the two differ: the developer's own site says macOS 10.15 or later with no chip restriction, while the Mac App Store listing requires macOS 11 and an Apple M1 or later, so Intel owners should trial the direct build rather than assume it is ruled out. Every paid tier is listed as watermark-free, which implies the free version marks exports. And the scope is narrow by design: beautifying and redaction, not full annotation and not recording.

Pays back in
3 months
Seats
1 MacBasic at $29.99 is one Mac; Personal $54.99 covers two and Standard $79.99 three. Keys cannot be stacked, and a device is unlinked from Preferences > License.
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$29.99Rent 5 years$600

$570 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against CleanShot Pro at $120 a year, $10 per user/month, billed annually. Also replaces Snagit and Screely.

What it looks like

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Xnapper is for people whose screenshots are seen by strangers: changelog entries, docs, support replies, posts. It takes the capture and does the tidying you would otherwise do by hand in a design tool — even padding, a rounded window, a background that is not your wallpaper, an aspect ratio that will not be cropped badly by whatever you paste it into.

The part that earns its keep is redaction. It scans the image for emails, phone numbers, addresses and card numbers and blurs them before you hit share, which is a different kind of safety net from remembering to drag a black box over a row of test accounts. OCR is in there too, so you can pull the text back out.

The licence is a year of updates, and the honest way to read it is: you are buying this version outright and renting the newer ones. Stop paying and nothing locks; you keep the build you have, and a later year costs 40% less than the first one did.

Buy direct rather than from the Mac App Store unless you actively want the $39.99 Lifetime in-app purchase, because the direct site's macOS floor is lower and keys are portable.

If you annotate heavily — arrows, callouts, step numbers — this is the wrong tool. It makes screenshots look good; it does not want to be a drawing app.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Owners repeatedly name the automatic background, padding and rounded corners as the thing cheaper rivals did not match when they bought it

Criticised

  • Across threads people say the app looks unmaintained, citing long gaps between updates as what sent them looking elsewhere
  • Replies in both comparison threads keep converging on CleanShot X or Shottr, usually on the grounds that Xnapper does less for the money

Details

The price in full

Direct licences, each including one year of updates: Basic $29.99 for 1 Mac, Personal $54.99 for 2 Macs, Standard $79.99 for 3 Macs. Renewal afterwards is 60% of your original purchase price, and the pricing page says that rate holds even if list prices rise. Team is $5 per device per month billed annually. 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. The Mac App Store listing sells things differently: a "Lifetime" in-app purchase at $39.99 alongside a $14.99 subscription. The iOS app is bought separately and Mac licence keys do not work on it.

The Xnapper page at xnapper.com
The developer’s own page. xnapper.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
Yes
Minimum macOS
macOS 10.15
App Store rating
4.2 from 21 people
Developer
10xCompany, LLC

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