What is snow-shot?

Snow Shot is a screenshot tool for Windows and macOS. The name and interface are in Chinese, but the software itself works as a general-purpose screen capture utility. You take a screenshot by pressing a keyboard shortcut, and the tool appears so you can select what part of the screen to capture. Once you have a region selected, you can draw on it before saving: rectangles, circles, arrows, text labels, and marker highlights are all available. The tool also tries to automatically detect window boundaries, so if you point at a browser window or dialog box, it can snap to that shape rather than requiring you to drag a selection manually. Scrolling screenshots and pinning an image to stay on top of other windows are both supported. The install package is intentionally kept small. Features like video recording, text recognition (OCR), translation, and AI chat are delivered as separate plugins you download only if you need them. This keeps the base download fast and the tool lightweight for people who only want basic screenshots. Save options include writing the file to disk, copying it directly to the clipboard, or pinning the screenshot as a floating overlay on your screen. Keyboard shortcuts for all of these can be customized. Snow Shot is open source with an active community on GitHub and a Chinese social platform called Bilibili. The project website (snowshot.top) hosts the download and a user guide. The README is written in Chinese, and most community discussion happens in Chinese as well, though the software itself is usable regardless of language.