Native macOS · One-time purchase · On-device
SnapStudio turns screenshots into App-Store-ready sets, social posts and launch assets — driven by you, or by Claude over MCP. Everything on your Mac. Nothing uploaded. Nothing rented.
The moat
SnapStudio ships an embedded MCP server with 79 tools. Your agent frames screenshots in device mockups, fills templates, repaints them to your brand palette, cuts social video and exports every App Store size — while you do something better. No other Mac editor can do this. Not Pixelmator. Not Affinity. Not Canva.
Setup is one line:
No agent? No problem.
A raw screenshot, an iPhone photo, a whole folder. 119 designed templates — Instagram, Stories, YouTube, LinkedIn, banners, App Store shots — every one repaintable with 41 palettes or your own brand kit.
22 beautify styles — mesh gradients, padding, shadow — then frame it in real hardware: iPhone 17 Pro, iPad Pro, MacBook, Apple Watch. Content clips to the glass and slides under the Dynamic Island, like the real thing. Need more? 2×/4× AI upscale runs entirely on your Mac.
One click exports the entire App Store set — iPhone 6.7″ and 6.9″, iPad 13″, Mac — plus icons, favicons and social sizes. Ten formats, accurate color, and a target file size that auto-tunes quality to platform limits. Batch does hundreds while you make coffee.
Not a toy
When the template isn't enough, go as deep as you want — on a Metal canvas that stays smooth at 50 megapixels.
Private by architecture
Upscaling, background removal and auto-enhance run on-device — Core ML and Apple Vision, not someone's server. Optional cloud AI (DALL·E 3, Claude) works only with your own keys, stored in the macOS Keychain. No account. No telemetry. Sandboxed.
The field
The web tools charge $120–240 a year for the exact job SnapStudio does for $39.99 once — it pays for itself in under four months. And none of them answer to your agent.
Own it
Questions
No. $39.99, once. No account, no recurring fees, no telemetry. Updates on the direct build arrive via Sparkle.
Never. Editing, AI upscale and background removal run entirely on your Mac. Optional cloud AI (DALL·E 3, Claude) runs only when you invoke it with your own API key — straight from your Mac to that provider, no middleman.
SnapStudio embeds an MCP server with 79 tools. Register it once: claude mcp add snapstudio -- "/Applications/SnapStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/snapstudio-mcp" — then Claude (or any MCP client) can create documents, fill and repaint templates, apply mockups, batch-render and export packs.
Feature-identical, same price. The direct DMG adds a 14-day full-featured free trial and auto-updates. The App Store version is sandboxed and updated through Apple.
On-device AI — Real-ESRGAN 2×/4× upscale, Vision background removal, auto-enhance — is included, free, and works offline. Cloud generation/analysis is optional, on your own OpenAI or Anthropic key.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple Silicon. Metal-accelerated throughout. Seven languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Polish.
