Tiny Clips is a lightweight system-tray application designed for quick and efficient screen captures. It enables users to capture screenshots, record videos in MP4 format, and create animated GIFs with ease.
Key Features:
Region or Full-Screen Selection: Users can choose specific regions of the screen or capture the entire screen.
Global Hotkeys: Capture content quickly using predefined shortcuts without needing to navigate through menus.
Direct Saving: Captures are saved directly to default folders like Pictures and Videos, streamlining workflow.
Screenshot Editing: Post-capture editing allows for adjustments before saving.
Video and GIF Trimming: Users can trim videos and GIFs to focus on specific moments.
System-Tray Presence: Runs discretely in the system tray without requiring a dock icon.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for users who require frequent screen captures but prefer simplicity and efficiency. Tiny Clips offers a seamless experience with minimal disruption, making it perfect for content creators, educators, or anyone needing quick access to screen capture tools.
Install via winget for easy setup on Windows.
README
Tiny Clips
A lightweight menu-bar (macOS) and system-tray (Windows) app for capturing screenshots (PNG),
video (MP4), and animated GIFs of a selected screen region — on macOS and Windows.
Features
Screenshot — Select a region, screen, or window and capture a PNG screenshot
Video Recording — Record to MP4 with hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding
GIF Recording — Record a screen region as an animated GIF
Capture Picker — Choose Region, Screen, or Window before any capture
Editor & Trimmers — Post-capture screenshot editor plus video and GIF trimmers
Menu Bar / Tray App — Lives in the macOS menu bar or Windows system tray with no Dock/taskbar icon
Region Selection — Drag to select any portion of any screen
Global Hotkeys — Quick capture from anywhere
Configurable — Save location, clipboard, reveal-in-Finder/Explorer, GIF quality, trimmer toggles, and more
> macOS uses Sparkle for auto-updates; Windows distributes via winget (winget upgrade) and the Microsoft Store.
macOS: to ship both a direct (Sparkle, non-sandbox) build and a Mac App Store (sandboxed, no Sparkle) build from one codebase, see docs/app-store-variant-setup.md.
Windows: the WinUI 3 app targets a free winget/direct build now and a Microsoft Store listing later; see /plans/windows-winui3-port-plan.md.
