Snow ShotSnow Shot Mini: the lightweight edition
Everything most screenshots need — capture, annotation, pin-to-screen and recording — in a noticeably smaller package. If you rarely touch OCR, Mini is the faster download and the lighter install.
What Mini keeps
📸 Screenshots
Full screen, window, region, scrolling and delayed capture, with the same global hotkeys and floating toolbar as the full edition.
✏️ Annotation
Arrows, shapes, text, highlight, mosaic blur and step numbers — the full clarify-in-seconds toolkit.
📌 Pin to screen
Pin captures, clipboard content and files above other windows, with window groups and restore.
🎬 Recording
Region recording with cursor context and audio, ready to copy and share.
What Mini leaves out
| Capability | Snow Shot | Snow Shot Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Text recognition (OCR) | Bundled, works offline | Optional — enable in settings, downloads on first use |
| Table recognition | Included | Not included |
| QR recognition | Included | Not included |
| Windows x64 online installer | 25.8 MB | 22.9 MB |
| Mac (Apple Silicon) DMG | 59.4 MB | 30.5 MB |
Download Mini
Windows ARM64 Mini: online installer (17.9 MB) · portable (26.9 MB). Full edition and every other build: the download page.
Mini or full — which should you get?
Get Mini if your screenshots are for chat, tickets and docs, and you want the smallest, simplest install. Get the full Snow Shot if you copy text out of images, work with tables, translate captures, or need everything to work offline out of the box. Both are free, both are open source, and your settings and history carry the same way — switching later costs nothing.