Satty is a screenshot annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

Satty has been created to provide the following improvements over existing screenshot annotation tools:

• very simple and easy to understand toolset (like Swappy)
• fullscreen annotation mode and post shot cropping (like Flameshot)
• extremely smooth rendering thanks to HW acceleration (OpenGL)
• working on wlroots based compositors (Sway, Hyprland, River, ...)
• minimal, modern looking UI, thanks to GTK and Adwaita
• be a playground for new features (post window selection, post paint editing, ...)

Thanks to our package maintainers, Satty is available for many distributions on Linux and BSD:

You can get the official Arch Linux package from the AUR:

yay -S satty-bin

You can get the Gentoo package from the Guru overlay:

eselect repository enable guru
emerge --sync guru
emerge -av satty

Pending PR for Gentoo overlay: gentoo/gentoo#33908

Satty is available in Alpine Testing. You can install it by uncommenting the testing repo in /etc/apk/repositories and then run:

apk add satty

You can download a prebuilt binary for x86-64 on the Satty Releases page.

Start by providing a filename or a screenshot via stdin and annotate using the available tools. Save to clipboard or file when finished. Tools and Interface have been kept simple.

All configuration is done either at the config file in XDG_CONFIG_DIR/.config/satty/config.toml or via the command line interface. In case both are specified, the command line options always override the configuration file.

[general]
# Start Satty in fullscreen mode
fullscreen = true
# Exit directly after copy/save action
early-exit = true
# Select the tool on startup [possible values: pointer, crop, line, arrow, rectangle, text, marker, blur, brush]
initial-tool = "brush"
# Configure the command to be called on copy, for example `wl-copy`
copy-command = "wl-copy"
# Increase or decrease the size of the annotations
annotation-size-factor = 2
# Filename to use for saving action. Omit to disable saving to file. Might contain format specifiers: https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime/index.html
output-filename = "/tmp/test-%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S.png"
# After copying the screenshot, save it to a file as well
save-after-copy = false
# Hide toolbars by default
default-hide-toolbars = false
# Font to use for text annotations
[font]
family = "Roboto"
style = "Bold"

# custom colours for the colour palette
[color-palette]
first= "#00ffff"
second= "#a52a2a"
third= "#dc143c"
fourth= "#ff1493"
fifth= "#ffd700"
custom= "#008000"

» satty --help
Modern Screenshot Annotation. A Screenshot Annotation Tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

Usage: satty [OPTIONS] --filename <FILENAME>

Options:
  -c, --config <CONFIG>
          Path to the config file. Otherwise will be read from XDG_CONFIG_DIR/satty/config.toml
  -f, --filename <FILENAME>
          Path to input image or '-' to read from stdin
      --fullscreen
          Start Satty in fullscreen mode
      --output-filename <OUTPUT_FILENAME>
          Filename to use for saving action. Omit to disable saving to file. Might contain format specifiers: <https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime/index.html>
      --early-exit
          Exit directly after copy/save action
      --initial-tool <TOOL>
          Select the tool on startup [aliases: init-tool] [possible values: pointer, crop, line, arrow, rectangle, text, marker, blur, brush]
      --copy-command <COPY_COMMAND>
          Configure the command to be called on copy, for example `wl-copy`
      --annotation-size-factor <ANNOTATION_SIZE_FACTOR>
          Increase or decrease the size of the annotations
      --save-after-copy
          After copying the screenshot, save it to a file as well
  -d, --default-hide-toolbars
          Hide toolbars by default
      --font-family <FONT_FAMILY>
          Font family to use for text annotations
      --font-style <FONT_STYLE>
          Font style to use for text annotations
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

You can bind a key to the following command:

grim -g "$(slurp -o -r -c '#ff0000ff')" - | satty --filename - --fullscreen --output-filename ~/Pictures/Screenshots/satty-$(date '+%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S').png

You first need to install the native dependencies of Satty (see below) and then run:

# build release binary, located in ./target/release/satty
make

# optional: install to /usr/local
PREFIX=/use/local make install

# optional: uninstall from /usr/local
PREFIX=/use/local make uninstall

Satty is based on GTK-4 and Adwaita.

• libgtk-4-1
• libadwaita-1-0
• libepoxy
• fontconfig

• glib2
• libadwaita
• gtk4
• gdk-pixbuf2
• libepoxy
• fontconfig

The source code is released under the MPL-2.0 license.

The Font 'Roboto Regular' from Google is released under Apache-2.0 license.