Knowledge base
How it actually behaves
How SnapBuddy actually behaves: what each capture path does, what leaves your machine, and the gotchas the interface does not admit. Written from the code, not from a plan.
- Capturing (desktop)What taking a screenshot does, every path into it, and the one gotcha the UI does not admit yet.
- Recording (desktop)Screen recording, the consent warnings that must never move, the pill, crash recovery, and what the interaction track does and does not collect.
- AnnotatingEighteen tools, one shared engine, and the one distinction that matters more than anything else on this page: on a still, redactions destroy pixels; on a recording, they do not.
- Library and trashWhy Delete asks nothing and Delete forever asks twice, what 90 days actually governs, and what a backup does and does not contain.
- SharingShare links, passwords, unfurls, the MP4 note, and exactly what a stranger can and cannot learn from a link.
- ThemingLight, dark, Nocturne, system, six accents, and why the choice never follows you between surfaces.
- Settings (desktop)Every field with its consequence, the one switch that sends anything off the machine, the one request with no switch, and the six global shortcuts.
- ExtensionTab capture, the Firefox difference, the no-network promise, and the redaction overlay truth.
- Reading captures from a coding assistant (MCP)SnapBuddy ships a small program that lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other MCP client read the captures you have already saved to a folder - so instead of pasting a bug report into a chat, you ask the assistant and it looks.
- AI assistThe three AI features in the web app: what each one does, what leaves and to whom, who may ask, where the answers appear, and what happens when no provider is configured.
- Troubleshooting: the honest states catalogueEvery deliberate "something is not right" sentence the product ships, what each one actually means, and what to do about it. None of these are bugs; each is the app telling the truth about a state it is in.