Draw arrows, lines, rectangles, text, freehand strokes and highlights on a screenshot.
Good to know
Takes an image file or stdin; it does not capture the screen itself, so it is paired with grim and slurp.
Satty
A screenshot annotation tool for Wayland
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Built by @Satty-org on GitHub. This page was written by @iluxav from public sources, last updated for v0.22.0 (2026-08-03), and may lag behind new releases.
Maintain Satty? Claim itDraw arrows, boxes, text, numbered markers and blur on a screenshot, crop it, then copy it to the clipboard or save it.
What you can do with it
Crop a screenshot after taking it, in a fullscreen editor.
Blur parts of a screenshot to hide passwords, names or other private details.
Place numbered markers to label steps on a screenshot.
Zoom into and pan around the screenshot while annotating.
Good to know
Zoom factor and pan step are marked experimental in the README.
Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save it to a file named by date, and exit right after.
Good to know
Clipboard copy runs the command set in copy-command, such as wl-copy.
Before you upgrade
Newest firstv0.22.02026-08-03
Scrolling now pans; hold Ctrl to zoom.
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v0.22.02026-08-03
Discard a crop with Ctrl+right-click; plain right-click runs the right-click actions again.
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v0.21.12026-06-05
Replace early-exit-save-as = true with early-exit = ["save-as"] (or --early-exit=save-as); the old option is removed.
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v0.21.12026-06-05
Build with the ci-release Cargo feature to get shell completions in completions/; otherwise they are only generated in Cargo's OUT_DIR.
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Release history 7
v0.22.02026-08-03
Get a notification with a thumbnail of the saved or copied image.
Details
New notification-thumbnail option; touchpad scroll pans and Ctrl+scroll zooms; discarding a crop moves from right-click to Ctrl+right-click; brush lines are round by default; text tool renders emoji and has outline and drop-shadow effects; clear-all can be undone.
v0.22.0; aarch64 Linux release builds added.
Behavior changed: Zoom into and pan around the screenshot while annot…Behavior changed: Crop a screenshot after taking it, in a fullscreen…Improved: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Improved: Draw arrows, lines, rectangles, text, freehand stro…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)
v0.21.12026-06-05
Keep the clipboard updated with every edit, without pressing copy.
Details
early-exit now takes triggers (all, or a list of copy, save, save-as) and the experimental early-exit-save-as is removed. New --auto-copy, --title and --app-id; toolbars dock in windowed mode; image and crop dimensions shown in the toolbar; Save as prefills the name and remembers the folder. Groups v0.21.0 and v0.21.1.
v0.21.1. Packagers: shell completions are only written to completions/ with the ci-release Cargo feature.
Improved: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Action required: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Action requiredImproved: Crop a screenshot after taking it, in a fullscreen…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)
v0.20.12026-02-06
Zoom into and pan around a large screenshot while annotating.
Details
Pan and zoom (--zoom-factor, --pan-step-size), text moving and better text editing, digit keys pick a palette color, Delete clears the board, Ctrl+Alt+C copies the last saved file path, --resize and --input-scale set the window size. Flatpak builds.
v0.20.1; also as a Flatpak.
Added: Zoom into and pan around the screenshot while annot…Improved: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Improved: Draw arrows, lines, rectangles, text, freehand stro…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)
v0.20.02025-10-08
Switch tools with single keys and pick a file name with a Save as button.
Details
Single-key and number-key tool shortcuts, a Save as button, --default-fill-shapes, --focus-toggles-toolbars, CSS overrides and a minimum window size; ~/ in paths expands to the home directory.
v0.20.0.
Improved: Draw arrows, lines, rectangles, text, freehand stro…Improved: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)
v0.19.02025-05-15
Choose what Enter, Escape and right-click do: copy, save, exit, or several of them.
Details
New --actions-on-enter, --actions-on-escape and --actions-on-right-click take a list of save-to-clipboard, save-to-file and exit; --right-click-copy (v0.17.0) and --action-on-enter are now to be replaced by them. --output-filename - writes to stdout. Groups v0.17.0 to v0.19.0.
Also: Layout-independent shortcuts; annotation size set from the UI; Alt for centered ellipses and rectangles; reset all edits; --no-window-decoration; experimental brush smoothing.
v0.19.0.
Improved: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Deprecated: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Improved: Blur parts of a screenshot to hide passwords, names…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)
v0.16.02024-12-30
Save or copy with the Enter key.
Details
New --action-on-enter (save-to-clipboard, save-to-file or exit). Crop was reworked, and arrows are drawn fuller.
v0.16.0.
Improved: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…Improved: Crop a screenshot after taking it, in a fullscreen…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)
v0.15.02024-12-23
Starting point
Starting point
Annotate a screenshot with arrows, boxes, text and blur, then copy or save it.
Details
State at v0.15.0: satty --filename <file or -> opens an image or a screenshot from stdin; tools pointer, crop, line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, text, marker, blur, highlight and brush; configured in ~/.config/satty/config.toml or with command-line flags.
Packaged for Arch, Alpine, Gentoo (Guru) and others; prebuilt x86-64 binaries on the releases page; build from source with GTK 4 and libadwaita.
Added: Draw arrows, lines, rectangles, text, freehand stro…Added: Crop a screenshot after taking it, in a fullscreen…Added: Blur parts of a screenshot to hide passwords, names…Added: Place numbered markers to label steps on a screensh…Added: Copy the annotated image to the clipboard or save i…
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)