A successor to Zappy, if enough of you want one

Zapier is retiring Zappy, the Mac app for screenshots and screen recordings. Zappy's service shuts down on December 15, 2026. After that date you can't sign in or upload new captures, and starting February 16, 2027, uploaded captures are removed and their links stop working. Whatever happens next, save the captures you want to keep before then.

We are Blackbelt Labs. We built Zappy for Zapier and have maintained it since. We can't keep Zappy itself running. The name and the servers belong to Zapier, and Zappy gets no further updates.

What we can do is keep the same app going under a new name. Zapier plans to publish Zappy's code as open source. We would take that code as it is, run it on our own hosting, and maintain it from there. It would work the way Zappy does:

  • Capture any area of the screen from a keyboard shortcut you choose, on every display.
  • Annotate with text, arrows and drawings, and blur what should stay private.
  • Record the screen as a video or a GIF, with audio and a camera view.
  • Pin a screenshot and layer several into one image.
  • Find any earlier capture and copy it with a click.

Two things would be different. It would be a separate download, because your Zappy install will not update into it. And you would sign in with an account of ours instead of your Zapier account, so links you made with Zappy stay with Zapier.

We have not decided to do this. Setting up the hosting and taking over the releases is a few weeks of work, so it would not be ready before December 15. It is only worth doing if enough people would use it, so we are asking first.

If you want it, answer the three questions below, or write the answers to [email protected].

Do you use it alone or with a team?
Do you need share links?

We will decide by December 1 and reply to everyone who wrote, either way. If we build it, we will also write once when it is ready to download. If the answer is no, the reply will name the alternatives we would switch to ourselves. We won't use your address for anything else.

Blackbelt Labs also makes Daslab. This would be a small app we maintain beside it. Zapier is not involved in this post or in the renamed app.