// snippets for macOS

The code you reuse,
kept close.

Save it once, find it in a keystroke, and watch it run right next to the source. A free, native Mac app. Everything stays on your Mac.

Download for Mac Support Snippets

Snippets will be available to download later this year

free · version 1.0 · macOS 26 or later

The Snippets gallery: a sidebar of collections and favorites, language filter chips, and snippet cards showing code. The Snippets gallery: a sidebar of collections and favorites, language filter chips, and snippet cards showing code.
lang:html lang:css lang:javascript lang:typescript lang:react lang:glsl lang:metal lang:swift

Previews run live for all of these, and Snippets keeps and highlights many more.

See it run, right where it lives.

Web code renders in a live view, Metal shaders run on the GPU, and Swift compiles with your own Xcode. Expose parameters and drag sliders to tune the result while you watch.

  • Previews wait for your OK before running code
  • #Preview blocks render exactly as in Xcode
  • Connect snippets so helpers run first

A library that stays tidy.

Nest collections, star favorites, and filter by language in one tap. Search looks through titles, descriptions and the code itself.

  • Attach images and videos to any snippet
  • Deleted snippets wait in Trash
  • Export everything to a single file

Copy without switching apps.

Click the scissors in the menu bar, type a few letters, and press return. Your snippet is on the clipboard, and you never left what you were doing.

The Snippets quick-copy panel open under the scissors in the macOS menu bar, listing frequent snippets. The Snippets quick-copy panel open under the scissors in the macOS menu bar, listing frequent snippets.

Save what you copy.

Turn it on, and when you copy code in another app, Snippets offers to keep it. Password managers’ private copies are always ignored.

The quick-copy panel offering to save code just copied in another app, with Save as snippet and Dismiss buttons. The quick-copy panel offering to save code just copied in another app, with Save as snippet and Dismiss buttons.

Shortcuts and Siri

Create, find, copy, open and favorite snippets from your own shortcuts.

Swift, compiled

Views, button styles and console programs, built with the Xcode you already have.

Connections

Link a helper to the snippet that uses it, and they preview together.

Import and export

Move your whole library, or one collection, as a single .snippets file.

Forgiving Trash

Delete freely. Snippets go to Trash first, and come back with one click.

Filters that keep up

Language, collection and favorite filters, combined with full-text search.

Nothing leaves your Mac.

No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Your library lives on your Mac, and Snippets never sends it anywhere.

accounts:none analytics:none tracking:none
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Get Snippets.

Free to use, at home and at work. If it saves you time, you can support its development.

Download Snippets 1.0 Support Snippets

Snippets will be available to download later this year

Snippets.dmg · macOS 26 or later

  1. 1

    Open the download

    Double-click Snippets.dmg in your Downloads folder.

  2. 2

    Drag to Applications

    Drop the Snippets icon onto the Applications folder.

  3. 3

    Open Snippets

    Launch it from Applications or Spotlight. A short tour shows you around.