What Monosnap does

Monosnap Inc. is a privately held US-domiciled software company that builds a desktop application for screenshot capture, screen recording, and GIF creation. The application supports fullscreen, area, and window capture with pixel-perfect quality, hotkey shortcuts, and a built-in image editor for annotations including highlight and blur tools to obscure sensitive data. Captured content can be uploaded to Monosnap's own cloud storage or routed directly into third-party storage services, including AWS S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and FTP/SFTP/FTPS endpoints.

The company operates a product-led growth, self-serve distribution model. Users download the application directly from monosnap.com, create an account, and receive 30-day full-access trial across all integrations before converting to a paid subscription. A separate Enterprise tier is offered alongside the individual/professional subscription, indicating a dual GTM motion targeting both individual professionals and organizational buyers.

Monosnap targets a horizontal set of customer segments via dedicated solution pages: Startups, Designers, IT Teams, Customer Support teams, and Education. The value proposition centers on remote-work visual communication, with the company's own marketing positioning it as a productivity tool for sharing screenshots and videos clearly and quickly. The company has no disclosed funding, no named management team, no revenue figures, and no AI/ML capability claims in the public source material.

Name

Monosnap

Legal name

Monosnap Inc.

Website

https://monosnap.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Monosnap is a privately held US software company that provides a desktop screenshot capture, screen recording, and GIF creation application with built-in annotation tools and integrations to major cloud storage providers, sold via a self-serve freemium model to individuals and an Enterprise tier to organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Newark

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans: Monosnap operates on a subscription-based revenue model with tiered pricing. The platform offers a free trial period (30-day full access for all integrations) to convert users into paying subscribers. Pricing tiers likely include individual/professional and Enterprise plans.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Monosnap is a desktop application that captures screenshots (fullscreen, area, or window) and records screen videos or animated GIFs. Captured content can be edited and annotated within a built-in image editor featuring highlight and blur tools, then uploaded to Monosnap Cloud Storage or to third-party storage services such as AWS S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and DigitalOcean Spaces, or transferred via FTP/SFTP/FTPS for sharing.

Product overview

Monosnap is a unified desktop application for screenshot capture and screen recording. The core product includes screenshot capture (fullscreen, area, window), video recording, GIF recording, and a built-in image editor with annotation tools. Users can upload to Monosnap's own cloud storage or integrate with third-party storage services (AWS S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, DigitalOcean Spaces, FTP). The product is offered in individual and Enterprise tiers, with a free trial available.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Monosnap Desktop Application Cross-platform desktop application that captures pixel-perfect screenshots in fullscreen, area, or window modes, records videos and animated GIFs, and provides a built-in image editor with highlight and blur annotation tools. Targets individual professionals, remote teams, and organizations needing to share visual information quickly.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AWS Amazon S3coreTechnology or IntegrationMonosnap integrates with AWS Amazon S3 cloud storage, allowing users to upload and store screenshots and videos directly to their S3 buckets as part of their workflow.
• DigitalOcean SpacescoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with DigitalOcean Spaces provides Monosnap users with an additional S3-compatible cloud storage option for storing and sharing their visual content.
• Google DrivecoreTechnology or IntegrationMonosnap integrates with Google Drive, enabling users to save their screenshots and videos directly to their Google Drive storage for easy sharing and collaboration.
• DropboxcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Dropbox allows Monosnap users to store and sync their captured screenshots and videos to their Dropbox accounts seamlessly.
• BoxcoreTechnology or IntegrationMonosnap integrates with Box cloud storage, providing enterprise users with another option for storing and managing their visual content.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• ShareX: ShareX is a free, open-source Windows screenshot/recording tool with extensive capture, annotation, and upload integrations — a price-anchoring competitor that pressures Monosnap's paid conversion.
• Loom: Loom pioneered async screen recording with cloud sharing for distributed teams, mirroring Monosnap's record-annotate-share surface with significantly larger user scale and Atlassian-backed distribution.
• TechSmith (Snagit): Snagit is the most established paid screenshot capture and editing tool for professionals; it directly overlaps Monosnap's screenshot + annotation + share workflow and brings a much larger brand and content library.
• Screencastify: Screencastify offers browser-based screen recording and screenshot capture with cloud sharing and is strong in education and SMB — overlapping heavily with Monosnap's stated segment mix.
• TinyTake: TinyTake (MangoApps) offers screenshot capture, screen recording, and annotation with team sharing — targeting SMB and education segments that overlap Monosnap's.
• CloudApp: CloudApp is a direct screenshot + screen recording + GIF tool with cloud hosting and integrations for team workflows — closely mirroring Monosnap's capture-edit-share product stack.
• Droplr: Droplr is a long-running screenshot and screen recording SaaS with cloud hosting and team-focused sharing — a comparable incumbent with monetization and target market very similar to Monosnap's enterprise tier.

Emerging players

• Shottr: Shottr is an emerging macOS screenshot tool with annotation, scrolling capture, and quick sharing — a niche peer demonstrating how feature-rich free/cheap utilities can absorb adjacent demand.
• Lightshot: Lightshot is a free lightweight screenshot tool with quick share via prntscr.com — a pure-utility peer representing the free-tier price ceiling Monosnap must justify past.
• Cleanshot: Cleanshot is a macOS-focused screenshot and screen recording app with annotation, scrolling capture, and quick-share — overlaps Monosnap on capture+share but with a narrower platform footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/monosnap
• Facebookfacebook.com/Monosnap
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/monosnap

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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