In simple English
Satty is a tool for marking up screenshots on Linux. You take a picture of your screen, draw arrows or blur out private text on it, and save it. It is fast because it uses your graphics card to draw the lines. It works well on modern window managers like Sway and Hyprland. It costs nothing and is open source.
What it is
Satty is a graphical application written in Rust that lets you annotate images with shapes, text, and blurs. It combines the simple interface of Swappy with the fullscreen cropping tools of Flameshot.
What it is good for
Solo builders and Linux users who want to quickly mark up screenshots with arrows, boxes, and blurred passwords before sharing them.
- Smooth drawing powered by OpenGL hardware acceleration.
- Clean interface using the modern GTK 4 and Adwaita libraries.
- Works naturally inside Wayland compositors via standard input pipes.
- Requires native libraries like GTK 4 and libadwaita installed on your system to build from source.
- Linux and BSD only, with no official support for Windows or macOS.
- Relies on separate tools like grim and slurp to capture the screen in Wayland.
Flameshot or Swappy for screenshot annotation on Linux
grim and slurp for capturing screens on Wayland
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cargo install satty