# mg-chao/snow-apps

Snow Apps repository, providing source code for Snow Shot and Snow Image Viewer.

Repository: https://github.com/mg-chao/snow-apps
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/snow-apps
Homepage: https://snowshot.top
Language: C++
License Family: other
Topics: ocr, screenshot, image-viewer, screen-recorder, tools
Last push: 2026-08-24T08:49:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 43, longevity 39
- inputs: {"age_days": 553, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 300, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 126}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4926, forks 299 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:02.530583+00:00)

## What it is
Snow Apps is a C++ open-source suite containing Snow Shot, a screenshot capture and annotation tool, and Snow Image Viewer. Snow Shot offers multiple capture modes, rich annotation tools, screen pinning, and a plugin system for video recording, OCR, translation, and AI chat.

## Use cases
- take and annotate screenshots
- capture scrolling screenshots of long web pages
- extract text and tables from screenshots with ocr
- record short screen videos
- pin a screenshot to the screen for reference
- view and search screenshot history

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight open-source screenshot tool with annotation
- you need OCR, translation, or AI features via plugins
- you want customizable hotkeys and capture modes on Windows

## When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform tool with official Linux/macOS support
- you require a permissively licensed dependency (core is GPL-3.0)
- you need enterprise-grade screen recording

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, ocr, plugin-system
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: screenshot-tool, screen-recording, image-viewer, annotation, screen-capture, desktop

## Member repositories
- mg-chao/snow-apps (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:02.530583+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:59.703081+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mg-chao/snow-apps (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:02.530583+00:00, sha 9840a4e3fa75)
  - homepage: https://snowshot.top (fetched 2026-08-29T08:59:46.150164+00:00, sha af8694b9d74c)
  - site_page: https://snowshot.top/faq/common/1.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:59:46.159223+00:00, sha aa4259bcc7cf)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.