Your own domain on every link.
Point s.yourdomain.com at the dashboard — every shared screenshot lives under your URL, not ours. Clients see your brand, not an ad for somebody else's.
MAXISNAP / STUDIO ADD-ON
A screenshot studio you actually own.
Most hosted capture tools put your share links on their domain. Studio hands you the keys — your own upload servers, your own share URLs, and the dashboard source on your own box.
$29 · ONE TIME · NO SUBSCRIPTION
Pairs with Free or Pro. No recurring charge on this add-on. Source code included. 30-day refund.
THE PROBLEM
You don't own your screenshot links.
Every screenshot you share on a SaaS tool is a letter written on someone else's stationery. You write the note. They own the paper, the envelope, and the return address.
On any hosted capture service — Monosnap, Droplr, Zight, or Maxisnap's own cloud — the links look like
theirservice.com/your/work. That works well, right up until your needs and the vendor's roadmap stop pointing the same way: plans get restructured, retention windows change, products get retired. That is true of every hosted service, ours included.
- The domain isn't yours. Clients see a vendor URL, not your brand, on every design review.
- The pricing isn't yours. Upload limits, retention windows, and renewal terms are the vendor's to set, and they change.
- The uptime isn't yours. Every hosted service has outages — ours included. When one happens, your links are down until the vendor brings them back, and that timing is not your call.
- The retention isn't yours. Hosted plans keep files for a set period. On your own storage, the only retention policy is the one you choose.
Maxisnap Studio is the counter-move. One twenty-nine-dollar payment, and your screenshot pipeline is a thing you operate — not a thing you rent.
WHAT YOU OWN WITH STUDIO
Four things the vendor keeps. You take all four back.
Your logo in the dashboard.
Choose your logo, light and dark colours, fonts, and optional button. See the dashboard and a share page change in the live previews, before upload or later in the dashboard's Branding page.
Your own storage.
Push screenshots straight to SFTP, FTP, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, or your own HTTP endpoint from inside the desktop app. No round-trip through our servers. Storage cost: whatever you were already paying.
Your own future — the source code.
A PHP bundle with an offline branding guide, about 1.3 MB zipped. No database. It runs on your own hosting and makes no calls to Maxisnap's servers.
BEFORE / AFTER
Same screenshot. Different universe.
Look where the dot goes before the slash. That's the difference Studio buys you.
Their domain. Their ads. Their uptime. Their pricing decisions.
Your domain. Your rules. Your infrastructure. Every frame on your server.
THE DASHBOARD, IN YOUR BRAND
Change the logo. Change the colors. Change the domain. You get the whole thing.
A two-person design agency buys Studio Monday morning, uploads the dashboard bundle to cPanel, opens the branding studio, drops in their own logo and colours, and points snaps.yourdomain.com at it. By lunch, every screenshot their clients get is served from their own domain.
- 01 Upload your logo in the branding studio.
- 02 Pick a colour theme, with light and dark palettes.
- 03 Name the dashboard and set your share-link word.
- 04 Lock it in. No CSS, no deployment pipeline.
Client library — September
128 snapsHomepage v3
Checkout bug
Mobile nav
Pricing pass
Hero draft
Settings
SETUP · FIVE STEPS
From payment to first shared screenshot in about ten minutes.
No CLI, no devops, no Docker. If you've ever uploaded a WordPress theme, you've already done the hardest step.
- 01
Buy Studio.
Hit the button, pay $29 through Stripe. The Studio flag flips on your account instantly. No license email to lose, no key to paste.
- 02
Download the dashboard bundle.
In the app's Account settings, download the dashboard bundle from the Maxisnap Studio card. Open the offline Start Here guide to preview your dashboard and share pages as you choose colours, fonts, a logo, and an optional button.
Choose Lock in my branding and select your extracted Studio package folder when prompted. After you allow folder access, the guide updates its snaps folder and downloads a matching snaps.zip with the same branding and fonts.
If your browser cannot save to folders, download snaps.zip and extract it to replace the package's snaps folder. A ZIP download alone leaves that folder unchanged.
Maxisnap Studio - Start Here.html Read Me First.txt snaps/ ├── app/ ├── branding/ ├── index.php └── uploads/ - 03
Upload to your PHP host.
Use PHP 8 or newer on Apache or LiteSpeed with .htaccess rules enabled. Upload the snaps folder to your website root, or extract snaps.zip there. Open your domain's /snaps/ address to finish setup.
- 04
Connect the app.
Open the Studio setup wizard in Settings → Account. Enter your dashboard address and an upload-capable personal code, test the connection, and choose it as your upload target. The owner can use the key from first-time setup.
Dashboard https://yourdomain.com/snaps Code •••••••••••••••• ✓ Connected · dashboard v2.2.3 - 05
Share a screenshot. On your domain.
Press Ctrl+Alt+7. Drag a region. URL is copied to your clipboard before you blink — and it starts with yourdomain.com, not ours. Welcome to owning your screenshots.
UNDER THE HOOD
Light enough to live on a $3 host. Locked down enough to run a studio on.
- Runtime
- PHP 8.0 or newer on Apache or LiteSpeed
- Database
- None. Filesystem + JSON manifest.
- Storage
- Your host's disk. Or skip the dashboard and push straight to S3, R2, SFTP, FTP, or HTTP from the app.
- Bundle size
- ~1.3 MB
- Auth
- Individual access codes with Admin, Manager, Member, Viewer and Upload-only roles.
- Accepted uploads
- PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, MP4, WebM, MOV. Checked by content, not extension.
- Security
- Content-security policy, CSRF protection, login throttling, sanitised SVG logos.
- URLs
- Clean rewrites via
.htaccess, with an editable share-link word. - Privacy
- Public, team-only with role-based access, or password per capture. Rules apply to both the page and the media.
- Upgrades
- Back up first, then follow the included update guide. Keep your existing captures, users, settings, branding and fonts.
FAQ
Questions asked by people who know what they're buying.
What's the difference between Studio and Pro?
They're orthogonal. Pro ($18/year) is about using Maxisnap Cloud better — 10 GB of storage, ad-free share pages, links kept while subscribed, private links, and view analytics, all hosted on our infrastructure (Pro Plus is $59/year for 50 GB). Studio ($29, one-time) is about not using our infrastructure at all: it unlocks your own upload servers inside the app, plus the self-host dashboard source code. You can buy either one alone, or stack them.
Do I need Pro to use Studio?
No. Studio works perfectly on the Free tier. If you plan to push every screenshot to your own S3 bucket or SFTP box, you may never touch Maxisnap Cloud at all — in which case Free + Studio ($29 total, lifetime) is the complete story.
Can I change the logo and colors?
Yes. The offline Start Here guide and the dashboard's Branding page both preview your dashboard and share pages as you change your logo, colours, fonts, tagline, and optional button. Save from the guide before upload, or save inside the dashboard to update your installed site. No CSS editing or build step is needed.
What happens if I stop paying Maxisnap?
Nothing bad on the Studio side. Studio is a one-time $29 payment — there is nothing to stop paying. If you later cancel Pro, your self-hosted dashboard, your own-server uploads, and the share links on your domain are unaffected. They're sitting on your infrastructure, and the self-hosted dashboard makes no calls to Maxisnap's servers.
Does it work with WordPress hosting?
Studio uses PHP 8 or newer on Apache or LiteSpeed, with .htaccess rules enabled and writable storage. WordPress is optional. Check those requirements with your host; upload limits depend on the hosting configuration.
Does the dashboard handle video and private captures?
Yes. Supported videos play in the browser with seeking, hover previews and duration badges. Team-only captures require sign-in and the user's role must permit access; the Member role grants access to that member's own captures. Password-protected captures also open for someone with the capture password. The same access rules protect the share page, media and thumbnails.
Can I resell it as my own product?
No. Studio is licensed for personal or single-company use — meaning you, your company, and your clients who view links on your dashboard. You may not rebundle, resell, relicense, or offer the dashboard as a service to third parties as a commercial product. For OEM or multi-tenant reseller agreements, email sales@maxisnap.com.
MAKE IT YOURS
Own your screenshots. One payment.
Twenty-nine dollars. One Stripe checkout. Your screenshots served from a URL you control, with no recurring charge on the add-on.
30-day refund · Source code included