MAXISNAP / STUDIO ADD-ON

A screenshot studio you actually own.

Every other tool rents you a domain. Studio hands you the keys — your own upload servers, your own share URLs, and the dashboard source on your own box.

$20 · ONE TIME · FOREVER YOURS

Unlock Studio — $20 Preview the Studio dashboard

Pairs with Free or Pro. No recurring charge on this add-on. Source code included. 14-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 Monosnap, CloudApp, Droplr, or Maxisnap's own cloud, the links look like theirservice.com/your/work. That's fine when everything is calm. It is not fine the day the company changes pricing, gets acquired, sunsets the free tier, or quietly shuts off links older than 90 days.

  • The domain isn't yours. Clients see a vendor URL, not your brand, on every design review.
  • The pricing isn't yours. Volume caps, ad-walls, and renewals can land any Monday morning.
  • The uptime isn't yours. When the service goes dark — ask Monosnap users about April 2026 — three years of shared links go with it.
  • The data isn't yours. Even "exports" are an API call away from being rate-limited or removed.

Maxisnap Studio is the counter-move. One twenty-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.

01

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.

02

Your logo in the dashboard.

Swap the wordmark, accent color, and favicon in a single config file. Handing off a library to a client? They see Your Snaps, not Maxisnap. The GUI is gorgeous — and it's wearing your jacket.

03

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.

04

Your own future — the source code.

A 37 KB PHP bundle. No database. No vendor lock-in. If Maxisnap ever vanished tomorrow, your dashboard would keep running the same Tuesday morning. That's the Studio promise.

BEFORE / AFTER

Same screenshot. Different universe.

Look where the dot goes before the slash. That's the difference Studio buys you.

BEFORE · Tenant
maxisnap.com/files/ms_a1b2c3d4.png

Their domain. Their ads. Their uptime. Their pricing decisions.

AFTER · Owner
yourdomain.com/screenshots/ms_a1b2c3d4.png

Your domain. Your rules. Your infrastructure. Every frame yours, forever.

THE DASHBOARD, WHITE-LABELED

Change the logo. Change the colors. Change the domain. You get the whole thing.

A two-person design agency buys Studio Monday morning, unpacks dashboard.zip into cPanel, renames the app to their brand, drops in their own logo, and points snaps.yourdomain.com at it. By lunch, every screenshot their clients get is served from their own domain.

  • 01 Replace /assets/logo.svg with yours.
  • 02 Edit four CSS variables in theme.css.
  • 03 Rewrite the brand name in config.php.
  • 04 Ship. No deployment pipeline required.
snaps.yourdomain.com

Client library — April

128 snaps
Homepage v3
Checkout bug
Mobile nav
Pricing pass
Hero draft
Settings
SETUP · FIVE STEPS

From payment to first shared screenshot in under an hour.

No CLI, no devops, no Docker. If you've ever uploaded a WordPress theme, you've already done the hardest step.

  1. 01

    Buy Studio.

    Hit the button, pay $20 through Stripe. The Studio flag flips on your account instantly. No license email to lose, no key to paste.

  2. 02

    Download the dashboard bundle.

    One click from your account settings. You'll get a 37 KB dashboard.zip — smaller than most favicons.

    maxisnap-dashboard.zip
├── index.php
├── config.php
├── theme.css
├── assets/
└── uploads/ ← keep empty
  3. 03

    Upload to any PHP host.

    cPanel, Plesk, Bluehost, Hostinger, SiteGround, DreamHost, a $3/month VPS — anywhere with PHP 7.4+. Drop the zip into public_html/, right-click → Extract. Done.

  4. 04

    Paste one connection string into the app.

    Open Maxisnap → Settings → Your Servers → Add. Pick SFTP (or S3, or HTTP), paste the credentials the wizard gives you. The desktop app ships a built-in test button.

    Host     snaps.yourdomain.com
Key      k_live_3f9a…
Base URL https://snaps.yourdomain.com
  ✓  Connection OK · 41 ms
  5. 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 7.4+ (works on 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)
Database
None. Filesystem + JSON manifest.
Storage
Local disk, R2, S3, any S3-compatible bucket.
Bundle size
~37 KB
Auth
Timing-safe hash_equals on upload key.
Upload whitelist
PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF. MIME-sniffed, not extension-trusted.
Traversal
Canonicalized paths. No .. escape possible.
URLs
Clean rewrites via .htaccess · Nginx sample included.
Caching
Immutable headers, aggressive CDN friendly.
Upgrades
Overwrite the ZIP. Your config is preserved.

Real talk: this thing boots on a dusty shared host and an Nginx front door alike. It is boring, which is exactly why you can rely on it.

FAQ

Questions asked by people who know what they're buying.

They're orthogonal. Pro ($18/year) is about using Maxisnap Cloud better — unlimited uploads, ad-free share pages, 1-year retention, and private password-protected links, all hosted on our infrastructure. Studio ($20, 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.
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 ($20 total, lifetime) is the complete story.
Yes, fully. The dashboard ships as hand-written HTML, CSS, and PHP. Swap /assets/logo.svg, edit four CSS variables in theme.css, change the brand name in config.php, and ship. No build step. No JS framework to fight. If you can read HTML, you can re-skin it in thirty minutes.
Nothing bad on the Studio side. Studio is a one-time $20 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. Studio is the part of Maxisnap that survives us.
Yes. Any host running PHP 7.4+ with write access to a directory (which is every cPanel host on earth) can run the dashboard. You don't need WordPress installed — we just use the same hosting substrate. Bluehost, Hostinger, SiteGround, DreamHost, A2, NameCheap, your cousin's $3 VPS — all fine.
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. Lifetime.

Twenty dollars. One Stripe checkout. Every screenshot you share for the rest of your career, served from a URL you control.

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