See the latest product updates for snappify.
In the future, we want to unlock more features for our free plan. Today we did the first step and removed the restrictions of code highlighting 🥳.
Additionally, we are happy to introduce the opacity highlighting. Have fun!
Snapping guidelines is a must for a graphic design tool. But Sometimes you want to position elements freely per drag. Now you can do that! Just hold Ctrl to disable the snapping guideline.
As part of these changes, we also changed how you can multi-select elements on canvas individually. You can either select multiple elements with Shift-Click or per drag-select.
We polished the UI of the elements list (left toolbar) and also improved the UX for better distinction of the hover and selected state to the elements.
In addition to existing elements selection by pressing Ctrl and click, we also support selecting multiple elements with Shift-Click.
The context menu got new a new option to “Rename” which is the same as double-click on the element. Also, lock/hide options are added, which can be applied on multi-selection.
Give the element a custom name to keep a better overview. Simply double-click on the label of the element to enter the edit mode. The new name will be saved automatically if you click outside or by hitting ENTER.
From now on you’re able to embed your snaps on Hashnode, Medium, or Notion.
Have you ever wanted to embed beautiful code snippets or even more sophisticated code explanations in your technical blog? snappify got you covered 💪
Those embedded snaps are responsive and fully interactive, which means that your viewers can easily copy your code snippets.
Checkout the docs for more information and to see some examples.
Video showcasing the new responsive embeds
We now support responsive embedded snaps! 🥳
They will shrink in size or be centered depending on the screen size. Now there’s nothing which stops you to embed beautiful code explanations on your own website / blog! 🙌
Checkout the docs for more information.
The snappify Docs are live! 🥳
It will be a living documentation and is still not finished, but we’re happy that we have released the first version. If you miss anything specific, please reach out to us via chat.
What’s maybe interesting for you, because it was basically hidden until now, is that we now have docs for our Simple Snap API which lets you automate the creation of your snaps!
Now you can select elements on the canvas with a simple drag same as you used to with other editing tools.
A new gradient picker has landed on snappify! 🥳
This means that you now can specify gradient colors on every element color, doesn’t matter if it’s the text color, code editor color, stroke colors, snap background - no limitations! 😄
Hint: easily paste CSS gradient values in the gradient picker to apply them!
Lock and Hide elements for a better editing experience on the canvas.
Lock: When an element is locked it becomes not selectable on the canvas so you can’t move it unintentionally.
Hide: When an element is hidden it disappears completely from the canvas. This also means snapping guidelines won’t be applied to this element.
However, in both case, you’ll be able to select the element still on the elements list (left toolbar) and change the properties of the element as usual
Various new form elements are now supported! 🥳
Now you can add ellipse (circle), rectangle, and different types of polygon elements to your snaps.
As you can see in the screenshot above, you can also use it for more sophisticated code annotations.
The first form element - the ellipse - hast just landed in snappify 🤩
Form elements help you to style your snaps in an even more unique way and we want to add more variants in the upcoming weeks!
Hint: press Shift while resizing an ellipse element to create circles.
We introduced “automatically generated folders”.
Every time a snap gets generated via the API or the VS Code Extension, it will be stored in the corresponding folder, so those snaps don’t pollute your Root folder anymore. 😄
Of course you can just move the snaps into any other folder afterwards!
Now you can tilt the code-editor, rich-text, profile-info and custom image elements. So you can present your snap in an even cooler way 😎. Just play with the control (2) - you will love it.
In case you already know the exact tilting degree, you can activate the manual editing mode where you can put the values into the input fields.
The snappify Editor now shows you a rotate handle for all elements which can be rotated.
Hint: If you have Ctrl pressed while rotating, the element will move in 45° steps.
The snappify VS Code extension is now publicly available! 🥳
Now you can just create snaps from within your IDE - head over to the VS Code Marketplace for usage instructions.
New Arrow Styles have landed! 🥳
You’re now able to create dashed or dotted lines and have the ability to customize the start and end markers of each arrow. It’s also possible to choose now marker at all to just draw a simple line.
Have a look on the right toolbar when selecting an Arrow element to see which customizations are possible.
We released some new code window styles to give you more options on how to style your code snippets! 🥳
In order to change the style you have to select a code window and open the “Window Control” accordion on the right toolbar. It’s now also possible to hide the tab completely if you just to want to share a plain code snippet without the window-look.
It’s now possible to upload an image directly from your clipboard. When you have an image in your clipboard and you’re on the snappify Editor, just paste it and it will be uploaded so you can use it right away.
Another clipboard improvement is that you can now copy & paste the selected elements in the snappify Editor.
Just select the element(s) you want to copy, pess Ctrl + C to copy and then Ctrl + V to paste them again.
This even works across different snaps! So when you have a special group of elements you want to reuse in different snaps, just copy and paste them onto a new snap 🥳
We’ve also prepared a video where you can get a better overview about those new features:
From now on you see snapping guidelines while dragging an element.
This helps you to better align elements to each other and the center / edges of the background.
It’s now also possible to select multiple elements at once and drag them around together.
You can even apply alignment options to your multi-selection on the right toolbar.
We’ve also prepared a video where you can get a better overview about those new features:
Our new dashboard is live and replaces the old Snaps modal!
It’s something several users asked for already and finally introduces a new way to organize and keep a better overview about your snaps.
You’re now able to create several folders and sub-folders to bring more structure into your workflow when using snappify.
If you miss something particular in the new dashboard or have essential additions in mind, please reach out to us! 😄
We’re proud to tell you that Pro users are now able to embed their snaps via an iframe.
That means you’re now able to embed an interactive version of your snap into your own website / blog! Additionally users can easily copy the code with a new “Copy” button which is visible when hovering over a snippet.
Our next goal is to make snaps easily embeddable into blogging platforms like Medium, dev.to or Hashnode 😎
We’re also excited to tell you that we launched a closed Beta for the new snappify API! It’s a REST API which takes some configuration parameters and returns a beautifully styled image of your code snippet, like you’re used to from the snappify Editor.
We’re still looking for testers, so if you’re interested in giving it a try, pls just write a DM to Dominik and he will send you the instructions.
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