Built in Ukraine by the person who answers your email.
Sowiks is a native macOS screenshot app made by Vasyl Holiney in Chernivtsi, Ukraine — one developer, eleven years in SaaS, and no support queue between you and him.
First place on Uneed
Sowiks came first on Uneed’s daily leaderboard — voted up by people who try more Mac tools in a month than most of us do in a year. The listing is public, reviews and all.
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Who builds Sowiks
I'm Vasyl. I've spent eleven years inside SaaS companies — seven of them at Logaster, first doing technical SEO and then leading the marketing team, and since 2023 as Product Marketing Manager at MySignature. Screenshots have been in the middle of every one of those jobs: bug reports, competitor teardowns, onboarding docs, handoffs to designers.
Sowiks came out of that. I wanted the shot to open in an editor the instant I took it, and to leave as a link — not as a file I'd rename, drag into Slack and forget about. Nothing on the Mac did that without a subscription attached, so I built it.
- Product Marketing Manager at MySignature (Solva.io) since 2023 — 30% year-over-year organic traffic growth.
- Growth Marketing Manager at Awesomic — after four months, 65% of all leads came from channels I built.
- Team Lead and, before that, SEO Specialist at Logaster for seven years — technical SEO, site structure, link building, E-E-A-T.
- Shipped side projects that people actually use: BeSaved, Racoon Link Checker, and now Sowiks.
- Written up on HubSpot, The Next Web, ActiveCampaign, ain.ua, delo.ua and business.diia.
- Master's in Economics and Entrepreneurship, Bukovinian State University of Finance and Economics.
Written in Chernivtsi.
Sowiks is an independent Ukrainian product — not a white-label, not a rebranded uploader, and not a side bet by a company that does something else. It is designed, coded, supported and marketed from a desk in western Ukraine, and it has been built and shipped through the war.
What Sowiks actually is
A native macOS app that lives in your menu bar. It captures an area, a window or the full screen, opens the shot straight in a built-in editor, and turns it into a shareable link in one click — no round trip through Preview, Photos or a separate uploader.
Area, window, full screen and scrolling capture, plus screen recording to MP4 or GIF.
13 annotation tools — arrows, text, blur, step numbers, crop, colour picker — and OCR to pull text out of any image.
Automatic compression, unguessable links, optional password and expiry, and 1 GB of cloud storage on Solo.
Built for designers, marketers, support teams and indie makers — anyone who takes screenshots all day. See how it compares.
How I think about it
Own it, don't rent it
Everything is unlocked for seven days. After that, window capture and the whole editor stay free forever, and Solo is a one-time $19.99 purchase. No monthly bill for a tool you press a shortcut on forty times a day.
Private by default
Your screenshots are yours. Share links are unguessable, you decide when they expire and whether they need a password, and you can delete your account and every file in the cloud from inside the app.
One person, so no runaround
The email you send to support is read by the person who wrote the code. There is no tier-one script and no ticket that gets escalated — a bug report goes straight to the developer who can fix it.
Questions people ask before trusting a small app
Who makes Sowiks?
Is Sowiks made in Ukraine?
Is Sowiks a company or one person?
Can I trust an indie app with my screenshots?
What experience is behind the app?
How do I reach the developer?
Try it for seven days.
Everything unlocked, no card and no account. If something is wrong with it, tell me — the contact form reaches the person who can fix it.
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