How to uninstall Snagit on Mac

TechSmith notes that dragging Snagit to the Trash removes only the application, and that your captures and settings are saved in other locations. Decide what to do with those before you delete anything beyond the app. These steps cover Snagit downloaded from TechSmith, plus a Homebrew section for the snagit cask.

Quit and remove Snagit

  1. Quit Snagit.
  2. In Finder's Applications folder, move Snagit to the Trash, as TechSmith's uninstall article for Mac describes. TechSmith also suggests restarting the Mac before you empty the Trash.

Where Snagit keeps its data

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each path that exists. The paths below are the ones the Homebrew cask lists for Snagit; a * stands for any text.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Application Support/Snagit Snagit's own data folder, named after the app Open it and copy out anything you want before removing
~/Library/Caches/com.TechSmith.Snagit* Cache Safe to remove after quitting
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.TechSmith.Snagit* Web storage Remove with the app
~/Library/WebKit/com.TechSmith.Snagit* Embedded web view data Remove with the app
~/Library/Preferences/com.TechSmith.Snagit*.plist App preferences Remove with the app
~/Library/Preferences/com.techsmith.snagit.capturehelper*.plist Preferences for Snagit's capture helper Remove with the app
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.TechSmith.Snagit*.savedState Saved window state Safe to remove
~/Library/Group Containers/*.com.techsmith.snagit and ~/Library/Application Scripts/7TQL462TU8.com.techsmith.snagit Snagit's App Group and its scripts folder Remove with the app

Snagit's Quick Look and thumbnail extensions also have their own folders under ~/Library/Containers. In this test they stayed after the uninstall; see the test record below.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The snagit cask quits Snagit before it removes the app, and its zap list covers every path in the table plus Snagit's Recent Documents record. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap snagit yourself moves all of them to the Trash, whatever you selected in Mole, including Application Support/Snagit. To remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask snagit

Mole runs --zap only when every path in the stanza is under ~/Library, is a row you ticked, is not claimed by another installed app, and uses directives it can review. Otherwise it drops --zap and still removes the rows you ticked.

Check the result

pgrep -il snagit
ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/Snagit
ls ~/Library/Containers | grep -i snagit
  • No output from pgrep means Snagit is not running. A listed process means it is still open; quit it before deleting data.
  • ls -d printing the path means Snagit's data folder is still there; "No such file or directory" means it is gone.
  • The last command prints any container whose name contains Snagit. Quick Look or thumbnail extension containers showing up here match what this test left behind; no output means none remain.

What Mole lists

Mole lists ~/Library/Application Support/Snagit for review and does not select it by default, because a folder named after an app can hold your own files; tick it once you have copied out what you need. Rows named exactly after Snagit's bundle ID, such as its caches, web storage and preferences, are selected by default. Mole never lists or selects a TechSmith vendor parent folder.

What this test covered

Snagit 2026.3.3 was copied from TechSmith's official DMG into Applications and uninstalled live on September 20, 2026, with Mole 1.15.0 build 280, with every review row selected. The app and the empty Application Support/Snagit folder went to the Trash. The Quick Look and thumbnail extension containers stayed: Mole marked them as protected, and macOS refused to move them to the Trash. Captures, library content and license activation were not tested.