What is a .SNAP file?
Snap packages bundle a Linux app with its dependencies. Created by Canonical.
- Did you know
- Snap packages, made by Canonical, let one Linux app run across many distributions.
- A snap is a single SquashFS image bundling the app, its libraries and metadata, managed by the snapd daemon.
- Snaps run sandboxed, with confinement enforced through Linux kernel features such as AppArmor, seccomp and cgroups.
- What Analyser reads
- Open more archives, packages and installers: macOS XAR/.pkg/.mpkg installers (member list), Windows .msu updates (CAB), Snap SquashFS packages, Flatpak bundles, StuffIt (.sit/.sitx), lzop (.lzo) and Brotli (.br) streams, Java Web Start (.jnlp), and the .tlz/.tbz/.tz compressed-tarball shorthands.
- Depth of analysis
- .SNAP is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .SNAP file
- Drag a .SNAP file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.