Snapshoto for Blender is a native Blender implementation of the Snapshoto workflow for maintaining historical versions without changing the identity of the active project file.
Rather than advancing a project through filenames such as character_001.blend, character_002.blend, and character_003.blend, the working .blend file retains a canonical name and location. Historical states are instead preserved externally as timestamped, compressed snapshots. This keeps paths stable for linked assets, automation, scripts, and other systems that depend on the predictable identity of a project file.
Snapshoto for Blender integrates this workflow directly into Blender through the File menu, allowing a snapshot of the current project to be created without leaving the application. The same functionality is exposed programmatically through its Python API, allowing snapshot creation to participate in scripts, custom tools, and larger production workflows.
The extension is a standalone implementation written in Python for Blender rather than an interface to the desktop Snapshoto executable. It follows the same underlying snapshot strategy while being designed specifically around Blender's application environment and project workflow.
Like Snapshoto itself, the extension remains deliberately focused on snapshot creation rather than archive management. Snapshots provide historical states of the canonical working file, while retention, pruning, replication, and long-term backup remain independent concerns that can be handled according to the needs of the surrounding production environment.
Together with the general-purpose Snapshoto application and other application-specific implementations, Snapshoto for Blender provides a native way for Blender projects to participate in the same canonical-file workflow.