PinSnip
Snip, annotate, pin, and OCR
Only for Mac
$9.99
Mac
Hit a hotkey to snip, and the markup toolbar pops up right on your selection: shapes, arrows, text, blur, numbers. Pin it on top. On-device OCR. Pay once.
PinSnip helps you snip anything on screen, mark it up, pin it on top, and read the text inside it. As handy as Snipaste, but more native, faster, and fully on-device: nothing leaves your Mac.
It lives quietly in your menu bar, with no Dock icon and no main window. Press a global hotkey to freeze the screen and select a region; PinSnip snaps to window edges and lets you nudge the selection pixel by pixel. The moment you finish selecting, the markup toolbar pops up right next to your selection, ready to use. One-time purchase, yours forever. No subscription, no ads, and every capture and recognition happens locally on your Mac.
WHY PINSHOT
- Snip in a second
A global hotkey freezes the screen instantly. Smart window detection and pixel-precise nudging get your selection just right.
- Markup on the spot
The toolbar appears right on your selection, so you can annotate, then copy, save, or pin in one flow.
- Pin on top
Keep a screenshot or clipboard content floating above everything else. Resize, adjust opacity, and enable click-through to compare while you work.
- On-device recognition
OCR text and QR / barcode detection run entirely through Apple Vision: offline, no API keys, nothing uploaded.
- Native by design
Built for macOS: light and dark aware, smooth, and right at home in the system.
- Pay once, use it forever
A one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no recurring lock-in.
- Private by design
Screenshots and recognition stay on your Mac. PinSnip does not upload your captures.
A RICH MARKUP TOOLBOX
- Shapes: rectangle and ellipse, with fill, corner radius, and solid / dashed lines
- Lines & arrows: straight or polyline, multiple arrow heads and line styles
- Brushes: pen and highlighter with adjustable width and opacity
- Text: font, size, bold, italic, underline, and outline; the input box is drag-resizable
- Number badges: auto-incrementing, as circles or squares, in digits, letters, or Roman numerals
- Redact: mosaic, Gaussian blur, or solid block, in rectangle / ellipse / brush shapes, with inverted masking
- Eraser, plus undo / redo (Command-Z / Shift-Command-Z)
CORE FEATURES
- Global hotkeys to trigger capture and pin
- Freeze-frame region select with smart window detection and pixel nudging
- Pin to a floating always-on-top window: resize, opacity, click-through, drag
- On-device OCR text recognition and QR / barcode detection
- Copy, save, or pin as output
- 9 interface languages: Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish
WHO IT IS FOR
Developers, designers, product and support teams, writers, and anyone who needs to grab a screenshot, mark it up, and share it right away.
PinSnip focuses on making screenshots fast and native, so snipping, annotating, pinning, and reading text all happen in one smooth flow.
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- 同庆 刘
- Size
- 1.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 tongqing liu. All rights reserved.
