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Screenshot app for Mac

Say it with a screenshot.

Capture any part of your screen, mark it up and drop it into any app — in seconds.

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Free for 14 days · macOS 14 or later

A Mac’s screen with Safari on a shop’s product page for a pothos in a white pot whose price reads $0.00. Command Shift 4 is pressed and the crosshair selects the product; the floating preview appears in the corner, already copied, and a click on its pencil opens the Snapix editor. The pointer circles the price, writes “Should be $24.00” in red beside it and draws an arrow from the words to the circle. Then it drags the marked-up screenshot by the editor’s Drag me handle into a Messages chat with Maya, who had asked if anything looked off on the new product pages. She replies: “Good catch! Fixing it now.” The film ends on how long that took: about 37 seconds with basic screenshot tools, 14 with Snapix, 23 seconds back. Save time with Snapix.

Get the highlights.

Watch the film

Give it a beautiful background.

Gradients, padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow — ready to share.

The Snapix editor on a violet wallpaper: a photo of a red fox set on the Obsidian gradient, with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow, and the Background panel open beside it.

Point it out. Literally.

Arrows, boxes, steps and text — sixteen tools that feel like drawing.

The Snapix editor with a screenshot of a website’s notification settings, marked up as a how-to: numbered steps 1 to 3 on Notifications, on the Weekly digest row and on Save changes, a red box around that row, and an arrow to its switch from a yellow label that reads Turn this on.

Keep it on top.

Pin any screenshot above every window while you work.

A supplier’s invoice with five lines, just captured on a blue Mac desktop: Pin is clicked on its Snapix preview card, and the invoice floats in the top-right corner on top of an Excel sheet. The fourth line, Desk lamp, quantity 3, 98.70, has just been typed into the sheet from it.

Lift the text off anything.

Press ⌘⇧2 and the words on screen are on your clipboard.

A paused video of an iced drink on a café table, a Snapix selection dragged over its subtitle, “Espresso, a spoonful of cocoa, then cold milk over ice.”, and a banner that says Text copied with the same words.

Blur what’s private.

One drag pixelates a whole column of emails before you share.

A customer table open in the dark Snapix editor: one drag has pixelated the whole Email column, another the Phone column, and the customers’ names are blurred.

Find it again in seconds.

⌘⇧S brings back your recent captures — search even reads the words inside them.

An email to accounts on a Mac with a desert wallpaper. Snapix Recent Captures was searched for the word receipt, which it found inside two screenshots, and the café receipt has been dragged from it into the email.

Capture

Six ways to capture.
One press each.

Snapix answers to ⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4 and ⌘⇧5 — the shortcuts your fingers already know — and every one of them is yours to change.

  • Area

    ⌘⇧4

    Drag across anything. Tap Space to switch to a window.

  • Full Screen

    ⌘⇧3

    Every pixel on the display, in one press.

  • Window

    ⌘⇧5

    Click a window. Rounded corners and shadow included.

  • Self-Timer

    ⌘⇧8

    A countdown to open that menu or hover that tooltip.

  • Extract Text

    ⌘⇧2

    Drag over words. Get text, not a picture.

  • Last Area

    ⌘⇧6

    The same region again. Perfect for before‑and‑after.

Annotate

Mark it up.
Make it obvious.

Arrows that bend, boxes, numbered steps, text callouts, emoji stickers and a highlighter that snaps to lines of text — plus blur and pixelate for anything sensitive. Everything exports at full Retina resolution.

The Snapix editor with a photo of an Australian Shepherd, marked up: a red box around its face, numbered steps 1 and 2 on its ears, and a yellow “Good boy.” label with a red arrow pointing to its nose.

Click a tool to try it on the photo.Tap a tool to try it on the photo.

Extract Text

Copy text from
anything you can see.

Press ⌘⇧2 and drag across a photo, a video frame, a PDF that won’t let you select, or an error message. The words land on your clipboard as text — recognized on your Mac, which detects the language for you.

Extract Text at work: a scanned adoption flyer for Biscuit is open in Preview. Snapix’s selection is dragged over three lines on it — “Loves tennis balls and long walks. House-trained. Great with kids. Vaccinated and microchipped.” A “Text copied” banner appears, then the pointer clicks into a note and the same three lines are pasted there as ordinary text.

  • Find words inside a screenshot

    ⌘F in the editor marks every match in the picture.

  • On-device, always

    Recognition runs on Apple’s Vision framework, even offline.

Recent Captures

That screenshot from
an hour ago? Right here.

Press ⌘⇧S and your recent captures slide up, newest first. Search even reads the words inside them — type “budget” and every capture that mentions it lights up.

Recent Captures, the strip that slides up along the bottom of the screen. Searching “budget” narrows it to the three captures with that word in them — a Slack message asking whether the Q4 budget is final, the budget spreadsheet in Excel and a PowerPoint slide — and marks the word where it appears in each picture.

  • Keyboard-first

    Arrow keys to move, hold Space to preview, Return to copy.

  • Lists that keep

    Drag a capture onto a list to keep it for good.

  • Undo a close

    ⌃⌥Z reopens the capture you just closed.

And so much more.

  • Pin it. Keep it in view.

    Float any screenshot above every window.

  • A preview that waits for you.

    Copy, save or drag it out.

  • Pick any color.

    ⌃⌥C copies any pixel’s hex.

  • Set a timer.

    ⌘⇧8 waits, so you can open a menu first.

  • One click away.

    Every capture, from your menu bar.

  • Your shortcuts. Your files.

    Choose your keys and file format.

  • Say it with emoji.

    Press ⌃⌘Space for 1,870 stickers.

Questions? Answers.

What exactly is Snapix?

Snapix is a screenshot app for Mac that lives in your menu bar. It replaces the basic built-in screenshot tool with six capture modes (area, window, full screen, repeat last area, self-timer, and text extraction), a 16-tool annotation editor, blur and pixelate for redacting, on-device text extraction (OCR), screenshots you can pin on top of every window, and a searchable history of your recent captures.

How is Snapix different from the built-in macOS screenshot tool?

The built-in tool saves a file to your Desktop and offers basic markup. Snapix puts every capture straight on your clipboard, then adds 16 annotation tools (arrows that bend, shapes, text callouts, auto-numbered steps, emoji stickers, a highlighter that snaps to lines of text), blur and pixelate for sensitive data, one-key on-device OCR, pinned floating screenshots, capture history, and fully customizable global hotkeys — all from your menu bar, on the same shortcuts you already press.

How does the free trial work?

Download Snapix and sign in with Apple or Google, and your 14-day free trial starts — no credit card. You get full access to every feature. When the trial ends, keep Snapix Pro for $2.49/month billed annually, $3.49 monthly, or $79 once.

Is Snapix really private?

Yes. Every capture, annotation, and OCR result is processed on your Mac. Snapix takes one-shot screenshots only — there is no screen recording and no background capture, and the screen recording permission macOS asks for is used solely at the moment you capture. Your capture history stays on your Mac, encrypted on disk.

Is Snapix a good CleanShot X alternative?

Yes — Snapix covers the same core workflow: instant capture, a floating preview, a full annotation editor, on-device OCR, and pinned screenshots. It has no cloud product built in, and it costs $29.88/year with a 14-day free trial.

For everyone who has to
explain things.

  • Developers, filing the bug

  • Support, walking someone through

  • Teams, reviewing the work

  • Freelancers, sending the update

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