Area capture ⌘⇧4
Drag-select on a frozen screen with a crosshair and live pixel dimensions — no jitter, no moving targets.
Features
Built for people who screenshot all day
Snapix packs pro capture, annotation, and OCR into a lightweight menu bar app — with zero cloud dependencies.
Capture
Snapix offers five capture modes accessible from the menu bar or global hotkeys: area capture on a frozen screen with pixel-precise crosshairs (⌘⇧4), window capture (⌃⌥W), full-screen capture (⌃⌥F), last-area repeat (⌃⌥L), and a self-timer for menus and hover states. The screen freezes during selection so the target cannot move, and every hotkey is customizable — no Accessibility permission required.
Window capture ⌃⌥W
Click any window to capture it cleanly, with a live highlight showing exactly what you’ll get.
Full screen ⌃⌥F
Grab an entire display with a single click or hotkey.
Last area ⌃⌥L
Repeat your previous selection instantly — perfect for capturing the same region again and again.
Self-timer
Delay a capture to set up menus, tooltips, and hover states first.
Annotate
A full editor with 15+ tools, rendering at exact Retina resolution — what you see is the bitmap you export.
Arrows, lines & shapes
Arrows with curved bend control, rectangles, ellipses, and straight lines in your brand colors.
Text & numbered steps
Label screenshots and add auto-incrementing step markers for tutorials and bug reports.
Highlighter & spotlight
Draw attention with a translucent highlighter, or dim everything except the area that matters.
Blur & pixelate
Redact emails, tokens, faces, and account numbers before anything leaves your Mac.
Measure tool
Check distances and dimensions in pixels, right on the capture.
Extract text (OCR)
Snapix extracts text from any region of your Mac screen using Apple’s Vision framework in accurate mode with automatic language detection. Press ⌃⌥T, drag a selection over any screen content — a paused video, a PDF, a Slack message, an error dialog — and the recognized text is copied line-by-line to your clipboard in under a second. Recognition runs entirely on-device and fully offline: neither the image nor the extracted text ever reaches a server.
One-click OCR ⌃⌥T
Select a region and get its text instantly, or extract from the floating preview after any capture.
QR code detection
Capture a QR code on screen and Snapix offers its link right from the preview — no phone required.
Automatic language detection
Accurate-mode recognition with automatic language detection, no configuration needed.
Private by default
OCR runs locally. The text never leaves your Mac — Snapix has no network access at all.
Workflow
Designed to disappear until the moment you need it.
Floating preview
After each capture, a preview appears with Edit, Copy, Save, Pin, and Extract Text actions — configurable from 1–30 seconds or until dismissed.
Pin to screen
Keep any screenshot floating on top of every window — movable and resizable.
Capture history ⌃⌥R
Browse your recent captures in a scrollable strip and pick up where you left off.
Menu bar app
No dock icon clutter. Capture, settings, and history live in your menu bar.
Custom global hotkeys
Bind every capture mode to the shortcut you want — no Accessibility permission required.
Launch at login
Snapix is always ready the moment your Mac is.