Snipaste

Capture precise screenshots, annotate them, and pin images, text, or color information as floating windows for easier desktop work.

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Snipaste snipping workspace with floating pinned windows, a color value popup, and the image annotation toolbar.

About Snipaste

Snipaste is a desktop snipping and image-pinning tool. Press F1 to capture an area and F3 to paste it back onto the screen as a floating window. It can also turn clipboard images, text, HTML text, color information, and image files into floating windows. Features include UI element detection, pixel-level control, a color picker, capture history, multi-screen and HiDPI support, annotation tools, zoom, rotation, flipping, transparency, click-through windows, grouping, and automatic backup and restore.

What you can do

  • Automatically detects UI elements and provides pixel-level control and multi-screen support during screenshot capture.

  • Converts clipboard content—including images, plain text, HTML text, and color information—into topmost floating windows.

  • Enables manipulating floating image windows by zooming, rotating, flipping, adjusting transparency, and toggling mouse click-through.

  • Offers image annotation tools including shapes, arrows, pencils, markers, text, mosaic, Gaussian blur, and an eraser.

  • Users can manipulate pinned floating image windows by zooming, rotating, flipping, adjusting transparency, or setting them to mouse click-through mode.