Snipaste is a lightweight screenshot tool that lets you capture any part of your screen and pin it back to your desktop as a floating window. Press F1 to take a screenshot, then F3 to display it as an always-visible reference while you work.

Beyond screenshots, Snipaste can turn clipboard text and color information into floating windows that can be resized, rotated, flipped, made transparent, or set to click-through mode. Its straightforward interface and customizable shortcuts make it a useful tool for designers, developers, and anyone who frequently works with screenshots or visual references.

Features

Intuitive snipping

  • Auto detect UI elements
  • Pixel-level control
  • Color picker (try F1, C, F3)
  • History play back (,/.)
  • Multi-screen support
  • HiDPI (retina display) support

Paste images as topmost floating windows

  • The source (in the clipboard) could be
    • Image
    • Plain text
    • HTML text
    • Color info text
    • Image files: PNG, JPG, BMP, TGA, ICO, TIFF and GIF
  • Supported operations
    • Zoom (mouse scroll or +/-)
    • or set speed for GIF
    • Rotate (1/2)
    • or jump to previous/next frame for GIF
    • Flip (3/4)
    • Set transparency (Ctrl + mouse scroll or Ctrl + +/-)
    • Mouse click-through
    • Image editing (Space)
    • Thumbnail mode (Shift + Double click)
    • Hide (Double click)
  • Color picker (Alt)
  • Drag & drop
  • Grouping
  • Auto backup & restore

Easy image annotation

  • Rich shapes
    • Rectangle
    • Ellipse
    • Linestrip
    • Arrow
    • Pencil
    • Marker pen
    • Text
  • Advanced annotation tools
    • Mosaic
    • Gaussian blur
    • Eraser
  • Undo & redo

Customization

  • Theme color, interface font, tray icon, and more
  • Hot keys
  • Detailed functionality options

What's New

  • [PRO] Support customizing some in-app shortcuts (Preferences - Control - In-App Shortcuts) #2189 #3317 #3584
  • [PRO] Text extraction: support Tencent and OCR.space APIs
  • Other improvements and bug fixes #3572 #3579 #3580 #3597