SnipDot01Capture
Drag a box, or click to take the whole window.
Hover a window and it's outlined automatically — menu bar and status-bar icons included. Hold ⇧ to grab several at once, each with a composed shadow.
macOS 14.0 or later · about 2 MB · five languages
A screenshot tool that knows when to stop.
Drag a box, or click to take a whole window. Annotate with nine tools. Pin the result above everything, or lift the text straight out of it. Nothing touches the network — the entitlements don't allow it.
Specification
- Requires
- macOS 14.0+
- Size
- ~2 MB
- Languages
- 5
- Network
- none
- Sandbox
- yes
- Author
- 耳朵
Fig. 01SnipDot 1.0 · overlay
2 MBon disk
0network calls
13toolbar slots, max
5languages
02Annotate
Nine tools. Whatever you draw, you can drag later.
Rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, pencil, pixelate, text, step, highlight. Realised the frame is too small? Drag its edge — everything already drawn stays exactly put.
03Pin
Float a capture above everything. It survives full-screen.
⌘P lifts a capture above all windows. Zoom it, dim it, keep it where you're working — even after you switch into a full-screen app.
04Read the text
Lift text out of anything you can't select.
Screenshots people send you, video subtitles, dialog boxes. ⌘E extracts it on-device; ⇧⌘E translates. Nothing leaves your Mac.
And two small things it does well
The details that save a trip to another app.
Colours, honestly in sRGB
Press C under the magnifier. Most Macs render Display P3 — raw pixels pasted into CSS drift. SnipDot converts, and tells you it did.
Backgrounds, ready to post
Six presets add padding, rounded corners and a drop shadow in one click. G cycles them — no editor needed.
What it refuses
The list of things it won't do is the point.
Every line below is a decision, not an omission.
01
Touch the network
The sandbox entitlements contain no networking capability at all. Not “we promise not to” — it literally cannot. You can check the signature yourself.
02
Save without asking
Captures live in your clipboard. ⌘S opens a save panel and asks where. Most screenshots' life ends at paste; there's no reason to pile up a folder of junk.
03
Scrolling capture
The single most fragile feature in this category — dynamic content, textured backgrounds and fast scrolling all break the stitching. We'd rather do less, reliably.
04
Grow the interface
Thirteen toolbar slots, eight settings. That's the ceiling, and it's the standing answer to every future feature request.
Shortcuts
One key to start. Your mouse decides the rest.
Press ⌥A to bring it up — then drag to box-select, or click to take a window.
Annotate
RRectangle
OEllipse
LLine
AArrow
BPencil
MPixelate
TText
NStep
HHighlight
Act
CCopy colour as sRGB
GCycle background presets
⌘ZUndo
⌘CCopy to clipboard
⌘SSave — asks where, every time
Window
⌥ABring up the overlay
⌘PPin on screen
⌘EExtract text
⇧⌘EExtract and translate
escCancel — or right-click, anywhere
Languages
简体中文·English·繁體中文·日本語·한국어
Terminology follows macOS itself, not a dictionary — so when SnipDot walks you to a system setting, the words match what you'll see there.
Support
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