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Capture first. Organize never.
Press ⌃⌘4, select a region, annotate it, and keep moving. It lands in your active board—or Inbox when you have not chosen one.
Native for macOS
Capture what catches your attention. Keep thinking with it.
Snipboard turns screenshots into visual thoughts—captured in a second, annotated in place, connected on a board, and brought back when they are useful.
macOS 15.2+ Local-first Private by default
THE WHOLE LOOP
A screenshot should be the start of a thought, not the end of one.
Watch one fragment move from your screen into a board—and back into your attention.
PRODUCT BOARDHow should capture feel?
⌃⌘4
THOUGHT
Keep capture immediate—ask for meaning after.
What caught your attention?
REDISCOVER
Capture should preserve momentum.From Product Board · 9 days ago
A VISUAL THINKING APP
Not another place to bury good ideas.
Snipboard keeps the visual context, the thought it sparked, and the next useful question in one calm workspace.
Think beside the evidence.
Write lightweight Markdown thoughts, arrange them around a focus question, and draw only the connections that help.
Useful ideas come back.
Today shows one board to continue, a few captures missing context, and one older idea worth seeing again. No streaks. No guilt.
QUIET BY DESIGN
Your thinking stays yours.
Snipboard remains fully useful offline. Intelligence helps you ask better questions, but never takes control of your canvas.
- 01Local-first library
Captures, notes, OCR, and boards live on your Mac. Private iCloud sync is optional.
- 02AI that asks, then disappears
Suggestions arrive as temporary, source-linked cards. Keep one—or dismiss it without leaving a chat log behind.
- 03No silent rearranging
Your words, positions, groups, and connections change only when you change them.
MADE FOR THE MAC
Fast where it should be. Quiet everywhere else.
Native capture, keyboard workflows, precise selection, trackpad zoom, Light and Dark Mode, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and the details you expect from a real desktop app.
⌃⌘4Capture
⌃⌘NQuick Thought
THE SHORT VERSION
Questions, answered clearly.
Is Snipboard a notes app?
Yes—but notes are lightweight thoughts attached to visual context, not documents buried in folders. Double-click a thought when you want a focused writing view.
Where does Snipboard store my captures?
Snipboard is local-first and works offline. Optional private CloudKit sync can keep your library available across your Macs.
Does AI reorganize or rewrite my ideas?
No. Suggestions appear as temporary, source-linked ghost cards. Nothing becomes permanent until you explicitly keep it, and AI never silently moves your cards.
What does Snipboard require?
A Mac running macOS 15.2 or later. Screen Recording permission is needed only so Snipboard can read the pixels you deliberately select for a capture.
Can I keep the quieter capture behavior?
Yes. Region captures open for annotation by default, but you can switch that off and use the compact completion card instead.
YOUR NEXT THOUGHT IS ALREADY ON YOUR SCREEN
Give it somewhere to go.
Capture the fragment. Keep the context. Continue the thought.
Download for Mac Requires macOS 15.2 or later