During college my go-to screenshot tool was Snipaste, but over the past two years I switched to PixPin.
My two most-used Snipaste features were capturing and pinning screenshots — PixPin supports both, plus a lot more. It's about as complete as a screenshot tool gets.
Writing without PixPin now feels awkward and inefficient — these features are part of my daily workflow.
When the content you want to capture is taller than the screen, PixPin automatically stitches the scrolling content into one long image.
While capturing, you can extract text from the image with one click. It runs locally, so there are no privacy concerns.
PixPin also offers free, practical features like GIF creation, screen recording, annotation and color picking — covering essentially every screenshot need.
Last month PixPin shipped version 3.1 with some handy additions.
When capturing chat logs or spreadsheets, you no longer have to blur sensitive info block by block. For repeated content like phone numbers, addresses or IDs, you can blur them in bulk. With sync mode on, you can add or remove mosaics across duplicates at once (auto-mosaic is a paid feature).
With many pinned images on the desktop they get in the way. Enable mouse penetration to make pins semi-transparent so you can click through them to the app underneath.
For quick demos, bug reproductions or temporary clips, enable Quick Record. After recording it skips playback and exports directly, speeding up the flow. Note: you must set the save location first; it only exports MP4, and can't add cursor/keyboard animations or adjust boundaries/volume afterwards.
Version 3.0 earlier upgraded text recognition accuracy — multi-language text is recognized instantly. The save dialog was also redesigned with preview and file-size info, plus new AVIF and PDF formats (paid users can also preview encoding).