SnipMD turns any screen content into editable Markdown — with built-in OCR, domain-aware AI translation, math-to-LaTeX, smart redaction, and 11 UI languages. Built for macOS, runs locally.
See it in action
Watch a Stack Overflow answer go from Screenshot 2026-07-18.png to well-formatted Markdown with code blocks preserved — no typing, no re-formatting.
Features
OCR, AI tools, system-app extraction, and a 10-language code toolkit — all from one menu bar app.
⌥⇧3 ⌥⇧4 ⌥⇧5 ⌥⇧V ⌥⇧P — same modifier as macOS screenshot, overrides the system shortcut.
25+ languages, fully offline. Apple Vision under the hood, with smart re-OCR (grayscale + 2× scaling) on low-confidence reads.
Vision confuses 日/曰, 已/己, 0/O, full-width vs half-width punctuation. AI second pass fixes only the confusions — never the meaning.
A 200-line heuristic engine turns OCR output into well-formatted Markdown: headings, lists, code blocks, paragraph breaks. No more walls of plain text.
OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Qwen, GLM, Gemini, Kimi. Auto-detects medical / legal / software / financial / academic terminology — so 线程 stays 线程, not 运程线.
Snap a region with an equation. Vision-capable AI reads it and returns clean LaTeX. Paste into Markdown, Overleaf, or Notion. Solve mode also gives the result.
Type a question — "what does this article say?", "summarize the key points" — and the AI answers from the screenshot's text. Multi-turn context, streaming.
"Quarterly Revenue Dashboard 2026" instead of "Screenshot 2026-07-18 10.42". Sanitized for the filesystem. Edit the name in the save panel if you want.
One click extracts action items, calendar events, or business-card info. Review sheet lets you edit anything wrong, then push to Apple Reminders, Calendar, or Contacts.
Explain in 1 sentence · generate runnable unit test (21+ frameworks: XCTest, JUnit 5, gtest, pytest, Jest, Vitest, xUnit, NUnit, RSpec, Kotest…) · Conventional Commits · add idiomatic doc comments.
8 built-in patterns: email, phone, credit card, IP, MAC, API key, Bearer token. "Redact & Copy" before sharing screenshots of dashboards or logs.
Arrow, rectangle, text, mosaic. Five tools in a clean top bar, plus undo. Copy the annotated PNG or the clean Markdown — your choice.
Click "Summarize" and AI returns a concise summary of the OCR text, streamed. The "old reliable" feature that pairs with Q&A — summarize first, then drill in.
How it works
The shutter is silent. Markdown is ready before your finger leaves the shortcut.
⌥⇧3 ⌥⇧4 ⌥⇧5
Same modifier as macOS — SnipMD registers the hotkey first and overrides the system screenshot tool.
Frozen-screen overlay appears. Drag to select. Esc to cancel. The shutter is silent on region/window, with sound + flash on full screen.
Vision OCR runs in < 1s. Optional AI correction + Markdown conversion happen in the background. Annotate, translate, redact, ask, or rename — then close.
Privacy & Trust
What's new in v1.0
Since v0.5 — every new AI capability, all wired up.
Pricing
Cancel anytime. Pro is purely additive — every Free feature stays free forever.
Everything you need for screenshots on macOS.
Or $39.99/year (save 33%). 7-day free trial. BYO AI key.
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