Capture once.
Keep it on top, mark it up, search it later.
Snipdeck is a fast, keyboard-driven screen-snipping deck for Windows. Hold Win and drag a region — your snip floats on top of everything, gets OCR-indexed in the background, and lands in a dense, searchable gallery. Native Rust, a software-rendered Slint UI, no account, no installer.
A snipping tool that doesn't forget your screenshots.
Most snipping tools take a picture and walk away. Snipdeck treats every capture as something you'll come back to. Snips stay pinned on top as lightweight floating windows while you work, every one is OCR-indexed locally the moment it's taken, and the whole history lives in one virtualized gallery you can full-text search at thousands of snips.
It's a single portable executable built in Rust with a software-rendered Slint UI — no installer, no runtime to manage, and capture plus OCR run entirely on your machine.
Hold Win, drag a region, let go. Modifiers decide the rest — float it, copy it, or send it straight to the gallery.
Everything a screenshot deserves
One capture gesture, then a full toolkit for what happens next.
Capture on Win + drag
Hold Win and drag a region; modifiers send the snip to a floating window, the clipboard, the gallery, or all at once.
Freeze-first capture
Win+Shift+Space dims and freezes the screen before you select, so tooltips and hover-only UI stay captured.
Floating snips
Captures stay pinned on top as borderless overlays you can drag, resize, pin, crop, rotate, flip, and dismiss.
Annotation editor
Pen, highlighter, shapes, arrows, and text with a full HSV colour wheel, size and opacity sliders, zoom, and undo/redo.
Built-in OCR
Every snip is OCR-indexed in the background by the OS engine (Windows.Media.Ocr) — no model download, no network, fully local.
OCR + translate
Read a snip's text in another language inline, with 30+ targets and favourites you can star.
Powerful gallery
Full-text search over OCR text, window metadata, monitor, and path; filter by status, content, size, and date in a virtualized grid.
Share & upload
Send to the Windows share sheet, a new email (Simple MAPI), the system image editor, or an image host — uploads are opt-in.
One gesture, six results
Hold Win, then drag a region with the left mouse button. Add modifiers to change what happens to the snip. You can also right-click the tray icon → New Snip to arm a one-shot drag capture without holding Win.
Local by default. Open by license.
Capture and OCR happen entirely on your computer — nothing is sent anywhere to take or index a snip. The only features that touch the network are ones you trigger on purpose, and each one tells you exactly where your data goes.
Capture & OCR are fully local
OCR uses the built-in Windows.Media.Ocr engine; nothing leaves your machine to capture or index a snip.
Registry-free launch-at-login
Snipdeck drops a normal shortcut in your shell:Startup folder instead of writing an HKCU\…\Run value — the ordinary, user-visible autostart mechanism.
Uploads are opt-in
Nothing leaves your machine without an explicit consent dialog that names the destination first.
Translate sends text only
OCR + Translate sends only the recognized text to Google's public endpoint — never the image, and only when you ask for it.
MIT licensed, source on GitHub
The whole app is open source under the MIT license. Read it, build it, fork it.
Built by ReviseTouch
Snipdeck is a free, open-source app from ReviseTouch — we build developer tools and AI products. It's the same team and the same standards behind everything on our site: native performance, honest privacy defaults, and tools we use ourselves every day.
See what else we buildWindows today. macOS and Linux on the way.
Snipdeck is Windows-only right now because capture, OCR, the tray, and sharing all use Windows-specific APIs. The UI (Slint) and most of the core are already cross-platform, so macOS and Linux builds are on the way.
Configuration today
Until the settings window ships, configuration lives in %APPDATA%\Snipdeck\settings.json — edit it directly, then restart Snipdeck. The docs cover every key.
Configuration referenceStart snipping in under a minute.
Grab the latest snipdeck.exe from the Releases page — a single portable executable, no installer. Hold Win, drag a region, and you're done.
Windows 10 / 11 · MIT licensed · Prefer to build it yourself? git clone and cargo build --release. View on GitHub