Capture, Annotate, Record, and Share on Windows and Mac
Region, full-screen and scrolling screenshots, screen recording with audio, a twelve-tool annotation editor with blur, on-device OCR, and share links that land on your clipboard. One lightweight app for Windows and Mac.
Local capture and saving need no account. A free account adds cloud sharing — up to 50 active captures, 500 MB storage, links live 30 days. Pro is $18/year; Studio adds your own server for $29 once.
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Nine things Maxisnap does well, every one of them free on Windows.
Capture
Region, full screen, or a whole window with one click. The screen freezes first, so open menus and tooltips are capturable. Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI ready.
How capture worksScrolling capture
Capture a long web page, chat, or app pane as one tall image. Scroll it yourself or let automatic mode do it, with sticky headers handled for you.
Scrolling captureRecord
Record a region or the full screen as MP4 with system audio and your microphone, no extra driver. Trim, then export MP4, GIF, WebM, or an AI-optimized clip.
Free screen recorderAnnotate
Arrows, arrow with text, pen, shapes, highlighter, text, blur, crop, and numbered steps. Twelve tools, one key each, with 50 levels of undo.
The editorBlur and OCR
Reduce detail in a selected region with Blur. Keep passwords and other secrets outside the capture or crop them out before sharing. Copy text from a screenshot with OCR that runs on your PC, offline.
OCR on WindowsShare with a link
Capture and upload in one hotkey. The link is on your clipboard before the editor closes, ready to paste, or copy it as Markdown for an issue.
Screenshot to linkHotkeys and mouse buttons
Eight global hotkeys, every one remappable, with conflict detection. Or trigger any capture from the Middle, Back, or Forward mouse button.
Customize hotkeysRecovery and filenames
Unsaved annotations and finished recordings are kept in a crash-safe recovery folder. Files are named after the app and window they came from.
Automatic recoveryYour own server
With the one-time Studio add-on, send captures to SFTP, FTP, S3-compatible storage, HTTP, or a self-hosted dashboard on your own domain.
Maxisnap StudioMade for coding with Claude Code, Codex & Gemini
Capture a bug, an error dialog, or a design, then export a one-click AI-optimized copy — right-sized so your AI coding assistant reads it clearly instead of choking on 4K pixels it only downsamples. Crop secrets out and inspect the exported image before dropping the file into the terminal or referencing its path.
How it works- Right-sized imagesDefault 1600 px max width, configurable.
- AI-optimized videoExport a tiny MP4 of a screen recording for tools that read video.
- Review before you sendKeep keys and tokens outside the capture or crop them out, then inspect the exported image.
Take better screenshots
without the headaches
Download Maxisnap free. No account, no credit card, and no screenshot contents sent to us unless you explicitly upload or attach them. Just a screenshot tool that works.
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