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Features · Maxisnap for Windows · v2.5.2

Capture anything on Windows. Annotate it in seconds. Share it with a link.

Scrolling screenshots, screen recording with system and microphone audio, on-device OCR, a twelve-tool annotation editor with blur and numbered steps, and share links that land on your clipboard. Capturing, editing and recording are free and need no account.

Windows 10 (1903+) and Windows 11, 64-bit. 109 MB signed installer. Also available for macOS 13 or later.

The Maxisnap annotation editor with a bug report marked up: a red frame around an error, an arrow, a blurred email address, numbered steps and a bold text callout
The real editor in v2.5.2: a payment failure annotated with a frame, an arrow, a highlighter, three numbered steps, a blurred email, and a bold callout.
12 annotation tools, one key each
8 global hotkeys, plus mouse buttons
2 audio sources recorded, no extra driver
$0 for every capture, editing and recording feature
Scrolling capture

Capture the whole page, not one screenful of it.

Press the scrolling hotkey, select the pane, and scroll. Maxisnap stitches the frames into one tall full-page screenshot and opens it in the editor. It works on web pages, chat histories, spreadsheets, settings windows, and any other pane that scrolls.

  • Manual mode captures at your own pace. Automatic mode scrolls the pane for you with the mouse wheel or Page Down at slow, normal, or fast speed.
  • Fixed headers and footers are detected and kept once, so sticky toolbars do not repeat down the image.
  • If a repeating layout makes the seam ambiguous, the capture stops and tells you what to redo instead of guessing.
  • Images up to 100,000 pixels tall. Stop with the hotkey, the on-screen badge, or Escape.
How scrolling capture works
A full-length release-notes page captured as one tall image and open in the Maxisnap editor at 18% zoom
Screen recording

Record a region or the whole screen, with the audio you actually need.

Record any rectangle or the full screen as an H.264 MP4. System audio is captured without a virtual cable, the microphone is optional, and you can keep them as one mixed track or two separate tracks for editing later. There is no watermark and no time limit on local recordings.

  • Five built-in quality profiles and up to 20 named custom profiles: exact size, frame rate from 5 to 60, quality, audio bitrate, and encoder choice.
  • NVIDIA, Intel and AMD hardware encoders are detected automatically. Software encoding is always available.
  • When you stop, the result window offers trim, MP4, GIF, WebM and an AI-optimized MP4. The unchanged recording is placed on your clipboard as a file so you can paste it into chat or email.
  • The recording badge and countdown are excluded from the video. Escape stops the recording.
The free screen recorder in detail
The Maxisnap video result window after a recording: preview, play and trim controls, format and quality menus, and Copy Video, Save As, Upload and Drag buttons
Annotation editor

Twelve tools. One key each. Every mark stays editable until you save.

Every annotation is an object: click it to move it, drag a handle to resize it, change its colour or size after the fact, and undo up to 50 steps. Zoom from 10% to 500% for pixel work, then copy, save, or upload at full resolution.

The Maxisnap editor toolbar: colour swatch, size slider, twelve tool buttons, zoom level, AI Mode, Save and Upload
  • A

    Arrow

    Tapered shaft, clean head, white outline so it reads on any background.

  • Shift+A

    Arrow + text

    An arrow with an inline label typed at the tail. Moves as one unit.

  • P

    Pen

    Freehand strokes. Hold Shift to lock horizontal or vertical.

  • R

    Rectangle

    Outline or filled. Shift for a square, Alt to draw from the centre.

  • L

    Line

    Straight lines with 45-degree snapping on Shift.

  • E

    Ellipse

    Circles and ovals to ring a button, an icon, or a value.

  • M

    Highlighter

    A translucent marker that leaves the text underneath readable.

  • T

    Text

    Multi-line labels with a white halo and a drop shadow.

  • Shift+T

    Bold text

    The same label in bold for headings and callouts.

  • B

    Blur

    Reduces detail in a region, including earlier annotations.

  • C

    Crop

    Trim to a rectangle and see the exact size while you drag.

  • N

    Numbering

    Click to drop 1, 2, 3. Delete one and the counter stays correct.

  • 50-level undo and redo
  • 10 colour presets plus any custom colour
  • 5 stroke and text sizes
  • Paste text as an annotation
  • Nudge with the arrow keys
  • Duplicate with Ctrl+D
  • Add another image to the same session
  • Dark interface built for screenshots
Blur and redaction

Blur it before it leaves your machine.

Drag the Blur tool over a region to reduce its visible detail, including earlier annotations underneath it. The effect is included when you copy, save, or upload, but it does not guarantee that text cannot be inferred. Keep passwords and tokens outside the capture or crop them out before sharing.

  • Hold Shift for a square blur. Resize it from the corners like any other annotation.
  • Works on screenshots, scrolling captures, and images opened from the clipboard or a file.
  • Crop secrets out before exporting with AI Mode, then inspect the exported image.
Blurring sensitive information
Close-up of a table row in the Maxisnap editor with the customer email pixelated by the blur tool, an arrow pointing at a failed-payment badge, and a numbered marker
OCR and filenames

Copy the text out of any screenshot. Name the file after what is in it.

Maxisnap extracts text from any screenshot with the OCR engine built into Windows, on your PC, with nothing uploaded. Use it from the tray to grab text straight to the clipboard, or from the editor to pick a region of the current capture.

  • Uses the OCR languages installed in Windows. Works offline.
  • Contextual filenames name each capture after the app and window it came from, for example an invoice in your browser, instead of a timestamp you will never search for.
  • Smart local naming adds your annotation text or a few recognised words to the name. Private naming uses nothing but a timestamp.
OCR on Windows Contextual filenames
The Maxisnap extracted-text dialog showing three lines recognised from a screenshot, already copied to the clipboard, with Copy Text and Close buttons
AI Mode

Export a screenshot your AI coding assistant can actually read.

Turn on AI Mode and every copy, save, and upload produces a right-sized copy for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. The model reads it clearly without spending tokens on 4K pixels it would only downsample.

  • Images are capped at 1600 px wide by default, configurable in Settings, and PNG or JPEG is chosen automatically for the smallest legible file.
  • Recordings export as an AI-optimized MP4 at about 1280 px, 24 fps, with mono audio, plus an ultra-light 4 fps option.
  • Keep secrets outside the capture or crop them out, and inspect the exported image before sending it.
Screenshots for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini Screen recording for AI coding
Export Best for Detail
AI-optimized image Pasting into an AI coding CLI 1600 px max width, configurable
AI-optimized MP4 Showing an agent a bug in motion ~1280 px, 24 fps, mono
Ultra-light MP4 Long clips on a token budget 4 fps, no audio
Small things you will use daily

Pin it, re-capture it, open it, recover it.

  • Pin to desktop keeps any capture floating always on top of other windows. Resize with the wheel, set the opacity, and pin as many as you like.
  • Window autodetect outlines the window under the cursor. Click without dragging to capture it, or hold Alt to pick a single pane, sidebar, or address bar.
  • The screen is frozen before the selector appears, so open menus, dropdowns, and tooltips are capturable.
  • Capture previous area repeats your last rectangle exactly. Open from clipboard and open latest screenshot bring any image into the editor.
  • Automatic recovery keeps a crash-safe copy of unsaved annotations and finished recordings in a separate folder, with a retention period you choose.
Automatic recovery
A Maxisnap pinned window floating on top of the desktop, showing a cropped error message
A pinned capture stays on top while you fix the bug it shows.
Everything in the box

The complete list, grouped the way you use it.

Every item below ships in Maxisnap v2.5.2 for Windows. Items marked Account need a free Maxisnap account. Items marked Studio need the one-time Studio add-on.

Capture

  • Region capture with a live size readout
  • Full-screen capture across all monitors
  • Window autodetect and Alt precision mode
  • Scrolling capture, manual or automatic
  • Capture previous area
  • Open from clipboard or from a file
  • Frozen-screen capture for menus and tooltips
  • Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI displays

Record

  • Region or full-screen MP4 recording
  • System audio and microphone, mixed or separate
  • Built-in and custom quality profiles
  • Hardware encoding on NVIDIA, Intel and AMD
  • Countdown, on-screen badge, Escape to stop
  • Trim, then export MP4, GIF, WebM or AI-optimized MP4
  • Copy the video to the clipboard as a file
  • Cursor included in the recording

Edit

  • 12 annotation tools with single-key shortcuts
  • Select, move, resize and restyle any annotation
  • 50-level undo and redo
  • Zoom 10% to 500%, exports at native resolution
  • Blur includes earlier annotations in the selected region
  • Crop with a live size readout
  • Numbered steps that renumber correctly
  • Pin to desktop and pin the editor on top

Share and store

  • Copy, save as PNG or JPEG, or upload
  • Share link copied automatically Account
  • Copy as Markdown
  • Private links, view analytics, and retention while subscribed Pro
  • SFTP, FTP, FTPS, S3-compatible and HTTP uploads Studio
  • Self-hosted dashboard on your own domain Studio
  • Latest-uploads window with the last 50 links
  • Contextual, smart, or private filenames

Text and AI

  • On-device OCR from the tray or the editor
  • OCR languages follow your Windows settings
  • AI Mode for images, 1600 px default
  • AI-optimized MP4 for coding agents
  • Ultra-light 4 fps export
  • Blur before export for redaction

Hotkeys and input

  • Eight global hotkeys, every one remappable
  • Every editor shortcut remappable
  • Searchable hotkey list in Settings
  • Conflict detection with suggested alternatives
  • Middle, Back and Forward mouse buttons as triggers
  • One-gesture hold, drag and release capture

Privacy and safety

  • Nothing is uploaded unless you upload it
  • Anonymous usage stats, switchable off in Settings
  • Show my data and Delete all data buttons
  • Automatic recovery with your retention period
  • Bug reports with secrets redacted
  • Signed installer and signed silent updates

System

  • Windows 10 (1903+) and Windows 11, 64-bit
  • 109 MB installer, per-user, no admin rights
  • Lives in the system tray
  • Single instance, safe quit while work is running
  • Sign in with Google or email Account
  • macOS: 13 or later, Intel and Apple silicon

Your domain on every link. Your server under every file. $29 once.

Studio unlocks your own upload destinations inside the app and a self-hosted dashboard you install on any ordinary PHP web host. Captures go straight from your PC to your server. Share pages carry your logo and colours, with public, team-only, or password access per capture.

  • SFTP, FTP, FTPS, S3-compatible storage including Cloudflare R2, or any HTTP endpoint
  • Searchable library with tags, favourites, bulk actions, and inline video playback
  • Branding studio for your logo, colours, light and dark mode, and share-link word
  • No database and no subscription. Works with Free or Pro.
Plans

Free to capture. Pay only for hosting you want.

Free $0

Every capture, recording, editing, OCR and AI Mode feature. A free account adds up to 50 active captures and 500 MB of Maxisnap Cloud storage (100 MB of it video), links live 30 days.

Download free
Studio $29 once

Your own SFTP, FTP, S3-compatible and HTTP destinations plus the self-hosted dashboard. Add it to Free or Pro.

About Studio
Questions

What people ask before they download

Does Maxisnap take scrolling screenshots?
Yes. Press the scrolling hotkey, select the pane, and scroll manually or let automatic mode scroll it for you. The stitched image opens in the editor. It works on browsers and on desktop application panes.
Can it record my screen with sound?
Yes. Maxisnap records a region or the full screen as MP4 with system audio, your microphone, or both, and no extra audio driver is needed. Recordings have no watermark and no time limit on your PC. You can trim the clip and export it as MP4, GIF, WebM, or an AI-optimized MP4.
Is there a watermark or a trial period?
No. Capturing, annotating, recording, OCR and AI Mode are free with no watermark and no trial expiry. Paid plans only add hosting: Pro and Pro Plus for more Maxisnap Cloud storage, Studio for your own servers.
Do I need an account?
Not for local use. Capture, edit, record, copy and save without signing in. An account is only needed for Maxisnap Cloud share links, and a free account includes up to 50 active captures and 500 MB of cloud storage (100 MB of it video).
Can I copy text from a screenshot?
Yes. Choose Capture text from the tray to grab text straight to the clipboard, or use Copy Text from Image inside the editor. Recognition runs on your PC with the OCR engine built into Windows and uses the OCR languages you have installed.
Can I change the hotkeys?
Every global hotkey and every editor shortcut can be remapped in Settings. Maxisnap warns when Windows reports a conflict and suggests alternatives. You can also assign the Middle, Back, or Forward mouse button to a capture action.
Where do my screenshots go?
Nowhere unless you upload them. Saved files go to the folder you choose. Uploads go to Maxisnap Cloud with your account, or to your own SFTP, FTP, S3-compatible, HTTP, or self-hosted destination with Studio.
Does it run on macOS?
Yes. Maxisnap for Mac runs on macOS 13 or later, on Intel and Apple silicon Macs. The features on this page describe the Windows version; download for Mac from the download page.
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