Screenshot it. Pin it. Keep working.

PinShot is a free menu-bar screenshot tool for macOS. Capture a region, window, or screen with a hotkey, mark it up, then pin it as a floating window that stays on top of everything — so the error message, mockup, or snippet you need is right there while you work.

Download free on the Mac App Store

Free · macOS 14+ · 0.9 MB · fully sandboxed

Why pin a screenshot?

Because half the time you capture something, you need it while you do something else — retyping an error message into a search box, checking your build against the design mockup, copying numbers into a spreadsheet. Instead of alt-tabbing back to Preview, pin the shot. It floats above every window until you close it: drag it anywhere, resize it, double-click to copy it. Turn on auto-pin and every capture floats automatically.

What you get

• Region, window, or full-screen capture — global hotkeys for every mode, multi-monitor aware
• Markup that covers the real cases — arrows, boxes, highlights, text, and a pixelate tool for redacting anything you don’t want seen
• Pin on top — any capture becomes a floating, always-on-top reference window
• GIF clips — record a short GIF of any screen region, ready for a bug report
• Act instantly — copy, save, annotate, or pin straight from the capture toolbar

Private by construction

A screenshot tool can see everything on your screen, so PinShot is built to make that boring:

• Fully sandboxed and distributed only through the Mac App Store
• Works completely offline — no account, no cloud, no telemetry
• App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected
• Prefer not to grant Screen Recording permission? PinShot falls back to Apple’s own screen picker instead of nagging you

Your captures never leave your Mac. And at 0.9 MB, PinShot is smaller than most of the screenshots it takes.

Honest answers

Is it really free? Yes — no trial, no locked features, no subscription.

How is this different from ⇧⌘5? The built-in tool captures. PinShot lets you act on the capture: markup, redaction, GIF clips, and pinning it on top while you work.

Scrolling capture? OCR? Not yet. If those are must-haves today, Shottr is excellent. PinShot focuses on doing the pin workflow better than anyone; what ships next is driven by what users ask for.

Which Macs? Anything running macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Get PinShot

Download free on the Mac App Store

Questions, bugs, or feature requests: support@variay.com — every message gets read, usually within a few business days.

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