MiniSnip
Meet MiniSnip, the smallest and fastest way to capture your screen and extract text with OCR on Windows. Open-source, feather-light, uses minimal resources, and stays completely out of your way.
Just one hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+C) is all you need to start.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Minimalistic
Features
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Portable
- No registration required
- Support for Multiple Monitors
- OCR
- Dark Mode
- No Tracking
- Screenshot OCR
Tags
- screenshots
MiniSnip information
Developed by
deminimis Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
51 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Photos & Graphics, Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
- 11 Stars
- 2 Forks
- 0 Open Issues
- Updated
What is MiniSnip?
Features Feather-light: The entire application is a single, tiny executable with no dependencies.
System Tray Native: Lives in your system tray, using almost zero RAM.
Modern Workflow: Use one hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+C) to snip first, then decide what to do.
Floating Action Toolbar: An instant, dark-mode toolbar appears after your snip with four actions:
Copy Image: Copies the captured image to your clipboard.
Save Image: Opens a dialog to save the image as a PNG.
Copy Text (OCR): Uses the built-in Windows OCR engine to extract all text from the image and copy it to your clipboard.
Save Text (OCR): Appends the extracted text to a single minisnip_OCR.txt file in your Downloads folder.
Zero Dependencies: The portable version runs on Windows without installation.
Zero Data Collection: Fully on-device. Nothing is ever sent over the network.
