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Pixnip

Screenshots that look right on HDR monitors — with a fast, modern markup editor.


Why

With HDR enabled, Windows' built-in Snipping Tool captures the raw framebuffer, so screenshots of normal (SDR) content come out washed out and blown out. Pixnip captures in FP16 via Windows.Graphics.Capture and tone-maps against each monitor's actual SDR white level, so captures look exactly like your screen.

Features

  • HDR-correct capture — per-monitor tone mapping; SDR content stays true, HDR highlights compress gracefully
  • PrintScreen region picker with window snap (or a Ctrl+Alt+S hotkey if you'd rather keep Windows' default)
  • Markup editor — pen, neon, highlighter, arrows, shapes, text with background pills, blur/redact, step badges, crop
  • Direct manipulation — tap anything to select, drag to move, grip to resize, tap a swatch to recolor
  • Drag out — pull the annotated shot straight into Slack, a browser upload box, or Explorer
  • Tray app — auto-saves to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pixnip\Screenshots (one click away via the tray) and copies to the clipboard

Install

Grab the installer from Releases. Builds are currently unsigned, so SmartScreen may ask you to confirm — a Microsoft Store release is in the works.

Build from source

Requires Rust (MSVC toolchain), Node.js 18+, and the Tauri prerequisites.

npm install
npm run tauri dev    # run in development
npm run tauri build  # produce a release build

License

MIT

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HDR-correct screenshot tool for Windows with a fast markup editor

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