Xnip
Xnip is a macOS screenshot and annotation app that helps you capture screens, mark up images, and create scrolling screenshots for sharing.
What is Xnip?
Xnip is a screenshot and annotation app for macOS. It helps users capture screen areas, windows, and long scrolling content, then quickly mark up those images with built-in annotation tools. Common uses include saving web pages, documenting bugs, sharing code snippets, collecting chat history, and preparing visual instructions. The app also supports window capture with shadow effects, pinning images on screen, and color picking for more precise visual work. Xnip is suited to students, office workers, support teams, and anyone who regularly shares screenshots as part of daily work. It is published by Zzd and distributed for Mac through its official site and the Mac App Store.
Key features
- Capture selected areas of the screen
- Create scrolling screenshots of long pages and conversations
- Annotate screenshots with shapes, text, and other markup tools
- Capture application windows with shadow effects
- Pin images on screen so they stay visible while you work
- Pick colors from the screen for precise visual reference
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Xnip is a legitimate screenshot utility for macOS. To work as intended, it may need normal screen recording or accessibility-related permissions so it can capture content on your screen and support advanced capture features such as scrolling screenshots. Because screenshots can include sensitive information, review what is visible before saving or sharing images. If you no longer use the app, removing it should mainly affect its own capture and annotation features.
Recommendation: Keep Xnip if you regularly take annotated or scrolling screenshots on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove it without affecting macOS beyond losing Xnip’s screenshot tools and any app-specific settings.
Common paths
/Applications/Xnip.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.zzd.Xnip
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.zzd.Xnip.plist
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