Snipaste is a simple but powerful snipping tool designed to boost productivity. Capture specific windows, UI elements, freehand regions, or the entire screen with ease. Enhance your captures with built-in annotation tools like rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows, text, markers, blur, and mosaic effects. Snipaste's standout feature is the ability to pin your screenshots directly onto your desktop as floating windows. These pinned images stay on top, serving as invaluable references while you work on other tasks like coding, designing, writing, or comparing information. Pinned windows can be zoomed, rotated, made translucent, and even clicked-through. Snipaste also includes a precise color picker, capture history playback, and extensive customization options, including hotkeys. It streamlines the process of capturing, annotating, and referencing visual information.
Publisher’s description
What is Snipaste?
Snipaste by Le Liu is free Windows software in the screenshot tools category. It ranks 10th by popularity among screenshot tools in this catalogue.
Installation and requirements
The publisher provides Portable installers for 64-bit, ARM64 and 32-bit Windows. It runs without installation (portable).
Popularity and file types
The Chocolatey package has been downloaded 5,164 times. Similar programs include Greenshot, Flameshot and Lightscreen.
Pros / Cons
Pros
- Free to use
- Native ARM64 build for Windows on Arm
- Portable: runs without installation
In short: Snipaste is a free screenshot tool tool for 64-bit, ARM64 and 32-bit PCs.
Is Snipaste safe to download?
- The file is served by download.snipaste.com, the publisher’s own domain
- The download link uses HTTPS
- A SHA256 hash is published, so you can verify the file:
CBF572E18A79C93F9A573BBCCAB2ED8566141759A0C656C768932F0FEDF94189· Open the VirusTotal report for this hash - The link has not been checked yet
- ExeAtlas does not host, wrap or modify installers
Related guide: How to check a file’s SHA256 hash on Windows
Recent versions
All 1 versions ›| Version | Date | Size | Files |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.11.3Latest | January 18, 2026 | — | 64-bit ZIP32-bit ZIPARM64 ZIP |
Install from the command line
Silent install ›winget install --id liule.Snipaste -echoco install snipaste -yscoop install extras/snipasteRelated guide: How to use winget: install and update apps
Also for other systems
brew install --cask snipasteInformation
- Publisher
- Le Liu
- Category
- Screenshot tools
- Licence
- Freemium
- Price
- Free
- Requires
- Windows 11 / 10
- Architecture
- 64-bit, ARM64, 32-bit
- Installer
- Portable
- Version
- 2.11.3
- Released
- January 18, 2026
- Added to the catalogue
- February 4, 2026
- Versions listed
- 1
- Chocolatey downloads
- 5,164
- Website
- snipaste.com
- winget ID
- liule.Snipaste
- Chocolatey package
- snipaste
- Scoop package
- extras/snipaste
Ratings and reviews
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Frequently asked questions
Is Snipaste free?
Yes. Snipaste is free to use.
Is Snipaste safe to download?
The download comes from download.snipaste.com, which belongs to the publisher; ExeAtlas does not host or change the file. Compare its SHA256 hash with the one shown here, or open the VirusTotal report for that hash.
How do I install Snipaste with winget?
Open PowerShell or Windows Terminal and run the winget command shown on this page. winget downloads the official installer and checks its SHA256 hash before running it.
Does Snipaste run on ARM (Windows on Arm)?
Yes, there is a native ARM64 installer.
Can I use Snipaste without administrator rights?
Yes, it is portable: unpack and run it.
What are alternatives to Snipaste?
Greenshot, Flameshot, Lightscreen, ksnip and Lightshot. The alternatives page compares them.
