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Snip it.
It floats.

Floatie lifts every capture into a floating shot right where you drew it. Mark it up, read the text inside, then paste or drag it anywhere — without the shot ever becoming a file you have to manage.

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free for 14 days

Live demo

Draw a region — it lifts off the screen ⌘⇧2, then drag

⌘⇧2 Drag on the screen to capture
Features

Everything happens on the shot

Most tools stop at “capture, save, done” — and that’s where the real work starts. Floatie collapses the whole loop into one motion. Every card below is real: click, drag, and try it.

Capture
⌘⇧2 Drag on the screen to capture
01 · capture

Draw it, and it floats

Drag anywhere on screen. The shot rises right where you drew it, with a soft shadow, and stays over your work until you close it. A 5× magnifier lines up the edges pixel by pixel.

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Press a button on the shot
⌘C Clipboard
Settings → Appearance → Corner Buttons

Top left · Ghost

Clicks pass straight through the shot

02 · corner buttons

Four corners, four actions you choose

Every shot comes with four buttons attached. Choose what each one does — Ghost, Pin, Edit, OCR, Shrink, Flip Horizontal, Remove Background, Image Playground, Color Picker, Cute Float, Copy Link, Share, or Close.

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Drag the shot onto an app
03 · drag out

Drag it out, or just ⌘C

Drag a shot onto Slack, Finder, or Mail and it saves as a PNG. One click copies it. No save dialog, no export step.

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Edit & read
Invoice #2041 PAID
Billed toJane Doe
Emailjane.doe@example.com
Card•••• 4242
Total$1,240.00
Notes

Ship by Friday.

Card on file — do not resend.

Pick a tool, then draw on the shot
04 · editor

Mark it up right where it is

Pen, line, arrow, rectangle, numbered callout, text, pixelation — blur or pixelate an email address before you send it. Six colors, adjustable line weight, and undo. Pick a tool and start drawing.

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Floatie keeps every capture on your screen as a floating shot. Freeze it and the words inside become text you can select and copy.

⌘O Freeze
05 · text recognition

The text inside is real text

Pin the shot and drag over the text, and it lands right on your clipboard. Apple Vision recognizes English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, right on the device.

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Scroll over the shot, or drag the slider
06 · opacity

Scroll and it shows through

Scroll the wheel over a shot and it gradually turns transparent. Trace a reference image, overlay two versions to compare them, or keep a spec doc floating over your work.

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Press the corner button to lift the subject
07 · remove background

Cut out just the subject, keep the shot intact

One click leaves just the subject, and everything else turns transparent — processed on-device with Apple Vision. Click again and the background comes back. Drag the cutout straight into Keynote, Slack, or a document.

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Press the corner button for a new picture
08 · image playground

Turn a shot into a new picture

Send a floating shot to Apple's Image Playground. The result comes back as a new shot beside the original, and the original stays untouched. Requires macOS 15.2 or later with Apple Intelligence.

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Beyond a shot
⌃⌥3 Start
09 · scrolling capture

Stitch a whole page

Press ⌃⌥3 and scroll down through a long page, chat, or code file, and it stitches into one long shot.

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⌥⇧2 Record
10 · record

Record, then trim

Record a region, window, or the full screen as MP4. The recording opens as a floating preview, where you can trim, crop, and blur it before dragging it out.

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Click the smiley, or wait
11 · cute float

For a while, a cute little icon

Press ⌃⌥K or use a corner button to fold a shot into a small symbol. A shot left alone folds itself too, and clicking it brings it right back.

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⌘W Close
12 · history rail

Closed isn't gone

Move your cursor to the edge of the screen and the history rail appears. Every closed shot stays right there on the device, waiting — click a thumbnail to bring it back.

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Shortcuts

Every move has a key

These are the defaults. All of them are remappable in Settings → Shortcuts.

⌘ ⇧ 2

Capture region

Draw any part of the screen. ESC cancels anytime.

⌃ ⌥ 2

Capture window

Grab a single window cleanly, with or without its shadow.

⌃ ⌥ 3

Scrolling capture

Stitch a long page or chat into one tall shot.

⌘ ⇧ 1

Capture full screen

The whole display, floating.

⌥ ⇧ 2

Record region

Record part of the screen to MP4.

⌘ E

Open editor

Arrows, mosaic, text, numbers — on the active shot.

⌘ C

Copy image

Straight to the clipboard, ready to paste.

⌘ O

Freeze for text

Text inside the shot becomes selectable.

⌘ ⇧ C

Copy all text

Every recognized word, in one go.

⌘ ⇧ S

Save as…

When you actually want a file.

⌃ ⌥ P

Always on top

Keep one shot above everything.

⌘ L

Ghost mode

Translucent and click-through.

⌃ ⌥ F

Flip horizontal

Mirror the shot left to right.

⌘ ⇧ H

History rail

Bring back anything you closed.

⌘ ⌥ 2

Show / hide all

Clear the desk, then bring them all back.

⌘ ⌥ W

Close all

Everything at once. ⌘W or ESC closes one.

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Reset · shrink · enlarge

Resize the active shot from the keyboard.

⌥ drag

Reposition

Hold ⌥ and drag to move a shot. Wheel to fade it.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The built-in tool ends at a file on your desktop. Floatie ends at a floating shot on your screen: you can annotate it, copy the text inside, fade it, pin it above other apps, and drag it straight into Slack or Finder — without opening an editor or hunting for a file.
Your choice. Floatie is free for 14 days with everything unlocked. After that a one-time purchase unlocks Floatie Pro for good on all your Macs, or a monthly or yearly plan does the same and adds Floatie Link Pro on top — longer links, a much bigger daily limit, custom URLs and automatic upload.
Only the ones you send. Capture, editing, recording and text recognition all run on-device in a sandbox and keep working with the network off. A shot reaches floatie.page only when you turn it into a link, which needs a free account — and deleting the link deletes the image with it.
English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), recognized locally through Apple’s Vision framework. The interface itself ships in over 90 languages.
Yes. Each of the four corners can hold any action — ghost, pin, edit, OCR, shrink, flip, color picker, cute float, share, or close — in Settings → Appearance → Corner Buttons. Recordings have their own set.
Yes. Region (⌥⇧2), window (⌥⇧3), or full screen (⌥⇧1) to MP4. The recording lands in a floating preview you can trim, crop, and blur before dragging it out.
It waits in the history rail (⌘⇧H, or nudge the screen edge). History is kept locally and survives a restart. Click a thumbnail to bring the shot back, or remove it for good.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Full VoiceOver support and a keyboard-only capture mode are included.

Ready to float?

Free for 14 days with everything unlocked. After that, a one-time purchase keeps Floatie Pro for good, or a monthly or yearly plan does the same and adds Floatie Link Pro.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Sandboxed — nothing leaves your Mac