u/Time_Bumblebee_9234

Full disclosure: I'm the developer, and Pinpoint is free and open source (MIT) — no paid tier, no tracking, nothing leaves your Mac.

The problem I built it for: I pair-program with AI agents (Claude Code, Codex) and kept wasting time pasting a screenshot, then typing a paragraph to explain which button or icon I meant. Worse, a lot of chat UIs keep only the image and drop the text you copied with it.

What Pinpoint does: hit a global shortcut, drag a region, drop numbered markers on what matters, add a short note to each, and copy. Your clipboard gets the annotated image plus a structured text that maps every marker to a position and description — so the agent knows exactly what you point at.

Mac-native details this community tends to care about:

SwiftUI + ScreenCaptureKit, lives in the menu bar
Native-resolution capture, multi-display and Retina aware
Global, fully rebindable shortcuts
A "shelf" library to browse, favorite, rename and reopen past captures
100% local — captures never leave your Mac
Notarized & signed with a Developer ID
macOS 15+, Apple Silicon & Intel

Download + source: https://github.com/croustibat/Pinpoint

I built it for myself and use it daily. Feedback very welcome — especially on the generated prompt format. What does your screenshot-to-agent workflow look like today?

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Pinpoint — a free, open-source macOS app for AI-agent users

Pinpoint — a free, open-source menu-bar app that turns a screenshot into a ready-to-paste prompt for your AI agent

[Swift] Pinpoint - macOS menu-bar app that turns a screenshot into a ready-to-paste prompt for your AI agent