Images, any format
PNG, JPEG, HEIC, WebP and animated GIF — plus the ones most viewers shrug at: PSD, AVIF, camera RAW, JPEG 2000, OpenEXR, TGA, ICNS and SVG.
PNG · HEIC · PSD · RAW · SVGFree · macOS 13 and later · No permissions
Pin anything. Keep it in view.
Pinit floats images, notes, PDFs, documents, video and live web pages above every window, so what you are working from sits right next to what you are working on. Copy something, press ⌃⌥P, and it is on top. Restart your Mac, and it is still there.
Coming soon for macOSFree · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon and IntelThe first public build is being prepared. This button becomes a download the day it ships — no sign-up needed.
If you can copy it or drag it, you can pin it
Pinit shows each thing the way it should be read: images as images, pages you can scroll, video that plays, documents you can flip through.
Text and code
Copied text, rich text and HTML, or a text file from disk. More than fifty kinds of source code open as editable text stickers.
TXT · MD · JSON · SWIFT · PYA real PDF view, not a picture of page one. Double-click to scroll and flip through it; Esc hands the keyboard back.
PDFOffice and iWork
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers and Keynote preview right inside the sticker through Quick Look — no need to open the app that made them.
DOCX · XLSX · PPTX · KEYLive web pages
Pin an address and the page stays live, rendered by the same WebKit as Safari. Double-click to scroll, click and type inside it.
HTTP · HTTPSVideo and audio
Clips loop silently with a play bar; audio gets a waveform. Space plays and pauses the sticker in front.
MOV · MP4 · M4A · MP3Any other file
Everything else becomes a Finder-style card with a Quick Look thumbnail, its size and kind. Double-click opens it in its own app.
ZIP · DMG · FOLDERSFonts and 3D
Font files preview as type specimens and USDZ or Reality files as 3D models — again through Quick Look, again in place.
TTF · OTF · USDZEvery way in, and none of them slow
Pinit takes things from wherever you already are. No window to open first, no import step.
Copy, then ⌃⌥P
Whatever is on the clipboard becomes a sticker beside the pointer. Copy three files in Finder and you get three stickers, fanned out.
⌃⌥P
Drop on the menu bar pin
Drag a file, an image, a link or a text selection onto the pin in the menu bar and let go.
Open With, or the Dock
In Finder, right-click › Open With › Pinit. Show Pinit in the Dock and you can drop files on its icon too. It never makes itself anyone's default app.
The Services menu
Select text, an image or a link in any app, or files in Finder, and choose Services › Pin with Pinit.
Type it in
New Text Sticker for a quick note, Pin Web Page for an address. If the clipboard already holds a link, it is filled in for you.
From a script
pinit:// links pin text or a web page, hide every sticker, or reopen the last one — from Shortcuts, Raycast, Alfred or the terminal.
Stickers that get out of the way
A sticker is a small borderless window that stays above everything else. Move it, size it, fade it until you can read through it — or take it down to 0% and clicks pass straight through to the app underneath.
- Drag to move, pull an edge to resize, scroll or pinch to zoom
- ⌘-scroll to change opacity; hold ⌘ to bring a faded sticker back
- Rotate and flip images with R, H and V
- ⌃H hides every sticker at once, and brings them back
Not a picture of the thing — the thing
A pinned web page is the page, live. A PDF pages through. A spreadsheet shows its cells. Double-click any of them to work inside it, and press Esc to go back to moving the sticker around.
- Web pages keep their state, sign-ins and scroll position while pinned
- PDFs and Office documents read inline, without opening another app
- Video loops muted with its own play bar
Mark it up, read it, translate it
Press Return on an image sticker to draw on it in place — arrows, boxes, highlights, text. Press E to select the text inside a picture with Live Text, and T to translate it on your Mac.
- Annotation opens on the sticker itself, with no editor window
- Text recognition runs on device through Apple's Vision
- Translation uses Apple's on-device engine — nothing is uploaded
Your desk is still there tomorrow
Quit Pinit, restart the Mac, install an update: every sticker comes back exactly where you left it — same spot, same size, same zoom and opacity, the text you edited and the arrows you drew.
- Rotation, flips and hidden stickers are restored too
- A file that was moved or deleted is skipped, never shown as a blank
- If its display is unplugged, a sticker comes back on the main screen
One window for every pin
Open Pinit with ⌃⌥L to see everything on your screens at a glance. Search by name or by the text inside, then Locate a sticker and it flashes, so you can find it under a stack of windows.
- Desktop lists what is pinned right now, across every display
- History keeps what you pinned, so a closed sticker is one click from coming back
- Star anything into Favorites, and it never expires
Built for the keyboard
Two global shortcuts out of the box, every other action ready for one you choose, and single keys on the sticker in front.
Anywhere
- Pin the clipboard
- ⌃⌥P
- Open the main window
- ⌃⌥L
- Pin a file, new text sticker, hide all, reopen
- …
In Pinit
- New text sticker
- ⌘N
- Pin a file
- ⌘O
- Pin a web page
- ⌘L
- Pin the clipboard
- ⌘⇧V
- Reopen the closed sticker
- ⌘⇧T
- History
- ⌘Y
On a sticker
- Close
- Esc
- Zoom in, out, back to 100%
- +−1
- Opacity back to 100%
- O
- Edit or mark up
- ↩
- Select text · translate
- ET
- Hide or show all
- ⌃H
Every global shortcut can be changed or cleared in Settings. The full list is in the guide.All shortcuts
Scriptable with a link
Every pinit:// link is an action. Put one in a shortcut in the Shortcuts app, a Raycast script command, an Alfred workflow or a shell alias.
There is deliberately no way to pin a file from a link. Any web page can open a URL scheme, and “click a link and a private file appears on your screen” — during a screen share, say — is not a feature. Files come in the ways where you chose them.
URL scheme reference- Pin a web page
pinit://pin?url=https://example.com - Pin a line of text
pinit://pin?text=Call%20back%20at%203 - Pin the clipboard
pinit://clipboard - Hide or show every sticker
pinit://toggle - Reopen the last closed sticker
pinit://reopen
Asks for nothing
Pinit never captures the screen, so macOS has nothing to ask you about: no Screen Recording, no Accessibility, no camera, no microphone. It has no account and no telemetry, and it reads the clipboard only at the moment you ask it to pin.
- No permission prompts, ever
- No account, no analytics, no tracking
- Stickers and history stay on your Mac
- Never records your clipboard
The pin, on its own
Pinit is built on the same sticker engine as the pins in Kopit and Framit, made into an app of its own — with a board that survives a restart, a history, a main window and many more file types.
Running Kopit or Framit too? Pinit's shortcut is ⌃⌥P rather than Kopit's ⌘⇧P, so one key press never pins twice.
Questions
The ones people ask first. The guide covers the rest.
Is Pinit really free?
Yes. There is no account, no subscription and no in-app purchase in Pinit today. If paid extras ever arrive, what you can do now stays free.
Why does it not ask for any permissions?
Because it never looks at your screen. Pinit only shows what you hand it — a file, a link, the clipboard — so there is nothing for macOS to guard.
Does Pinit keep a clipboard history?
No. It reads the clipboard only when you press Pin Clipboard. History lists what you pinned, never what you copied. For a clipboard history, see Kopit.
Can Pinit take screenshots?
No, on purpose — that is Framit's job, and Framit is free too. Or press ⌃⇧⌘4 to copy a region of the screen, then ⌃⌥P to pin it.
Where are my stickers kept?
In a small board file on your Mac. Pinit remembers where each file lives rather than copying it; only images with no file behind them, such as a pasted screenshot, are stored as copies.
Will it run on my Mac?
Pinit runs on macOS 13 Ventura and later. Translating text inside an image needs macOS 15, because that is when Apple's on-device translation arrived.
Will there be a Mac App Store version?
Yes. It will be sandboxed, updated by the App Store, and free as well. Until then, download Pinit from this site.
How do I uninstall it?
Quit Pinit and move it to the Bin. To remove the stickers and history too, delete the app.kopit.pinit folder in ~/Library/Application Support.
Get Pinit
Free, for macOS 13 Ventura and later, on Apple silicon and Intel.
Coming soon for macOSFree · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon and IntelThe first public build is being prepared. This button becomes a download the day it ships — no sign-up needed.