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Snip for Mac

Snip is an offline AI photo toolkit for Mac: remove backgrounds, erase objects, upscale images up to 8192 px and copy text from your screen. Everything runs on your Mac, and your photos never leave it. You get 3 free edits a day, and text recognition is free.

Mac App StoreFor Mac
Also on iPhone and iPad

Requires macOS 15.6 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel

Snip for Mac removing the background from a photo of a chair

What Snip does on Mac

Every tool works on your Mac. Free covers daily edits and text recognition; PRO adds the best quality, ×4 upscaling and batch processing.

  • Remove background

    Free · 3 edits a day

    On-device cutouts with Core ML in the original resolution. Add a color, gradient, blurred or image background, fit the subject to a canvas size, and add a drop shadow or outline.

    Background remover on Mac and iPhone

  • Erase objects

    Balanced free · Best in PRO

    Brush over anything you don’t want, and Snip fills the area right on your Mac. Balanced quality is free; Best keeps more detail and comes with PRO.

    Object eraser on Mac and iPhone

  • Enhance and upscale

    ×2 free · ×4 in PRO

    Sharpen photos and upscale them ×2 for free, or ×4 and up to 8192 px with PRO.

    Photo enhancer on Mac and iPhone

  • Copy text from the screen

    Free

    Press ⇧⌘8, select any area of the screen, and the recognized text goes straight to your clipboard — from screenshots, images, videos or apps that don’t let you select text.

  • Capture a screen area

    Press ⇧⌘2 to capture part of your screen, and Snip removes the background from it right away.

  • Batch processing

    PRO

    Remove backgrounds or enhance a whole set of photos with the same settings.

Private and offline by design

Snip for Mac runs its AI models on your Mac. Photos aren’t uploaded for processing, and background removal, the eraser, upscaling and text recognition keep working without an internet connection.

That makes it a good fit for client work, product photos before launch and anything you’d rather not send to an online service.

Snip for Mac erasing a person from a street photo, before and after
Snip for Mac removing backgrounds from ten product photos in one batch

Built for product photos

Online sellers can remove backgrounds from a whole folder of product shots, place them on the same canvas size with padding and a shadow, and save them to a folder or a ZIP archive. Batch processing is part of PRO.

Free to start

Snip for Mac is free to download with 3 edits a day and free text recognition. PRO is $9.99 a month or $19.99 a year in the US App Store, and it also works on iPhone and iPad.

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Mac questions

Does Snip for Mac work offline?

Yes. Background removal, the object eraser, upscaling and text recognition run on your Mac without sending photos anywhere, so they keep working without an internet connection.

Is text recognition (OCR) free?

Yes. Copying text from the screen with ⇧⌘8 is free.

Does Snip run on Intel Macs?

Yes. Snip supports Macs with Apple Silicon and Intel processors running macOS 15.6 or later.

Can I use my subscription on iPhone?

Yes. One PRO subscription works on Mac, iPhone and iPad with the same Apple Account.