Overlay
Draw over anything.
Pen, arrows, boxes, highlights and a spotlight on top of every app. Ink can fade, stay, or follow its window.
Inkpane for Mac
Show your AI
what you mean.
Circle anything on your screen. Claude Code or Codex sees exactly that, fixes it, and draws its answer right where you’re looking.
Coming soonSee how it works
Free · macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel
Mark up a screen, hide what’s private, and pin it.
Record a tutorial and draw while you talk.
Circle a bug. Your agent fixes it and points back.
How it works
Stop describing pixels.
One gesture replaces a screenshot, a file path and a paragraph of explanation.
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You circle it.
Hold a hotkey and draw over the broken button. Nothing to save, nothing to explain.
wait_for_user_annotation - 02
Your agent sees it.
The region, its position on screen and the text inside go to your agent over MCP.
read_screen_ocr - 03
It points back.
The fix lands in your code, and a box lands on your screen where it changed.
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Features
A complete screenshot app.
Before an agent is even involved.
Pins
Keep it in view.
Float any capture above your windows. Zoom it, fade it, click through it.
Capture & annotate
Pixel-perfect, every time.
Area, window or full screen, with or without the shadow, now or on a timer. Then numbered steps, blur and pixelate in the editor.
Library
Search inside every screenshot.
Every capture keeps its app, window and URL. Find it by the words in the image.
Recording
Record with live ink.
Draw while you record. Clicks and keystrokes show on their own, and marks stay editable.
Translate in Place
Any language, in place.
Select an area and its text is covered with a translation that matches the original.
Quick actions
Ask AI about a capture.
One click, with your own API key.
For agents
Eyes and a pen for your agent.
A local MCP server that Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client already know how to talk to.
capture_screenThe screen, a window or a regionread_screen_ocrText and positions, recognised on-devicewait_for_user_annotationAsks you to circle something, and waitsannotate_screenBoxes, arrows and notes on your screenget_ui_treeThe accessibility tree of a windowrecord_actionRecords a reproduction while it works
Add it to Claude Code
$ claude mcp add inkpane -- inkpane-mcpOr one click in Settings → Agents.
The MCP core is open source under the MIT license.
Repository goes public soonPrivacy
Private by design.
Your screen is the most personal thing on your Mac. Inkpane never sends it anywhere you didn’t choose.
On your Mac.
Capture, OCR, search and Apple Translation run on-device. There is no Inkpane server.
You approve every agent.
Each MCP client asks once, and a pill at the top of the screen shows whenever one is looking.
Sensitive apps stay out.
Password managers, banking and chat apps are excluded by default. Emails and keys can be blurred automatically.
Your key, your provider.
AI actions use your own API key, kept in your Keychain. No resold tokens.
Pricing
Pay once. Keep it.
Free
$0 forever
- Area, window and full-screen capture
- Annotation editor and pins
- Basic MCP tools: capture, OCR, windows
ProEarly bird
$39 one-time
- Everything in Free
- Agent annotations and “circle it for me”
- Unlimited library with text search
- Recording with live ink
- AI quick actions and Translate in Place
- 2 years of updates, then optional $9/year
Tentative — final pricing will be announced at launch.
Questions.
Which agents does it work with?
Claude Code and Codex, set up in one click from Settings → Agents. Anything that speaks MCP — Cursor, Claude Desktop and others — can use the same server.
Does my screen get uploaded anywhere?
No. Inkpane runs entirely on your Mac. A capture only goes to an agent you approved, when you or it asks, and to an AI provider only when you run a quick action.
What do I need?
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. Some extras, like Apple Translation, need macOS 15.
How is it different from CleanShot X?
Inkpane covers the capture basics, but it is built around your agent: the agent sees what you circle and draws back on your screen.
How do updates work?
Inkpane checks for updates on its own and asks before installing one.
Show, don’t tell.
Free to download. Add it to your agent and circle your first bug.
Coming soon
Free · macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel