Turn anything on your Mac screen into clean Markdown
Snapdown turns any part of your Mac screen into structured Markdown, preserving headings, lists, tables, and text instead of flattening everything into plain OCR. Capture with one shortcut, paste anywhere, and keep every screenshot local on Apple silicon.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Broden, and I built Snapdown because I kept needing to copy things that were visible on my screen but weren’t actually selectable, like tables, documentation, error messages, and slides.
Most OCR tools recover the words but lose the structure. Headings become ordinary lines, lists turn into paragraphs, and tables become difficult to use. I wanted output I could paste directly into a note, document, issue, or LLM chat without rebuilding it first. That’s why Snapdown produces structured Markdown.
Privacy was also a must for me. Everything runs locally on Apple silicon, so your screenshots stay on your Mac and Snapdown works offline.
I spent a lot of time making the capture loop as fast as possible, while still producing accurate, useful results. The goal is to press a shortcut, select a region, and get your Markdown without interrupting your flow.
Two tips that usually improve the output:
• Instead of capturing a whole screen, split it into smaller, natural sections and combine them with Aggregate Mode. This reduces noise and improves accuracy.
• Zoom in before capturing dense text, tables, or formulas. Clearer source pixels give Snapdown more detail to work with.
I’d love to hear your feedback and feature requests. I’m looking forward to improving Snapdown based on how people actually use it.
Thanks for checking it out!
About Snapdown on Product Hunt
“Turn anything on your Mac screen into clean Markdown”
Snapdown launched on Product Hunt on August 3rd, 2026 and earned 127 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Snapdown turns any part of your Mac screen into structured Markdown, preserving headings, lists, tables, and text instead of flattening everything into plain OCR. Capture with one shortcut, paste anywhere, and keep every screenshot local on Apple silicon.
On the analytics side, Snapdown competes within Mac, Productivity and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Snapdown performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Snapdown?
Snapdown was hunted by Broden Suffern. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Snapdown including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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