Mac
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.
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 dayOn-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.
How to remove backgrounds on MacErase objects
Balanced free · Best in PROBrush 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.
How to remove objects from photos on MacEnhance and upscale
×2 free · ×4 in PROSharpen photos and upscale them ×2 for free, or ×4 and up to 8192 px with PRO.
How to upscale images on MacCopy text from the screen
FreePress ⇧⌘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.
OCR on MacCapture a screen area
Press ⇧⌘2 to capture part of your screen, and Snip removes the background from it right away.
How to remove backgrounds on MacBatch processing
PRORemove backgrounds or enhance a whole set of photos with the same settings.
How to remove backgrounds on Mac
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.
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 save them to a folder or a ZIP archive. Batch processing is part of PRO.
Upscale an image with Snip
Snip is free to download. Upscaling ×2 with the Fast model counts as one of the 3 free edits a day; the Natural and Sharp models, ×4, custom sizes and batch processing are part of PRO.
×2 is enough for a crisper photo on screen or a small print. ×4 turns a 1000 px image into 4000 px — for large prints, wallpapers or cropping in closer. The result is capped at 8192 px on the longest side, and images larger than 4096 px are scaled down before enhancing, so small and medium-sized photos gain the most.
What upscaling fixes well
- Small images you need bigger for print, a presentation or a large screen
- Old low-resolution photos and scans
- Photos that lost quality after compression in messengers and on social media
- Slightly soft shots that need crisper edges
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.
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, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini and Mac Studio.
Can I use my subscription on iPhone?
Yes. One PRO subscription works on Mac, iPhone and iPad with the same Apple Account.
Is Snip a full photo editor?
No. Snip does three things — removes backgrounds, erases objects and upscales photos — plus text recognition with ⇧⌘8. For layers, brushes and colour grading, keep using Photos or a full photo editor: Snip covers the parts they do slowly or not at all.
How do I increase the resolution of an image on Mac?
In Preview, choose Tools → Adjust Size and enter a larger width with Resample image turned on — the image gets bigger, but not sharper. For a sharper result, open it in Snip’s Enhance Quality, choose ×2 or ×4 and click Enhance.