Pin to screen

Pin a capture to your screen as a small floating window that stays on top of everything else — handy as a reference while you work in another app.

How to pin

1. Finish editing your screenshot
2. Click the pin button — the last button in the export pane (the bar on the editor’s left edge), below a divider
3. The pinned image appears centered on your main screen

The pin is the whole artboard, annotations included, rendered as a PNG. It always pins at 100% — the export pane’s scale and resolution settings don’t apply — and opens at its actual on-screen size (1:1 with your display), shrunk to fit if it would cover more than 80% of the screen.

Hover controls

The pin is just the image until you hover over it. Then its controls appear:

Control	Where	What it does
Close	Top-right corner	Removes the pin
Copy	Bar on the left edge	Copies the image to the clipboard
Drag	Bar on the left edge	Press and drag the image into another app
Lock / Unlock	Bar on the left edge	Locks the pin in place (see below)
Scale	Pill at the bottom	Shows the current size as a percentage of the original

Very small pins hide the left bar and the scale pill so they don’t cover the image.

Moving and resizing

• Move — Drag anywhere on the image
• Resize on macOS — Drag any edge or corner. The pin keeps its aspect ratio; the scale pill updates as you go
• Resize on Windows — Click the scale pill and pick 10%, 25%, 50%, 100%, or 200%

A pin can’t grow larger than the screen.

Locking

Click Lock to stop the pin from moving or resizing — useful when it sits right where you need it and you keep clicking near it. Click Unlock to free it again.

Good to know

• One pin at a time — Pinning another capture replaces the current pin
• Independent of the editor — The pin stays after you close the editor
• Not saved — Pins last until you close them or quit hypershot; they don’t come back after a restart. To keep a capture, save it — see Save to File

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See also: Copy to Clipboard | Share