The AI Snipping Tool
Press a shortcut, select anything on your screen, and instantly ask about it, transform it, or create from it. No screenshots. No uploads. No new tabs.
Mac + Windows · Free to start · No credit card
The old way
OpenPortal
ShortcutSelectAsk
Nothing to save. Nothing to upload. Nothing to explain.
Ctrl+Shift+O. OpenPortal freezes your screen without interrupting what you’re doing.
Draw a box around whatever you want AI to see.
Ask a question, transform what you selected, or generate something new.
That’s it.
Draw a box on the sample, then ask about it or make something from it. Same three moves as the app.
3 answers · 3 creations
Paste a screenshot
Press ⌘V or Ctrl V — or drop an image here.
Ctrl+Shift+O in any app. Draw the box. Ask.
That's the demo. Install it and the same thing works on anything on your screen, in any app, without leaving what you were doing. Free for 5 a day — no card.
Download freeDemo uses a smaller model. Your image is sent to be answered and is never stored. Privacy.
Same interaction. Different outcome.
Select
Select an error message.
Prompt
What’s causing this and how do I fix it?
Result
render runs before the data has loaded, so items is still undefined when .map is called. Guard it — items?.map(…) — or return early until the fetch resolves.
Select
Select a livestream frame.
Prompt
Turn this into a Live Now poster.
Result
Select
Select a frame from a video.
Prompt
Turn this into a YouTube thumbnail.
Result
Select
Select a table or dashboard.
Prompt
Turn this into a structured table.
Result
| Region | Q1 | Q2 |
|---|---|---|
| North | 4,120 | 4,385 |
| South | 3,890 | 3,610 |
| West | 5,240 | 5,905 |
Select
Select text anywhere.
Prompt
Make this clearer and more professional.
Result
Thanks for flagging this. I’ve checked the numbers and the March figure was entered twice. I’ll send a corrected sheet by tomorrow.
Select
Select a chart, diagram, product, or document.
Prompt
Explain this simply.
Result
Sign-ups grew every month until the fourth bar, which fell by about a third. That is the month the price changed — everything after it is recovering, not falling.
The thumbnail, the poster, the ad and the graphic all came from the same three moves. Select something on your screen and ask for what you want.
Video frame → thumbnail
Pause the video where the face is right, select it, ask. The person stays exactly themselves; the type and the background are built around them.
Make this a YouTube thumbnail
What you saw
Make this a YouTube thumbnail
What it made
Stream frame → Live Now poster
Select the webcam in OBS, a Twitch frame or a VOD, name the stream, and the poster comes back with your title, your date, your platform's real logo and your link.
Make a Live Now poster
What you saw
Make a Live Now poster
What it made
Post → social graphic
A post you wrote, a line from an article, a comment worth keeping — selected, and set as a graphic in the same breath.
Turn this into an Instagram post
Shipped my first 100 videos this year. Consistency beat talent every single time.
4:12 PM · 2.1K likesWhat you saw
Turn this into an Instagram post
What it made
Product photo → ad
The product stays the product — same cup, same label — re-lit like a shoot, with room left for the words.
Build an ad for this
What you saw
Build an ad for this
What it made
Hover or tap a tile to see what was selected on screen.
Privacy
Your screen isn’t the prompt. Your selection is.
Read our privacy policyPro
$19/month
For selecting and asking all day: higher limits, follow-ups, several selections at once, web-powered answers.
See ProPremium Best for creators
$39/month
Everything in Pro, plus making: thumbnails, posters, ads and graphics from what you select. 150 creations a month.
Start creatingPrices plus tax where applicable.
OpenPortal is an AI snipping tool. Press a shortcut, select anything on your screen, and ask AI about it or transform it instantly — the way you already select part of your screen to take a screenshot, with AI on the end of it instead of a PNG.
OpenPortal removes those steps. Select what you want directly on your screen and ask, without saving a screenshot, switching tabs or uploading a file. The answer — or the image — comes back right where you are.
Yes. It works from the pixels on your screen, so anything you can see can be selected: any app, any window, any browser tab, a paused video, a game. Nothing needs a plugin. On a Mac you grant Screen Recording once; on Windows it just works.
Yes. Select a video frame and ask for a YouTube thumbnail; select a stream and ask for a Live Now poster; select a product photo and ask for an ad or a social graphic. A finished image comes back where you selected. Making images is part of Premium — Free and Pro answer, explain, rewrite and extract.
Yes: macOS 12 or later, and Windows 10 or later. It is a desktop app, not a mobile one — though the livestream poster generator runs free in any browser, phones included.
Anything visible. Part of a video, a chart, an error, a message, a product photo, a paragraph, a whole window. Draw a box, and only what is inside it is sent. With nothing boxed, start typing to ask about the whole screen.
No. Nothing is written to disk — not on your machine, not on ours. The selection is held in memory, sent, answered and released. That is the whole point.
No. One frame is captured per press and released immediately. Nothing streams, nothing records, and nothing runs between presses.
Free is 5 uses a day and needs no card. Pro, $19 a month, is for using it all day. Premium, $39 a month, adds making: 150 finished images a month. Prices plus tax where applicable.
Yes. Ask the follow-up in the same box — it remembers the last answer. And you can select more than one thing: box one, press the shortcut again, box another — the slide and the spreadsheet from two applications, read together, up to 10 at a time on paid plans.
OpenPortal gives you AI directly on top of anything you’re looking at.
Mac + Windows · Free to start · No credit card