Pixel Snatcher

Snatch pixels from your screen and convert into translucent tool images in PNG, GIF, ICO and TEA image formats with ease.  Create modern monochromatic tool images in seconds for your app, web app, or Gossamer app.  Click capture, hover mouse cursor over screen area to acquire image, adjust color conversion settings if required, and copy/save.

A transparent image generated from a screen capture



Features

App Changes

Codebase Changes

Information

App Name
Pixel Snatcher
Version
1.0.2287
Type
Desktop App (Standard Edition)
License
MIT
Status
-
Release Date
23rd April 2026
Portable App
Yes
Code Foundation
4th Generation (Gossamer for GUI)
Operating System(s)
Windows All and Wine for Linux and Mac
SHA256 Checksum
for "pixelsnatcher.exe"
73D6487C6B93D7CAFC81F4E9B19A6C705EE0E999930ED67D6C131869B5F62557

Downloads

pixelsnatcher.exe (1.67 Mb) pixelsnatcher.zip (0.85 Mb) pixelsnatcher.7z (0.67 Mb)

pixelsnatcher-sourcecode.zip (2.46 Mb)
App and pascal source code
pixelsnatcher-sourcecode.7z (1.89 Mb)
App and pascal source code

Images

A transparent image generated from a screen capture


The "Save" icon from MS Paint captured and converted into a translucent monochromatic white toolbar image with horizontal padding


Captured image colored in shades of red with alpha values and horizontal padding


Pixel Snatcher in the "Black and Orange" color scheme - "Options > Color"


Reference

What makes a portable app special?A portable app is a big leap forward for apps in general.  A standard or traditionally engineered app requires a lot of support in the form of libraries, data files, images, scripts, etc and the list goes on.  You get the picture.  Some portable apps out there still include this bundle of bits, they merely offload it into a local folder.  A dump of goodies of sorts.

We tend to see a portable app in quite a different light.  Our vision of a portable app is designed tight, clean, free of bloat, and all data where possible is included directly within, structured right into the fabric of the app itself, and designed from the bare-metal up if required.

Though the most important difference between a traditional app and a portable app is that a portable app will not install on your computer.  This is extremely important as the installation process is often messy, and can clutter up your computer by dumping a lot of stuff all over the Windows file structure and registry, and over time may slow down and decrease the overall performance of your computer.

A portable app will not do this, which keeps your computer clean and running smooth and fast as it should.  Unfortunately most software is not designed with portable in mind.  They're more akin to a large leaky box of bits than tight engineering.  And because a portable app is not installed on your computer, it runs outside the normal scope of the operating system, and is not locked down or tied to it.  And thus can be moved about, from disk to disk, or computer to computer.

Typically a portable app will reside on a USB pen stick, removable media, or in a special folder on a portable hard disk.  This makes it easy to take from one computer to the next, and use over and over.  An immensely valuable freedom, and something an installed app can only dream of.

But a serious technical hurdle must be overcome for a truly portable app to be free.  And that is the humble setting.  Yes, a portable app must be able to handle it's settings on it's own.  It must be able to read them from disk, filter them, check and correct them where required, and write them back to disk.  All without the help of the Windows' registry or other operating system dependent structures.

An installed app typically can't or won't do this.  Instead, it relies on Windows and the registry to manage it's settings and other important data sets for it.  It therefore takes a higher degree of technical competence to escape this "tied to the operating system" situation.

Here is our current standard for a portable app:


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