How to uninstall PixPin on Mac
PixPin is a free screenshot, pinning, text recognition and screen recording tool from pixpin.cn, with paid membership features. Save three things before you remove it. Your screenshots and recordings are not in the app: per the Save page of its manual, Quick Save defaults to the Desktop, Auto Save, if you turned it on, writes to a PixPinAutoSave folder in Pictures, and quick recordings go to Movies, all in the folders you chose and none touched by anything below. Your settings can be exported from 配置 › 导出/导入 › 导出配置 into a PixPin.pixconf file, but per the export page that file holds neither pins, screenshots nor history. If you signed in, sign out and review your devices first, see Account below. This guide covers the official disk image and the Homebrew cask pixpin.
Quit and remove the app
- Quit PixPin from its menu bar menu, since it runs without a Dock icon. In the test, Status grouped two processes under one row: PixPin and its crash reporter.
- If you turned on launching PixPin at login (off by default), turn it off in PixPin or remove it in System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions. The test registered no login item or launch agent.
- Open Finder, go to Applications and drag PixPin to the Trash.
- PixPin asks for Screen & System Audio Recording and Accessibility access. Mole leaves those system settings alone, so open System Settings › Privacy & Security, look in both lists and remove PixPin if it is still there.
Where the data lives
Press Shift + Command + G in Finder to open each path. Skip any path that is not on your Mac.
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
Your save folders: the Desktop by default, ~/Pictures/PixPinAutoSave if Auto Save was on, ~/Movies for quick recordings |
Screenshots and recordings you made | Keep. Mole does not list them. |
~/Library/Application Support/PixPin |
PixPin's local settings and app data, 45 KB in the test | Export your settings first if you want them, then remove. Mole lists it for review and selects it by default. |
~/Library/Application Support/PixPin/Crashpad |
Crash reports | Remove. Mole selects it by default. |
The com.depthpicture.PixPin folder inside the folder that getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR prints |
Mole's temporary cache row, empty in the test | Remove. Mole selects it by default. |
~/Library/Caches/com.depthpicture.PixPin, ~/Library/Logs/PixPin, ~/Library/Preferences/com.depthpicture.PixPin.plist and ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.depthpicture.PixPin.savedState |
Named in the cask's zap list; none existed in the test | Remove whichever exist. |
Check the result
pgrep -il pixpin
launchctl list | grep -i pixpin
ls -d /Applications/PixPin.app ~/Library/Application\ Support/PixPin ~/Library/Logs/PixPin ~/Library/Preferences/com.depthpicture.PixPin.plist
- No output from
pgrepmeans PixPin is not running. A printed line is a process still alive; quit it, or restart the Mac once. - No output from
launchctlmeans no PixPin job is loaded for your user. A line namingcom.depthpicture.PixPinmeans a job is still registered; check Login Items & Extensions. - For
ls -d, "No such file or directory" means that path is gone. A printed path is still on disk.
Account
Uninstalling does not sign you out, cancel or remove a membership, or delete your account. Per the account page of its manual, the account page of PixPin's settings (配置 › 账号/会员) has 退出登录 to sign this computer out, 设备管理 to sign other devices out, and 删除账户, which permanently deletes the account together with the uploaded settings and the membership time, without a refund. Settings sync to the account is a membership feature, so signing out here first keeps your synced settings and membership untouched.
If you installed it with Homebrew
brew uninstall --cask pixpin
The cask quits PixPin on an ordinary uninstall and removes the app only. Its zap list names ~/Library/Application Support/PixPin, the cache, ~/Library/Logs/PixPin, the preferences file and the saved state. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap pixpin yourself deletes all of it, including the local settings, and does not read Mole's checkboxes, so export first if you want them. Mole adds --zap only when its whole removal scope passes its zap gate: an unchecked or shared path, a path outside the reviewed boundary, an unknown stanza or an unsupported directive turns it off, and Mole then removes the rows you selected itself. The Homebrew install was not tested.
What Mole lists
Mole selects the app, ~/Library/Application Support/PixPin/Crashpad and the temporary cache row. It lists ~/Library/Application Support/PixPin for review and selects it by default. Before removing, Mole asks PixPin to quit. Mole does not list your screenshot or recording folders and does not change PixPin's permissions in System Settings.
What this test covered
On November 9, 2026, the test downloaded PixPin 3.6.6.0 (a Universal disk image) from pixpin.cn, whose checksum matched the Homebrew cask, copied the app to Applications without running brew install and opened it once. It then quit the app and removed it with a source-built Mole with every review row ticked. Mole moved the app and three rows to the Trash, and nothing attributable to PixPin was left. Status showed one PixPin row with 2 processes. Mole found no update feed for the app, and no update was run. Taking screenshots or recordings, text recognition, signing in, membership, settings sync, a Homebrew-managed uninstall and Mole's notarized release build were not tested.