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Paste code into a mock editor window - line numbers, an optional macOS traffic-light dot bar, a filename in the title strip - then export the whole frame as a PNG.
Background gradient, editor color theme, padding, and font size are all adjustable with a live preview; the export renders the visible frame to canvas at 2x scale entirely in the browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere to produce the image.
How it differs from a real code editor
The code area is a plain textarea, not a syntax-highlighted editor - there's no language selector, and switching editor theme changes the window's background and a single flat text color, not per-token highlighting. The exported image is a solid-color monospace block in whichever theme is selected, not colored keywords, strings, and comments.
Pressing Tab inside the code field inserts four spaces at the cursor instead of moving focus to the next control, which matters if you're pasting an indented snippet and need to fix leading whitespace without leaving the field.
When you'd use this
Sharing a short snippet somewhere an actual code block would look plain - a tweet, a Slack message, a slide - where a styled screenshot reads better than raw text, and exact syntax coloring matters less than a clean, consistent look.
Frequently asked questions
Is my code sent anywhere to generate the image?
No. The PNG is produced by html2canvas rendering the on-screen editor frame directly to a canvas element in your browser - there's no network request involved in creating the image, only in loading the html2canvas library itself the first time the page runs.
Does the exported PNG match the live preview exactly?
Yes - the export captures the same DOM element you're looking at, at whatever padding, theme, and font size are currently set, just rendered at 2x scale for a sharper result than a plain screenshot.
Can I get syntax highlighting for a specific language?
Not currently - the editor theme changes the window's colors as a set, but there's no per-language tokenizing or a language picker, so keywords and strings aren't colored differently from the rest of the code.
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