PickCodePickCode vs SnipCSS
SnipCSS is now free to use, and its website has moved from snipcss.com to snipkiwi.com. PickCode turns any element into Tailwind, React, Blade or HTML + CSS and checks that the result pastes at the original size.
Choose SnipCSS if
You need a free tool and copying a few snippets now and then is enough.
Choose PickCode if
You want a component you can paste straight into a Tailwind, React or Laravel project and trust to render at the same size, for one $49 payment.
At a glance
| Checked 16 October 2026 | PickCode | SnipCSS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan with 5 elements a day and 1 CodePen. Pro is $49, paid once. | Free |
| Chrome Web Store users | New listing | 20,000 |
| Store rating | No ratings yet | 3.8 from 35 ratings |
| Output formats | Tailwind, React (JSX), Blade, HTML + CSS | See their site |
| Published size test | Yes, at 390, 900 and 1280px | None we could find |
| Website | This site | snipkiwi.com (formerly snipcss.com) |
Store numbers come from the Chrome Web Store and change over time. Spotted something out of date? Email support@pickcode.dev and we'll fix it.
What SnipCSS offers
- Free to use.
- The highest store rating of the four tools we compare here, at 3.8.
What PickCode does differently
- Four ready-to-paste formats. Tailwind classes, a React (JSX) component, a Laravel Blade component that merges
$attributes, or HTML with a stylesheet. - Built from what the browser applied. PickCode starts from computed styles, so inline styles, CSS-in-JS and utility classes all come through. It then adds the page's own
:hover,:focusandmin-widthrules ashover:,md:andlg:classes. - Tailwind names, not hex soup. Colors, spacing, radii and font sizes snap to Tailwind's scale. Anything off-scale becomes an exact arbitrary value.
- Private. Elements are converted inside your browser. The pages you visit are never sent anywhere.
- One payment. Pro costs $49 once, works on up to 3 browsers and includes future updates, with a 14-day refund.
Limits worth knowing: PickCode can't read cross-origin stylesheets yet, so hover and breakpoint rules from a CDN stylesheet are skipped, and units are written as pixels rather than rem or %.
Proof: the pasted code renders at the original size
Copied code is only useful if it looks like what you picked, so we measure it. The test page is a responsive card grid with a :hover rule and md: and lg: breakpoints. PickCode copies it once. We then render the original and the pasted Tailwind at three screen widths in Chrome and compare the boxes. The HTML + CSS output measured the same as Tailwind.
- Original element
- Pasted PickCode output, drawn to scale
Measured 16 October 2026. The biggest gap was 1px of height at 390px, and the hover color matched exactly. We haven't found a published size test from any other tool in this category.
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