FastStone Capture
FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages. It also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, audio from speakers, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, OneNote / Word / Excel / PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more. Other features include image scanning, global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier, a screen crosshair and a screen ruler.
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Shottr
Shottr is a lightweight, high-speed screenshot utility for macOS designed to take quality screen captures and edit them with precision while staying out of your way. It captures screenshots in milliseconds and supports a full range of screenshot types including single windows, selected areas, and long scrolling captures of web pages or chats, all natively optimized for Apple silicon performance. Once captured, images open immediately in an intuitive editor where you can add text, freehand drawings, highlights, arrows, and other annotations, blur or remove sensitive areas, overlay images, and style backgrounds with gradients, shadows, and rounded corners. Shottr includes built-in OCR that recognizes and copies text and QR codes from images, a screen ruler for accurate measurements, a zoom tool for pixel-level inspection, and a color picker for exact color selection. It also lets you combine multiple captures on one canvas, and pin screenshots as always-on-top references.
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Screenpresso
Time saver for explaining something to your colleagues and clients. Screenpresso captures your desktop (screenshots and HD videos) for your training documents, collaborative design work, IT bug reports, and more. Screenpresso is a NEW Light-weight screen grab tool with built-in image editor, user guide generator and sharing options. Press the Print Screen button, and you will see how Screenpresso magically assists you in screen capture, the mouse cursor will turn into a crosshair, and moving it around the screen will automatically highlight the area that can be captured in red. It does some pretty cool edge snapping to the screen, so you can choose to grab part of a window, or the entire window, or even the whole screen. Capture full screen, part of the screen or a specific window with the same shortcut/hotkey. Make sure to capture what you need. Click and drag anywhere on your screen to select a region with pixel-perfect accuracy thanks to the zoom lens at the right bottom.
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SnipSVG
SnipSVG is a screen capture and graphics editor that uses SVG vector images as its primary format.
It is designed to be really simple to use and very fast. Plenty of clever helper functions such as auto-remembered styling and a favorites gallery deliver stunning results with just a few mouse clicks.
When you look a bit deeper, however, you notice that SnipSVG contains a wide range of powerful image editing tools that you don't find in other screen capture applications. Crop screenshots, blur sensitive information, physically resize large photos, add HTML-formatted text.
SnipSVG is free and available for both Windows and macOS. It's a must-have for every IT worker on both platforms.
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