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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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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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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Coolors
Coolors is a high-speed color palette generator designed to help you “create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.” On the web (and via mobile, plugin, and extension tools), you can generate palettes in seconds by pressing the space bar, lock colors you like to refine the palette, and reorder or adjust the number of colors. It offers an Image Picker to extract color schemes from your photos, a Contrast Checker to evaluate accessibility-friendly combinations, a Palette Visualizer to preview colors in real-design contexts, plus tools like a Color Picker, Collage Maker, a gradients generator, and color libraries. You can export palettes in multiple formats (PDF, image, CSS, SVG), share links, and integrate with design tools such as Figma or a Chrome extension. With built-in support for HEX, RGB, CMYK, and other color-space values, plus features for color-blindness simulation and luminance/hue/temperature adjustments.
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