About Greenshot
A free and open-source screenshot tool for Windows. It allows users to capture selected regions, windows, or the full screen. Features include annotation, highlighting, obfuscation, and exporting to various formats, applications, and cloud services.
Greenshot is a lightweight, free, and open-source screenshot utility for Microsoft Windows. It enables users to quickly capture screenshots of a selected region, a specific window, or the entire screen, including scrolling web pages in some browsers. Once captured, images can be edited in the built-in editor, which provides tools for annotation, highlighting, and obfuscating sensitive information. Greenshot supports exporting screenshots to various destinations, including saving to a file, copying to the clipboard, sending to a printer, attaching to an email, or uploading to services like Jira, Flickr, and Picasa. While the Windows version is free, a separate version for macOS is available for a small fee. The software is highly configurable, making it a productive tool for developers, technical writers, and testers.
Pros & Cons
- Free and open-source for Windows users.
- Lightweight and optimized for productivity with configurable hotkeys.
- Includes a built-in image editor with useful annotation and obfuscation tools.
- Supports exporting to a wide variety of destinations, including files, clipboard, and other applications.
- The macOS version is not free, unlike the Windows version.
- Scrolling capture is only officially supported for Internet Explorer.
- No native version is available for Linux.
- Support is community-based through bug trackers, with no live chat or phone support.
Features
Key features
Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window, or fullscreen, and capture complete scrolling web pages from supported browsers.
Easily annotate, highlight, or obfuscate parts of the screenshot with the built-in image editor.
Export screenshots to a file, printer, clipboard, email, Microsoft Office programs, or upload to photo sites.
Customize settings and hotkeys to create an efficient workflow for creating and working with screenshots.
The Windows version is completely free and open-source, with its source code available on GitHub.
Additional features
Select a specific area of the screen for capture.
Capture a single application window.
Capture entire web pages from Internet Explorer.
Draw rectangles, ellipses, lines, and arrows.
Draw freely on the screenshot.
Enlarge or shrink the screenshot.
Pass screenshots to other applications via command line.
Extend functionality with plugins for services like Jira.
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About Greenshot
A free and open-source screenshot tool for Windows. It allows users to capture selected regions, windows, or the full screen. Features include annotation, highlighting, obfuscation, and exporting to various formats, applications, and cloud services.
Greenshot Details
Greenshot's In-App Market Place
Does Greenshot have an in-app market place?
Yes
How many Mini-Apps in the marketplace?
0
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USD
Pros & Cons
- Free and open-source for Windows users.
- Lightweight and optimized for productivity with configurable hotkeys.
- Includes a built-in image editor with useful annotation and obfuscation tools.
- Supports exporting to a wide variety of destinations, including files, clipboard, and other applications.
- The macOS version is not free, unlike the Windows version.
- Scrolling capture is only officially supported for Internet Explorer.
- No native version is available for Linux.
- Support is community-based through bug trackers, with no live chat or phone support.
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