Capture Alternatives

    Capture is described as 'quick-and-easy screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing' and is an app in the Photos & Graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Capture for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Online / Web-based, Linux and Google Chrome. The best alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Capture are Greenshot (Freemium, Open Source), LightShot (Free), Evernote Web Clipper (Free) and Snagit (Paid).

    This page was last updated Jul 26, 2021
    1. ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations.
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    2. Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support.
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    4. Lightshot - easy screenshot tool, is screen capture tool for Windows and Mac platforms, with the added advantage of automatically uploading it online for sharing or editing.

      Warning

      The Lightshot app generates URLs that are easy to guess or scrape, making it alarmingly easy for anyone to view grabs of private messages or intimate photos.

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    5. Save anything you see online - including text, links and images - into your Evernote account with a single click.
    6. The ultimate screen capture tool. With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology… it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you.
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    8. CloudApp is the best screenshot editing and video screen recording software. You can record anything on your screen and capture it into an image, a GIF, and a high definition video with sound. Anything you see -- on your webcam, a customer call, a Skype, etc.
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    9. Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen.
    10. Skitch is a screenshot editing and sharing utility for Mac and iOS that permits the user to add shapes and text to an image, and then share it online. Images can also be exported to various image formats.
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    11. You're busy. OneNote Web Clipper lets you quickly clip all or part of a web page to OneNote, and save it for later. Clip images, pdfs, videos, or a visual bookmark of a page. Best of all, you can access them from any computer, tablet, or phone - even when you're offline.
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    12. Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share.
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