Open Source FastStone Capture Alternatives
The best open source alternative to FastStone Capture is ShareX. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to FastStone Capture and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to FastStone Capture are Greenshot, VokoscreenNG, Spectacle and ScreenCam.
FastStone Capture alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools but may also be Screen Recorders or Screen Casting Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of FastStone Capture.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 many supported destinations you can choose from.
ShareX vs FastStone Capture opinions
Wow so fast much configurations
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support.
Greenshot vs FastStone Capture opinions
evanhuhas the same picture editing feature.
It is not screen cast maker.
GreenShot have all same capacities of FastStone Capture... and more and it's free :)
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
VokoscreenNG is a user friendly screencaster for Linux and Windows. It is a continuation of the now discontinued Vokoscreen project that has been totally rewritten from scratch using Qt and GStreamer.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
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.
ScreenCam is a free and open-source Android app to record screen using native API and without root. It can record sound from the speaker and is configurable, letting you change the recording format and location of save files among other options.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Freeware tool for taking fastest and simple screenshots of entire screen, windows and regions.
This is a default screenshot app for Linux Deepin.
This application allows you to capture the entire screen, the active window or a selected region.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you want.
Discontinued
The project seems no longer developed. Last version, 2.2.0, released in September 2014, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
In December 2015, KSnapshot has been replaced by Spectacle.
Discontinued
Spectacle replaced KSnapshot with the release of KDE Applications 15.12 in December 2015. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSnapshot)