FastStone Capture
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A powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
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Comments and Reviews
The feature that capture window while scrolling down works perfect. It was buggy a few years ago. And latest update really improve this function. It gets the job done. Nothing matters more when a tool can get the job done while others cannot. Great job team!
Best scrolling window captures, no bad overlaps and no artifacts!
Reply written Aug 30, 2023
Pretty close to what we're looking for to create instruction video's and demo's, but we turned it down, because it didn't record popup texts. Had it working on an Asus laptop with Windows 8.1.
30 day free trial $19.95 There's also the free portable version 5.3 https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775
With FastStone, you can choose to capture the full screen, an active window, objects, a rectangular region or a freehand region. With this variety of options, you can capture your entire screen, just a small window or anything in between. The program can take a scrolling capture, creating a snapshot of the entire content of a webpage, even if part of it is hidden and requires scrolling to view.
Once you’ve captured an image, the FastStone editor opens automatically. Here you have a basic array of tools that let you draw, highlight, magnify, annotate and combine screen captures.
Bought ~10 years ago, still used daily. Still finding things it can do
No options for changing recording format. Why wmv when mp4 or other containers are available. Other features are good, but is it worth it.
EDIT (2023/04/18): On the 2023 February update the developer has added the ability to save to mp4 that I mentioned above, they have also added the option to record both the microphone and speaker output, which is great. The choice/option to have them on their own tracks would be perfect, for those who want to make edits.
I am sure at one point there will be nothing worth adding or fixing on this, but if the developer is making improvements like this then a lifetime licence is definitely worth it. As of now I think this seems better than ShareX's screen recording feature.
I didn't realize I was liking it. The original freeware is all I need and it is no longer available. I'm not interested in playing with video.