Flameshot

Name: Flameshot
Rating: 4.4 (46 reviews)

Powerful yet simple to use free and opensource screenshot software for Linux and Windows.

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Flathub

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Avg rating of 4.4 (46)| 36 comments

What is Flameshot?

Features a free draw tool, arrows, lines, circles, and other tools for editing screenshots you take. Possibility to add text, but not possible to change text size. Screenshots can be uploaded to Imgur, saved to a local file, or copied directly to your clipboard to easily paste in other programs. Many configuration options are available, such as hiding icons or changing the colors used in the program. Flameshot is also open source, so experienced developers can help improve the program.

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Flameshot Features

LightweightFlameshot consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
Privacy focusedFlameshot is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
Works OfflineFlameshot can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Ad-freeFlameshot doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Flameshot without registration.
Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
Support for scriptingFlameshot supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Goal TrackingFlameshot can be used for tracking progress toward personal or business goals.

Flameshot information

Developed byDharkael
LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
Written in
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RatingAverage rating of 4.4 (46 ratings)
Alternatives60 alternatives listed

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English

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21,663 Stars
1,382 Forks
492 Open Issues
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Our users have written 36 comments and reviews about Flameshot, and it has gotten 162 likes

Flameshot was added to AlternativeTo by Noahkiq on and this page was last updated .

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Noahkiq

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Great alternative to ShareX, works flawlessly. Easy to install and use, even when compiling it myself.

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guilherme1

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This is the best screenshot app as of now. Simply fantastic!

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r0npuma

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Frustrating experience. Tried using this with several different distro (Arch, openSUSE, Fedora, NixOS), DE (KDE/Gnome), and both Wayland and X11. It's only worked once and not that great using Arch, KDE, x11 & sometimes with Wayland. Why of why can't there be screenshot tool that just works? Spektacle was the best but only worked with KDE + x11. I prefer Gnome + Wayland.

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coth

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Usability starving. So much clicks to do simple tasks. And so much things it can't do comparing to ShareX. And fundamental functionality. Not talking about ShareX tools.

Context menu only have one option - Take Screenshot. Which is a region.
You can't take screenshot of a specific window at all.
To take a screenshot of whole desktop (and you can only take all screens, if you have several monitors), you have to open main Flameshot window.
To take last taken region, you have to fo to configuration and switch the mode. Take screenshots and then option configuration window and switch the mode back. So instead of 2 clicks you have to make tones of mouse movements and 12 clicks...

Just add it all to context menu - Take screenshot of desktop, specific monitor, specific window, region, last region.

While it can optionally save after copy to clipboard, option is hidden far deep in settings and UI is overloaded with buttons that have new random positions every time. You spend a lot of time to just to save or copy an image. Why not to split editor and capture UI, like ShareX does? You don't need editor every time.
You can't change size of magnifier and magnifier does not show X and Y position of mouse cursor.
Options to set delay and enable disable mouse cursor capture. They are important. Often you need to take a screenshot of some submenu of something that is closing while inactive. Delay deals with the problem. And in ShareX you can switch it quickly, right from context menu.
There is no any history of taken screenshots. Only uploads. So you can't edit screenshot after you took it and you can't upload if you missed an opportunity. You have to start over.

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s0me0ne

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Can't scrolldown in a window and grab an entire site at least on Mac.

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yasink

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I've registered this alternativeto.net to give 5 stars to Flameshot. It is perfect.

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Schnatt_App

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works well, fast, simple to use, yet powerfull options

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.exe and .msi files are available

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The official repo of linux distributions might be old, so Snap, Flatpak and AppImage are available.

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