Spectacle
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Germany
EUPlatforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Snapcraft
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Auto File Naming
- Annotate Screenshot
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Dark Mode
- Screen Recording
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Support for Multiple Monitors
- Upload Screenshot
- Portable
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Tags
- screenshots
Spectacle News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about KDE Plasma
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What is Spectacle?
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. The images can then be printed, sent to other applications for manipulation, or quickly be saved as-is.
Features:
Capture Entire Desktop. Capture Current Monitor. Capture Active Window. Capture Rectangular Region. Keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots.
Comments and Reviews
Apparently it offers no option to upload the captured image to any image-sharing web services. Edit dated 28th August, 2023: Tried the updated version today -- blew me away and blew FlameShot out of the water!!! Sharing to NextCloud, Google Drive and Imgur is now available by default, along with options to share by BlueTooth and e-Mail. Also if 'KIPI' plugins are installed then more online services become available. But it was the annotation tool which impressed me, in contrast to FlameShot which I have been using as default, until now.
Really good piece of software! It allows you to take screenshots, to annotate them, to record your screen, etc. You can easily configure options and keyboard shortcuts, and it's easy to use and lightweight.
Works very nice, has everything you want from a screenshot tool
Powerful yet doesn't get in the way.
The first screenshot utility that works flawlessly with my two computers running Manjaro with KDE Plasma (I have tried KSnapshot, gnome-screenshot, xfce4-screenshot)
Best tool to use if you are using kde, well supported and actively developed, only missing annotation tools