Spectacle
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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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Snapcraft
Features
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Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about KDE PlasmaKDE Gear 23.04.1: Updates and improvements for popular apps in the open-source software suite
KDE Gear 23.04.1 has been released, marking the first of three maintenance updates for the latest o...
Recent activities
- kwjedba liked Spectacle
- braky updated Spectacle
- POX added Spectacle as alternative to Shotomatic
- lumi2025 added Spectacle as alternative to Leawo Free Screen Recorder
- niksavc liked Spectacle
Comments and Reviews
The first screenshot utility that works flawlessly with my two computers running Manjaro with KDE Plasma (I have tried KSnapshot, gnome-screenshot, xfce4-screenshot)
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
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.
Powerful yet doesn't get in the way.
Best tool to use if you are using kde, well supported and actively developed, only missing annotation tools