Ksnip
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Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Customizable
- Privacy focused
Features
- Image Annotations
- Annotate Screenshot
- Blur Filter
- Edit screenshots
- Ad-free
- Upload directly to Imgur
- Works Offline
- Upload Screenshot
- Tabbed interface
- Image Filters
- No registration required
- Built-in viewer
- No Tracking
- Command line interface
- OCR
Tags
- Linux
- qt5
- imgur-uploader
- screenshots
- annotation
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What is Ksnip?
Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
Latest ksnip version contains following features:
- Supports Linux (X11, Plasma Wayland, GNOME Wayland and xdg-desktop-portal Wayland), Windows and macOS.
- Screenshot of a custom rectangular area that can be drawn with mouse cursor.
- Screenshot of last selected rectangular area without selecting again.
- Screenshot of the screen/monitor where the mouse cursor is currently located.
- Screenshot of full-screen, including all screens/monitors.
- Screenshot of window that currently has focus.
- Screenshot of window under mouse cursor.
- Screenshot with or without mouse cursor.
- Capture mouse cursor as annotation item that can be moved and deleted.
- Customizable capture delay for all capture options.
- Upload screenshots directly to imgur.com in anonymous or user mode.
- Upload screenshots via FTP in anonymous or user mode.
- Upload screenshots via custom user defined scripts.
- Command-line support, for capturing screenshots and saving to default location, filename and format.
- Filename wildcards for Year ($Y), Month ($M), Day ($D), Time ($T) and Counter (multiple # characters for number with zero-leading padding).
- Print screenshot or save it to PDF/PS.
- Annotate screenshots with pen, marker, rectangles, ellipses, texts and other tools.
- Annotate screenshots with stickers and add custom stickers.
- Crop and cut out vertical/horizontal slices of images.
- Obfuscate image regions with blur and pixelate.
- Add effects to image (Drop Shadow, Grayscale, invert color or Border).
- Add watermarks to captured images.
- Global hotkeys for capturing screenshots (currently only for Windows and X11).
- Tabs for screenshots and images.
- Open existing images via dialog, drag-and-drop or paste from clipboard.
- Run as single instance application (secondary instances send cli parameter to primary instance).
- Pin screenshots in frameless windows that stay atop other windows.
- User-defined actions for taking screenshot and post-processing.
- OCR support through plugin (Window and Linux/Unix).
- Many configuration options.
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Ksnip information
Developed by
Damir Porobic Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.5Alternatives
59 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Photos & Graphics, OS & Utilities, Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
- 3,022 Stars
- 207 Forks
- 318 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
This is the best screenshot tool I've found for Linux. It strikes the perfect balance between having all the annotation tools you need, without doing too much.
The interface is intuitive and there are some nice configuration options, including the ability to send screenshots to your Imgur account.
Wil not scrolldown to do screenshots in a window for Mac.
Doesn't do scrolldown screenshots for Windows either, but it looks good for doing measured editing of snapshots.
No new release since on Mar 15, 2023 Better alternative Gradia
Gradia
Does anything I ever wanted from a screenshot tool. Reliable and incredibly useful
Editor has a tabbed interface like the program PicPick. At the moment, I find PicPick's tabbed editor easier to use, but that may be due to lack of experience.
The best we can get before ShareX releases on Linux
I wanted a program that saved instantly without me having to select anything like I did in Lightshot and this program brought me that