Lightshot Alternatives

Lightshot is described as 'Captures customizable screen areas, enables instant online upload, sharing via short URLs, quick edits, local saves, and seamless browser add-ons' and is a very popular screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Lightshot for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and Google Chrome apps. The best Lightshot alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lightshot are Flameshot, Greenshot, Ksnip and FastStone Capture.

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Lightshot alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools, but if you're looking for Screen Recorders or Image Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac, iPad, Linux + Open Source, iPhone, Portable and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Lightshot.
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  1. Snippyly icon
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    Snippyly is a Chrome extension to take full-page screenshots, annotate and collaborate real-time with anyone around the world.

    Eliminate endless back and forth with your team or customers through instantly shareable screenshots. No sign-up required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. Beem icon
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    Provides easy, fast and handy way to instantly share screenshots in the cloud via short urls. It's free. Annotate your beems in a few clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Snappy App icon
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    Your day-to-day App to instantly work and collaborate on snapshots.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. iScribby icon
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    A neat little application that allows you to draw on your screen. Use it from anywhere you want - be it your desktop, while browsing internet or even while in a video game.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Snappy icon
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    Snappy is a desktop-capture software for Microsoft Windows that allows to capture the screen of your monitor. Compared to other similar applications, Snappy could be less complete, but my purpose is to keep it as immediate as I can. Try it, and let me know if I'm wrong...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Kioku icon
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    A capture software suits noobs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. TPUCapture icon
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    TPUCapture is an easy to use screenshot utility with a small memory footprint that resides in the system tray.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. XSnap icon
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    QuickScreenshot is a lightweight and very easy to use application that enables you to take screenshots of your desktop with a few mouse clicks. Just press the wanted screenshot key (or press it multiple times) and your screenshots are done!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 7capture icon
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    7capture is free screen capture software for Windows 7, Vista and XP. 7capture automatically handles complicated transparency problems such as rounded corners and Aero semi-transparent windows backgrounds.

    No matter what Windows version you are using, 7capture will do it's m.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. EasyCapture icon
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    EasyCapture is a powerful and easy-to-use free screen capture software.

    It allows you to capture whole windows, scrolling windows, selected-regions, fixed-size rectangles (regions) and window controls. It has a delayed capture mode, so that you can capture the target window dur.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. MiniSnip icon
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    Meet MiniSnip, the smallest and fastest way to capture your screen and extract text with OCR on Windows. Open-source, feather-light, uses minimal resources, and stays completely out of your way.

    Just one hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+C) is all you need to start.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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