PicPick
Provides versatile screen capture options, built-in image annotation, color picking and palette, precision measurement tools like ruler and protractor, hotkey customization, clipboard and multi-format support, simple tray access, sharing, and portable operation.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Features
Properties
- Customizable
Features
- Full-page Screenshot
- Color Picker
- Edit screenshots
- Portable
- No registration required
- Record desktop activity
- Share screenshots
- Color Palette
- Tabbed interface
Tags
- screen-ruler
- design-tools
- Software developer
PicPick News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- nicolestubbs8 liked PicPick
- puchunga liked PicPick
POX added PicPick as alternative to ScreenSnap Pro- kgursu thinks Full-page Screenshot is a important feature of PicPick
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What is PicPick?
PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user.
It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want.
It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.......
PicPick information
Developed by
NGWIN Licensing
Proprietary and Free Personal product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $1 and $8 per month.Rating
Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
201 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
It's a great tool providing a lot of advanced functionality including auto-scrolling capture, many different output methods, a nice editor for post-processing and good customizability. In terms of structure and usage it is very close to the popular SnagIt software, but it's free for non-commercial use, which is a big plus. It is very useful for power users in that it has good support for taking multiple screenshot in series and have them appear when and where you want to have them (such as tabbed in the included editor, or stored to disk using a customizable filename mask). So its commercial license is definitely also a good alternative for professional users, considering it is really quite cheap.
I have found this tool looking for an alternative to SnagIt, and was very pleased that it supports all the important functions I grew used to while being much more light-weight and clean. Out of all screenshot tools presented on this site at this moment, PicPick is the one I would be most likely to recommend to others.
I use an old version of it. Don't know what's going on with it. And the icon of my old version is different from what I see here. I only use a simple capture and saving to my desktop. I press Ctrl + Q and that's it. You can choose the folder, the image format, the image title in its settings. Maybe if I need to capture with comments, I will appreciate the built-in editor. But I prefer Photoscape for this anyway.
I gave Photoscape a quick look and I hear you, though it's tough to beat the convenience of flexible tray icon settings and captures that go automatically to edit like PicPick can.
An almost ideal application for taking screenshots for me. Disadvantages: 1. You cannot quickly switch the mode of automatically saving a screenshot to a file and creating a screenshot to the clipboard without creating a file. 2. Automatic update does not work in the case of the portable version. Notepad++ and Fan Control fully implement this without the need to open the application website, click several links with advertisements, download the archive, and unpack it, overwriting existing files. 3. There is no creation of screenshots with a beautiful torn edge. Or at least this feature in the editor.
Did you check out the tray icon? It has a lot of flexibility about choosing to send the image to file, clipboard, etc.
I meant something similar to how it is implemented in ShareX: to choose what exactly you want to do with the screenshot, you just need to make a single (!) click. Regardless of whether it is saving to the default folder, saving to a specified folder, copying to the clipboard, or uploading to a site with automatic insertion of the link to the clipboard (in ShareX, I could not make the application do the latter). In fact, the above can be accelerated even more if you need to press one keyboard shortcut to create a screenshot to the clipboard, and another to save to the default folder. Now count how many actions you need to do in PicPick to switch it from copying the screenshot to the clipboard (without saving to a file) to saving to a folder (without copying to the clipboard).
There is one drawback and one drawback alone - it does not allow us to customise cursor or show clicks.
Share X, Captura, and many other fully free screen grab software allow us to do this!
If this was added, I would unhesitatingly recommend PicPick to everyone I know.
Despite this drawback, it was $50 well spent!
Generally pleasant capture program with many options. Strong point is the multi-tab editor that lets you work with more than one current captures, or add to an existing image. Scrolling Window Capture doesn't work right with Chromium-based browsers, but it works with Mozilla-based browsers. I also run an old free 5.3 version of FastStone Capture. (tabs came out in 7.8) FastStone does a decent job of scrolling capture in Chromium, but the resolution of its bigger screen shots don't seem to make the grade. Maybe that will work better now that I switched png resolution to 300dpi. PicPick has good resolution. Saving in PicPick editing window is awkward. No SaveAs button. Pressing Save doesn't give audio or visual confirmation, and the Save-As option under the folder directs you back to a main window vs a popup to type in a name. Autosave autonaming works well. PicPick updates via Edge, not your default. All-in all, I run 2 programs in general for capture with PicPick being one. As I do my work search and mark up captures, I realize I switch back and forth from browser and PicPick editor. If PicPick would add a SaveAs button and integrate the editor w/browser ability, I think it could have an advantage over the newer FastStone Capture. (which has been costing about $20)
Customizable and portable, could take it anywhere.
pikpick is god. this is a beautiful, simple tool in every way. it seems to build off of ms paint, but then do zillions of things paint was never meant to do. this little, free program does it all. i cant resist actually making up excuses online to putter with it again and do more screenshots for something, anything...
you can communicate an awful lot of stuff in an awful lot of ways with a screenshot.... this pikpick tool just keeps growing on me the more and more i use it....
i have had dozens of graphics programs over the decades.... this is the one for me.... it really does alot of cool cool stuff!!!