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.

There are many alternatives to Scup for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Spectacle, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Scup and eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Scup are KSnapshot, Xfce4-Screenshooter, ReloadoScreenshot and Collabshot.
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.


This application allows you to capture the entire screen, the active window or a selected region. You can set the delay that elapses before the screenshot is taken and the action that will be done with the screenshot: save it to a PNG file, copy it to the clipboard, open it...

Take, edit and share screenshots with Windows, OS X, Linux, Android and Google Chrome. It's free and simple!


Free web and desktop application that enables quick screen grabs, easy URL-based sharing, and live, multi-person drawing and sketching.






Right click on any web page, frame or iframe, click "Save Page As Image..." and then resize the selection around the piece you want to save.




GNOME Screenshot is a utility used in the GNOME desktop environment for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011.
