The Best Open Source Snagit AlternativesTop Screenshot Capture Tools and other similar apps like Snagit

The best open source alternative to Snagit is ShareX. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Snagit and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Snagit are Greenshot, Flameshot, Shutter and GImageReader.

Snagit alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools but may also be Screen Recorders or Document Scanners. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Snagit.

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ShareX
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Screen Recorder
Screen Casting Tool
Windows
Steam
234 ShareX alternatives
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
- - ShareX is the most popular Windows alternative to Snagit.
- - ShareX is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Snagit.
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ShareX Features
1. Ad-freeShareX doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Works OfflineShareX can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in ShareX without registration.
4. PortableShareX can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
5. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
6. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
7. No TrackingShareX will not track you or use your personal data.
8. Dark ModeShareX supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
9. Color PickerShareX allows you to select and copy a color property from an image, object, or shape.
Customizable
Capture Video
Screenshot OCR
Edit screenshots
Built-in Image editor
Share screenshots
GIF recording
Record videos
Support for Hotkeys
Image Annotations
Comments about ShareX as a Alternative to Snagit
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Guest
Have been running both ShareX and Snagit on separate PC's for over a year. Both are good although Snagit can delete your captures if not careful. Will probably drop Snagit for ShareX on all machines.
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Guest
Don't like to pay?? Try ShareX
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Guest
Unable to record video with sound.
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Guest
Operates from the System tray. Simple start and stop. Great video quality. Easy Trim function. Slower Trim Save As than Snagit.
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Guest
Just tested it out and it works great.
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Greenshot
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Freemium • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Image Editor
Mac
Windows
198 Greenshot alternatives
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second or load it up to an Internet-picture-storage and get a public accessible URL (Confluence...
- - Greenshot is the most popular Mac alternative to Snagit.
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Greenshot Features
1. LightweightGreenshot consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
3. Ad-freeGreenshot doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
4. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Greenshot without registration.
5. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
6. Works OfflineGreenshot can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
7. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
8. Full-page ScreenshotGreenshot can capture complete (scrolling) web pages from your web browser.
9. PortableGreenshot can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Image Annotations
Usability
Customizable
GPLv3
Edit screenshots
Screenshot OCR
Multiple languages
Data portability
Enumerate steps
Comments about Greenshot as a Alternative to Snagit
Most users think Greenshot is a great Snagit alternative.
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Guest
The OCR functionality is very useful and the annotation and markup tools are plentiful and easy to use; very small learning curve for a powerful tool.
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Guest
Controls Print Screen button, includes editor to annotate image
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Guest
Doesn't come near the ease and functionalities of what Snagit has. On the plus side, it is free.
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Guest
Greenshot does not even come near Snagit. Very low usability. NOT intuive and the tools are on such a low level-I can`t even describe.
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Guest
Opensource and has all the features that SnagIt have
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Flameshot
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
Flathub
61 Flameshot alternatives
Features a free draw tool, arrows, lines, circles, and other tools for editing screenshots you take. Possibility to add text, but not possible to change text size. Screenshots can be uploaded to Imgur, saved to a local file, or copied directly to your clipboard to easily paste...
- - Flameshot is the most popular Linux alternative to Snagit.
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Flameshot Features
1. LightweightFlameshot consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
3. Ad-freeFlameshot doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
4. Privacy focusedFlameshot is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
5. Works OfflineFlameshot can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
6. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Flameshot without registration.
7. Support for scriptingFlameshot supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
8. Goal TrackingFlameshot can be used for tracking progress toward personal or business goals.
9. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
Drawing on screenshot
Edit screenshots
Selecting part of screen
User friendly
Upload directly to Imgur
Customizable
Shortcut keys
Instant edit screenshots
Highlighter
Blur Filter
Comments about Flameshot as a Alternative to Snagit
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Guest
It does not capture video
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bartonski
If you're looking to make "8x10 glossy photograph with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each", it can't be beat. Lightweight, does its job, gets out of the way quick.
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Shutter
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Linux
99 Shutter alternatives
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
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Shutter Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
2. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
3. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsShutter can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Region clipping
Built-in Image editor
Edit screenshots
Real time editing
Upload directly to Imgur
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Comments about Shutter as a Alternative to Snagit
Most users think Shutter is a great Snagit alternative.
Guest
Works perfectly. It just takes a moment to open.
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pablobianchi
At least on Linux is, stable, on official repos of main distros and with a lot of useful features... and is indeed currently active!
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Guest
With SnagIt you can remove sections from anywhere in the image, close the orphaned parts together to remake the whole, strip out, reduce top,sides,bottom to make a new size, all in the one session. With shutter all you have is crop!
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r0npuma
SnagIt is the best. Unfortunately only works with windows and osx. Shutter has the x11 limitation which is unfortunate as I use Wayland. Also I have to use a screenshot tool with anotations and markup mulitple times a day. Shutter unfortunately doesn't come close. Devs please add wayland support and also checkup snaggit for implementation ideas.
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Guest
It's the best alternative for linux
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GImageReader
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Windows
Linux
71 GImageReader alternatives
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.
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GImageReader Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
Image to text
PDF OCR
Ksnip
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
Snapcraft
Flathub
34 Ksnip alternatives
Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
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Ksnip Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
2. LightweightKsnip consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. Ad-freeKsnip doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
4. Works OfflineKsnip can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
5. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Ksnip without registration.
6. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
7. Privacy focusedKsnip is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
8. No TrackingKsnip will not track you or use your personal data.
9. Command line interfaceKsnip either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Image Annotations
Blur Filter
Edit screenshots
Upload directly to Imgur
Customizable
Image Filters
OCR
Spectacle
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Screen Recorder
Linux
187 Spectacle alternatives
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.
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Spectacle Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
2. Privacy focusedSpectacle is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
3. Works OfflineSpectacle can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
4. Dark ModeSpectacle supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
5. Support for Multiple MonitorsSpectacle supports the use of multiple displays.
6. LightweightSpectacle consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
7. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Spectacle without registration.
8. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
9. Ad-freeSpectacle doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Auto File Naming
No Tracking
Portable