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, Shutter, Flameshot and OSS Document Scanner.

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Snagit

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Screenshot Capture Tool
Paid • Proprietary

The ultimate screen capture tool. With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology… it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you.

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Snagit alternatives page was last updated Aug 5, 2024

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ShareX
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.
244 ShareX alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Screen Recorder
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Steam
+9
Top ShareX Features
1. Screen Recording
2. Customizable
3. Ad-free
4. Capture Video
5. Screenshot OCR
6. Edit screenshots
7. Share Videos
8. Built-in Image editor
9. GIF recording
10. Support for Hotkeys
11. Record videos
12. Share screenshots
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ShareX VS Snagit
Is ShareX a good alternative to Snagit?
Comments about ShareX as an Alternative to Snagit

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.
Top positive comment •Oct 3, 2020
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Guest
Just tested it out and it works great.
Top positive comment •Nov 27, 2017
1
Guest
Unable to record video with sound.
Top negative comment •Oct 16, 2016
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Guest
Don't like to pay?? Try ShareX
Positive comment •Jan 5, 2021
0
Guest
Operates from the System tray. Simple start and stop. Great video quality. Easy Trim function. Slower Trim Save As than Snagit.
Positive comment •Apr 21, 2020
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- Most users think ShareX is a great Snagit alternative.
- ShareX is the most popular Windows alternative to Snagit.
- ShareX is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Snagit.
- ShareX is Free and Open SourceSnagit is Paid and Proprietary
- ShareX is CustomizableSnagit is not according to our users

Greenshot
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...
199 Greenshot alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application types
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Image Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
+9
Top Greenshot Features
1. Lightweight
2. Image Annotations
3. Usability
4. Annotate Screenshot
5. Customizable
6. Ad-free
7. No registration required
8. Works Offline
9. Portable
10. Full-page Screenshot
11. Upload Screenshot
12. OCR
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Greenshot VS Snagit
Is Greenshot a good alternative to Snagit?
Comments about Greenshot as an Alternative to Snagit

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.
Top positive comment •Mar 28, 2017
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Guest
Controls Print Screen button, includes editor to annotate image
Top positive comment •Dec 19, 2016
2
Guest
Doesn't come near the ease and functionalities of what Snagit has. On the plus side, it is free.
Top negative comment •Apr 10, 2020
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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.
Negative comment •Aug 31, 2018
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Guest
Opensource and has all the features that SnagIt have
Positive comment •Feb 17, 2017
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- Most users think Greenshot is a great Snagit alternative.
- Greenshot is the most popular Mac alternative to Snagit.
- Greenshot is Freemium and Open SourceSnagit is Paid and Proprietary
- Greenshot is Lightweight and CustomizableSnagit is not according to our users

Shutter
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems. It is free, open-source, and licensed under GPL v3.
96 Shutter alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Screenshot Capture Tool
Platforms
- Linux
+2
Shutter Features
1. Region clipping
2. Built-in Image editor
3. Edit screenshots
4. Real time editing
5. Annotate Screenshot
6. Upload Screenshot
7. Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
8. Upload directly to Imgur
9. Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
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Shutter VS Snagit
Is Shutter a good alternative to Snagit?
Comments about Shutter as an Alternative to Snagit

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!
Top positive comment •Sep 16, 2018
1
Guest
Works perfectly. It just takes a moment to open.
Top positive comment •Feb 20, 2023
1
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!
Top negative comment •May 25, 2016
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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.
Negative comment •Sep 14, 2023
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Guest
It's the best alternative for linux
Positive comment •Feb 27, 2017
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- Most users think Shutter is a great Snagit alternative.
- Shutter is the most popular Linux alternative to Snagit.
- Shutter is Free and Open SourceSnagit is Paid and Proprietary

Flameshot
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...
65 Flameshot alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Screenshot Capture Tool
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
+3
Top Flameshot Features
1. Lightweight
2. Drawing on screenshot
3. Annotate Screenshot
4. Edit screenshots
5. Selecting part of screen
6. User friendly
7. Upload directly to Imgur
8. Customizable
9. Ad-free
10. Shortcut keys
11. Instant edit screenshots
12. Blur Filter
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Flameshot VS Snagit
Is Flameshot a good alternative to Snagit?
Comments about Flameshot as an Alternative to Snagit

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.
Positive comment •Aug 8, 2022
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jgorell
Flameshot is not an option until the project owner corrects the kde-frameworks dependency. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/3119
Negative comment •Aug 5, 2024
0
- Flameshot is Free and Open SourceSnagit is Paid and Proprietary
- Flameshot is Lightweight and CustomizableSnagit is not according to our users

OSS Document Scanner
The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.
57 OSS Document Scanner alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Document Scanner
- Image Scanner
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
+1
Top OSS Document Scanner Features
1. Scan documents
2. Export to PDF
3. Works Offline
4. Built-in viewer
5. OCR
6. Mobile Scanner
7. Ad-free
8. No registration required
9. Lightweight
10. Dark Mode
11. Screenshot OCR
12. WebDAV Sync
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OSS Document Scanner VS Snagit
Is OSS Document Scanner a good alternative to Snagit?
- OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Snagit.
- OSS Document Scanner is Free and Open SourceSnagit is Paid and Proprietary
- OSS Document Scanner is LightweightSnagit is not according to our users

Ksnip
Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
38 Ksnip alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Screenshot Capture Tool
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
+6
Top Ksnip Features
1. Image Annotations
2. Annotate Screenshot
3. Blur Filter
4. Edit screenshots
5. Upload directly to Imgur
6. Ad-free
7. Lightweight
8. Privacy focused
9. No registration required
10. Upload Screenshot
11. Built-in viewer
12. Works Offline
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Ksnip VS Snagit
Is Ksnip a good alternative to Snagit?
Comments about Ksnip as an Alternative to Snagit

Guest
It is not as powerful as snagit, but the most common features it has - for me a perfect fit.
Positive comment •Dec 18, 2023
0
- Ksnip is Free and Open SourceSnagit is Paid and Proprietary
- Ksnip is Lightweight and Privacy focusedSnagit is not according to our users

GImageReader
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.
78 GImageReader alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Screenshot Capture Tool
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
GImageReader Features
OCR
Image to text
PDF OCR
Annotate Screenshot
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GImageReader VS Snagit
Is GImageReader a good alternative to Snagit?