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Snagit

Advanced screen capture and recording tool enabling image or video captures directly from your screen. Includes editing features like callouts, transparency, and effects to enhance visuals. Organize and easily share creations through documents, presentations, or favorite applications.

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Cost / License

  • Subscription
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
4.0
Very Good15 reviews
199likes
21comments

Features

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  1.  Full-page Screenshot
  2.  Edit screenshots
  3.  Upload directly to Dropbox
  4.  Multiple languages
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  OCR
  7.  No Tracking
  8.  Annotate Screenshot
  9.  Upload Screenshot
  10.  Ad-free
  11.  No registration required
  12.  Dark Mode
  13.  Screen Recording
  14. YouTube icon  Upload directly to YouTube
  15.  Auto Scrolling
  16.  Freeform capture

 Tags

  • text-capture
  • object-capture
  • screenshots

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Comment summary: Snagit is praised for its ease of use, robust capturing, and editing capabilities, making it a preferred tool for screen captures and annotations. Users appreciate longstanding features like the image editor and unique tools such as the 'cut' function. However, some have criticized recent updates for bugs, poor performance with newer displays, and a convoluted licensing scheme. There is also frustration with the software's heavy system footprint and unreliable customer support.
Top Positive Comment
Kagerjay
5

as Title suggests

It is the best in its category to similar apps like

ShareX icon ShareX

Greenshot icon Greenshot

Shutter icon Shutter

Lightshot icon Lightshot

FuseBase icon FuseBase

to which I've all tested

hced

Tried all of those including PickPick. Snagit has them all beat, in all areas, most importantly in terms of convenience & flexibility.

Top Negative Comment
BaronVonButthole
0

I've been using Snagit for well over 20 years, at home and at work. When it works, it's quite good at what it does. It has a solid feature set, and the image editor is pretty good, and it has some features you don't find often, such as the incredibly handy "cut" function.

But video editing is practically nonexistent, and Snagit is infuriatingly buggy and finicky. I've reported bugs to TechSmith that they claimed they couldn't reproduce -- and yet I'd easily reproduced it on no fewer than 3 entirely separate systems.

The Snagit Editor is slow to launch (and no, I don't want it running all the time to prevent this). The hotkey configuration is a joke.

The other thing that enrages me about Snagit is the licensing / activation scheme and abysmal privacy. It's constantly making connections to various hosts (including analytics-related hosts and third-party hosts like nalperion.com), and you can't block these connections, or it will stop working.

And sometimes, Snagit decides to deactivate itself. I've had this happen after using System Restore. I'll run Snagit, and it forces me to activate it again. Beyond annoying.

And E-V-E-R-Y year when I update to the new version, it lets me install and use it without issue. Then, a month later, it tells me my trial period is over. They force you to use a new license, but they don't prompt you for the damned thing up front.

It's all so aggravating. I'm not sure I can deal with Snagit anymore, TBH.

Edit: I decided to remove Snagit today, and thanks to Total Uninstall, found that as a final insult, Snagit leaves a ton of garbage on the system -- program files, settings, logs, random mystery directories and files, the shell extension, registry entries, it's uploader service -- you name it. It doesn't really "uninstall" at all. The Snagit uninstaller actually ADDED a Snagit registry value on its way out. WTH?

Snagit is trash with a slick UI and a sizable price tag.

lesm
0

Best overall but expensive.

s0me0ne
0

Requires you to input a URL into a field to scrolldown to grab a website, so if the site is password protected, it will not work

8314838
0

Snagit killer feature for me is cut out one. I find it useful for me. Did not find an alternative with the same tool.

Nicolas
0

Snagit is my best screen capture and image/video editing tool for many years on Mac and Windows. So easy and usefriendly !

2 only negative points : Unfortunately, doesn't full support HEIF and HEVC files. OCR is not their strong point (DeepL free does it very faster).

Rachel Burris
0

USE IT ALL THE TIME!

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What is Snagit?

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.

Use Snagit to capture any image you want straight off your computer screen. Enhance with transparency, callouts, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-grabbing visual. Easily organize your images and use them again and again for other projects. Then show off your Snagit creations to anyone. Just add them to your documents and presentations… or share using your favorite applications.

It doesn’t take much to explain a concept or an idea with Snagit. The images you create do the talking. And the more you use Snagit, the more ways you’ll find to use it!

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Snagit information

  • Developed by

    US flagTechSmith
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $43 and $55 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4 (15 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    202 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • Spanish
    • German
    • Japanese

Our users have written 21 comments and reviews about Snagit, and it has gotten 199 likes

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