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Snipping Tool

Snipping Tool is a screen capture utility that allows users to take screenshots of specific objects or full screens, annotate them, and save or share the captured images or videos.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Windows  Included in Windows 10, 7 and Vista.
4.0
Very Good7 reviews
230likes
6comments

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  Annotate Screenshot
  3.  Screen Recording
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  OCR
  7.  Screen Sharing
  8.  Works Offline
  9.  Bundled with Windows

 Tags

  • window-capture

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Boris Yakubchik
1

Already on your computer! No need to download anything 🥳

Guest
0

to cut pictures without download it

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Shoji
0

Preinstalled on windows and easy to use

rupakjakhar
1

Snipping tool are alternative to take a screenshot with easy and later can edit or modify it. The best snipping tool available are:

  • Monosnap
  • Skitch
  • Lightshot
Klementh

What about Greenshot?

cyrusdavidson
0

So easy to use. Very clean interface and does it's job without fail. Can quickly take a screenshot whenever I want.

BUDA20
1

It lacks JPG quality settings and uses something around 80... I would use 97 if I can, so I end up using PNG... or converting later.

Other that that, the best simple tool for the job.

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What is Snipping Tool?

You can use Snipping Tool to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image.

Simply use a mouse or tablet pen to capture any of the following types of snips:

Free-form Snip. Draw an irregular line, such as a circle or a triangle, around an object.

Rectangular Snip. Draw a precise line by dragging the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.

Window Snip. Select a window, such as a browser window or dialog box, that you want to capture.

Full-screen Snip. Capture the entire screen when you select this type of snip.

Record video. Capture a portion or full screen video.

After you capture a snip, it's automatically copied to the mark-up window, where you can annotate, save, or share the snip.

Snipping Tool information

Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Snipping Tool, and it has gotten 230 likes

Snipping Tool was added to AlternativeTo by Ola Johansson on and this page was last updated .