What is Greenshot?
Greenshot is a free and open-source screenshot tool for Windows. It allows users to capture screenshots of their computer screens, including full-screen captures, selected regions, or specific windows. Greenshot offers a range of features to enhance the screenshot-taking process and is widely used for creating and sharing screenshots.
Greenshot is widely used by individuals, professionals, and educators for capturing and sharing visual content. It provides a straightforward and feature-rich solution for taking screenshots on Windows systems.
What makes Greenshot strong?
- Greenshot supports various capture modes, including full screen, window, region, and freehand capture. This flexibility allows users to capture specific portions of their screens.
- After capturing a screenshot, Greenshot provides tools for adding annotations, highlights, and text to the image. This is useful for emphasizing specific details or providing context.
- Greenshot includes basic image editing features, allowing users to crop, resize, and add shapes to their screenshots.
- Users can easily export their screenshots to various formats, including PNG, JPG, BMP, and others. Greenshot also allows for direct copying of screenshots to the clipboard.
- Greenshot has built-in OCR functionality, enabling users to extract text from images and screenshots. This can be helpful for capturing text content from non-editable images.
- Greenshot integrates with external tools and applications, allowing users to send screenshots directly to email, image editors, or file-sharing services.
- Greenshot keeps a history of captured screenshots, making it easy for users to review and manage their recent captures.
- The application supports customizable hotkeys, allowing users to quickly trigger different capture modes without navigating through menus.
- Greenshot is highly configurable, and users can customize settings such as image format, quality, and destination folders.
- Greenshot is open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is free to use and can be downloaded and installed without any cost.
All features
- Capture Modes
- Annotations and Markups
- Image Editing
- Export Options
- Optical Character Recognition
- Integration with External Tools
- Capture History
- Hotkey Support
- Configurability
Pricing
Free
monthly
US$
