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Greenshot

Score9.6 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Greenshot?

Greenshot is a screenshot tool designed for Windows and Mac devices. According to the vendor, it enables users to effortlessly capture and edit screenshots, making it a useful tool for professionals across various industries. Greenshot is said to be suitable for businesses of all sizes, from small companies to large enterprises. It caters to a wide range of professions, including project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers, graphic designers, web developers, technical support teams, content creators, and individuals who frequently create screenshots.

Key Features

Quickly create screenshots: Greenshot reportedly allows users to easily capture selected regions, windows, or the entire screen, including complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer.

Easily annotate, highlight, or obfuscate parts of the screenshot: Users can enhance their screenshots by adding shapes such as rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows, and freehand lines to highlight and annotate specific areas. The appearance of shapes, including line thickness, color, and fill color, can be customized. Additionally, text elements with adjustable size and font can be inserted into the screenshot.

Export the screenshot in various ways: According to the vendor, Greenshot provides multiple options for exporting screenshots, including saving them to a file, sending them to a printer, copying them to the clipboard, attaching them to an email, sending them to Office programs, and uploading them to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa.

Additional options for working with screenshots: Users can resize the screenshot, capture the mouse pointer, play a camera sound for audible feedback, and set a time delay before capturing the screen. The interactive window capture mode allows for easy selection of windows to capture. Greenshot also offers the ability to resize the editor window to match the size of the screenshot.

Effortlessly capture complete web pages: Greenshot reportedly includes a scrolling capture feature that allows users to capture entire web pages, even those that extend beyond the visible screen area, providing a comprehensive view of webpage content.

Edit screenshots with ease: Greenshot's editor reportedly allows users to crop, rotate, and resize screenshots. It also offers a pixelate feature to blur sensitive information and an undo/redo functionality for easy editing.

Customizable hotkeys: According to the vendor, Greenshot allows users to assign custom hotkeys for various functions, making the screenshot capturing and editing process more efficient.

Save screenshots in multiple image formats: Greenshot is said to support saving screenshots in popular image formats such as PNG, JPEG, and BMP, allowing for easy compatibility and sharing.

Integration with cloud storage services: According to the vendor, Greenshot seamlessly integrates with cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive, enabling users to save and access their screenshots from anywhere.

Multi-language support: Greenshot reportedly offers support for multiple languages, ensuring that users from different regions can use the tool in their preferred language.

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Technical Details

Technical Details
Deployment TypesOn-Premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

FAQs

What is Greenshot?
Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool for Windows, used to create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; or even complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer. Greenshot also supports screenshot annotation, highlighting or obfuscation of parts of the screenshot. And screenshots can be exported in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others.
How much does Greenshot cost?
Greenshot starts at $0.
What are Greenshot's top competitors?
Fenêtre Capture Tool and ShareX are common alternatives for Greenshot.