Greenshot
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Lightweight screenshot tool offering OCR, exports to Office apps and online storage, integration with external commands, supporting 32 languages and minimal space requirement.
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- Freemium (Pay once)
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
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Really handy screenshot tool! It makes capturing and saving screenshots quick and easy. The interface is simple, and everything works smoothly. Definitely a useful app for everyday use!
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Developed by
Jens Klingen, Thomas Braun, Robin Krom Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $2 + free version with limited functionality.Written in
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Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
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Photos & Graphics, Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
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see this app
it runs greenshot for image editing but has slew of numerous features layered on top of it, including gif support, uploading host support, scroll captures, OCR recognition, etc
shareX is like greenshot 2.0
POST UPDATE 1/1/18
Greenshot standalone is starting to incorporate a lot of shareX features, I use both a standalone greenshot and sharex+portable-green-shot editor right now, depending on what I'm doing. I customize shareX extensively, greenshot I use all default values out of the box since the defaults are great
ShareX vs Greenshot comparison
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[Edited by Kagerjay, January 02]
Back then, when I tried to use this application, I received error messages like "Sorry, an unexpected error occured. The good news is: you can help us getting rid of it by filing a bug report. Please visit the URL below, create a new bug report and paste the contents from the text area into the description. Please add a meaningful summary and enclose any information you consider to be helpful for reproducing the issue. Also, we would highly appreciate if you checked whether a tracker item already exists for this bug. (You can use the search to find those quickly.) Thank you:)".
Really handy screenshot tool! It makes capturing and saving screenshots quick and easy. The interface is simple, and everything works smoothly. Definitely a useful app for everyday use!
Great alternative to Windows Clipping Tool and Windows 10 screenshot tool. Best feature is the ability to quickly edit screenshots for blurring parts or drawing arrows.
1/20/2026 EDIT: It's not dead anymore! In active development since May 2025. Latest release as of this writing is 1/7/2026.
Greenshot is very lightweight, perfect for taking the screenshots needed, though I was pretty concerned about it not being updated since 2017. There are even users on the GitHub repo that are hoping for a new version of Greenshot to be released. I was also a tad bit concerned about Greenshot being privacy-friendly. A couple or so trackers on the website, and the "Privacy friendly" and/or "No tracking" features aren't listed here on AlternativeTo. All this makes up for why I switched to
ShareX While a bit bigger in terms of filesize for the installation, it has more features, including the ability to making screen recordings and GIFs.
I find it better than ShareX since it's lightweight and does not consume as much RAM as a background process. Also very easy to use.
Works flawless since years. I would love to see an update (last in 2017), but if it works, it works.