A lightweight yet powerful screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangular and freehand regions.




Jing is described as 'Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to create basic visual elements and share them with others' and is a very popular screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Jing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and Google Chrome apps. The best Jing alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Jing are Greenshot, SimpleScreenRecorder, Snagit and Bandicam.
A lightweight yet powerful screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangular and freehand regions.




ShadowPlay is a graphics-accelerated overlay to record and share high-quality gameplay videos, screenshots, and livestreams.


TNT Screen Capture creates screen shots that look better than the original screen.




This extension is able to capture 100% of both the vertical and horizontal content appearing on any webpage on the Internet.




Screencast Capture Lite is a tool to continuously capture the desktop screen, storing this information in video files. The application supports recording from the primary screen, from a chosen window or from a fixed region.

Freeware tool for taking fast and simple screenshots of the entire screen, windows and regions.




Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you want.



Video capture, screen recording, in-video questions, call to actions, video management, sharing, LMS integrations, hosting, analytics, and closed captioning inside one app.


An open source multi-platform screen capture and recording tool for simple "capture / annotate / share" workflow. Ginj was inspired by Jing (now discontinued), but although there are similarities in the way both tools behave, Ginj is not Jing.


In SnapDraw Free, all the complicated annotation graphics such as Callouts and Magnifier Lens or nice looking effect such as 3D perspective and Reflections - are built-in tools.

Snipboard (previously known as Snaggy) is an image host that lets you quickly paste and share images from your clipboard directly online.



This is basically an open-source clone of Jing (work in progress)