Lightshot Alternatives

Lightshot is described as 'Captures customizable screen areas, enables instant online upload, sharing via short URLs, quick edits, local saves, and seamless browser add-ons' and is a very popular screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Lightshot for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Google Chrome and Linux apps. The best Lightshot alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lightshot are Flameshot, Greenshot, FastStone Capture and PicPick.

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Lightshot alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools, but if you're looking for Screen Recorders or Color Picker Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, iPad, Linux + Open Source, iPhone, Open Source, Portable and Windows. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Lightshot.
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  1. EasyCapture Pro icon

    EasyCapture Pro

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    EasyCapture Pro is a screenshot utility designed for Windows users who need a quick and simple way to take screenshots and save images locally.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. ShotScreen Pro icon

    ShotScreen Pro

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    Capture macOS screenshots with a floating thumbnail for quick actions like renaming, copying, extracting text, scrolling capture, and local background removal. Supports custom folders, virtual desktops, Apple Silicon, temporary stashing, privacy, and customization.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  4. Zipline Android icon

    Zipline Android

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    Zipline Android Client Application for a Diced/Zipline v4 ShareX Server to Upload, Download and Manage Files and Short URLs.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Obtainium
    • OpenAPK
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    Ashampoo Snap

    Capture screenshots or record videos with Ashampoo Snap’s efficient tools. Enjoy easy editing, multi-display support, OCR for 180 languages, and instant sharing capabilities. Revamp your projects with video cutting, annotations, ...

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  6. SlimSnap icon

    SlimSnap

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    SlimSnap is a Mac app that turns a screenshot into structured JSON instead of an image. It captures the screen, runs OCR locally, and outputs the text, elements, colors, and bounding boxes, so terminal AI coding agents (Claude Code, Aider, Codex CLI) can act on the exact element...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. H

    Hardcopy

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    Hardcopy allows you to take screenshots, mark them and save them.

    Standard Hardcopy: The key [Print] prints out the current screen. The key [Alt+Print] prints out the current window. A click onto the Hardcopy - symbol in the System Tray prints out the current screen. In additio.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Lumescape icon

    Lumescape

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    Make screenshots beautiful.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. BetterSnipper icon

    BetterSnipper

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    A modern screenshot utility. Simple yet configurable. Powerful features: Send Snips to your Phone, Upload to Facebook. Drag and Drop images, Snip Types: Manual Size, Window/Region Capture, Fixed Size and Fixed Ratio. That and so much MORE...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. Image Tools icon

    Image Tools

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    Image Tools is a screen capture, file sharing and image processing tool. It features multi-threaded batch image resizing, conversion, cropping, flipping/rotating, watermarks, decolorizing (grayscale, negative, sepia), and optimizing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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