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Snagit

Advanced screen capture and recording tool enabling image or video captures directly from your screen. Includes editing features like callouts, transparency, and effects to enhance visuals. Organize and easily share creations through documents, presentations, or favorite applications.

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Cost / License

  • Subscription
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
202likes

Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Full-page Screenshot
  2.  Edit screenshots
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  OCR
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  Upload directly to Dropbox
  7.  Annotate Screenshot
  8.  Upload Screenshot
  9.  Ad-free
  10.  No registration required
  11.  Dark Mode
  12.  Multiple languages
  13.  Screen Recording
  14. YouTube icon  Upload directly to YouTube
  15.  Auto Scrolling

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Snagit is widely praised for its intuitive interface, powerful capture options, image editor, annotations, scrolling capture, and distinctive cut-out tool. Users often consider it the best or most convenient option, though its cost and licensing restrictions are recurring drawbacks. Several long-term users report worsening performance, crashes, bugs, and weaker reliability—especially on Mac, 4K displays, and after updates. Reviewers also cite limited video editing, OCR, HEIF/HEVC support, Linux availability, and occasional game or password-protected website capture limitations.
Top Positive Comment
Kagerjay
4

as Title suggests

It is the best in its category to similar apps like

ShareX icon ShareX

Greenshot icon Greenshot

Shutter icon Shutter

Lightshot icon Lightshot

FuseBase icon FuseBase

to which I've all tested

hced

Tried all of those including PickPick. Snagit has them all beat, in all areas, most importantly in terms of convenience & flexibility.

Top Negative Comment
BaronVonButthole
1

I've been using Snagit for well over 20 years, at home and at work. When it works, it's quite good at what it does. It has a solid feature set, and the image editor is pretty good, and it has some features you don't find often, such as the incredibly handy "cut" function.

But video editing is practically nonexistent, and Snagit is infuriatingly buggy and finicky. I've reported bugs to TechSmith that they claimed they couldn't reproduce -- and yet I'd easily reproduced it on no fewer than 3 entirely separate systems.

The Snagit Editor is slow to launch (and no, I don't want it running all the time to prevent this). The hotkey configuration is a joke.

The other thing that enrages me about Snagit is the licensing / activation scheme and abysmal privacy. It's constantly making connections to various hosts (including analytics-related hosts and third-party hosts like nalperion.com), and you can't block these connections, or it will stop working.

And sometimes, Snagit decides to deactivate itself. I've had this happen after using System Restore. I'll run Snagit, and it forces me to activate it again. Beyond annoying.

And E-V-E-R-Y year when I update to the new version, it lets me install and use it without issue. Then, a month later, it tells me my trial period is over. They force you to use a new license, but they don't prompt you for the damned thing up front.

It's all so aggravating. I'm not sure I can deal with Snagit anymore, TBH.

Edit: I decided to remove Snagit today, and thanks to Total Uninstall, found that as a final insult, Snagit leaves a ton of garbage on the system -- program files, settings, logs, random mystery directories and files, the shell extension, registry entries, it's uploader service -- you name it. It doesn't really "uninstall" at all. The Snagit uninstaller actually ADDED a Snagit registry value on its way out. WTH?

Snagit is trash with a slick UI and a sizable price tag.

lesm
-1

Best overall but expensive.

s0me0ne
-1

Requires you to input a URL into a field to scrolldown to grab a website, so if the site is password protected, it will not work

8314838
-1

Snagit killer feature for me is cut out one. I find it useful for me. Did not find an alternative with the same tool.

Nicolas
-1

Snagit is my best screen capture and image/video editing tool for many years on Mac and Windows. So easy and usefriendly !

2 only negative points : Unfortunately, doesn't full support HEIF and HEVC files. OCR is not their strong point (DeepL free does it very faster).

Rachel Burris
-1

USE IT ALL THE TIME!

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What is Snagit?

The ultimate screen capture tool. With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology… it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you.

Use Snagit to capture any image you want straight off your computer screen. Enhance with transparency, callouts, and other effects to turn a simple screen shot into an eye-grabbing visual. Easily organize your images and use them again and again for other projects. Then show off your Snagit creations to anyone. Just add them to your documents and presentations… or share using your favorite applications.

It doesn’t take much to explain a concept or an idea with Snagit. The images you create do the talking. And the more you use Snagit, the more ways you’ll find to use it!

Snagit information

  • Developed by

    US flagTechSmith
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $43 and $55 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9 (14 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • Spanish
    • German
    • Japanese

Our users have written 21 comments and reviews about Snagit, and it has gotten 202 likes

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