Top 15 FastStone Capture Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture and screen recording tool that allows for capturing and annotating anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages.
Other notable features include an eyedropper color selection, a resizeable on-screen ruler, a magnify glass tool, and pixel-exact cropping via arrow keys.

Until version 5.3 (Feb 2007) the application used to be Freeware. This version is still available on the net (see comments).

1. Smartshot: Screen capture, Annotate

Smartshot: Screen capture, Annotate 1. Croping any part of the screenshot.2. Drawing on the screenshot.3. Inputing custom text on the screenshot.4. Sharing the screenshot after it’s taken.Annotate and edit your screenshot:Annotate any image with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text Crop, scroll & show crop area dimensions Blur certain sections to hide sensitive information.Save......

2. Screenpresso

Screenpresso Screenshot and screencast tool that allows for full-screen, window or region-based captures. The built-in editor for screenshots supports cropping and resizing, arrows, text labels, numbering, a blur tool, and border effects.Screenpresso integrates with several online services, such as twitter/twitpic, minus, gmail, flickr, facebook, etc. (some of them with branding in......

3. SnapaShot

SnapaShot The smallest free tool for taking screenshots of different size. Just open SnapaShot, resize it's window to fit the area you want to save, and press "save it" button.Features SnapaShot is the easiest and quickest way to capture screen!You don't need to install it, just download and use Snapa anywhereSnapaShot......

4. load.re

load.re load.re is fastest screenshot tool in the web. You can capture your whole screen or simply an area of it!Available also as an addon for Chrome, but we recommend to try out our desktop application.Fastest way to capture your screen! Share images in seconds!......

5. HotShots

HotShots 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.Because HotShots is written with Qt, it runs on Windows and......

6. CamStudio

CamStudio Record your computer screen with audio input from Mic or Speakers. Also shows mouse clicks in addition to the regular cursor. Simple interface with ability to record in AVI or export as swf.......

7. Greenshot

Greenshot Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second or load it up to an Internet-picture-storage and get a public accessible URL (Confluence, Box.com, Dropbox, Flick, Imgur without/with password,......

8. Gyazo

Gyazo Gyazo lets you instantly grab the screen and upload the image to the web. You can easily share on Chat, Social, Email, or anywhere!Review and edit your images online at http://gyazo.com/history and on your iPhone with the Gyazo app.Gyazo Ninja ( http://gyazo.com/premium/ ) upgrades Gyazo to......

9. Jing

Jing Jing takes a picture or video of the users computer screen and uploads it to the Web, FTP, computer or clipboard. Note: recording is limited to 5 min and a low quality of 10 frames per second. Furthermore, videos are saved as proprietary SWF Flash files, making it impossible to......

10. Office Mix

Office Mix Office Mix allows you to turn your PowerPoints into interactive online lessons or presentations. We install an add-in that gives you the ability to record audio, video, and handwriting, and insert interactive elements like quizzes, online videos, Khan Academy and CK-12 Foundation content, PhET Interactive Simulations, and even web......

11. ShootMe

ShootMe ShootMe allows you to take screenshots of your device. Just fire up ShootMe and give a good sustained shake or shout to take a screenshot. If present, the light sensor can be used as well.On higher end devices (a8/neon based) one can record movies as well.Audio support for movies/screencasts is......

12. Snagit

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......

13. Lightshot

Lightshot Lightshot - easy screenshot tool, is screen capture tool for Windows that works very much like the Snipping tool in Windows Vista and 7, with the added advantage of automatically uploading it online for sharing or editing. Available also as Firefox addon, Chrome extension and IE addon besides Desktop application.......

14. Tapes

Tapes 1. Select a part of the screen.2. Record up to 3 minutes.3. Immediately share the link.......

15. WinSnap

WinSnap WinSnap is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. Standard features include easy capture of non-rectangular windows with customized and transparent backgrounds, simple and automatic canvas transformations, coloring effects, and the addition of eye-candy drop shadows. WinSnap supports a variety of image formats and has advanced auto-save features.......