Greenshot
A free screenshot tool optimized for productivity

Greenshot is a lightweight, free, and open-source screenshot tool for Windows that lets users quickly capture selected regions, windows, or full screens. It includes built-in annotation tools to highlight or obfuscate parts of screenshots. Users can export captures in multiple ways, including saving to file, printing, copying to clipboard, or uploading to photo-sharing sites.
Users invoke Greenshot to capture a region, window, or full screen, then annotate and export the screenshot through various built-in options.
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Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
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