EShot

Spec sheet

Purpose

EShot is a native screenshot tool for Windows and Linux with annotation, OCR, visual search, uploads, pinned captures, GIF recording, and video capture.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Platforms

Supported targets include Windows 10/11 x64, Windows 11 ARM64, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland, and GNOME Wayland; other Linux desktops are unsupported.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Security

OAuth tokens are stored in the operating system credential store rather than EShot's plain-text settings file.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Privacy

Visual search uploads the selected region to a temporary public image host, and the README advises against using it for private or sensitive screenshots.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support

The project directs users to GitHub Discussions for questions and feature requests and GitHub Issues for bug reports.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

EShot is released under the MIT License.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Annotation

Annotation tools include pen, arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, highlighter, blur, pixelate, counter, eraser, and eyedropper.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Annotations

The capture overlay includes drawing, text, highlighting, blur, pixelation, counters, erasing, and color picking tools.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Browser extension

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Capture

It supports region and monitor capture with multi-monitor and high-DPI handling, plus window selection capture on Windows.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Credentials

Google Drive and Yandex Disk require OAuth access tokens, while Allwebs and Radikal Cloud require API keys; OAuth tokens are stored in the operating system credential store rather than EShot’s plain-text settings file.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Export formats

PNG (file-save command example); clipboard copyRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Linux limitation

Other Linux desktops and compositors are unsupported and are unlikely to work correctly.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

OCR and search

EShot uses Tesseract OCR and offers Google Lens or Yandex Images visual search for a selected region.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

OCR and translation

Tesseract OCR can extract text, which users can copy or hand off to Google Translate in a browser.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Recording

EShot supports selected-region GIF recording and MP4 recording with configurable FPS, quality, duration, desktop audio, and microphone audio.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Redaction tools

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Supported systems

The project lists stable support for Windows 10/11 x64, Windows 11 ARM64, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on Linux, and GNOME Wayland, with GNOME less broadly tested.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Team collaboration

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Updates

Installed AppImages and per-user Windows installations at least two stable releases behind can update automatically, with GitHub SHA-256 digest verification.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Upload integrations

Screenshot uploads are supported to Catbox, Uguu, Litterbox, TmpFiles.org, temp.sh, Allwebs, Radikal Cloud, Google Drive, and Yandex Disk.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Visual search

Users can send a selected region to Google Lens or Yandex Images; EShot uploads that region to a temporary public image host and warns against using this for sensitive screenshots.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Screenshot Annotation Software#63 of 767.4