Awesome Screenshot vs Greenshot

Awesome Screenshot captures screenshots and records screen video and camera footage through browser extensions, web access, and listed Mac, Windows, and iPhone products. Screenshots can include entire pages, be annotated, and be exported as PNG, JPG, or PDF; OCR text extraction is also available. The Mac product records system audio and microphone. Browser add-ons are listed for Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Yandex, and Vivaldi. Users can share screenshots through Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail, and collect feedback through Google Drive, Trello, Slack, or Asana; Trello, Slack, Asana, and Jira are listed as connected tools. The Windows desktop app can save recordings to AwesomeScreenshot.com Cloud or a local computer and is described as having no watermark or ads. The free plan allows up to 100 screenshots and 20 recordings, with recordings capped at 6 hours and 720p. It limits advanced screenshot annotation, advanced recording, and editing and download durations. Basic costs $5/month billed annually or $6/month billed monthly.

Greenshot is free, open-source screenshot software for Windows PCs. It can capture a selected region, a window, or the full screen, and can capture scrolling web pages from Internet Explorer. Users can annotate and highlight screenshots, obscure selected portions, and extract text with OCR. Images can be saved, printed, copied, emailed, sent to Office, or uploaded to photo sites such as Flickr or Picasa. Listed export formats are PNG and JPEG. Greenshot is intended for people who create screenshots, including project managers, developers, technical writers, and testers. The Windows plan is listed at free, and an optional cost contribution is $1.99 as a one-time purchase. The latest stable Windows release listed is version 1.3.315, dated 20 Mar 2026. Source code is available in Git repositories. Windows 8 users may be prompted to install.NET 3.5, though they can skip that installation.