| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Screenshot Annotation Software | 7.4 (#63) | 8.6 (#6) |
| Annotations | The capture overlay includes drawing, text, highlighting, blur, pixelation, counters, erasing, and color picking tools. | Annotation tools include pen, marker, shapes, text, stickers, blur, pixelation, effects, and watermarks. |
| Capture | It supports region and monitor capture with multi-monitor and high-DPI handling, plus window selection capture on Windows. | It can capture custom or previously selected areas, screens, and windows, with configurable delay. |
| Export formats | PNG (file-save command example); clipboard copy | PDF, PS |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| License | EShot is released under the MIT License. | The GitHub project lists Ksnip under the GPL-3.0 license. |
| Platforms | Supported targets include Windows 10/11 x64, Windows 11 ARM64, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland, and GNOME Wayland; other Linux desktops are unsupported. | The project lists support for Linux, Windows, and macOS; Linux support includes X11 and Wayland options. |
| Purpose | EShot is a native screenshot tool for Windows and Linux with annotation, OCR, visual search, uploads, pinned captures, GIF recording, and video capture. | Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool with annotation features. |
| Redaction tools | No | Yes |
| Support | The project directs users to GitHub Discussions for questions and feature requests and GitHub Issues for bug reports. | The project directs users to GitHub issues for bugs and feature requests and offers Discord and IRC for community discussion. |