Greenshot vs Gyazo

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.

Gyazo captures images and video, then creates links that can be shared. It supports still images, videos, frames, webcam footage, and voice explanations, with scrolling capture and exports in JPG, PNG, GIF, and MP4. OCR recognizes text in captures and makes those words searchable. Passwords, viewer permissions, and hashed URLs provide ways to control access. Gyazo runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web, with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge support. The free plan allows unlimited screenshot capture and uploads, and unlimited HD video recording and uploads, but only the 10 latest images are accessible and recordings are limited to 7 seconds. Gyazo Pro costs $6.99 a month on a 12-month monthly plan, or $71.88 a year. Pro supports video recording up to 10 minutes and replay recording up to 30 seconds. Teams has a five-user minimum and includes private team sharing, multi-user management, team billing, a custom subdomain, and optional Google Workspace SSO.