Greenshot vs Screention

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.

Screention is a desktop screenshot tool for capturing, annotating, styling, extracting text from, and sharing screenshots. Its capture overlay lets users select screen regions precisely and see pixel dimensions as they work. Annotation options include arrows, shapes, blur, highlighting, 12 preset colors, undo, and redo. Screenshots can be styled with solid or gradient backgrounds, padding, rounded corners, and shadows, then exported as PNG. On-device OCR extracts English text, and QR codes and common 1D barcodes can be scanned without sending images to a cloud service. Captures stay local unless users choose to upload one and copy a view link. A local gallery offers date sorting, search, previews, notes, and clipboard copying. The free plan is free and includes unlimited screenshots, basic annotations, local storage, and standard quality export. Windows, macOS, and Linux are supported; listed requirements include Windows 10/11, macOS 11+, and Linux builds for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL, and AppImage. No account, subscription, or email is required to download or use it. The privacy policy says technical device and usage information may be collected, with possible third-party analytics.