Markup Hero vs Screention

Markup Hero creates annotated markups from screenshots, uploaded or pasted images and PDFs, blank canvases, or captures made with its Chrome extension. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Chrome, with scrolling capture, annotation tools, OCR, and cloud sharing. Markups can be exported as JPG, PNG, or PDF. The free Hero plan includes all product features, up to 25 markups, and 24 hours of editing for each free-plan markup. An account is required after five markups; the stated reasons are linking files to users and providing customer support. Super Hero offers unlimited markups, editing, and saving. Premium Monthly is $5 a month, while Premium Annual is $3 a month billed annually; those listings include unlimited markups and permanent editing history. Super Hero Monthly is $5 a month, and Super Hero Annual is $3 a month billed annually. Team and lifetime plans are also listed, with no prices specified.

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.