--- title: Greenshot Reviews meta_title: 'Greenshot Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 167 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Greenshot works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.8 review_count: 167 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-21' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Greenshot Reviews **Vendor:** Greenshot **Category:** [Screen and Video Capture Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/screen-and-video-capture) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 167 ## About Greenshot Greenshot is a free and open-source screenshot tool designed for Windows and macOS users, offering a lightweight yet powerful solution for capturing and editing screenshots. Developed by Thomas Braun, Jens Klingen, and Robin Krom, Greenshot enables users to quickly capture selected regions, windows, or full screens, and provides a built-in image editor for annotating, highlighting, or obfuscating parts of the screenshot before exporting. Key Features and Functionality: - Multiple Capture Modes: Users can capture specific regions, entire windows, full screens, or even scrolling web pages in Internet Explorer. - Integrated Image Editor: The built-in editor allows for adding annotations, shapes, text, and highlights, as well as obfuscating sensitive information through blurring or pixelation. - Flexible Export Options: Screenshots can be saved to files, copied to the clipboard, printed, or directly attached to emails. - Plugin Support: Greenshot offers plugins for exporting screenshots to third-party applications like Microsoft Office and platforms such as Dropbox and JIRA. Primary Value and User Solutions: Greenshot addresses the need for an efficient and user-friendly screenshot tool, particularly benefiting project managers, testers, developers, and educators. Its lightweight design ensures minimal system resource usage, making it ideal for quick, frequent captures without performance degradation. The open-source nature provides cost savings and customization opportunities, while the integrated editor and diverse export options streamline workflows, enhancing productivity in documentation, bug reporting, and collaborative tasks. ## Greenshot Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Greenshot **easy to use and edit** , often preferring it over built-in screenshot software. (2 reviews) - Users love Greenshot for its **ease of use and editing capabilities** , making it a daily essential. (1 reviews) - Users rave about the **easy editing** features of Greenshot, making it a daily favorite for everyone. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note the **lack of frequent updates** for Greenshot, making it less appealing compared to newer alternatives. (1 reviews) - Users find Greenshot's **limited features** outdated compared to other free, actively maintained alternatives. (1 reviews) - Users find the interface **unappealing** , yet it successfully performs the required tasks despite its design flaws. (1 reviews) - Users report that taking multiple screenshots can lead to **breakdowns in functionality** , affecting the overall experience with Greenshot. (1 reviews) ## Greenshot Reviews ### 1. Very Good Screen Shot editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** It works well with any operating system and has a good array of editing options **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There is really nothing I dislike about using this software **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for quick editing of the screen shots (i.e., cropping, highlighting, drawing lines) compared to other software tools ### 2. I really like Greenshot **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manav S. | Assistant Project Manager - ll, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is amazing and very helpful. i am using it to capture required screen and it works smoothly. I specially like the editor where one can highlight things very presentable. Other features are ice on cake like to customize the key selection for features and select the custom location for captured window. I really like the product. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** there is nothing to dislike. It's very helpful and make work easy. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using greenshot for region capture and it is easy to use by customizing the key selection. I used preferences as per my need. ### 3. Love it, super easy to use, truly valuable for **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** zo s. | Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** It' s super easy to use, it's free to download and best of all ; for someone not working in IT, you can download and install it without having administrator privileges on your machine. It also starts up when your machine does, so once it's installed you just forget about it and all you have to do is hit the PrntScn button and you're good to go. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** To be honest, there's really not much to dislike, sometimes if you have dual monitors, it acts silly and will not open up the screenshots if you click the button on the task bar, it just keeps defaulting to minimized, but that's not very common. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Don't even bother using window's internal tool for this, just download greenshot. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking snapshots of applications, issues, errors and for code reviews. ### 4. Capture Screen and Easy Editing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omair N. | Senior Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** This tool gives you to capture your computer screen by using an easy shortcut and you can edit the capture at the same time. This tool also gives you the opportunity to directly open and insert the screenshot directly in MS Word or PowerPoint. Moreover, editing in MS Paint is also possible. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Sometimes the cursor is also captured in the screengrab, so you need to be careful that the mouse cursor is not the capture area. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Best Ever Tool for capturing screen in Windows Environment **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am capturing my working computer screen grabs and editing them at the same time. This saves lots of time in presentation making and documentation. ### 5. Greenshot: a quick, easy way to save, edit, copy images, save screenshots (and much more!) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matteo M. | Content, Communication & PR Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is an open-source image capture/editing app. I find Greenshot extremely helpful and very intuitive. It is easy to use it and launch it. Another aspect that makes Greenshot particularly user-friendly is that it does not require a deep design knowledge. You can use it for just copy images from the web, and paste them right away without having to save them. You can also edit images by: - adding blur or pixel effects, - crop to just save the area you are interested - adding any other effects Also, I find very helpful that the software allows you to send automatically the image you've just saved to a specific document: it can be a Word, PPT, OneNote, Outlook, Excel, etc. As far as capturing images is concerned, you can: - capture the whole screen - capture a region - capture the last region you selected - capture a window - capture a window from a list All in all, is a very good image editing and screen capturing (free) software! So, yeah, compared to other software like Paint. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** As said, Greenshot is a nice app, not particularly advanced (so do not expect miracles). Sometimes it just turns off by itself, so you have to launch it again. Another aspect that is a bit annoying is that when you save an image, then a pop-up of confirmation appears and it stays there on your screen too long (and there is no "x" to close it) Apart from that, I honestly don't see any particular downside. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Greenshot is an open-source image capture/editing app. All in all, is a very good image editing and screen capturing (free) software! So, yeah, compared to other software like Paint. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As said, it is a quick and intuitive tool to add images to any kind of text, or to just copy/paste/share images with colleagues and friends without passing through the "save as" step. ### 6. Greenshot free and open source software - Easy Screenshot Expert **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danko F. | Independent music researcher, music freelancer and independent music promoter., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is a pretty good open source tool for capturing screen content that offers some pretty handy stuff. It all starts with a typical installation during which it is possible to indicate which extensions you want to turn on, and once the installation is completed, a small window will open with basic Greenshot settings. It allows you to set keyboard shortcuts to activate various screen capture modes, as well as adjusting a variety of other parameters. For example, under the Destination tab, it is possible to set the default destination of the recorded screen content or to set the destination to which the screenshot recording will be sent at the time of the recording itself. You just have to choose one of the recording modalities of the screen content (region, full screen, individual window, etc.) from the available methods, after which you just need to mark what is actually wanted and record it and determine where the recorded material will be sent. Greenshot is well equipped and offers recording in one of the supported graphic formats, but also to Greenshot's built-in image editing tool. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Greenshot is not a full-fledged graphic editor, but it will come in handy to add text, draw and highlight important parts after a screenshot. The basic complaint is not very good support for OCR and it is best not to use it. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** If you want a free, simple and useful program that does not require expert knowledge to use it, this is quite sufficient. You will not make a mistake if you start using it for some non-demanding tasks. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy and fast copy to Windows clipboard, send to printer, send to programs such as Outlook, Word, OneNote, Excel, Paint... ### 7. Simple and complete tool to create and edit screenshots **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco A. | Mechanical Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** - It's easy to use; - It's easy to add notes and comments on screenshots; - It's free software. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Nothing in particular. It works well and it does what it's designed for. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** It's a very good free alternative to proprietary software, it has everything you need to get quick screenshots. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to quickly show parts of my work to other people, sending images via email or instant messaging software. ### 8. Greenshot for Systems Architect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I like how easy it is to grab screenshots and either save them directly or open them to edit. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I wish there were more options while editing. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Continue adding to editing functionality. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Screenshots, cropping, creating documentation, reporting system bugs, working with end-users. ### 9. Screenshots are with Greenshot **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sohaib Ahmed K. | Manager Client Care (Professional Services), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is one of the best software which is used for image or screen capturing. I am so into this software that all my emails which are to guide clients and customers, always have an image or screenshot from Greenshot as it is very easy to capture the images or load it online using Imgur. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Personally, I dont dislike the software as it is very useful. I did face some issues launching it once but most of it was resolved by force stopping the software and then bringing it back up **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Overall the Software is very easy to use and I have seen many personnel using the software without any issues and mostly it is being used with out any expense so the software return is awesome. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greenshot has many benefits for a person who communicates with customers on a daily basis to guide them, Images and screenshots are captured with out any issues and stored accordingly as well. ### 10. Best Image Editing and Screen Capturing Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhaskar S. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** It is a light weight, fast and easy to use software. I like this because it has no string attached with it, and i can customized it based on my need for example i can set shortcuts based on my needs and i can set target application for captured screen shots. Another feature which i like most is there is no admin rights needed for installing and using it. I can do image editing on the fly, i can set image format and size as well. Overall i like it more then snag-it, as previously i used to use snag-it which is a paid software. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I don't think there is any feature which i disliked yet. Till now this is my must have favorite software. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Its a best software for image editing and everyone should use it. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I liked the screen Its allowing me to take quick screen capturing using screen shots. Allowing me to edits the photos and send directly using emails. Its a must software for any developer. ### 11. Perfect alternative to native snip & sketch **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suchith B. | RPA Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** While searching for the alternative to the snip & sketch I found the greenshot editor and it has many features. The best thing is that while cropping the particular region of the screen it will show the dimensions of the image. after cropping we can edit the picture directly and also it will store the image with the filename from where we took that image. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** It doesn't have shortcuts for the edit options and also while capturing the part of the screen it will crop the cursor also it's a bit annoying. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** If you want a best alternative to the native screen capturing tool, then go with the greenshot image editor. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** direct print screening and storing the file in the predefined path. Editing captured screen directly. ### 12. Nothing Compares **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared M. | Network Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** This tool is so versatile! The editor you can chose to jump into after each shot has many tools including things like a blurring out sections. I literally use this and the highlight/step numbering features of the editor every single day to help illustrate points to colleagues and vendors. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** The product is truly feature complete with what it has accomplished. All I can think to put here would be a feature request which would be including the ability to do screen recording as well to make GIF files or even full fledged video files. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** There are bulkier tools with more features, there are smaller tools that do far less. Greenshot is the perfect balance of features and functionality. Easy to use and infinitely useful. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greenshot is my main tool for capturing visual information, largely with documenting steps needed for procedures and other documentation needs. ### 13. Totally Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andries v. | Data Scientist/Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** So easy to use and fully integrates with Windows. Obfuscate tool is amazing presision marker is amazing **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** not much to dislike about this tool to be honest. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Definately recommend it and please donate to their project. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** makes snapping snippets and things so easy precise and quick. Also able to obfuscate information to maintain integrity and keep information secret. Great to use when sending screen shots to support platforms. ### 14. Greenshot is the best tool to take screenshots and edit them. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johanson B. | Jefe del equipo de servicios, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is a useful tool that allows you to take screenshots and at the same time offers a set of functions to manipulate these screenshots, so I can edit them the way I like. One of the functions that I like the most is that you can configure the application to automatically know what to do with the screenshot, I can send to different places such as: - The desktop to be saved. - The editor of Greenshot if I want to make changes to the screenshot. - The printer to get the screenshot on paper. - Any of the Microsoft applications. - My Dropbox space to save on the internet - To a recipient by e-mail. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Greenshot has combined several applications that my operating system brings into one, such as Paint, imp pnt, Cuts, and not only has joined them but brings many more functions that make it very useful and indispensable in every computer, I really have no negative aspect to say about this fabulous application, on the contrary it seems fantastic that it is a free tool. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Greenshot is an excellent tool for taking and editing screenshots, I recommend it because I know it can help save a lot of time to people who eventually want to save or extract images from the screen. It contains a series of commands or shortcuts that make the complete use of this tool much easier, optimizing even more the time required for any edition. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my work of testing web pages, I often have to take screen captures to remember situations that I will use later, Greenshot has helped me enormously because just by taking the capture this is saved and I do not need is copying it into Paint or Word to be able to save it, so it saves me valuable time. Also, it has been useful when I have to explain steps on how to use some applications and I can focus only on the area I want to show, so I do not reveal more information than due, as it is shown in gray, for example passwords, bank statements or any personal information that I want not to show. ### 15. Best screenshot program I've found **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elisabeth B. | Accounting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** So many great features, but my favorite is the ability to take a screenshot, edit it (add arrows, boxes, etc., to highlight what you need people to see), and save as image or copy out without needing to open any more programs. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** The default settings can be a little intrusive when using (for example, the large magnifier circle that opens when you start a screenshot), but these can easily be changed. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** If you need to add notes, emphasis, etc., to your images, Greenshot is an excellent solution. For simple screen capture, it will have more features than needed, but for any sort of editing or manipulation of the captured screen, this tool is amazing. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greenshot provides an easy way to create screenshot directions; this makes it much easier to work with customers and coworkers and help them understand how to complete a process. ### 16. A very useful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruth H. | Associate Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I can take screenshots to regions that interest me too easily and then make use of them later. I love being able to save my images directly in a predefined directory since it saves me much more time. It has compatibility with several products of the Office package and I can upload the image to imgur quickly. Best of all, it is a very light software, easy to install and use. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Sometimes it takes a bit to capture an image, since it acts in the background and needs to be re-executed. In addition, the editing interface, although it has very useful tools, these are very few. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Greenshot is one of those applications that you should always have on your PC. It is a software that perfectly understands the need to make screenshots of everything quickly, accurately and efficiently. I definitely recommend it. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I thought it would not depend so much on this application, but after several months of use, I have been able to take screenshots for several tasks of my work, such as sending an email or documenting a process. It has become over time one of my favorite tools. ### 17. Great screenshot tool for every user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William Scott C. | Manager of IT Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Easy to use, many options of where to open your screenshot. you can send it directly to an email or document, it even has its own built-in image editor. I use it often when I am creating an instructional document. It allows me to screenshot just what I need, import it into the image editor, add a circle or arrow or even additional text. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There aren't really any that I have come across. I guess it would be nice if it came pre-installed on every computer. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** The best screenshot tool that I have used. It is wonderful and I highly recommend it. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It replaces the default screenshot tools built into Windows. It is far more powerful with many more options. I use the image editor often, mainly for drawing arrows or circling what I was the user to know. Great tool for aiding in the creation of instructional documents. ### 18. best to capture screenshot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greeenshot is best to capture a screenshot. it provides many options like the Capture region, capture last region, capture window, capture full screen. We can also set the preference according to our comfort and also put shortcut keys,so we can call the greenshot shortcut with simply pressing a keyboard key. We can also set the Output where our file will be stored and can also set the format **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There is nothing i dislike with Greenshot as it is totally free to use. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to take screenshot more fastly and can choose the region and save it according to my default settings. ### 19. Great software for screenshots in Windows. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando H. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Easily take screenshots and save them automatically in any folder you prefer. Free and Open Software so no need to pay or worry about licenses. Easy and light one function software fulfilling a need not covered in Windows. Linux and Mac have this embedded without the need of downloading any software. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Imgur integration, I don't need it and will never use it but there is no option to not install it as far as I am aware **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** If you come from MacOSX or Linux this program is the same as the embedded function in your former OS. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking screenshots is a lot easier, without the need of paint, gimp, photoshop or any external program. ### 20. My favorite screenshot program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verónica M. | Attorney, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I always use this open-source software constantly to capture screenshots, especially when I am documenting a procedure where capturing the mouse pointer can facilitate the task of showing only the objective of interest. I like it because it is very light, but easy to use and intuitive. I can capture only the parts that interest me on the screen, including the videos that I play without any problem. The included editor is also quite simple to use and offers very useful editing tools. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** The image editor can be improved much more and include many more editing tools, although the application is designed to be very light. Sometimes it takes a while to take a screenshot. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** I always recommend having this software installed on each computer. It is much more useful than it seems. With this software you can make the adage "an image is worth a thousand words" a reality. And the best thing is that it's free! **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have almost never had any problems with this software. I have always used it to add images to my emails and documents and it is necessary to highlight the most important. I have also used it only to take captures of what I am interested in saving to see later. ### 21. A vital capture tool that I use everyday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** The ability to quickly capture and annotate screenshots and then share the image in a number of ways in just a few clicks. Copy to clipboard to paste to a collegue on Skype, upload to Imgur directly to have a shareable link... It is simple and effective and a vital part of my job. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There is really nothing to complain about for a tool like this that is completely free! **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Make use of the key shortcuts for quick access. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a software tester, a big part of my job is finding issues and highlighting them to the relevant person. This allows me to do that a snap. ### 22. One of the best screen capturing software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon H. | Performance Nutrition, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I like how it's practically the best screen capturing software around. Best of all, it's seamless and free to download and use. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** It can be a little buggy at times, but not much to complain about since its free to use. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Give it a try. It's simple to setup, a fast and efficient software for screen captures, and gets the job done efficiently. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I just use the software to take snapshots when needed. I even use it for any screenshots that g2 is asking for! ### 23. Better than snipping tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melinda F. | Director of Audience Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is like an amped up snipping tool. It gives you option for your snip like the ability to zoom in and snip the exact same location or just a window or the whole screen. I didn't think I would use it as much as I do, but it is way handier than the standard snipping tool. It also gives you options to edit your screenshot within the program instead of using paint or another image-editing program. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I wish it would just default to a stadard "select your location" snip, but every time you open it, you have to make the selection of what kind of snip you want to make. I guess I am frustrated that I have to make an additional selection after clicking on the program. Also, the zoom is sometimes so Zoomed in that you can't figure out where you are on the screen. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** GIve it a try - it could solve some simple problems you didn't even know you had. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Usually I am just grabbing something from my screen to share with a colleague to show an image rather than re-typing an answer. Works good for grabbing the image of an email that went out and its results - I can just grab the image of the email to include rather than the file. ### 24. Great high definition screen shots **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** This is simple to use and produces very high quality screen shots. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Sometimes it asks to save the photo rather than copying the image, but this can be resolved in the settings **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Very good software that is easy to use and produces high quality images **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Screen shots of web page photos and parts of pdf documents to incorporate into documents ### 25. Greenshot Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal D. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** First of all it is open source and free to use. Either you are company or a single one you can use it by downloading through its website. It is light weight screen capture software. Also it provides many options to take screenshot like region, full window, etc. And you can also configure its shotcut to take screenshot. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** After taking screenshot it saves on clipboard but sometimes it doesn't save and when we restart this software then again it starts working fine. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** I recomend it to the friends and colleagues to use this tool because it is light weight and easy to use. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking screenshots of my windows, documents to attach in the mail or in file. ### 26. Great screenshot software for Windows. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikole E. | Network Software Developer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** It does it's job and nothing more, it free and easy to use. It has almost 0 memory and cpu footprint. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** This program is amazing, but this should be a functionality included in Windows, like in Mac where you have several ways to do a screen capture. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** If you just need to take screenshots in Windows get this app, it's just perfect for that use. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** If I need to screenshot something I don't need an editor to cut the area I need. ### 27. Very good experience with this application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** The best thing is that it can be used any where any time & specially with a low memory. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There is nothing to dislike for this application still there it can be used to improve the interface **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very useful tool to make screenshot over the application snipping tool that is inbuillt with windows ### 28. Best Screenshot App I've Ever Used on Windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad M. | Freelance Tester (QA), Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** The hassle-free process, where you can select between a lot of option after taking a screenshot. Not only that, the "Capture last region" is working flawlessly, especially in creating software documentation where I need to screenshoot the exact same window on same position over and over again. It has selection after the shoot, whether you want to copy, save, or edit them. So you can enter edit mode and allowed to switch to other application. Sometimes you just need to shoot it first, right? And I can use the editor by using "open image from file" or "clipboard". Very nice! **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** It is hard to find what I dislike of this application, but hey, let's nitpick something. If I must, it is the pricetag of Mac App, while the windows one is free. But well, an app can only going as much as their coffe's money, right? **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** This app is free with donation, and it has almost all of your need to capture your computer screen and annotate any image you have. So, rather than cluttered image editor application when you only want to show a point on an image, this app will do it very well. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Screenshooting for documentation never been easy. Capturing bugs and any other problem on app we are working on is smooth. And moreover, we can use single image to many purpose thanks to the image editor feature. ### 29. Excellent way to capture screenshots on computer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is a very simple software to use that allows you to take screenshots from your computer. It is very nicely integrated with windows, as I can just select Print Screen on my keyboard and Greenshot will launch to capture a region of my screen. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I have no complaints about Greenshot. It does what it is intended to do with no problems whatsoever. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking screenshots to create documentation for functionality of software. ### 30. Great little utility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** It grabs any image in a free flowing selection. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** The quality of the image could be better **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great for creating documentation. ### 31. Quick, and free! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I like how you can export your greenshot directly to a email, or paste into any document. Also the ability to edit directly within the green shot is great. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There are not many reasons to not like it, its very user friendly. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main thing I like is; I green shot somthing and then I am able to edit it within the program. Add text leaders, arrows, circles ect. ### 32. Great screen capturer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lorena S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Its very easy to use it. It stays open in memory and with the press of the print key it launches and you can select the area to capture. If you click on the icon it lets you do different actions, like full screen capture, window capture, and even edit image files. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** For now, I havent had any problems or crashes using it, only, that sometimes you have to click on the task bar for the print key to launch the program. I cant understand why, but its a minor problem, other than that works perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Most people that I know used paint to do their screenshots, wich was hardly efficient, other with Windows 7 discovered the snipping tool, but when I show them Greenshot they instantly make it their default program to capture screen. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its very easy to do captures with it. I have to make work manuals for different programs and it eases the work a lot, I can make anotations, capture certain regions and more. Also use it to send errors of different programs to providers. ### 33. The screen capturer I always recommend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I like that it can be activated with a simple key press, it launches almost instantly and directly for screen capturing and when done selecting the screenshot area it show a list of options. If you select "save as" it automatically names the screenshot with the date and name of the windows you are taking the screenshot! And all this, for free. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I dont dislike anything, it does the work it was made for flawlessly. Never had any problem. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Since I discovered Greenshot, I can only recommend it, works fast and has made taking screen captures a ridiculously easy task. When a new computer is installed its one of the first programs we install. Everybody that I have recommended it loves it without a doubt. And dont forget that is totally free to use ! **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped us made easier and in seconds a task that without the correct tools can take 1 minute without a problem. Even users who actually didnt know how to make screenshots are now using it without any problems. ### 34. All you need for Screen Capture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suso N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** The thing that I like the most from Greenshot is how easy it made the task of taking screenshots, I dont even need to think, only press the print key and it automatically appears allowing me to select the area I want to capture. I obviusly like the fact that is totally free (But I've donated to the developer). **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I can say I dislike anything about greenshot, since I started using it, it has worked perfectly, never hanged or crashed. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Install it and enjoy about how easy is now to do screen captures instantly. You lose nothing, its even free, this way you wont regret it if you dont like it, but I asure you that wont be the case. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well if you can call a problem to take screenshots, then Greenshot totally solves the problem. Taking a screenshot was never this easy. Its fantastic ### 35. The best tool for screen shots **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natasha J. | Office Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Love the way it's SO EASY TO USE!! It saves lot's of times for me and my team to create a presentation. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Nothing that I dislike at this time with this tool. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The quickness of being to capture a screenshot for sharing, for troubleshooting, for creating documents. ### 36. Must have for capturing screen **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I can make screen captures any moment any time thanks to Greenshot. Its stays executing on memory allowing you to take a screenshot when you want. Other thing I like is tahat it allows you todo different actions only selection the area to capture, saving time in the process. And its also free, which is totally great. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Sometimes (very rare) you need to reset the program because it doesnt launch when you press the print key. But basically thats the only thing I dislike about the program. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** I recommend the use of greenshot, its free, work very fast and makes very easy to do screen captures of your computer. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically Screen capturing, with the added of the time you save using it compared to other programs or procedures to capture your computer screen, like copy and paint, snipping tool, and others. ### 37. Extremely simple, but has all the options I'd expect of mature commercial software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chrisjan W. | Data Scientist, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Output options. I can automatically copy the screenshot to my clipboard and save it as a PNG with one keypress (and dragging the mouse accross the to-be-cropped area) **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Almost nothing. I would however like to acticate different outpust by using another shortcut, say Alt-PrtScr. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time used to crop screenshots in paint ### 38. The ultimate screenshot program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** It is so easy to use, and extremely versatile. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Very little to complain about. On certain computers it has become unstable as a program and needed re-downloaded. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** You can not beat this program. It's a free download, and updates come out periodically. Whether for an employee who has a constant need to print out screenshots for any reason, or just generally sharing what's on a screen, this improvement over the default "Prnt Scrn" options is incredible. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** In seconds a screenshot can be taken and instantly chosen to print, save, edit, etc. ### 39. Use daily and very easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot interfaces with your print screen button allowing you to easily take a screen shot on your computer. You can then easily modify the screenshot with the editing tools and send or save the screen shot using email, office products or download as picture file. I use this program daily to help communicate though email more effectively since a picture is really worth a 1000 words. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There could be more improvement on the editing tools to allow you to make the area larger or change background colors. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Try it and you will love it **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicate effectively through email and create quick how-to documents. ### 40. I use Greenshot as main program to capture screenshoots **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Ignacio P. | Coordinador de PdV, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Its the most complet program, its very easy to use but in the other side, u can configure many options **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** i dislike that no many option to upload images automatically, only ingur, i use other options to upload images to cloud **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** I recommend the program, no crashes, easy, and fast, no need many pc resources. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefits its to help our clients problems using the capture that they do and send us, respect privacy and we dont need to control the remote computer. ### 41. So easy to access, no need to click buttons! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tommy S. | Criminal Intelligence Analyst II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** I like the fact that you do not need to click around or press several buttons in order to take a simple screenshot. I also like that you can save or open the screenshot automatically in a program of your choice, without having to right click, then save, then reopen for editing in another program. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** The only thing I have found so far that I dislike is that it does not allow freeform snipping. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Get it! The program is very inexpensive and for a Mac, it can be purchased for only a few dollars. For Microsoft Windows users, there is even better news! If you're running a PC instead of a MacBook, then you're in luck - there is no fee! For other programs, take SnagIt for instance, you'd be paying around $50 for a permanent copy of the software. The one thing that SnagIt has that Greenshot doesn't is the inherent ability to screen capture and recognize specific text. On the other hand, Greenshot allows you to customize the operation of the program via assigned hot keys. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many times where we need to snip parts of a video. Sometimes, when you try to do that with other tools such as the Windows Snipping Tool, the mouse pointer or the cursor is accidentally left on the screen. With Greenshot, that becomes less likely to happen as you never have to maneuver the mouse ... all you do is press the printscreen key on the keyboard. ### 42. Best Screen Capture Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is awesome. I have it set up so it runs silently in the background and I can take a screenshot using a keyboard shortcut and then output it to a variety of sources. It easily lets you save it to a default location, specify a location, open in their editing tool which is really helpful to quickly markup images. Anyone that can see my screen when I end up using greenshot always asks what program I am using and says they are going to go install it. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** No complaints with greenshot other than the fact that I can't seem to record video using the version I currently have installed. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Use it! **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me with my personal productivity as well as with documentation ### 43. Useful software for screenshot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisar A. | Invoice Support Executive, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is very useful to take screenshot. We can take screenshot of full screen, can create screenshot of selected region. Even we can take screenshot of web browsers pages **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Good light software for screenshot, need to add more advanced features **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very useful it taking screenshot and pasting in documents ### 44. Software product manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Slavko G. | Director, Computer Networking, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is running in the background and can be always activated by hotkey. I mostly use capture region, but other option hotkeys are also available (window , full screen and so). Capturing is accurate at the pixel level using "looking glass" for selection. Captured image can be copied to clipboard or open in greenshot image editor (these options I use), or open in other programs - paint, power point , word etc. image editor is simple, and have almost all what you have - annotation (text, shapes, counters) in different colors and borders. The content can be copied to clipboard, saved to file, or sent to other programs (outlook, power point, word etc.) And it is free! **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I would like to have a saved history of previously captured images. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a software product manager I often need to comment some software functionality or report bugs to developers. greenshot gives me simple solution (simplicity is a benefit) that allows me to easily attach some images (screen regions) into email to my colleagues. ### 45. Awesome Utility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arthur M. | AX Lead Technical Support Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Free utility, easy to use, very intuitive and allows all the image screen shot editing I need. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Nothing comes to mind. Pretty solid product. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Share with users, word of mouth has helped in adoption. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have been able to roll out to users to assist in developing SOP documentation. ### 46. Useful screenshot application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is easy to use. We can capture screenshots very quickly of selected region. It always run in background. We can copy image to word, PowerPoint etc. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Need to work more on User Interface. Everything is cool with light features **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually take screenshot when making a pdf or PowerPoint document. Greenshot save my time and easily copy it ### 47. The best screen capture program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juanan M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Its by far the easiest and most powerful program to capture your screen. No doubt **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** I cant find anything to dislike about greenshot. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** Dont doubt about using greenshot, since I discovered it i install it on all my computers, as I do with my friends, co workers, family computers. Best screen capturer without a doubt. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make screen capture of computers ### 48. Good screenshot software with many features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Greenshot is easy to use. There are many configurable features, from hot keys. From greenshot we can capture window , full screen or application. We can send photos to Outlook, clipboard , Word for editing. It saves lot of time. Simple right click, choose your capture preference- point and capture **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** Sometimes it got crashed. It should save history of previous captured images. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As i am tester , i usually take screenshots of testing document. It helps me to take screenshot very fastly and easy with its features ### 49. Straightforward, simple, and intuitive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob T. | Staff Internal Auditor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** Many applications do not have an easy or convenient way to capture the contents of a screen, be it a combination of character hotkeys, pulling up a separate program, or even accessing it from the widget/tools from the browser bar. Greenshot is intuitive - it uses the "Print Scrn" key, enables a drag box, and the capture shows up in its own window, automatically copied to the clipboard. That's all it does, but that's all it needs to do. The grab is given a unique name, so "saving as" is always different, even if the grab is the same exact capture, but one second later. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** There isn't anything to dislike. Greenshot is compact and doesn't try to do anything else beyond screen grabs. **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many applications do not have an organic way to collect or re-display content. With Greenshot I can do it anyway. ### 50. Simple, easy to use, and great optional outputs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack D. | Financial Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Greenshot?** You can snip directly into Microsoft Paint and then highlight what you want to show someone. simple copy/paste into an email allows you to really specify to your recipient what you want them to see. **What do you dislike about Greenshot?** nothing, it's perfect for me as is. **Recommendations to others considering Greenshot:** best around, especially since it's free (I'd give a donation though) **What problems is Greenshot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to cut and paste anything on my screen and share it with others instead of rewriting. 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