Greenshot
Capture and annotate screen images with Greenshot, a free screenshot tool designed for productivity.
About Greenshot
Greenshot is a lightweight screenshot tool for Windows. It captures a selected region, window, fullscreen, or complete scrolling web pages from Internet Explorer.
It can annotate, highlight, or obfuscate parts of a screenshot, and export results by saving to file, printing, copying to clipboard, attaching to email, sending to Office programs, or uploading to photo sites.
Key features
- Capture selected region, window, or fullscreen screenshots
- Capture complete scrolling web pages from Internet Explorer
- Annotate, highlight, or obfuscate parts of screenshots
- Save screenshots to file or copy to clipboard
- Send screenshots to printer or attach to email
- Send screenshots to Office programs or upload to photo sites
Best for: Project managers, software developers, technical writers, and testers who regularly create screenshots.
Good for
- Free to use
- Lightweight and configurable
- Supports multiple export and sharing options
Watch out for
- Designed for Windows only
- Scrolling page capture described only for Internet Explorer
Greenshot at a glance
- Website
- getgreenshot.org
- Category
- Online Tools › Image Tools
- Type
- Online tool
- Pricing
- Free
- Platforms
- Web, Windows
- Open source
- Not stated
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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