TOP 6 Best Screen Capture Tools 2022 Surpasses 12 Million Downloads
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I’ve looked into the most popular Screen Capture Software with a good user experience. I read most users’ reviews and feedback and list my results here. I hope this collection will help you better choose a screen capture product.
P.S. I exclude 4 products - Screenshot Captor, Droplr, TinyTake and TweakShot, because:
1. The latest updated data of Screenshot Captor is still stopped in 2020.
2. Droplr is designed for screen capture and as a collaboration productivity tool for Mac users.
3. TinyTake and TweakShot are both with fewer downloads at download websites.
$62.99
$40
$299.9
Total Downloads: The total download data are referred from 9 top download websites, (CNET Download, Softonic, UPtodown, Soft32, Softpedia, MajorGeeks, Software Informer, Downloadcrew, TechSpot). And some products' download data are calculated both the free and paid versions.
Lowest Price - The one with the lowest total cost of listed products
BestSeller - ColorMango top-selling of listed products
Top Brand - The one has lowest alexa rank of listed products' brand websites. (The rule is the lower the number, the better)
Google Search Rank #1 - Ranked #1 in Google Search results of listed products (Searched by incognito mode on 4 computers)
In our daily lives and work, we often need to take long screenshots to record a difficult task to explain in words - Capturing an image, like highlighting the text, adding a text box, adding numbering, drawing an ellipse.
I’ve looked into the most popular Screen Capture Software with a good user experience. I read most users’ reviews and feedback and list my results here. I hope this collection will help you better choose a screen capture product.
P.S. I exclude 4 products - Screenshot Captor, Droplr, TinyTake and TweakShot, because:
1. The latest updated data of Screenshot Captor is still stopped in 2020.
2. Droplr is designed for screen capture and as a collaboration productivity tool for Mac users.
3. TinyTake and TweakShot are both with fewer downloads at download websites.
| # | Product | Total Downloads (2022) | |
| 1 | Snagit | 6,895,933 | |
| 2 | Fireshot | 3,463,845 | |
| 3 | FastStone Capture | 1,515,007 | |
| 4 | Ashampoo Snap | 459,046 | |
| 5 | ShareX | 187,277 | |
| 6 | Screenpresso PRO | 160,265 |
Best Screen Capture
A screen capture tool with advantages in the field of screenshots/annotations provides up to 6 methods of screenshots and more than 10 types of annotation tools.
Pros Reviews by Most Users
- "It has a rich toolbar that provides basic adding text, making checkboxes, adding red boxes, keying, and many other rich features."
- "It offers a very amazing feature. If you are currently using another tool to take a screenshot, it will automatically recognize it in Snagit Editor, and you can smoothly switch over to edit and use it. You do not need to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V yourself."
Cons Reviews by Most Users
- "It requires users’ email accounts to access the software."
- "It has a few video editing tools."
$34.64
A Screen Capture Extension for Google, Firefox and Microsoft Edage.
Pros Reviews by Most Users
- "It supports 3 major browsers - Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. As a plug-in, it is easy to use. It has simple and practical functions."
- "Automatic scrolling screenshot (full screen) for long screenshots of web pages!"
- "Customizable area and scrolling screenshots for specified area screenshots"
- "The screenshots can be saved as jpg, png, clipboard, or pdf."
Cons Reviews by Most Users
- "If the screenshot is too long, it will become invalid and black, so it is recommended not to exceed 50,000 pixels in length. After trying several extensions, I find there is a limitation of the screen capture extension - the screenshot will split into several pictures if the screenshot is too long. As a result, the screenshot will be missing when using the browser check."
$59.95
Pros Reviews by Most Users
- "It supports capturing scrolling windows, custom shapes, unusual shapes, hand-drawn areas, and region screenshots."
- "It has rich and powerful image editing features."
Cons Reviews by Most Users
- "Has a few video export options."
$19.95
Very easy to use image capture tool
Pros Reviews by Most Users
- "It provides rich screenshot features, supports window, menu, web page, free selection, and video capture, captures any picture and video, chooses various capture shapes, captures all visible content on the desktop in time, and supports timed screenshots."
- "It is one of the fastest screen capture software on PC."
Cons Reviews by Most Users
- "It’s not a lightweight program."
$10.00
Pros Reviews by Most Users
- "It has a rich set of screen capture functions and offers a lot of additional utilities, such as OCR, color picker, image merge, video conversion, automatic uploading of screenshots to specific cloud space, etc"
Cons Reviews by Most Users
- "It does not support recording voice sound."
- "It has a learning curve for beginners."
Free
A professional screenshot/video tool that supports capturing a window, an area, and video screenshots, automatically save, resize, and crop captured images.
Pros Reviews by Most Users
- "It performs excellently in screen capture functions"
Cons Reviews by Most Users
- "It performs terribly on video recording."
- "It is hard to stop a recording and start a new one."
$209.93
Total Downloads: The total download data are referred from 9 top download websites, (CNET Download, Softonic, UPtodown, Soft32, Softpedia, MajorGeeks, Software Informer, Downloadcrew, TechSpot). And some products' download data are calculated both the free and paid versions.
Lowest Price - The one with the lowest total cost of listed products
BestSeller - ColorMango top-selling of listed products
Top Brand - The one has lowest alexa rank of listed products' brand websites. (The rule is the lower the number, the better)
Google Search Rank #1 - Ranked #1 in Google Search results of listed products (Searched by incognito mode on 4 computers)
