Long the gold standard in screen capture software, Snagit remains popular with corporate customers due to its powerful features and simple usability.Īvailable for macOS and Windows, Snagit is an attractive app that's easy to get to grips with.

Best Built-In Option (Mac): Screenshot at Apple, 'Apple's built-in version of screen-capturing already does most of the things you need.'.

Best In-built Option (Windows): Snipping Tool at Snipping Tool Plus, 'This is a good program for capturing the contents of application windows, rectangular, or free-form areas.'.

Best for Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Screenpresso at Screenpresso, 'Screenpresso Pro lets you analyze any image you've captured for words and letters, and turn them into editable text.'.

Best for Automation: ShareX at ShareX, 'There are over a dozen different capture techniques, including choosing specific monitors, windows, and regions.'.

Best for Flexibility: Screenshot Captor at Donation Coder, 'Screenshot Captor is one of the very few apps that can grab content from your webcam, scanner, and scrolling window.'.

Best for Capturing Web Pages: Fireshot at Fireshot, 'Fireshot makes it quick and easy to capture as much or as little of a web page as you need.'.

Best for Professionals: Snagit at Tech Smith, 'Snagit remains popular with corporate customers due to its powerful features and simple usability.'.

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