Greenshot is free, open-source screenshot software for Windows. It captures a selected region, a window, or the full screen, and can capture scrolling web pages from Internet Explorer. After capture, you can annotate or highlight the image and obscure parts of it. Screenshots can be saved, printed, copied, emailed, sent to Office, or uploaded to photo sites such as Flickr or Picasa. Greenshot also extracts text with OCR and exports images as PNG or JPEG. The free plan costs 0.00 USD per free; an optional cost contribution is 1.99 USD per once. The software is intended for people who create screenshots, including project managers, developers, technical writers, and testers. Its latest stable Windows release is version 1.3.315, dated 20 Mar 2026. Source code is available in Git repositories. Windows 8 users may be prompted to install .NET 3.5, but can skip that prompt.
Who it is for
Greenshot suits Windows users who need to capture and mark up screenshots, including project managers, developers, technical writers, and testers. It also fits people who want OCR or multiple ways to export screenshots.
What is good
- Captures regions, windows, and full screens
- Can capture scrolling pages from Internet Explorer
- Includes annotation, highlighting, and obfuscation tools
- Extracts text with OCR
- Free and open source for Windows
What to know first
- Scrolling web capture is specified for Internet Explorer
- The listed platforms are Windows only
- Windows 8 users may see a .NET 3.5 prompt
Verdict
Greenshot covers common screenshot capture, markup, OCR, and export needs at no charge. Note that its listed scrolling capture is for Internet Explorer, and the software is for Windows.
Greenshot plans and pricing
All plansCompared on screenshot annotation software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Scrolling capture
- Yes
- Annotation tools
- Yes
- OCR
- Yes
- Desktop platforms
- both
- Cloud sharing
- Yes
- Export formats
- PNG, JPEG
