And don’t forget about the BrightData offer. On top of that, the notifications also appear very frequently when you save the screenshots that eventually you will probably fed up with it. Snipping Tool is marketed as a free screen capture, but there are hidden pro features that will trigger upgrade notifications when you try to use any of them. It doesn’t make sense to pay for features that you can get for free from other software. Its editing panel resembles that of Lightshot and its pro features are available for free in ShareX: automatic watermark, video and GIF recording, OCR, blurring, scrolling capture, uploading screenshots to web, etc. There is nothing unique about Snipping Tool. Combined with the lack of portability and keyboard shortcut customization, there is little to no reason to use this screen capture software. For a software that offers few features, the memory consumption is too high. When it is running, Snipping Tool consumes around 133 MB memory. If you blur your screenshot very often, and if you aren’t willing to upgrade Snipping Tool, there are other alternatives that provide the blur functionality without demanding you to pay even a single dime. Snipping Tool can blur any part of the screenshot that you need to hide, but it is a pro feature so free users won’t be able to use it. Once a screenshot has been taken, you can annotate it with arrows, lines, text, circle, or rectangle.

There is a keyboard shortcut to perform the capture but it cannot be changed. Full screen capture is supported if you need to capture everything you see on the screen. To take a screenshot, drag the cursor around the area of the screen that you need to capture. It has a plus icon in white color on a blue background which makes it easily noticeable.Ī left click on it will dim the screen and change the cursor appearance to a rather big plus icon. Screen capture software typically reside in the notification area during the operation, so does Snipping Tool. And if you don’t want to see the ads that keep popping up from time to time, you have to allow BrightData to use your computer resources to download the so-called public data from the internet. The reason is because it will keep bombarding you with upgrade notifications.

If you take a look at it, Snipping Tool looks good, but it is actually full of annoyances.

It can be integrated with some browsers, supports keyboard shortcuts for quick captures, and provides a few editing features. Snipping Tool lets you capture your screen and save the screenshots in your local drive or cloud storages, or upload them to Imgur for sharing.

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