• What Is Open Source

We need to capture a limited portion of screen or full screen of desktop for support or documentation purpose. Sometime we need to take which is not possible with normal PrtScn key. There are lot many screen capture software available in the market. Some of them are free and in some cases, you need to pay around $50 as premium for better options. Now a days, we are using Smartphone like Android, BlackBerry, iPhone for browsing the web or running numerous applications.

There also we need screen capture tools to share the screenshots of these devices. Earlier we provided a list of and tools like. In this post, we going to list free and paid best screen capture software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

What Is Open Source

If you need screenshots of browsers only, then there are for this purpose as well. Some of them use cloud platform where your latest screenshot will be saved on their servers and you can send the URL to your friend or support staff. Now a days, every operating system comes with a default screen capture application. For example, latest Windows OS (Windows 7) is having Snipping Tool in accessories section. Ubuntu comes with “Take Screenshot” application and Mac OS is having inbuilt screen capture tool accessible with “Command + Shift + 4” keys. But if you are not satisfied with these default application’s feature, then you may try advance and feature rich screen capture software listed below.

Free Screen Capture Software – Windows, Mac and Linux [ad id=’7′ style=’margin:10px 10px 10px 0;float:left ‘] If you don’t want to spend a penny for just taking screenshots, you can use freely available software for this purpose. – As we said earlier, Windows 7 and Vista are having inbuilt screen capture tool named Snipping Tool. This tool is only available in Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise version of OS. That means, if you are using Starter or Basic version, you will not find this tool under Accessories in Start menu. This is a very simple tool with basic functionality of taking either full screen or certain area screenshot.

If you want this type of snipping tool on Windows XP or basic version of Windows 7 and Vista, then you should try. Apart from Snippy, is another feature rich screen capture tool for Windows PC.

– It is a clouding platform to store information, data provided by you. You can use this tool to and edit them. The plus point of this tool is that, it is available for Windows, Mac OS, Mobile devices like Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile, Palm etc. And as your screenshots taken from any device will be stored in your Evernote cloud account, you can access them from anywhere using any of these devices.

One of the powerful, and open-source tool for editing, converting and displaying image files in more than 200 image formats. It includes, along with taking screenshots of selected portion of the screen, a rich set of commands for editing and transformation of images. The Best Screenshot Apps for Mac OS X If you want more features than OS X provides for taking screenshots, there are a number of apps that you can use. Here are four of the best. Nevertheless, Greenshot will still be one of the cheapest screenshot tools for Mac. By the way, developing Greenshot for Windows causes costs for us as well. As with all other open source software, you don’t really have to donate but we developers rely on our users to do so.

Evernote is also available as extension for Google Chrome browser. – It is another free software for screen capture in Windows PC. It can also record your screen and can save the video file or you can take still screenshots as well. It works perfectly fine on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Server 2008. – It is available for free as well as in pro version. Download jmeter for mac.

Free version is capable of taking normal screenshots of full screen or particular area on screen. Of course the pro version which is available for $29.95 is having more features, options than free version.

But if you are willing to invest that much amount for added features, I would recommend something else. Keep reading this post, you will find good options in paid screen capture software for your computer and need. For Linux users Above listed software works on Windows and Mac OS (few of them).

If you are using Linux distribution like Ubuntu, you can always use “Take Screenshot” tool available under “Accessories” section. If you want more effects and options then try. It is a feature rich application for Linux which is available to install under “Ubuntu Software Package” as well. Is another open source application for screen capture. You can use this software on Linux as well as Windows PC for free. Paid but Best Screen Capture Software [ad id=’9′ style=’margin:10px 0 10px 10px;float:right ‘] Do you want to add effects, stylish captions, boxes, highlighter and much more and also ready to spend few bucks for that, then here are few worth screen capture software for you.