What is Snipboard?
Snipboard is a free and open-source screenshot capture and annotation tool for Windows. It provides a lightweight yet full-featured alternative to heavyweight tools like Snagit or Greenshot.
Some key features of Snipboard include:
- Intuitive user interface for capturing screenshots of full screens, active windows, or custom regions
- Basic image editing tools like arrows, shapes, text, highlights, obfuscation, and cropping
- Support for uploading screenshots to image hosting sites like Imgur
- Minimal system resource usage - install size is just a few MB
- Portable version available that can run off a USB drive
- Completely free and open-source
Snipboard centers around simplicity and ease of use. It forgoes complex features seen in rival tools to provide a fast and frictionless screenshotting experience. The editing tools cover the basics like adding annotations and text comments to screenshots before sharing.
As an open-source tool, Snipboard is customizable and open to community contributions on GitHub. It works well as a basic screenshot capture utility for student and office work where advanced features like image formats, storage, and team collaboration may not be required.
Camera Awesome, Image Hosting Biz, Screely, Good Annotations, screenSHU, SLiMG, Floomby, DigWex, ZScreen, Veuwer, Smartision ScreenCopy, pic.al, Zoomo are some alternatives to Snipboard.