What screenshot tool do you actually use?
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Most people either never left the built-in shortcut or installed something years ago and never looked at the category again. I want to see the real spread, and more than that, what happens to the image after you take it.
Answer in this format so the thread stays scannable:
Tool name: Your answer here...
Link: Your answer here...
[✅] Free
[✅] Paid
[✅] Built-in
OS:
[✅] Mac
[✅] Windows
[✅] Linux
Shortcut you actually press:
Your answer here...
What happens after the capture (annotate, drop in Slack, paste into an AI chat, ...):
Your answer here...
Why this one:
Your answer here...
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@bickov I mostly stick with the built in screenshot tool too. It's hard to beat when I just need a quick capture and want to paste it straight into Slack or ChatGPT.
SlimSnap
Tool name: SlimSnap
Link: https://slimsnap.ai
[✅] Free
[✅] Paid
[ ] Built-in
OS:
[✅] Mac
[✅] Windows
[ ] Linux
Shortcut you actually press:
Shift+Cmd+S for a region, Shift+Cmd+L for a full scrolling page
What happens after the capture (annotate, drop in Slack, paste into an AI chat, ...):
Annotate, then either drop the PNG into Slack or a doc, or copy it as JSON and hand that to a terminal agent instead of the image
Why this one:
Scroll capture that grabs a whole long page without repeating sticky headers, and the output is text as well as an image. Useful when the screenshot has to end up in a spec or a bug report, and terminal agents cannot take an image at all, so it saves typing out what is on the screen.