Prap: The free screenshot app for Windows (with a rewind button)

Why did you build this?

I take screenshots often, and every time it was the same routine: remember the shortcut, or go find the app, open it, start a new capture. It’s a small thing, but it breaks your focus, and its boring.
So I built Prap around one idea: you shouldn’t have to go anywhere to take a screenshot. Just press and hold the left mouse button for a couple of seconds, wherever you are, then drag over what you want. No shortcut to remember, no app to open.
Once that worked, I kept adding the things I wished my screenshot tool did: Rewind, which saves the last 30 seconds of your screen when you miss something; screen recording; scrolling screenshots of whole pages; and bug reports and step-by-step guides that make themselves. It’s free, with no ads and no watermark, and everything stays on your PC.

What feedback would help the most?

Honestly, the hold itself. Does pressing and holding the left mouse button feel natural to you? Does it ever go off when you didn’t mean it to, in a game, a design app, or anywhere else?
I’d also love to know:
what you use for screenshots today, and what would make you switch;
whether Rewind (saving the last 30 seconds) is something you’d actually use;
anything that’s confusing, slow, or missing compared to Snipping Tool or Snagit.

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2d ago

Title: How do you take screenshots on Windows today?

I m curious what everyone s routine is. Win+Shift+S? Print Screen? Snagit? Something else?

Mine was always: remember the shortcut, pick the mode, then paste it somewhere and realise I wanted an arrow on it. That annoyance is why I m building Prap, where you just press and hold the left mouse button anywhere to capture.

What s the most annoying part of taking screenshots for you?

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Why did you build this?

I take screenshots often, and every time it was the same routine: remember the shortcut, or go find the app, open it, start a new capture. It’s a small thing, but it breaks your focus, and its boring.
So I built Prap around one idea: you shouldn’t have to go anywhere to take a screenshot. Just press and hold the left mouse button for a couple of seconds, wherever you are, then drag over what you want. No shortcut to remember, no app to open.
Once that worked, I kept adding the things I wished my screenshot tool did: Rewind, which saves the last 30 seconds of your screen when you miss something; screen recording; scrolling screenshots of whole pages; and bug reports and step-by-step guides that make themselves. It’s free, with no ads and no watermark, and everything stays on your PC.

What feedback would help the most?

Honestly, the hold itself. Does pressing and holding the left mouse button feel natural to you? Does it ever go off when you didn’t mean it to, in a game, a design app, or anywhere else?
I’d also love to know:
what you use for screenshots today, and what would make you switch;
whether Rewind (saving the last 30 seconds) is something you’d actually use;
anything that’s confusing, slow, or missing compared to Snipping Tool or Snagit.