PicPick is an excellent screen capture program for Windows. It is free for personal use and you can support the developers by subscribing or buying a lifetime license.
The personal version has a few limitations, mainly that you can’t use it commercially, that it does not support automatic updates, and that it may display ads (you may have a hard time finding them though).
Updates are released frequently, sometimes multiple per month, sometimes less. The most recent update, released today as PicPick 7.4.0, adds support for an image format that is becoming popular on the Internet: webP.
When you capture an image in PicPick after the upgrade, you may now save the capture as a webP image. May be useful to users who need the format or prefer it.
Another handy addition is the ability to scroll horizontally with the mouse wheel by holding down the Shift-key on the keyboard. So, mousewheel without Shift scrolls vertically, mousewheel with Shift horizontally.
The update fixes two bugs next to that. The first fixes an issue that caused PicPick to fail to detect specific windows when capturing. The software supports window captures among many other capturing modes. The second fixes a focus loss issue when using the delayed active-window capturing feature.
You can check pout the entire changelog here. There you also find download links and options to buy the software.
Now You: which screen capturing software do you use and why?
We’re still using the W10 snipping tool, on W11.
You simply replace two files with the old versions from W10. I say “simply” but, you need to know how to manage permissions.
SnippingTool.exe > C:\Windows\System32
SnippingTool.exe.mui > C:\Windows\System32\en-US
Why? Because it doesn’t try to upload everything.
It was easier for me to download it from the Internet Archive; I think the MS Store even has it. Look for the Legacy Snipping Tool.
https://archive.org/details/snipping-tool_202407
I use PicPick and ShareX, but I am suddenly faced with a number of alternatives:
https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/best-screen-capture-software/
I took a look at several sites and went through the above referenced site; I installed Greenshot. A nice piece of software.
Others were recommended; Scribe, an add-on for Edge or Chrome looks novel.
It would be nice to see an article with new tools for screenshots and recordings. Fonepaw looked interesting. So many!
Have to research a few new names.
I feel behind the times . . .
I’VE BEEN USING PicPick FOR OVER 2 YEARS FOR ITS UNIQUE FUNCTIONS AS WELL AS A REPLACEMENT FOR OTHER PROGRAMS.
I stopped reading the review when I came across the sentence, “it might display ads….” No, no no.
The Windows Snipping Tool is perfectly adequate for me and I don’t need a different tool with lots of bells and whistles built in.