Open-source screenshot app for Windows

Capture regions, windows, and whole scrolling pages — all local.

Snapboard is a privacy-first alternative to Lightshot, PicPick, Greenshot, and ShareX for fast everyday screenshot workflows on Windows 10/11. Region, window, and PicPick-style scrolling capture; blur, OCR, QR & barcode scan, color picker, pixel ruler, and pin-to-screen — in one tiny tray app.

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MIT licensedOffline by defaultGlobal hotkeysRegion · Window · ScrollingPin-to-screenBlur + OCR + QR + RulerAuto-update from GitHub

See Snapboard in action

Clean dashboard for daily use, plus a Lightshot-style capture overlay for fast annotate-and-share workflows.

Snapboard main window with capture button, shortcuts panel, and utility tools. — Main dashboard: quick launch + utility tools in one place.

Snapboard capture overlay with selection rectangle and vertical/horizontal toolbars. — Real capture result: sensitive text masked with blur before sharing.

Why teams choose Snapboard

Privacy by default

No uploads, no account, no telemetry. Screenshots stay on your machine.

All-in-one workflow

Region capture, annotation, blur, OCR, color picker, and pixel ruler in one small tray app.

Built for speed

Global hotkeys, dark UI, and instant save options for documentation, QA, support, and dev teams.

Built for real-world screenshot workflows

QA and bug reporting

Capture UI bugs quickly, annotate exactly where the issue is, and keep sensitive test data hidden with blur.

Support and customer success

Create step-by-step replies with arrows, text labels, and instant copy/save actions that speed up ticket resolution.

Engineering and docs

Use global hotkeys, OCR extraction, and auto-save to document flows without context switching or extra tooling.

Core features

Region capture + annotate

Drag-to-select any area, then use pen, rectangle, arrow, text, blur, and undo — all offline.

Window capture (new)

A compact dark dropdown lists every open window. Select one and Snapboard grabs it via pixel-perfect PrintWindow, copies it to the clipboard, and opens a pre-filled save dialog — works with hardware-accelerated Chromium, Electron, and UWP apps.

Scrolling capture, PicPick-style (new)

Hover any scrollable window and Snapboard red-outlines only the content child — no title bar, tabs, or toolbars. Click once and it auto-scrolls by posting WM_MOUSEWHEEL to the right child (Chrome, Edge, Electron, Slack, Discord, Cursor), stitches every frame with multi-strip overlap correlation, then copies to the clipboard and prompts to save.

Pin to screen

Pin any capture as a floating, always-on-top reference window. Drag, zoom, and keep it visible while you type — the flagship feature ShareX doesn't ship.

Privacy blur tool

Pixelate sensitive data before sharing screenshots in docs, chat, or tickets.

OCR on selection

Extract text from any selected area using the built-in Windows OCR engine — no cloud calls.

QR & barcode scan (new)

Drag a rectangle around any QR, Data Matrix, Aztec, PDF-417, or EAN/UPC/Code-128 barcode and Snapboard decodes it offline via ZXing.Net — with automatic upscale and colour-inversion fallbacks for tiny or dark-mode codes. Copy the payload or open http(s) links in one click. Default hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Q.

Reverse image search

One-click Google Images and Bing Visual Search directly from the capture toolbar — the bitmap goes straight to the search engine, never to a third-party host.

Utilities included

Color picker with magnifier + HEX/RGB/HSL, and a floating pixel ruler — same hotkey-driven app.

Auto-update from GitHub (new)

Snapboard checks the public GitHub Releases feed on startup and once a day; a dark prompt shows the release notes with Install / Later / Skip. Updates land in place with a silent installer, no Store, no telemetry, and auto-relaunch after upgrade.

What you get out of the box

Productivity defaults

System tray app with global hotkeys
Instant full-screen capture to file
Auto-save mode for zero-click exports
Configurable output format and JPEG quality

Privacy and control

No required account, no upload flow
Conflict-aware hotkey registration
Per-user startup behavior with tray launch
Open-source MIT codebase on GitHub

Fast workflow, no learning curve

Press hotkey

Use Print Screen (or your custom hotkey) from anywhere in Windows.

Select and annotate

Draw a region, add arrows/text, blur sensitive details, and undo as needed.

Copy or save

Send to clipboard instantly or auto-save to your preferred folder with zero upload.

Snapboard vs alternatives

Feature	Snapboard	Lightshot	PicPick	Greenshot	ShareX
Region capture	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Window capture (dropdown → clipboard + save dialog)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scrolling capture (auto-scroll + auto-stitch)	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Pin screenshot to screen (Snipaste-style)	Yes	No	No	No	No
Reverse image search (Google / Bing)	Yes	Partial	No	No	No
Blur sensitive data	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
OCR on selection	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
QR / barcode scan on selection	Yes	No	No	No	No
Color picker + pixel ruler	Yes	No	Yes	Partial	Yes
100% offline, no account	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open-source (MIT)	Yes	No	No	Yes (GPL)	Yes (GPL)

Snapboard matches ShareX on capture modes (region, window, scrolling) while adding pin-to-screen — the one feature ShareX never shipped. Want a deeper breakdown? See the full comparison page.