If you want this type of snipping tool on Windows XP or basic version of Windows 7 and Vista, then you should try Snippy. This is a very simple tool with basic functionality of taking either full screen or certain area screenshot. That means, if you are using Starter or Basic version, you will not find this tool under Accessories in Start menu. This tool is only available in Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise version of OS. Snipping Tool – As we said earlier, Windows 7 and Vista are having inbuilt screen capture tool named Snipping Tool. If you don’t want to spend a penny for just taking screenshots, you can use freely available software for this purpose. Free Screen Capture Software – Windows, Mac and Linux But if you are not satisfied with these default application’s feature, then you may try advance and feature rich screen capture software listed below. Ubuntu comes with “Take Screenshot” application and Mac OS is having inbuilt screen capture tool accessible with “Command + Shift + 4” keys. For example, latest Windows OS (Windows 7) is having Snipping Tool in accessories section. Now a days, every operating system comes with a default screen capture application. Some of them use cloud platform where your latest screenshot will be saved on their servers and you can send the URL to your friend or support staff. If you need screenshots of browsers only, then there are Firefox add-on and Google Chrome extension for this purpose as well.

In this post, we going to list free and paid best screen capture software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Earlier we provided a list of screen capture tools for Android and tools like Capture It for BlackBerry. There also we need screen capture tools to share the screenshots of these devices. Now a days, we are using Smartphone like Android, BlackBerry, iPhone for browsing the web or running numerous applications.

Some of them are free and in some cases, you need to pay around $50 as premium for better options. There are lot many screen capture software available in the market. Sometime we need to take screenshot of full webpage which is not possible with normal PrtScn key. We need to capture a limited portion of screen or full screen of desktop for support or documentation purpose.

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