Greenshot vs Shottr

Greenshot

• Windows users who want a free screenshot tool with a built-in editor
• Technical writers, testers and developers documenting software
• Teams that attach screenshots to Jira tickets

Shottr

• Designers and front-end developers who measure pixels and colors on screen
• Capturing long pages or chats as one scrolling screenshot
• Buyers who prefer a one-time license to a subscription

Greenshot

• The full version is for Windows. The Mac app costs $1.99, was last updated in June 2020 and has fewer features, per its App Store listing.
• There is no Linux version, and the FAQ says none is planned.
• Capturing a complete scrolling web page is documented only for Internet Explorer.
• The OCR plug-in depends on Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI), an optional component of Office 2003 and 2007.

Shottr

• Mac only, and the vendor calls a Windows or Linux version unlikely. Its pages disagree on the minimum macOS: 10.15 on the homepage, 12 in the knowledge base.
• The free version asks you to consider buying after 30 days, and commercial use requires a paid license.
• Shottr Cloud uploads are public to anyone with the URL and carry no storage guarantee. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud and FTP are not supported.
• The interface is not localized; the vendor says it is intentionally avoiding other languages for now.

Greenshot

Region, window and fullscreen capture

Captures a selected region, the active window or the whole screen with the Print key and its modifiers, and can capture the last region again.

Image editor

Opens each capture in an editor for drawing rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and freehand lines, adding text, cropping and enlarging the image.

Highlight and obfuscate

Highlights text or an area, turns the surroundings to grayscale or magnifies a selection, and hides sensitive details by pixelizing or blurring them.

Export destinations

Saves to a file, copies to the clipboard, prints, attaches the image to an email, sends it to Office programs or uploads it to photo sites.

Jira upload

Can be configured to upload screenshots to a Jira Server or Jira Cloud instance, and lists recently viewed tickets in the destination picker.

Mac version

A separate Mac app captures a region, window or the full screen, annotates and obscures parts of the image, and exports to a file, the clipboard or email.

Shottr

Scrolling screenshots

Captures a long web page or chat conversation as one image, in any app or window. A manual scrolling mode covers systems where automatic capture does not work.

Annotations and backdrops

Adds text, arrows, freehand drawings, highlights, spotlights and a magnifier callout, and the Backdrop tool sets a screenshot on a gradient with shadows and rounded corners.

Text recognition and QR codes

A hotkey lets you select an area of the screen; Shottr recognizes the text in it and copies it to the clipboard. The same feature reads QR codes.

Screen ruler and color picker

Arrow keys measure horizontal and vertical distances on a screenshot, and the Tab key copies the color under the cursor. A contrast checker supports WCAG 2.0 and APCA.

Pixelate, erase and pin

Hides parts of an image behind pixelation or removes them, and pins screenshots as floating, always-on-top borderless windows for reference.

Upload and link sharing

Uploads a screenshot to Shottr Cloud or any S3-compatible storage and copies its public URL. Shottr Cloud needs a free access token tied to your email.

Greenshot

• Greenshot for Windows$0

  The full Windows app, free and open source under the GNU GPL for private and commercial use.

• Greenshot for Mac$1.99

  one-time purchase (US Mac App Store)

  A separate macOS app, priced to cover the team's costs. Its listing warns that it has fewer features than the Windows version.

Shottr

• Free$0

  Most features with no time limit. After 30 days the app starts asking you to consider upgrading.

• Basic Tier$12

  one-time purchase

  A license for one user on up to five computers. Required for commercial use; the vendor says the activated version gives a better overall experience.

• Friends Club$30

  one-time purchase

  Adds access to experimental features and better support. A Basic license cannot be upgraded to this tier.