Greenshot vs Camtasia Snagit

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

Camtasia Snagit

• Technical writers and support teams documenting software
• Turning a clicked-through process into a step-by-step guide
• Quick annotated screenshots and short screen recordings

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.

Camtasia Snagit

• There is no free plan: after the 15-day trial it needs a yearly subscription, and TechSmith does not offer monthly billing.
• Individual subscriptions cannot be transferred; teams that need reassignable seats buy the Business license, priced per user per year.
• Available for Windows and macOS, and some features are tied to one of them, such as time-lapse and printer capture on Windows.
• Video tools stop at trimming and combining clips; TechSmith points people who need fuller editing to Camtasia Editor.

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.

Camtasia Snagit

Screenshots and scrolling capture

Captures a region, window or full screen, and grabs long web pages, documents and spreadsheets in a single scrolling capture.

Step Capture

Records each click as you walk through a process and turns the screenshots into a numbered guide that can be shared.

Annotation and themes

Adds arrows, callouts, shapes, step markers and stamps, and applies a team's colors, fonts and styles through Themes.

Smart Redact

Finds emails, phone numbers and card details in a capture and blurs or blocks them. The analysis runs locally on the device.

Screen recording

Records the screen, webcam, microphone and system audio, then trims or combines clips, removes background noise or exports a GIF.

Library and sharing

A searchable library keeps captures organized, and they can be shared by Screencast link or sent to apps such as Slack and Google Drive.

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.

Camtasia Snagit

• Snagit Individual$39

  per user / year, billed yearly

  For one named person: unlocked by signing in, not transferable, and kept up to date for the length of the subscription.

• Camtasia Starter$39

  per year, billed yearly

  The entry Camtasia plan, which bundles Snagit with a watermarked Camtasia Editor. Every higher Camtasia plan includes Snagit too.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Site license with a flat annual fee that covers every user, pricing locked for three years and a dedicated success manager.

Greenshot

No public discounts listed.

Camtasia Snagit

• Education

  Student offer: Snagit for $20 a year

  Verified students in the US, Canada and the UK can get Snagit for $20 a year, billed yearly, through Student Beans.

• Education

  Education discount for educators

  Accredited institutions can buy a discounted, transferable educator license, priced per user per year, on the Education tab of the store.

• Other savings

  Volume discount from 10 Business licenses

  The Business license, sold per user per year for teams of up to 99, is discounted when you buy 10 or more seats.