# Greenshot

> Free, open-source screenshot tool for Windows with an editor

Greenshot is a lightweight, open-source screenshot tool for Windows. It captures a region, a window or the full screen, opens the result in an editor for annotating, highlighting or obscuring parts of it, and exports to a file, the clipboard, a printer, email, Office programs or an upload service. The Windows version is free under the GNU GPL. A separate, simpler Mac version is sold on the Mac App Store for $1.99.

- **Category:** Desktop Utilities
- **Made by:** Thomas Braun, Jens Klingen and Robin Krom
- **Website:** https://getgreenshot.org
- **Runs on:** Windows, macOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Greenshot has a free plan. Paid plans start at $1.99 one-time for the Mac version (US Mac App Store).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Greenshot for Windows is free and open source under the GNU GPL, at no charge for private or commercial use. Only the Mac version is paid.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |

Read from https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/ on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Greenshot before buying.

## Mac App Store prices by country

"The app", as each country's Mac App Store showed it on Oct 9, 2026. These are the app's prices, not the website's.

| Country | Price | In US dollars |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $1.99 | |
| United Kingdom | £1.99 | about $2.63 (32% more) |
| Germany | 1,99 € | about $2.23 (12% more) |
| Canada | $2.99 | about $2.10 (6% more) |
| Australia | $2.99 | about $2.09 (about the same) |
| India | ₹ 199 | about $2.06 (about the same) |
| Brazil | R$ 12,90 | about $2.58 (30% more) |
| Mexico | $39.00 | about $2.14 (8% more) |
| Turkey | ₺99,99 | about $2.03 (about the same) |
| Indonesia | Rp 39ribu | about $2.18 (10% more) |
| Philippines | ₱ 129.00 | about $2.05 (about the same) |
| South Africa | R39.99 | about $2.42 (22% more) |

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## Works with

Jira, Microsoft Office, Flickr

**Tags:** Screenshots, Open source

## Alternatives

- [ShareX](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sharex): Free, open-source screenshot and screen recording for Windows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greenshot-vs-sharex)
- [Flameshot](https://toolgpa.com/tools/flameshot): Free, open-source screenshot tool with on-screen annotation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/flameshot-vs-greenshot)
- [Shottr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shottr): Small Mac screenshot tool with annotation, OCR and a ruler. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greenshot-vs-shottr)
- [Camtasia Snagit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/snagit): Screen capture and recording tool with annotation and step guides. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greenshot-vs-snagit)
- [Monosnap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/monosnap): Screenshot and screen recording tool with its own cloud storage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greenshot-vs-monosnap)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://getgreenshot.org/
- https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/
- https://getgreenshot.org/help/
- https://getgreenshot.org/faq/
- https://getgreenshot.org/faq/do-i-have-to-pay-for-using-greenshot/
- https://getgreenshot.org/faq/will-there-ever-be-a-greenshot-version-for-linux-or-mac/
- https://getgreenshot.org/faq/using-jira/
- https://getgreenshot.org/faq/how-can-i-use-greenshot-for-ocr/
- https://getgreenshot.org/blog/
- https://getgreenshot.org/impressum/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/greenshot/id1103915944?mt=12
- https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot

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