Since Vista, Windows does have a basic ‘snipping tool’ and in Windows 10 you will find the slightly more flexible Snipping and Drawing app, but those who regularly want to edit screenshots, for example while creating a manual, will soon run into the limitations. Ksnip is clearly made of better wood.
Ksnip
price
Free
Language
Dutch
OS
Windows, macOS, Linux
Website
www.github.com/ksnip/ksnip
8 Score 80 
- Pros
- Solid editor
- User friendly
- Negatives
- No pipette tool
- No ‘free hand’
If you occasionally need a no-frills image of your screen, a program window or an area that you can define yourself, you don’t need Ksnip. But that changes quickly if you want to add all kinds of notes to your screenshot, such as text, arrows, frames or numbers. When you start Ksnip a thumbnail window pops up from which you can take a new screenshot. Or you call the tool from the Windows system tray with an (adjustable) shortcut. Ksnip offers five screenshot modes, with or without an adjustable wait time: a rectangular area, the previous rectangular area (useful if you want to quickly take a new screenshot of the same area), the current screen, all screens at once and the active program window. No option to select a text part with free hand.
Editor
Your screenshot will be automatically sent to the built-in editor. You can save the image directly as jpg, png or gif, or send it to the clipboard or your Imgur account, but you can also edit it in many ways. For example, there is a tool with which you can crop the image. You can also add text or a watermark, draw arrows, lines and frames, use a highlighter, place numbers (increasing by 1 each time) and mask areas. The latter is useful if you want to make privacy-sensitive parts unreadable. Almost all of these options can be adjusted in many ways via clear icons, such as color, size, border, fill, radius and so on. We do miss a pipette tool with which we can quickly indicate a specific color, whether or not within the screenshot. Good to know is that you can also retrieve already saved images in the editor for further editing.
Conclusion
For those who frequently take screenshots and who also like to provide the necessary annotations, a tool such as Ksnip is indispensable, especially because the Windows native tools fall seriously short in this area. Ksnip may not be the most powerful cutting tool (we give that honor to ShareX, for example), but the program does offer the most important functions in a very clear editor.
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