Greenshot — The Complete Guide: Screenshots With Arrows and Highlights on Windows
Greenshot is a lightweight screenshot tool for Windows. You capture a region, a window or the full screen, add an arrow and a note, and send it — exactly what you need to show a drafter where the correction goes on a drawing, or to document a bug in calculation software.
Greenshot
Greenshot team
A lightweight Windows screenshot tool with arrows, highlights, blurring and export to file, printer or Office.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Three capture modes — region, window or full screen.
- Built-in editor — arrows, shapes, text and highlights.
- Hiding information — blur sensitive details before sending.
- Many destinations — file, clipboard, printer, email or straight into Office applications.
- Open licence — GPL-3.0, free including commercial use.
Who it suits
An office on Windows that wants a simple tool everyone understands without training. The download is free, with an optional voluntary donation to the project. If you also work on macOS or Linux, a cross-platform tool is the better choice.
Related tools
A cross-platform tool with in-place markup — Flameshot. For capture, recording and upload — ShareX. For recording a short GIF — ScreenToGif.
Flameshot
Flameshot project
Cross-platform screenshots with in-place markup — arrows, text, blur and numbering, ideal for marking up drawings.
Get it from the vendorShareX
ShareX team
Screenshots and screen recording for Windows — annotate with arrows and labels, and extract text with OCR.
Get it from the vendorScreenToGif
Nicke Manarin
Record short screen clips as GIF or video — to show software steps in tutorials and emails.
Get it from the vendorZoomIt
Microsoft Sysinternals
Zoom, draw and record on screen during a presentation — to highlight details in a drawing or model during a design review.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
Greenshot does one thing and does it well: a marked-up screenshot ready to send within seconds.