PicPick — The Complete Guide: Screen Capture, Recording and On-Screen Measuring Tools for Windows
PicPick from NGWIN is a Windows screen capture suite that gathers capture, recording, editing and a row of on-screen helpers into one program. If you want one tool instead of five small ones you get a lot here, provided the use is personal.
PicPick
NGWIN
Windows screen capture suite with scrolling capture, screen recording, an image editor, pixel ruler and protractor.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Capture — full screen, window, region, freehand shape and a whole scrolling page.
- Screen recording — with system audio and microphone, for a short demonstration of a workflow.
- Image editor — effects, arrows and text on the capture.
- Measuring tools — pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair and magnifier, for quick measurement of distances and angles in an image.
- Colour picker and whiteboard — grab colours and draw freely on the screen while explaining.
What is free and what is not
PicPick is free for personal, non-commercial use only, with all tools included. Use at work, for clients or to generate revenue needs a paid annual Professional licence, which adds automatic updates, support and an ad-free mode. In other words, an engineer documenting software interfaces on a project needs a licence. The free version is updated manually, and the program exists for Windows only.
Related tools
For alternatives that are free for commercial use as well — ShareX with scrolling capture and recording, and the simple Greenshot. For recording to GIF — ScreenToGif.
ShareX
ShareX team
Screenshots and screen recording for Windows — annotate with arrows and labels, and extract text with OCR.
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Greenshot
Greenshot team
A lightweight Windows screenshot tool with arrows, highlights, blurring and export to file, printer or Office.
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ScreenToGif
Nicke Manarin
Record short screen clips as GIF or video — to show software steps in tutorials and emails.
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Snipaste
Snipaste
Screenshots with automatic UI element detection and pinning captures as floating windows above all programs.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
A convenient, rich toolbox for home and study use; for professional work, ShareX or Greenshot cover much of the same ground with no licence.