Taking a screenshot is not at all a difficult job, even Windows lets you do it with the Snipping Tool that’s bundled into the operating system, but here’s something a bit more powerful and easier to use.

It’s called HoverSnap and it’s supposed to help you take screenshots on the fly, also providing a few other handy features.

HoverSnap thus lets you take a snapshot of the entire screen, of the active window or just of a custom area using predefined key combinations.

Of course, a dedicated feature to enable us change shortcuts would be great, as many of the other similar software solutions on the market are already offering that.

Nevertheless, HoverSnap works with a total of four formats, JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF, giving you the option to also resize the capture to your own dimensions.

Two of the most interesting features in this program are the auto-saving tool and the FTP Upload utility. While the first one is capable of saving the just-made screenshot in a desired location, the second allows the user to upload the photos to a configured server with just a few clicks.

HoverSnap quietly sits in the System Tray, so you can safely use the key combinations to take a screenshot. There’s no dedicated interface to work with the capture you’ve just made, so using the auto-saving tool is a must.

The app won’t slow down the computer at all and worked pretty smooth on our Windows 7 testing machines, so it’s safe to assume that it will do the same on older machines too.

As a conclusion, HoverSnap isn’t the most powerful snapping tool on the market, but it’s not the most disappointing either. So just give it a try to see what it’s up to.