Mr Shot

Mr Shot is a software application which helps people take freehand snapshots, as well as capture the entire screen or a specified window, and save everything to the computer, in JPG, BMP, PNG, or TIFF formats.

The interface sports a minimal and intuitive design, which means anybody can work with it, without facing issues and regardless of their level of experience.

Aside from that, this program is non-obtrusive as it goes directly in the system tray. Right-clicking on the icon enables you to open or close it, as well as access the settings panel.

The latter lets you to choose the output directory and format, view and customize the keyboard shortcuts, as well as launch the app at Windows startup, open containing folder on save, play shutter sound and capture mouse cursor, and so on.

Once you take a picture, a new window pops up and lets you edit it. To be more exact, you can add geometrical shapes (rectangle, ellipse), straight lines, arrows and text boxes, highlight selected elements, change font type, style and size, undo your actions and input filename.

This utility is very friendly to your computer’s performance, as Windows actually detects it as a background process. This means it can run without problems alongside other tools. Help contents are not provided, yet seeing how easy it is to use, it becomes apparent they are not actually needed.

Mr Shot proves to be a useful piece of software, through a user-friendly interface, customizable hotkeys, high quality results and good response time. Our tests did not reveal any errors, crashes or bugs.