SPGrab

Testing out products on a computer requires proof, so that developers know under what circumstances issues occur, and what exactly to look for. This can be done through screenshots, which can also help in building tutorials, or simply showing off your pretty desktop. In any case, SPGrab can help you out in case conventional ways don’t exactly tickle your fancy.

The application can easily be used on other computers besides your own, and this can even be done directly from a thumb drive, because it requires no installation in order to function. Portability also means that registries are not modified, so you don’t have to worry about the target PC’s health status.

Designed to make things more comfortable, the application spends most of its time in the system tray, letting you trigger its functions through hotkeys. However, there is a dedicated preferences menu you might want to visit, where you can also edit default hotkey configuration.

You can choose to allow the application to run with Windows, and this can come in handy for quickly taking a screenshot of something happening in the first few seconds of the operating system load time. The possibility to have pictures automatically saved to a custom location goes hand in hand with the startup option.

Saving can be done to other locations other than a file, which can be either PNG or JPG. For instance, the picture can be automatically added to clipboard, or even uploaded online to a couple of dedicated screenshot hosting services, so you can quickly share them. Depending on your needs, the screenshots can either be of the entire screen, a custom region, or a particular window.

To be fair, screenshots are not that difficult to capture even without installing any special application. However, doing this repeatedly and in short time gets complicated, but SPGrab is sure to solve this issue. It quietly sits in the tray area unless you want to adjust any settings, automatically saving screenshots of the whole screen, custom window, or specific region.