ShotX

ShotX is a practical and compact application that aims to provide users with a comprehensive screen capturing tool. With the help of this small, yet useful program, you can acquire images of the whole screen or the currently active windows.

While there is no lack of capturing applications out there, ShotX stands out due to the ease of use that it can handle every task with. The interface is intuitive enough to allow even inexperienced users to get accustomed to all the functions and options right after their first interaction with the program.

The main window displays the most recent screenshot, enabling you to rotate it, print it or save it to your computer with just a few clicks. The image can be exported locally in various formats, namely JPEG, GIF, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPE, BMP, JFIF, DIB and PNG.

The application can be easily set to capture just the active window, instead of the whole screen. For each of these two options, there is a key combination that enables you to quickly take a snapshot while ShotX runs silently and hidden in the system tray.

Aside from its main function of capturing the desktop or an opened window, ShotX can also be used as a simple photo viewer, with support for the aforementioned file formats. Nevertheless, it does not provide the same range of features that an image viewer does, since you only can open a picture at a time, without having the possibility to browse through the contents of an entire folder.

Although is does not match the performance of other programs in its category, ShotX can be of use to anyone who is looking for a lightweight and intuitive screen capturer. Designed with simplicity in mind, it can come in handy for creating software documentation or tutorials.