sniptool

sniptool is a fresh project for Windows users interested in a simple and straightforward screenshot grabber. It's wrapped in a tiny package, requires no installation, and comes bundled with annotation tools.

The snipping app puts emphasis on looks, adopting a sleek interface with a well-organized menu that provides quick access to the grabber, annotation features and image saving options. A handful of settings can be configured by clicking a button on the lower-left corner of the window.

Two screenshots modes can be used: draw a rectangular area or freely draw anywhere on the screen. However, we've noticed an issue in this regard: the newest capture does not replace the previous one but overlaps it instead, which means that you can end up with a weird combination of two shots. To fix this, you have to select and delete the previous shot.

You can check out the shot size on the bottom size (height and weight), highlight parts of the image that you would like to shift focus to, draw with a pencil, create empty or full rectangular shapes, insert external photos such as watermarks, write text, and apply blur effect to any areas.

Several color options are available for the pencil, highlighter and text (but not the entire color spectrum). You can pick the text font, size and background color, as well as change the size of the pencil, highlighted and rectangle from the settings panel.

As far as output options are concerned, it's possible to copy the whole photo to the clipboard or save it to a file with PNG or JPG format.

Besides the previously mentioned issues, sniptool has a very slow response time when trying out the annotation tools, making it difficult to use them accurately. This is understandable, though, since it hasn't reached stable development stage yet. On the other hand, it means that it's not yet ready for the public.