A proper Windows capture tool. Scrolling pages, a real annotation editor, and search that reads the words inside your screenshots. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account.
Signed by 180 Degrees IT Solutions. Free while in preview.
No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Your captures are files in a folder you chose.
Tag a screenshot, or just search for words that appear inside the picture.
A blur that removes the pixels, not one drawn on top of them.
Region, window, a single control, the active window, one monitor or all of them. Repeat the last region with one key.
Twenty-odd tools, all of them editable after you place them. Nothing is baked in until you export.
Blur, pixelate and solid redaction destroy the pixels underneath rather than covering them. Anything the app read out of those pixels is thrown away with them.
Every capture is read for text on your machine, using Windows' own recogniser. Search for a word you saw in a screenshot and get the screenshot.
tag:invoice to narrow to one tag, or several at onceWhen a picture will not do. Recordings are trimmed and reviewed in the app, and can be transcribed on your machine so the words are searchable.
Every capture is indexed as you take it: what app it came from, what the window was called, how big it is.
A screenshot tool sees everything you look at. Passwords, client records, medical details, half-written emails. That is a serious amount of trust to ask for, so here is exactly what happens.
Captures are saved as ordinary files in a folder you pick. The index that makes search work is a database beside them, on the same disk. Text recognition runs on your machine using a component that ships with Windows.
Windows will show the publisher as 180 Degrees IT Solutions. That is us. The installer and everything it puts on your machine are signed.
Open PowerShell where you saved it and run:
Get-FileHash .\180DSnap-stable-Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256It should print:
647c61419a7c6068cc6f3e91034c8ee1c51f8f9fbcb669c6673bcb6555323558If it prints anything else, do not run it, and tell us.
Updates arrive on their own. The app checks quietly in the background and asks before installing anything.
It is free while it is in preview, with no feature held back and no trial clock. If that changes, it will change for new installs, and it will be said plainly here rather than discovered by somebody mid-job.
No. There is no upload path in the product at all. Captures are files on your disk, the search index sits beside them, and text recognition happens on your machine using a component built into Windows. The app talks to exactly one server, to ask whether a newer version exists.
No. There is nothing to sign into and nothing to activate. Install it and it works.
Because that is who holds the code-signing certificate, and Windows shows the name on the certificate rather than the name of the product. 180 Degrees IT Solutions makes ScreenSnip. Showing you the real signer is the honest thing for Windows to do, even when it is momentarily confusing.
Yes. Blur, pixelate and redaction change the actual pixels rather than drawing a shape on top of them, so the original cannot be recovered from the exported file. The app also throws away anything it had already read out of those pixels, including the words in its search index and any cached thumbnail made from the old image.
After a capture is saved, the app reads any text in it using the recogniser that ships with Windows, and stores those words in its local index. Searching looks at the window title, the application, your tags and that recognised text together. Nothing is sent anywhere to make it work.
No. Tags, colour flags, favourites and collections are written into the image file itself as standard metadata. Delete the database, rebuild the library from your folder, and they all come back. It also means a tagged screenshot carries its tags to another machine, and that Windows File Explorer can see them.
Yes. There are Group Policy templates for the settings that matter, including whether updates are allowed, where they come from, and locking the privacy scan on so it cannot be switched off locally.
Nothing. They are ordinary image files in the folder you chose, and the uninstaller does not touch them.
Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit. There is no macOS or Linux build.