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An Awesome Screenshot alternative that only takes screenshots
Awesome Screenshot is three products in one: a screenshot tool, a screen recorder, and a cloud sharing service. If you only ever used the first one, OpenCapture is that part on its own — free, open source, and with no account, no upload and no recording features to step around.
Side by side
| Compared | OpenCapture | Awesome Screenshot |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and editing | ||
| Full-page capture | Yes | Yes |
| Number of screenshots | Unlimited | 100 on the free planunlimited on a paid plan |
| Visible area / selected area | Yes | Yes |
| Annotate — arrows, boxes, text | Yes | Yesfull set is paid |
| Blur / blur | Yes | Yes |
| Export to PNG | Yes | Yes |
| Export to PDF | Yes | Yes |
| Watermarking | Yespaid feature | Yesbeta |
| Beyond screenshots | ||
| Screen & webcam recording | No | Yes |
| Cloud librarycaptures kept on their server | No | Yespaid feature |
| Sharingshare links, uploads to other services | No | Yes |
| Browsers | ||
| Chrome | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Edge | Yes | Yes |
| Firefox | Yes | Yes |
| Other browsersofficially supported builds | No | YesSafari |
| Open source | ||
| Open source | YesAGPL-3.0-or-later | No |
| Pricing | ||
| Billing | One-time | Subscription |
| Price | $51,000 credits, one-time | From $6/monthBasic plan |
The real trade-off
This isn't a case of one tool being better. They're built for different jobs, and the honest question is which job you actually have.
Awesome Screenshot is the right choice if…
- You record screen or webcam video, not just stills.
- You want a shareable link rather than a file — for bug reports, client feedback, async standups.
- Your team keeps a shared library of captures and comments on them.
OpenCapture is built for one job instead: the screenshot itself — capture, crop, annotate, blur, export — start to finish on your own machine. Everything on that list needs a server, and OpenCapture has none by design.
OpenCapture is the right choice if…
- You take screenshots of pages that shouldn't leave your machine — internal tools, customer records, staging environments — and you'd rather use something with no upload path at all than something with one you've turned off.
- You want the tool to work the instant it's installed, with nothing to sign into.
- You'd like to read the code, or point your security reviewer at it.
- You use Firefox as well as Chrome.
Install and try it in about ten seconds
No account, no onboarding, no trial period.
Questions people ask
What is a lighter alternative to Awesome Screenshot?
OpenCapture covers the capture half of Awesome Screenshot — full-page screenshots, cropping, annotation, blurring and export to PNG or PDF — without screen recording, a cloud library, or a sign-in wall in front of any of it.
Does OpenCapture record video?
No. OpenCapture is a screenshot tool only. If you need screen or webcam recording, Awesome Screenshot is the better fit.
Can I share a screenshot with a link?
No — deliberately. A share link needs somewhere to host the image, and hosting your captures is precisely what OpenCapture doesn’t do. Captures land on your disk as PNG or PDF, and you can copy one straight to the clipboard and paste it into Slack, an email or a doc.
Does OpenCapture need an account?
No. Every feature except watermarking works the moment you install it, signed out. Buying the watermark unlock is the only thing that needs a sign-in.
Can OpenCapture blur sensitive information?
Yes. The editor includes a blur tool for hiding names, addresses, tokens or anything else before you export.
Is OpenCapture open source?
The core extension is AGPL-3.0-or-later and published on GitHub. The optional watermark module is proprietary.