Snipping Tool

The Snipping Tool is a powerful tool pre-installed in Windows operating systems, enabling users to capture their screen in various ways. It is a lightweight, user-friendly, and quickly accessible tool, as you can open it using keyboard shortcuts and capture your screen using a mouse, touch screen, or pen tool.

The Snipping Tool is the best solution for professional users and graphic designers to offer excellent services for enhancing business and productivity. It not only helps to capture your screen, but also offers a basic editing process to make your screenshot according to your requirements.

What is Snipping Tool?

Snipping tool is a tiny and free-to-use tool developed by Microsoft Corporation for Windows 11 and other versions. You can use it by simply pressing Win + Shift + S and selecting the screenshot option from the drop-down menu.

The Snipping tool offers different types of taking screenshots, such as full screen, a specific part, etc. The tool offers a quick editing process with multiple tools, including colored pens, an eraser, highlight, etc, and automatically saves directly to your default folder. 

Snipping Tools Features

Flexible and Versatile 

It is the best solution to capture your screen on your Windows devices. The tool offers enhanced flexibility and versatility for catering users to enjoy different screenshot capabilities, such as;

• Free Form allows users to use their mouse or fingers to freely select a capture area.
• Rectangular Snip allows capturing of the entire active app screen.
• Full-screen Snip is for capturing the full screen
• Auto Screenshot enables users to set a delay, such as 1—5 seconds, for capturing the screen

Simple & Fast 

Snipping tool is a simple-to-use software that offers the fastest services within a few clicks. You can launch it by using keyboard shortcuts, pressing the “PrtScr” key, or selecting options from the system tray. You are navigating to a straightforward interface with a minimum learning curve to offer multiple screenshot-taking options. You will find the "Options" button for customizing different elements of the app.

Desktop Shortcuts

You are capable of creating shortcuts for apps on the desktop, and help to quickly access to capture any specific area of the screen while setting it automatically. It is the best and simplest solution to save your time and energy.

Seamless Editing

The tool also has a built-in editing suite to make your captured screenshot according to your requirements. The innovative suite has multiple editing tools, such as a colored pen tool for annotating your captured images. You will find freehand drawing style, highlighting the vital parts, and using adjustable thickness for inserting shapes, including circles, arrows, rectangles, and lines. 

Browser Compatibility & Save Options

The tool can be launched using multiple browser extensions that help to use the snipping tool right from the browser. The extensions can be installed on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera. It enables to capture of web content more conveniently. In addition, the flexible tool is installed in the AppData folder by default, and can easily be updated, but you also have the option to save it in the location you prefer. 

Quick Sharing Options

You can use the captured screenshots for multiple purposes, such as is best solution for graphic designing, technical documentation, and for multiple productivity apps. It is easily shareable, as you can save it to your local storage or upload it to Google Drive and Dropbox as well. On uploading a screenshot to a cloud service, you will get an automatically created link to share with your friends and colleagues while avoiding the manual sharing process. 

The tool is also integrated with FTP servers to services for people connecting to the company's internet or working on their personal website. In addition, you can get more advanced workflows and fulfill your automation requirements while sending screenshots as WebRequests. 

Create Collages

The tool also enables users to merge multiple screenshots to create collages and use them for different purposes. The capturing of an entire page is not only available in web browsers, but you can also capture different apps as well. 

Lightweight & Smooth Performance

The app with a tiny size proves like a breeze to offer enhanced performance. It doesn’t consume so many storage resources, and launches quickly without slowing down your PC. It is fully compatible with all the latest Windows versions, including Windows 10 and Windows 11, and has frequent updates to improve the performance of your system. 

Pros

• Lightweight, fast, and user-friendly interface
• Free to use
• Compatible with all the latest Windows versions
• Integrated with FTP servers
• Multiple sharing options 
• Annotation and markup tool integration
• Capture your screen in different ways, including freeform, specific window, etc

Cons

• Advanced image editing is limited
• Lack of support for third-party messaging apps