Powerful and intuitive screen capture and video recording tool with annotation and editing capabilities.
FastStone Capture is a shareware screen capture app and screen capture tool, developed by FastStone Soft for Windows. It's pretty comprehensive.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We've also created some screenshots of FastStone Capture to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this screen capture program.
A screen capture tool and screen video recorder
FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool and screen video recorder. It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages.
FastStone Capture also allows you to record all screen activities including onscreen changes, speech from microphone, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files. You can choose to send captures to editor, file, clipboard, printer, email, Word / PowerPoint document or upload them to your website. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more.
Other features include image scanning, global hotkeys, automatic filename generation, support for external editors, a color picker, a screen magnifier, a screen crosshair and a screen ruler.
FastStone Capture saves images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats. Built-in screen recorder saves videos in WMV (Windows Media Video) format.
Features of FastStone Capture
- Batch conversion: Convert images to different formats in batches.
- Capture menu: Capture anything from windows, objects, menus, full screen, scrolling window.
- Color Picker: Pick and save color from the screen.
- Hotkeys: Customize hotkeys for quick access to program functions.
- Image editor: Edit images directly in the program.
- Image effects: Add effects to images such as sharpening, blurring, watermark, etc.
- Screen Magnifier: Magnify screen area up to 16x.
- Screen annotations: Add annotations to images and videos.
- Screen capture: Capture anything on the screen.
- Screen protractor: Measure the angle on the screen.
- Screen ruler: Measure the length and angle on the screen.
- Screenshot Email: Send screenshot by email.
- Text capture: Capture text from the screen.
- Video recording: Record video of a desktop activity.
- Zoom: Zoom in/out to view details.
Compatibility and License
This download is licensed as shareware for the Windows operating system from screen capture software and can be used as a free trial until the trial period ends (after an unspecified number of days). The FastStone Capture 10.4 demo is available to all software users as a free download with potential restrictions and is not necessarily the full version of this software.
What version of Windows can FastStone Capture run on?
FastStone Capture can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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