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SnippingTool

Open-source Windows snipping tool with OCR, screen recording, and annotation.

Completely free
Windows
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: MIT — Open source (permissive)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: WindowsEstablished by Windows: Winget
Publisher: Dimitar Radenkov
Latest version: 4.6.1
Source code: github.com/dimitar-radenkov/snippingtool

Overview

SnippingTool is a screen capture program, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Open-source Windows snipping tool with OCR, screen recording, and annotation” — Winget, 10 November 2026
“Open-source Windows snipping tool with OCR, screen recording, and annotation” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of SnippingTool is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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