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winshotx

Screenshots and GIF/MP4 screen recording for Windows, in a 2.51 MB installer.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

winshotx is a screen capture program, available on Windows.

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

File formats mentioned: GIF, MP4 and PNG.

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
  • “Free, open source Snipping Tool alternative for Windows: region screenshots, GIF and MP4 screen recording and a frame-by-frame editor.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Nothing is downloaded at runtime: MP4 is written by Media Foundation in hardware, the GIF encoder is pure Rust and the text recognition is the one Windows already ships, so there is no bundled FFmpeg and no OCR…” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of winshotx 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 GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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