CLUSTER AREA-CAPTURES-SCREEN · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-09-01
Screen area screenshot tools
This cluster consists of desktop tools that capture a selected screen area and save it as an image file, with one also offering annotation, copying, saving, or printing. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only two dated entries exist before the index start and it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders are exactly-the-screenshot, slightshot, and PasteShot, each with 0 stars on their activity signal.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 3 open source · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01slightshot1★6 days—hobbyDesktop screenshot tool that captures a selected screen area, annotates it with arrows and text, and copies, saves, or prints the result.
- 02exactly-the-screenshot0★12 days—Tool that captures a precise screenshot of a selected screen area.
- 03PasteShot0★1 mo—hobbyWindows utility that captures a selected screen region when Print Screen is pressed and pastes it as a PNG file into any folder.
- 04slopgun0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop tool that captures the selected screen area and saves it as a screenshot file.
- 05imgur-screenshot0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceScreenshot tool that captures a selected screen area and uploads it to Imgur for sharing.
- 06CoreShot0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceScreen capture app that captures the whole screen, a selected window, or a custom region for sharing or documentation.
- 07ContourShot0★unknownliveDesktop screenshot tool that captures rectangular or polygon selections, dims the rest of the screen, saves transparent PNG files, and copies images to the clipboard.
- 08FastCapture0★unknownliveScreenshot tool that captures an area by dragging the mouse and copies it to the clipboard for quick sharing with developers and content creators.
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