CLUSTER CAPTURES-DESKTOP-SCREEN · 62 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-09-24
Screen capture utilities
This cluster contains 56 similar products that capture screen images, regions, or recordings, often tailored to specific display servers (X11, Wayland, Linux framebuffer) or operating systems, with a range of extras such as editing, uploading, or watermarking. Entries appear across the dated history from March 2011 through June 2026 at a steady one-to-two-per-month rate, with a slight concentration in 2025 and early 2026. The leading product by traction signal is ShareL (5 stars), followed by winshotx (2 stars) and screenshot-exactly-now-75 (1 star).
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 · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 18 unlabelled
Operator · 8 hobby · 6 open source · 6 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01SnapWheel10★13 dayslivehobbyWindows screenshot utility that docks captured images onto a corner wheel, letting users drag them out to share or back in to store.
- 02ShareL6★1 molivehobbyDesktop application for Linux and macOS that captures screenshots, records the screen, and uploads them to custom sharing destinations.
- 03snapfloat1★7 days—hobbyDesktop utility that displays a floating preview of every Windows screenshot so it can be dragged into chat, editor, or terminal.
- 04screenshot-exactly-now-751★16 days—A utility for capturing screenshots at the current moment.
- 05shot-hyprland0★5 daysliveopen sourceScreenshot utility for the Hyprland desktop that captures screen regions using a wlr-layer-shell capture bar.
- 06page-capture0★24 days—Local-first desktop utility that captures a fixed screen region into ordered image-based PDFs.
- 07snipjar0★17 dayslivehand-codedhobbyWindows screenshot tool that saves captured regions to the user's own cloud storage and shows them in a private gallery.
- 08exactly-the-screenshot0★8 days—Screenshot utility that captures exactly what appears on screen and exports or shares the result.
- 09screencap0★14 days—hobbyDesktop utility that captures full-screen, region, or window screenshots and records screen video with optional audio.
- 10Snapora0★22 daysliveWindows desktop app for capturing, annotating, and pinning screenshots to the screen, with all data kept locally.
- 11chalkak0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that captures, previews, and edits screenshots for users of a specific Linux tiling window manager.
- 12echo-yolo-capture2★25 days—hobbyDesktop app that captures game screenshots at fixed intervals and exports them as labeled datasets for training object detection models.
- 13sonic-screenies0★1 moliveopen sourceScreen capture tool that takes screenshots of the desktop and saves them as image files.
- 14eshot-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility for capturing screenshots and videos, extracting text via OCR, and creating annotated GIFs.
- 15shixiang1★28 days—hobbyWindows desktop utility for capturing rectangular, circular, or elliptical screenshots and compressing images to target pixel or file sizes.
- 16wayshot0★1 moliveopen sourceScreenshot tool for wlroots compositors that captures screen images.
- 17gshot-copy40★1 yrabandonedliveai-builtLinux screenshot utility that captures screenshots, names files with timestamps, and copies the file path to the clipboard.
- 18cutter0★29 daysliveOpen-source screen capture and composition studio that lets users capture, edit, and compose screenshots and videos on desktop.
- 19chrome-remote-desktop-image-paste0★28 days—hobbyWindows utility that sends local screenshots to a remote computer so they can be pasted with Ctrl+V in Chrome Remote Desktop.
- 20screencloud0★2 moliveopen sourceUser-friendly screenshot capture and sharing application for desktop.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.