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 hand-coded · 19 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 19 open source
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.
- 21hyprsnap0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop screenshot utility that captures regions, windows, or full screens through an interactive menu on Linux.
- 22screenshot-niri0★1 moliveopen sourceScreenshot utility for niri compositor that captures standard and long-scroll screenshots with a frozen-background selection overlay.
- 23cutefish-screenshot0★4 moliveopen sourceScreenshot capture tool for CutefishOS.
- 24Screenshot0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop utility that captures screenshots of the screen.
- 25quickshot0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop portal screenshot tool that captures the full screen or selected regions on Linux.
- 26ffcast0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that selects a screen region and runs custom actions like screenshots or screencasts.
- 27screens0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility for capturing and managing screenshots on desktop systems.
- 28Screenshot Tool0★unknownlivehobbyDesktop application for capturing, annotating, and sharing screenshots locally on Linux without requiring an account or cloud service.
- 29mainstream-screencapture0★5 moliveopen sourceA meta-package that installs dependencies for screenshot and screen recording on mainstream Linux distributions.
- 30gscreenshot0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop app that captures screenshots using different screen capture backends, configurable by the user.
- 31archy-screenshot0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceScript helper for taking screenshots by invoking a capture command, designed as a lightweight utility.
- 32qlip0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceLinux utility that captures screenshots of the screen or selected regions.
- 33Kasasa0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop utility that pins screenshots or clipped information to a small floating window so users can reference them while working in other apps.
- 34lqth0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceA fast screenshot utility that quickly captures screen images with minimal delay.
- 35vidshotter-bin0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand line utility that extracts equally spaced screenshots from videos or GIFs
- 36foamshot-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceScreenshot utility that captures screen images for Linux users.
- 37sxot0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCaptures screenshots on X11 systems with a simple tool.
- 38python-pyscreeze0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCross-platform module for capturing screen images for use in automation scripts.
- 39vnrez0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLinux tool that records the screen, captures screenshots, and shares files online
- 40fbcat0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA command-line tool that captures the Linux framebuffer to produce a screenshot without a graphics server.
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.