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Screenshots and screen recording for Windows. It weighs 2.5 MB, shows the selection already painted 114 milliseconds after the shortcut with three screens, and asks for no account, no cloud and no administrator rights. What you capture never leaves your machine.
2.54 MB installer · Windows 10 and 11 · MIT licence · Installs for your user only
or from the terminal winget install Mun1to.winshotx · also on the Microsoft Store
Measured on the same Windows 11 machine, three runs each and both starting from cold. The clock stops when the selection is already on screen.
The three screens are rebuilt from the app's own code, with its icons and its measurements. Drag on the desktop below just like you would on yours.
Point by point, including where winshotx loses. The Windows one comes preinstalled and does things this one cannot do yet.
| Snipping Tool | winshotx | |
|---|---|---|
| From shortcut to the selection on screen, already painted (three screens) | 920 ms | 114 ms |
| Memory while capturing | 253 MB | 33 MB |
| Memory sitting idle | 98 MB | 31 MB |
| Installation | already in Windows | 2.54 MB installer |
| Capture a region | Yes | Yes, snapping to windows |
| Record video | Yes | Yes, at 15, 30 or 60 fps |
| Record GIF | No | Yes |
| Frame by frame editor | No | Yes, with A and B trim |
| Pick your own shortcut | whatever Windows decides | whatever you want |
| Pixel magnifier with the colour | No | 6× zoom and hex code |
| Paste the GIF or the video as a file | No | Yes, and its path as text too |
| Draw and annotate on top | pen, shapes and text | six marks, with numbered steps |
| Copy the text out of the image | Yes | yes, with the T key |
| Blur out personal data | Automatic | by hand, and with a mosaic |
| System audio when recording | Yes | yes, and the microphone mixed in |
| Save what just happened | No | the last 15, 30 or 60 s |
| Timer before capturing | 3, 5 or 10 seconds | 3 or 5 seconds |
| Zoom in on every click | No | Yes, decided after recording |
| Languages | all of Windows' | Spanish and English |
| Open source | No | MIT, all of it |
The milliseconds and the megabytes come from measuring both on the same Windows 11 machine, three runs each, starting from cold. The rest is what each one ships today.
Press the shortcut and the selection is already there, painted: 114 milliseconds with three screens, the one under the mouse first and the other two by 233. Nothing appears until it has its image, so there is no loading screen.
33 MB of memory while capturing and a 2.54 MB installer. The app Windows ships spends eight times more to do less.
6× zoom with the colour in hex under the cursor, and windows highlight themselves with their name on them: one click and you have that whole window, with no fiddling with edges.
Turn on whole screen and every monitor puts up its own number. Press the number and it takes that one entire, wherever the pointer happens to be.
It records all the time and drops the old, so one key keeps the last 15, 30 or 60 seconds. The good part of a screen almost always happens before anyone thinks of recording it.
0.5×, 2× or 4× over what you recorded. A tutorial has stretches where nothing happens, and those play at 2× without losing a thing.
Click to drop a 1, a 2 and a 3 on the shot. They number themselves, so adding one in the middle does not leave two threes in the same picture.
Record the region at 15, 30 or 60 frames and export to GIF or MP4. With no bundled FFmpeg: Windows writes the video in hardware.
Trim the start and the end with two marks, watch the loop, change the size and the quality, and export. All in the same window.
The system audio and your microphone, mixed into the same track. Each has its own switch, and either can go alone: narrate a tutorial, or capture only what the machine is playing.
It zooms in on every click of the recording, and how much you decide after recording: the clicks were written down while it recorded, so changing your mind never means recording again.
No account, no telemetry and no uploads. The code is open and the installer does not even ask for administrator rights.
FAQ
If it's not here, open an issue on GitHub and it gets answered and added.
Ask on GitHubYes, all of it. It's open source under the MIT licence: the full code is on GitHub, with no time limit and no feature locked behind a payment.
No. It never asks for an account, sends nothing to any cloud, and works offline; the only moment it talks to the internet is to check for a new version.
Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Yes. It follows your Windows language on its own, and in Settings you can force Spanish or English whenever you like. Every label, every explanation and the welcome screen are translated.
The installer is 2.54 MB and goes to your user, not the system, so Windows never asks for administrator rights. It updates itself from inside the app with one button, and every download is signed and checked before anything is installed.
Yes. It is published in the official winget-pkgs catalogue, so winget install Mun1to.winshotx installs it, and winget upgrade updates it. A new version takes a few hours to show up in the catalogue: while it does, the app updates itself from Settings. winget upgrade updates it.
Yes, since 7 September 2026: apps.microsoft.com. It is the same app, and there the package is signed by Microsoft and the Store keeps it updated, so the app's own updater stays out of the way. The installer from this page and winget give you exactly the same thing.
Region capture with automatic window snapping and a whole screen with one key; video and GIF at 15, 30 or 60 fps with system audio and microphone; the last 15, 30 or 60 seconds without pressing record beforehand; and a frame by frame editor with A and B trim, six marks to annotate, a mosaic, numbered steps, camera zoom on every click and export at 0.5×, 2× or 4×.
Three things. It does not come preinstalled: you have to install it. It does not black out personal data on its own, you cover it by hand with the mosaic. And it speaks two languages, Spanish and English, while the Windows one speaks all of them. The point by point comparison is above, including where winshotx loses.
The installer goes to your user and not to the system, so Windows never asks for administrator rights. From inside the app it updates itself with one button, and every download is signed and checked before anything is installed.
winshotx is free and there is no paid version: this is the only way to support it. If it saves you time, buy me a coffee.