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I found it to be the exact opposite. ShareX has a lot of features which makes it hard to quickly get your head around all its clutter, when sometimes all you want to a screenshot utility.

Flameshot has key bindings just like any other screenshot program. If the shortcut is already bound by another program, then it will not let you bind it to Flameshot, I believe.

I have been using Flameshot portable for years and it isn't without missing features but I keep coming back to it. I generally use the copy function, sometimes save to location. It would be good to have a built in editor that can be loaded after the action.




Why not just use the built in system screenshot tool if you just want to copy or save?

ShareX can pop up an editor after a screenshot which I do use a lot.


My apologies as I was not clear. Copy or Save after crop, and arrows, numbers etc.

Thank you for pointing out that ShareX has an editor. I was aware that it has that feature but I do not remember the specifics on why I went back to Flameshot.

The lacking features of Flameshot is that once you move away from the editor, you can not go back and make alterations. Not that I am aware of anyway.


I've used ShareX and Greenshot, and the latter is more straightforward. I don't want to upload retouched/annotated screenshots, but ShareX is a image sharing application at its core, so it had too much unused baggage for me. Greenshot hits the sweet spot for my use cases perfectly.

Also, Greenshot is lighter and snappier than every other Windows screenshot application I've tried.




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