HotShots is a screen capture utility which offers several additional tools for editing your screenshots and adding annotations.
The program is currently being developed as an open source project and provides the option of capturing certain areas of your screen such as the entire screen, active window, rectangular areas or by freehand.
HotShots can capture screens by use of a hotkey which is customizable. It can been saved to either your hard drive or to your clipboard, making it paste-able into image editing software like PhotoShop. If you don't have a suitable image editor installed, you can also use HotShots' built-in image editing tools.
The image editing tools provided allow you to draw shapes, straight lines, add text, arrows and annotations, among other tools.
In conclusion, HotShots is a totally free and useful screen capture program offering many features you may expect to find in more expensive, commercial solutions.
Features of HotShots
- Add annotation items (text, arrows, rectable) to the snapshot.
- Add automatically some post-effects to the screenshot (drop shadow, rotation, border).
- Automatically save the screenshot to clipboard, disk or launch the editor tool.
- Automatically scale the screenshot to a given size.
- Be launch at system start-up (Windows).
- Be minimized to system tray and work in background.
- Export edited image in multiple formats (PNG, JPG, BMP ...).
- Grab current screen, all monitors (in case of multi-monitors configuration), current window or a part of the desktop.
- Save/Restore edited image in proprietary format.
- Save the screenshot in multiple formats (PNG, JPG, BMP, ...).
- Send image directly to printer or to web service.
- Use system shortcuts to take a screenshot.
Compatibility and License
As HotShots is released under the Apache License v2.0 for Windows from screen capture software, you are not required to pay a penny for this software. In fact, you're free to make copies, distribute it and for those that are technically inclined, view and edit the source code. Feel free to share it with friends.
What version of Windows can HotShots run on?
HotShots can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
Filed under:
- HotShots Download
- Free Screen Capture Software
- Open source and GPL software
- Screen Capture Software
