I uninstalled ShareX after finding this tiny screenshot tool that does everything I actually used it for

Windows comes with its own built-in screenshot app, Snipping Tool. However, it's bare bones, so I've stuck with ShareX for years now, and didn't really think anything could beat it. It's an excellent screen capture app with an even better built-in editor, which I used to edit more than just screenshots. That's until I could no longer drag and drop images from other folders to ShareX's task list.

So, I went app hunting and found OddSnap, another open-source screenshot app for Windows. It does everything that I used ShareX for except editing, and some more, while still being light on resources. It's fast, pretty, and might be the screenshot app for Windows that I need.

OddSnap is fast

Quick capture with a smart history view

The first thing I noticed about OddSnap is that it's incredibly fast. Hit the default hotkey, and the capture overlay appears almost instantly, noticeably quicker than ShareX. A lot of that comes down to its lightweight footprint. Drag the area or select the screen, and OddSnap captures the shot without any visible lag.

The hotkey brings up a toolbar at the top of the screen that lets you choose from different screenshot modes, including Rectangle Select, Center Select, Freeform Select, full-screen capture, and a scrolling capture mode. You can also pull up the same options by right-clicking the OddSnap icon in the system tray, which is where you'll also find the Settings and History entry points.

Similar to the task list in ShareX, OddSnap stores every capture in its History tab. But this is where it does something most screenshot tools don't: it indexes your screenshots. You can search the history by filename, by text inside an image using OCR, or by visual similarity. So if I remember roughly what a screenshot looked like but not what I named it, I can still find it. That's a nice touch, especially when you take dozens of screenshots a day.

It goes beyond the basics

Edit during capture, scroll, and record

When I first opened OddSnap, I couldn't find an option to edit screenshots after the fact, which is how I worked in ShareX. Turns out I was thinking about it wrong. OddSnap doesn't push you into a post-capture editor; everything happens during the capture itself.

For example, to mask sensitive information, you can either use the blur tool or the eraser. Click More Tools on the capture toolbar, select Erase, and drag over the subject. OddSnap fills in a matching background so the area looks clean rather than smudged. For long pages, the scrolling capture works just as smoothly: pick the option, select the region, and start scrolling, and the app stitches the frames into a single image.

Much like ShareX, OddSnap also includes a screen recorder, and I've found the output cleaner than what I usually get out of ShareX. It can record in MP4, WebM, MKV, and animated GIF, up to 1080p at 60 FPS, with optional microphone and desktop audio. Screenshots are saved automatically into monthly subfolders, so your captures folder doesn't turn into a thousand-file dumping ground over a year. OddSnap also supports a wide range of upload destinations, including Imgur, Dropbox, ImgBB, and even self-hosted endpoints. There's also a Stickers mode that uses a local background-removal model to turn any on-screen object into a transparent PNG, which is handy for quick mockups.

Built-in OCR and auto translation

Extract and translate text from anything on screen

I've been using the Windows Snipping Tool to copy text from images, but with OddSnap, I don't need to switch between apps. It comes with its own OCR engine that pulls text from any region on your screen and shows it in a dedicated window for editing or copying.

The same window has a translation option, and it supports more than 100 languages. It works offline through an open-source local engine, and there's also optional Google Translate integration if you want cloud-quality results. For a feature I expected to be a checkbox add-on, it holds up surprisingly well on screenshots of foreign-language documentation and error messages.

Another useful addition is the built-in barcode reader. It works on a fresh screenshot, an existing image, or a single video frame, and tells you what's encoded inside. You'll find it under the same capture toolbar where the OCR option lives.

Plenty of customization

Tweak the toolbar, hotkeys, and save behavior

OddSnap is big on customization. You can change the Toast position and Toast duration for the preview that appears after a capture, tweak the behavior of the screen preview, and reposition the overlay buttons. If you prefer a minimal setup, you can turn off individual tools so only the ones you actually use show up on the toolbar.

In the Tools tab, every tool can be assigned its own hotkey. I've set custom shortcuts for the scrolling screenshot, eraser, magnifier, and blur, which saves me from hunting through the toolbar mid-capture. The Capture tab is where you'd set the save folder, the file-name pattern (using tokens like {year}-{month}-{day}-{time}), the default format, and the option to Auto-copy OCR, which copies recognized text straight to the clipboard without opening the result window.

Things that don't work, not yet!

Quirks and missing pieces

One thing I genuinely miss from ShareX is the dedicated image editor. OddSnap's editing tools are excellent, but they're tied to the live capture flow, so I can't import an existing image from a folder and start annotating it. That's a real workflow gap if you edit screenshots taken on other devices.

A couple of features also need extra setup. To record your screen, you'll need to install FFmpeg first with winget install Gyan.FFmpeg. The Upscale feature, which is meant to use your CPU to sharpen and clean up images, needs Python 3.10 or above. Even after installing it, I couldn't get the upscaler to finish a run; it kept stalling at the engine step. Worth knowing before you rely on it.

The delayed-screenshot behavior is the other rough edge. OddSnap does offer one, but you have to toggle it in Settings, and it becomes the default behavior for every capture until you turn it back off. I'd much rather have it as a separate mode on the toolbar, the way Snipping Tool and ShareX both handle it.

A worthy ShareX alternative, with room to grow

If you've leaned on ShareX for capturing, annotating, and uploading screenshots, OddSnap can do all of that without the bulk. It's fast, the UI is genuinely modern, and the OCR, translation, and indexed history are the kind of touches that quietly save time once you get used to them.

It isn't a complete replacement yet. The missing image-import workflow and the half-baked upscaler mean ShareX still has a place if you edit images outside the capture flow. But for everyday snipping, I haven't reached for ShareX since switching, and I don't think I'll need to for a while.