EShot
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The facts
Each one read from EShot's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotation
- Annotation tools include pen, arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, highlighter, blur, pixelate, counter, eraser, and eyedropper.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Annotations
- The capture overlay includes drawing, text, highlighting, blur, pixelation, counters, erasing, and color picking tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Capture
- It supports region and monitor capture with multi-monitor and high-DPI handling, plus window selection capture on Windows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Credentials
- Google Drive and Yandex Disk require OAuth access tokens, while Allwebs and Radikal Cloud require API keys; OAuth tokens are stored in the operating system credential store rather than EShot’s plain-text settings file.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- PNG (file-save command example); clipboard copychecked 24 Sep 2026
- License
- EShot is released under the MIT License.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR and search
- EShot uses Tesseract OCR and offers Google Lens or Yandex Images visual search for a selected region.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR and translation
- Tesseract OCR can extract text, which users can copy or hand off to Google Translate in a browser.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Visual search uploads the selected region to a temporary public image host, and the README advises against using it for private or sensitive screenshots.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- EShot is a native screenshot tool for Windows and Linux with annotation, OCR, visual search, uploads, pinned captures, GIF recording, and video capture.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Recording
- EShot supports selected-region GIF recording and MP4 recording with configurable FPS, quality, duration, desktop audio, and microphone audio.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Redaction tools
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Security
- OAuth tokens are stored in the operating system credential store rather than EShot's plain-text settings file.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to GitHub Discussions for questions and feature requests and GitHub Issues for bug reports.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported systems
- The project lists stable support for Windows 10/11 x64, Windows 11 ARM64, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on Linux, and GNOME Wayland, with GNOME less broadly tested.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Updates
- Installed AppImages and per-user Windows installations at least two stable releases behind can update automatically, with GitHub SHA-256 digest verification.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Upload integrations
- Screenshot uploads are supported to Catbox, Uguu, Litterbox, TmpFiles.org, temp.sh, Allwebs, Radikal Cloud, Google Drive, and Yandex Disk.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Visual search
- Users can send a selected region to Google Lens or Yandex Images; EShot uploads that region to a temporary public image host and warns against using this for sensitive screenshots.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Linux limitation
- Other Linux desktops and compositors are unsupported and are unlikely to work correctly.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- Supported targets include Windows 10/11 x64, Windows 11 ARM64, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland, and GNOME Wayland; other Linux desktops are unsupported.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
The company
- Team collaboration
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
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