Shotpad
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The facts
Each one read from Shotpad's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Annotations
- Annotation tools include pen, highlighter, arrows, lines, shapes, text, numbered badges, redaction, and eraser.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Beautification
- It supports gradient, solid, image, or transparent backgrounds, plus padding, shadows, borders, grain, aspect ratios, and tilt.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Capture and editing
- It captures areas, screens, or windows and supports cropping, rotating, flipping, undo and redo, and export at up to 3×.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Desktop support
- The project lists GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, and LXQt support on X11 and Wayland; several other desktop environments are recognized but marked untested.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- It can be installed with pipx or downloaded as a self-contained AppImage.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editing
- Shotpad supports cropping, rotating, flipping, unlimited undo and redo, and export at 1×, 1.5×, 2×, or 3×.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Shotpad can be installed through pipx or downloaded as an AppImage, which includes its own Python and Qt.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Shotpad supports copying finished images to the clipboard and opening or pasting images from other applications.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Known limitation
- The README describes a capture shortcut issue on GNOME 46 and earlier when no other window is open; GNOME 47 and 48 are marked untested.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- The GitHub releases page lists Shotpad 1.0.7 as the latest release and dates it August 8.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- Shotpad is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, and the README says the product name and icon remain the maker’s property.checked 12 Oct 2026
- No telemetry
- The README says Shotpad never checks for updates on its own and never phones home.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR
- Its bundled OCR recognizes English, Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Russian, and accepts additional Tesseract traineddata files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline and privacy
- The OCR runs on the user’s machine, uploads nothing, and works without a network connection; Shotpad also states that it never phones home.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline processing
- The OCR recognizer is bundled, runs on the user's machine, and works without a network connection; the page says nothing is uploaded.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Shotpad is a Linux screenshot capture, annotation, and beautification app with OCR.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Redaction behavior
- Redactions are baked into screenshot pixels, and OCR reads the redacted image as it will be exported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Redaction tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Requirements
- The pipx installation requires Python 3.10 or later, while the AppImage includes Python and Qt and has no host dependencies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Screenshot styling
- It supports gradient, solid, image, or transparent backgrounds, padding, rounded corners, shadows, tilt, and grain.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Wayland permissions
- On Wayland, screen capture uses the XDG desktop portal, and GNOME and KDE request permission on first use.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The README identifies Turan Ismayilov as the copyright holder and says copyright is © 2026.checked 12 Oct 2026
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