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The simplest things at first glance often turn out to be the very place where many developers stumble in their attempts to complicate simple things and end up making them inconvenient. How many times have you tried to make a screen capture with annotation – quickly, clearly and without unnecessary complications? Surely everyone has experienced a moment when you just wanted to take a screenshot of your achievements in a video game or just send a funny freeze frame while watching a TV show to a friend, but this idea turned into something annoying and cumbersome. Ten open windows, the same number of tabs in the browser, crooked frames and editing smooth lines with the mouse, after which none of the lines will be smooth. Do you recognize yourself in a similar situation? Then welcome to the world of a program that knows what modest genius and user-friendliness are.
The software weighs less than one vacation photo of you. Starts up in a second. The interface is certainly like a greeting from 2005, but it’s not obnoxious or complicated. It’s not confusing, it doesn’t require learning, it doesn’t ask you to log in via social media or sign up for something. You just launch the program and use it. It’s so simple, yet so rare at the same time. You will see a series of icons. A window, a rectangle, a scrolling page, a screen recording and not a single extra word that will confuse you or get in the way and annoy you. Buttons are signed, but even without a signature you will quickly understand what is what. It’s not for nothing that we mentioned about a slightly outdated design – a tangible plus of this solution is familiar to almost all users icons of tools, thanks to which it becomes clear to everyone what they do. It’s like your father’s good old Chevrolet Corvette – it’s simple and not the most fashionable, but even after so many years it does its job perfectly.
The software can take screenshots of any shape. If you want to take a scrollable window screenshot of the active window, there is no problem. If you need an arbitrary fragment, you can do that too. A whole page, including what is at the bottom and usually does not fit? It will be done. And without glitches and defects, as it happens with browser extensions. High-quality screenshots further can be easily edited in Adobe Photoshop cracked to make great memes or slides for presentations. But it would seem that such a small screen recording tool should not have enough functionality for editing right? And again the program is ready to surprise you. Immediately after the capture, the built-in editor opens. And that’s where the main pleasures begin.
You’d think there’s nothing to edit. Well, you can. The required minimum of tools includes cropping, underlining, arrows, frames, text and blurring (verification by documents in services is not always as safe as we would like it to be, and this function will be especially valuable here). Everything is simple, fast and without annoying freezes or complicated menus. Even such a giant as Adobe Lightroom can’t boast of this. Sometimes it feels like the program reads your mind. You just thought that you need to put an arrow and sign it to create a perfect instruction – and it’s already done. Of course, despite all the praises and comparisons of the program with giants like Adobe, it is very far away from them. But this applies only to professional functions, and as for the basic needs of image processing – here the fast screenshot utility will not let you down. Make, save, send, and it’s done.
And this is where most will be surprised, and you can’t blame them for that. Screen recording? In such a tiny app? It’s true, though. No hundreds of gigabytes of wasted memory, no complicated codecs and no hassles with settings. One click and you’re recording. You can choose whether to capture sound, highlight the cursor, or show keystrokes. Of course, the program is far away from DaVinci Resolve Studio and not everyone will want to make video lessons on design with it. But for a quick demonstration of your actions on the computer to explain to a colleague how to do this or that function – this is an ideal tool that impresses with its ease and simplicity.
Well, someone may not like the interface from the past. However, do not forget that a more elaborate and high-quality interface irreversibly leads to an increase in the size of the program many, many times. This no ads screen recorder, in turn, is configured to be a small assistant that does not unnecessarily load your system and tries to be as inconspicuous as it is useful. It’s not about fashion, it’s a reliable working tool. No frills, but with amazing attention to detail, no ads, no tracking and no unnecessary noise.
If you have made a decision that you want to use the software – we can only support it. And in order for you to feel our support we have made it possible to download FastStone Capture from our website quickly and for free. Just choose how you want to download the program and in a few minutes it will be running on your PC.
When you see that the archive from our site has already been downloaded you will only need to open it with the password, which is indicated in the name of the archive. The archive will contain Installer and keygen files. First of all, use Installer to install the program on your computer. And then you will be helped by the keygen tool, with which you will get full access to the paid features of the program. The only downside is that it may be scolded by your antivirus – but this is a normal reaction of the system to the fact that you want to use a paid program for free. Just disable your antivirus for the duration of the program installation and there will be no problems.
Soft creates the feeling of a favorite old thing that you are attached to. Not trendy, not new, and if you show it to your friends they might even laugh. But while working, software manages to create a feeling of coziness and comfort due to the synergy of the feeling of full control of the process and help in your actions from the software. Convenience, simplicity, and stability are the three pillars on which this seemingly invisible tool stands.
FastStone offers a fully functional free trial, but it’s not completely free. After the trial period, a one-time payment (not a subscription!) of around $19.95 gets you a lifetime license, including future updates. No hidden fees, no recurring charges – just a simple, affordable flat rate. But if you want it for free – just download it from our site.
Absolutely, you can record videos. FastStone comes with a built-in screen recorder that lets you capture screen activity with audio. You can record the entire screen, a specific window, or a selected area. Just click the video camera icon on the toolbar, choose your capture area, enable audio if needed – and hit Start.
In many ways yes. Unlike Snipping Tool, it offers scrolling capture, annotations, and screen recording. Compared to Lightshot, FastStone is far more feature-rich. You get a built-in editor, video capture, hotkey customization, and even PDF export. It’s a much more complete toolkit for professionals.
