Snagit is a screen capture tool. Capture anything on your screen, edit the image and print it or share it as you wish. It can capture the content of a scrolling window. You can grab all the images on a Web page, menus using a time delay – and even make a video of on-screen actions.
- Website: SnagIt
- Cost: Commercial
- Free trial: Yes
- Available: Download
- Platform: Windows
- Top 100 Tools 2011: 47
- Top 100 Tools 2010: 42
- Top 100 Tools 2009: 25
- Top 100 Tools 2008: 21
- Top 100 Tools 2007: 26=
Comments from those who selected Snagit as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009
- Makes very professional looking screen dumps for inclusion in handouts Carol Cooper Taylor
Comments from those who selected Snagit as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
- use screen capture frequently for creating presentations and demoing new tools, and this one is so much easier to use Sarah Frame
- “i simply don’t know how i captured images before finding this” Bill Miller
- “the world’s greatest screen capture tool – it doesn’t get much better than this – and yet it keeps getting better all the time. Around $50, if it is your first go at it – download a free trial.” Bonni Stachowiak
- “In the past, I used to capture screenshots, copy them into my imaging tool and mess around with them there. But inspired by the high ranking of SnagIt on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2007 list, I tried out the free version. SnagIt makes the whole process so much easier – I’m hooked.” Jane Hart”
- the BEST screen capture program” Patti Shank
- “It is one great tool for creating of the tutorials and presentations.” Malinka Ivanova
- “It is a commercial tool and that is annoying, but luckily I managed to register it for free (during the free special offer) which has expired!). I have found this tool to be really excellent for capturing and creating customized graphics on-the-fly (within seconds!) for my learning adventure (ZaidLearn).” Zaid Alsagoff
- “This is my visual Swiss army knife, so much more that a screen capture tool, great for livening up PowerPoint and blog articles” Patrick Mayfield
- “The one tool that every trainer MUST have in his/her toolbox.” Ed Lamaster
- “Great image tool” Paulo Simões
- “This is the single most-used tool I own. Intuitive, quick, and versatile. My organization recently had something of a crisis involving the implementation a new piece of software, and I was able to create, narrate, and launch a video tutorial in under an hour with SnagIt. (You know it does video, don’t you?) Problem solved; you can’t ask more from a tool” Jane Bozarth
- “This is one groovy little graphics program. I use it all the time in creating training materials, and have even used it to record a self-study training video for a system application (creates an avi file.” Shari Ward
- “with all the Web 2.0 tools around, I still enjoy using SnagIT to do a whole host of jobs for me. I load Snagit onto every single machine I own.” Judy O’Connel
- l”Really great to capture images, edit them, and use them in my eLearning content.” Juan Antonio Ortiz
Comments from those who selected Snagit as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
- “I don’t buy much software; I tend to use what’s available in the open-source world. However, when there’s nothing out there for free, with the same capabilities, I will spend the money. Snagit is one of those tools. It’s a screen capture tool on steroids. You can very quickly capture a window (or just a portion of a screen, or a pull-down menu), resize it, annotate it, add edge effects like a drop shadow or a torn edge, and save or publish it. For producing quick users guides it’s essential.” Mark Berthelemy”Simple way to capture anything on the screen.” Janet Clarey
- “Great for screen captures.” Cammy Bean
- “this screen capture tool is an excellent value. Capture and edit regions or whole screens, and even create simple short narrated videos of desktop activities.” Jane Bozarth
- “it lets me copy and distribute any image, text or video (including web-pages with links). Because it permits notes on the images (great for courses)” Gabriela Grosseck
- “I use SnagIt to screen captures and basic pictures editing. Works perfectly well and fills all my needs.” Jorge Gonçalve
- “Powerful screen capture and annotation for Windows” Cathy Moore
- “A neat tool for capturing screens. As trainers and instructional design people, screen capturing is an everyday occurrence” Doris Edwards
- “I use it nearly every day since a picture speaks 1,000 words. Be it in a blog entry, an email to a colleague, or to a customer to illustrate a particular product feature, SnagIt makes it super-easy to take a high-quality screenshot and share it with the world.” Gabe Anderson
