Best Free Screenshot and Screen Recording Tools (2026)

OBS Studio

OBS Project

GPL-2.0 v32.1.1 135MB

4.3

4 reviews

OBS Studio is a free, open source program for live streaming and screen recording. It sends your video feed to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook Gaming, and any platform that accepts an RTMP stream. It also records locally in MKV, MP4, or FLV without watermarks or time limits. What it do...

ScreenShooter

Dariusz Mokwa

Freeware v5.30 161kB

5.0

4 reviews

ScreenShooter was a screenshot capture tool that let you grab the full screen, active window, or a selected region with keyboard shortcuts. Captured images could be edited with basic annotation tools (arrows, text, shapes) before saving or sharing. What it did A keyboard shortcut...

IrfanView

Irfan Skiljan

Freeware v4.73 3MB

4.5

4 reviews

IrfanView is a lightweight image viewer and converter by Irfan Skiljan that has been around since 1996. It opens fast, handles over 150 image formats (including modern ones like HEIC and WebP through plugins), and doesn't try to be Photoshop. You open images, view them, and move ...