Small, free, screen capture application for Windows (MWsnap)

MWSnap is a very handy screen capture application for Windows that is completely free. There are no ads, spyware, or annoying trials with this software. And better yet, the download is less than 1 MB (it is 643 KB to be exact). You might be thinking the software must be crippled and feature-less since it is freeware and so small, however that is not the case.

MWSnap makes it a breeze to take screenshots of anything in Windows. There are several types of captures you can do:

  • Fixed rectangle
  • Any rectangle area
  • A window or menu
  • Full desktop

Here are a list of features taken from their website:

  • 5 snapping modes.
  • Support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings.
  • System-wide hotkeys.
  • Clipboard copy/paste.
  • Printing.
  • Auto-saving, auto-printing.
  • Auto-start with Windows.
  • Minimizing to system tray.
  • An auto-extending list of fixed sizes, perfect for snapping images for icons and glyphs.
  • A zoom tool for magnifying selected parts of the screen.
  • A ruler tool for measuring screen objects lengths.
  • A color picker showing screen colors with separated RGB parts.
  • Fast picture viewer.
  • Adding frames and mouse pointer images.
  • Multilevel configurable undo and redo.
  • Multilingual versions.
  • Configurable user interface.
  • And more…

If you need a screen capture program more powerful than the ‘Print Screen’, but dont want to download a bloaty, trial software like SnagIt, be sure to give MWSnap a try! Click here to download.


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