winshotx is a free and open source screenshot and screen recording tool for Windows 10 and 11,
a lightweight alternative to the built-in Snipping Tool. It captures a region over a frozen
screenshot with a 6x pixel magnifier that shows the exact colour in hex and copies it with one
key, snaps to system windows, and records that region to GIF or MP4 at 15, 30 or 60 fps through
Windows Graphics Capture. The editor trims the recording frame by frame with A and B marks,
crops the image, annotates it with arrows, boxes, text, highlights and a mosaic that hides
private details, and exports to GIF, MP4, PNG or JPG, to disk or to the clipboard.
It can also keep what just happened: with the replay ring on, winshotx records all the time and
drops the old, so one key saves the last 15, 30 or 60 seconds straight into the editor without
stopping the recording.
Nothing is downloaded at runtime: MP4 is written by Media Foundation in hardware, the GIF
encoder is pure Rust and the text recognition is the one Windows already ships, so there is no
bundled FFmpeg and no OCR engine to install. It installs for the current user only, so it never
asks for administrator rights, and it lives in the system tray with no window of its own. There
is no account, no telemetry and no uploads.
The interface is in English and Spanish, following Windows.
