Haircuts should be ha-ha-happy. Snip-its is a magical place for kids and a place moms and dads trust for great haircuts. Kids love going to Snip-its because there's so much to see and do, and parents feel great knowing their children are in good hands with our talented, kid-focused stylists. May 19, 2019 TinyTake is a freeware app that works a bit like a combination of the Snipping Tool and Paint. It’s a simple UI with clear instructions. It works quickly and makes it easy to snip parts of a screen, take screenshots, capture images and a lot more. It can also work with moving images so you can capture video elements or screencasts.

Are you a Windows user looking for a highly-rated, multi-use snipping tool as an alternative to Windows Snipping Tool? Fortunately for you, there are numerous snipping tools available with a variety of special features and services. You can find a snipping tool for Windows with cloud storage, image editing tools, screen recording capabilities, and integrations with other productivity and messaging apps. Use our guide below to find the right Microsoft snipping tool for your needs and budget.

How to Clip on PC

First, let’s learn how to clip on PC using the native snipping tools Windows Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch. These tools are automatically installed on your Windows PC. We will discuss the uses and features of both as well as their drawbacks. If you already know about Windows Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch and are looking for snipping tool alternatives, skip to the next section.

Windows Snipping Tool

Windows Snipping Tool is a free snipping tool that lets you take screenshots, edit your snips, and share them with others. You can find this Microsoft snipping tool through your Windows search bar or by adding it as a shortcut. You can take rectangle snips or a specific part of your screen, fullscreen shots, or free-form snips that can be of any shape. Screen capture can also be delayed by up to 5 seconds so you can switch to the screen you want to snip.

To use Windows Snipping Tool, simply drag your cursor over the portion of your screen that you wish to capture. Once you make your snip, the tool opens an editing screen where you can use a pen, highlighter, cropping tool, or open with Paint 3D for more options. Your snip can then be saved to your computer, printed, or emailed.

Snip & Sketch

For Windows 10, Microsoft has introduced a new snipping tool for Windows called Snip & Sketch. Snip & Sketch provides a simpler interface and includes a window snip option that can screen capture your browser window instead of the fullscreen. Screen capture can also be delayed for up to 10 seconds.

In addition to the sketching tools from Snipping Tool, Snip & Sketch lets you edit your snips with a pencil, ruler, and touchscreen. Finally, Snip & Sketch lets you share screenshots not just over email, but also via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Skype, OneNote, Feedback Hub, Cortana Reminders, and nearby sharing over wifi or Bluetooth.

Both Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch are currently installed on Windows 10 computers, but in the future, Windows Snipping Tool will be discontinued and fully replaced by Snip & Sketch.

One of the biggest drawbacks with both Windows Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch is their lack of cloud storage capabilities. If you take several screenshots every day, then your desktop screen can fill up rather quickly with files. It can also prove time-consuming to sort screenshots or find them if you need quick access. Additionally, Microsoft’s snipping tools do not include screen recording capabilities or any integrations with work productivity apps.

Overall, Windows Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch are good snipping tools for users who make the occasional snip for personal reasons but poor Microsoft snipping tools for businesses that rely on quick and efficient screenshot editing, storage, security, and sharing to communicate effectively with customers and team members.

Here is our list of the 5 best snipping tools for Windows.

Best Snipping Tools Windows

Droplr

Best for businesses and enterprise customers looking for a high-resolution snipping tool that includes cloud storage, enterprise-level security, and screen recording for a low cost.

Droplr is a highly-rated, low-priced snipping tool for Windows that also includes screen recording and GIF creation. Droplr saves screenshots and recordings directly to the cloud and creates a short link for your snip that can be instantly shared with others. All of your snips are displayed on your online Droplr account and can be sorted using boards and tags. You can also change the privacy settings for your snips, boards, and tags to limit access. Best of all, Droplr includes enterprise-level security with encryption and SSO.

Droplr includes over a dozen integrations so that you can drop your snips directly into various messaging and productivity apps. For example, you can integrate Droplr with Intercom to drop your snips directly into a chat with a client or with Slack to share snips instantly with co-workers. You can also integrate Droplr’s clipping tool with Photoshop if you need more mark-up options then the arrows, emoticons, text, pencil, highlighter, and shapes included with Droplr.

Droplr is available on Windows, Mac, and Chrome Extension. The snipping tool shortcut can be accessed on the menu bar of your screen on Mac. Droplr offers a 3-day free trial for any of its products.

Droplr’s pricing begins at $7/month and includes all of the above core products along with 1TB of file storage, 500GB/month of bandwidth, and click analytics. Higher-priced plans increase the amount of file storage and bandwidth, add more analytics, and include custom branding. For large businesses that need unlimited file storage and bandwidth, single sign-on (SSO), or custom domains, pricing begins at $7 per seat per month.

Snagit

Best for businesses that use visual instructions to convey information to customers and team members.

Snagit is a Window snipping tool developed specifically for businesses to create visual instructions. The snipping tool also lets users take panoramic shots that can capture scrolling webpages and create videos using screenshots and audio. Snagit can extract the text from a screenshot so that you can paste it in another document. The mark-up tool features a number of professional annotation tools such as preset and custom templates, step tools, and text editing.
Snagit’s snipping tool includes a dozen integrations with products such as Microsoft Suite, Google Drive, and Facebook to allow easy sharing. However, unlike Droplr, Snagit’s snipping tool does not integrate with most work productivity apps.

Snagit’s single license pricing is a $49.95 flat fee that lets you install it on two machines. Discount pricing is available for businesses with several users, education services, and governments and non-profits. Snagit’s 2020 upgrade, which includes templates, video creation from images, and integrations with Slack and Box costs an additional $24.95 for current users. Unlike Droplr, all your snips are saved to your local drive with limited free cloud storage that is upgradeable for $99.95 per year available through Snagit Screencast.

CloudApp

Best for businesses and enterprise customers who are looking for a snipping tool alternative that integrates with the work apps they already use.

Similar to Droplr, CloudApp is a cloud-based snipping tool, screen recorder, and GIF maker. CloudApp uploads your screenshots and recordings to your personal cloud account and creates a shareable URL that you can send to grant access to them. It also includes mark-up tools such as arrows, emoticons, basic drawing tools, and blurring tools for sensitive information.

CloudApp integrates with over 30 apps including Zapier, Trello, Sketch, and WordPress. Their snipping tool is available on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Linux, and as a Chrome extension. CloudApp includes a free version with the above features and 1 minute limit for screen recordings, 15 second limit for GIFs, 100 MB/file upload size, .5 GB/link/day bandwidth, and 25 drop limit. CloudApp’s paid plans begin at $9.95/month for unlimited video recording and drops, 1 minute GIFs, 1 GB/file uploads, 2 GB/link/day bandwidth, and custom branding.

You can read more about CloudApp for teams and CloudApp for enterprises on our How-To’s page.

Greenshot

Best for individuals looking for a free snipping tool with more features than Windows Snipping Tool.

Greenshot is a free snipping tool for Windows (with a paid version for Mac) that includes mark-ups and integrations. Greenshot can take fullscreen and window shots, snips of a selected area, and scrolling web pages on Internet Explorer. Greenshot’s mark-up tool includes arrows, text, drawing, image manipulation, blurring, paint, and shapes. After annotating your snip, you can save it on your computer, print it, copy it to your clipboard, email it, or upload it to photo sites or Microsoft Office programs. Greenshot includes free plug-ins with Jira, Box, Imgur, and Microsoft Office.
Overall, Greenshot is an excellent free alternative to Windows Snipping Tool with enhanced markups and integrations. However, it is not frequently updated (the last update was in August 2017) and does not include integral features for businesses such as cloud storage and enterprise-level security.

PicPick

Best for artists and graphic designers looking for a snipping tool alternative with professional-level markup tools.

PicPick is another snipping tool made specifically for Windows that includes fullscreen shots, snips, and scrolling shots along with mark-up tools. PicPick’s includes an extensive list of markup tools such as a color palette, pixel ruler, magnifier, protractor, whiteboard, crosshairs, text, image size and brightness manipulators, highlighter, blur, arrows, and shapes. PicPick integrates with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, and Microsoft Office. Your snip can also be copied to the clipboard or print it directly from the tool.

PicPick offers both a free home version and a $29.99 product for professionals. The paid version allows for commercial use and includes auto-updates, lifetime upgrades, technical support, and no ads. PicPick’s paid version is the best Microsoft snipping tool for freelance graphic designers or small businesses for internal purposes that need enhanced image editing options but don’t require cloud storage or screen recording tools.

What About Mac Snipping Tools?

Droplr, CloudApp, and Snagit all work on Mac, and Greenshot is available for Mac as well (but at a price). Windows Snipping Tool and PicPick are Windows-only snip it apps. If you would like to look at more of the best clipping tools for Mac, you can check out our article 5 Best Snipping Tools for Mac.

Additionally, if you want more information about snipping tools and how to use them, check out our article How to Use a Snipping Tool.

Snipping Tool Windows Selection Guide

There are many options for snipping tools on Windows, but in general, the tools above will do an excellent job capturing and annotating screenshots. Whether you are a single user, small team, or large enterprise, features are pretty consistent among these tools. The differences among them will come down to price, security, and integrations, so here’s a table to guide your selection so you can choose the best snipping tool for your needs. You can also use this table to compare Windows Snipping Tool vs Snagit, Droplr, CloudApp, Greenshot, and PicPick.

Privacy policy

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Thank you for using SnipIt!

Our mission is to help you record, organize, locate and share snippets of information that you photograph when not online. These snippets could be from many sources such as newspapers, magazines, TV, on a billboard, in the street, or at a friend’s house.

In providing this Service, we collect some information from you and this policy explains what information we collect, how we use it and what choices you have about it.

We welcome your questions and comments on this policy.

Collecting information

Account information - when you create a SnipIt! account, we collect your email address and phone number

Usage data - we collect and log data on how you and others use SnipIt, for example creating SnipIts and sharing SnipIts. We also collect and log data about the categories that are created.

Location information - if you choose to share it we collect your location information from your mobile device.

We may also link your subscriber information with data we receive from our partners to help understand your needs and provide you with a better experience. For example, if you create or log into SnipIt using your Google or Facebook credentials via single sign-on, we will have access to certain information such as your name and email address as authorised in your Google Apps or Facebook settings.

Using information

We care about protecting the privacy of your information. We use the information collected to provide, maintain and improve our Service, to provide troubleshooting and customer support, to protect the service for our users and to contact you.

We use your information to understand what features are used commonly and which features might need improving and which features might be added to improve the service

To provide troubleshooting and customer support, our team may need to access your information such as your account email address and information about the version of SnipIt! you are using.

To protect your account and the service, we may analyse the SnipIts you share to detect spam, malware or other security concerns. If a shared SnipIt violates the terms and conditions, we may block delivery of the shared SnipIt.

We only view your content if you give us permission or if it’s necessary to comply with our legal obligations. For example:

• To help refine or improve the app, we may ask for permission to view your Content
• If you contact our support team with a query about your Content, we may ask for your temporary permission to view your Content
• If we become aware of a potential violation of our terms of service, we may suspend or close your account until the problematic material is removed. Under such a circumstance, we would only look at the Content in your account if you give us permission or if necessary to comply with our legal obligations, including to protect the safety of you or any other person.

To test and improve our product offerings for our users, we use aggregated data that does not contain any personal information, does not identify any person, and cannot be connected to any specific user. This policy is not intended to apply to such anonymized/de-identified data.

Sharing and disclosing your information

At SnipIt!, we do not sell or rent your information. No financial transactions take place through SnipIt!, and therefore we do not capture any payment information. We do not share your information with any third parties for their own advertising purposes.

Your content is private unless you decide you want to share it. You can share information privately with other SnipIt users. Future releases of SnipIt will allow you to share your SnipIts publicly. This Privacy Policy will be updated to reflect this and you will be notified of the changes.

In future we may contract with third-party advertising networks in order to deliver relevant advertisements to you across the Internet and to manage our communications with you. We will not use your Content for these purposes. In addition, we may share with partners or Service Providers a hashed identifier to serve you relevant ads when you visit partners’ and providers’ websites, applications or platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook. You can find out more about the privacy controls applicable to these platforms via their own privacy policies. You may opt out of certain ad targeting and retargeting services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page: https://youradchoices.com or the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

We will not share your information with government authorities or law enforcement unless we believe it is required to comply with lawful requests.

In rare cases, we may share your information as necessary to investigate or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or potential threats against persons, property or the systems on which we operate the Service, or as otherwise necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

How can you manage your information stored in SnipIt?

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You can manage your information by logging into your account and editing your information directly within the app.

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European users are protected by data laws. Under these laws, you have the right to request a copy of your personal information stored in SnipIt, you can request that we correct inaccurate information if you are no longer using the service, you can also object to the processing of your information in certain cases. You can also request that we don’t use your information for direct marketing purposes. To opt out, please email us at theteam@snipitapp.com.

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How long will my information be stored?

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You are in control of your data, you can delete this when you want. If you delete your information in the app, you will no longer be able to access that information. We do run back ups, therefore it is possible that your information will be accessible via back up after you have deleted it. Back ups are stored for 35 days.

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What if I stop using SnipIt?

You can delete your content and stop using the app at any time. If SnipIt closes your account due to a violation of our terms and conditions, you may contact us to request a deletion of your content. We will evaluate your request pursuant to our legal obligations.

Where does SnipIt store my information?

Information is stored locally on your device and on our server which is located in the United Kingdom.

How can I contact SnipIt?

We welcome your feedback concerning this privacy policy. If you have questions or concerns please contact us by email at theteam@snipitapp.com.