When comparing Snagit vs Flameshot, the Slant community recommends Snagit for most people. In the question“What are the best screen capture tools for Windows?” Snagit is ranked 4th while Flameshot is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Snagit is:
Allows you to adjust the capture, add captions and symbols (arrows, boxes etc).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Includes an image editor
Allows you to adjust the capture, add captions and symbols (arrows, boxes etc).
Pro Good markers for setting the capture area
Simple to choose between full-screen, window or a selected area.
Pro Can easily add annotations
The editor allows you to quickly and easily mark and annotate the screen capture.
Pro Can capture screen video
Pro Integrates with third party services
Google drive, Twitter, Facebook, email etc.
Pro Allows for delayed capture
Allows you to arrange the screen as you want it captured. Things like opening a popup menu, to have it part of the capture.
Pro Can capture editable text
Just about any text on the screen can be editable text. I say "just about" because it's like OCR software in that unusual and extra fancy fonts or text against a low contrast background may be a challenge. But overall it works in most situations.
Pro Mobile app for easily moving screenshots from smartphone to Snagit's editor
Pro Pin tool
Pin screenshots on screen so that you won't have to scroll up and down to find something in a long document all the time.
Pro Edit and copy on the fly
Write texts, draw rectangles, circles, and arrows on a screenshot and copy all on the fly or save the edited picture to disk. You can change colors, sizes and widths of all the elements the tool provides.
Pro Upload to Imgur
Take a screenshot and upload to Imgur with a click.
Cons
Con Pro version costs about $59.94
Con the inbuilt image editor is not user-friendly
Con No delay for area shot
It can not add a delay for an area shoot.