Clowd vs Greenshot.

Greenshot is a lightweight screenshot tool for Windows. Clowd adds screen recording and a video editor, on Windows and macOS.

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ClowdScreen capture, recording and editing

Price: FreeFree. No trial, no tiers, no watermark.
Status: Very active4.10.0 released Oct 19, 2026. In development since 2015.
Best for: Screenshots and recordings in one appPrecise selectionsWindows and macOS

GreenshotScreenshot and annotation tool for Windows

Price: FreeFree and open source on Windows (GPL-3.0). The Mac app is a separate $1.99 App Store purchase, last updated in June 2020.
Status: Active, 1.4 in pre-releaseA security release shipped in October 2026. The Mac app has not been updated since 2020.
Best for: Quick Windows screenshotsSending captures to OfficeJira and Confluence teams

Feature by feature.

Every Greenshot verdict comes from its own documentation.

Clowd vs Greenshot: feature comparison
Feature	Clowd	Greenshot
Capture
Region capture	YesPress PrtScn and drag. Edges can be placed to the pixel while zoomed.	Yes
Window snapping	YesHover a window and click, or press W.	Yes
Full-screen capture	YesF for the monitor under the cursor, A for all monitors, Ctrl+PrtScn for the active screen.	Yes
Magnifier	YesScroll to zoom the frozen screen from 1× to 256×.	YesRound 'zoomer' magnifier next to the cursor during selection (Z toggles it).
Color picker	YesPress H on any pixel. The Color Editor copies HEX, RGB or HSL and has an eyedropper.	PartialPipette in the editor's color dialog only. No capture-time screen color picker documented.
Scrolling capture	YesRewinds to the top first, and sticky headers appear once. Scrolls whole windows, not panes inside them. Needs Accessibility permission on macOS.	PartialOnly for Internet Explorer web pages (per getgreenshot.org), which is obsolete now that IE is retired.
Text recognition (OCR)	YesOn-device. The text lifts off the capture so you can check it, then copy, search or share it. OCR and the AI effects need Windows or a Mac with Apple Silicon. Latin, Greek, Chinese and Japanese kana. Cyrillic and Korean aren’t supported yet.	Partial1.3 has a Windows OCR destination that copies a capture's text to the clipboard. The text-selection capture mode (T) and OCR text obfuscation are only in 1.4 pre-releases.
Delay timer	NoThere is no capture timer yet.	PartialOnly a 'milliseconds to wait before capture' setting (default 100 ms). No user-facing countdown.
Annotate
Image editor	YesEvery capture opens in the image editor. Objects stay editable and sessions autosave.	Yes
Shapes, arrows and text	YesCurved arrows and lines, a Bezier pen, text, sticky notes and a highlighter.	YesRectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, freehand, text, speech bubble, highlight.
Blur and pixelate	YesMosaic, blur or solid. It only affects the image underneath, never your annotations.	YesObfuscate (blur/pixelate).
Step numbers	YesNumbered steps. Drag from a step to pull an arrow out of it.	YesStep label counter.
Record
Screen recording	YesRegion, window or screen, with a live frame-rate meter.	No
GIF	YesAny recording converts to a GIF in one click from Recents.	No
Edit
Multi-track timeline	YesVideo, audio, text, image, zoom, speed, cursor and keyboard rows on one timeline.	No
Present
Draw on screen	Yes9 tools, click-through on Esc, an eraser and one undo history across monitors.	No
Share a region	YesAny rectangle, in any meeting app that can share a window. Blur or black it out live. Viewer frame rate is limited by the meeting app.	No
Share
Upload and share	YesCaptures, recordings, text, files and folders. Image and video uploads need a storage destination; text pastes work out of the box.	YesPlugins for Imgur, Box, Dropbox, Flickr, Photobucket, Confluence and Jira, plus email, Office and printer.
Instant link	YesThe link is copied automatically. With accelerated uploads, the moment the upload starts.	No
Your own storage	YesAmazon S3 and S3-compatible, Azure Blob, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2 and more.	PartialAn external-command destination in 1.3. A ShareX-format (.sxcu) custom uploader is in 1.4 beta.
Platform & price
Windows	YesWindows 10 and later, x64 and ARM64.	Yes
macOS	YesmacOS 13 and later, Apple Silicon and Intel. OCR and the AI effects need Windows or a Mac with Apple Silicon. Default hotkeys use PrtScn. Rebind them in Settings → Hotkeys on a Mac keyboard.	PartialSeparate $1.99 App Store app (v1.2.19), last updated 2020, with fewer editor options.
Linux	NoNot available yet.	No
Free	YesFree. No trial, no tiers, no watermark.	YesOn Windows (the Mac app costs $1.99).
Open source	YesMIT licensed. The part that runs text recognition and the AI effects is GPL-3.0.	YesGPL-3.0.

Sources7Checked Oct 19, 2026

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Where Greenshot wins.

If these matter most to you, Greenshot may be the better pick.

Sends captures straight to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and the printer.
Jira and Confluence upload plugins.
A very small, very familiar app.

Where Clowd goes further.

Scrolling Capture

Scrolling capture for any window that scrolls.

Greenshot's scrolling capture only works on Internet Explorer pages. Clowd captures any scrolling window from the top, with sticky headers shown once.

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Capture Overlay

A capture overlay built for precision.

Both have a magnifier. Clowd zooms up to 256×, keeps a window's rounded corners and can capture one that is half hidden. Every next step is one key.

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Image Editor

An editor with curves and careful redaction.

Both editors have shapes, redaction and step labels. Clowd adds curves, measuring and layers, and its blur never touches your annotations.

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Text Recognition

OCR you can see, then use.

Greenshot 1.3 copies recognized text to the clipboard. Clowd shows the text over the capture so you can check it, then copies, searches or shares it with one key.

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