FastStone Capture
FastStone Capture is a lightweight screen capture and screen recording tool for Windows. It supports quick screenshots, scrolling page capture, and screen video recording with audio and webcam options.
- Capture windows, objects, menus, full screen, and rectangular/freehand/fixed regions.
- Capture scrolling windows and web pages.
- Record the screen with microphone audio, system audio, webcam, and mouse actions.
- Save recordings as compressed videos (MP4, WMV).
Editing and output options
Captured content can be annotated, edited, and sent to common destinations like files, clipboard, printing, or Office apps. The built-in editor is designed for fast markup and simple post-processing.
- Annotate with text, callouts, arrows, highlights, step numbers, watermarks, and more.
- Edit with resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, blur, and color adjustments.
- Send to internal editor, clipboard, file, printer, email, OneNote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or FTP upload.
- Tab-based editing for working on multiple captures at once; optional multi-workspace organization.
Formats, tools, and reliability features
The app supports common image formats, its own FSC format for re-editing annotated captures, and includes extra utilities that speed up everyday work.
- Image formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WEBP, PDF, and FSC (lossless, keeps annotation objects for re-editing).
- Video formats: MP4 and WMV, with tools for trimming, zoom effects, and conversion (including “Convert to MP4”).
- Extras: OCR text capture, pin-to-screen, scanner import, combine images, batch print, auto-capture intervals, timer scheduling.
- Utilities: color picker, magnifier, crosshair, focus, ruler; multi-monitor and high-DPI/4K support; global hotkeys.