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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/photo-editing/lightshot-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/photo-editing/lightshot-profile/alternatives/) # Lightshot User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 38 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.9/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 5.0/5 - Functionality: 4.8/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 32 reviews (84%) - 4 stars: 6 reviews (16%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The instant sharing options and versatile editing tools also stand out, allowing for quick annotations and seamless integration with various platforms. - Its intuitive interface and seamless integration with various platforms have streamlined my workflow, saving me time and effort. - I loved Lightshot's intuitive and user-friendly interface, which makes taking and editing screenshots incredibly easy. ## Lightshot customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 38 (page 1). ### screenshot master - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kareem M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I really recommend this tool to everyone, really useful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros such a useful tool to easily take screenshots on my laptop, I've been using it for 3 years, and you can save your screenshot in your storage or upload it to share with someone, Brilliant. #### Cons The only con I found in this tool is that your uploaded screenshots are gone when you are not signed in. --- ### Capture any part of your browser screen easily - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anthony N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Using Lightshot has been a generally positive experience. It's easy to use, straightforward and captures screenshots quickly. The annotation options are basic but effective, and I love how lightweight it is. The only downsides are the lack of customization options and the slow loading times. All in all, Lightshot is a great tool for basic screenshot needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like Lightshot software because it makes taking screenshots so easy and quick. It's super intuitive and user friendly; the range of capture options is great, and I especially like the annotation capabilities. It's also lightweight and doesn't take up much space, so I don't have to worry about bogging down my computer. Overall, Lightshot is an excellent tool for taking and annotating screenshots quickly and easily. #### Cons What I least like about Lightshot is its limited annotation options. I wish there were more options to customize the text, draw shapes, or even annotate with images. Additionally, I find it can be slow to load sometimes, and I wish the interface were a bit more intuitive. There also seems to be a lack of support for mobile capturing, which is a bit of a bummer. Lightshot isn't the most feature-rich screenshot software, but it does the job for basic tasks. --- ### Lightshot in a nutshell - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use.Easy to share screenshots.Easy to edit screenshots.Save screenshots on cloud.Copy link as soon as it is uploaded to cloud. #### Cons No feature to import items to screenshot.Sometimes the save to cloud option does not work. #### Reasons for switching to Lightshot You have to visit the website then upload your screenshot, here you take the screenshot and select upload to cloud. --- ### I am so glad I discovered this application! I love it - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Caroline M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Lightshot is the best so far. I am yet to discover an application that beats Lightshot within the same functionality framework. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lightshot is definitely my best application as far for taking screenshots is concerned. Recently I had to write a technical user manual that involved me taking a lot of screenshots and making edits to them and lightshot was such a life saver. I was dreading to start the work altogether but once my colleague showed me how to use Lightshot, I fell in love with the application minutes afterwards and I ended up finishing my user manual sooner than I thought I would . Lightshot make the process easy and most importantly fun!What makes me love Lightshot the most is the fact that you can take a screenshot, and make edits to it in real time before saving it for use. This makes the process so much faster. Other screenshot taking options like snipping tool only provide you an option to take the screenshot but if you want to make edits to the screenshot, you will have to use a different application for that. That is quite tiring and not user friendly at all. #### Cons So far, there is nothing specific I can point out as a disadvantage or something I like least about Lightshot. I am a happy user and would recommend anyone who has not tried Lightshot to do so. #### Reasons for switching to Lightshot Lightshot is way more awesome than snipping tool from the description above of the reasons why I love Lightshot --- ### Lightshot; the fastest way to take a screenshot! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anish K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use the Lightshot whenever I want to save or share any information while browsing the internet or working on my device. Also, sometimes I use this for searching similar images on Google. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is a free, lightweight (2.56 MB), simple and convenient screenshot tool. You can take a screenshot of any part/area of a screen and edit with its own editor tool which consists of Pen, Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Text, and Color. You can upload your screenshot on the server by just clicking "upload", and then you will get a link that you can share on any social media platform or anywhere. You can also save your screenshot on your computer/laptop. The "hotkeys" makes Lightshot a faster screenshot tool; it has its own hotkey for almost every task like: • Screenshot - PrtSc • Edit - Ctrl + E • Maximize - Ctrl + A • Copy - Ctrl + C • Save - Ctrl + S • Upload - Ctrl + D You can also take a printout of your screenshot. #### Cons When you edit your screenshot on your mobile, might you have problems using the "Rectangle" and "Circle" features. You can't remove its mobile notification until you choose to "STOP SERVICE". --- ### The best tool for taking screenshots - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Md Abdul M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. As a Software QA Engineer I need to take screenshots for the proof of any defect or issues, so I was looking for a light weight screenshot tool that can able to take the screenshot as quick as possible. And after using many tools I discover Lightshot is the tool that I’m looking for actually. It’s very easy to use and a quick responsive tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It’s actually a browser extension so no need to install any software in your local machine, completely free to use and its support most of the popular browser. Very easiest way to take a screenshot of a website – just need to click on the icon and it will be taking you to the separate tab for editing and resizing the screenshots. You can mark, draw, and write any text during the editing. You can also directly upload, copy, save, share to social media and print the screenshot from the editing screen. Lastly, the tool is very simple to use and much more worthy. #### Cons I do not find much negative side for this tool except few like, sometimes it stuck and taking few seconds to load the editing tab. And another one is, after copying the URL of the screenshot the editing tab is closed automatically, but from my own perspective the editing tab should not be closed and should keep open until I manually closed the tab. --- ### Best tool and easiest way to take screenshot - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Among the software tools which I have used to take screenshots, it is the best tool among them. It has made my work faster and convenient. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros First of all, it is free and very easy to use. We do not have to open any software. We just have to click the PrintScreen button and select the area to take screenshots. We can just highlight the part which we want to explain or show. It has made my work faster. It does not consume much space as it is lightweight. #### Cons We cannot select the part, we want to change the marker marks. It does not contain an eraser as we have to click a back button to undo changes. #### Reasons for switching to Lightshot I have to keep on opening the app and clicking the new button to take screenshots which was time-consuming. It did not have the square box highlight option. --- ### King of the screen shots - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mert A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I like it to be very simple and fast. It is very good that it can be set to full screen, a specific area or window. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is very nice that it can take a screenshot of the open window with a single click. It makes creating a guide very fast. #### Cons Occasionally, the key combination on the keyboard may disappear, in this case you have to activate it via the system icon. --- ### The best resource for screenshots - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: ★ Rodrigo A V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ligthshoot is the perfect add-on for windows or mac, it has been an indispensable tool when taking screenshots, it allows me to select areas of the screen, make annotations, share in the cloud or send directly by mail and store my screenshots. #### Cons Nothing, the application in my opinion has all the features I need, it could improve a bit the writing utilities. --- ### Day to day use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Willian Paulo d. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very helpful to get screenshots and share it easy with colleagues #### Cons Nothing yet, it does what I need it for. --- ### Excelente aplicativo para captura de imagens. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alfredo Q. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Fácil de usar.Aplicativo leve.Permite rápidas anotações na captura feita. #### Cons Sem contra indicações.Cumpre o que promete. --- ### Rapidez para compartilhar - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Renan A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Utilizo diariamente, enviando e editando imagens bem rapidamente. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ferramenta leve prática e dinâmica para realizar prints, editar e compartilhar com todos. #### Cons Não vejo contras nessa ferramenta, ela me entende totalmente e muito satisfatoriamente no que se propõe. --- ### Uso meu lightshot - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Girlany M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Atende nas atividades que realizado, funcionando como meu comprovante. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Fácil de ser usado no app, de ser compartilhado depois de pronto o arquivo, app funciona bem. Vi no computador e também pareceu fácil instalar. #### Cons a principio sem observações, pois me atende no que preciso. No celular, que acho bem ativo o aplicativo quando não uso, isso não acho tão legal, mas não desabona o app. --- ### Lightshot: A Seamless Screenshot Tool That Elevates Productivity - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bea K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It's become my go-to tool for capturing and sharing screenshots quickly and efficiently. Its intuitive interface and seamless integration with various platforms have streamlined my workflow, saving me time and effort. The ability to annotate and edit screenshots on the fly has been invaluable for communication and collaboration purposes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I loved Lightshot's intuitive and user-friendly interface, which makes taking and editing screenshots incredibly easy. The instant sharing options and versatile editing tools also stand out, allowing for quick annotations and seamless integration with various platforms. Its efficiency in capturing and sharing images significantly enhances productivity. #### Cons the occasional need for internet connectivity for certain features can be a minor inconvenience. #### Reasons for switching to Lightshot I like Lightshot better as is easier to use and more user friendly. --- ### Instant and Unique Screenshots - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nikhil I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I think Lightshot is the best at where it is. It's super easy to use, very convenient to share, and also has editing tools supporting it. It's available for free and hence no complaints about it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lightshot is a free program that offers a quick and easy way to capture a screen including basic editing tools. It's lightweight and easy to use the software. Lightshot offers the flexibility to capture any part/area of the screen. Not just that but one can also edit their photos instantly with their editing tool. With the editing tools, you can add your own creativity to the picture with text annotations, patterns, shapes, and much more. You can also instantly upload your screenshot to their server at one click and can share it easily using the link, which is shortened for ease of use. Another amazing feature is the Hotkey's feature, you can set your own shortcuts to capture screenshots instantly with ease. #### Cons So far I didn't face any problems using this software. Since Lightshot is free software, its features compare far more worthy than paid software. Hence there are no big issues with it. --- ### Lightshot, your screen capture partner - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Austin M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Pharmaceuticals - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I'm solving multiple issues, like instructions for new employees, talking via pictures with developers, with those they can understand the things I'm pointing out, it's an entire new world to add an arrow or text to a picture and you can do it in real time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I think the most liked thing about Lightshot is the ease of use and installation process, it can be made in 5 minutes and never worry about it again, you just install and start using it, configuration is easy, and you never miss again a really good screenshot with annotations. #### Cons I think maybe they could add an option-based toolkit, or give the ability to select new positions for them, the things I mostly use are far apart from each other, they could be closer. Regardless, the software is impeccable and I vouch for it 100%. --- ### Magical and Easy to use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ankit P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Light Shot is an magical application , you can select any area of the page to take customised screenshots and it's really easy to share . I am impressed with it . You can explain it and use many features #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The Thing I like , it's magic . Like you know an application with multiple features and easy to use #### Cons To be honest , since I used I never faced any problem it's really perfect, so no comments. --- ### Lightshot helps me do my job easier - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexandru Cristian I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Lightshot helps me to take screenshots and annotate the problems that I find easier than other tools. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the most the fact that I can annotate screenshots on the moment I take them, without the need to take the screenshot and afterwards open it in a different app so I can annotate. #### Cons Nothing to add here, like all the features of the app. --- ### I feel it's the easiest way to take screenshot! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. The most amazing thing that i feel about Lightshot is easy to use, 2. I cannot even facing any trouble while using in the projects. #### Cons I feel it does not have any issues with the Lightshot tool. --- ### Capturas de pantalla para compartir - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Juan M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Además de poder compartir en un momento dado la captura con otra persona a través de internet, es muy útil para guardar las imágenes de tutoriales para un blog o página web. Todas las capturas que compartes con un link se guardan en una zona personal del sitio de Lightshot al que puedes acceder para organizar las imágenes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Es muy fácil compartir capturas de pantalla completas o parciales por medio de un link que se autogenera para poder enviarlo por email o colocarlo en una web o red social. #### Cons No dispone de la opción de capturar ventanas completas, tienes que seleccionarlas con un recuadro y tener buen pulso. --- ### Fantastica estensione per crop video veloci e esplicativi - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Silvia C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Lo consiglierei perché semplifica notevolmente l'elaborazione di presentazioni che necessitano screen shot del montor #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Quello che apprezzo particolarmente è la capacità di catturare parti del monito selezionando contenuti sui quali puoi mettere indicazioni di testo o parti in evidenza con colori e forme. tale selezione poi può essere salvata o copiata e incollata ad esempio nel corpo di una mail se si vuole comunicare cose iconografiche ad un cliente o incollata su phoposhop per eventuali elaborazioni grafiche. Utilissima anche per scambi veloci di pareri su contenuti da descktop direttamente su whatsup o in chat. #### Cons Unico neo la semplicità degli strumenti che mette a disposizione per l'editing e l'impossibilità di estendere la selezione con lo scorrimento del monitor --- ### Ultra Light and Useful Tool for Screenshot - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shivanand M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have used it as an addon on Chrome and found it very much useful to take screenshot both in terms of PNG and PDF directly from Google Chrome. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros If you are looking to take screenshot both in terms of PNG and PDF directly from Google Chrome then this is the best one. #### Cons I have not found any difficulties/issues till now. --- ### Great Screenshot capture tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nazli P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered excellent tool to capture screen shots. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really love this tool very easy to use. Important part is you can highlight the text , pictures while capturing the image. You can either save or copy up to your requirement. Shortcut keys also can open the tool instantly. #### Cons Nothing as such everything is good with almost 0 amount. may be they can increase some features. --- ### Perfect Print screen tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ganesh S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall this tool is easy & handy to use. Sharing option was awesome. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lightshot is the best tool ever used for print screen. It was very easy to use. Features are very good we can edit & select the area of screenshot. Can shared or saved instantly. #### Cons I am very much comfortable using Lightshot for taking screenshots. --- ### LightShot rapidez y eficacia en pantallazos o señalar mensajes - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrés Mauricio G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Buena deberían mejorar el estabilizar más su software para que se pueda utilizar definitivamente y por siempre #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Su economía su rapidez y facilidad de manejar #### Cons Se cae la plataforma muy seguido y hemos tenido que recurrir a otros #### Reasons for choosing Lightshot Por su rapidez y recursividad #### Reasons for switching to Lightshot Problemas al guardar información ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/photo-editing/lightshot-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Lightshot Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice