Print Screen, drag, Ctrl+C: WellSnap works the way Lightshot taught you. What changes is what happens next: a blur that cannot be undone, numbered callouts, several screenshots pasted into a chat at once, and nothing uploaded anywhere.
Press Print Screen. The screen freezes.
Open menus and tooltips stay put. Drag over the part you need.
Arrows, boxes, a marker and text
One key per tool. Shift snaps arrows to 45°.
Blur that cannot be undone
Built from the pixels around the box, so there is nothing to recover.
Numbered callouts with comments
A click drops a number. The comment stays on the picture or goes as text.
One more, and one more
Each screenshot in a set gets a letter, its callouts become A1, A2, B1.
The whole set goes into a chat at once
Your comments and the pictures arrive as one message.
Or as one picture
For email and tickets: all screenshots on one sheet, comments under each.
Print Screen opens Snipping Tool? One click fixes it
WellSnap takes the key over, and you can give it back at any time.
Quiet updates, private by design
Updates install while you are away. Screenshots never leave your computer.
| Feature | WellSnap | Lightshot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no ads | Free |
| Open source | Yes, GPL-3.0 | No |
| Windows | Yes, 64-bit | Yes |
| macOS | Yes, macOS 14 and later | Yes, App Store version from 2019 |
| Arrows, boxes and text | Arrow, box, pencil, marker, text | Lines, arrows, text |
| Blur | Mosaic that cannot be reversed, or solid fill | Not listed |
| Numbered callouts | Yes, with comments | Not listed |
| Several screenshots as one album | Yes, up to 26 | Not listed |
| Comments and pictures pasted as one message | Yes, Win+Alt+V | Not listed |
| Several screenshots in one image | Yes, with headings and comments | Not listed |
| Uploads | None, nothing leaves your computer | Yes, public by link on prnt.sc |
| Print Screen on Windows 11 | Takes the key over in one click, restores it on request | Not listed |
Not listed means the feature is not mentioned in the vendor's own documentation or store page. Compared in October 2026; tell us on GitHub if something changed.
Lightshot's upload button puts a screenshot on prnt.sc, and its privacy policy says every uploaded image is public to anyone with the link. Security researchers have pointed out that those links follow each other in sequence. WellSnap has no upload at all: Ctrl+D copies the screenshot and reminds you that nothing was uploaded.
Hide an email or a token with a mosaic that is built from the surroundings, so the original cannot be recovered. Number the steps 1, 2, 3 with a comment next to each.
Collect screenshots into a set and paste them into Telegram as one album, with your comments as the caption. No more five separate messages.
If Lightshot stopped reacting to the key after a Windows update, Windows is giving it to Snipping Tool. WellSnap takes the key over with one click and can give it back later.
Lightshot can upload a screenshot and give you a short link in one click, and it can search the web for similar images. WellSnap does neither: if a public link is exactly what you want, Lightshot is quicker for that.
The screen freezes the moment you press the key, the same as in Lightshot, and the toolbar appears right under the selection, just like you are used to.
No, on purpose. Screenshots go to your clipboard or a file. Paste them straight into the chat, the email or the task.
Install takes a few seconds and needs no admin rights on Windows.