Mark it up in seconds
Pen, line, arrow, box, circle, highlighter, numbered steps and text with ten built-in fonts — or your own. Click any drawing to move it, recolor it or resize it.
The two-click screenshot tool for Windows, rebuilt from scratch. Mark it up, blur what's private, and share a link that deletes itself.
- Free download
- Windows 10 & 11
- Free & open source
- No account
PrtScn Drag over anything. Copy, save or share.
Copied to clipboard
3 names blurred
Link deletes in 24 h
2 clicksfrom PrtScn to clipboard
10 toolsarrows to auto-blur
24 hand shared links vanish
0accounts to create
See it work
From PrtScn to a private link
in four steps.
Every picture here is the real LiteShot, rendered by the app's own code on a staged desktop, and the last one is the real fortefile.com viewer opening a real encrypted link.
Privacy
Names blur themselves.
Turn on Blur names automatically and LiteShot reads the screen the moment you capture, finds anything that looks like a person's name and blurs it. Drag the slider to compare.
- Runs on your PCWindows' own text recognition, so nothing is uploaded to find them.
- Your callCtrl+Z brings them all back; click one blur and press Delete to unblur just that name.
- Faces too, by FacePrivacy.aiPress F and every face in the selection gets an oval blur, or press U and paint with FacePrivacy's blur brush.
Blur by FacePrivacy.ai
Paint privacy on.
LiteShot's face blur comes from FacePrivacy.ai. Press F and every face in the selection is found and blurred, or press U and paint over anything with their blur brush. Try the brush right here.
- Faces, found for youOne key blurs every face it finds, each with a soft oval.
- A brush for everything elseNames, emails, addresses, a license plate: paint over it and it's gone.
- Stays on your PCNothing is uploaded to blur it, and Ctrl+Z undoes any stroke.
Features
Everything Lightshot did.
Then a lot more.
The same muscle memory: press PrtScn, drag, copy. Everything else is new.
Snaps to windows
Hover a window and click once to capture exactly that window. Ctrl+PrtScn reopens the area you used last.
Private by default
Names are blurred the moment you capture. Blur faces, with technology from FacePrivacy.ai, hides every face with one key — or paint over anything with their blur brush. It all runs on your PC.
Edit with AI, or make it move
Describe a change — "remove the background" — or turn the screenshot into a short video. Powered by FLUX, Nano Banana, Seedance and Kling through your SyncNode key.
Links that delete themselves
Uploads are encrypted on your PC before they leave it and hosted on fortefile.com. The key lives only in your link, so nobody else — us included — can open the file, and it's gone after 24 hours. Delete it sooner from the tray menu.
fortefile.com/f/k9Q2vX7mLw0aB3Tr#key-stays-in-the-link
Deletes in 24:00:00
Signed updates
Turn on automatic updates and LiteShot installs new versions while it's idle — only ones signed by Devgm.
Copy the text
Pull text out of any screenshot with the recognition built into Windows. Works offline. This is what it read from the chat above:
CopiedSarah Johnson
10:42 AM
The new glass toolbar looks great. Can you send the
Q3 numbers to Dr. Patel before Friday?
Priya Patel
10:44 AM
On it. Marcus Lee already shared the draft.
Pin to screen
Float a screenshot above every window while you work. Scroll to zoom, Ctrl+scroll to fade, drag it anywhere.
Every monitor, pixel-exact
Mixed DPI, multiple screens, a pixel loupe with the hex color under your cursor.
Free and open source
No ads, no account, no trial. LiteShot is MIT-licensed: read the code, build it yourself, make it better.
Keyboard first
Every tool and action has a key, and the global shortcuts are yours to change. See them all.
Design
Glass where you touch.
Crisp where you look.
Toolbars float over your screenshot like lenses and adapt to what's behind them. Your capture is never tinted or blurred.
- Light or dark, per panelOver a bright page the glass turns light; over a dark one, smoky.
- Your accent colorSelected tools and switches follow your Windows accent.
- AccessibleReduced transparency, high contrast and reduced motion are all respected.
- At home on Windows 11Mica, rounded corners and native-feeling settings.
Shortcuts
Hands on the keyboard.
Every tool and action has a key. The global ones can be changed in Settings.
Capture an areaPrtScn
Full screen, savedShiftPrtScn
Last area againCtrlPrtScn
Copy and closeCtrlC
SaveCtrlS
Upload, copy linkCtrlD
Blur facesF
Blur brushU
Copy text (OCR)CtrlShiftC
Pin to screenCtrlT
Arrow, box, text…ART
Undo, redoCtrlZY
CancelEsc
Download
Get LiteShot.
Free for Windows 10 and 11. The installer adds LiteShot to Start and runs it with Windows; the portable exe runs from anywhere.
Windows may warn that the publisher is unknown until our code-signing certificate arrives — choose More info › Run anyway.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes, and open source under the MIT license. No account, no trial, no ads. AI features use your own SyncNode key, so you pay SyncNode and Replicate for what you use.
Does LiteShot upload my screenshots?
Only when you press Upload or Share. Name and face blurring, text recognition and everything else run on your PC, and uploads are encrypted before they leave it. The one exception is Search similar images: Google has to see the picture, so that upload isn't encrypted and is deleted after an hour.
Who can open my links?
Anyone you send the link to, until it expires. The decryption key is the part after the # in the link; browsers never send it to the server, so fortefile.com only ever stores scrambled data.
Do I need to install .NET?
No. Both the installer and the portable exe include everything LiteShot needs.
How do updates work?
Check for updates in Settings › General, or turn on automatic updates. Every release is signed by Devgm, LLC, and LiteShot refuses anything that isn't.
Is this Lightshot?
No. LiteShot is an independent app by Devgm, LLC, inspired by the classic two-click workflow. It isn't affiliated with Lightshot or Skillbrains.