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Aquashot, developed and published by Aquashot, is a fast, native Windows snipping tool designed for screenshots and screen recording, currently available at version 1.2.0 with three released versions in its history. Falling into the screenshot and screen capture software category, it serves users who need to grab visual content from their desktop quickly and then share, document, or archive it. The tool captures a region, a window, or a whole monitor, making it suitable for everyday use cases such as preparing documentation, reporting bugs, creating tutorials, or saving visual information for later reference. Once a capture is taken, users can annotate it with arrows, shapes, text, and numbered steps, which is particularly useful for instructional material and step-by-step guides. Aquashot also includes a colour picker for sampling colours directly from the screen, as well as OCR functionality that extracts on-screen text from images. Captures can be copied to the clipboard, saved to disk, or both, with output supported in PNG, JPG, animated GIF, and MP4 formats, covering both still images and recorded video. Beyond basic capture, the software offers delayed capture for timed screenshots, a desktop freeze feature for holding the screen steady while selecting an area, a searchable history that supports OCR text search so past captures can be located by the text they contain, and a pin-to-screen option that keeps a capture visible on top of other windows. The application is self-contained and ships with FFmpeg bundled, so no additional runtime needs to be installed before use. Overall, Aquashot combines capture, annotation, text extraction, and recording in a single lightweight Windows utility aimed at users who want a complete snipping workflow without external dependencies.
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