Snipping Tool captures the part of your screen that matters

Press Win + Shift + S for a rectangular, freeform, window, or full-screen snip. Annotate with ink, record with audio, then copy or save.

Features

What Snipping Tool does

A focused Windows utility for screenshots and short recordings. Free, Microsoft-published, Windows 11 22000.0 or higher.

Capture

Rectangular, freeform, window, and full-screen snips from the app or keyboard shortcut.

Annotate

Pen, highlighter, crop, shapes, emoji, and Text actions for copy or Quick redact.

Record

Screen recording with computer or microphone audio via Win+Shift+R on supported builds.

Works

Product screens

Real Snipping Tool UI from the Windows 11 experience.

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About

Built for everyday Windows work

Version 2022.2504.39.0. Softonic lists it as Trusted with a Clean scan note. Microsoft Store rating 4.0 from 16,544 ratings. On Windows 10, Snip & Sketch downloads instead.

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System requirements

Windows 11 version 22000.0 or higher
PC platforms: x64, ARM, ARM64, x86
Free Microsoft Utilities & tools app
Microphone permission for recording audio

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