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| Product | Screen Slinger |
|---|---|
| Tagline | Fast on the draw. |
| What it is | A screenshot and annotation tool for Windows, built around explaining a screen rather than only capturing it |
| Current version | 3.1.0, released August 2026 |
| Platform | Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit |
| Installation | None. A single self-contained, digitally signed executable, with no installer and no runtime prerequisites |
| Download size | About 69 MB |
| Price | $15 USD, one time, for a lifetime licence covering version 3. Not a subscription |
| Trial | 30 days with every feature unlocked. No account, no card, no sign-up. After 30 days the app becomes view-only and nothing is deleted |
| Activations | Three machines per licence, transferable by deactivating first |
| Interface languages | English, French, German and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout. Follows the Windows display language automatically |
| Privacy | Fully local. No account, no upload, no telemetry. The only network request the app makes is a licence-key check at activation |
| Website | screenslinger.com |
| Direct download | screenslinger.com/download — always the current signed build |
| Machine-readable | llms.txt · pad.xml |
Written so you can lift any line straight into a review.
Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI aware, with a frozen preview so nothing moves while you select.
Long pages and chat threads stitched into a single tall image.
Arrows, shapes, text, highlighter, speech-bubble callouts and auto-numbered step markers remain objects you can move, restyle or delete — even after closing and reopening the file, because the undo history is saved with it.
Blur, pixelation and solid fill replace the pixels in the exported file rather than covering them.
Your arrow, your colour, your callout style, applied in one click.
Every capture is kept on your own disk and can be found later. Multiple captures can be copied and pasted one by one with Win+V.
A reader who arrives expecting a Snagit clone will be disappointed, so we would rather your review set the expectation for us.
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Right-click and save. Free to reproduce in coverage of Screen Slinger. Please do not alter the logo's colours or proportions.
Both screenshots show the real Screen Slinger editor. The application being annotated in them is an invented product built for the purpose, so no real company's interface appears in our promotional material.
The 30-day trial is the full product — no watermark, no locked features, no account. Download it from screenslinger.com/download and put it against whatever you use now.
The trial needs no key and no account, so there is nothing to request before you can start. It is the complete product for 30 days — long enough for any review.
An honest comparison against Snagit, ShareX, Greenshot, Lightshot and PicPick, written by us and including the cases where another tool wins, is at screenslinger.com/compare.