Press kit

Everything you need to write about Screen Slinger without emailing us first. The logo and screenshots below are free to reproduce in coverage of the product.

Fact sheet

ProductScreen Slinger
TaglineFast on the draw.
What it isA screenshot and annotation tool for Windows, built around explaining a screen rather than only capturing it
Current version3.6, released August 2026. Bug-fix updates within 3.6 ship under the same number — the download is always the current build
PlatformWindows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit
InstallationA digitally signed installer, with no runtime prerequisites. A portable single-executable build is also published, and is what winget and Scoop deliver
Download sizeAbout 75 MB
Price$15 USD, one time, for a lifetime licence covering version 3. Not a subscription
Trial30 days with every feature unlocked. No account, no card, no sign-up. After 30 days the app becomes view-only and nothing is deleted
ActivationsTwo machines per licence, transferable by deactivating first
Interface languagesEnglish, French, German and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout. Follows the Windows display language automatically
PrivacyFully local. No account, no upload, no telemetry. The only network request the app makes is a licence-key check at activation
Websitescreenslinger.com
Direct downloadscreenslinger.com/download — always the current signed build
Machine-readablellms.txt · pad.xml

Feature list

Written so you can lift any line straight into a review.

Instant region capture

Multi-monitor and mixed-DPI aware, with a frozen preview so nothing moves while you select. Hovering suggests the window, panel or table under the cursor; a timer and cursor-in-shot are available.

Automatic scrolling capture

Screen Slinger scrolls the window itself, stops at the bottom, detects sticky headers so they appear only once, and stitches pixel-accurately with a live preview.

Text recognition via Windows

Copy the text out of a capture, or find and hide detected e-mail addresses and long numbers in one click. Uses the OCR engine built into Windows, so it depends on the installed language packs.

Spotlight, magnifier & more

Spotlight in three shapes, a magnifier inset, emoji stickers, a colour picker, a cut-out tool, pin-to-screen, and background styling with frames applied automatically.

Annotations that stay editable

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.

Redaction you can rely on

Blur, pixelation and solid fill replace the pixels in the exported file rather than covering them. Hide-templates re-apply saved redactions to every capture of the same screen.

Saved tool presets

Your arrow, your colour, your callout style, applied in one click.

Searchable local history

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.

What it does not do — please say so in your coverage

  • No screen or video recording. Still images only.
  • No cloud sharing, share links or team libraries.
  • Windows only. No macOS, Linux, mobile or browser version.
  • Text recognition uses the OCR engine built into Windows — it depends on the language packs installed on the reviewer's PC, and Hebrew letters need the Hebrew OCR pack (digits work without it).
  • Automatic scrolling depends on the window responding to standard scroll input; when one does not, Screen Slinger says so and you scroll manually while it stitches.

A reader who arrives expecting a Snagit clone will be disappointed, so we would rather your review set the expectation for us.

Boilerplate

Short, medium and long. Copy whichever fits.

One line — Screen Slinger is a Windows screenshot tool that captures a region or scrolls a long page by itself, then annotates it with arrows, callouts and auto-numbered steps, working entirely offline.
Short — Screen Slinger is a screenshot and annotation tool for Windows 10 and 11. It captures a region — or scrolls a long page automatically, sticky headers included only once — then marks it up with arrows, text, callouts and auto-numbered steps that stay editable objects. Blur and pixelation genuinely replace the exported pixels, and one click hides detected e-mails and numbers. It runs fully offline with no account and no telemetry, and it is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
Long — Screen Slinger is a screenshot and annotation tool for Windows 10 and 11, built for the moment after the capture: the part where you have to make someone else understand what they are looking at. Region capture is multi-monitor and mixed-DPI aware, freezes the screen while you select, and suggests the window, panel or table under the cursor. Scrolling capture is automatic: the app scrolls the window itself, stops at the bottom, detects sticky headers and stitches long pages pixel-accurately into one tall image. In the editor, arrows, shapes, text, callouts, auto-numbered step markers, a spotlight, a magnifier and emoji stickers all stay editable objects — reopen a file next week and every one of them can still be moved or restyled, because the undo history is saved alongside the image. Blur, pixelation and solid fill replace the underlying pixels in the exported file rather than drawing over them — what you send is exactly what you see, with no hidden original underneath. One click suggests hides for detected e-mail addresses and long numbers (you confirm each one), with hide-templates that re-apply to every capture of the same screen. Text can be copied out of a capture via the OCR engine built into Windows. The app is fully local: no account, no upload, no telemetry, and the only network request it ever makes is a licence-key check at activation. It ships as a digitally signed installer with no runtime prerequisites, with a portable single-executable build published alongside it for winget and Scoop, in English, French, German or Hebrew with full right-to-left support, for $15 once with a 30-day fully functional trial.

Logo and screenshots

Right-click and save. Free to reproduce in coverage of Screen Slinger. Please do not alter the logo's colours or proportions.

The Screen Slinger application icon
Application iconPNG, 256×256, transparent background
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The Screen Slinger editor: toolbar, an annotated screen with numbered steps, arrows and callouts, the tool properties panel and the capture history strip
The editorNumbered steps, arrows and a callout on a captured screen, with the properties panel and history strip
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Illustration of Screen Slinger capturing a region: a dashed selection frame with a size badge, an annotation toolbar, and tool icons around it
Capture illustrationA dashed selection frame with size badge and annotation toolbar over a dashboard, tool icons around it
hero.jpg

The editor screenshot shows the real Screen Slinger editor; the application being annotated in it is an invented product built for the purpose, so no real company's interface appears in our promotional material. The capture image is a stylised illustration, not a product screenshot.

Reviewing it yourself

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.