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ShotsGlow is a native Windows screenshot tool that turns any capture into a designed, share-ready image without leaving Windows. Capture any region across every monitor, drop it on a designed gradient backdrop with a shadow and rounded corners, annotate with curved arrows, shapes and text, blur or pixelate anything sensitive (redaction survives a later crop), and cut out the background with AI that runs 100% on your machine โ nothing is uploaded. Then export to 30 social and App-Store sizes. It can even free the Print Screen key Windows reserves for the Snipping Tool. One-time $9 (founding price), lifetime, no subscription, 30-day money-back. It's the Windows answer to CleanShot X, which is Mac-only.
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ShotsGlow's answer:
Windows indie developers, build-in-public founders and indie app makers who share screenshots constantly โ product shots, launch posts, App/Play Store listings, docs โ and want them to look designed without leaving Windows or uploading to a cloud tool. Also support/docs writers and anyone privacy-conscious who needs to redact sensitive info locally.
ShotsGlow's answer:
The whole capture-to-share workflow in one native Windows app: capture, designed backdrops, annotation, crop-safe redaction, and AI background removal that runs 100% on-device โ then export to 30 social & App-Store sizes. The AI never uploads your screenshot; it runs locally on your GPU. No other Windows tool bundles all of this natively, and it's a one-time $9 purchase, not a subscription. (Honest: the model, BiRefNet, is open โ the work is the native Windows integration, not the model.)
ShotsGlow's answer:
CleanShot X, Xnapper and Shottr are Mac-only โ ShotsGlow is the native Windows answer. Versus the free tools (ShareX, Greenshot, Lightshot) it adds a real designed editor, on-device AI cutout and 30 export sizes with no learning curve. Versus Snagit it's $9 once instead of $39/year, and its AI background removal actually runs on Windows (Snagit's is Mac-only). Everything runs locally โ nothing is uploaded. Honest note: it doesn't record the screen (yet).
ShotsGlow's answer:
I'm a solo Windows dev. For years I watched Mac users get CleanShot X while Windows got the Snipping Tool and a $39/year Snagit subscription. I wanted a polished, native, buy-once tool that made screenshots look designed and removed backgrounds without uploading anything โ so I built it, in public, under MXF Labs.
ShotsGlow's answer:
A native Windows app. Capture uses Windows' native graphics-capture APIs. AI background removal uses the open BiRefNet model via ONNX Runtime, running on the GPU through DirectML with a CPU fallback โ entirely on-device. Purchases run through Polar (Merchant of Record).
ShotsGlow might be a bit more popular than CheepCode. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to CheepCode. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
If you like that workflow you might love CheepCode[0] which I built specifically to support it! CheepCode connects to Linear and works on tickets as they roll in, submitting PRs to GitHub. [0] https://cheepcode.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
(Demo: the one-click cutout โ and the same thing running with the Wi-Fi off โ at https://shotsglow.com/blog/on-device-background-removal-windows ). - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
