A Snagit alternative
Cropped does the everyday Snagit jobs: screenshots with arrows, numbered steps and blur, step-by-step guides and quick screen videos. Core is $24.99 once, on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Step guides and how-to videos
The short answer
Is there a one-time-purchase alternative to Snagit?
Yes. Cropped Core is $24.99 once and covers screenshots, markup with numbered steps and blur, screen recording and optimizing, with every Core update included. Snagit is $39 a year per person. Add Cropped Pro for step guides, captions and the timeline editor when you need them.
annotate
01
Annotate
Annotate
Arrows, boxes, circles, X marks, text, numbered steps, drawing, a focus mask, blur, hide and crop. Each capture is optimized and copied to the clipboard, ready for the doc or the ticket.
A box, an arrow and a hidden email address
Numbered steps
Click to drop step 1, 2, 3, with one style for every badge.
Hide private info
Blur or hide emails and keys before anything leaves your screen.
Accessibility check
Find low-contrast and small text, with colors that fix each problem.
guides
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Guides
Guides
Turn a set of screenshots into a guide with numbered steps, then restyle every step at once. Or record a how-to: every click becomes a step with a zoom, and what you say becomes the words under it.
A finished how-to guide with four steps
Guide builder, in Pro
Restyle fonts, colors and badges for every step in one go.
Record a how-to
Click through the task once and the guide writes itself.
Export it
Save the guide as pictures or turn it into a video.
video
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Video
Video
Snagit hands longer edits to Camtasia. Cropped records, trims and exports in the same app, and Pro adds Jump Cuts, captions, music, a recorded voiceover and the full timeline.
Video, Audio, Music and Voiceover lanes
Zoom on clicks
Recordings zoom in on each click, and you can change every zoom.
Captions on your computer
Edit, style and burn them in, or save .srt and .vtt.
Every format
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and GIF, sized to a quality or a file size.
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Cropped and Snagit
The jobs documentation and support teams use Snagit for, as of November 2026.
Snagit
Capture
Windows and Mac
Yes
Yes
Capture
Linux
Yes, in Beta
No
Capture
Scrolling capture
Smooth Scroll, on Mac
Yes, on Windows and Mac
Capture
Screen recording with camera and sound
Yes; the camera bubble is Mac only
Yes
Edit
Numbered steps, blur and focus
Yes
Yes
Edit
Step-by-step guides
Yes
Yes
Edit
Accessibility check
Yes
No
Edit
Timeline with music, voiceover and captions
Yes
Use Camtasia
Edit
Cut pauses and filler words
Yes
No
Edit
Shrink images, videos and PDFs
Yes
No
Edit
Templates and stock assets
Presets
Yes, a starter library
Price
Price model
Core once
$39 a year per person
https://www.techsmith.com/store/snagit
2026-11-01
What it costs
Snagit Individual is a yearly subscription. Cropped Core is paid once; add Pro only if you want guides, captions and the timeline.
Snagit
Individual
0
39
$39 a person a year
https://www.techsmith.com/store/snagit
2026-11-01
Fair is fair
You rely on templates and Camtasia.
Snagit comes with a library of templates and assets and hands recordings straight to Camtasia.
You need scrolling capture on Windows.
Snagit captures long pages on Windows and Mac. Cropped’s Smooth Scroll is Mac only for now.
Your company already standardized on TechSmith.
Volume licensing and team deployment are mature.
Switching
Is there a free or one-time Snagit alternative?
Cropped Core is $24.99 once, not free, and it includes every Core update. It covers screenshots, markup, recording and optimizing, and there’s a 14-day free trial of everything.
Can Cropped make step-by-step guides?
Yes. The guide builder turns screenshots into numbered steps and restyles them all at once, and Record a how-to turns each click into a step. Guides are part of Pro.
Does Cropped have scrolling capture on Windows?
Not yet. Smooth Scroll is Mac only for now. See every difference.
Does Cropped work on Linux?
Cropped runs on Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 14 or later), 64-bit Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 or later with GNOME (Linux is in Beta). One license covers all three. A few things are Mac only for now, like the camera bubble, Webpage only and Smooth Scroll. See every difference.
Every Core and Pro tool, with no signup or card. Then keep Cropped Core for $24.99 once, and add Pro whenever you want it.
Snagit is a trademark of its owner. Cropped isn’t affiliated with Snagit, and we use the name only to compare the two products. Camtasia is a trademark of TechSmith. Facts about Snagit were checked on its own site on November 1, 2026; tell us at support if something has changed.