A Lightshot-style Linux screenshot tool built for Ubuntu. Select any region, mark it up with pen, arrows, shapes & pixelate redaction, undo any step, then copy or save in one click — with flash-free native capture and no external tools to install.
Linux Screenshot Features
A lightweight Ubuntu screenshot tool that captures natively — no gnome-screenshot, no scrot — and stays out of your way in the system tray until you need it.
Click and drag to select any area on screen with pixel-precise crosshair and a live size indicator.
Pen, arrows, rectangles, a color picker, and full undo / redo — in a sleek, draggable floating editor.
The region auto-copies the instant you release the mouse — and you can copy the annotated version anytime with Ctrl+C.
Export annotated screenshots to any folder with one click — or turn on auto-save to drop straight into your chosen folder.
Captures in-process on X11 & Wayland — no gnome-screenshot or scrot. A bundled GNOME helper removes the shutter flash entirely.
Drag over anything sensitive to pixelate it. The blur is baked into the image as a committed layer — it can't be peeled back off the PNG.
A built-in Settings window — change the capture shortcut, save folder and auto-save without touching a config file. Print Screen just works.
Runs silently in the system tray; trigger from any app with Print Screen or Ctrl+Shift+S — fully customisable.
Get started
No Python, no external screenshot tools. Download the .deb and you're done.
Grab the latest release from GitHub, then install it — just like VS Code or Discord.
Search Kapture in your app launcher — it starts in the system tray. Then press a hotkey from anywhere to capture.
Kapture works the moment it's installed. On GNOME Wayland it captures through the system portal, which shows a brief flash. To remove it, the .deb bundles a small GNOME helper — log out and back in once to activate it. (X11 sessions need nothing.)
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MIT licensed. Contributions, issues, and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.
github.com/yeakiniqra/Kapture