A Windows screen capture and recording tool for bug reports, tutorials, and fast feedback.

Pointframe helps you show exactly what matters

Pointframe is a Windows screen capture and recording tool with live annotations, OCR, blur redaction, and pinned screenshots. Built for bug reports, tutorials, and fast feedback.

Download for Windows

Pointframe uses the winget package ID DimitarRadenkov.Pointframe starting with the 5.0 release line.

Why this Windows screenshot and screen recording tool stands out

Built for fast screen capture, live explanation, and sharing without post-editing friction.

Live Video Annotations

Draw, highlight, and point things out while you are recording. No need for complicated post-production video editing to explain a bug or tutorial.

Privacy First (Live Blur)

Drag over sensitive content (passwords, emails, API keys) to apply a Gaussian blur instantly. It stays blurred even in your exported video recordings.

Built-in OCR (Text Extraction)

Can't copy text from an image or video? Just lasso the text on your screen with Pointframe, and it instantly extracts and copies it to your clipboard.

Pin to Screen

Working on something complex? Pin a captured screenshot as a floating, always-on-top window for quick reference while you code or type.

Microphone Audio

Explain what you are doing with your voice. Pointframe captures your microphone alongside the screen and your live annotations to create complete, intuitive video guides.

Standard Exports

Save your recordings as high-quality MP4 videos or lightweight GIFs that seamlessly embed into pull requests, Jira tickets, Slack messages, and documentation pages.

Pointframe interface showcase

A practical alternative to Windows Snipping Tool, ShareX, Greenshot, and Snagit

People usually find Pointframe when they need a Windows screenshot tool with cleaner recording, easier annotation, or built-in OCR.

Compared with Windows Snipping Tool

Pointframe adds live recording annotations, built-in OCR, blur redaction, pinned screenshots, and faster explanation workflows for bug reports and tutorials.

Compared with ShareX and Greenshot

Pointframe focuses on a simpler day-to-day capture experience with fewer setup steps, a cleaner UI, and quick access to the exact tools most people use constantly.

Compared with Snagit

Pointframe gives you a free Windows screen capture and recording workflow with live markup, blur, and OCR without requiring a paid license.

If you are searching for a free screen capture tool for Windows, a screen recorder with annotations, or a way to copy text from screenshots on Windows, this is the exact problem space Pointframe is designed for.

It works well for software demos, support tickets, bug reports, internal documentation, step-by-step tutorials, and any workflow where you need to show the important part of the screen quickly and clearly.

Popular guides people actually search for

These pages target the exact Windows screenshot, OCR, and recording problems people search for before they discover Pointframe.

Screen recorder with annotations for Windows

A dedicated page for people searching for Windows screen recording with live drawing, blur, and tutorial-friendly explanation tools.

Free Windows Snipping Tool alternative

A comparison page for users looking for more than the built-in Windows screenshot tool can offer.

How to copy text from a screenshot on Windows

An OCR-focused page for the high-intent search query around extracting text from screenshots and images.

Free Snagit alternative for Windows

How Pointframe covers the core Snagit workflows — capture, markup, blur, recording — for free.

How to blur a screen recording on Windows

Apply live blur to passwords and sensitive content while recording — no video editor needed.

Screen capture tool for bug reports

Capture, annotate with numbered steps, and attach evidence to tickets without leaving your workflow.