EShot review
A free desktop capture tool with annotation, OCR, uploads, pinned images and recording.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
EShot is a free desktop screenshot capture and annotation tool for Windows and supported Linux environments, including KDE Plasma 6 and GNOME on Wayland. It is aimed at solo users who want to capture part or all of a screen, mark up the image, and then copy, save, upload, or keep it visible above other windows. Its focus is a local desktop workflow rather than browser-based capture or team review.
Capture and annotation cover a practical range: region and monitor screenshots, multi-monitor and high-DPI handling, plus pen, arrows, shapes, text, highlighting, blur, counters, and eyedropper controls. Undo and redo, selection locking, and color controls support editing. Tesseract OCR extracts selectable text with language packs, while visual search can send an image to Google Lens or Yandex Images. For users who need more than still images, EShot can record a selected region as a GIF or the screen as an MP4, with configurable recording settings. These tools make it suited to individual workflows where capture, markup, and follow-up happen on a Windows or Linux desktop.
The upload choices span anonymous hosts such as Catbox, Uguu, Litterbox, TmpFiles.org, temp.sh, Allwebs, and Radikal Cloud, along with Google Drive and Yandex Disk. That breadth is useful for solo users choosing where to send captures, while always-on-top pinned images help keep reference material visible. EShot is less suitable for teams that need built-in collaboration, users seeking a browser extension, or workflows requiring redaction. Choose it for free desktop annotation, OCR, and recording on its supported platforms; consider another tool if shared review or redaction is central.
EShot pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Offers region and monitor capture with multi-monitor and high-DPI handling.
- Combines annotation tools with Tesseract OCR and visual image search.
- Supports pinned captures, GIF and MP4 recording, and multiple upload destinations.
- Where it doesn't
- Desktop builds are limited to Windows and supported Linux environments.
- No team collaboration or browser extension is listed among its category specs.
- No redaction feature is listed among its category specs.
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