Screenshot software is stuck in the past, especially on Windows computers, where your built-in options are the print screen button, and the snipping tool. For how incredibly important the ability to explain information on your screen is in fields like software and design, I’ve always found it strange that tools in the space are so, so far behind the times. Many, many things out there will take a screenshot, but few will provide the (important) follow-up experience of being able to effectively edit/annotate/lay out that image, sort it into a meaningful folder, and upload it to where it matters. Instead, we’re left making do trying to draw circles on our trackpads as smoothly as possible, and searching through our file explorers among images that all sort of look the same and are named bizarre things like “Screenshot 040120221202 (01).png”. It’s quite sad. Pixtel is a project a few friends and I’ve been putting time on the side into for more than a few years now and handles all that annoying stuff for you. Taking screenshots is easy, but editing them and managing thousands of them that pile up somewhere on your computer over time is a bit trickier— we built Pixtel around this. There’re still a ton of improvements left on the table, but we think there's a chance it could be pretty useful for design and QA teams on Windows, and do hope you’ll give it a shot.

Pixtel

Build better screenshots.

Build better screenshots.