vs. Snipping ToolBuilt-in
"Comes free with Windows. Treats you like it."
- One keypress, no modal popup4 clicks
- Auto-save and auto-copyEither, never both
- Annotations you can edit laterFlatten and pray
A screenshot app · Windows 10 / 11$4 one-time $12,000,000.00
MUG
Windows screenshots, done right.
Cheaper than bad trucker coffee. Mug is the screenshot app you deserve. Press a key. Get a screenshot. That's the whole pitch.
We're so gonna be toast when we get an HR department.
Sixty seconds
Watch the whole thing.
Or don't. We didn't make a five-minute "story" video. It's a screenshot app. We show you taking a screenshot. That's it.
Mug v1.4 · Capture, mark up, save0:58
The competition, fondly roasted.
We've used all of these. Some are fine.
None of them are Mug.
vs. ShareXPower tool
"Two hundred features. Hundred ninety-nine you'll never touch."
- Defaults you don't have to fixSettings labyrinth
- UI from this decadeUI from 2011
- No FTP setup wizard, everThere is an FTP setup wizard
vs. LightshotFree*
"Free. Pays for itself in popup ads."
- Zero telemetry, zero adsBundled offers on install
- Local-first. Cloud is a button, not a defaultPublic URL by default
- You can read the privacy policy in one sittingYou cannot
vs. GreenshotVeteran
"Looks like Windows XP. Acts like it too."
- HiDPI, multi-monitor, dark modeHit-or-miss
- Shipping updates this decadeLast major release in 2017
- Toolbar that doesn't make you squint12 px icons forever
Not a lot. On purpose.
The full feature list, no padding, no roadmap items, no cape!
After all, who needs a roadmap when you have a whole lotta VC funding.
- 01
Pixel-perfect edges
The entire reason our stupid app exists. Stop letting other pixels bleed through your window edges. You and your mom deserve better.
- 02
Press → screenshot
Default hotkey is Ctrl + Shift + 4. Rebind to whatever you want. No "What kind of screenshot?" dialog. You point, you click, you're done.
- 03
Auto-copy and auto-save
Both, simultaneously, by default. PNG to disk, image on the clipboard. Lose a screenshot by closing the wrong window? We got you.
- 04
No AI, no Copilot, no Clippy
Just you, your meat fingers, and some available SSD space. Don't tell us we never did anything for the rain forest.
- 05
Local files, not a cloud library
All your screenshots in a folder you control. Searchable. Right-clickable. No "Mug Pro Cloud++" upsell.
- 06
Multi-monitor, HiDPI, scaled displays
HDR, HiDPi. It captures the right thing on the right one. It works on the 4K or the 1080p monitor. That janky monitor you have locked in your basement with Dr Dre? Yup, that one too.
Quotes, unsponsored.
I uninstalled ShareX. I didn't even cry. Mug just took its place and now I don't think about screenshots anymore. Which is the point.
Frank D. · IT director, 1,200-seat fleet
The rare Windows utility that doesn't act like it hates you. The defaults are correct. I don't know how to say this nicer: just buy it.
Senior product designer · Toronto
I take maybe forty screenshots a day for support tickets. Mug paid for itself in the first morning. Hotkeys, annotations, save, done.
Helpdesk lead · Logistics company
I have been quietly testing Mug for three weeks. I am no longer testing it. It is on every dev machine I own.
Independent software developer
Deploying at scale
For the people installing things on everyone else's machines.
An honest .msix, silent install, ADMX templates, a reasonable update cadence, no Electron, no .NET ten-different-ways. Push it to ten thousand seats and forget about it.
PS> # Silent install, no UI, default folderPS>msiexec /i mug-1.4.msi /qn HOTKEY="Ctrl+;"PS>SAVE_DIR="\fileshare\screens" TELEMETRY=0
# Deployed to OU "Corporate-Desktops" 1,247 / 1,247 succeeded · 0 failed
One small purchase
Try it. It's $4.00.
Less risky than gas station sushi.
Take three pristine screenshots on us. After that, $4 bucks once. We won't even email you 632 times a week about our other products*.
*This may have something to do with the fact that we don't have other products.
Windows 10 (1809+) · Windows 11 · x64 and ARM64 · 12 MB · No account · No telemetry