A screenshot app · Windows 10 / 11$4 one-time $7.2 Billion

MUG

Windows screenshots, done right.

Cheaper than bad trucker coffee. Mug is the screenshot app you deserve. Press a key. Click. Get a screenshot. That's the whole pitch.

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x64 and ARM64 · 891KB · No telemetry

Do we call this Mugging? Do we call them Mugshots?
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
What you've been using

The competition, fondly roasted.

We've used all of these. Some are fine.

None of them are Mug.

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
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
What it does

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 05

    Local files, not a cloud library

    All your screenshots in a folder you control. Searchable. Right-clickable. No "Mug Pro Cloud++" upsell.

  6. 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.

What people say

Quotes, unsubstantiated.

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.

Claudette · 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.

Claudio · 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.

Klavdiy · 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.

Claudine · Independent software developer
Deploying at scale

For the people installing things on everyone else's machines.

One honest .msix. Silent install, no Electron, no runtime roulette. Your org owns the seats — no keys, no activation, nothing to provision per-machine. Push it to ten thousand seats and forget about it.

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Install for Connected devices

# Users sign in with their work account
PS> winget install --id 9NMUG1234ABC `
    --source msstore --silent `
    --accept-package-agreements `
    --accept-source-agreements

Install for Air-gapped devices (seriously)

# Provision the MSIX for all users from
# a share (or USB on a truly isolated box)
PS> Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online `
    -PackagePath "\\fileserver\apps\Mug\Mug.msix" `
    -SkipLicense

# Drop the signed license machine-wide
PS> Copy-Item "\\fileserver\apps\Mug\mug.lic" `
    "$env:ProgramData\Mug\license.lic"

Commands mostly for illustration purposes only, sicko.

One small purchase

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.

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Windows 10 · Windows 11 · x64 and ARM64 · 891KB · No telemetry