Screenshot users switch tools to crop and revise captures
People who work with screenshots often need to crop them or add annotations after capture, but their screenshot tool may not support those edits or reopening a saved image. They resort to tools such as GIMP, Figma, or nomacs, or use awkward recapture workarounds. A lightweight editor focused on quick, repeatable screenshot edits could address the strongest recurring need.
For desktop screenshot users. Mentioned from Jul 2017 to Jun 2025 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
24 different people described this problem in 18 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 4.6/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 2.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Cropping is the the most common operation I perform on screenshots. I'm gonna try implementing it and send you a pull request if I succeed
Being able to capture first and crop later would be great (like what flameshot does). Today I have to resort to GIMP for this quite often
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