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Screenpresso is a Windows screen capture and recording tool with a built-in editor, GPU-accelerated 4K video at 60fps and HEVC output, available as a free edition that does not expire alongside an optional paid Pro upgrade.
Screenpresso is a screen capture and recording tool for Windows, from quick screenshots to 4K video with audio.
The edition you download here is free and does not expire, and Pro is an optional upgrade rather than a countdown.
Download Screenpresso 2.3.3 - 46 MB, Windows 10 and 11.
What you get without paying
The free edition is the full capture tool, not a demo. Screenshots of a region, a window or the whole screen, scrolling capture for long pages, and screen recording with audio.
The built-in editor comes with it: arrows, text, callouts, highlights, numbered steps and blur, applied straight after capture without opening anything else.
So does the workspace that keeps your captures organised, the sharing options, and the GPU-accelerated capture engine that makes all of it fast.
For documenting software, filing bug reports or making a quick tutorial, most people never reach the edge of what the free edition does.
What Pro adds
Pro is a one-off purchase rather than a subscription, and it unlocks the features aimed at people doing this professionally.
- 4K recording at 60fps in high quality. The free edition records; Pro removes the ceiling on how well.
- Automatic blurring of sensitive content. Email addresses, card numbers, IP addresses and API keys are detected and hidden, in screenshots and live during recording. You can un-blur selectively afterwards in the editor.
- Automatic subtitles. Screenpresso transcribes your voice while recording and writes an SRT file next to the MP4, which you can edit in any text editor or merge permanently into the video.
If none of those three matter to you, the free edition is the whole product.
Which download to take
There are two files here and they are not the same thing.
- ScreenpressoSetup.msixbundle, version 2.3.3. The current release, packaged as MSIX, which installs per user in a sandboxed package the way Store apps do. This is the one to take.
- Screenpresso.exe, version 2.2.13. The classic single executable, kept here for anyone who needs the older packaging. This is the file people mean when they search for a portable Screenpresso.
The MSIX move is why 2.3.3 asks for Windows 10 build 20348 or later. If you are on an older build, the 2.2.13 executable is the version that will run.
What the 2.2 rewrite changed, and still holds in 2.3.3
The 2.2 line was a rebuild rather than an update, and everything in it carries through to the current version.
Capture moved onto your graphics card, for both screenshots and video, instead of leaning on the processor. That means faster captures, lower memory use and smoother 4K recording on mid-range hardware.
Window captures got cleaner. Click a window with rounded corners and you get a proper rectangle with transparent corners rather than the black wedges older versions left behind.
HDR displays were fixed too. Screenshots and recordings from an HDR screen no longer come out washed out or blown out, which was the most common complaint before the rewrite.
The scrolling capture engine was reworked for better stitching, and a new option hides your desktop icons during capture so screenshots of a bare desktop look deliberate.
Recording, HEVC and file sizes
Video records to MP4, with HEVC available as an optional codec alongside H.264. HEVC gives you smaller files at the same quality, which matters when a tutorial runs to twenty minutes.
It also records across multiple screens at once with GPU acceleration, which very few capture tools manage.
HEVC files need a decoder to play back on Windows, so if your recordings will not open in another app, the HEVC Video Extension or the free device manufacturer package is the fix.
Our HEVC extensions guide explains which of the two you need and why there are two in the first place.
The editor, and the AI in it
Annotation happens in the same window as the capture: arrows, text, highlights, callouts, numbered steps and blur, with no round trip through another program.
Newer versions add Google Gemini integration, so you can change a screenshot by describing what you want rather than by hand.
Administrators can switch that off entirely through the Windows Registry with the NoAI policy key, which is worth knowing if you are deploying this where sending screen content to a third party is not acceptable.
Audio quality
Microphone recording runs at 48 kHz mono with a basic noise gate to cut room hiss between phrases.
System audio, the loopback that captures what your computer is playing, records in stereo.
Neither replaces a real audio pass, but for narrated tutorials the result is clean enough to publish without editing.
Sharing and deployment
Captures share to email, cloud storage, Dropbox and Linear. Recent updates fixed token expiry that used to force constant re-authorisation, and a proxy problem that affected people on corporate networks.
Evernote and Twitter sharing have been removed, and the AWS, Google and SSH libraries updated.
On privacy, the app now uses the newer Windows APIs that ask permission feature by feature for screen capture, file access, microphone and webcam. The third-party Tesseract OCR engine was dropped over security concerns, so text recognition uses the built-in Windows OCR. FFmpeg is on 8.0, and AVI recording is gone.
Free alternatives worth knowing
ShareX is the one to compare against. It is free and open source with no paid tier at all, does everything Screenpresso does and more, and asks considerably more of you in return. If Pro's price is the sticking point, ShareX is the honest answer.
ScreenToGif is better if your output is animated GIFs, with frame-by-frame editing that neither of the others matches.
OBS Studio is the answer for multi-source scenes and live streaming, and overkill for a screenshot.
Kalmuri runs from a USB stick with no installation, and Cap Screen Recorder is the minimal open-source option.
On the paid side, FastStone Capture is cheaper and lighter, and Snagit is the expensive one built for teams and templates.
Screenshot Captor and TechSmith Capture cover the lighter end.
The rest of the field is in our screen capture section.
If you only need one screenshot
Installing anything is overkill for a single capture. The Screen Capture tool takes one in your browser with nothing to download.
The tell that Screenpresso is worth installing: you take screenshots several times a day, and you annotate most of them.
Quick questions
Is Screenpresso free?
Yes. The free edition does not expire and is not a trial, covering screenshots, scrolling capture, screen recording and the full annotation editor. Pro is an optional one-off purchase.
What does Pro actually add?
High-quality 4K recording at 60fps, automatic blurring of sensitive data such as card numbers and API keys, and automatic subtitle generation from your narration.
Where is the .exe? I only see an MSIX file
Version 2.3.3 ships as ScreenpressoSetup.msixbundle. The classic Screenpresso.exe is version 2.2.13, still available here, and it is the build to use on older Windows versions.
Is there a portable version?
The single 2.2.13 executable is what people mean by portable Screenpresso. The current MSIX package installs per user instead. For genuinely portable capture, Kalmuri is built for it.
Which Windows versions does it need?
Screenpresso 2.3.x needs Windows 10 build 20348, from May 2021, or later. On anything older, stay on 2.2.13.
Can I turn off the AI features?
Yes. Administrators can disable the Gemini integration entirely with the NoAI policy key in the Windows Registry.
Why will my recordings not play in another program?
Probably because you recorded in HEVC. Install the HEVC Video Extension, or record in H.264 instead.
Free alternative with no paid tier at all?
ShareX. Free, open source, more capable and less friendly.
Download Screenpresso 2.3.3 and see how it handles your captures, or tell us how you got on if you have used it before.
