Press a shortcut, select an area, draw on it — it's on your clipboard. Every tool remembers your settings, and almost everything is a single keystroke away.
Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run — click "More info → Run anyway" to install.
Press a shortcut and the screen freezes instantly — menus, tooltips and hover states stay in the shot.
Draw right on the frozen screen with arrows, boxes, highlights and text. Need more room? Open the full editor.
It's already on your clipboard. Every tool's size, color and font are exactly where you left them last time.
Click the image to enlarge · ← → to browse
Number keys set line width and font size, Ctrl+number picks a color, Alt+number picks a font. Mark up without leaving the keyboard.
Decide exactly which colors, widths, fonts and font sizes appear in the pickers, globally or per tool. Load your styles once and stop scrolling.
Change not just the values but the control itself — buttons, a dropdown, a stepped slider or a continuous slider, globally or per tool.
Every tool keeps its size, color, font, arrowheads and more across sessions and restarts. Set a style once and every screenshot after it matches.
Decide what happens after each capture, and when the editor closes. Automate the routine, or keep it manual.
Every arrow, box and note stays a live, editable object — move it, restyle it or delete it, with 200 levels of undo.
Sharing ideas, bugs, PR feedback and UI notes.
Bug reports, reproduction steps, test evidence.
Manuals and guides with many consistent screenshots.
Showing customers where to click; annotated answers.
Feedback on deliverables, walkthroughs, status updates.
Visual feedback and review notes.
Shortcuts for tools and styles, plus quick edit right on the screen.
Per-tool memory and curated presets keep every screenshot on-style.
Set a style once, and every screenshot in the guide follows it.
Preload the exact fonts, colors and sizes your team uses.
Free, open source, offline, no accounts, no admin rights.
A small Rust-based app — about a 2 MB download.
On day one, small time savings on every screenshot. By day one hundred, a tool you barely notice — because it doesn't get in your way.
Get out of the way. Every click, dialog and extra step is friction that compounds over hundreds of captures. Common actions are one keystroke.
Do the essentials well. A clean, uncluttered interface with the features people use every day. No kitchen sink.
Your workflow, not ours. Values, controls and behaviors bend to fit you — and Vandal remembers them.
Windows 10 (1903+) and 11, x64. No account, no subscription, no bloat — just a fast, free screenshot tool that stays out of your way.
"I built Vandal because I was tired of the shortcomings in the Windows Snipping Tool and image editing ecosystem. I didn't want to buy an app and get locked into somebody else's choices. So I built an app that has all of the things I found myself wishing for and none of the things I found myself groaning about. I've been using it in my every day workflows for a while now, and it's taken away the frustration I felt every day."
— Richard Podsada, creator of Vandal