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AutoScreenshot

Automatic screenshot maker for Windows and Linux

From artem78·Updated June 18, 2026·View on GitHub·

[:fr: FR](README-fr.md "French")   [:ru: RU](README-ru.md "Russian")   [:it: IT](README-it.md "Italian") The project is written primarily in Pascal, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2020. Key topics include: app, application, capture, desktop-app, free-pascal.

Latest release: v1.22.1

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Auto Screenshot

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Overview

Auto Screenshot — application for automatic taking screenshots with specified time interval.

Features

  • Automatic saving screenshots of full screen with specified time interval (from 1 second to 24 hours)
  • Saving images in PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, WEBP or AVIF format
  • Pause capture when user is inactive (depending on mouse moves and keyboard events)
  • Customizable output filenames with variables (date, time, user, computer name, sequential number) and ability of grouping by folders (for example: by day or month)
  • Automatic capture can be started on system startup
  • Multiple screens support
  • High DPI support
  • Can execute custom command before and after screenshot was taken
  • Clearing old screenshots
  • Play sound when screenshot taken
  • Hotkeys
  • Works on Windows and Linux
  • Absolutely free and open source

Screenshots

Program running on Windows 10

Main program window in Windows 7

Tray icon

Main window in Linux Mint

Predefined filename templates

Filename variables description

Image format selection

Monitor selection

Hotkeys

Windows XP still supports

Languages

(Help with new translations)

Supported operation systems

  • Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, 11 (32/64-bit)
  • Linux

Download

Download program here.

Windows

You can choose between portable zip or installer.

Linux

For Linux portable version and deb package available. Tested with Linux Mint and Ubuntu.

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Building from sources

Described in docs/build.md

How can I help?

Translation

You can edit any translation or create new one. Join this project on Transifex.com: https://app.transifex.com/--334/autoscreenshot/dashboard/

Also you can edit language files directly in the repository. Localization file format and process details described here - https://github.com/artem78/AutoScreenshot/wiki/UI-localization

License

You are free to use, modify or distribute this software under the GNU GPL v3.0 license.

Author

Artem78 (email: megabyte1024@ya.ru)

Auto Screenshot may be used free of charge by everyone. However, you can help this project to be better with donations. This way you will thank the author for time and resources spent over the years for developing and troubleshooting issues. No minimum donation limit. Several payment methods accepted.

Sponsors

DateNameAmount
oct. 2021Jonas Herdick45 EUR

Contributors

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