AutoScreenshot
Automatic screenshot maker for Windows and Linux
[: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.
Auto Screenshot
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


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Languages
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.
<!-- **Note:** make sure you have installed SSL libraries (including development package) to make networking features enabled, such as update checking. ``` sudo apt-get install openssl libssl-dev ``` -->Building from sources
Described in docs/build.md
How can I help?
- Report about found bug
- Suggest new idea or feature
- Help with translation
- Make a donation
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)
Donate
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.
- PayPal: megabyte1024@yandex.com
- ETH Ethereum / Tether USDT: 0xB14C877b2eAF7E3b4b49df25039122C0545edA74
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- ЮMoney (yoomoney): 4100 1195 0619 6001
Sponsors
| Date | Name | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| oct. 2021 | Jonas Herdick | 45 EUR |
Links
Contributors
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