I've used the Snap products for years. Excellent product and tech support. Thank you for this Giveaway.

Program installed very nice but once installed began to act up. It would take screenshots without prompting and I could not find a key to save my captures. That was probably my fault for not knowing how to save. I am using FastStone Capture and have no problems or questions with it. It does everything this will do except take video capture. Very simple to use.
GOTD commended for such a good download even tho it did not suit my needs.

Thanks...Great software and so far no issue. Good job.

How does this compare to sharex ( http://www.getsharex.com ) ? It's the current capture/screen record software I use, and nothing has come close so far.

How long does it take to get the registration code?

I downloaded the GAOTD link this morning, opened it up and am in the install process. Clicked the link to register and entered my email. That was a few hours ago. Still nothing in my inbox. And yes, I've looked in all the usual nooks and crannies to no avail. (SPAM folder, etc)

Mike, many thanks for your suggestions. I discovered that I had Snap 2018 installed so I uninstalled it and re-installed Snap 9. Having the 2 versions must have been causing some conflict as the flashing has gone and Snap 9 seems to be working normally now bar the V & H scrolling capture. I will investigate your hint re PDF Printer.

This is a great program. I have been using it for years.
However, the new installation has two problems:
1. The little tab keeps blinking
2. When I open it, an put the cursor over the icons, they also all blink very rapidly. I have to move the cursor all the way to the left, and then they stop blinking.
I am using Win 10.

I've been using Ashampoo products for years and their products are great.
Thank you GIVEAWAY of the day for the "snap 9"

I currently have/use Snap 10, which is their current version -- v. 11 is probably not too far in the future. If you opt-in to Ashampoo's emails you'll get sale offers, & some of those sale prices will be quite good, e.g. occasional name-your-own-price sales, where you make an offer of what you're willing to pay. There can be 3 versions of Ashampoo apps as well -- the current, full version; a limited free but current version, sometimes only available as special giveaways; the prior, often full, version, available as special giveaways.

There are 2 main categories of screen capture software -- one for game recording &/or streaming, & one for producing usually edited or annotated content, e.g. tutorials, presentations etc. Ashampoo's Snap belongs in the 2nd, probably coming closest to rivaling the much more expensive Camtasia. All of Snap's extra tools & capabilities, most I think for working with captured content, can tend to give Snap a steeper learning curve that's rare with Ashampoo software, & it can take a little longer to drill down to the settings you want. One of those settings lets you choose your video capture codec, which is why I buy Snap frankly.

The codec you use determines how captured video is stored [its format], the quality of the video that's stored, the amount of processing required to encode that video, and how fast it's written to the hard drive. All 4 of those can be critical, & can vary from one project to the next... for capturing video at 1080p 30 fps or better you might use one of the x264 VFW codecs, because the AVC file written will hopefully be small enough that it can be written to disk without falling behind, at which point continuing capture is pointless. For a tutorial or presentation OTOH you might use a lossless, preferably all full frame codec, because that video will be much better suited to editing.

Your goals of course may be different than mine, & if so there's a wealth of software available, including what's built into win10.

videohelp[.]com/software/sections/desktop-screen-capture

techradar[.]com/news/the-best-free-screen-recorder

Running Windows 7 I tried snap 9 but it didn't work for me. The tool bar at the top of the screen ( the floating toolbar?) kept blinking at a furious rate making it difficult to select an icon and on triggering the desktop pop-up menu the scrolling function did not display a rectangle around the target area. Despite several installs the problem still persisted so I ended up uninstalling it. Unfortunately, I had uninstalled Snap 8 (A previous giveaway) so I lost it too as it's not possible to re-install.

However, one thing I was able to establish was that the scrolling function does not handle large scale vertical and horizontal scrolling where part of an image was off screen vertically and horizontally.The scrolling function only includes vertical scrolling.

Snagit does handle vertical and horizontal scrolling but it is pricey. Unfortunately, the developer, Techsmith, never offers a giveaway version. Greenshot is free and even though it doesn't manage to cope with V and H scrolling 100% of the time, I would rate it as the best alternative to Snagit.

I'm a little confused. I downloaded the registered version and notices its an old 2017 version. The 2018 snap version is FREE at Ashampoo's (websihttps://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/dld/2124/snap-2018/). Shouldn't we all be getting the latest version, especially given all those security flaws from last year. I'm going to shampoo that old version right out of my hair and get the 2018 version.

Thanks so much for making a free software available. I'm an adjunct professor with three kids and two in college. Nuff said, I'm "po" and those tax cuts are not going to help me a bit. Your service, however, does.

Doodledoug

I always install Snap, I even upgraded a couple of times.
A great tool, I use it all the time.
The editing options are great.
Highly recommended.

One point though - till now I had Snap 7 - I am not sure that there are many new features in this one.

While I was setting it up in the Option's Menu, when I clicked Save the program closed, then when I was scanning it with MalwareBytes the Program Executable (.exe) disappeared off of my Desktop and out of my Program Files.
Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks Ashampoo, I have many of your products. This installs quickly and works just fine on Win10.

Contrary to others I love Ashampoo Snap because of its built-in output features not only to various drives but formats as well.

So the free upgrade given away today is most welcome, especially as the download comes without wrapper.

Much appreciated, thank you dear Giveaway Team and Ashampoo.

I have Snap7. The description of the newer version doesn't mention "user friendly". Unless it has suddenly become intuitive & easy to use, I'd prefer to pass.

I would suggest to Ashampoo (a company I like), to consider restructuring the Pgm for ease of use. I disliked Snap7 so much, I began a quest to find a solid & easy to use alternative. I found GreenShot years back and I LOVE it.

With GreenShot you press Print-Screen, get a user defined drag box and it exports a nice high res image to one of many programs you choose in advance or on the fly. Easy Peasy. There is also a way to have the image sent to one of your programs that's not in the list.

I don't feel you should need to go to night school to learn to use any program.
Ashampoo should give that point some serious thought.

while snap 9 is running I do not think you can access your desktop to resize any windows and things.

Is there a detailed user manual that I can download as pdf?

(I have earlier Snaps but never use them because they are complicated and I cannot find good instruction videos.)

well the combo of not telling how long the time-limited offer is good for and the base being 40.00 I am gonna have to pass too many freeware available.
Greenshot(foss good generic),
Monosnap (one of the best with desktop screen recording),
Mr. Shot (great for freehand drawing your capture area),
Bug Shooting (Many Options) - Free for personal use,
CaptureIt Plus(basic with some features like capture circle rectangle active window time delay),
iWeSoft Screenshot Capture (has webcam capture and some cool tools), just a quick list
and more like pic pick is a good one. I take a screenshot maybe once a year like most people I am
not going to go out on limb and pay 40.00 for software that I can get for free. but thanks for the free trial offer anyway.

Can this be used as a "portable" version on Win 7 Pro 64-bit? (In my office, I cannot install new programs but can use "portable" versions.)

Will this work on XP? (I keep my XP updated using the POS hack.)

(FYI - I have Snap 7 from a GAOTD offer some time ago.)

Thanks. Snap works fine

I have Ashampoo Snap 8 from an older promotion, and I almost always end up using one of the two other tools I have zeroed in : either Windows 7 own Snip Tool, which is minimal but very often sufficient, or Pic Pick, which has a better resolution, can pick up smaller icons, and has a great editor.

Snip Tool has a great feature most other sophisticated programs do not have : the ability to automatically add a border, without having to open the clip in an editor. If you routinely clip portions of the screen, this is required.

Ashampoo Snap is bloated, takes up the whole screen, and when I've tried to use the more advanced features (capture a whole Web page, for instance), they have often failed.

There's no problem trying it however, any other that you will be bombarded with nag screens and promotional emails. This is standard Ashampoo policy, and the price to pay for their generous and regular offers of free or deeply discounted programs.

For what it's worth, Ashampoo Snap 10 is available for 19.99

I always install Ashampoo Snap when it is featured here. But ironically i never use it! I just ask myself why i use Windows built-in Snipping Tool instead of Snap and it seems that Snap is too much for my daily use. I need screenshots almost everyday but Snipping Tool is easy and less cluttered. Besides, Snap works always on background and i don't like it. So this time i skip installing it.

Sound Recording with the screen capturing video is getting distorted after few seconds. Please look into it. My Lap top Window 10

This is an older version . At their website there is version 10 .