Most of the apps listed in the SwifDoo PDF Christmas Carnival Giveaway are pretty well known. I was only interested, only had time to check out a few. Here are some notes in case it helps.
Text Edit Plus is a decent app, but it's the same version I had from GOTD this past October. Checked out DoYourClone, but besides being large for a simple cloning app, the USB stick creation failed repeatedly -- it asked if it was OK to download the WinPE stuff from Microsoft, and after clicking OK it showed a message that it failed. The Ashampoo links wouldn't work when I tried yesterday, but this evening [the 25th] they worked. I downloaded Snap 16 -- the latest version is 17, while the last version I bought is 15, so it would be an upgrade. Unfortunately the feature I loved is no more.
Ashampoo Snap has a terrible on-screen display, hiding at the top of the screen by default, until you mouse over it. IMHO that was worth overlooking because it was the only video capture app I found that let you select the video codec. The codec is the part that does the actual video compression before the video's written to disk, and you need something fast & efficient to keep up with the video capture. You also need it to compress the video enough that it can be written to the hard disk without falling behind. Not every capture app can do that recording 1080p, because the app &/or codec they hard wire into the app isn't fast enough or won't compress the video enough. And that feature is apparently gone in Snap 16.
Snap 16 is a large app, with 470MB in the program's folder, and another ~140MB in Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\ Ashampoo\. It also installs a [likely redundant] copy of the Microsoft C/C++ runtime, along with an older version of .NET -- it adds the desktop runtime & runtime for .NET 8, though the latest version is 10. Those 2 account for a load of new registry entries, though Snap itself adds one for the app, one for uninstall, and a couple to add it to Windows shell.