Alternatives to Gradia
A GNOME app for annotating screenshots and adding backgrounds so they look good when shared. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Gradia
A GNOME app for annotating screenshots and adding backgrounds so they look good when shared.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Gradia.
Satty
Annotate screenshots in a focused Linux application.
Satty is an open-source Linux annotation app under MPL-2.0 with cropping and drawing tools for Wayland workflows, but does not add backgrounds or framing.
swappy
A Wayland native screenshot editing tool for annotating captures, inspired by Snappy on macOS.
swappy is an open-source Wayland-native annotation tool that pairs with grim and slurp, focused on marking up captures rather than styling them with backgrounds.
Xnapper
A macOS screenshot app that frames captures with backgrounds and hides sensitive information automatically.
Xnapper is a freemium macOS app that adds backgrounds to screenshots and redacts sensitive information automatically, but its free version adds a watermark.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Flameshot
A cross-platform screenshot tool that drops annotation controls right on top of the selection.
ksnip
A screenshot tool with annotation that works on Wayland, which several better-known ones still do not.
Spectacle
KDE's screenshot and screen recording application for Linux desktops.
Shutter
A Linux screenshot program that captures areas, windows, menus or websites and includes an editor.
grim
A command-line tool that grabs screenshots from a Wayland compositor.
