Gradia
A GNOME app for annotating screenshots and adding backgrounds so they look good when shared.
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About Gradia
Gradia prepares screenshots for sharing on social media and elsewhere. Transparent or oddly sized images often display poorly on other platforms, so Gradia lets you place a screenshot on a background, adjust how it is framed and add annotations before exporting.
It is a GNOME desktop application written in Python and built with Meson, with translations maintained by the community. It suits Linux users who share screenshots often and want them to look consistent.
Strengths
- Adds backgrounds and framing to screenshots
- Annotation tools in the same app
- Native GNOME interface
Limitations
- Linux and GNOME focused
- Styles existing images rather than taking captures with many options
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Alexander Vanhee
- Platforms
- Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- GNOME users who share screenshots on social media or in documentation
- Categories
- Screen capture, Image editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Gradia
Compare allSoftware that can replace Gradia for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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 necessarily 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.
