Use case · buy once, keep it
The category went subscription. PrintScreen.ly still offers a real lifetime: pay $399 once and own it on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Try every feature free for 24 hours with no card before you decide.
Mac · Windows · Linux · iPhone, iPad & Android · web · 24 hours free, no card · $9.99/mo, $95.99/yr, or $399 lifetime
If you're searching for a screenshot tool with a lifetime license, you've probably noticed the trend: the category went subscription. Snagit removed its perpetual license and went subscription-only. CleanShot X sells a one-time app license but puts unlimited cloud behind a monthly plan. Zight, Jumpshare, Droplr, and Gyazo Pro are all recurring. The free, simple tools either don't sync across your devices or upload everything to a public-style host. So a reasonable question — “can I just buy a good screenshot tool once?” — has gotten surprisingly hard to answer.
PrintScreen.ly answers it: $399, one time, forever, and it unlocks the 8 other Bravely utilities too.
It means you pay $399 once and the whole app, including the synced cross-device library, is yours: no renewal, no “renew to keep getting updates,” no per-seat math, and it unlocks the 8 other Bravely utilities. There's also a $9.99/month and a $95.99/year option if you'd rather not pay upfront, but the lifetime is the headline and the reason most people land on this page.
You can try every feature free for 24 hours with no card, or start the monthly or annual plan with 7 days free, before you decide. On Mac and Windows, region/window/scrolling/ fullscreen capture, the full 8-tool markup editor (pen, highlighter, arrow, shapes, text, blur, crop, unlimited undo), on-device text grab (OCR), local save, clipboard copy, plus the cross-device layer (cloud upload, a synced web library, shareable links, and cross-device clipboard) are all included. On Linux you get the same capture modes (scrolling on an X11 desktop), the markup editor, text grab, local save, clipboard copy and the synced library.
Ex-perpetual refugees
People who bought a screenshot tool years ago, fully expecting to own it, and got moved onto a subscription. The frustration is real, and a one-time $399 (that also unlocks the 8 other Bravely apps) means never renewing again.
People who use more than one computer
A lifetime license that spans Mac, Windows, Linux, your phone and a web library is more useful than a single-OS one-time purchase.
People who hate subscription creep
If you're consolidating recurring software costs, a buy-once screenshot tool is an easy win.
A lifetime license is a real advantage, but it doesn't make PrintScreen.ly better at everything, so here's the honest part:
No GIF, webcam or video editor
PrintScreen.ly records your screen to MP4 on Mac, Windows and Linux (recording needs an X11 desktop), but it doesn't make animated GIFs, record your webcam or edit video. If you need those, tools like Snagit, CleanShot X, Zight or Jumpshare do that.
No beautification
No gradient backgrounds, device frames, or auto-padding. Xnapper owns that; we don't compete there.
The synced storage is a fixed 2 GB
It's enough for a large personal screenshot history, but it's a real, advertised cap — not unlimited.
Mobile is a companion to your computers
The iPhone, iPad and Android apps hold the screenshots from your computers: mark them up, pull the text out, share a link. Snap a photo of a screen or whiteboard, or pick an image from your photos, and it joins them. They sign in with the same Bravely Account, so your plan covers them too.
If your needs are “capture a region, annotate it clearly, keep a private history that's on every machine I own, and never think about a renewal again,” a lifetime screenshot license is exactly the right purchase — and there are very few left in the category. PrintScreen.ly is one of them. Try PrintScreen.ly free for 24 hours with no card, or start the monthly or annual plan with 7 days free. Plans are $9.99/mo, $95.99/yr or $399 once, and the annual and lifetime plans include the 8 other Bravely apps.
Capture and markup on Mac, Windows and Linux, with a synced library on your phone and the web. $399 once with no renewal, or $9.99/mo after 7 days free.
Free for 24 hours: every feature, no card.
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PrintScreen.ly vs Skitch
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