TinyGrab is a free easy-to-use screenshot sharing tool for both Windows and Mac. It lets you take a screenshot and automatically upload it to your TinyGrab account. You can create unlimited number of attractive screenshots and share them with your Facebook and Twitter friends by posting them up to your social networking account. The tiny URL is passed directly to your clipboard allowing you to paste the link in an email, blog post, on Twitter or Facebook, or any instant messaging application.
TinyGrab for Windows is extremely simple-to-use. It makes sharing screenshots effortless. With TinyGrab, You just need to take a screenshot and it uploads the screenshot straight to the web in your TinyGrab account. Its inbuilt screenshots taking tool, intelligently detects when you take a screenshot and upload it directly onto the web. All you have to do for taking a screenshot is “press Control + Shift +D4” else you can also check other respective hotkeys by signing into the downloaded software. The hotkeys can be found in the General category under “Configure Hotkeys” as shown below:
In order to get accessed with TinyGrab, you are required to perform the two following actions:
- Create a TinyGrab Account
- Download TinyGrab Software
However, while downloading the software, you need to make sure either you want to download the app for windows or for MAC. Thereafter, you need to click accordingly. Below is the sample page where you would be required to select between the two:
While downloading the software, side-by-side you can create a TinyGrab account. Creating an account in TinyGrab is just a child’s play.
How to create a TinyGrab account:
- Go onto the website
- Click on “Create A Free Account”
- You will asked to fill up your credentials. However, you can use your Gmail, yahoo, Facebook, Twitter or any such account username and password as well to sign in.
That’s it, you have been registered with TinyGrab. Once the downloading process is completed, you will find a TinyGrab Tray-Icon on bottom right-side of your desktop. Click on the tray, sign-in and start taking screenshots.
You can also try other free software like Screenshoter, SceneGrabber.NET and Screenshot Captor for taking a screenshot.
Make sure that you are properly signed-in because if you do not sign-in to the downloaded software, the screenshots will not get uploaded into your online account. Here is the collection of my screenshots uploaded in my online account:
In a nutshell, TinyGrab is quite a helpful solution for professionals, students and people that work with images. At the fun side, you can share your creativity with your Facebook and Twitter friends. So go ahead and get this utility app soon.
