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Skitch is our favorite for OS X, and now that it's finally available on Windows, it's one of PicPick's top competition. However, we love Skitch for different reasons: it's incredibly simple rather than feature-filled. Just snap a screenshot, annotate it, and save it to Evernote or save it as an image. It's missing a lot of PicPick's customizability, which is why it didn't make our top slot—but it's annotation is much easier and prettier, so if that's what you're after, Skitch is a good choice. I personally use a combination of Skitch and Lightscreen (see below) to get the best of both worlds: Lightscreen for fast and customizable screenshots, and Skitch for easy, pretty annotations.

Snagit is about the most full-featured, well put together screenshot tool you can ask for, but it costs a whopping $50. Unless you're need it in a professional environment, $50 is a ludicrous amount for a screenshot tool, so we couldn't bring ourselves to put it up as the best. But, if you're just going by features and and the looks of the final product, Snagit takes the cake.

Jing, from the makers of Snagit, is also very popular. It's similar to PickPic, but with a better sharing feature that'll send your image to Flickr, Twitter, or Facebook. It also does screencasts, which is a nice addition, but it also makes the program pretty slow—which is annoying as heck when all you want is a quick screenshot. I also wasn't a fan of the way its text annotationrequired a white box around all your text.

Greenshot is a slightly less feature-filled, yet similar app to PickPic. We mention it because it's popular, but we don't see any advantage to using it over PickPic. Still, if you don't like PickPic for whatever reason, Greenshot is one of the most similar apps you'll find for free.

FastStone Capture is a $20 program that brings a few extra features to your screenshots, like sending them in a Word or PowerPoint presentation, screencasting, and more formats. It isn't better than PickPic enough to warrant the $20 price tag in our opinion, but it's a good alternative (with a free trial available) if PickPic isn't for you.

Lastly, if all you want is basic screenshot taking, you can try Windows' built-in Snipping Toolor the slightly more feature-filled Lightscreen. Snipping Tool lets you capture screenshots and that's it, while Lightscreen offers a delay before taking, the ability to choose your format and save location, and a few other basic features. Lightscreen is very lightweight, which is nice, so if you don't need features like a built-in editor, it's a great tool to try.

Many of you undoubtedly have your own favorite screenshot tool, so if we didn't mention it here, tell us about it in the comments.