PrintScreen keeps a capture local unless you make a link
PrintScreen is a free screenshot app for Windows 10 and 11: press the Prt Scr key, select any part of the screen, then copy it, save it locally, or get a short shareable link. It is free forever, with no trial and no watermark, and it keeps no cloud library of past captures to browse later.
A screenshot of a private conversation is only as private as where the image ends up afterward. PrintScreen offers three different endings for the same capture, and which one is picked changes whether the image ever leaves the machine that took it, or stays there for as long as the file is kept.
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One key does the whole capture
Press Prt Scr, select the part of the screen you want, and the image is ready to copy, save locally, or turn into a shareable link. No separate app window opens first, and no account screen appears anywhere in that sequence, from the key press to the finished file landing on the clipboard or on disk.
Copy or save local keeps the image on your machine
Copying the image to the clipboard or saving it as a file are both local operations: the image stays on the device that took it, the same as any other saved file, until it is sent somewhere by choice, through whatever method is chosen for that afterward, whether that is an email, a chat, or nothing at all.
A shareable link works differently
Turning a capture into a short shareable link is a separate choice from the first two, and it means the image is placed somewhere reachable by that link rather than staying only on the machine. The site does not state how long a linked image is kept or who besides the link holder can reach it, which is worth weighing against just sending the saved file directly instead.
Windows only, and no library of past captures
PrintScreen runs on Windows 10 and 11; on macOS or Linux the site points to the operating system's own built-in tools instead. It keeps no cloud library of previous screenshots to browse later; each capture is a single, separate action rather than an entry added to a running history somewhere on a server, tied to nothing beyond that one file.
What it does not do
PrintScreen does not combine a long, scrolling page into one continuous image, and it has no drawing tools for arrows or markup, no blur tool, no text editing on the image and no text-recognition feature to pull words out of it. It captures a selected area and hands over the file; anything past that, editing or organizing what was captured, is a different kind of tool entirely, not this one.