FTPie vs Gyazo

Gyazo nailed the instant-capture experience: grab a region, and a link to the image is on your clipboard a second later. It is fast and frictionless, which is exactly why people love it. The same model powers Zight (formerly CloudApp), Droplr and similar tools.

The trade-off is custody and cost. With Gyazo, your captures live on Gyazo's servers, and the genuinely useful parts - history, search, longer retention - sit behind a subscription. FTPie offers the same one-second capture-to-link flow, but the link points at a cloud account you own, for a one-time price.

Where Gyazo has the edge

Gyazo is honestly very good at its one thing. Its capture-to-link flow is instant, it works across Windows and Mac, and its hosted nature means a recipient just clicks a link - no thinking about where the file lives. The paid tiers add a searchable history, GIF capture and longer retention. If you want a zero-setup hosted service and do not mind the subscription, Gyazo is a fine choice.

Where FTPie has the edge

FTPie's screenshot tool captures and annotates, then Quick Share returns a link from a cloud account you control. Because the file lives on your storage, you keep it, you can delete it, and there is no third party retaining your captures or expiring them when a plan lapses. And it is one feature of a full file manager - the same app handles your cloud, FTP, backups and transfers - for a one-time price rather than a recurring fee.

Side-by-side comparison

So which should you pick?

If you want the simplest possible hosted capture service, with a searchable history and nothing to manage, Gyazo (or Zight/Droplr) is purpose-built for that. Pick it if hosted convenience matters more than ownership.

If you would rather your captures live on storage you control, pay once instead of monthly, and have screenshots and recordings inside the same app you use for your cloud and FTP files, FTPie is the better fit. As a Gyazo alternative it puts ownership and a one-time price first.