Screengrab vs. Screenshot

This is just as pedantic as the jif v. gif. But I can't help myself.

If your going to claim to be authority on this at least provide some citations.

Windows has a tool called "Snipping Tool" which also went by the name "Clipping Tool" and "Snip *& Sketch". Of course we have the Print Screen key. [1]

Mac had a "Grab" app which dates back to NeXTSTEP. [2] So it is conceivable that someone would refer to it as a "screengrab". Personally I've never heard anyone say this.

I don't think either application used the term "screengrab".

Microsoft's own documentation [3] uses the term "screenshot" regardless of type (i.e. full window, rectangular area, etc.). Apple as well. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipping_Tool

[2] https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Grab

[3] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/open-snipping-to...

[4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

I was looking for the etymology of these two terms which I had thought to be synonyms. As an avid screenshotter myself, I never knew the subtleties that differentiate it from screengrabbing...

It's called the screenshot tool for most operating systems, so using the term screengrab doesnt match what is commonly used.

Gibberish.

Screenshot: Any image of any screen (noun), or the creation of such an image (verb)

Screengrab: Not a thing. lmao.