OS X already offers a means of capturing screenshots with a few keyboard shortcuts, but if you want to do a little more you have to grab a third-party tool. Of the many available, Skitch is our favorite for its many annotation tools and instant-sharing options.
There's no need to use multiple programs to capture, edit and annotate screen grabs – this free screen capture software can do it all.
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Skitch
Prolog development tool for mac. Platform: OS X, Windows, iOS, Android
Price: Free (or $10 for Pro)
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Features
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- Take screenshots of specific areas or the entire screen.
- Annotate your screenshots/images.
- Draw on your screenshots/images.
- Resize, crop, flip, and rotate screenshots/images.
- Automatic archival of your screenshots/images for later use.
- Take photos with your built-in webcam.
- Open and save images in many different formats.
- Easily share screenshots/images to Facebook and Twitter.
- Automatically upload your screenshots to the skitch.com web site or to a location of your choice (e.g. Flickr, an FTP server, etc.).
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Where It Excels
Skitch is pretty great. We take a lot of screenshots at Lifehacker, so a good screen capture tool can be invaluable to us. To others it might be less relevant, but seeing as Skitch is free it's a good app to have around even if you only share what's on your screen from time to time. If you need to show tech support a problem on your screen, or your mother where to look for a certain feature in an app, you can take a quick screenshot with Skitch, annotate if necessary, have it automatically upload that screenshot, and leave you with a URL in your clipboard. It's also really handy for designers, because you can make quick notes on images without actually making any destructive edits to that image. You can also use Skitch to mock up changes to live web sites. There are plenty of great uses for the app, and seeing as it costs you nothing it's worth having around even if it is only a semi-regular convenience.
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Where It Falls Short
Skitch initially had issues with a somewhat confusing interface due to the many tools it offered, but recent updates have mostly solved that problem. Sharing tools have improved as well. While we appreciate the changes, some users do not. Reviews on the Mac App Store criticize Skitch for becoming too bloated like it's big brother Evernote. Because Evernote owns Skitch, the it favors the notebook app over everything else. While you can export your creations, Skitch makes it easier to work with the Evernote and that can be a little annoying if you don't want to use them together.
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The Competition
Grab, the built-in Mac OS X service that captures screenshots, might be sufficient for most people. If you're looking to pair an upload service to it, you can just add the great and free Cloud App. It can automatically upload your screenshots after you taking them. You won't get to annotate, draw on, or do anything fancy to them, but you it's a quick and easy way to share everything on your screen without any features you (potentially) don't need.
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Captur (Free) isn't really a full-fledge screenshot tool but adds some extra functionality to the one built-in to Mac OS X. Instead of relying on keyboard shortcuts, you can use Captur to initiate common screenshot tasks from the menubar.
Snagit ($50) was initially only for Windows, and a Lifehacker reader favorite, but now it is available for Mac. It offers a lot of the same functionality as Skitch, yet it costs $50. Why would you pay $50 when you've got an app that does the same thing for free? I don't know.
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Read more ReadJing (Free) comes from the same people who make Snagit. It's similar, but with fewer features, and focuses on the online and social aspects of sharing your screen. One big advantage it offers is video capture. If you want images and video and don't want to pay for them, plus some pretty good online sharing options, you'll want to give Jing a look.
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LittleSnapper ($40) is a favorite among some, but I've never been able to see how anyone can justify paying $40 for a screenshot tool. To Little Snapper's advantage, it offers a very nice image management tool and integrated web site clipping option. It used to include use of the web app Ember, allowing you to upload anything you snapped or stored in LittleSnapper, but the developers sold Ember to the developers of Cloud App in early 2011. What LittleSnapper offers is, essentially, a pretty good app for organization. Why you'd want to pay $40 to better-organize your screenshots, however, is something I don't entirely understand. (And I say this having used the app for about a month.) Nonetheless, some people do and some people love it. It is a good app, and definitely more attractive. Skitch is just better at the important stuff.
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Best Screen Capture Software For Mac 2017
Screen Grab Pro is a software application for capturing images on your screen quickly and easily. If you want to grab an image but can't right-click on it, then an application like this one can help.
The basic features of this application are similar to other screen grabbers that are available. The Grab Screen and Grab Region options are very familiar, and as with other screen grabbers you press F9 and F8 for those commands as well. It takes some exploring to figure out the other features. We tried going to the Help page for a tutorial but there wasn't any noticeable information about the features. You will quickly discover that the screen grabs can be saved in a number of formats like JPG and PDF. You can adjust the Capture Timer so that there's time to set up the screen how you want before it snaps a picture. On one of the first tests we did it seemed like there was a bug in the application. We took a picture of just the desktop and it came back as a black square. Later, we noticed the Capture Type options. If you select Desktop Window it fixes that. This, however, was still inconvenient, especially if we'd missed that.
Overall, the installation and setup was easy. It doesn't take you through every single step -- meaning it only brings up the folder with setup and other files of the program in it -- but it's pretty easy to figure out what to do next.
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