- Snagit combines powerful capture and image editing tools with a quick and easy screen recorder. Screen capture and recording software for Windows and Mac.
- This is another screen recorder and screen capture tool for Macs from the Mac App store. As such, you'll pay a relatively low price to get some core recording features such as the ability to record voice and system audio simultaneously. You can also choose between recording the full screen or part of the screen.
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.
If you're not familiar with screenshots, read our beginner's guide.
Mac OS has Grab built in. Grab is a snipping tool-type utility that can capture the screen complete with cursor. Find it in Applications and Utilities. It has the ability to select active windows, drag to select and use a timer to allow you to set up a menu or instruction ready for the screenshot. How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac. This wikiHow will show you various ways in which to take a screenshot on a Mac. Files from the screen-capture tool are saved to the desktop as PNG files by default. Advanced users with knowledge of the Mac OS X Lion Terminal application can also use the 'screen-capture' command to take a screenshot. Mac OS has Grab built in. Grab is a snipping tool-type utility that can capture the screen complete with cursor. Find it in Applications and Utilities. It has the ability to select active windows, drag to select and use a timer to allow you to set up a menu or instruction ready for the screenshot.
Far from just being a screenshot app – and, rest easy, it does do that – it'll grab images from your webcam, and it even includes a full suite of scanning tools to make sure your documents.
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Skitch
Platform: OS X, Windows, iOS, Android
Price: Free (or $10 for Pro)
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Features
- 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.
Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories.
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- Adjust the Screen Capture Frame
- Edit the Resulting Image
- Save the Screenshot
Using a Screenshot App for Mac: A Detailed Guide
How many times have you needed to quickly show what’s on your Mac screen to someone online? Probably quite a few. All you have to do in such cases is capture your desktop screen, a particular website, or whatever else you want to show, and share it. But how best to grab that screenshot? You definitely need a good grab tool for your Mac, for example Movavi Screen Recorder.
Use this screenshot app on your Mac for everyday communications and business tasks – create images of your screen and send the results to your friends or colleagues. Want to create an informative step-by-step tutorial? Just grab screenshots and include them as a part of a tutorial on how to undertake certain actions within an application or on a website.
Download Movavi Screen Recorder for your Apple computer (Mac OS X 10.7 or higher) and follow the simple steps below.
Step 1. Download and Install Screenshot Tool for Mac
DownloadDownload and open the installation file. Install the screenshot tool on your Mac following the onscreen instructions. Wait until the installation is complete, then click the Start button in the installation window to launch the program.
Step 2. Adjust the Screen Capture Frame
First, click the Camera icon and select the capture area. You can grab the entire screen, a program window or a selected area only. To capture a screenshot of the entire screen, move the mouse pointer to the top left corner of your screen and click. To take a screenshot of a part of the screen, draw the frame over the area you need to capture using your mouse. If you want to grab a program window, move the mouse pointer over the window and click on it when the frame appears around the window.
To adjust the area for your screenshot, simply pull on the frame's edges.
Step 3. Edit the Resulting Image (Optional)
You can apply various additional elements – arrows, lines, frames, and highlighters – to enhance your image. To edit the captured image, refer to the toolbar. Just click the icon of the tool you want to use, draw the object, then change its size and position if necessary. To change the width and color of the selected item, click the Tool properties button.
Step 4. Save the Screenshot
You can copy the picture to the clipboard, save it on your computer, or upload it to Movavi Cloud or Google Drive. To copy your screenshot to the clipboard, click the Copy to clipboard button. To save the image on your computer, click Save screenshot. If you want to share the screenshot, click the Share button and select the appropriate cloud storage option.
That’s all there is to it! Grabbing a screen with Movavi’s screenshot software for Mac is quick and easy!
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Disclaimer: Please be aware that Movavi Screen Recorder does not allow capture of copy-protected video and audio streams.