Comment by tobib
5 years ago
Cleanshot lools great. Baffles me though that Windows comes with great screenshot tool and MacOS doesn't.
5 years ago
Cleanshot lools great. Baffles me though that Windows comes with great screenshot tool and MacOS doesn't.
The screenshot tool in macOS can take full screen, region or window screenshots. It can also capture video.
This is all I need from the screenshot tool itself and I am glad that they don’t add a bunch of additional options and stuff inside of screenshot taking itself.
If you want to annotate the screenshot open it in Preview and edit it there.
If you need really powerful editing tools, a third-party tool is appropriate.
It’s better that way to me. Have a system that works nicely for everyone, and leave it to third-party developers to build niche tools.
Imagine how much useless to me stuff there would be on my screen, if the operating system had to ship with tools that did absolutely everything for absolutely everyone.
You can absolutely annotate screenshots using just the integrated screenshot tool of macOS. You can even do the annotation on your iOS device seamlessly, which is really neat if you've got an iPad with Pencil. I don't think there are any third party tools as powerful as that - I loved Flameshot on Linux but I don't see why I would need it on macOS.
You mean the one that's so laggy, there's often a 2 second delay between pressing the hotkey and the screenshot happening? And if you're low on RAM, it'll freeze the whole computer for 15 seconds and not even take the screenshot (potentially crashing Chrome in the process)? Yeah, I love that one! It also seems to hijack the Print Screen key, making it subject to its own instability.
Most of the time I try to not talk about things I don’t have any knowledge of. macOS had a great screenshot feature built in.