Comment by codetrotter
5 years ago
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.