Saw this thread -- thanks for sharing again! Here's some more context:<p>I'm Mike, co-founder at Zapier and head of Zapier Labs. Today our Labs team is launching a public version of Zappy: a fast, free screen capture tool that we built for our remote team. At Zapier, we have 300+ teammates working from across the globe with no central office—we've been fully remote since day one. We've learned that increasing communication bandwidth is crucial when you're working remotely.<p>I wanted a tool for screenshots/GIFs to supplement apps like Slack, but nothing on the market had the mix of speed and features we were looking for. So, built it internally. Zappy is a cornerstone of how we work at Zapier, nearly everyone at Zapier uses Zappy every week (voluntarily)! And we want to share it.<p>Why share now? People around the world just experienced a sudden shift to remote work—and we know life sans-office comes with unique challenges. We want to share our experience and make that transition a little easier.<p>Our goal with Zappy was to provide a screen capture experience that was so fast, people would actually want to use it to communicate. To capture something, you hit a keyboard shortcut, draw a square, and press enter. Zappy copies the image to your clipboard so you can paste it anywhere (or provides a path to your GIF/video).<p>You can draw annotations, record a selfie view, and stitch shots together. Captures support image, GIF, and MP4 formats. One of my favorite features is being able to grab past captures from the Mac menu bar, instead of digging through folders.<p>We're working on more features, too, like self-hosted captures on S3, sharing permissions, and a Zapier integration. :-)<p>Zappy is free to download and use for anyone (you'll need a free Zapier account to log in once). And, for paid Zapier customers, you'll get free capture hosting while it's in early access.<p>I'd love to hear your feedback and ideas. I hope you find Zappy useful!
If you're looking for a Linux alternative, I've gotten a lot of use of <a href="https://flameshot.js.org/" rel="nofollow">https://flameshot.js.org/</a> (which I invoke with the print screen key). It "just works" and has a bunch of editing tools close at hand.
Nice! Downloading right now. Yesterday I bought [CleanShot](<a href="https://getcleanshot.com" rel="nofollow">https://getcleanshot.com</a>) because [Giphy Capture](<a href="https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture" rel="nofollow">https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture</a>) sucks...but I might just refund it without even using it cause Zapier products are<p>For screenshots, I have loved using [Xnip](<a href="https://xnipapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://xnipapp.com/</a>) above the built in screenshot maker.
<a href="https://monosnap.com/welcome" rel="nofollow">https://monosnap.com/welcome</a> is very good too. I use it with this Alfred script <a href="https://github.com/iammapping/alfred-uploader" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/iammapping/alfred-uploader</a> if I need to upload stuff to a public URL.<p>Not related to the company, just a happy customer.
Look snazzy, but macOS users are spoiled. Preview.app can do annotations like text, boxes, circles, and arrows of images. That's more than enough for most use cases.<p>Meanwhile, on Linux we are suffering! Firefox has a built-in screenshot tool now, but just try figuring out how the hell to draw an arrow or something on one using GIMP or Inkscape! The once-promising Shutter¹ now looks to be unmaintained (not even packaged in Arch Linux because it was essentially spit, chewing gum, and a bunch of Perl packages) and won't even work in Wayland.<p>¹ <a href="https://shutter-project.org/" rel="nofollow">https://shutter-project.org/</a>
ShareX for Windows. Open source, and robust features.<p><a href="https://getsharex.com/" rel="nofollow">https://getsharex.com/</a>
I like the idea of being able to annotate the image, I see no reason to require a Zapier account besides tracking purposes (and optionally offerring some nice integration with Zapier). For that reason I will continue with alternatives like <a href="https://getkap.co/" rel="nofollow">https://getkap.co/</a>
Monosnap <a href="https://monosnap.com/" rel="nofollow">https://monosnap.com/</a> is a good crossplatform option. Use it across both windows and mac devices
Can someone please explain how this is better than Snaggit where I just press PrtScr and draw a box and annotate + upload to my fav storage/share?
if you want a screen capture tool that doesn't require signup and still makes good enough GIFs, check out <a href="https://www.cockos.com/licecap/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cockos.com/licecap/</a> it's open-source, doesn't have a fancy landing page ;)
I love that they're taking a crack at this, but three things still keep me on Skitch:<p>- Drag to drop image directly after creating it<p>- Visually appealing arrows/annotations<p>- No account necessary<p>I still haven't seen paid or free screenshot tools that are able to compete with Skitch's ease.
This is cool. Just in case you're looking for alternatives after RecordIt stopped development, here is another good (free) one -- <a href="https://getkap.co" rel="nofollow">https://getkap.co</a>
I fell into this trap once with Skitch. It was a great tool, later bought by Evernote and totally ruined. Prompts nagging to sign up, redesigned UI, centered around uploading to evernote — the tool was ruined.<p>What I need is a tool that lets me quickly snap a screenshot of a part of my screen and drag the resulting PNG somewhere, possibly annotating it with a couple of rectangles and arrows in the process.<p>I've been using Annotate for that purpose for the last several years and it works fine. I learned my lesson and I am not about to use another tool designed to drive signups.
Very cool! I’m still using buggy versions of Skitch and Annotate (both basically unmaintained nowadays). Looks like this could be good enough to make me finally switch.
For Mac Dropshare is an unsung hero in this space: <a href="https://dropshare.app/" rel="nofollow">https://dropshare.app/</a>
For Windows, PicPick has handled every screenshot task I've ever asked for (screen, window, scrolling window, region) and has a great image editor for basic annotations. Free for personal use.<p><a href="https://picpick.app/en/" rel="nofollow">https://picpick.app/en/</a>
Seems fine. I've been using Skitch for a while, which seems to have all this and more (except gifs). Super easy to drop annotated screenshots straight into slack.<p><a href="https://evernote.com/products/skitch" rel="nofollow">https://evernote.com/products/skitch</a>
I have been using LightShot ( <a href="https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html</a> ) on my Mac for quite a while now. Does a neat job of what's it supposed to do.
@dang @sctb headline / title should be "Zappy: Free Screenshot & Recording Software for macOS" or something similar. Current title leaves out the "for macOS" part and the original <title> is just fine here.
Shameless plug: If you want to screenshot Twitter, you can use <a href="https://pikaso.me" rel="nofollow">https://pikaso.me</a>. It gives you a clean and clutter-free image, supports themes and has an API too.
What exists for Linux?<p>I'm about to start needing to record about 100 product demos about 20 second long. Ideally ported to gif.<p>I want to be able to 1.25x speed them as well if possible?
the OS has key shortcut to take screenshot(including part of the screen), then I can crop/edit it immediately after the screenshot, is zappy something different?