Xnip - Screenshot & Annotation 4+

100% a must have app

I have tried quite a few screenshot tools including Firefoxs built in screenshot tool and many other browser extensions and stand alone apps, but This app has been by far the best. For me it is the scrolling screenshot function that puts it so far above anything else, 99% of the time I use the app it is only for the scrolling feature and if I dont need to use that function for a screenshot I use Macs built in ss tool. But just having that 1 function when I need it makes the app an easy 5 stars from me. Also yes the free version is great but just pay the one time $10 price for the pro version and I promise you will be very happy with ur purchase. All you gotta do is not buy a cup off coffee from starbucks for 2 days and then you can use those savings too pay for the full app, and that will improve your life 1000X more then those two coffees would have. The only complaint I have is it doesnt give you the option to rename the screenshot you took immediately after taking it and instead you have to go find it in whichever folder it saved too and rename it manually. If an devs read this please please please add the option to immediately rename the file after taking a SS that would make things so much eaasier but overall amazing app and thank you for making my life and research/studying 1 million times less annoying and time consuming!!!!!!!!!!

5 Stars for a free tool that rivals paid ones

This would be a 4 star app if it wasn't free. It does a better job and has features some paid apps don't. Like this better than the defacto SnagIt (though it lacks video support like SnagIt has, but SnagIt is $50).

It's only shortcoming is that because it's all on screen editing in the snip itself and isn't saving to file, you can easily lose your work if you click off the screen or escape (something you tend to do by muscle memory to get out of a tool).

The developer should charge a buck or two for this and it would be beyond worth it and maybe see some updates like that file format/save that one shouldn't expect from a free product. Great job on this!

Best Mac Screenshot Tool I've Tried

I've tried a ton of tools over the years (Skitch, native macOS tool, LightShot, Nimbus, Monosnap). This one takes the cake for me. The free version is very generous with what it can do but I opted in to the paid version as I'd happily support the development of this.

The only feature that has been (rarely) finnicky is the scrolling capture, but they have very detailed help content to troubleshoot that. I only found one page (Salesforce Lightning page) where it would refuse to work.

One feature I'd love to see is the ability to edit annotations after you've already saved and closed the editor window. Even with the paid version and using the editor window, I don't see an option to reopen a previously annotated file, edit the annotations and re-save it. They would like need to add and support a native Xnip file format for this.

All being said, this tool meets my use cases 95% of the time and the interface is awesome. I use this tool daily as a tech consultant and it's clutch. I've been using it for about a year.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much!
An Xnip file to save the annotation is in the plan. But it takes a big afford to accomplish. So it may come out after a very long time.