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Zappy – Screen capture tool
- chelmertz 7y agoIf you're looking for a Linux alternative, I've gotten a lot of use of https://flameshot.js.org/ https://flameshot.js.org/ (which I invoke with the print screen key). It "just works" and has a bunch of editing tools close at hand.
- enobrev 7y agoFlameshot looks interesting. Also, if you're using gnome 3 (standard ubuntu, in my case) the screenshot tool extension is great. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/
- bepvte 7y agoScreenshot functionality is built into gnome: PrintScr: Whole screen to png in pictures folder Shift+PrintScr: Drag box over area to screenshot Alt+PrintScr: Screenshot the window, with a transparent box shadow around it Adding ctrl to any of those puts it on clipboard instead of pictures folder Ctrl Shift Alt R records a 30 second webm of the desktop
- guillem_lefait 7y agoThanks ! Those are some classy shortcuts !
- enobrev 7y agoThanks for saying so - I had no idea. I imagine this extension is simply a UI built atop that functionality. Very good to know!
- stingraycharles 7y agoDoes it support annotation with text and arrows like Flameshot or Zappy do? This is my main reason for coming back to Flameshot.
- jcastro 7y agoThis is fantastic, thanks for the recommendation!
- Hendrikto 7y agoFor people who want a lightweight, KISS, Unix philosophy tool, I can recommend maim.
- brunoqc 7y agoand for recording gif/videos https://github.com/phw/peek https://github.com/phw/peek is pretty nice
- renewiltord 7y agoIs there a Linux alternative that allows me to film portion of the desktop and do neat little arrow annotations live and everything?
- type0 7y agoPeek can film portion of the screen but probably can't do annotations https://github.com/phw/peek https://github.com/phw/peek
- renewiltord 7y agoThank you. I use SimpleScreenRecorder for this at the moment.
- Avamander 7y agoYes it doesn't do annotations. It is still very useful though, been using it for years.
- mikeknoop 7y agoSaw this thread -- thanks for sharing again! Here's some more context: 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. We're working on more features, too, like self-hosted captures on S3, sharing permissions, and a Zapier integration. :-) 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. I'd love to hear your feedback and ideas. I hope you find Zappy useful!
- zachwill 7y agoVery 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.
- dabeeeenster 7y agohttps://monosnap.com/welcome https://monosnap.com/welcome is very good too. I use it with this Alfred script https://github.com/iammapping/alfred-uploader https://github.com/iammapping/alfred-uploader if I need to upload stuff to a public URL. Not related to the company, just a happy customer.
- holychiz 7y ago+1 for Monosnap. Best UX in this category. Their arrows are very visually pleasant, guiding viewers' eyes to where you want them to look. No other software seems to have this type of arrows.
- qiller 7y agoThe only reason I moved from Monosnap is that it started making 32bit-per-component (so 16 bytes per pixel) images on Catalina for me recently. Word doesn’t like those, emails size exploded, etc.
- hartator 7y agoGiving a try. Why not red annotations though? It's like industry standard when doing screenshots and working on it.
- mikeknoop 7y agoZapier's color is orange so we picked orange-red as the default for fun. Probably should consider a plain red though too. Thanks for giving it a try!
- hartator 7y agoLooks great otherwise! Awesome job. But yes if we dig into anything annotated, the most common color is always bright red.
- gkoberger 7y agoDon't! Saying there's an "industry standard" for an arrow color on screenshots is crazy. Don't just rebuild what already exists; I love the branding aspect of it :)
- XCSme 7y agoSo, like the default Windows 10 snipping tool or does it offer some cooler features?
- amitnme 7y agoI have been using LightShot ( https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html ) on my Mac for quite a while now. Does a neat job of what's it supposed to do.
- fastball 7y agoThe built-in MacOS screenshotting functionality is pretty powerful.
- citrons 7y agoYeah, now it Catalina it's pretty good. Also, you can record the screen using Quicktime for years... But noticed as of Catalina it works much better with the high-res screen recording.
- flanbiscuit 7y agoFirst, I want to say that this tool does look good, has a nice UI, and I'm sure a lot of hard work went into it and kudos to the team who worked on it! That being said, I'm wondering what this tool adds that current MacOS not already offer built in to your Mac already. 1. Capture with a shortcut - Mac has various depending on what you want to do, Command-Shift-4 being the one that matches what Zappy does but Command-Shift-5 is my new go-to as well. 2. Highlight what’s important with annotations - On Mac, as soon you take a screenshot you see a little thumbnail popup, click on it and you can annotate it with everything available in the Mac Preview app. Zappy seems to just take away one click and the UI looks simpler. 3. Press enter to save - Once you take the screenshot it is saved, dont have to wait for enter. 4. Upload captures instantly (Paid Feature) - Personally I set my mac to send my screenshots to a google drive folder, so they are immediately shareable from the cloud if I want them to be, plus it's free. Can do the same with Dropbox, Box, etc other mentions: - Create GIFs and screen recordings quickly - I like the idea of Gif recording, I've been using LICEcap[1] for a few years now but it would be nice to have it all in one place - Stitch shots together to show the full picture - Would like to see an example of this - Grab past captures from anywhere - "Stop digging through disorganized folders. Just click a capture to copy its link." I feel like there's some disconnect between this feature's title and it's description. Don't you have to find the past capture to click on it? 1. https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
- hairofadog 7y agoAgreed, but I wish I could host it in my iCloud account. The macOS tools are more than easy and fast enough for my tastes (no disrespect to the makers of this app, who were meeting a need that people have), but then once I've got it... where to put it if I want to share it with someone else, which is almost always what I want to do with a screenshot? I used to use Dropbox, but as I started using other tools to sync my files I decided it wasn't worth the $10/month or whatever it costs now just to have a screenshot sharing tool. I pay for GSuite, but it's super difficult to host a screenshot there, and also to look at one. Basically, I'm already paying for way more cloud storage than I need in both Apple and Google, and I already have a sufficient screenshot tool, so it's hard to justify (especially to my partner) that the $x/month line item on our credit card statement is for screenshot hosting.
- hisnameisjimmy 7y agoI love that they're taking a crack at this, but three things still keep me on Skitch: - Drag to drop image directly after creating it - Visually appealing arrows/annotations - No account necessary I still haven't seen paid or free screenshot tools that are able to compete with Skitch's ease.
- Separo 7y agoFor Mac Dropshare is an unsung hero in this space: https://dropshare.app/ https://dropshare.app/
- optemization 7y agoNice! Downloading right now. Yesterday I bought [CleanShot](https://getcleanshot.com https://getcleanshot.com) because [Giphy Capture](https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture) sucks...but I might just refund it without even using it cause Zapier products are For screenshots, I have loved using [Xnip](https://xnipapp.com/ https://xnipapp.com/) above the built in screenshot maker.
- hisnameisjimmy 7y agoDamn, CleanShot might be my Skitch replacement, looks nice!
- apineda 7y agoI use it daily, works well for the amount of UX/UI / slack communication I do!
- Hendrikto 7y agoI mean, it looks nice and all, but 20$ is about an order of magnitude above reasonable for what it does, imo.
- wincent 7y agoIt's clearly intended for professional use: most people that need to make screenshots regularly as part of their work wouldn't blink twice before handing over that sum of money. As far as the developer is concerned, I can't see it being worth their effort to make and sell this product at 1/10th the current price.
- Hendrikto 7y ago> I can't see it being worth their effort to make and sell this product at 1/10th the current price. I absolutely can. Imagine how much bigger the audience would be.
- stronglikedan 7y ago
- chrisacky 7y agoWhat exists for Linux? I'm about to start needing to record about 100 product demos about 20 second long. Ideally ported to gif. I want to be able to 1.25x speed them as well if possible?
- bepvte 7y agohttps://github.com/phw/peek https://github.com/phw/peek
- terrywang 7y agoIn addition to peek, I found ffscreencast works well for simple use cases (full desktop + multi monitor). asciinema works very well for recording / capturing terminal session (Linux + macOS). https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema
- usaphp 7y agoSo I can't even share images using this tool unless I subscribe for a $24/month Zapier plan?
- carpetfizz 7y agoclicked out as soon as I saw a "Pricing" tab for a screenshot app lol.
- chdaniel 7y agoPricing is for Zapier, not for this product
- guiltygods 7y agoMonosnap https://monosnap.com/ https://monosnap.com/ is a good crossplatform option. Use it across both windows and mac devices
- nakovet 7y agoI 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 https://getkap.co/ https://getkap.co/
- joegahona 7y agoThanks for this -- I tried downloading Zappy a bunch of times and it would never open, and I had to endure a byzantine registration process for Zapier (??). Deleted.
- alexandercrohde 7y agoSeems 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. https://evernote.com/products/skitch https://evernote.com/products/skitch
- T3RMINATED 7y agoJing by techsmith
- RotaryTelephone 7y agoCan 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?
- bscphil 7y ago@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.
- ammmir 7y agoif you want a screen capture tool that doesn't require signup and still makes good enough GIFs, check out https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ it's open-source, doesn't have a fancy landing page ;)
- gravity13 7y agoyes! I've been using licecap for years now and can't sing its praises enough.
- gitgud 7y agoI thought "cockos" was an operating system... turns out it's a company name. Strange name to go with...
- atombender 7y agoMade by Justin Frankel of Winamp/Gnutella/REAPER fame, no less.
- soheilpro 7y agoShameless plug: If you want to screenshot Twitter, you can use https://pikaso.me https://pikaso.me. It gives you a clean and clutter-free image, supports themes and has an API too.
- deadonarrival 7y agoShareX for Windows. Open source, and robust features. https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/
- Brajeshwar 7y agoThis is cool. Just in case you're looking for alternatives after RecordIt stopped development, here is another good (free) one -- https://getkap.co https://getkap.co
- listenallyall 7y agoFor 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. https://picpick.app/en/ https://picpick.app/en/
- aorth 7y agoLook 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. 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. ¹ https://shutter-project.org/ https://shutter-project.org/
- davidjnelson 7y agoLast time I used gimp to draw an arrow, if I remember correctly I had to find, download and install some plugin. Definitely empathize with you, it was unnecessarily complicated.
- jwr 7y agoI 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. 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. 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.
- davidjnelson 7y agoWhat does this provide over what the native OSX tools give you?
- ausjke 7y agothe 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?