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If you're looking for a screenshot tool for macOS, I cannot recommend CleanShot X highly enough. It in the league of its own, with scroll capture, gifs, even ch

by flixic 6y ago

If you're looking for a screenshot tool for macOS, I cannot recommend CleanShot X highly enough. It in the league of its own, with scroll capture, gifs, even changing your desktop in the screenshot, but not "in reality". I'm really impressed.

gingerlime 6y ago
Yes. A thousand times. At our small company we trialed Jumpshare, CloudApp and a bunch of other stuff for both video and screenshots. Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal. The only one at our company not using Cleanshot is a developer on Linux. I think he's using Flameshot.
- julianlam 6y ago
  > Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal. I just want to remark upon how strange it is Mac users are just so nonchalantly paying for bits and bobs because their OS doesn't do things they need it to do. I spent some time getting my Linux setup _just so_ and feel like I gave macOS a good go when I tried it for 11 months as a daily driver, but I just couldn't take it. Find a little niggling problem that bothers you just a little bit? Here's a program that fixes it, but it's $5. Repeat ad nauseam.
  - gingerlime 6y ago
    I've been a linux user for >10 years and switched to Mac ~4 years ago. I use, love, create, maintain and contribute to open source. Honestly, the only thing I miss from Linux is i3 (window manager). For the rest, much happier with what Mac offers. I use spectacle on MacOS, which isn't nearly as good as i3wm. It's open-source. I use a bunch of other free or open source tools for Mac. Karabiner, f.lux and lots of other tools. CleanShot is probably one of the few paid tools I have on my Mac. My company pays for it, and it's something like $20 one-off. Well worth it. I would have paid triple that if it worked on Linux. I think it's a false dichotomy that Linux == free == good and Mac == paid == bad. Also, my time is worth more to me and to my company. I feel more productive and that I waste less time fiddling on my Mac than my colleague on Linux. Perhaps it's an age thing, but I now value my time more, and prefer to fiddle only with certain things and not others. YMMV. All the power to you for using Linux!
    - yurishimo 6y ago
      There’s a newer fork of Spectacle out there called “Rectangle” that is actively maintained. You can find it on GitHub. Same shortcut keys by default and more options for other stuff.
      - gingerlime 6y ago
        sorry it was just my bad memory :) I switched to rectangle a few months ago already.
lyonlim 6y ago
Indeed. It’s indispensable really. Annotations are perfect too!
michaelcampbell 6y ago
I couldn't see in their home page, but is the cloud upload limited to their own cloud? It ticks most of my other boxes, but couldn't tell on that one.
- flixic 6y ago
  Yeah, their own cloud only. Sample URL: https://cln.sh/WjTbfF https://cln.sh/WjTbfF I never use it though, because I take screenshot with CleanShot and then share directly in Slack / etc.

by flixic 6y ago

gingerlime 6y ago

Yes. A thousand times. At our small company we trialed Jumpshare, CloudApp and a bunch of other stuff for both video and screenshots. Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal. The only one at our company not using Cleanshot is a developer on Linux. I think he's using Flameshot.

julianlam 6y ago
> Cleanshot was by far the best, and costs the least. Unlike most tools which are SaaSified and require a monthly subscription, CleanShot still offers a one-off license. It's a steal. I just want to remark upon how strange it is Mac users are just so nonchalantly paying for bits and bobs because their OS doesn't do things they need it to do. I spent some time getting my Linux setup _just so_ and feel like I gave macOS a good go when I tried it for 11 months as a daily driver, but I just couldn't take it. Find a little niggling problem that bothers you just a little bit? Here's a program that fixes it, but it's $5. Repeat ad nauseam.
- gingerlime 6y ago
  I've been a linux user for >10 years and switched to Mac ~4 years ago. I use, love, create, maintain and contribute to open source. Honestly, the only thing I miss from Linux is i3 (window manager). For the rest, much happier with what Mac offers. I use spectacle on MacOS, which isn't nearly as good as i3wm. It's open-source. I use a bunch of other free or open source tools for Mac. Karabiner, f.lux and lots of other tools. CleanShot is probably one of the few paid tools I have on my Mac. My company pays for it, and it's something like $20 one-off. Well worth it. I would have paid triple that if it worked on Linux. I think it's a false dichotomy that Linux == free == good and Mac == paid == bad. Also, my time is worth more to me and to my company. I feel more productive and that I waste less time fiddling on my Mac than my colleague on Linux. Perhaps it's an age thing, but I now value my time more, and prefer to fiddle only with certain things and not others. YMMV. All the power to you for using Linux!
  - yurishimo 6y ago
    There’s a newer fork of Spectacle out there called “Rectangle” that is actively maintained. You can find it on GitHub. Same shortcut keys by default and more options for other stuff.
    - gingerlime 6y ago
      sorry it was just my bad memory :) I switched to rectangle a few months ago already.

lyonlim 6y ago

Indeed. It’s indispensable really. Annotations are perfect too!

michaelcampbell 6y ago

I couldn't see in their home page, but is the cloud upload limited to their own cloud? It ticks most of my other boxes, but couldn't tell on that one.

flixic 6y ago
Yeah, their own cloud only. Sample URL: https://cln.sh/WjTbfF https://cln.sh/WjTbfF I never use it though, because I take screenshot with CleanShot and then share directly in Slack / etc.