OSX-based Screen Capture Software Blogoff
Sunday 19 April 2009 at 4:12 pmScott Gruby, author of the fabulous ReceiptWallet, recently raved about Little Snapper over my personal favorite, SnapzProX. I have a license for LittleSnapper as a result of the recently ended and always fabulous MacHeist III . Click to read on.
I still live in a world where my email sits on my personal server in a not-so-quiet colo near my house, and I ssh to the server and read my mail using Alpine. I haven’t used an integrated, native email client in a very long time because I’m just so used to typing everything in vim and I’m not ready to move from the keyboard to the mouse, or be forced to constantly use the arrow keys and mouse to move around in a message.
Because of this, Scott’s reasoning for using being invaluable flies out my window. Not only that, but I was able to tell Snapz to save to a specific directory in my ~/Pictures directory named “Screenshots,” automatically organizing my screenshots well enough. Most of my screenshotting is similarly temporary as Scott mentions, and with Snapz you do have to remove old snaps manually.
On top of it all, the not-really-maintained Paparazzi! does my full-page screenshots done oh so rarely. And between that and SnapzProX, which also does Video and a few other handy features, I don’t think I have a need that LittleSnapper fills.
To be completely fair, I haven’t installed LittleSnapper, though I did spend about 15 minutes watching and reading their site. If I were doing more than maybe 2-5 screenshots per week, and using it as an archive of web pages, or spending a lot more time doing screenshots for development tasks or bug reports, I might be singing a different song. LittleSnapper’s organizational tools, non-destructive annotation and easy sharing of screenshots are very sexy, and if I needed to do more annotation of screenshots before sending them along, I think I’d be all over LittleSnapper.
It can’t fully replace SnapzProX due to its lack of video capture (it’s the only screencast software I have and it works for my needs), but LittleSnapper does take screenshots to a whole new level, much further than just capturing a piece of your screen to an image file.
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