When I started using mac almost a decade ago, I used the built-in screen capture shortcut. It works very well.

Initially I only knew about capturing the entire screen. I would then crop it to the desired area.

Then I learnt that I can select the screen area at the time of capture itself.

Neat!

If I want to add some markup - I would do that separately, after the image is captured.

Then I came across Zappy.

Zappy is more user friendly than the built-in screenshot tool.

When I used Linux (on apple hardware) for several months, I switched to Flameshot (Cause DHH used it in Omakube 🤷‍♂️)

When I got my current macbook, I installed Flameshot (To make sure that the tools I use are platform agnostic, as far as possible)

But Flameshot on macOS seems less stable.

Sometimes it behaves in a manner that can not be explained away.

So back to my trusty Zappy.

Only downside of Zappy is that one can not use it without signing-in to Zapier.

That makes no sense.

Why does screen capture tool force login?

Then I came across macshot via mastodon.

I decided to give it a try, and I was blown away.

It is leaps and bounds better than other tools I have used so far.

Not only it has all those feature, but it has other feature and works quite well (Using for <24 hours, still…)

Only downside : it is macOS-specific app.

I’ll use it for sometime, but I have a feeling it is going to replace Zappy.

I already logged out, making Zappy useless, and uninstalled Flameshot

No more going back