Skitch Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Skitch update (iOS and Mac) includes PDF annotation, stamps

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 18th, 2013)

If you are already a Skitch user and happen to have an Evernote Premium account, a new update now allows you to annotate PDFs using the app. Once you open a PDF in Skitch you'll get a 30-day trial of the premium PDF annotation feature. All users see a new way to add graphics to documents in ...

Daily Update for December 18, 2012

by Steven Sande (Dec 18th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Skitch for Mac updated with more 'classic' features

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 18th, 2012)

After Skitch was acquired by Evernote, the 2.0 update of the screenshot app received flak for removing a lot of useful features. Version 1.0 holdouts eventually found that the button to copy the URL of an uploaded image was broken, along with other issues in the older version. Thanks in part ...

Skitch co-founder talks 2.0 changes, asks user sufferance

by Michael Rose (Nov 21st, 2012)

Fans of Plasq's Skitch screenshot utility for the Mac were intrigued when Evernote acquired the product at the end of 2011 (a pairing first suggested way back in 2008). They were charged with anticipation when the 2.0 version came out this September. And many were furiously, storm-the-barricades ...

Skitch 2.0 is like Skitch 1.0 without all those pesky "features"

by TJ Luoma (Sep 20th, 2012)

I knew that when Evernote purchased Skitch they were destined to screw it up. Sure enough, it didn't take long. First they started pushing people to use Evernote accounts. Skitch had done this too, insisting that you keep a Skitch.com account in your "sharing" options, even if you had no ...

Skitch 2.0 features new design, device sync and more

by Dave Caolo (Sep 19th, 2012)

Evernote has released Skitch 2.0 with a new design, cool new features and an app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The desktop app's look has been pared down to the minimum and it looks a lot cleaner than previous versions. There are new functions, too, like pixelate. Plus, everything you create or ...

Skitch.com transitioning to Evernote

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 11th, 2012)

Annotation app Skitch is moving even closer to Evernote. According to a recent knowledge base article, Skitch will now upload your images into your Evernote account and not the Skitch.com website. Users will be able to sync and search their Skitch images using their Evernote account. Skitch.com ...

Evernote tops voting for TUAW Mac Best Productivity App of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2011)

It's the service, Mac app, and iOS app that everybody loves, and it won in our reader polling for the best Mac productivity app of 2011. Evernote (free) pulled in nearly a third (31.3 percent) of the votes from TUAW readers, topping second place winner OmniFocus ($79.99) which had 23.3 percent ...

LittleSnapper on the Mac App Store and on sale

by TJ Luoma (Jan 14th, 2011)

LittleSnapper from RealMacSoftware is on sale for US$5 until January 17 through the Mac App Store. The app normally sells for $25, and it had sold for $40 before the Mac App Store. LittleSnapper is a screenshot management application. Think of it as a combination of Skitch and an iPhoto-like ...

Skitch leaps out of beta, 1.0 available now

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 7th, 2010)

Since it debuted in beta form at Macworld Expo in 2007, Skitch has become a favorite Mac utility for many, many people. It's great at grabbing screenshots, adding annotations and notes, and sharing them on Skitch.com, Flickr, Mobile.me or even your own server. We've waited three years for a 1.0 ...

LittleSnapper sneak peek

by Christina Warren (Oct 21st, 2008)

Video link Last month, our friends at Realmac Software teased us with some screenshots of their newest application, LittleSnapper. LittleSnapper is a program that will let you take screenshots of full web pages, with adjustment and sharing features similar to Skitch. The Realmac team has now ...

Mac 101: Capture sharp screenshots

by Dave Caolo (Jul 4th, 2008)

Earlier this week, we described several ways to create screenshots with your Mac. Using the keyboard shortcuts in the Finder is great, but you may have noticed that the results aren't very sharp. Ivan at creativebits noticed that, too, and figured out how you can correct the problem. He explains ...

TUAW Faceoff: Screenshot apps on the firing line

by Christina Warren (May 5th, 2008)

Whether you want to post something to a web page or blog, or show off an application element in a presentation, taking quality screenshots is becoming an increasingly common task for lots of different Mac users. Although OS X comes with its own built-in screenshot utility, Grab, and onboard F-keys ...

Evernote, meet Skitch

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 10th, 2008)

TUAW disclosed an affection for Evernote a little while ago, and our love of Skitch is no secret. While love triangles are often a logistical nightmare, this one actually works out in a fairly organized fashion. An entry at the Evernote blog details the use of Skitch to input notes into Evernote, ...

TUAW has 1000 Skitch invites to give away!

by David Chartier (Jul 3rd, 2007)

[Update 2: The invite window is now closed! Thanks for participating everyone, invites should be sent out soon! [Update: The plasq folks have informed us that the response to this invite offer has been absolutely amazing; well over 1000 requests. The good news? They have agreed to send invites ...