Best snipping tools for Mac

How to take a screenshot in Mac?

The screenshot is one of the most common activities we use on a day to day life. For either sharing an image to a friend or to send a picture to a customer support service and much more. We can say that it has taken a major part in communication.

So for editing and creating these screenshots we have the Snipping tool available. And this is one of the most essential requirements for MAC users.

This snipping tool is one of the pre-installed tools for Mac and there are also so many third-party snipping tools available with some more enhanced features like Cleanshot, Dropshare and Capto.

As you open the default snipping tool for MAC you would get the below menu options

Capture Entire Screen
Capture Selected Window
Capture Selected Portion
Record Entire Screen
Recorded Selected Portion

Apart from the above, you as well have dropdown options, where you can set the timer, where to save the image output and whether to show the mouse pointer and so on.

You can use the Mac Snipping tool to take a screenshot of the taskbar itself.

You can also customize your keyboard shortcuts by going to System Preferences> Keyboard Shortcuts> Screen Shots.

When comparing the Snipping tool of the Mac version and Windows version.

Few features like Full Screen, Single App Window and Area are supported in both Windows and Mac.

And there are few other options that are operating system oriented. Like Freeform and video. The freeform option is only for Windows and Video option is only for Mac.

Apart from this in Windows, you have only limited features for editing but in Mac, you have a full toolkit available. And when it comes to delay, you can set a delay for 1 to 5 seconds in Windows, whereas in Mac you can set delay for 5 to 10 seconds.

As you see there are still a limitation of snipping tools in Mac like the freeform feature so if you want to get rid of it and would like to explore more enhanced features then you can go for third party snipping tools.

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Alternatives of Mac Default Snipping Tool

CleanShot: Unlike the default snipping tool of Mac, this lets you take screenshot more professionally. With this you can take a screenshot of your screen by hiding the desktop icons, you can change your wallpaper and also you can preview the taken screenshot before you save it to your clipboard.

DropShare: This tool lets you share the screenshots immediately. Once you are done with capturing, editing and recording any specific area or a full screen all the URLs get saved automatically in the cloud. And then you would get a link which you can share with your friends.

Capto: This is one unique tool that lets you take a freehand screenshot. Like capturing full screen, rectangle area, circle area, freeform area and more.

To conclude as we have a number of snipping tools and third-party tools available on the internet for Mac. You can make use of any of the snipping tool based on your requirement.