Little Snapper : Update Review
Realmac Software have released a brilliant little application called ‘LittleSnapper’. LittleSnapper is the ultimate in screen capture utilities. Easy to use shortcuts make screen grabbing and web grabbing a breeze. Unlike any other screen shot utility LittleSnapper allows to capture aspects of a page, annotate the image, tag and rate, and full highlight and blur features.
The software allows grabbing of full screen, area and window and also provides output to PDF with pagination support. If you produce handouts, manuals or teaching guides then I think LittleSnapper will be the first tool that will tempt you to move away from the traditional screen grabbing features built into Leopard.
Like all Realmac Software the interface is clean, and user-friendly. The drop down menus are easy to follow and the shortcuts follow an intuitive format making them very easy to learn.
There is nothing little about the power and features in LittleSnapper. As we as a stand alone grabbing application it has its own built in web browser. Browse to the page you want and snap it into the library. A really nice element grabber (see below) allows you to grab any aspect of the page and LittleSnapper is able to sense the various elements eliminating the need for crosshairs and alignment guessing. Frankly we love it !
The Basics :
Capturing snaps of entire webpages, as well as areas of your screen, has never been easier. LittleSnapper’s menu item and global keyboard shortcuts allow you to capture webpages without leaving your browser, safe in the knowledge that the snap is automatically added to you library to work with later
Once you’ve started to build a library of snaps you’re free tag, rate, comment & organise your snaps using LittleSnapper’s powerful library tools. Collections of snaps can be built using drag and drop, or you can use the power of Smart Collections that allow you to automatically create ruled-based collections
LittleSnapper’s beautiful vector-based annotation tools allow you to mark up your images with text, callouts, shapes, lines, arrows, blurs and highlighting. Best of all, the annotations are all non-destructive allowing you to hide and show them at a moment’s notice.
LittleSnapper knows that you’ll want to share snaps with your clients, colleagues and friends. To make that possible, we’ve built in support for Flickr, image exports, FTP, SFTP and our own webservice especially for LittleSnapper users: QuickSnapper
The latest updated also added :
- Image resizing on export. You can now specify a % to resize by, a constraining resolution, or export at original size.
- Snaps can now be classified as a Websnap, Screenshot, Photo, Illustration, Mockup, iSight, iPhone or Other.
- LittleSnapper can now copy URLs to the clipboard automatically after publishing (configured in the Publishing preferences).
- Dragging snaps to the sidebar now creates collections containing the specified snaps.
Little Snapper offers considerably more than the free screen grabbing tools built into OSX and costs just under £30. Visit Realmac Software for more information and a trial version of LittleSnapper.
Hey, nice review – first i had heard of this app. Btw, check out skitch for mac. Awesome tool and you’ll like that too, upload features make it great for going back and forth with a coder or dev team.
Thanks for the follow on twitter.
Phil Campbell
@philcampbell
Nice review. I’m testing LS, both using it to capture snaps from the web and to organize a large amount of images I previously grabbed from the web. I was used to manage all those images in a folder named “inspirations”. The only prob is that LS seems to double the amount of the used space on harddisk. In other words, the little snapper’s library contaning the same images I have in that “insiration folder ” weights almost two times than the folder itself. And this is bad.
Hi guys
Just to clarify: LittleSnapper does store a little more information than simply one image. We have a library XML file, along with the original snap, a thumbnail and (only on websnaps) a WebArchive that stores the code behind each page.
Cheers
Nik