Top 10 Best Screen Capture Apps for a Mac (Free and Paid)

Apple provides some great ways to take screenshots on macOS which you can instantly take a screenshot of the whole screen, window or a particular selection. However, there are not many options to annotate screenshots, or you can’t also directly upload to the Social Networking, Websites or Forums. So, here is the list of screen capture apps for Mac which will help you solve the problem.

CleanShot: Distraction-free screen recording
CleanShot: Distraction-free screen recording

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Top 5 Best Awesome Screen Capture Apps For Mac

Jing

screen capture apps for Mac

Jing is developed by the TechSmith which provides a simplest yet great approach to take the screenshot on your Mac. You can create a video capturing mode to record the screen of your Mac and the core editing tools such as adding different shapes like arrows, circles, and text.

Once you have clicked on the Screencast button, it will be automatically uploaded to the server, and the link will be copied to the clipboard. You can paste the link and share it wherever you want.

Price: Free

Download Link: Click Here

Skitch

screen capture apps for Mac

Skitch is one of the most popular and easiest ways for capturing screenshots on Mac. There are plenty of options to take the screenshots, and you can take the screenshot of the whole screen, window or a particular selection.

Once the screenshot is captured, just select a tool from the left panel of Skitch and draw different shapes, highlight an area, blur an area or add text to the photos. After annotating the photos, you can simply save on the desktop of your Mac, upload them to Facebook, Twitter or Email to a friend.

Price: Free

Download Link: Click Here

Lightshot Screenshot

screen capture apps for Mac

LightShot is another small Mac app that will allow you to instantly take the screenshots, edit and share them with your friends. You can set a hotkey to taking the screenshot for a whole screen, a specific area. The annotating and sharing features will be shown right next to the image, and you can add handwriting, lines, arrows, circles, and boxes and can add text or change the color of the editing. Once you are done with annotating, you can upload directly on the Prntscr server, share it on social Medias such as Facebook and Twitter.

Price: Free

Download Link: Click Here

Grab

apps to take a screenshot on Mac

Although there are plenty of keyboard shortcuts which allow Mac users to capture screenshots, Apple has also provided a built-in app, Grab. This app will let you capture the screenshots with four different options including take the screenshot of the whole screen, selected window or take the screenshot of the selected portion of the screen.

The last option will let you set a timer for screenshots, so you can open another software or modify the existing program and the screenshot will be automatically captured. However, there are no options to edit the screenshots or share them directly to the social.

Price: Free

Download Link: Already built-in Mac, just go to LaunchPad, select the Other and open Grab

SnagIt

apps to take a screenshot on Mac

The last app is SnagIt. The screenshots can be captured by using the hotkeys, and you can capture the whole screen or a particular part of the screen. Once the images are edited, they can be easily shared online, upload to FTP servers, Microsoft products and cloud-based services such as Google Drive and Dropbox.

Price: $49.95

Download Link: Click Here

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