{"id":5816,"date":"2008-07-07T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-screen-capture-apps-for-mac\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:29:32","slug":"top-screen-capture-apps-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-screen-capture-apps-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Top screen capture apps for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/grabthumbnail.png\" alt=\"Grab\" align=\"left\" \/>Here at Softonic, we take bucket loads of screenshots every day, as we&#8217;re constantly testing out and reviewing new programs and games. Now on a PC I simply stick to <a href=\"http:\/\/snagit.en.softonic.com\/\">SnagIt<\/a>, which is by far the best and most complete screen capture tool you&#8217;ll find. On Mac, there&#8217;s a much bigger selection of excellent programs that take high quality, crisp screen grabs of whatever it is you want to show.<\/p>\n<p>When you start off taking screenshots on your Mac, you&#8217;ll probably go with Apple&#8217;s Grab tool, which is found in your Utilities. Grab is a no-fuss, hands on program, which allows you to capture full screen, a selection, a window or a timed screen. You can also select your pointer type and enable sound. Nothing too exciting, but it gets the job done, and luckily, it&#8217;s already installed on your Mac. So what are the alternatives? Here is our selection of the best screen capture tools for Mac:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/~slc2111\/index.html\">Screenshot Plus Widget<\/a> &#8211; My favorite. Available from the Dashboard, takes all sorts of captures and lets you format, display, export or save them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jingproject.com\/\">Jing<\/a> &#8211; One-click capture of anything on your screen. An intuitive new tool from Camtasia, creator of SnagIt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danicsoft.com\/\">Copernicus<\/a> &#8211; Precise capture app which lets you bath preview your shots. Great if you take many screen captures regularly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tastyapps.com\/\">Red Snapper<\/a> &#8211; A smart plugin for Safari that lets you capture full web pages straight from the browser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowmug.com\/snapndrag\/\">SnapNDrag<\/a> &#8211; A simple screen capture tool. Make your selection, set quality, format, size and snap away.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastforwardsw.com\/products\/quicksnap\/\">QuickSnap<\/a> &#8211; Fast screenshots of your screen, a selection or a window. Gets the job done and looks nicer than Apple&#8217;s Grab tool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.synium.de\/products\/screenium\/index.html\">Screenium<\/a> &#8211; An advanced screen capture tool with presets for quality and size and a streamlined process.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grabup.com\/\">grabUp<\/a> &#8211; A smart Preference Pane item that lets you grab anything on your screen and share it online immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PC users, check out Nick&#8217;s list of <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-10-screen-capture-tools\/\">10 screen capture tools<\/a> for Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Softonic, we take bucket loads of screenshots every day, as we&#8217;re constantly testing out and reviewing new programs and games. Now on a PC I simply stick to SnagIt, which is by far the best and most complete screen capture tool you&#8217;ll find. On Mac, there&#8217;s a much bigger selection of excellent programs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-screen-capture-apps-for-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top screen capture apps for Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336002,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/336002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}