We’ve written about Skitch before here at ProfHacker. It’s a very handy application for quickly grabbing, annotating, and sharing screen captures.
What makes Skitch worth mentioning again is the fact that, a few weeks ago, it was acquired by Evernote. This means a number of things:
- Users will no longer have to pay for access to the full version of Skitch.
- Skitch will be available for mobile platforms. An Android version is already avaialable; a version for iOS should follow in the relatively near future.
I took the Android version for a test drive, and it looks good. You can take a picture from within the application and work with it, use an exisiting photo on your phone, or just start with a blank canvas. I chose to take a photo that was already on my phone and mark it up:
[Click to see a larger version of the image.] Once I’d marked up the image the way I wanted to, I could easily share the edited image to my Evernote account. It’s also possible to share an image to other services, depending on how one’s phone is set up; I use BetterFlickr, so uploading straight to my Flickr account was easy.
The way I can most readily see myself using this tool is for on-the-fly marking up of the occasional whiteboard snapshot from class. Though the application works as advertised, trying to mark up an image within the small confines of a smartphone screen isn’t terribly convenient. It’s fine for very basic editing, but that’s about it.
What about you? What uses might you have for a mobile version of Skitch (or something like it)? Have you made use of similar applications? Let us know in the comments.
[Lead image Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by btrayner. All other images CC-licensed images by the author.]