GrabUp Vs. Skitch

Thu, Aug 28, 2008

I recently learned about an application and service called GrabUp. GrabUp is amazing. With GrabUp, there are 2 steps to have a screenshot of your own online available for you to share with anyone.

Step 1. Take the screen shot with Apple’s built in service, (Apple+Shift+4).

Step 2. Paste.

Yep, that’s all it takes. GrabUp will automatically take the screenshot that you took, upload it to their server and put the link on your clipboard. This process will take literately a second at most. GrapUp runs all the time, in the background, whenever you need up.

So, now lets get to the point of this post. I already have a great free app that does this for me. Skitch allows me to take a screenshot, crop, resize and edit the image in many ways along with posting it to web. I have always loved Skitch and it has always does exactly what I needed. I even thought it was extremely fast…until I found GrabUp.With GrabUp, I can get a screenshot of something and share it within a few seconds. GrabUp runs all the time in the background, so I do not need to wait for any app to start up like I have to do with Skitch. At the same time, I cannot edit these pictures I take with GrabUp like I can with Skitch. Skitch is a wonderful image editor and lets me make tons of modifications to all images, not only screenshots. Skitch also keeps all my images on my Skitch profile. These are the things about Skitch that I love.

I will use both GrabUp and Skitch at the same time for different reasons. GrabUp is what I will use for quick screenshot to share with friends. A lot of people on AIM ask me for screenshots. This is where GrabUp comes in. Skitch will come in when I need some sort of editing. Sometimes I need a fast crop or resize of an image. Skitch does this job beautifully.

So in conclusion, GrabUp is for quick sharing of screenshots and Skitch is for quick editing and sharing of all images and screenshots. They are both great products and I am happy to use both.

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