ScreenFloat - Screenshot Tools 4+
Power up your Screenshots
Matthias Gansrigler
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- $14.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
Screenshots
Description
= ScreenFloat 2 is here =
Free upgrade for existing customers.
Download the free, 28-day trial here: https://eternalstorms.at/ScreenFloat
A screenshot is just a screenshot. Until you use ScreenFloat.
Unleash the power of screenshots and -recordings and make them float above all other windows, (fullscreen-) apps and spaces, to keep information always in sight.
Easily extract text and barcodes. Redact content with a simple right-click. Markup and annotate. Pick colors. Crop, resize, rotate and trim.
Drag and drop to other apps, export, and share.
Organize your Shots in the Shots Browser with folders, smart folders and tags. Synchronize them across your devices over iCloud. Find them system-wide with Spotlight.
Power up your Screenshots. With ScreenFloat.
= Main Features =
* Capture Screenshots and -Recordings
Capture screenshots, timed screenshots and screen recordings using keyboard shortcuts or the menu bar icon.
Create Shots from content on your clipboard, or import from your iPhone, iPad, or your disk.
Re-capture effortlessly without having to painstakingly reframe the capture area.
* Floating Shots
Shots float above all apps and windows, and follow you around when you change Spaces. Whatever you capture or record, it'll always be in sight.
- Scroll up and down within a shot to change its opacity
- Option-right-click and drag to pick colors
- Right-click barcodes to view their contents, copy or redact them
- Quickly redact text, barcodes and faces with a simple right-click
- Set up double-click actions for custom workflows, like reducing a shot's opacity and making it ignore mouseclicks in one go
- Drag shots to other apps, with or without markup, in the file format and quality of your choice
* Editing Shots
- Crop, fold, rotate, resize, trim, and "de-retinize" shots
- Markup Shots with Freedraw, Rectangles, Ovals, Lines, Arrows, Stars, Checkmarks, X-Marks, Text, Smart numbered lists, Highlights and Redactions
(Markup can always be changed or removed entirely)
* Shots Browser
ScreenFloat keeps a library of your captures, allowing you to tag, name, rate, favorite and organize them.
- Use folders to collect Shots
- Use Smart Folders to intelligently collect Shots by certain criteria, like if they contain faces or barcodes, or which device you captured them on
- Search for shots using the same criteria you use for smart folders (and search system-wide with Spotlight)
- Sync your library over iCloud
* Tag Management
With the Tags Browser, you can manage your tags by favoriting, renaming, merging and deleting them
* Drag'n'Drop, Exporting
- From any floating shot and the Shots Browser, you can drag shots to other apps to share or export them
- Upload shots to iCloud and share just a link for larger files, like screen recordings
- Export shots into different formats, quality levels, with or without markup, metadata, and more
* Siri Shortcuts
Automate capturing your screen, importing, and managing your floating shots.
* Widgets
Keep shots at your fingertips with ScreenFloat's widgets.
- Access shots, picked colors, tags, folders and more
- Start captures and manage floating shots
= System Requirements =
- macOS 12 Monterey or newer (some features require macOS 13 Ventura or newer)
- An iCloud account if you wish to sync your library over iCloud
= What Customers Say (v1.x) =
"Intuitive. Essential. Over and above other screen capture." - gratidudee, US
"Use it constantly" - Monkton, VT, US
"Must Have Application" - kromesky, UK
"One of my all-time favorite apps" - Mr Toner, US
"Most useful app for screenshots and enhanced productivity" - comet-jockey, UK
= What the Press Says =
Nothing yet, as v2.0 has *just* been released.
Reviews of v1.x were generally favorable, however.
= What do YOU say? =
All this aside: ultimately, software needs to be tested personally to see if it fits one's needs.
Please do download the free, 28-day trial from the website, and feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions or feedback - I look forward to hearing from you.
Contact & Connect: https://eternalstorms.at/contact
What’s New
Version 2.1.5
ScreenFloat v2.1.5 (2024.04.25) implements the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= New Features =
- Double-click actions are now available not only for the left mouse button, but all others as well (right-click not included, it'll trigger the contextual menu) (2024.04.22)
- A floating shot's file can now not only be dragged out by dragging the document button in its toolbar, but also long-clicking onto the actual image/video in the floating shot, making it easier if the floating shot is partly off-screen (2024.04.25)
= Improvements =
- A better mechanism to set up double-click actions for different mouse buttons and modifier keys (2024.04.22)
- When a double-click action is not present for a modifier, it now says so, allowing you to jump to those settings right away (2024.04.16)
- Improved handling of floating shots and recordings with a small width (2024.04.18)
- When exporting or "advanced-dragging", metadata (tags and notes) is now written into the Finder's metadata, as well as EXIF (2024.04.20)
- Improved floating shot visibility options reliability, as well as the Shots Browser's and Tag Browser's (2024.04.17)
- Open With > ScreenFloat (i.e., from Finder) now floats those files right away instead of importing them and showing the Shots Browser. Hold down command (⌘) on your keyboard while Open With'ing if you prefer the latter. (2024.03.27)
- The performance of the Shots Browser has been improved (2024.04.05)
- Made "press-and-hold keyboard shortcut" notice in preferences more prominent (2024.04.05)
- Adds a setting to turn off once-in-a-while Mac App Store review requests, increasing potential request window from every ~3 months to every ~4 months (if there's been an update since the last request) (2024.04.19)
- The "ignores mouseclicks" info panel for floating shots can now be dismissed, and all floating shots can be restored to receive mouse clicks via ScreenFloat's icon in your menu bar (2024.04.25)
- Adds Smart folder integrity check to the Repair tool (hold down option-shift during the launch of ScreenFloat to access its repair tool) (2024.04.24)
= Bug fixes =
- Fixes a bug where creating iCloud links would sometimes fail on first attempt (2024.04.18)
- Fixes a bug where annotations would sometimes change color when the color panel was still active (2024.04.18)
- Fixes a bug where, when opening the color panel for an annotation setting, the settings popup would close (2024.04.18)
- Fixes a bug where, when cancelling annotating, ScreenFloat would sometimes unnecessarily ask for
changes (that were not made) to be saved (2024.03.27)
- Fixes a bug where, when cancelling annotating, cancelling the cancel would result in the dialog to be shown again under certain circumstances (2024.03.27)
- Fixes a bug where sometimes the opacity-info of a floating shot would remain on screen, even after the floating shot was closed (2024.04.05)
- Fixes a bug where sometimes the Shots Browser would appear at random times, like after closing a window or alert (2024.04.12)
- Fixes another obscure crash when using Quick Look in the Shots Browser (2024.04.22)
- Fixes a bug where the "ignoring mouseclicks" info panel would not follow its parent floating shot (2024.04.23)
Ratings and Reviews
Huge time-saver!
I had heard about this app a few months ago. I finally got around to purchasing it and I’m really, really happy I have. It’s a massive time-saver and saves me the annoyance of having to take screenshots and then going through the work of finding them and placing them where I need to which (in the past) involved having a finder window open and then dragging it into the editor I was working in.
For example, as I watch videos teaching me how to use a program or whatever, I’ll take notes in an editor while I watch the video. Sometimes I want to grab a screenshot to drop into my notes to highlight a particular point. With ScreenFloat I can take that screenshot and have it float in my view where I can then copy it and drop it into my notes immediately instead of digging around in my file structure to complete the same task.
The app is a little more powerful than that and I can see how it’ll come in handy for other tasks (like another reviewer mentioned taking a screenshot of server settings and having it simply “float” there while you type it all in instead of having to copy and paste it somewhere) but even just using it in the way that I am it’s a great utility. Well worth the money and I highly recommend it. Thanks, dev!
Incredibly helpful for everyone
My previous review still stands, and thanks to the developer for updating it to work with the upcoming Sierra operating system:
You may think to yourself, “I don’t see why I’d need this, I can already use the Mac’s built-in screen capture functionality, it’s fine.” I get that, but here’s what you’re missing.
In just one day of using your computer try to pay attention to how often you need some information from another window, another space, or another app. You switch from window to window and back again, making sure you got it right. Or maybe you spend time resizing a bunch of things so you can see all of them at the sizes you need to. You might be a designer who needs to temporarily recall some RGB values in a Photoshop palette or dialog box. Or maybe you’re a developer who needs to recall the sizes of a couple of views but can’t have them on the screen at the same time.
Boom, ScreenFloat is the answer. Just type your hotkey, drag around the thing you need to recall, then put it out of your mind and switch back to your other task. There’s the info, floating right where you need it, even though that other window/app/space is no longer visible.
This app saves me hours of stupid switching back-and-forth or copying-temporarily-to-notepad or resizing windows or dealing with giant full-screen screenshots or writing on paper (heaven forbid!).
So, so useful.
This great app is indispensable in my workflow
This has been so easily integrated into my workflow. I can grab images or text for reference while working on all manner of things from filling out forms, to referring to images for art or 3D modeling creation, to capturing things like texts or other fleeting important info. The fact that the grabbed image floats in front of everything else allows it to remain atop your work so it can be readlity utilized. I you want, you can even scroll your mouse to make the shot partially transparent.
My only suggestions for improvement would be to make the shots optionally storable on iCloud or Dropbox so that they can be shared between computers. Also enable right-clicking (or control clicking) in the shots browser window for the actions on your shots, which now require going to the gear icon in the shots browser to select those functions.
App Privacy
The developer, Matthias Gansrigler, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Matthias Gansrigler
- Size
- 20.3 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, German, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011-2024, Eternal Storms Software. All rights reserved.
- Price
- $14.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Insanely Generous Tip $6.99
- Unbelievably Generous Tip $3.99
- Very Generous Tip $2.99
- Generous Tip $0.99