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Flash-It
Gif.gif.gif
Grabbug
MenuCapture
Screen Catcher
ScreenMovie
Snap'n Clip
Constrictor
DVD Capture
FreeSnap
ScreenShot Plus
ScreenShot Pro
Screentool
SnapClip
Backdrop
Capture Me
Copernicus
DVD Snap
FlySketch
InstantShot!
iShowU
Paparazzi!
ScreenFlow
Screen Mimic
Screenography
ScreenRecord
ScreenSteps
SnapNDrag
SnapWeb
Snapz Pro


Of course the Mac's built in command-shift-3 and command-shift-4 is satisfactory for most purposes but if you need something more or have a particularly tricky screen to capture, one of these programs might help.

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Software Index
Icon Backdrop 1.4

Backdrop is a simple utility to fill your screen with a white window. This is useful for taking screenshots without having to clean up your desktop.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: John Haney
  • Modification Date: February 19, 2006
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 103 Kb
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Icon Capture Me 1.4.1

Capture Me is a screen capture utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window, resize, and invert ability. To use it, drag and resize the floating window to cover the area you want to capture. Then click in the window to capture the screenshot. You can save it in a variety of formats and locations.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Chimoosoft
  • Modification Date: March 11, 2007
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 582 Kb
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Icon Constrictor 2.3

Constrictor is a screen snapshot utility (yes, I'm sorry, something useful - I couldn't help myself...) for Mac OS X. It provides you with a moveable, resizeable frame that floats over all your other windows.
  • License: Shareware, $10
  • Author/Publisher: Stick Software
  • Modification Date: March 21, 2003
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher
DownloadOS X PPC File Size: 396 Kb
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Icon Copernicus 1.5.2

Copernicus has been redesigned from the ground up to bring you the easiest screen capture and movie capture available. It features the ability to capture movies directly to ram, offering higher framerates than possible with other programs. Once you are done recording your movie, you can export to any video format that QuickTime supports, including MPEG-4.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Danicsoft
  • Modification Date: March 8, 2007
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 4.9 MB
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Icon DVD Capture 2.5

DVD Capture, now updated to version 2.5, is a helper application for the Apple DVD Player. New features include enhanced improved file handling, DVD Player controls, improved settings retention and conversion to JPEG and cropping capability. It enables the user to take screen captures of the DVD Player Viewer in full screen mode in three different sizes. The captures can be saved to a file or placed on the clipboard. An AppleScript is provided for the DVD Player script menu that launches DVD Capture. Select "File" or "Clipboard" to assign a location for the capture.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: digitallyOBSESSED
  • Modification Date: May 15, 2004
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
DownloadOS X PPC File Size: 81 Kb
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icon DVD Snap 2.0

DVD Snap takes screenshots of any movie running on your Apple DVD Player. DVD Snap's features include manual single shots as well as automatic sequential, time-dependent shots, e.g. every 1 - 60s. Launch multiple screenshots in iPhoto of your favourite movie to generate slideshows.
  • License: Shareware, $20
  • Author/Publisher: Tobias Jordan
  • Modification Date: March 23, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 1.4 MB
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Icon Flash-It 3.0.2

Flash-It is a screen-capture utility for Apple Macintosh computers. It is a combination of a system extension and a control panel. Good for those older systems.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Nobu Toge
  • Modification Date: April 21, 1993
  • Requirements: 680x0
Download680x0 File Size: 106 Kb
Icon FlySketch 1.6.3

When called upon, FlySketch will show its main drawing window above all other windows in the system. Change the transparency of the canvas, and you can trace, draw over, highlight, and capture just about anything that shows up behind FlySketch.
Capture a web page and highlight important bits. Send it off in an email.
Some app's just can't draw. Let FlySketch do it for them.
  • License: Shareware, $25
  • Author/Publisher: Flying Meat
  • Modification Date: June 4, 2007
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 2.6 MB
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Icon FreeSnap 1.0a11

FreeSnap is a powerful, easy to use and free screen capture utility. Needless to say, if Grab or Shift-Cmd-3 or 4 works fine for you, you don't need FreeSnap. For those who do, FreeSnap features unique, advanced and powerful tools for taking screen captures--or automating them. Featuring AppleScriptability, scaling, 10 different formats, global key combos, a completely invisible version and more.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: eFritz.net
  • Modification Date: July 20, 2003
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
DownloadOS X PPC File Size: 2.9 MB
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Icon Gif.gif.gif 1.5.3

Gif.gIf.giF captures screenshots into GIF animations. It works like a video recorder of your computer monitor, is easy to use, is automated, and produces well-compressed files. The earliest example animations are about one-minute long, contain 100 hundred frames, that took just a few minutes to make, and compressed to around 100Kb.
  • License: Shareware, $28
  • Author/Publisher: Pedagoguery Software
  • Modification Date: February 24, 2000
  • Requirements: 680x0 or PPC
DownloadClassic PPC File Size: 463 Kb
Download680x0 File Size: 433 Kb
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Icon Grabbug 1.0b2

Grabbug is a utility for grabbing screen dumps. Grabbug is hard to use, consumes lots of memory and doesn't have many advanced features. Its sole redeeming feature is that it can grab the screen at any time, even interrupt time. Cool huh?
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Quinn "The Eskimo"
  • Modification Date: August 24, 1995
  • Requirements: 680x0 or PPC, MacsBug
Download680x0Classic PPC File Size: 18 Kb
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icon InstantShot! 2.5

InstantShot! offers classical screenshot functionality for capturing the whole screen, a portion of it or a window and also the option to make timed screenshots or to make delayed captures over time.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Digital Waters
  • Modification Date: March 12, 2007
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 552 Kb
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Icon IShowU 1.66

iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from any compatible source. They say a picture is worth a thousand words!
  • License: Shareware, $20
  • Author/Publisher: Neil Clayton
  • Modification Date: May 6, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 5.7 MB
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Icon MenuCapture 1.0.2

"Once in a while, I need to take a picture of the screen with a menu pulled down, in order to document one of my shareware programs. If I did this every day, I suppose I wouldn't mind paying for a screen capture program with all the bells and whistles, but as it is, I resist. Years ago, there was a tiny freeware extension called StillDown, by Gregory M. Robbins, that enabled command-shift-3 screen shots with menus pulled down. But StillDown doesn't work with Mac OS 8. Therefore, I decided to write a new free bare-bones menu snapshot program: MenuCapture." Of course Mac OS 8.5 and above has this ability built in.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: James W. Walker
  • Modification Date: May 7, 1997
  • Requirements: 680x0 or PPC - Pre Mac OS 8.5
Download680x0Classic PPC File Size: 7 Kb
Icon Paparazzi! 0.4.3

Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Nate Weaver & Johan Sorensen
  • Modification Date: March 23, 2006
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 186 Kb
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Icon Screen Catcher 2.3.5

The new version of Screen Catcher includes an exciting new "Catch-All" feature. Catch-All automatically scrolls the contents of windows, letting you take snapshots of web pages and documents that are too long to fit in a window. Screen Catcher is a screen capture application capable of taking snapshots of screen images and saving them as PICT, GIF, or JPEG files. It also allows images to be captured to the clipboard or to Screen Catcher's own windows, where they can be manipulated to change the color palette (e.g. the standard 216-color web browser palette) or reduce the number of colors in the image before copying or saving
  • License: Shareware, $25
  • Author/Publisher: St. Clair Software
  • Modification Date: November 7, 2001
  • Requirements: 680x0 or PPC, System 7.1.2 or higher
Download680x0Classic PPC File Size: 1.3 MB
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icon ScreenFlow 1.1.1

You don't need to pick an area of the screen for capture, ScreenFlow has advanced algorithms that only encode areas of change on your screen. The application is powerful enough to simultaneously record from your iSight or DV camera at the same time as your screen (and your microphone and computer's audio!).
  • License: Demo, $100
  • Author/Publisher: Vara Software
  • Modification Date: May 12, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 4.7 MB
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icon Screen Mimic 2.3

Screen Mimic allows you to create screencasts (recordings of your Mac OS X desktop) that can be saved as Adobe Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV), or Quicktime (MOV) files. These files can be easily uploaded to a website, used in a kiosk system, and many other applications.
Screen Mimic is a great tool for creating screen recordings, flash demos, software training videos, application demos, and more.
  • License: Shareware, $65
  • Author/Publisher: Decimus Software
  • Modification Date: March 14, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 2.3 MB
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Icon ScreenMovie 1.5

ScreenMovie records your monitor screen into a QuickTime Movie.
Records audio up to 16bit 48KHz stereo.
If you have QuickTime and QuickTime Musical Instruments, you can also record MIDI tracks.
Make QuickTime movies with commentary for training purposes.
Record MIDI sequence while singing into the microphone.
  • License: Shareware, $30
  • Author/Publisher: Paul C. H. Ho
  • Modification Date: February 2, 1995
  • Requirements: 680x0 or PPC
Download680x0Classic PPC File Size: 54 Kb
Icon Screenography 1.012

Screenography is an extremely easy program to capture your screen to various image, movie and Flash formats. Very useful for creating tutorials, training videos/CDs and demonstrations.
Capture any area of the screen to an image, or Flash file instantly or in a timed screenshot.
Record any area of the screen to a movie or Flash file.
Capture objects on the screen, such as windows, dialog boxes, menus, and icons.
Save screen captures to BMP, GIF, JPEG, PDF, Photoshop, PICT, PNG, SWF, Targa, and TIFF.
Save movie captures to AVI, DV, FLC, Image Sequence, MPEG-4, MOV, SWF, FLV, and Flash Projector files (self-executable). (This feature is not available in Screenography Lite)
Automatically overlay your captures with a watermark/copyright notice.
Automatically generate thumbnails for your screen captures.
Add Drop Shadow and Color Fades to the border of your captures.
Output Macromedia Flash movie files (SWF).Over 97% of all browsers already have the Flash Player installed, so you won't have to worry about your audience being able to view your captures.
Add Flash preloaders to your Flash movie files with the built-in preloader option,
  • License: Demo, $40
  • Author/Publisher: Vertical Moon
  • Modification Date: August 22, 2007
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 3.4 MB
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Icon ScreenRecord 2.0.2

ScreenRecord is a screen recording tool that allows the user to capture continuous images on the screen as a Quicktime movie. It is useful for creating training CDs, visual tutorials, and many more. It can even be used as a monitoring device.
  • License: Shareware, $16
  • Author/Publisher: Mien Software
  • Modification Date: April 28, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 5.8 MB
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Icon ScreenShot Plus 1.4

ScreenShot Plus uses Apple's tool to do the capturing, but allows you to scale the capture and select a format, jpeg, tiff, psd, and more!
ScreenShot Plus is activated by pressing Shift-Apple-2, You will then have the option of selecting a region on screen, toggle to window select mode by pressing the space-bar. A window will appear showing the captured area. From here you can scale the image and select a format to save in. ScreenShot Plus now uses Quartz scaling for a smoother result.
Unregistered copies will save images with a watermark.
  • License: Shareware, $10
  • Author/Publisher: piDog Software
  • Modification Date: July 4, 2006
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
DownloadOS X PPC File Size: 2.2 MB
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Icon ScreenShot Pro 2.6.1

ScreenShot Pro allows you to send concepts to your client in seconds by allowing you to save selected images from any program in a common file format such as JPG; ready for uploading or emailing.
  • License: Shareware, $15
  • Author/Publisher: Code Line Communications
  • Modification Date: December 16, 2003
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher or Mac OS 9.1 or higher
DownloadClassic PPCOS X PPC File Size: 1.3 MB
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icon ScreenSteps 2.0.6r1

ScreenSteps brings simplicity to the labor intensive process of software documentation. Capture a picture of each step of the process you are trying to teach. ScreenSteps automatically organizes your images. Go back, type some text and add a few annotations. Output to PDF or HTML and you are done!
  • License: Shareware, $40
  • Author/Publisher: Blue Mango Learning Systems
  • Modification Date: April 18, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 6.7 MB
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Icon Screentool 2.0.3

Screentool is the screenshot central - Screentool is a multi-purpose screen capturing tool that allows you to take instant fullscreen-, timed-, mouse selection-, and window selection screenshots, or record fullscreen videos (including sound) in MPEG-4 quality. All screenshots and screen videos are stored in an well organized database, including additional information like name, type, format, size, and date. You can use Screentool to take and organize your daily screenshots, or to create tutorials and training CDs / DVDs. Screentool is a must-have for every Mac user, and a very cost-effective solution for many different purposes.
  • License: Shareware, $10
  • Author/Publisher: Citrus Software
  • Modification Date: May 12, 2004
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
DownloadOS X PPC File Size: 1.4 MB
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Icon SnapClip 1.7

Small faceless background application program to take screenshot quickly and easily and save it as a various image format file or clipping file on the Desktop (or copy it to Clipboard) 1.7 has added Mac OS X's standard screen capture as one of the capture modes and yet you can customize output file format and file name. It uses window selection mode as default, so it would be nice to capture a selected window. Also, the output file name format is now customizable with numbering option. Some minor bugs has been fixed too.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Pixture Studio
  • Modification Date: May 10, 2004
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
DownloadOS X PPC File Size: 470 Kb
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Icon Snap'n Clip 1.1

Captured picture will be saved as a picture clipping file in the DeskTop with a thumbnail icon. So you can see it later just by double-cliking them from the Finder. No need to use graphic application program. Snap'n Clip has many nice features to make the screen capturing easy.
  • License: Freeware
  • Author/Publisher: Hide Itoh
  • Modification Date: March 27, 1998
  • Requirements: 680x0 or PPC
Download680x0Classic PPC File Size: 52 Kb
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Icon SnapNDrag 2.4.3

SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. For example, to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application. It is that simple. No hard-to-remember key combinations, no file conversion to deal with, no file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to erase later on.
  • License: Freeware, Pro $5
  • Author/Publisher: Yellow Mug Software
  • Modification Date: January 30, 2008
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 1.3 MB
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Icon SnapWeb 3.1r4

SnapWeb creates complete screenshots of web pages even if the users screen isn't large enough to show the whole page content at once. The output isn't scattered to multiple pages or scaled down unless it is unreadable. The resulting images are saved as JPEG, PNG or PDF files.
  • License: Shareware, $18
  • Author/Publisher: Brain Tickling
  • Modification Date: May 15, 2006
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher and Safari
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 1.4 MB
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Icon Snapz Pro X 2.1.2

Snapz Pro X 2 allows you to effortlessly record anything on your screen, saving it as a QuickTime movie or screenshot that can be emailed, put up on the web, or passed around however you please. Snapz Pro X is a quantum leap in video capture technology, adroitly capturing full motion video of anything on your screen at a blistering pace, complete with digital audio, and an optional microphone voiceover. Think of it as a digital video camera for your screen. Snapz Pro X makes short work of making training videos, producing product demos, creating tutorials, archiving streaming video, and anything else you can think of.
  • License: Shareware, $70
  • Author/Publisher: Ambrosia Software
  • Modification Date: November 2, 2007
  • Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
DownloadUniversal Binary File Size: 14.5 MB - version X 2.1.2
Download680x0Classic PPC File Size: 1 MB - version 2.0.1
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