Snippyly review
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This week we have a tool that ticks all the boxes for those of you who find yourselves screenshotting/grabbing all day long. Snippyly is the new screenshot app for your browser - with the sole purpose of making snip taking and sharing much easier. We all take them now and again, especially for memes, and the savvy creators at Snippyly offer a wide range of additional editing tools. So when your screenshots are getting shown to a client, the big boss, or even just your mate, you have a lot more control on what you want them to see.
To sign up for Snippyly, you can use a Google account - we did this, we also use Google Chrome so we were given the opportunity of adding the tool to our browser as an extension (we recommend using it this way too) which is efficient and easy. To use the app, make sure you’re on the web page you wish to get the grabs from and click your Snippyly extension to begin your edits, a new tab will open for you with the Snippyly extension overlapping your web page like so:
From here you can make a number of edits, such as cropping, add rectangles and arrows to add a focus to your images, add text, hide areas and even leave comments. Obviously we are aware that none of these features are new to screenshotting, but having them consolidated with a share option, a download option and a management hub for your screenshots all built right into the browser is new, and we think it’s great.
The Share option at the top right of the screen gives you two options, ‘Copy-edit access link’ and ‘Copy-view access link’, similar to sharing files on Google Drive, this gives your recipients their permissions when receiving your file, so if they too use Snippyly, ‘Copy-edit’ means they can make their own edits which can be hugely beneficial, especially if the screenshots in question are for business purposes. All your own snips and those shared with others are housed in the ‘Shared’ window in Snippyly itself so collaboration over these images is seamless, user-friendly and dare I say it? Fun!
At time of writing, Snippyly is only available for web browsers, which is a shame but also feels fair, as the tool’s features only really fit browser usage for now but we hope as our lives likely become more device-based, so will Snippyly. We love this tool and its simplicity, it has a mission statement, to optimise the screenshot, improve on something we do on a daily basis, and boy it has done that.
Snippyly, good job! You get 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼/5!