Markup Hero vs. Other Tools

Mac's built in preview tool is nice because, well, it's built in. But a few things are worth pointing out. Images and annotations get flattened. So you can never edit annotations later. No history of markups or tags or filters to organize them No ...

There is overlap to be sure, but a few things we have now and in roadmap that start to set us apart. Lack of Innovation: Cloudapp and Droplr (in particular) aren't iterating or innovating on the annotation side much these days. Droplr no release...

ShareX is a mature screen capture and annotation tool no doubt. And there is some overlap with Markup Hero. And ShareX does provide quite a bit of capturing options and customization. But it's not for everyone. Windows Only: It only works on Wind...

Nimbus is a decent option for free screenshot and annotations, but there are limitations and you might find Markup Hero as a better alternative. Here are some key differentiators:  Nimbus is a Chrome Extension only - This is useful because no des...

Screenpresso is a nice tool, and we've used it before switching to Monosnap then to Droplr. Here are some points and differences. Windows Only: so no Mac client (other than Chrome extension) and no mobile web No Editing: Once annotation is creat...

We all used Snagit before, it's been around for decades it seems. And it has a deep feature set. But our users see some issues with it and like Markup Hero as an alternative for several reasons. Bloated and Overwhelming: Snagit is that it's just ...

Our current thinking is that we aren't going to offer video/gifs for now (potentially ever) because there are already companies like Loom that do it so amazingly well. We would rather be great at one thing (screenshots/all non video file annotati...

This is probably the most commonly asked question, and it's an important one. At the moment we only offer web annotation and no desktop editing client as you may be familiar with other solutions in this space. We understand this is a different par...