Comments on: Skitch for Mac Update: You Asked, We Listened

By: moviewiseman

moviewiseman — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:08:00 +0000

The prime feature that I used Skitch for, they went and deleted — saving screen shots to PDF. This is not a case of a bunch of incompetent developers totally stuffing up a great program. No one could have been that out of touch with their users. No, this was a calculated commercial move by Evernote to purposely cripple this once-useful software. Look, if Evernote wants to cripple the software, fine, it’s their commercial prerogative, but I hate it when the developers couch it terms that they’ve listened to their users.

By: Bozena

Bozena — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:25:36 +0000

I am so disappointed with the new version! The main feature for me was making PDF and commenting on them. PLEASE BRING THE PDF FORMAT BACK!

By: Frank J. Oswald

Frank J. Oswald — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:53:43 +0000

I upgraded to Mac 10.8.2 and my “old” Skitch stopped working. So I upgraded to the new Evernote/Skitch. Where did the screen grabs I saved to the old Skitch go and how can I get them back?

By: John

John — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:23:37 +0000

I am also really missing the PDF export function, most used part of tool for me. Please bring back.

By: chemel

chemel — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:31:27 +0000

love the new integration with evernote! good job.
i am a heavy user and the best improvement i like is, getting rid of the adds!

unfortunately i found a small bug in sharing my just created skitch with others
by email. look here what i found.

thx and keep on the good work. love your products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zo_UUYbOaU

By: Carola

Carola — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:18:54 +0000

Hm. Many improvements for archiving and sharing the screens.
But…
I used Skitch a lot for documentation purposes. I used the function to get the whole window by url and the timer (show mouseovers!) quite a lot.

So I just re-install the old version now.

Please think about re-inventing these functions – they can save a real lot of time.

By: J Antolak

J Antolak — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:43:28 +0000

You could also roll back if you have a time machine backup.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:09:13 +0000

Mad props to Evernote for re-releasing Skitch 1.0 https://evernote.com/skitch/ (smaller font under the new links). Still, I’ve gotta agree with everyone here, in order to preserve Skitch’s good name can you re-brand 2.0 as Skutch or Skatch?

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:55:58 +0000

Seems like most of the features of skitch, light weight, easy uploading of images to arbitrary locations.

The new UI is not an improvement over the old either. Menubar item gone.

Disappointed and trying to roll back.

By: Eric Nordstrom

Eric Nordstrom — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:04:34 +0000

I believe the team that worked on Skitch 2.0 is COMPLETELY, 100% out of touch with how/why so many people used the original Skitch. The changes (and the attempt to correct them) run counter to everything that once made Skitch great. It doesn’t make sense why Evernote bought Skitch if their intention was to build an entirely new application.

I have two main issues:

If I want to adjust my crop and capture area, I’ll select it from a menu….I can’t stand being asked every single time if I want to adjust my dimensions. I don’t care how close you move the dialog box to the cursor. That’s just plain stupid.

You’ve granted us the ability to turn off the Evernote tie-in (which was illogical in the first place…surely you guys know that) but there’s still no local history. It’s a crippled program.

I love Evernote but after seeing what you did to Skitch, I’m certainly looking for alternatives. You’ve very effectively demonstrated that you’re out of touch with your user-base and ignorant when it comes to good UI development.

I paid for Skitch, use it all throughout my day…personal and professional use. I’m constantly hitting cmd-shift-5. I’m entirely grateful that you’ve made the original Skitch available, but how long before you flip the upgrade switch and close it down?