Comments on: Skitch for Mac, with More of Your Favorite Classic Features

By: Thom Goodsell

Thom Goodsell — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:10:00 +0000

Thanks for all your hard work. I’m still using the 1.0.x version, and I don’t think I’m quite ready to “upgrade”, yet, but I appreciate that after angering a lot of your user base, you’re trying to make amends by working hard to get back the features and performance people want.

By: Chris Powers

Chris Powers — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:23:00 +0000

I absolutely HATE what Evernote has done to Skitch. It was once a useful tool and now is a worthless piece of garbage. I am continously wishing Skitch had never sold to Evernote, which destroyed this once great software.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:13:00 +0000

Bravo…so glad to arrive here and see that I’m not alone in my utter disgust with what Evernote has done with Skitch. The current iteration is a huge leap backwards. They should rename the current version of “Skitch” Evernote Screen Grab Tool, bring back the old Skitch as it was before they ruined it, and call the former version that was actually brillant something like Legacy Skitch.

By: larrymcj

larrymcj — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:06:00 +0000

Have to agree. Skitch used to be a wonderful utility, but now the only time I open is when I want to be reminded that it’s not the original Skitch any longer. Very sad that an organization that could build something as great as Evernote could ruin a perfectly wonderful graphics utility. I’m sure the original version was just too filled with features to keep updated…so they had to make this stripped-down toy.

By: Laura E. Pence

Laura E. Pence — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:50:00 +0000

I upgraded on my desktop and did not on my laptop. I don’t like the update. I simply haven’t seen a value in it and am now using Skitch from my laptop more… which is totally backwards. Nice try, but thanks for nothing.

By: Emily Farnsworth

Emily Farnsworth — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:40:00 +0000

Not sure what’s going on with this new upgrade, but Skitch doesn’t work as well as it used to. It freezes frequently and many features don’t work.
I miss the old Skitch.

By: AndrewSinkov

AndrewSinkov — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

Great suggestion.

By: Vincent Polisi

Vincent Polisi — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:57:00 +0000

Chris, the business strategy is nothing other than an effort to have Skitch users exceed their free Evernote account maximum storage so there will be a need to upgrade to the Premium account with a sideline being the free advertising of Evernote in the hyperlinks that get emailed. Given the work and expense involved in purchasing, developing and upgrading Skitch, I don’t have an issue with the premium bump because revenue has to be generated somewhere. The error was in a complete misunderstanding of the user base and the removal of everything that made Skitch great. What should have happened was acquisition, then improvement to justify the additional expense. Unfortunately, the painful reality has been a complete annihilation of Skitch to the point that with each new “upgrade” I have to uninstall it and revert back to Skitch 1.+ which has infinitely more features, is more user friendly and doesn’t freeze or crash. Skitch 2.0+ is Apple Maps and Skitch 1.12 is Google Maps. What they need to do is understand reality and simply incorporate all of the features and speed of Skitch 1.+ plus any additional upgrades and say if you want Skitch Pro, it’s $5/mo and includes Evernote Premium. I’d upgrade immediately and they’d have an army of upgraders to fund future development. As it stands, Skitch 2.0 and updates remain in the trash can.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:50:00 +0000

Great news!

Also, I realize this post is about the Mac version, but how about making the iOS version remember our preferred color (or the last color used)? Having to switch away from *pink* every time we launch the app is extremely annoying.

By: realworlduser

realworlduser — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:53:00 +0000

Just received the latest Evernote news email. I was hoping it included news of the fix for the Skitch for Mac issues;

Unresponsive after about 10 mins

Prevents shutdown

Force Quit required every time

However I see we are still on 2.0.3, so are we still stuck with these issues?

(And I won’t bother mentioning the various removed features we’d all love to see put back)