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Better, Smarter Tools

In this update, we made all the tools look and work better than ever. We improved content scaling so that your annotations perfectly fit your images and we made the tools more intelligent. Let’s take a look.

Pen Tool

In this update, the Pen tool is faster, smoother, and more responsive. If you’ve been using the Wet Ink setting, which groups pen strokes together so that you can easily move complex shapes, you’ll notice that the pen strokes are now grouped much more quickly.

Move/Pan Tool

The Move/Pan tool also got a clever new behavior to enhance your Skitch experience. It becomes active when you select an object, but then immediately reverts back to the previous tool when you delete, deselect, or swipe your finger elsewhere on the canvas.

Hold and Lock Feature

The Hold and Lock feature is a handy new setting that you can enable to prevent the app from auto-switching tools. This can be really helpful if you use one tool for a number of annotations in a row—for instance, when drawing characters with the Pen tool or when placing arrows or shapes that overlap with one another. To enable it, just tap and hold the tool you would like to lock. When the tool is locked, you’ll see a small padlock appear next to it. Tap on any other tool to unlock it again.

Helpful Additions

We’ve included several improvements that make navigating the app and exploring features more simple.

New Settings Icon

The new Settings icon makes it simple to access the Settings menu right from the home screen, which means fewer taps to adjust the app settings to exactly the way you want them.

Tool Tips

Want to learn how to use Skitch better? The new Tool Tips popups help you discover helpful features you may not have known about. The tips appear on your first launch and when you interact with parts of the app for the first time. You can also access them again later by tapping the Options button in the upper right corner and selecting “Tips”. You’ll be a Skitch pro in no time!

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And Even More

Skitch for Android has a ton of other improvements, including some important SD card fixes, that make it faster, more stable, and easier to use. We hope you love this new version. It’s available now in the Google Play Store. Let us know what you think!

With this new release, the fully-synchronized Skitch is now available on just about every major desktop and mobile device out there. Let’s take a look.

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A Clean New Home Screen

Your doorway into the app is the new home screen. The design is simple, clean and informative, letting you quickly choose your next move. If you see something that inspires you, snap a photo, then mark it up and save it for later. If you want to point something out on a map, choose that option and send it to a friend. You can also mark up a webpage or start with a blank canvas.

New Tools

For this version of Skitch, we not only rebuilt and redesigned all the features you’re used to — like arrows, text and shapes — but we also added three new tools that make Skitch even more useful.

Pixelate
The new Pixelate feature is a great way to quickly obscure a part of an image that may contain personal or sensitive information. Take a photo or choose one from your gallery, tap the Pixelate tool and drag it across the section of the image that you want to hide. Now you can annotate and share an image without worrying that others will be able to read sensitive information in it.

Highlighter
When you need to emphasize something, the best way is often to use a highlighter. That’s why we created the new highlighting tool. Choose the highlighter, a color and line thickness, then start drawing. The lines appear just like a highlighter on paper, allowing you to clearly see the background objects.

Panning Tool
The left-most option on the toolbar is the Panning Tool. It lets you select, move and resize annotations. After you finish adding a shape, text or arrow, the Panning Tool is automatically selected, so that you can easily adjust the object.

Evernote-Powered Sync

At the bottom of the home screen, you’ll see a button labeled Show Skitch Notes. When you tap it, you’ll immediately see all of the Skitch notes that you have saved. What you may not realize is that you’re viewing these Skitch notes inside of Evernote.

We also added a Skitch Notes section to the home screen of the Evernote app to let you quickly jump to those notes.

You’ll need to have both Skitch and Evernote installed on your Android device to take advantage of all of the powerful sync features. Once you do synchronize, you’ll be able to view, edit and reposition the annotations using Skitch on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Windows 8.

Share It All

Skitch for Android also lets you share all of your ideas and annotations with anyone via email or on your preferred social networks. Tap on the Share icon at the top of the Skitch note, then choose your sharing method. Whichever social apps you use will appear in that list.

And So Much More

We’re really excited to bring you this new version of Skitch. Not only is it cleaner, faster and better than ever, but also thanks to all of the new Evernote cross-platform capabilities, you can now annotate something using Skitch on your Android phone and then continue working on it using Skitch for Windows or Mac. Everything is in sync.

We hope you like the new version of Skitch for Android. Let us know what you think.

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Getting Started

Get to know all of the new features in Skitch for Android by browsing the What’s New page, and find step-by-step guidance for using Skitch on Android in our Getting Started Guide.