Show HN: Zappy, a fast, free screen capture tool for macOS from Zapier

  • Looks like a great little tool. The only question I have is why is it macOS only? Is the entire Zapier company using Apple?

    I currently use flameshot for Ubuntu which works pretty well

    https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot

  • Download link, since it's a bit buried: https://zapier.com/zappy

  • How does it differ from MacOS' excellent screen capture tool? It does what you describe, and also captures videos.

  • macOS already includes fantastic screen capture functionality, not only drag-to-select but whole windows, video, mic for narration, the works. What extra value does your product bring to the table?

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721#mojave

  • I feel these kind of apps should have plugin to upload to other services. I hate waiting for the developer to release the integration.

    for macos, I find monosnap pretty good.

    for windows, sharex is awesome!

  • It works great but the 2-minute recording limit is a frustration for anyone recording long videos. Will the time-limit be removed in the future?

  • I have been a long user of recordit.co, but it has been a bit outdated, but it's free.

    It will be great to have it with a limited space for free usage.

  • I would have expected Zapier integration would have been a given! How will that work?

  • Having to log into an external account makes this a hard pass for me.