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Mike Knoop

Zappy for macOS - Zapier's fast, free screen capture tool for remote teams

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When you're spread out, communication gets harder. We built Zappy to help. Our remote team of 300+ uses Zappy daily to share annotated screenshots, GIFs, and recordings in just a few clicks. Today we're releasing it for free.

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Jonathan Baillie Strong
Handy. Will you include system audio as well at some point?
Mike Knoop
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@jonbstrong we can consider that. Have a good use case in mind?
Jonathan Baillie Strong
@mikeknoop I use screen recordings to send feedback to the podcast editors I train and contract out to. We need system audio to hear the podcast audio
Stefan 'Steve' K.
Love it! I'd like to request two things if possible: 1) a zoomed preview when selecting the area to capture 2) a shortcut (like Cmd+C) when selecting an area to copy the hex color under the mouse cursor
Tregg
This is rad!
Chris Sheffield
Played with it for 5 mins today. Loking what I have seen so far.
Chris Messina
I feel like this is the result of one of those moments where someone at Zapier didn't like the existing solutions (although there are very good solutions (CleanShot 2.0, Xnip, etc), and thought they could build their own, started using it internally, and then thought "we should release this". DOA for me since it requires a paid Zapier account to use at all.
Mike Knoop
Maker
@chrismessina for clarity, Zappy does not require a paid Zapier account, it stores captures locally for free. That said, If you log in with a paid Zapier account we'll host the captures which makes sharing faster.
Lars
I joined Zapier just over 6 months ago and reluctantly installed Zappy. I was a die-hard Skitch user for years so wasn't thrilled at the prospect of switching tools. Within about a week (no joke), I was totally sold. Zappy is excellent (and there's room for improvement—especially when it gets supercharged with connections to Zapier for image-first automations). A few pro tips: take a screenshot, then press cmd+c to just copy the image itself to your clipboard for easy pasting. If you prefer to share images as links (and you have a pro account), you can press enter and it'll upload to S3 then give you a shareable link. Personally, I prefer copying the image (almost always) and only use the link itself if I'm linking off some text. Pro tip #2: learn the keyboard shortcuts (there's like 5 + colors). Super easy and handy to snap a shot, add an arrow, add some text, cmd+c to copy, and voila. Pro tip #3: it takes videos/GIFs! So. Fast... and easy for quick screen shares. As a student of startups, I always worry about our small team stretching too thin... but I'm optimistic about us sharing Zappy because it's so handy and now I can use it on my personal laptop too 🤞
Daniel Bowett
I can't get it to open on my mac. I'm running Mojave - 10.14.6. I unzip the file, run it but nothing happens. Anyone got any ideas?
Leo Selie
@bowett Have you moved/copied the Zappy app in your Application folder? You should be able to double-click on it then (Finder > Applications > Zappy) and it will appear in your menubar on top.
Etienne Dayer
@bowett @leo_at_zapier same problem on my computer even after moving it to the application folder
Daniel Bowett
@leo_at_zapier Thanks for the reply. Yes I did try that, same result. I can see it in Activity Monitor but it never opens and is stuck at no CPU and same memory. So it looks like it starts but crashes early on and doesn't terminate properly.
Leo Selie
@bowett @etienne_dayer1 I'd suggest completely moving Zappy and try again. I did a quick check to see which locations it's creating files and was able to find them here: https://really.iamno.pro/12uyxxXx Feel free to tag me again if that doesn't help :)
Etienne Dayer
@bowett @leo_at_zapier I tried this as well without any luck!
Michael The Geek 
Looks very nice.
Etienne Dayer
Does not open on my Macbook. I am running macOS Catalina 10.15.4. I have put the file inside the application folder. Any idea what is happening?
Marcos Ortiz
@mirkokiefer @mikeknoop I'm not a Mac user, but this is an incredible and useful way to capture your screen. Well done. cc @zapier
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