Guides for screenshots, window layouts, a document camera, and tables

Screenshots, recording, and annotation

Shoverlay on Mac

Choose a Mac app for screenshots, scrolling pages, and screen recording

See which capture jobs a menu-bar app should cover — a selected area, one window, a long page, the full display, and a recording — and how to do each one in Shoverlay.

Best CleanShot X Alternative for Mac screenshots and screen recording

Keep the CleanShot X jobs you still need — an area, a window, a scrolling page, annotation, and a recording — with Shoverlay, at a lower yearly price.

Best Snagit Alternative for Mac screenshots and screen recording

Keep the Snagit jobs you still need — a region, a scrolling page, annotation, and a recording — with Shoverlay, at a lower yearly price.

Capture a screenshot on your Mac and mark it up

Take an area, window, or full-screen shot, then add arrows, text, blur, and step numbers before you copy or save it.

Capture a long scrolling page as one image on your Mac

Stitch a webpage, document, or chat into a single screenshot, then save or annotate that image.

Record your Mac screen with sound, clicks, and a webcam

Record an area, a window, or the full display as video or a GIF, including system audio, your microphone, and an optional camera overlay.

Copy text from your Mac screen without retyping it

Select words on the screen, or read the text in a screenshot you just took, and paste them somewhere else.

Pin a screenshot above your other Mac windows

Keep a reference image floating on screen while you work, then move it, resize it, or close it when you are done.

Take a Mac screenshot without desktop icons or a disappearing menu

Hide desktop clutter, freeze a hover menu, and delay the shot so the picture shows the state you meant to capture.

A USB document camera on Mac

VeeCam

Best IPEVO Visualizer Alternative for a USB document camera on Mac

Present a worksheet live, or scan an open book, with VeeCam instead of IPEVO Visualizer. The pages stay on your Mac.

Best HoverCam Alternative for a USB document camera on Mac

Show a page live, draw on it, or save a scan with VeeCam instead of HoverCam. Requires an external camera.

Show a paper live on your Mac with a USB document camera

Plug in a document camera, then freeze, zoom, or rotate the page so a class can see a worksheet. VeeCam uses an external camera, not the built-in FaceTime camera.

Scan an open book on your Mac without taking it apart

Capture a two-page spread or a single page from a book, textbook, worksheet, or ID, and save the scan on your Mac.

Draw on a live document-camera view while you explain

Mark up the camera picture, or switch to a light or dark board, so people can follow the point you are making.

Compare several pages side by side from a document camera

Put two, four, or six views on screen, mix in a snapshot or an imported image, and cover the part you are not discussing.

Read text from a document camera out loud on your Mac

Recognize the words under the camera and have the Mac read them. The page stays on your Mac.

Choose Mac software for a USB document camera

See what you need for a live class view and for a saved scan, and how VeeCam handles both with an external camera.

Arrange the windows already on your Mac

Gablet

Best Magnet Alternative for arranging Mac windows

Throw a window to a half, a corner, or two-thirds, or snap it to an edge, with Gablet instead of Magnet.

Best Moom Alternative for saving and restoring a Mac window layout

Save the windows you actually use and put that desk back with Gablet instead of Moom.

Move a Mac window to a half, a corner, or two-thirds in one motion

Throw the window under your cursor into place with Quick Throw, including a window that is not in front.

Snap a Mac window to the screen edge or a size you draw

Drag a window to an edge, or to an area you set up, when a half-screen split is not the layout you want.

Save a Mac window layout and restore it later

Put your browser, Finder, and document back where you left them by restoring one saved layout.

Slide extra Mac windows off the screen and bring them back

Stash one side of the desk, hide everything but the window you are using, or cycle through what you tucked away.

Keep one Mac window fixed while you rearrange the others

Pin a reference window with Pin Mode and let the remaining windows reflow around it.

Arrange Mac windows from the menu bar

See how Quick Throw, snap areas, saved layouts, Stash, and Pin Mode divide the work of putting windows where you need them.

Turn a table into Excel on iPhone or iPad

Tablune