MacLife - UK (2019-12)

Image rights from left: Global Delight, Apptorium.

Capto is designed to capture your screen. It can do that as a

still image or it can record video of all or some of the screen,

capturing either the app’s audio or your own narration. That

means it’s useful for creating training videos, presentations,

and content for platforms such as YouTube.

You can cut, crop, join and trim video clips, add

annotations and highlights, and adjust the audio levels.

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you can export in .mp4 or .mov format with presets for

iPods, iPhones, iPads and Apple TV, as well as Mac and PC.

The key rival here is ScreenFlow, which is more expensive

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and in our experience more stable, too. If we needed to do a

lot of screen recording for work or YouTube, time is money,

so that’s the app we’d want to use. However, for simple

projects without too much need for editing, Capto is quite

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what you want to do.

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editing for screencasts and training. CARRIE MARSHALL

Sidenotes sits at the side of your screen, out of

the way but always accessible while you work, and

it sits on top of every other window. Notes can be

color–coded and grouped into folders, created

directly from the contents of the clipboard, and

formatted as plain text, Markdown, or code. And

you can drag and drop images, links and code

snippets onto them.

It’s a great way to keep snippets of text or

images in front of you while you work. You can

also use it for to–do lists, and the support for

different folders means you can keep only the

notes you need visible. Sidenotes also supports

share extensions to share notes with other apps.

There are limitations, though. Even on a large

screen, it doesn’t take long before notes push past

the bottom of the screen and you have to scroll

down to see them (you can make them wider, but

that defeats the point). And there’s no way to

allocate deadlines or create reminders.

THE BOTTOM LINE. Useful for keeping your

notes close to hand, but relatively expensive.

KENNY HEMPHILL

Capto

Simple screen capturing

$29.99 From Global Delight, globaldelight.com

Needs OS X 10.10 or later; 64–bit processor

Sidenotes

Note–taking made easy

$19.99 From Apptorium, apptorium.com

Needs macOS 10.14 or later; 64–bit processor

CAPTO

Relatively cheap

Easy to use

Limited features

Basic export options

SOLID

SIDENOTES

Lots of keyboard shortcuts

Can add images to notes

Expensive

Can’t add deadlines to checklist items

GREAT

Tough testing, trusted ratings

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