A Free Alternative to Droplr: Monosnap!

byIveTriedThat

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12 years ago

By now most of you have received the Droplr email announcing the end of the free desktop snap shots. They're moving to paid model that starts a $4.99/month and a Pro model that goes up to $9.99/month. While I love the service, I couldn't justify spending $120 per year on it.

I started searching for an alternative and came across a powerful, FREE, new tool.

It's called Monosnap! And you can get it here https://www.monosnap.com/

Screenshots

Entirely just like Droplr, you can click on the Monosnap desktop icon and crop a portion of your screen. You can hit upload and the screenshot will be uploaded to your Monosnap account instantly and the URL will be copied to your clipboard.

The following screenshot is an example.

Fancy Screenshots

Here's where Droplr and Monosnap differ.

With Droplr, once you selected your screenshot, it automatically uploaded the picture and that was that. With Monosnap, an 'Edit' window pops up and you can then draw on the screen shot, add text, objects, and shapes!

You can create fancy screenshots like the following one in seconds!

Screencasts

By far my favorite new feature. You can select an area on your screen, hit record, and start narrating. Monosnap will make a video of your narration and upload it for you!

Try it now!

https://www.monosnap.com/

It's free! And they have Apps for Windows, Apple products, and Chrome!

I've only just started to dig around some of the available features. Let me know what you find!

Update: Regarding Their Terms of Service

I had a couple responses regarding their terms of service. Monosnap is a FREE service. When a product or service is free, YOU are what's being bought and sold.

Here is a line from their terms of service:

3.7. If you post Content to the Project, unless we indicate otherwise, you give Administration and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content in connection with:

This means you grant Monosnap permission/ownership of whatever you upload and they may use it pretty much however they wish. Facebook and Google both have similar terms regarding what you upload. While concerning, you should always read the terms of a program before you join.

Don't upload anything that you wouldn't be OK with granting them the rights to. I know I won't.