People usually defend it as “quality” though but that’s very subjective imo.
- annotated screenshots* of the app UI (e.g. on https://lunar.fyi/faq#bad-ddc)
- instant web links to optimized videos of screen recordings, that I can easily paste in an email
- the Mac recording is usually an uncompressed MOV which you have to spend time and battery to recompress using ffmpeg and upload somewhere
To do that without Cleanshot, I would have to go through an image editing software like Pixelmator, which I use sometimes for more complex tasks, but it's many times slower than select region of screen to screenshot, annotate, Cmd-C, Cmd-V
It saves me way more time than what amounts to $30.
It definitely is relative, if you don't have this kind of need or workflow, $30 seems like too much for screenshots.
* One nitpick I had with it was that the resulting screenshots were not size optimized, so I created a free app that optimizes the app in the clipboard directly: https://lowtechguys.com/clop
If it puts food on the table of someone that might be not writing bleeding edge algorithmic software, but take cares of reliability, system integration, UI designs and UX patterns of a scoped problem to solve, I'll have hard time to be against it.
I annotate screen grabs daily as part of my job and never found anything that comes close to CleanShot X. Would love to hear what's new and worthy on the market!
I asked for a Photoshop alternative for a commercial setting and you basically linked me to a Gimp.
It's like when people ask for an alternative to a managed MS Office 365 service and somebody replies with "just use LibreOffice" lol.
No mate, no. No way!