Lets say you try to take 3 or 4 pictures rather quickly. With GrabUp thats possible and easily manageable. With Skitch, well now you have to Upload, Click “Share”, load the web page, and copy the link, numerous times. When I Skitch an image, I will add annotations, arrows, text, etc. Jing, has yet again a different purpose. Video file sizes, although extremely well compressed by Jing, still take much longer to upload then a simple image. Its image annotator is slightly less usable then Skitch’s. Again I’m trying to get across that the audience and occasion is different for each application.

What I feel is most important is that GrabUp has latched onto a single idea and perfectly executed it. Its simple, easy to use, effective, fast, and a pleasure to use. Thats exactly what Mac applications are supposed to be.

I hear plenty of people say they use this or that 5+ times a day. Well this is one of those applications where you can use it so easily it will literally be like moving your mouse across the screen and you’re interacting visually with someone across the net. Pretty cool stuff.

Finally, there is no doubt that all three of these applications are extreme improvements on their Windows counterparts (I know Jing is available for Windows). In such an online collaborative world its good to see that Mac users are bridging that gap in rather interesting ways; I don’t see the same on other operating systems.

http://jingproject.com/