14 DAY TRIAL // The people at Evernote are on a roll, launching their third new app in less than a month, this time aiming to make it easier for you to express yourself. It’s called Skitch and it’s an iPad-only affair. Read on for the details.
Evernote, the studio behind one of the world’s most popular note-taking apps, has launched Skitch for iPad which lets you employ shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to make a point.
“Millennia ago, all you needed to get a point across to your buddies was charcoal and a cave wall or a pointy stick and some sand,” Andrew Sinkov blogs for Evernote. “Now, we sit for hours crafting passive-agressive emails to make a point that once was communicated with an arrow and a grunt. There’s beauty in that simplicity. Let’s return to it.”
Enter Skitch, which lets you mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone.
You can use the app to draw stuff, share your work in real time via AirPlay on Apple TV, brainstorm design ideas with your team, identify a point of interest on a map, and much more.
Skitch also has Evernote integration, so you can save everything if you have an account.
“Skitch is the amazingly fun and surprisingly powerful way to move your ideas and projects forward using fewer words,” Sinkov continues.
The Evernote team member says they wanted to go iPad only for the initial release of Skitch, explaining that “it’s the ideal form factor for tactile annotation.” The Evernote team promises to roll out an iPhone version soon.
The app is free to download and use, and requires iOS 5.0 or later.