Evernote Buys Skitch, Releases It Free On Mac, Porting To iOS

 

style="text-align: left;">href="http://cdn.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mzl.ipizzetz.800x500-75.jpg">class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23156" title="mzl.ipizzetz.800x500-75" src="http://cdn.everythingicafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mzl.ipizzetz.800x500-75.jpg" alt="" width="560" height="350" />href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id425955336?mt=12">Skitch is a light-weight image capture and editing app that’s been a popular Mac app for years — and we just heard that href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/evernote-acquires-image-sharing-site-skitch/">Evernote bought out the company, and have some major plans in the works. They’ve already knocked the price down to a nice round $0.

If you haven’t used Skitch before, here’s a quick rundown of what it can do:

• Screen grab your desktop, web browser or apps/> • Annotate with pen, text, shapes and arrows/> • Instantly upload to skitch.com, Flickr, FTP & .me/> • Resize, crop, rotate & flip images/> • Capture full length (longer than your screen) websites/> • Take photos with your built in webcam/> • Open and save in many different image formats/> • Archive and re-use images from your Skitch history

The other cool thing? Today also saw the launch of a free Android version, with an iOS one in the works.

Evernote acquired the software in order to beef up their annotation abilities, so by integrating with Skitch you’ll be able to scribble notes all over your friends’ shared files.