Many months ago I got a quick peek at something the folks over at Realmac Software were cooking up called LittleSnapper. Being a huge fan of RapidWeaver, I had very high expectations for this app and I was very excited to get the opportunity to review LittleSnapper.

If you had to describe LittleSnapper in a basic way, it would be described as a screen capture tool, but the advanced features included make the app so much more than that. Whether you want to capture your desktop, an application, a browser window, or pretty much anything else visible on your desktop LittleSnapper has the capability to do it. Taking the actual shots can be done via keyboard shortcuts or through the item in the menu bar.

There are a variety of snapping options which give you free range to capture the entire desktop, an area, a window, and more. One of the coolest features is you can open the current website you are looking at right inside LittleSnapper, and proceed to take snaps including specific DOM elements on a page. Very nifty!

Whether it’s taking snaps for product reviews, assisting with technical support, or one of other many things I do, I can easily accumulate a ton of screenshots. This is where LittleSnapper really shines because many other screen capture utilities do not off any way of keeping them organized. Snaps taken are put inside a library in LittleSnapper, which can then be placed in collections. From there you can proceed with other tasks such as tagging and rating the snaps.

Previously, after taking the screen caps I need I would have to open and edit them in tools such as Pixelmator or Photoshop. Thankfully, they took editing seriously and included a fantastic editor inside LittleSnapper. Now this won’t replace your existing image application, but it includes all the editing features you would need for screen caps likes cropping, text, blurring, arrow tools, and more. Of course, if you wish to use an external image editor, LittleSnapper can easily export the editor of your choice with just a few clicks.

So at this point you have taken your snaps, organized them, and edited them. What’s left you ask? Well sharing them with the world of course! Once again hats off to the developers at Realmac for taking the time to make publishing these images a snap. Standard exporting options are there if you want to export to a .PDG or common image types like JPEG or PNG. However, publishing to the web is what it’s all about these days, and publishing to sites like Flickr, your own FTP, and to Realmac’s own Quicksnaper is a breeze.

Realmac Software definitely took their time and effort and used it very wisely, as the first release of LittleSnapper is a definite winner. Just about every tool you need to take and manage screen snaps is in there, and I can only imagine what they have planned for future updates. I can’t help but give LittleSnapper 5 stars!

LittleSnapper is available starting at $39, with studio licenses available as well. A free trial is also available which I encourage everyone to grab and give it a shot.