This App Instantly Blocks Out Sensitive Info From Your Mac Screenshots

Screenfloat 2 ($ 14.99) is one of my favorite screenshot applications for Mac, offering additional features such as timed screenshots and a color selector. Its last update adds a key confidentiality functionality that I really appreciate – Smart Redaction. There is nothing new in the fact that the contents released from a screenshot, but the new version of Screenfloat automatically detects certain types of sensitive information and helps you refuse it in a few clicks, for greater convenience. Compatible information includes addresses, telephone numbers, email links and addresses, all which you can now make comparation quickly and without having to manually select an editorial area.

By taking a screenshot in Screenfloat 2, your image will appear in a floating window, which you can now right-click to try the new data recognition feature (over-peripheral, so that you do not leave your computer). To test this, I took a screenshot of a text with some email addresses, links, dates and phone numbers. The application was able to detect all these things easily and allowed me to bring them all in one go (although I could have expurgated one to-one if I preferred). That said, when I found that the functionality works perfectly if each element is on a separate line, if you have several elements that you need to crack in the same sentence, the application can sometimes miss one or two characters.

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Reuse is much safer than the jamming of sensitive information in screenshots, and being able to do it in a few clicks is a boon to really encourage me to care. The blur can be defeated without too many problems, but the editorial staff works by placing a solid black box on parts of your screenshot, which means that once the image saved, you cannot decipher what is under the bits expurgated. But if confidentiality is not your main concern, there are some other features in this Screenfloat update. My favorite is that the application now allows you to take screenshots on your Mac and annotate them on your iPad. It is ideal for people who prefer to use an iPad with an Apple pencil, and is available thanks to a new Apple continuity marking medium.

Screenfloat also supports screen records, and this update facilitates them. He adds the support for editing markers to screen recordings, which facilitates the tab on all the changes you make during a modification. Now, when you change the audio settings, by arousing the recording or switching to another application, the application automatically deletes these markers to help you “sign” the location of your modification. You can also use the application to export screen recordings in the form of GIF.

There are also a few other minor adjustments, such as the possibility of defining a personalized file name format for screenshots, a new keyboard shortcut for a full screenshot (the default value is to press Command-Shift-2), and the option of adding a Drop Shadow effect to annotations.