About a month ago, I wrote about a program called ScreenSteps for creating documentation for work. I bought the program because nothing else was out there that I could find (I’m not ready to do video documentation), but had major reservations in that the app was created using a cross platform tool. I’ve been using ScreenSteps to create lots of documentation, but have grown increasingly frustrated at it as it is quirky. For instance, it doesn’t do auto spell checking since it doesn’t use standard Mac based text editing, re-ordering steps don’t always work, and the dialogs look like crap.
A few days ago, a product called MacSnapper was released. It had many similarities to ScreenSteps, but one huge difference; it is a Mac app through and through. I converted some documentation to it and quickly purchased it. I made a few suggestions to the developer and quickly got a response. I just have to convert the rest of my documentation to MacSnapper and then I can get rid of ScreenSteps; I kind of feel dirty using a cross platform application as applications like this just don’t act like Mac apps (I’m sure there are a few exceptions, but I haven’t seen them, yet).