The Day Skitch Stopped Working — Which Screenshot Annotation Tool Should You Use in 2026?

I tried to annotate a bug report screenshot, like I do every morning. Skitch wouldn't launch. It was the day after I updated to macOS Tahoe. Nothing but a crash log. That familiar green icon — gone. It's 2026 now. Skitch's development effectively stopped in 2016. The Windows, iOS, and Android versions were officially discontinued back in January 2016. Only the Mac version kept working by some miracle. That miracle just ended. PureMark Annotate is a free image annotation tool that works right in your browser. No installation, no account required. For those who loved Skitch's simplicity. A Decade of "Just Adding Arrows" — Gone What made Skitch great was that it didn't try to do too much. Take a screenshot. Add an arrow. Drop some text. Apply a mosaic blur. Done. Ten seconds from launch to finish. Daily bug reports, documentation images, diagrams for Slack — all Skitch. And now it won't open. Time to find a replacement. The first thing I saw was Snagit. I Couldn't Justify $39/Year for Sna