Back in August, multi-platform note-taking company Evernote bought out Skitch, a Mac app which lets you snap screenshots, annotate them and share them. Skitch offered little that couldn't be gotten elswhere, but the level of polish made it a favorite. It then became an Android app and now, today, Skitch is out on the iPad.
Skitch for iPad is simple and easy to use, just as a good tablet app should be. You can get started by snapping a photo with the iPad 2 camera, importing an image, browsing to a web page and grabbing a screenshot or using the built-in support for Google Maps.
You can then annotate the pictures with various drawing tools: pencil, shapes, arrows and text, and you can also crop the image as you go.
Once done, you can share via mail, Twitter, AirPlay (to show off creations on the big screen) and plain old save to camera roll. There's also--of course--a special Save to Evernote button, which works via the web, even if you have the Evernote app installed.
And it's very neat. The interface is simple and never gets in the way (although the fact that your saved Skitch sketches sit alongside the new document icons on the home screen is a little odd) and it is super-fast to use. Bonus: if there's any text in your images, it'll be OCRed by Evernote.
Best of all, it's free. Go download it now and be ready to send an annotated map when your dumb Christmas dinner guests get lost trying to find your home. How hard can it be to spot a house with 56,100 LEDs flashing festively, anyway?
Skitch for iPad is Here! [Evernote Blog]
