Preview vs ScreenFlow

Preview

Description: Preview is a free and open-source document viewer application for macOS. It allows quick viewing of multiple file formats including images, PDFs, Markdown files, Office documents, and more. Preview has basic editing capabilities and annotation tools for PDFs.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

ScreenFlow

Description: ScreenFlow is a powerful video editing and screen recording software for macOS. It allows users to record, edit and publish high-quality screencasts, tutorials, product demos and more from their Mac screen. ScreenFlow makes it easy to add transitions, annotations, animations, captions and more to captured video and audio.

Type: software

Preview Features

• View PDFs, images, text files and more
• Annotate PDFs with shapes, text boxes, signatures
• Basic image editing tools
• Fill out and sign PDF forms
• Combine PDFs and export as PDF or other formats
• Tabbed interface to view multiple files
• Quick Look support to preview files
• Built-in screen capture tool

ScreenFlow Features

• Screen recording
• Video editing
• Annotations
• Transitions
• Animations
• Closed captions
• Chroma key
• Audio editing
• Export to various formats

Preview

• Open Source

ScreenFlow

• Not listed