Hmmm. Y'know iOS has a built-in screen recorder; you enable it in the Control Center Settings. It captures a full-screen video that you can edit with the Photos app, or any 3rd party video app. I suspect that you will not find a 3rd party app that works as you wish, because of Apple's privacy concerns about screen access.
I think that's correct. I don't think there is any recording app that can do those things. There are editing apps that can accomplish all of that after the fact. The photos app can do some basic cropping. iMovie can do much more (see the App Store description. LumaFusion is the ultimate, and can do virtually anything.
Thank you very much @uncledave , @wim and @tpj for your reaction and explanations.
After 3 months with my first iPad, I find that I had somewhat exaggerated ideas that everything on iOS would be better from a user perspective than on Windows. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but I'm successfully getting used to it.
If you've listed the best 3rd party apps that could be used, the selection is quite limited for what I need (and vice versa, I don't need)
FCPX (Final Cut Pro( has a subscription model - nope.
DaVinci - 3.3GB, $95 - overkill
LumaFusion is primarily for video editing - don't need this feature at all.
ProCreate Dreams - I'll look into it, though I think it'll be more for creative painters than for adding annotations to a screenshot.
Now I'm sorry I didn't state in my initial post why I need such an app.
99% of the time I use FSCapture to document an issue that I report on. The vast majority of cases are about taking a picture of part of the screen and adding graphical annotations (arrows, frames, text annotations). This is the basis to which I would like to find a suitable application.
Always a good idea to describe your intended use case:) If reporting issues with a (static?) screen shot is all you need, then no need to buy any apps. Use the iPad button combo to take the screen shot, then open it in Photos and hit Edit. You can easily add frames, arrows, text, etc., in various colors, and crop the selection. Give it a try.
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Now I'm sorry I didn't state in my initial post why I need such an app.
99% of the time I use FSCapture to document an issue that I report on. The vast majority of cases are about taking a picture of part of the screen and adding graphical annotations (arrows, frames, text annotations). This is the basis to which I would like to find a suitable application.
You probably already have all the tools you need right in iOS. Just do a screenshot, then go to the photos app and hit Edit. There you can crop to whatever are you need, add arrows, boxes, text, callout boxes, highlighter pen, free drawing pen, all kinds of shapes, a magnifier etc.
Yes. The inbuilt ios screen recorder has an inbuilt 3 second delay. Not sure if that can be adjusted but it's not really important as you can just quickly edit your video. Same with a screenshot, it can be edited after.
The only feature I ask of Apple's Built-In screen-capture function is to indicate finger or pencil taps on the recorded video.
I HATE using a mouse with the iPad as it totally destroys 'touch experience' which is the main reason I love using the iPad.
Sometimes it could be nice to be able to overlay the front-camera when screen-recording, this can be done when using for example Keynote to record a presentation by just adding a live-video object using the front-camera into the presentation...
Thanks for mentioning Photos, I thought it is just a browser.
The delay is very useful when you can't (or find it difficult) to press the iPad's screen capture buttons. For example I want to capture event caused by my playing on MIDI keyboard or guitar playing. So my hands are "busy" somewhere else at that moment.
The delay is very useful when you can't (or find it difficult) to press the iPad's 2 screen capture buttons. For example I want to capture event caused by my playing on MIDI keyboard or guitar playing. So my hands are "busy" somewhere else at that moment.
Thanks for mentioning Photos, I thought it was just a browser
[edit] humm ... wait a sec. Let me check if you can do something like that with the Shortcuts app. There are a ton of useful image thingies in there. I use it all the time to shrink the size of screenshots to keep from overloading the poor forum server.
Oh yeh ... it's totally easy to set up a Shortcut to wait a certain number of seconds then take a screen shot.
Let me see if you can make it prompt you for the number of seconds or if you have to make different Shortcuts for different delay times.
Wait .. so I don't need to record a video and find frame?
Is this similar to what I'm looking for?
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I do think I remember there is some way I tried using assistive touch that kind of worked but didn't give the results I was looking for. I just want to use my ipad as normal but have it show a dot every time I tap, drag, zoom or whatever, while using the iPad totally normally. 99.9% sure that's not possible
I've tried to play around with custom gestures in assistive touch and it's a so-so working hack-around that has to be set up for each app separately, even when enabled it will not properly show swipe-gestures using two or more fingers, long-taps are not indicated and fast double-taps are not 'detected' (ie. no visual change in the 'blob' during double-tap since the pointer doesn't move).
Using mouse on the iPad irks me so much that I simply won't use it just to have a pointer on the screen...
...it totally destroys the 'touch experience' and the 'assistive touch blob' is always 'in the way' somewhere on the screen even when it's faded out.
I know on the M2 iPads the Apple Pencil has a 'hoover option' which could be practical but I won't get a new iPad for one feature alone and since even that is not 'recorded' by default in screen-recordings it's totally meh...
But in some countries where end-users are more likely to blame a company such as Apple instead of admitting they are total idjeets some limitations have to be added... (I mean suing McDonalds because the Coffee is too HOT? Gimme a break!)
It should be up to the end-user to be 'smart enough' to know what to enable or disable on a need to use basis.
But the harsh reality is that some don't want to take responsibility for their own actions and blame a 3rd party.
We've had incidents here when customers sue the supplier of network-equipment 'because they were hacked' and it turned out that they did not follow the recommendation to change the default password...
I wanted to learn a little bit more about this application, but despite my best Google-fu, I didn't have much luck. Apart from a generic email address for support that gets published on the site, I can't really find anything. I saw several reports of folks getting no response from the email.
There is no engagement from a developer or company that I can find at all. Not even a country of origin for this software. Even though it has been around a long time, in this day and age especially, it's very odd.
I really liked the feature list for this, but it's just a bit shady for my tastes. I thought I would check in here to see if anyone else has happened to determine more about this application and what's behind the curtain.
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