Balsamiq Wireframes Changelog

What's new in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.5

Apr 24, 2024

Windows and Mac: We improved the filter for Quick-Add and Transform control.
Windows: We fixed an error that triggered when you used the left or right arrow when you had the focus on the navigator.
Mac: We restored the Quicklook feature on the latest version of MacOS.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.4 (Oct 17, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.3 (Jul 10, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.2 (May 4, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.1 (Mar 8, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.6 (Feb 6, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.4 (Nov 30, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.3 (Nov 14, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.2 (Nov 7, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.1 (Oct 11, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.5 (Aug 4, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.4 (Jul 8, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.3 (Jun 14, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.2 (May 11, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.1 (Apr 13, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.8 (Mar 15, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.7 (Mar 13, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.6 (Feb 13, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.5 (Feb 9, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.2 (Dec 15, 2021)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.1 (Nov 17, 2021)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.1.1 (Jul 22, 2020)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.16 (Aug 9, 2018)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.11 (Jun 22, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.9 (Apr 27, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.7 (Feb 16, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.6 (Jan 9, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.5 (Oct 13, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.4 (Oct 10, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.1 (Sep 21, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.5 (Aug 31, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.4 (Jul 27, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.2 (Jul 1, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.1 (May 31, 2016)

(OPTIONAL) MANUAL SAVE:
One of the most daring features of Mockups 3 was that everything was always and immediately automatically saved to disk. We thought everyone would love the peace of mind of not having to compulsively hit CTRL+S all the time, living in fear of losing their changes.
It turns out, while most of you really do love it, you have clearly told us that there are some cases in which automatically saving to the original file all the time is not the right thing to do.
For instance, sometimes you want to just muck around some wireframes knowing that you'll be able to discard your changes easily at the end of your experimental session. Another case is when working on files stored on slow remote network drives, or busy shared folders. Saving all the time in these cases might slow you down, or generate too much network traffic. Last but not least, some of you just simply prefer to save manually: 30 years of computing and muscle-memory are hard to let go of! :)
To help with these issues, today we are introducing the option to turn off autosave in Mockups for Desktop.
Note: this doesn't affect the automatic saving we do on a local backup file, so if your computer crashes, you'll still recover every change. The option only turns off the automatic saving to the original file.
When automatic saving is off, you will use CTRL+S to save, and also be able to use "Reload from Disk" to quickly throw away your current set of changes.
The setting will be remembered across restarts and across projects, so you'll only really have to set it once.
ICONS IN LISTS:
You can now specify icons in the List control.
This is very useful when designing Android menus, as well many more kinds of menus and lists.
FONTAWESOME UPDATED TO 4.6.3:
Our friends at FontAwesome released an update, so we incorporated it.
More details can be found on the FontAwesome website.
AUTO-RECOVER IN CASE OF DATA CORRUPTION:
Just like any other file on your computer, in some rare cases our BMPR files might get corrupted.
To help mitigate the annoyance this might cause, we added automatic local backups back in version 3.1. The backups work well and usually make it so that no work is lost, but finding the backup was a bit cumbersome.
With today's release, we make the software do the work. When data corruption is detected, Mockups will now find the latest backed up file and recover it for you. Easy peasy! :)
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES:
Fixed an issue with importing symbols in BMML projects in some cases. Thanks Arno D. for reporting it!
Fixed a little issue with the Open Recent menu which showed the project name instead of the file path after renaming a project. Thanks Jerome for reporting it!
In Mockups 3 for Confluence Cloud, we now share full-screen settings between the macro, the presentation view and the mockups editor
Fixed an issue when promoting alternates to official with markup hidden. Thank you markusku for reporting it!
We now properly hide Quick Add in the Grid view.
We updated the Webcam control in the Wireframe skin to be gender-neutral. Thanks Oscar G. for bring this up!
We now allow Import JSON in Symbols as well as Mockups.
Fixed an issue when exporting some icons to BMML.
Fixed the title of the Rename Group dialog.
In our web versions, we now only allow caching of the skin files once per release.
Fixed an issue with links not showing up properly in Data Grids sometimes. Thanks Michael P. for reporting it!
Fixed an issue with using the {color} macro in the last row of a Data Grid. Thanks Steve H. for reporting it!
We now show [New Project] instead of the more cryptic [-] in the window title when a project has never been explicitly saved yet.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.14 (Apr 16, 2016)

EASIER ACCESS TO ALTERNATES:
You can now select alternates easily both from the navigator menu and the fullscreen navigator menu.
Thanks to all the people who asked for this on this thread, this one, this one, and via email.
NEW, MORE ANDROID-Y OPTIONS FOR CONTROLS:
So we heard this Android thing is getting popular and it looks like it might be here to stay ;) so we thought we'd make it easier to wireframe Android applications without having to use an external symbol library.
This release includes a first batch of changes, more will come in the future.
New Search Options:
We added a shape option to make the Search control have Rounded Corners or be Rectangular, made the search icon optional, and added an option to show or hide a microphone icon.
New Text Input Border Options:
We added an option to have the border of a Text Input control be only the bottom line, instead of a rectangle.
New Progress Bar Options:
We added a thin style and support for color to the Progress Bar. Nice and flexible.
New Alert Options:
We added a different style for the buttons (without a border), and added support for button color.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES:
Fixed an error when removing overridden properties of a stretched symbol instance.
Fixed an error when dragging symbols between libraries in some rare cases.
In our web-based versions, we improved the UX of downloading BMPRs and assets to your computer in Chrome (they fixed their bug). This was released as version 3.3.13 on March 25th.
Fixed an error when exporting arrows with default control properties to BMML.
Fixed an issue with restored mockups not ending up in their previous position in some cases.
Fixed the sorting of Quick Add to be case-insensitive.
Fixed an issue with us ignoring tab characters in some cases.
We now add the current date to the top of our log file (helps with debugging)
Fixed an error when undoing the transformation of a group to another control type.
Fixed a regression, where the ENTER key no longer entered a group or symbol instance.
Fixed a cosmetic issue with drawing a block of text while editing a group.
We changed the algorithm that decides to scroll content to the right when showing the right panel. It should happen less frequently now. Thanks Robson for reporting it!
Fixed a bug with CTRL+Z not working when editing text in some cases.
You can now copy/paste mockup and project notes without having to edit them.
We made it easier to rearrange mockups by dragging thumbnails. Thanks Aras_Kannu for requesting this!
Fixed an annoying "jump" when switching between mockups while in fullscreen.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.12 (Mar 16, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.11 (Mar 9, 2016)

Automatic Repositioning of Aligned Labels:
This little and nearly invisible feature will save you loads of time, especially if you create forms.
When labels are auto-sized, we now respect their text alignment property and move them accordingly after you change the text.
Duplicate an Alternate As a New Mockup:
Ever wanted to turn an alternate into its own mockup? You used to have to select all, copy, create a new mockup and paste.
As of today, you can just select the new "Duplicate As New Mockup" feature and pronto, you're done.
Shift+Scrollwheel for Horizontal Scrolling:
Are you on Windows and use a trackpad or a mouse with a mouse wheel? Or are you on Mac and use a Mighty Mouse? Then you might have gotten frustrated at our lack of support for horizontal scrolling.
Because of the platform we're using right now, we have limited support for horizontal scrolling, but we found a compromise! Just hold SHIFT and scroll up and down, and we'll interpret it as horizontal scrolling. Yay!
A Brand New Web Demo Project:
We spent some time to update the default project you see when you visit our Web Demo Version.
We now show a bunch of our newest features, and teach you how to use them. We even include some sample interactive prototypes in it to use as a starting point.
Other improvements and bug fixes:
Fixed an issue with exporting PDF when a mockup contained a link with a % character in it. Thanks Jeff A. for reporting it!
Fixed an issue with links not showing up in the right place in exported PDFs when the mockups were really tall. Thanks obg for reporting it!
Fixed an issue with links in PDFs not respecting the z-Order in some cases. Thanks Luis C. and Jeff B. for reporting it!
Fixed an issue with exporting Arrow controls to BMML in some cases.
Fixed an issue with the "remove overrides" button in the inspector maintaining focus. Thanks Kevin for reporting it!
Fixed an issue with Symbol overrides getting committed even after hitting Escape in some circumstances. Thanks for the bug report russ!
Fixed an issue with the mockup name tooltip not refreshing immediately after a duplicate or rename operation. Thanks Samuel D. and Robson W. for reporting it!
Fixed an issue with the Page Up and Page Down keys turning off Markup in some situations on Windows in Full Screen Presentation Mode. Thanks grebe for reporting it!
CTRL+D now duplicates the current mockup when the focus is in the navigator. Thanks Michael H. for requesting it!
The little helper icon next to the Links inspector pointed to a 404 page. That's now fixed.
Fixed a strange little issue with the DataGrid showing the wrong label color in some cases. Thanks russ for the bug report!
Added support for the {mockup-name} macro in the Browser control. A good idea by cschriemer!
Fixed an old issue with text links when the URL contains - or _ characters. Finally!
Fixed an issue with the Button control not showing the text if the font size was set to 30 or higher.
We now properly center the line inside the H.Rule and V.Rule controls. Such a simple little thing, but so useful! Thanks so much ArcticMe for reporting the issue!
Fixed an issue with the Formatting Toolbar control not exporting properly in some cases.
Fixed a little regression in the help menu in the web versions (it was showing Register... as if it was on Desktop).
We now default to showing all branches of the mockups navigator as being open instead of closed. It gives you a better sense of the contents and size of the project when you first open it.
Fixed an issue with export to ZIP failing in some rare cases. Thanks for Ben G. reporting it!
We now fully disable Quick Draw when overriding symbol instances.
We restored the old v2 behavior of the Links Inspector when multiple controls are selected. Thanks Colin M., Chris G., and Colin McQ. for reporting it!

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.9 (Feb 9, 2016)

Full Screen Project Centering Rules!:
This is one of those rare features that's harder to explain than to use.
Here's the problem: when presenting your project in Full Screen Presentation mode, you might notice that most of your mockups end up in the top or top-left corner of the screen. This is because one of your mockups (perhaps a site map or another mockup that's not properly part of the prototype) is "too tall" or too wide, pushing everything else to the edge of your screen.
The solution: we now give you a quick way to figure out which mockup is "the offender" and to remove it from the centering calculation.
We are excited about this feature, it should take care of a bunch of separate requests: here's one from Sven, Jess_Readhead and Patty_Crain, one from lawrie, one from radiator, plus others from Aurora K., Abhishek R., Seth G. Mobile Tech Info, and more.
New "Read-Only" Mode
There are times where it's better to just let a user view a project without letting them make edits.
For instance:
In a web-based version of Mockups, when the Internet connection goes down and the editor works on reconnecting.
When opening a BMPR file with an expired trial license in Mockups 3 for Desktop.
Before today's release, we let users make changes in these occasions, but those changes were not being saved. As you can imagine, this led to some confusion and lost work.
Starting today, when one of the occasions above happens, the app will go in "read-only mode", meaning that you'll be able to see everything and even copy text from each control, but you won't be able to make changes to the project.
This will also be useful in the future when we add richer collaboration capabilities to the app: you'll be able to invite collaborators but only give them viewing rights instead of editing rights. Fancy!
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes:
We changed the keyboard shortcut for switching from Label to Text and from Text Input to Text Area from CTRL+ENTER to ALT+ENTER.Thanks kemch and hshubin for the smart request.
We added a link to the Data Grid Formatting Documentation directly in the default text of the Data Grid. Handy!
We made it easier to select objects near the top-left of the canvas.
We capture CTRL+T to transform in web-based versions as well.
You can now transform a Text Input into a ComboBox control. Thanks EdRyan for the request!
You can now transform a Tag Cloud into a Text control. Tomas_Kapler for the request!
Fixed how the ComboBox resizes when it has multiple lines of text, it's closed and autosized.
Fixed a regression: the alignment button had disappeared from the App Bar!
We improved the margins of the Arrow control. No more clipping! Thanks sgiroux as always!
Fixed a regression around exporting and cropping. Thanks so much Andi for reporting it!
We improved how we decide to show the "would you like to replace this asset" dialog when copying from one BMPR and pasting to another. Thanks David Y. for the report!
Fixed an issue with importing from JSON not working if the user was in the Assets view.
Fixed an issue with Zoom All to Fit not working in some cases. Thanks russ for the report!
Fixed an issue when dragging and dropping resulting in the wrong mockup being selected. Thanks aledis, Jerome R. and Aras_Kannu for the report!
Fixed an issue with undoing and redoing resizing of groups not working predictably in some cases.
We now prevent transforming a control type when overriding a symbol, to avoid bugs like the one diederick found.
We added the iPad control to the "Big" tag in the UI Library.
We fixed an issue in which the wrong symbol would get selected in the symbol library in some cases. Thanks Jerome R. for the report!
We fixed an issue with spurious "this file is locked" errors showing up when working on files saved in network drives. Huge thanks to Steve C. for all the help debugging this annoying behavior.
Fixed a run-time-exception when reconnecting (in our browser-based versions).
We updated our app's code-signing certificate.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.6 (Jan 15, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.5 (Jan 10, 2016)

New "Resize To" Feature:
You can now select multiple controls and resize them to match the widest, narrowest, tallest or shortest in the selection. This is SUPER-handy when creating sets of Buttons, for instance.
Much Improved Combo Box Control:
You can now change the text color, you can set a pulldown item as selected, you can set it to focussed mode (both when in Open and Closed state), it's now the same height as the Text Input control in the wireframe skin, you can use the x and o notations for checkboxes and radio buttons, the - or = notation for separators, you can add a scrollbar to it...it really is very powerful now.
Arrow Improvements:
The new Arrows have been universally very well received.
As with all major updates to a feature, some minor issues came up, which we're fixing today.
We fixed an issue with arrow resizing and padding in groups, improved how arrows resize when near the canvas edges, made arrows markup again (we had inadvertently changed this in 3.3), made it possible to revert overriding arrow positions and fixed an issue when exporting them to BMML.
We also made it possible to hold down SHIFT while dragging an arrow end-point to snap at 45 degree intervals. This also makes it very easy to draw straight horizontal and vertical lines, a request by sgiroux and harjeetgulati.
Easier Project Maps:
You can now create a Site Map control based on the contents of the project with just one click!
Other Fixes and Improvements:
Made \r line breaks work in the Alert control.
Changed the order of menu items in the right-click menu: now Select is above Lock).
Fixed the color of the scrollbar in wireframe skin (it was too dark).
We now make sure we save all updated thumbnails in the BMPR on project close or exit.
Fixed an issue with exporting when markup was hidden.
Fixed an issue with CTRL+TAB also indenting mockups on Windows. Thanks sgiroux for reporting it!
Improved the quality of cropped images. Thanks grebe for bringing it up!
Fixed an issue with mockup scroll position not getting restored properly when going from Symbols to Mockups in some cases.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.4 (Jan 7, 2016)

New "Resize To" Feature!:
You can now select multiple controls and resize them to match the widest, narrowest, tallest or shortest in the selection. This is SUPER-handy when creating sets of Buttons, for instance.
Thanks for those who requested this over the years; last but not least, ArticMe.
Much Improved Combo Box Control!:
You can now change the text color, you can set a pulldown item as selected, you can set it to focussed mode (both when in Open and Closed state), it's now the same height as the Text Input control in the wireframe skin, you can use the [x] and (o) notations for checkboxes and radio buttons, the - or = notation for separators, you can add a scrollbar to it...it really is very powerful now.
Thanks to all those who requested these improvement over the years, here or here or here or here or here or via email.
Arrow Improvements!:
The new Arrows have been universally very well received.
As with all major updates to a feature, some minor issues came up, which we're fixing today.
We fixed an issue with arrow resizing and padding in groups, improved how arrows resize when near the canvas edges, made arrows markup again (we had inadvertently changed this in 3.3), made it possible to revert overriding arrow positions and fixed an issue when exporting them to BMML.
We also made it possible to hold down SHIFT while dragging an arrow end-point to snap at 45 degree intervals. This also makes it very easy to draw straight horizontal and vertical lines, a request by sgiroux and harjeetgulati.
Easier Project Maps!:
You can now create a Site Map control based on the contents of the project with just one click!
Other Fixes and Improvements:
Made \r line breaks work in the Alert control.
Made some performance improvements in drawing our controls.
Changed the order of menu items in the right-click menu: now Select is above Lock).
Fixed the color of the scrollbar in wireframe skin (it was too dark).
We now make sure we save all updated thumbnails in the BMPR on project close or exit.
Fixed an issue with exporting when markup was hidden.
Fixed an issue with CTRL+TAB also indenting mockups on Windows. Thanks sgiroux for reporting it!
Improved the quality of cropped images. Thanks grebe for bringing it up!
Fixed an issue with mockup scroll position not getting restored properly when going from Symbols to Mockups in some cases.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.1 (Dec 3, 2015)

A New Way to Organize Your Mockups:
This has been one of our most requested features for years, and we've finally done it! You can now organize your mockups in groups, creating a simple parent/child relationship between them, just by using TAB and SHIFT+TAB. If you've used Powerpoint or Keynote before, this will feel very familiar to you.
This feature is useful for projects of all sizes, but it especially shines with larger projects.
Better Sizing of Thumbnails:
We now resize the thumbnails in the navigator proportionally, instead of just horizontally like before.
This works for Assets thumbnails as well, so if you want to see your images nice and big, now you can!
Big Boy Arrows:
The term "big boy arrows" comes from our friend and long-time-power-user Adam Wride, who used it in the Balsamiq Interviews eBook to describe what he wished our Arrow control would behave like.
Well, our arrows have finally grown up! You no longer have to fiddle with weird property inspectors about direction and curvature, you can simply drag the ends where you want them to be, and drag the middle control point to specify the curvature.
You can also adjust the position of the arrow's label, another highly requested feature.
We also, FINALLY, fixed the clipping bug for arrows when exporting them to PNG or PDF!
"Back" Meta-Link:
This is another little feature that's been requested for years. In short, you now have the ability to create a link that goes to the previous page visited while in Full Screen.
This is especially useful for modal dialogs that have to be invoked from different screens.
Due to technical limitations of the PDF format, this feature will sadly not work in exported interactive PDFs.
New "Link to a New Duplicate of This Mockup" Functionality:
We added the "Link to a New Mockup" feature a while ago. Today, following a good idea by ariley, we're also adding a variation that duplicates the current mockup instead of creating a new blank one. Handy!
We Now Remember Zoom and Scroll Settings across Restarts:
Another little but highly requested feature. We now do a better job at re-creating the exact situation you were in when you last closed a project, by saving zoom level and canvas scroll position on a cookie on your computer.
20 New Icons from FontAwesome 4.5:
We incorporated the newly released version 4.5 of FontAwesome, which comes with 20 new icons and a bunch of little fixes here and there (see details).
With this update, we were also able to improve how some 2.2 icons in BMMLs are converted when imported into v.3.
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes:
Resizing a selection from the top-left corner made the right side of the selection flicker. That's now fixed.
Similarly, drawing controls with R, T or Y from bottom-right to top-left made the right side of the new control flicker. This is now also fixed.
We improved how the button control works when small. Thanks wichase for your assistance!
We fixed an issue in the Data Grid where the text in the first row might be white instead of black when the header row was off, nothing was selected and the project selection color was dark.
Fixed an issue in the Data Grid showing a selected row at the bottom even after the text for that row was deleted.
The Property Inspector for Data Grid controls now says "Data Grid" instead of "List".
We fixed an issue with the List control not displaying properly when the font size was very big, some of the text "spilled over" the bottom of it.
We fixed an issue with icons getting underlined when a control's text was set to underlined. Thanks heringsfilet for reporting this!
Dragging mockups between projects now also brings any alternates along.
We changed how the Color Inspector looks to make it much clearer. Take a look:
newcolorinspector
We also moved the color picker for text color next to the other text-related settings, where it belongs:
textcolor
The Icon Inspector now shows which icon is selected, finally!
iconinspector
Thanks thesec and mhohlfeld and Tadhg_Kelly for requesting this!
We fixed an issue introduced in 3.2.3 with images with a transparent background getting a white background when cropped. Thanks Aude L. for pointing this out!
We made "Zoom All to Fit" work for alternates and mockups you hadn't visited yet as well.
We added a Project Link Color feature!
projectlinkcolor
This affects links all over the project.
The Inspectors for Symbols, Links and Data Grid now have handy help buttons that take you to their respective documentation article.
As a measure to future-proof our application, we added a check on the BMPR format version number when you try to open a project. If the format is too new to be compatible, Mockups will show you a message suggesting an update instead of trying to open the file, which could corrupt it.
Fixed an issue with the Alternates Panel getting "squished" when exiting Full Screen presentation mode.
We added a scrollbar to the Mockup Notes section. Great idea Liubi!
Fixed an issue with linked groups no longer showing the little linking arrow icon.
Fixed an annoying bug that made little changes "snap back". Finally!
Added Text Color support to Text Input and Text Area controls.
textinputtextcolor
We fixed the horizontal alignment of Checkboxes and Checkbox Groups, and of Radio Buttons and Radio Button Groups so that they look better when used together in forms.
We now show a more helpful error in the rare cases in which a BMPR cannot be loaded for some error.
Fixed the message you get when installing an extended trial key.
Fixed an issue with Custom Properties not showing up properly sometimes in web-demo or Mockups 3 for Google Drive. Thanks Paul F. for reporting this!
Improved the look of the ON / OFF switches in Full Screen Presentation Mode, to make the selected value more obvious.
newfullscreenswitches
Thanks phillipbligh for requesting this!
We added an option to only select the active mockups or only select official mockups in the Export PDF dialog. Handy!
newexportoptions
Thanks Chris_Gatland, Scott_Harrington, PhilippQF and Tony B. for requesting this!
We now use part of the original file name when creating our local working copy of your BMPR files, so that they're easier to identify should you need to.
We now maintain zoom level and scroll position when cloning a mockup.
We now remember the last folder you exported a PNG or PDF to and use it in the next export.
We made the Switch control a little smaller, to fit better in forms and in the iOS Menu control.
We darkened the look of the Switch control when in the OFF position in the wireframe skin.
We improved how the Calendar control behaves when resized to be pretty small.
We finally fixed a bug with the tooltips showing up too quickly. They should be a lot less annoying now. Thanks Ryan Shelby, Jim S, readygo and others for the request!
We fixed the icons for Distribute Centers: the horizontal and vertical ones were swapped! Thanks Patrick H. for bringing it up!
We now give you a handy way to lock controls from the right-click menu!
lock
Thanks ariley, Julio T. and Dirk K. for asking for it!
We now give you a handy way to edit a symbol's source from the right-click menu!
editsource
Fixed an issue with the Color Picker incorrectly behaving like a modal dialog.
We made \r work in the Alert control, in the 1st and 3rd line of text.
Made the text editing pop-up much faster. Since it's something we use all the time, this should be noticeable!
Fixed an issue with the Property Inspector "stealing" focus from the navigator.
Fixed an issue with the "Are You Sure you want to replace this file?" dialog not showing in some cases in OSX El Capitain. Thanks Jason H. for reporting it!
Changed our terminology from "Clone" to "Duplicate" everywhere, since cloning has a specific meaning for developers, and Duplicate is more generic and friendly to non-technical folks.
Fixed an issue in Mockups 3 for Google Drive when exporting to PNG when two mockups had the same name. Thanks Pete K. for the bug report!
The "Export Current Mockup to PNG" feature didn't propose a filename in Mockups 3 for Google Drive. It works now.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.2.4 (Oct 22, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.2.3 (Oct 14, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.9 (Aug 22, 2015)

FontAwesome everywhere:
As you know, we switched to using the FontAwesome icon set with the Balsamiq Mockups 3 for Desktop release back in March.
With today's release, we bring that same huge icon set (585 icons!) to all of our other products: myBalsamiq, Mockups for Confluence, Mockups for JIRA and even the old Mockups for Desktop 2.2!
This change will greatly improve the experience of using more than one of our products together. No more "image not found" errors when trying to upload a v.3 bmml to myBalsamiq!
Drag+Drop of Single Symbols in Balsamiq Mockups 3:
You can now keep your symbol libraries nicely organized by dragging and dropping single symbols from one library to another.
You can even drag a single symbol from a project to another, without having to drag the whole library with it!
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue in the DataGrid control when the last line of text was empty. Thanks Dorel D. for uncovering this bug!
Added a confirmation dialog when discarding alternates since it's not something you can undo (yet).
We now make a backup alternate of the official version when you promote an alternate to official, since promoting is not something you can undo (yet).
Improved the padding of the Button control in some configurations
Fixed a regression with the Tooltip inspector, sorry about that! Thanks Marcel W. and nzahavi for bringing this up!
Fixed an issue with images losing resolution when dragged from one project to another
On Windows, we now open a new empty project when you close the last project from the menu, instead of quitting the application. Thanks sgiroux for the suggestion!
Fixed an issue with "Learn More" links in Asset, Symbols and Trash empty states not working in our browser-based versions.
Fixed an issue with the official version getting deselected in the Export PDF dialog by accident. Thanks Scott_Harrington for the bug report!
In exported PDFs, we now properly point links to the official version's page, even if it has alternates. Thanks Scott_Harrington for bringing this up!
Fixed an issue with the Calendar control having days "spilling over" its edge.
Fixed a couple of issues with the Grid view.
Fixed an issue with rendering thumbnails of alternate mockups.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.8 (Jul 30, 2015)

Multiple Selection!:
You can now select more than one mockup, asset or trashed resource, and perform operations on the selected items all at once.
This is especially useful when you want to reorder multiple mockups, or delete unused assets in a project. We also have plans for making this feature more and more useful in the future, you'll see... :)
To select multiple items just use SHIFT+CLICK or CTRL+CLICK, just like in most other software that supports multiple selection.
As part of this feature, we also gave the Mockups and Assets navigator the ability to maintain keyboard focus. This means that after clicking on a mockup you'll be able to use the arrow keys to navigate through your project, or do things like hitting ENTER or F2 to rename the current mockup or asset (a heringsfilet idea). It's a small thing, but it will save you lots of time in the long run.
The navigator, without focus (left), and with focus (right). Subtle!
SIXTY-SIX New Icons with FontAwesome 4.4!
Horizontal Site Maps!:
The Site Map control is a popular one, but we've heard many times that it takes up a lot of space.
With today's release, you'll be able to use a new "Direction" toggle in the Site Map inspector to switch to a Horizontal view, which is just as clear, but more compact.
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes:
Added a little visual indicator for mockups that have alternates, and made the icon to switch multiple alternates at once a little more discoverable.
We added the CTRL+SHIFT+PAGEUP and CTRL+SHIFT+PAGEDOWN to navigate between a mockup's alternates. Handy! Thanks Michael E. and JeromeR for requesting this!
We fixed the name of the official version of a mockup to "Official Version", not "Official Versions".
We fixed a few pretty big memory leaks, the memory consumption shouldn't keep growing during normal operation any more.
We now sort items in the Trash alphabetically.
We fixed an issue with alternates showing up in a different order than their official version.
We fixed an issue with importing a bmml exported from Mockups for Confluence or JIRA.
We improved how the new Calendar control behaves at very small sizes.
We changed the Formatting Toolbar control to use the new FontAwesome icons instead of our old ones.
We fixed an issue with "Save as..." not saving thumbnails of alternate mockups properly.
We fixed an issue with Mockups not warning before overwriting a file in some cases.
We fixed an issue with Mockups not adding a .zip extension when exporting to BMMLs project in some cases.
Launching Mockups by double-clicking on a BMPR file no longer opens other projects that were open when you last closed the app (except for projects that have never been saved, otherwise you'd lose those). Thanks Bryan B. and ahobday for requesting this!
We fixed an issue with the position of cropped control changing on file re-open in some cases. Thanks John H. for reporting the bug!
We fixed an issue with maintaining proper cropping coordinates when importing from BMML. Thanks John H. for reporting this one too!
We fixed a little annoying visual bug with the progress bar moving up and down during long operations.
"Used By" in Assets now shows the mockup name along with the Alternate name when necessary.
We now support importing from ZIPs that have a single directory in them with all the bmmls and assets in it.
We fixed an issue with the Assets list not updating after a rename.
We fixed an issue with the text color of the selected UI Library control being black instead of white.
We fixed an issue with exporting mockups with # in their name to BMML. Thanks Andre M. for reporting this!
We fixed a bug with deleting mockups in rapid succession in big projects making the app unresponsive. Thanks JeromeR for reporting this one as well!
We fixed an issue with not being able to type the ć character on Polish keyboards. Thanks pataps for reporting it.
We fixed the conversion of the File icon from v2 to v3.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.7 (Jul 17, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.5 (Jul 8, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.8 (Apr 9, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.7 (Apr 3, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.5 (Mar 27, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.4 (Mar 24, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.2 (Mar 10, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.999.889 Beta (Feb 2, 2015)

Projects:
Finally. Not only can you have separate windows for different groups of mockups, but all the "stuff" that belongs to a project (mockups, symbols, images, icons) is in ONE file. This makes it much easier to send and move files and keep everything together.
Autosave:
Your projects are automatically saved. No need to save them manually. And when you restart Mockups everything will be right where you left off.
A new user interface:
Gone is the annoying flying property inspector! Now you have mockups on the left, and properties on the right. Simple, predictable and quick.
We've also merged the properties panel and UI Library into the same area to save space. You can toggle them manually (including hiding it completely) or let the properties panel show when a control is selected and the UI Library show otherwise (the default behavior).
And, of course, you can hide both panels by clicking the icon of the selected panel to deselect it, getting you into Zen-like wireframing nirvana.
Better Symbols:
In the previous version we called Symbols an "advanced feature." Well, no longer. Symbols are now for everyone. Symbols allow you to create templates, masters, and other reusable components to save time and ensure consistency. They are especially useful for big projects and custom controls and are central to our Mockups To Go site.
You can now just jump over to the Symbols panel and create a new one from scratch and it will appear in the "Symbols" tab in the UI Library. You can still create them the old-fashioned way (creating a named group and clicking the "Convert To Symbol" button).
We also now show Symbols as a list inside their Symbol Library, so you can more easily navigate between them and know which Symbol you're editing.
Finally, we make it much easier to import Symbols. Just click the "Import Symbol Library" icon and select the file to import.
Better icons:
Icons now have their own category in the UI Library so you can drag and drop them just like any other control.
Not only that, they show up in the Quick Add results, saving you time when searching by name or keyword.
Icon search results are shown below any UI controls that match the text you enter.
Better images and assets:
There is now a dedicated area for images and other imported assets, accessible from the navigator menu.
You can add images to your project without placing them in your mockups first. Click the "Import Asset..." icon to add a file from your computer or the "Download Asset..." icon to add an image from Flickr or the web. Or just drag an image on to the canvas from your computer.
You can also delete, rename, clone and download images from the context menu in the panel.
New full screen mode:
The same options are still there but we've overhauled the experience to make it better for usability testing and presentations. We also got rid of the problem where mockups would "jump around" in full screen mode.
Notes:
When no controls are selected you'll see a place to add notes in the Properties panel. You can add notes for Mockups, Assets, and Symbols and they will be saved as part of the project.
Trash:
Balsamiq Mockups 3 now has a Trash for mockups you have deleted. This makes it easy to keep your project tidy as you make progress but still allows you to browse or recover earlier concepts.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.21 (Mar 18, 2014)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.20 (Mar 13, 2014)

Links in text actually work:
This is a hugely requested feature, and one that will make creating prototypes SO MUCH faster and less painful.
In short, whenever using the [bracketed text syntax] to specify a link in your controls, you will be able to specify a link target as well, and the link will become clickable in Full Screen Presentation mode or in your exported PDFs.
The feature works in the following control types: Paragraph of Text, Geometric Shape, Data Grid, Label, Text Area, Sticky Note, Callout, Tooltip, Arrow, Horizontal and Vertical Curly braces, Checkbox, Radio Button, Tag Cloud, Icon and Label, Multiline Button.
New iOS controls:
We finally added an iPad control. We also added a Popover control, and revamped the look of our iPhone controls to match iOS7 a little bit more. We also renamed the category in the UI Library from "iPhone" to "iOS" and enhanced the iOS keyboard control to make it fit in both the iPhone and iPad controls.
Nudging improvements:
This one is a small one but highly requested one. Moving the selection with the arrow keys (what we call "nudging") used to move stuff 2 pixels at the time (20 if you held the SHIFT key down).
Now that we have a more precise wireframe skin, sometimes that 2 pixel granularity made it hard to align things. Starting today, we now move things 1 pixel at the time, but if you're in a hurry, you can continue to hold SHIFT down and jump 20 pixels at the time.
While we were at it, we also implemented a neat little feature: you now see snap lines appear for a half second while nudging, so you know when to stop.
Other changes and improvements:
All versions: fixed an issue with the property inspector getting cut off in some cases.
All versions: fixed a few issues with scrolling with the mouse wheel. Thank you Alex for reporting it!
All versions: fixed an issue with resizing a Sticky Note control to be really really small.
All versions: performing an Undo of a property change on a newly saved mockup didn't set it to dirty.
All versions: improved the image pop-up panel to show newly imported images right away.
Mockups for Desktop: we now show a warning if you ungroup a Symbol in a Symbol Library
Mockups for Desktop: Renaming a file when one of them had a symbol with a link overridden with the "No Link" value would break.
Mockups for Desktop: custom icons wouldn't get displayed when editing a Symbol Library.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with command-line operations not working unless the application had been registered first.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed a memory leak when switching between files in Mockups for Desktop.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed a memory leak that resulted in a freeze in the new image pop-up.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with files getting emptied when working with a flaky network drive.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed a crash when renaming a file that had links in it on Windows.
Mockups for Google Drive: added support for Symbols! We actually did this a while ago but we never announced it officially. We have updated the documentation here with all the details.
Mockups for Google Drive: added PDF export support! The PDF will be saved in the same folder as your bmmls.
myBalsamiq: fixed a broken link in the "welcome to mybalsamiq" email.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with the project members dialog in IE11.
myBalsamiq: fixed an edge case when changing site owner.
myBalsamiq: made it clearer that you might have to archive some projects in order to sign up for a low-tier plan during trial or after your trial period expires.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with some Symbol Library thumbnails getting rendered with the wrong skin.
myBalsamiq: we now show the name of the non-logged in user who made a change in the mockup and project history, instead of the generic "Guest".
myBalsamiq: added a validation for the email field in the dialog that asks for name and email to non-logged users when they contributed to a wiki project.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with showing Site Symbols in the Image Import Dialog in the editor.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue removing a project member as a project owner.
myBalsamiq: we now show project deletion events in the Site History page.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with being unable to create new projects after changing username.
myBalsamiq: We now show site owner changes in the Site History page.
myBalsamiq: We now show mockup and project rename operations in the Mockup, Project and Site History pages.
myBalsamiq: improved the performance of displaying the project grid page for projects with lots and lots of mockups.
myBalsamiq: you can now restore deleted mockups from the Project History page!
myBalsamiq: changed the URL of the prototype view mode from 'naked' to a more SFW 'prototype'.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with password reset emails not being sent for owners of waiting-to-be-deleted sites.
myBalsamiq: added Helsinki to the GMT+2 time-zone list.
myBalsamiq: Project ZIP uploads now correctly ignores files starting with a dot.
Mockups for Confluence and JIRA: we now tell Administrators if they are part of the balsamiq-mockups-editors group or not (helps with debugging).
Mockups for Confluence and JIRA: fixed an issue with attachment images not being found when a Confluence installation gets switched from being served over HTTP to HTTPS.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.18 (Dec 13, 2013)

NEW IMAGE INSPECTOR PULLDOWN:
The image inspector pulldown had been in need of some love for a long time. It only showed images used in the current mockup, it sometimes showed images twice, it didn't show where images came from...in short, it wasn't very useful.
That all changes today. The new pulldown is more organized, more visual, faster to use and, we think, much more useful.
PROJECTS COME TO MOCKUPS FOR GOOGLE DRIVE:
We are continuing the work to bring all of our product versions to feature parity with each other.
With today's release, Mockups for Google Drive moves a huge step forward in that direction. In fact, it even gets some features that other versions don't have yet!
Here's a list of today's biggest improvements:
The Project Browser: just like in myBalsamiq, you can now see all the mockups in your Google Drive folder, and quickly jump from one to the other to edit them.
Project Assets Support: you can now see images saved in your assets/ folder directly in the UI Library, in the new Image Property Inspector panel, and in the Image Import dialog.
Links Support: yes! You can now finally specify links between mockups, just like in our other versions.
Real Time Collaboration: this is huge, and a long time coming. You can now collaborate on each mockup in real time with others. Just share your folder full of BMMLs and assets, then when you both open the Mockups for Google Drive editor at the same time you will see the other person's edits happen in real time.
As usual, everything is auto-saved, all the time.
As an added bonus, if you use the Google Drive Desktop Sync client, you can collaborate between someone using Mockups for Desktop and Mockups for Google Drive pretty seamlessly!
Designate a Secondary Billing Administrator in myBalsamiq:
Up until today, the site owner was the only person who could make billing changes to a myBalsamiq site. This is often not ideal, as the person with purchasing power might not be the same person that needs to manage (or even use) myBalsamiq.
Starting today the site owner can designate a staff member as the secondary billing contact. This allows them to see the payments page, renew, upgrade, downgrade and download past myBalsamiq receipts. Try it out!
OTHER FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Mockups for Desktop: double clicking on a file to open the app did not open the new file in OS X Maverick (fixed in 2.2.17).
Mockups for Desktop: the application would grow in size on Windows if you opened it by clicking on bmml files on disk (fixed in 2.2.17).
Mockups for Desktop: fixed a memory leak on Windows 8 when the app was not in focus (fixed in 2.2.17). Thanks Julianna Cs. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: fixed the way we encoded Symbol paths in the BMML in 2.2.16 (fixed in 2.2.17).
Mockups for Desktop: Added a "Rename Mockup" menu item to the File menu, to expose this awesome little feature a bit more. Thanks Jacqueline S. for requesting it!
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with command line export hanging sometimes. Thank you Dave B. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with the app window growing by 20 pixels on Windows when opening a bmml file by double-clicking on it. Thanks Andreas F. and B for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with the positioning of the tab for newly cloned mockups (now they stay next to the original mockup, they don't jump to the end). Thanks Dave Perkins for bringing this up! This also fixes Milos Krocian's bug report.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.16 (Oct 25, 2013)

New color picker and color names:
You can now enter any HEX color (we even support 3-digit gray notations), or type the name of a color like "white", "black", "yellow". If you roll over one of the built-in colors the tooltip will show you that color's name as well.
New tiny char counter"
Speaking of small but very useful improvements: after learning how Balsamiq Champion Glenn Murray and others are using Mockups to do copy-writing, we added a small character counter to the text editor:
You'll see this counter when editing Labels or Paragraphs of text controls, and you'll always know if you're within your character limits or not.
Because of this change, we removed the little known l0rem shortcut (the one with the zero instead of the O), which gave you some lorem ipsum text with character counts sprinkled around. The tiny character counter is much more useful and fine-grained. The regular "lorem" auto-expand shortcut is still there, don't worry. :)
What else is new:
All versions: you can now rotate images!
All versions: moved the group breadcrumb bar / crop bar / symbol overriding bar to the bottom, to avoid the jarring "jump down" of your controls.
All versions: CTRL++ and CTRL+- now always zoom, CTRL+[ and CTRL+] now always change the text or icon size.
All versions: Fixed an issue when resizing groups by a tiny amount. Thanks Martin for reporting it!
All versions: we now support CTRL+INS and SHIFT+INS for copy and paste on Windows
All versions: Quick add menu items are now all properly left-aligned.
All versions: improved the rotation algorithm of the iPhone and Triangle Geometric Shape
All versions: Fixed the Tooltip's control vertical alignment, which was off with wrapping lines of text. Thank you chrisse, Chad Larkin and Milos Krocian for reporting it!
All versions: fixed the wireless icon on wireframe skin (it was missing a dot)
All versions: made the app a bit more resilient to errors when loading corrupted bmml files
All versions: Fixed an issue when removing a link of a symbol control with just one link. Thank you Luke Potter for reporting it!
All versions: Fixed the alignment of text in radio button group when text wraps.
All versions: Fixed an issue with cropped groups sometimes changing location when the file is opened. Thanks Reiner S. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: we deprecated the tag in BalsamiqMockups.cfg and replaced it with a more flexible and much easier to use . See the updated documentation here. If you had a documentsPath tag already set up you don't have to do anything, Mockups for Desktop will update your cfg file automatically on the next startup.
Mockups for Desktop: Fixed a little visual artefact on the property inspector on retina displays.
Mockups for Desktop: Fixed the group breadcrumb label widths on retina displays.
Mockups for Desktop: We improved the feedback when a user enters a trial key that is no longer valid.
Mockups for Desktop: Fixed an issue with files getting opened twice if the folder has an & character in it. Thank you Holger H. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: The app now correctly remembers your open files even if you double-click on a bmml file to open it.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.14 (Sep 25, 2013)

Retina support in Mockups for Desktop for OSX
Fully revamped, very Googlific UX for Mockups for Google Drive
Big myBalsamiq editor UX improvements
Other fixes and enhancements:
All versions: we now enable links to URLs in all versions of Mockups, including those that don't yet support links between mockups.
All versions: made the Application Bar behave better at smaller sizes (things don't overlap any more, it doesn't flicker, and it lays itself out a little faster).
All versions: fixed an issue with the BMML element when using Symbols and groups. Thank you so much Dave for the very detailed bug report!
All versions: fixed a layout issue in the Datagrid control. Thank you Jim Jarrett for reporting it!
All versions: fixed an issue with the positioning of the crop bar. Thank you Gil Bronstein for reporting it!
All versions: fixed an issue with unicode characters not being displayed properly in the image inspector. Thank you Dmitry and Avi Nahir for reporting it.
All versions: fixed a few issues with escaping square brackets. Thank you Jenni Merrifield, teevee and Andreas F. for reporting it!
All versions: we now support \\ to escape the \ character. Thank you Chris Nicholls for requesting this!
All versions: fixed an issue with the image inspector not showing account assets if only one of them is used in a mockup.
All versions: Using tabs for indenting in Tree control works again. Thank you Ed for reporting it!
All versions: the Tab Bar control with no border and a selection would show a small black line under the selected tab when zoomed. It's fixed now. Thank you Andreas F. for reporting it!
All versions: improved our handling of keyboard shortcuts so that they interfere less with international keyboards. Thank you Deivids D. for reporting the issue!
All versions: fixed an issue with auto-sized, right-aligned tooltips automatically growing in size (i.e. going crazy).
All versions: fixed an issue with the Combo Box control's icon not turning gray when the Combo Box is disabled. Thanks Terry B. for reporting it!
All versions: Fixed a few issues with scrolling either with the 2 finger Mac trackpad or by clicking on the scrollbars in Windows when in presentation mode and with link hints enabled. Thank you John Weber and others and Julianna Cs. for reporting it!
All versions that support linking: we now handle links better when a mockup name contains a comma. Thank you Brett A. for reporting it!
All versions that support Symbols: Breaking a symbol apart did not mark the mockup as dirty.
Mockups for Desktop: HUGE performance improvements when working with files saved on remote drives on Windows. This was a huge effort, but it was worth it, as it takes care of these old reports by Bernd Steinmüller and Phil Caisley and Ulrich Kærgaard and Paul Foryt and Jochen Stiepel and Andi and others and Jason Henderson and Chris Parry and ccollingridge and many more reports via email.
Mockups for Desktop: worked around a Microsoft IE bug that made our download look like it wasn't signed properly. Thanks to the many people who reported this!
Mockups for Desktop: we now give you a better warning when you specify the name of an existing and open mockup in the "Save As..." dialog. Thank you Katie for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: change the behavior when opening files in Mockups for Desktop, when a custom order hasn't been set yet. We now place them alphabetically instead of at the end. This should really help for those of you who named your mockups alphabetically and upgrade to a recent version.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with the File Browser tabs (when the File Browser is at the bottom) being too small to fit the name of the mockup sometimes.
Mockups for Desktop: made the app more resilient to malformed paths in the BalsamiqMockups.cfg config file.
Mockups for Desktop: we now show a little notification whenever you re-order your mockups to let you know that the new order has been saved for the future.
Mockups for Desktop: improved the UX of the file browser. It now has some nice little drag handle to show you that you can drag tabs to re-order them, and the (x) close icon is only shown on hover when the file browser is on the side.
Mockups for Desktop: Fixed an issue when renaming a file when other files in the same folder had unicode characters in their names.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an occasional issue when exporting to PDF with no margins. Thank you Taimar T. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: You can now fully hide the File Browser, from the View menu or using CTRL+J to toggle it via keyboard.
Mockups for Desktop: added support for CTRL+ALT+C for "copy as image" on Windows. Thanks esavalli and Anna Sturdivant for requesting it!
Mockups for Desktop: you can delete images from within the editor: right click on the image you want to delete in the UI Library and click on "Delete Image".
myBalsamiq: the edit button was being shown to anonymous users on projects with Website access level (fix live since July 24th).
myBalsamiq: clicking on edit as an anonymous user in a project with Wiki access level no longer asked for a name and email address (fix live since July 24th).
myBalsamiq: PDF Export would sometimes generate corrupt pdf files (especially in large projects).
myBalsamiq: many under the hood stability and serviceability improvements.
myBalsamiq: we now make it more clear who the current site owner is in the admin and staff pages.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with displaying links in mockup history. Thank you Tuomas V. for reporting it!
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with certain types of JPGs not uploading.
myBalsamiq: we now trap the CTRL+S keyboard shortcut to let you save your work quickly. Thank you Ben Norris (ha!) for requesting this!
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with symbols not updating if the symbol library name had a space in it. Thank you Diane Sundstrom for reporting it!
myBalsamiq: we no longer trap CTRL+T in the editor, letting the browser open a new tab as expected.
myBalsamiq: we now show full names instead of just the first name in the Project Members dialog. We also tweaked the warning on that dialog for clarity. Thank you Lynden Oliver for requesting it!
Mockups for Confluence: compare versions in wiki page history works again. Thank you William Pinnington and Roger for reporting it!
Mockups for Confluence: fixed a compatibility issue with Confluence 4.3.7. Thank you Nawaz Quadri and Gordon K. for reporting it!

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.13 (Jul 17, 2013)

NEW:
Breaklines:
We have added breaklines support to the Browser control, as well as the Rectangle, Geometric Shape and Horizontal Ruler controls.
Built-in iPhone 5 support:
We finally added built-in support for the iPhone 5 form-factor, and made it the default state of the iPhone control.
List view in the myBalsamiq editor:
We added a "thumbnails / list" toggle to the Project Browser in the myBalsamiq editor.
A Mockups for Confluence Blueprint:
Confluence 5.1 introduced a feature called Blueprints, which make it easy to add different kinds of pages to your wiki. With today's update, when you create a new page in Confluence you will see a new "Balsamiq Mockups Wireframe" content type. Hitting Create will drop you in the Balsamiq editor directly, where you can create your wireframe right away.
OTHER ENHANCEMENTS AND BUG FIXES:
All versions: fixed an issue with the {color} macro not working when you put a space after the colon character. Thank you Dabbi for reporting it!
All versions: fixed the text of the Property Inspector collapse/expand button tooltip.
All versions: The Sticky Note control is now also called TODO. Thank you Larry Karnowski for requesting it!
All versions: renamed the Sitemap control to Site Map
All versions: changed the state name for Checkbox/Radio button from "Indetermined" to "Indeterminate". Thanks eagle-eye Jenni Merrifield for reporting it!
All versions: fixed an issue with the default Callout control opacity in the wireframe skin. Thank you Jochen Stiepl for reporting it!
All versions: fixed an issue with default values not showing up properly in the Property Inspector when changing skin while something is selected.
All versions: fixed a display issue with the Graph Paper background when zoomed in. Thanks Jon Edlund for reporting it!
All versions: fixed a few Datagrid issues: If the last column is right aligned the calculation with a scrollbar messes up the x cooridnates of the last column; Data Grid does not take the scrollbar into account when calculating the seperator position; Datagrid autosize does not take the scrollbar into account and, finally, Datagrid Triangle is getting pushed in below the scrollbar. Thank you Daniel Tetteroo, Wim M. and William Pinnington for reporting these!
All versions: fixed an issue with account assets icons being saved to the bmml with the wrong path. Thanks Breon and Joost for reporting it!
All versions: fixed the "Geometric shape border cut off in PNG/PDF export" bug
All versions: Bracketed text links now work even with periods and no spaces between them in paragraph control, e.g. [link1].[link2]
All versions: fixed a freeze issue with the Tree control. Thank you Ralph R. and Andreas F. for reporting it!
All versions: fixed an issue with Quick Add losing focus after hitting Enter.
All versions: The icons of Checkbox, Checkboxgroup, Radiobutton and RadioButtonGroup now change the color according to the selected color in the property inspector. Thanks Jakob for requesting it!
Mockups for Desktop: Linking hints in PDF export with the option shrink to fit get the pink overlay. Thanks Charlotte and Jonathan for bringing it up
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with some files getting cropped when exported to PDF. Thanks Adrian and William P. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: big performance improvements in UI Library thumbnail generation. We now cache the thumbnails of the native control types, and create the thumbnails for assets a little faster. Thank you Bill M., Courtney S., cbmeeks and Alexandre and James Nutter for requesting it!
Mockups for Desktop: Fixed an issue with linking breaking when commas are used in file names. Thank you cmanbryant for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: we changed our Windows download with embedded Air to no longer require admin rights. After expanding the .zip, you can now run the app directly from the folder, or copy the folder wherever you wish.
Mockups for Desktop: even if you specified useCookies to be false in your cfg file, we now save application state such as Property Inspector state (collapsed or expanded) in memory for the duration of your Mockups for Desktop session. Thanks Deepak S. for requesting it.
Mockups for Desktop: Fixed another little issue with ampersand encoding (in the Files browser and in the Open Recent menu). Thank you Chris M. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with the png file name not updating after renaming a file.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed an issue with the mouse cursor staying in a busy state after canceling an "export all mockups to PNG" operation. Thank you Dániel B. for reporting it!
Mockups for Desktop: we added a timestamp to the digital signature of our Windows exe. Thank you Hugh Robinson for reporting it!
myBalsamiq: To make sure you really never lose any work, we now recover all unsaved mockups for the project you're editing as soon as you enter the editor.
recovered
myBalsamiq: finally added support for the {mockup-name} macro in the myBalsamiq editor! Thank you Brent T. and Sean K. for reporting it!
myBalsamiq: fixed a weird issue with lorem ipsum text getting generated on a copy operation.
myBalsamiq: fixed an intermittent null-pointer exception in the editor during startup
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with the Property Inspector, selection and zooming controls mistakenly showing up in full-screen while clicking through a prototype in the editor.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with downloading an archived project after renaming it. Thank you Patrice Lamarque for reporting it!
myBalsamiq: we reworked how we do releases and automatic scaling to be both faster and safer. For the geeks in the audience, our build machine now generates a full-fledged pre-configured AWS AMI instead of just a WAR. This way when we want to spin up a new machine, it's all set up and ready to go as soon as it starts.
myBalsamiq: when someone else updates the notes on a mockup you're working on and you reload the mockup in the editor, the notes now update properly.
myBalsamiq: fixed a 404 redirect after adding a comment when the mockup name contained special characters. Thank you Martin Doubek, Paolo Libanore and Robert Guthrie for the bug reports!
myBalsamiq: fixed a few issues with mockup notes encoding.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with uploading assets in IE9 and IE10.
myBalsamiq: improved the UX of exporting projects to PDF, as well as a time-out issue when exporting big projects. Thank you Jeremey L. for the bug report!
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with a user leaving a project they're the only member of.
Mockups for Confluence: fixed a Confluence 4 compatibility issue. Thank you Gordon K. for reporting it!
Mockups for Confluence: fixed a Firefox 10 compatibility issue.
Mockups for Confluence: fixed an issue with losing alignment and size after editing a mockup. Thank you Wilm S. for reporting it!
Mockups for Google Drive: now properly says links are not available in this version (instead of "no link targets"). Thanks Jeff Vick for bringing it up.
Mockups for Google Drive: you can now navigate your folder structure when opening files. Thank you cashandcarry and Jim Alinas-Benson for requesting it!
Mockups for JIRA: Use new authorization method if running on JIRA 6+ API to avoid error messages in log
Mockups for XWiki: updated configuration instructions to make them work with recent XWiki versions.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.9 (Mar 8, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.4 (Jan 21, 2013)

We changed the code that draws our custom mouse cursor to a more modern flash API. The result was not only a MUCH more responsive mouse (it no longer lags behind), but also a big performance improvement of the application overall. Try it out, it should feel noticeably snappier, especially in the in-browser versions.
You can now link to URLs! As pre-announced in December, you can now specify Web Addresses (URLs) - http://, https:// and even mailto: - as link targets in all controls that support linking. Here's how it works. There's a new "Web Address..." menu item in the Link property inspector. Notice that we gave web URLs a different icon so that you can spot them easily.
We switched to a more modern text rendering engine (Adobe TLF), which finally allows us to support font kerning in our Balsamiq Sans font. If you're someone who knows and cares about kerning, the difference is staggering. If you don't, just know that your eyes will thank you after a while.
We now have automatic fallback for glyphs that are not included in the font. You'll no longer need to turn on "Use System Fonts"
We added EXTREMELY LIMITED RTL (Right-To-Left) text support. As we said in the pre-release announcement last month, we're pretty ignorant when it comes to right-to-left support in software. We have received a long list of TODO items from some of you (thank you!), and we'll attack them slowly but surely. In the meantime, this release goes from "RTL characters don't even show up" to "I can type RTL characters and see them". Not exactly "full support" by a long shot, but a step in the right direction, right? :)
Editing text (adding or removing lines of text or even reshuffling them) will now maintain the correct selection and links! Thank you László, Jeron, Andy, John E. (via Email), Roman Florian for reporting this annoying bug which we've wanted to fix for a long time.
Added support for ~this notation~ for strikethrough text, in all controls.
Added support for {size:40}this notation{size} for setting the absolute size of part of your text, in all controls. {size:+2}relative size{size} will come in the future (it's a lot harder than you'd think!). Thank you Jenni and Win7Guru for the requests.
Added multi-line support via \r to the following control types: Alert box, Arrow, Breadcrumbs, Button Bar, Callout, Checkbox, Checkboxgroup, Field Set, Geometric Shape, Icon and label, Image, Link, Linkbar, Multiline Button, Pointy Button, Radio Button, Radio Button Group, Search Box, Subtitle and Title.
Made some performance improvements when UI Library is visible - and we have further improvements planned for the next release.
Fixed a bug with the "treat as markup" right-click menu not working for small controls. Thank you Anders for reporting it!
Fixed the "property inspector becomes huge if controls have long text lines" bug. Thank you Joe for reporting it!
Fixed the "couldn't drag controls in the top 20 pixels of the canvas" bug.
We fixed literally hundreds of little visual bugs in how the controls draw themselves at different sizes: the skins have never looked so good.
The menu control now supports using the checkbox or radio button, the label and the keyboard shortcut, all in the same line. Thank you Stu (via email).
We fixed the graph paper background when zoomed in or out. Thank you Shannon (via email).
We now deal with corrupted bmmls more gracefully.
The image inspector pulldown now correctly shows which image is selected.
Removed a bug which looked like an easter egg. Thank you Andrew Rowe and Patrik Boström for reporting it.
All versions that support Symbols: you now can see which symbol library a control comes from when hovering over it in the UI library and when selecting it (in the property inspector title).
All versions that support linking: we now show a "broken link" icon for files that are no longer found. Thanks Erik, robin and Matty Sallin for requesting it.
Bumped app requirement from Adobe Air 2.5 to 2.6 (which still runs on linux don't worry).
Added links to Local Store and Documents folders in the About box. Handy for debugging!
Fixed support for AltGr+S and other keys in some keyboard layouts. Thank you gk.klimek , sergeySafonov, Tomasz and Andi for reporting it.
Fixed several file name encoding issues on Windows.

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.2 (Jan 21, 2013)

A new editor look and feel:
As a programmer, I have always cared more about making my software SOLID rather than having it look pretty. When I was back at Adobe, my friend and colleague Nigel Pegg would spend hours tweaking the speed of an animation tween and working with our designer Tim Allen to make sure that everything looked beautiful and pixel-perfect. The three of us made a great team.
When I started Balsamiq, I was on my own. I did my best to make the Mockups skin look OK, but I clearly never made the look and feel a top-priority. Just like a wireframe, I wanted to make sure the app worked well before spending time and money making it pretty.
It's been four years now, and it's time for Mockups itself to grow up. We have a world-class graphic designer on our team, and it's time we start using his skills to the fullest. Mike started by redesigning myBalsamiq while still in beta, and now we're taking his gorgeous, minimalistic design sensibility to Mockups itself, and it feels great. In fact, it's making me appreciate how important graphic design is, even early on. We live and learn...
Our goal with the new look and feel was to make something that is beautiful, professional, incredibly intuitive, all the while staying out of your way as much as possible.
Since we run on Windows, Mac, Linux and the Web, we needed a look that didn't try to mimic the native look and feel of the controls, but also one that didn't scream "Look at me, I'm a Flash application!"
We think Mike did an amazing job with this new look, it's truly gorgeous and does its job extremely well.
It makes working in Mockups for hours and hours an even smoother and fun experience.
An additional skin for your wireframes:
The fact that wireframes created with Mockups look hand drawn has been one of our best ideas yet. It makes it obvious to everyone that the design is NOT final, and encourages people to give honest feedback, which is what it's all about. It also has an instantly-recognizeable, playful character that makes everyone who uses Mockups a little happier at their job every day.
We love our sketch-like skin and are very proud of it, but over the years we've heard from many of you that it doesn't fit every situation.
The first person to raise the issue was famous British designer Andy Budd, back in 2009! In his My First Impressions of Balsamiq article, he argues that our skin had TOO MUCH character, it distracted stakeholders from looking at the structure of the wireframe. I think his criticism came mostly because we used Comic Sans as a font back then (we've since switched to our own, hypoallergenic font), but his point was valid, the playful look and feel didn't fit all situations.
Over the years, as Mockups became mainstream, we have heard the same argument from many of you: you love Mockups and want to use it on every project, but sometimes its playful character didn't help, your awesome wireframes weren't being taken seriously by your boss / your graphic designer / your client.
We even heard from someone who did all the thinking in Mockups, but then had to painfully re-create each of their wireframes in a different tool just to present them to their clients. Ouch.
The Sketch skin is the one you know and love, only cleaned up a little bit. It is still the default and what we recommend people use most of the time.
Our goals with it were to make a skin that still conveyed "this is not final" while also disappearing in the background as much as possible, the goal was for it to be "totally vanilla".
After experimenting a while with some product design skin in the style of sketch-a-day, we landed on a clean, straight-lines look that we feel is timeless because of its simplicity.
Switching from a skin to the other should be totally painless, most things won't move around at all. We think most of you will do all the thinking in the Sketch skin, and only switch to the Wireframe skin when it's time to present your work, when you're trying to "sell" your designs to other stakeholders.
A personal note from Peldi:
On a personal level, these two feature were a bit painful for me to work on, which partly explains why I postponed them for so long. Let me explain.
My fear was that a cleaner look and feel and a cleaner skin would make Mockups lose too much of the character that has made it so successful. I didn't want it to look like "just another pro design tool", boring in its similarity with all the others.
Well, I have been using Mockups 2.2 for weeks now, and I gotta say, I can't go back. The new look and feel of the app doesn't feel boring, it just feels RIGHT. Whenever I have to use 2.1 to debug a customer's issue, my eyes hurt and I can't believe we've been so successful with such an ugly app.
The new wireframe skin is actually REALLY FUN TO USE, darn it! :) It totally grew on me. My wife Mariah drew all the controls of the original sketch skin, so falling in love with a skin that she didn't draw feels a bit like I'm cheating on her! You understand my internal conflicts here, right?!?!?
Another thought about these two features: I built and launched Mockups in 2008 as a programmer who had developed a passion for UX, but was totally self-taught and didn't really know anyone in the IA / UX industry. We can safely say that Mockups has come out of left field in the UX industry, mostly introduced by developers and product managers.
We have never marketed Mockups directly to UX professionals, because in some way we didn't feel that it was good enough for them. With the 2.2 release, four years after the original launch, I think we are ready to start changing that perception. We know lots of UXers who already rely on Mockups, and we think that today's release elevates Mockups to become a first-class citizen in the UX professional toolbox.
We hope those who considered Mockups a toy will give it a second look now, it has really come a long way since we first started, Comic Sans and all...
A new Site Map control:
While we were at it, Paolo threw in a new, highly requested control type: the Site Map!
It's super-easy to use and helps you make site maps in a snap.
Each page is linkable, easy peasy. Try it out.
What else is new:
All versions: changed the size of the background grid to match our 10px - 20px shift+nudging dimensions.
All versions: reduced the bottom padding of the sticky note control so that you can make smaller stickies.
Mockups for Desktop: fixed the "Copy to Clipboard doesn't copy transparent PNGs when transparentBackground is true." bug. Thank you Nathaniel Boehm for reporting it!
All versions: fixed a long-standing issue with links being offset while full-screen presentation mode. Thank you Peter Baker for reporting it and sorry it took us so long to fix it!
All versions: we now hide the property inspector while panning with space+drag.
All versions: when ungrouping the z-Order of the ungrouped control was wrong in some cases.
All versions: Fixed Tab bar control spacing when right-aligned
Mockups for Desktop: fixed more erroneous "the file is read only" errors.
Mockups for Desktop: the DMG file on the downloads page no longer gives the Gatekeeper error on OS X Mountain Lion. This was crazy hard to do, thanks Marco and Paolo for figuring it out.
Mockups for Desktop: we now use the native menus in Linux. Thank you Jonta for spurring the change.
myBalsamiq: if you use "Use System Fonts" in your mockups, the generated mockup images will now properly show your text.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with using images in symbols.
myBalsamiq: improved handling of JPEG assets. Thank you Sophie G. for reporting it.
myBalsamiq: fixed caching for mockup images and implemented an improved caching strategy.
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with the editor displaying real-time notifications for other projects in the same site. Thank you Bartosz J. for reporting it!
myBalsamiq: fixed an issue with using quotes in staffer's names.
Mockups for FogBugz: revamped the UI and fixed some bugs.
...and lots and lots more, either behind the scenes or to small to mention

Balsamiq Wireframes Changelog

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New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.4 (Oct 17, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.3 (Jul 10, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.2 (May 4, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.7.1 (Mar 8, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.6 (Feb 6, 2023)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.4 (Nov 30, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.3 (Nov 14, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.2 (Nov 7, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.6.1 (Oct 11, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.5 (Aug 4, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.4 (Jul 8, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.3 (Jun 14, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.2 (May 11, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.5.1 (Apr 13, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.8 (Mar 15, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.7 (Mar 13, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.6 (Feb 13, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.5 (Feb 9, 2022)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.2 (Dec 15, 2021)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.4.1 (Nov 17, 2021)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 4.1.1 (Jul 22, 2020)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.16 (Aug 9, 2018)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.11 (Jun 22, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.9 (Apr 27, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.7 (Feb 16, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.6 (Jan 9, 2017)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.5 (Oct 13, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.4 (Oct 10, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.5.1 (Sep 21, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.5 (Aug 31, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.4 (Jul 27, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.2 (Jul 1, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.4.1 (May 31, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.14 (Apr 16, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.12 (Mar 16, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.11 (Mar 9, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.9 (Feb 9, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.6 (Jan 15, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.5 (Jan 10, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.4 (Jan 7, 2016)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.3.1 (Dec 3, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.2.4 (Oct 22, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.2.3 (Oct 14, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.9 (Aug 22, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.8 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.7 (Jul 17, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.1.5 (Jul 8, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.8 (Apr 9, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.7 (Apr 3, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.5 (Mar 27, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.4 (Mar 24, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.0.2 (Mar 10, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 3.999.889 Beta (Feb 2, 2015)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.21 (Mar 18, 2014)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.20 (Mar 13, 2014)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.18 (Dec 13, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.16 (Oct 25, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.14 (Sep 25, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.13 (Jul 17, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.9 (Mar 8, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.4 (Jan 21, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.2 (Jan 21, 2013)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.2.2 (Sep 14, 2012)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.0.13 (Feb 4, 2011)

New in Balsamiq Wireframes 2.0.10 (Jan 12, 2011)