Hides Changelog

What's new in Hides 5.9.3

Mar 26, 2024
  • Improvement:
  • Updated Sparkle

New in Hides 5.9.2 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • Improvement: updated copyright

New in Hides 5.9.1 (Jun 29, 2023)

  • Bugfix: fixed an issue when Focus Mode is enabled only for certain apps

New in Hides 5.9 (Jun 8, 2023)

  • Bugfix: fixed an issue with the system menu bar icon

New in Hides 5.8 (May 24, 2023)

  • Improvement:
  • Added contextual menu items to check / uncheck apps on the Focus Mode Setting tab
  • Fixed some deprecations

New in Hides 5.7.2 (Jan 3, 2023)

  • Updated copyright
  • Changed Preferences... menu to Settings... to match macOS Ventura naming conventions

New in Hides 5.7.1 (Aug 29, 2022)

  • Shortened hiding delay when switching apps on macOS Monterey
  • Synchronized version numbers between App Store and trial versions

New in Hides 5.6.1.1 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Fixed a licensing issue

New in Hides 5.6.1 (Jan 9, 2022)

  • Updated copyright
  • Remove legacy Sparkle
  • Small UI fixes

New in Hides 5.6.0.2 (Jan 4, 2022)

  • Interim release #2 to migrate update manifest

New in Hides 5.6.0.1 (Dec 27, 2021)

  • Interim release to migrate update manifest

New in Hides 5.6 (Oct 18, 2021)

  • Added a menu item for quickly toggling between focus mode for all apps and focus mode for selected apps
  • Added a menu for quickly adding/removing apps to focus mode
  • Added a global shortcut for adding/removing currently running active app to focus mode

New in Hides 5.5.3 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese localization, thanks abula

New in Hides 5.5.2 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • UI improvements to shortcut button

New in Hides 5.5.1 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fixed shortcut button alignment

New in Hides 5.5 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fixed an issue with Focus Mode

New in Hides 5.4.7 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Selection is retained when refreshing App table on the Focus Mode Preferences tab
  • Added an Add button to the Focus Mode Preferences tab, for adding Apps which are in non standard locations

New in Hides 5.4.6 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Focus table now has a refresh button to reload Apps
  • Focus tab UI updated

New in Hides 5.4.5 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Hides now correctly finds apps in sub folders of the Applications folder

New in Hides 5.4.4 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Localization corrections

New in Hides 5.4.3 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fixed a potential runaway issue
  • Fixed some issues with window behaviour
  • Window position is now correctly restored

New in Hides 5.4.2 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Dutch localization, thanks Theo van Leest!
  • Fixed Apple Silicon support

New in Hides 5.4.1 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Updated copyright

New in Hides 5.4 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Apple Silicon native support
  • Big Sur design style

New in Hides 5.3.3 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Updated copyright
  • Updated Sparkle

New in Hides 5.3.2 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Small ui tweaks
  • Updated copyright
  • Localization corrections

New in Hides 5.3.1 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fixed an issue with the login helper

New in Hides 5.3 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • macOS Mojave Dark Mode support
  • App is now Notarized by Apple
  • Updated Sparkle

New in Hides 5.2 (Apr 5, 2018)

  • UI improvements
  • fixed an issue with display of the version number
  • added a text label to show if Focus Mode is enabled or not

New in Hides 5.1 (Apr 2, 2018)

  • German localization, thanks Alexander Frisch
  • Fixed an issue with starting at login
  • Removed Facebook links

New in Hides 5.0.1 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • The Finder as now an option in Focus Mode.
  • Some apps were showing in Focus mode, but weren't actually compatiable with it... These have been removed as an option.

New in Hides 5.0 (Mar 9, 2018)

  • You can now enable Focus mode only for specific apps or globally for all Apps!
  • New option to hide all apps except the current active app
  • New icon
  • Small UI improvements
  • Better window handling

New in Hides 4.0.2 (Mar 7, 2018)

  • Minor update to the copyright date.

New in Hides 4.0.1 (Nov 9, 2017)

  • Small UI tweaks

New in Hides 4.0 (Nov 9, 2017)

  • UI refresh
  • "Single App Mode" renamed "Focus Mode"

New in Hides 3.0.1 (Apr 24, 2016)

  • Now OS X 10.10+ (Yosemite+) only
  • UI refresh
  • Fixed issue with system password windows constantly losing focus in Single App Mode

New in Hides 3.0 (Apr 24, 2016)

  • Complete UI refresh, and is also now only supported on Yosemite and above.
  • Includes a fix for a long standing bug where if Single User App Mode was enabled – authentication windows would keep losing focus.

New in Hides 2.1.1 (Dec 14, 2015)

  • Fixed some compilation errors.

New in Hides 2.1 (Feb 25, 2015)

  • Fixed open from spotlight

New in Hides 2.0 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • New User Interface
  • Please reset your Global Hotkeys!

New in Hides 1.1.3 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • Ready for Yosemite

New in Hides 1.1.2 (Aug 25, 2014)

  • Fixed command-W, command-Q behaviour.

New in Hides 1.1.1 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • Initial trial release

New in Hides 1.1 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • added feature: Single App Mode!
  • fixed start-up behavior
  • fixed Hide all Apps behavior
  • updated UI
  • new menu bar icon
  • notification support

New in Hides 1.0.1 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Hides is now Sandboxed
  • fixed start at login
  • updated ui
  • updated copyright
  • fixed command-Q behaviour
  • fixed memory leaks
  • retina support