ScreenFloat Changelog

What's new in ScreenFloat 2.1.6

May 4, 2024
  • Improvements:
  • The display of hidden shots (in the current space, pinned to other spaces, or pinned to apps) in ScreenFloat's menu bar item's menu has been improved (2024.05.01)
  • Capturing or importing large screenshots/recordings do not overflow the screen anymore (2024.05.02)
  • Further improved floating shot visibility reliability (2024.04.29)
  • When showing saved re-capture frames, those that do not currently have a corresponding screen are disabled (2024.04.30)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where a floating shot would not be movable when a sheet was attached (like annotation, resizing, etc) (2024.04.30)
  • Fixes a bug where unhiding a floating shot that's set up to be visible only when a specific app is frontmost would show the shot even though that app is not frontmost (2024.04.29)
  • Fixes a bug where a floating shot would suddenly be dragged around when cancelling a direct-drag from the image or video (2024.04.30)
  • Fixes a bug where dragging from a floating shot's image or video directly could interfere with force-click-to-pin (2024.05.02)
  • Fixes a wording issue in the Shots Browser where, if no shortcuts were set, some hint messages would contain question marks instead of the expected shortcut. Now shows how to set up shortcuts instead (2024.04.26)
  • Fixes Spotlight reliability issues (2024.04.30)

New in ScreenFloat 2.1.5 (Apr 26, 2024)

  • New Features:
  • Double-click actions are now available not only for the left mouse button, but all others as well (right-click not included, it'll trigger the contextual menu) (2024.04.22)
  • A floating shot's file can now not only be dragged out by dragging the document button in its toolbar, but also long-clicking onto the actual image/video in the floating shot, making it easier if the floating shot is partly off-screen (2024.04.25)
  • Improvements:
  • A better mechanism to set up double-click actions for different mouse buttons and modifier keys (2024.04.22)
  • When a double-click action is not present for a modifier, it now says so, allowing you to jump to those settings right away (2024.04.16)
  • Improved handling of floating shots and recordings with a small width (2024.04.18)
  • When exporting or "advanced-dragging", metadata (tags and notes) is now written into the Finder's metadata, as well as EXIF (2024.04.20)
  • Improved floating shot visibility options reliability, as well as the Shots Browser's and Tag Browser's (2024.04.17)
  • Open With > ScreenFloat (i.e., from Finder) now floats those files right away instead of importing them and showing the Shots Browser. Hold down command (⌘) on your keyboard while Open With'ing if you prefer the latter. (2024.03.27)
  • The performance of the Shots Browser has been improved (2024.04.05)
  • Made "press-and-hold keyboard shortcut" notice in preferences more prominent (2024.04.05)
  • Adds a setting to turn off once-in-a-while Mac App Store review requests, increasing potential request window from every ~3 months to every ~4 months (if there's been an update since the last request) (2024.04.19)
  • The "ignores mouseclicks" info panel for floating shots can now be dismissed, and all floating shots can be restored to receive mouse clicks via ScreenFloat's icon in your menu bar (2024.04.25)
  • Adds Smart folder integrity check to the Repair tool (hold down option-shift during the launch of ScreenFloat to access its repair tool) (2024.04.24)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where creating iCloud links would sometimes fail on first attempt (2024.04.18)
  • Fixes a bug where annotations would sometimes change color when the color panel was still active (2024.04.18)
  • Fixes a bug where, when opening the color panel for an annotation setting, the settings popup would close (2024.04.18)
  • Fixes a bug where, when cancelling annotating, ScreenFloat would sometimes unnecessarily ask for
  • Changes (that were not made) to be saved (2024.03.27)
  • Fixes a bug where, when cancelling annotating, cancelling the cancel would result in the dialog to be shown again under certain circumstances (2024.03.27)
  • Fixes a bug where sometimes the opacity-info of a floating shot would remain on screen, even after the floating shot was closed (2024.04.05)
  • Fixes a bug where sometimes the Shots Browser would appear at random times, like after closing a window or alert (2024.04.12)
  • Fixes another obscure crash when using Quick Look in the Shots Browser (2024.04.22)
  • Fixes a bug where the "ignoring mouseclicks" info panel would not follow its parent floating shot (2024.04.23)

New in ScreenFloat 2.1.4 (Mar 25, 2024)

  • ScreenFloat v2.1.4 (2024.03.26) and 2.1.3 (2024.03.25) both fix a crash on macOS 12 Monterey introduced with v2.1.2, when attempting to set up Double-Click actions.

New in ScreenFloat 2.1.3 (Mar 25, 2024)

  • ScreenFloat v2.1.3 (2024.03.25) fixes a crash on macOS 12 Monterey introduced with v2.1.2, when attempting to set up Double-Click actions.

New in ScreenFloat 2.1.2 (Mar 22, 2024)

  • New Features:
  • Double-click action to increase or decrease a floating shot's window size by percentage (see Settings > Floating Shots > Double-clicking) (2024.03.19)
  • Improvements:
  • Improves the efficiency and performance of the v1 database upgrade (2024.03.19)
  • Changing a floating shot's visibility can now be applied to all floating shots, or all on the mouse cursor's screen, from its contextual menu by holding down option and fn+option, respectively (2024.03.22)
  • When cancelling annotation/markup, you are now asked if you'd like to save the changes or discard them, or cancel the cancel (2024.03.22)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where the app-provided smart folder "Recently captured" also included recently imported shots, which is wrong and has its own app-provided smart folder (2024.03.19)
  • Changing "Never show toolbar" setting for floating shots now affects all shots immediately (2024.03.19)
  • Fixes a bug in the Shots Browser where, after resizing or rotating, the info panel sometimes wouldn't update (2024.03.22)

New in ScreenFloat 2.1.1 (Mar 13, 2024)

  • New Features:
  • Now auto-trims away the ending of a screen recording when using the menu bar item's "Stop Recording" item, or when highlighting pressed modifier keys and the keyboard shortcut to end the recording is pressed (2024.03.06)
  • Now not only modifier keys, but also keyboard shortcuts (like command-c, command-a, etc) are optionally shown as highlights in video recordings (2024.03.07)
  • For modifier key and shortcut highlights in videos, you can now specify its placement in the video in Settings > Capture > Change Highlights… (2024.03.07)
  • Double-click action for removing all, microphone or system audio only (2024.03.12)
  • Improvements:
  • Lowered requirements for the new mouse- and modifier key highlights in screen recordings introduced in ScreenFloat v2.1 to macOS 12, so every user of ScreenFloat can use it (2024.03.06)
  • Lowered requirements for replacing the screencapture CLI with macOS' new screen recording APIs from macOS 14 Sonoma to macOS 13 Ventura (2024.03.06)
  • Changes the floating shots' window level so they can be moved above the menu bar (2024.03.12)
  • Improved the display of pressed modifier keys in screen recordings (2024.03.06)
  • Dutch translation graciously and generously provided by Dennis van Zoerlandt (2024.03.05)
  • A floating shot's toolbar is now shown more reliably when moving the mouse cursor over it (2024.03.06)
  • Copying of floating shots from the on-the-fly options menu (hold down option to copy as filepath instead of data) (2024.03.12)
  • Scaling when printing now actually works (2024.03.12)
  • Option to never hide the floating shots' toolbar (2024.03.12)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a framing issue when attempting to span a recording across multiple screens (2024.03.12)
  • Fixes a small animation glitch when highlighting pressed modifier keys in a screen recording (2024.03.06)
  • Fixes a potential crash when adding a floating shot to a newly created folder (2024.03.12)
  • Fixes a crash when using Quick Look in the Shots Browser (2024.03.12)
  • Fixes a bug where, in the repair tool, unrecognized recovered files could not be moved to the user's Pictures folder (2024.03.05)

New in ScreenFloat 2.1 (Mar 6, 2024)

  • New Features:
  • Highlight your mouse cursor position, clicks and pressed modifier keys in video recordings (customizable in Settings) (macOS 14 and newer; 2024.03.01)
  • Remove only system audio or microphone audio from your recordings (or both) (2024.03.01)
  • When re-capturing (long-press any of the recording keyboard shortcuts), you can now save often-used capture areas (right-click onto the re-capture screen) (2024.02.21)
  • When re-capturing, you can now also set aspect ratios, like when cropping (right-click onto the re-capture screen) (2024.02.21)
  • Access and redact detected data from the Shots Browser, too (2024.03.01)
  • Repair tool: Hold down shift (⇧) and option (⌥) on your keyboard when you launch ScreenFloat to open the database repair tool, which helps in removing duplicate app-supplied folders (like "All Shots" and "Trash"), restore abandoned image and video files, and more. (2024.02.16)
  • You can now force-sync shots that otherwise would not sync because of limits you have set up in Settings > iCloud (2024.02.15)
  • Improvements:
  • Switches from the screencapture CLI to modern APIs for screen recordings (2024.03.01)
  • Improves dragging of floating shots: hold down fn or shift (⇧) until you end the drag to close the shot right away afterwards (2024.02.15)
  • Improves the reliability of the "Manual Sync" button in the Shots- and Tags Browser (2024.02.15)
  • Change ScreenFloat's appearance between System, Light and Dark in the app's Settings (2024.02.15)
  • Append-Copy for right-clicked text in a floating shot is now the alternate item to Copy (press option (⌥) to get to it in the contextual menu) (2024.02.15)
  • When dragging shots from the Shots Browser, their drag-previews are now more see-through to help you see where you're dragging them (2024.02.15)
  • Shots with their visibility set to "Current Space" are reset to "Everywhere" when ScreenFloat is relaunched because the app cannot re-assign shots to that specific space anyway (2024.02.16)
  • Fixes a UI issue where, on smaller screens, Settings > Floating Shots could be cut off (2024.02.21)
  • Adds a note to the screen recording overlay on how to end the recording (2024.02.16)
  • Improves update checking in the About window (2024.02.16)
  • All temporary and cache folders are no longer indexed by Spotlight (2024.02.13)
  • Adds more information as to what's going on during the v1 database upgrade progress (2024.02.13)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where launching ScreenFloat without internet connection would result in the app not syncing until relaunched with internet connection (2024.02.16)
  • Fixes a bug in the rules editor (smart folders, search) where multiple "does not include tag" rules wouldn't work together (2024.02.15)
  • Fixes launch at login issues on macOS 12 Monterey (2024.02.15)
  • Fixes a bug where floating shots would not fade out when dragging from the on-the-fly-drag-options popover (2024.02.15)
  • Fixes a bug where clicking a floating shot's close button with its hover menu showing wouldn't work, and would require a second click (2024.02.13)
  • Fixes a bug in the trial version, where trial time could get cut short (2024.02.19) - Fixes a bug where on some versions of macOS Sonoma, screen capturing refused to work (2024.02.21)
  • Fixes a potential crash when using Quick Look in the Shots Browser (2024.02.21)

New in ScreenFloat 2.0.4 (Feb 11, 2024)

  • Image shots can now optionally be resized up with the MetalFX Spatial Upscaler (see Resize… -> >100%)
  • Cropping now also supports fixed portrait aspect ratios (9:16, 2:3, etc) (see Crop -> Right-click -> hold option (⌥) to change)
  • Improved support when using Stage Manager
  • Improves the performance and reliability of the v1 database upgrade process, importing, exporting and syncing
  • Fixes a bug where minimizing the splash screen would make ScreenFloat think the import was done
  • Fixes a bug when Quick Looking in the Shots Browser that might have lead to a crash

New in ScreenFloat 2.0.3 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • New Double-Click Action: Export to Folder on Disk
  • Improved Double Click Action: Copy Shot - select between file path, png-, jpeg-, tiff-, pdf- and heic data
  • Improved Spotlight indexing efficiency
  • Improved the efficiency and reliability of the v1 database upgrade mechanism
  • Fixes display issues in the Shots Browser
  • Fixes a potential crash in the Folders widget
  • Work mode is now disabled for shots that ignore mouse clicks
  • Fixes a bug where floating shots could not be dragged to other apps with the command key pressed
  • Improves Chinese (Simplified) Localization

New in ScreenFloat 2.0.2 (Jan 23, 2024)

  • Further improves import of v1 database
  • Improves launch-at-login reliability on macOS 12 Monterey
  • Improves the delay of the hover-over-the-floating-shot's-close-button popup
  • Improves feature (text, faces, barcodes) detection efficiency
  • Fixes a bug with non-retina displays and screenshots
  • Fixes a bug where numpad numbers could not switch between tools during annotation (0-9)
  • Fixes a bug where setting an iCloud sync size limit wouldn't work correctly
  • Fixes a bug that could prevent sharing via iCloud link to fail

New in ScreenFloat 2.0.1 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Improves the reliability of v1 library import
  • Fixes annotation color picker occasionally appearing behind floating shots
  • Fixes a bug in the Shots Browser where control-clicking onto items for the contextual menu wouldn't work
  • Fixes a crash that could occur during spotlight indexing

New in ScreenFloat 2.0 (Jan 17, 2024)

  • I completely rewrote ScreenFloat from the ground up in Swift, for a more performant, robust and modern codebase, rooted in Core Data.
  • It's a free upgrade for existing customers.
  • Now here are the most important changes in v2.0:
  • FLOATING SHOTS:
  • Not only capture screenshots, but also screen recordings (along with your microphone and system audio)
  • Create shots from content on your clipboard, or import from your iPhone, iPad or the disk
  • Texts, faces and barcodes (and their contents) are automatically detected and available for copying, viewing and redacting
  • Pick colors (option-right-click-drag) and copy their hex, rgb, float or hsl values, a sample image, or drag the color onto a target
  • Re-capture previously captured areas without having to painstakingly reframe
  • Smart redaction for text, barcodes and faces (right-click onto the content in question)
  • Double-click actions for custom workflows, like reducing a floating shot's opacity and making it ignore mouseclicks in one go
  • Visibility settings: all spaces, current space, current app
  • Improved hiding and unhiding floating shots
  • SHOT EDITING:
  • Crop, fold, rotate, resize, trim, mute and "de-retinize" shots
  • Markup Shots with Freedraw, Rectangles, Ovals, Lines, Arrows, Stars, Checkmarks, X-Marks, Text, Smart Numbered Lists, Highlights and Redactions (non-destructive: markup can be edited or removed at any time)
  • ORGANIZING:
  • Your ScreenFloat library can now be synced over iCloud
  • Favorite and rate your shots
  • Improved the Shots Browser's Smart Folders with a lot of new criteria, like what app a shot was captured in, which device a shot was captured on, or whether it was annotated, or contains barcodes, faces or text
  • Search for shots using the same criteria as smart folders
  • Search for text or barcodes captured in shots
  • Search system-wide with Spotlight
  • Sort shots by date created, last used, name, rating and more
  • Shots can be hidden from the library
  • Privacy for Trash, and folders that contain hidden shots
  • The Tags browser lets you favorite, rename, merge and delete tags easily
  • Advanced text/face/barcode recognition options and filters in the Shots Browser for when the defaults won't do
  • SYNC:
  • Your shots (along with markup and metadata), tags, folders and other metadata are synced over iCloud
  • You decide what to sync: all shots, only images or only recordings, or only shots up to a specific file size
  • SHARING:
  • Drag and drop, share and export with or without markup, in the quality setting and format you prefer
  • Upload larger (or multiple) shots to iCloud and share a link instead of the large file
  • Much improved printing
  • SIRI SHORTCUTS:
  • Automate capturing your screen, importing, and managing your floating shots
  • WIDGETS:
  • Get quick access to shots, picked colors, tags, folders, and more
  • Start captures and manage your floating shots

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.22 (Oct 19, 2023)

  • Fixes an issue where a taken screenshot might take a long while to show up as a floating shot.

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.21 (Oct 1, 2023)

  • Fixes a bug on macOS 14 Sonoma where screenshots taken would be twice their actual size.

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.20 (Oct 30, 2022)

  • Fixes a bug in Work Mode on macOS 13 Ventura

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.19 (Dec 24, 2021)

  • When choosing to override a file in the Save as dialog, the file is actually overridden
  • You can now choose the file type to save images as in the Save as dialog
  • When attempting to open more than 10 shots at once from the Shots Browser, a warning dialog is shown to help prevent accidental openings

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.18 (Nov 8, 2020)

  • New in ScreenFloat:
  • Ensures compatibility with macOS
  • Adds PDF as an export option
  • Bug fixes in ScreenFloat:
  • Fixes a bug where sometimes the selected export format wasn't respected
  • Fixes a bug where double-clicking floating shots to send them to other apps would override each other sometimes
  • Fixes a minor memory leak

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.17 (Oct 27, 2019)

  • Compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.16 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • The app icon should accept files again without overriding "Open with" settings
  • While resizing a floating shot, keep the command key pressed to prevent the shot snapping to its original size
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed a rare crash when printing shots
  • Fixed a crash when dragging the mini-icon of a floating shot
  • Changed some URLs from http to https

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.15 (May 23, 2018)

  • Fixed a rare crash when dragging floating shots
  • Made minor changes to ScreenFloat's About window (removed newsletter subscription, added privacy policy link)

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.14 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • Fixed a semi-rare crash when dragging the image-icon of a floating shot
  • Cancelling a drag (by pressing ESC) now actually works
  • Fixed a bug where removing a keyboard shortcut would be reset to the default one after a restart
  • Fixed a bug where, after sharing a shot, the shot would show the standard window buttons
  • Fixed a bug where, when saving a shot and in the dialog selecting "New Folder", the app would seemingly freeze

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.13 (Sep 7, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved compatibility with an upcoming OS
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where double-click to copy didn't work properly
  • Fixes a potential crash when creating a new shot
  • Fixes a bug on OS X Lion 10.7, where preferences would not open correctly

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.12 (Oct 23, 2015)

  • Fixed a potential crash when trying to open the Shots Browser
  • Fixed the menu bar icon for dark menu bars on OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan
  • Added a new About panel for easier contact options
  • Removed support for ImageShack due to license changes

New in ScreenFloat 1.5.1 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • This update comes with the following small improvements...:
  • Shots can now be hidden individually
  • Filenames are now appended with the Shot's creation date when dragged out so they don't replace shots with the same name (thank you, Günter)
  • ...and squashes the following ghastly bugs:
  • Fixed a bug where disabled system shortcuts were unavailable
  • Fixed a bug with localizations - German now works again
  • Removed some legacy code
  • Fixed a crash when retrying to upload to ImageShack
  • Fixed a bug where, when a shot was hidden and quickly shown again, it would vanish (also happened when dragging)

New in ScreenFloat 1.4.1 (Mar 2, 2013)

  • New Features and Improvements:
  • Tags are now auto-completed
  • If option-shift is pressed while dragging the small image icon of a floating shot, the floating shot will be deleted when the drag ends
  • Doesn't trigger the dedicated graphics card anymore on systems with an integrated and dedicated card
  • Now remembers if Shots Browser was in fullscreen mode or not over restarts
  • Removed unnecessary writes to disk
  • Command-C now works in the Shots Browser
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed blurred text on retina displays
  • A bug was fixed with Smart Collections that had more than one tag as a criterium

New in ScreenFloat 1.4 (Dec 15, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Sharing Capabilities of OS X Mountain Lion
  • Images can now be resized larger than their original size
  • Improvements:
  • Floating shots' advanced menu now offers access to the Shots Browser and Preferences
  • Reduced number of writes to disk when moving shots
  • When adding files from the file system, ScreenFloat now takes the creation date of that file, not the date when the shot was added
  • The key to temporarily change the work-mode was changed from option to command so not to interfere with closing or deleting shots
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where text inside the shots browser was blurry on retina displays
  • Fixed a bug where saving over an existing file wouldn't really overwrite
  • Fixed a bug where hidden shots would show up temporarily when switching spaces
  • Fixed a bug where tags couldn't be deleted
  • Fixed a bug where if more than one shot was copied in the shots browser, only the first selected item would be copied
  • Fixed a bug when double-clicking on shots
  • Fixed several bugs when exporting

New in ScreenFloat 1.3.2 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Retina Displays are now supported

New in ScreenFloat 1.3.1 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • Compatibility with OS X Mountain Lion
  • Deleting from smart collections is now possible with the backspace key (as well as via the "Advanced" button in the Shots Browser)
  • Fixed the scrolling-direction on OS X Snow Leopard to adjust a floating shot's alpha value as well as on OS X Lion if natural scrolling was deactivated
  • Fixed a bug where when scrolling up a lot to make a shot less transparent, it would take long to get it transparent again
  • Fixed a bug where closing the Shots Browser was taking a long time with many shots
  • Now is only accessible through the menu bar item
  • Can be added to login items via preferences

New in ScreenFloat 1.3 (May 24, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • The transparency of a floating shot can now be changed by scrolling up or down inside it
  • Shots can be copied to your pasteboard by double-clicking onto them (if you specify this action in the preferences)
  • Improvements:
  • Shots can now be deleted from ScreenFloat from within collections via the Action menu
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where, when dragging shots out of the Shots Browser, the shot was removed from ScreenFloat's library and thus was lost
  • Fixed a rare crash when removing categories

New in ScreenFloat 1.2.1 (Sep 14, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug where sending multiple shots created within the same app to an app with a double-click would result in only one of these shots being set to that app multiple times
  • Fixed a bug in the German version where preferences wouldn't show
  • Several very minor bug fixes

New in ScreenFloat 1.2 (Aug 16, 2011)

  • Improved support for OS X Lion:
  • ScreenFloat is now sandboxed, so it restricts access to everything except files you want to open with the app
  • The shots browser now supports full screen mode
  • Improved support for inertial scrolling throughout the app
  • Changing the use of the Dock icon doesn't require a relaunch anymore
  • New features and improvements:
  • The images of floating shots can now be dragged to other applications directly from within floating shots
  • Floating shots can now be saved to a location in Finder directly from the shots' context menu
  • Double click onto a floating shot to directly open it with an application you can specify in ScreenFloat's preferences
  • Now supports the Sudden Termination feature introduced in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • Made floating shots' window level less obtrusive: menus are now above every shot
  • In the shots browser, more than one shot can be copied at a time
  • Your default mail client is now available in the applications list of the "Send to…" menu
  • Bug fixes and small improvements:
  • switched to Grand Central Dispatch for all background operations
  • replaced deprecated APIs with modern ones
  • fixed handling of entering / exiting floating shots with the mouse
  • improved positioning of closing / advanced widget of floating shots
  • fixed a bug where position of floating shot after a relaunch was wrong
  • fixed a rare crash
  • changed some descriptions to better represent what interface objects do
  • removed "Hide Shot" context menu item since it was unclear how to get it to show again
  • selected shots in the shots browser can now be opened by hitting space or enter on your keyboard
  • fixed a bug where under certain keyboard layouts shortcuts couldn't be modified
  • when you send a shot to another app, a copy of that shot is now used, respecting the file format you specified in ScreenFloat's preferences
  • Floating shots now have a minimum size of 64x64 pixels. Smaller shots are still possible, but have a calculated background color
  • The built-in Crash reporter now sends crash logs in plain text so they can be sent in your default mail client instead of Mail.app only

New in ScreenFloat 1.1.1 (Apr 22, 2011)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed empty crash report emails
  • Fixed glitch in preferences where ScreenFloat would switch between background and foreground application state

New in ScreenFloat 1.1 (Mar 31, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Different file formats for export can be set in preferences
  • Create shots from contents of the clipboard
  • Copy content of of shots to the clipboard
  • Create shots by dragging image files onto the shots browser
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Umlauts will be displayed correctly when using ScreenFloats system service to create shots from text
  • Fixed a bug where shots sometimes couldn't be "sent to" other apps
  • Shots can not be seen anymore if screensaver is active
  • Cleaned up "Send To" app menu