- AI Anonymize adds three styles: Hex Mosaic, Solid Color (with your own color and opacity), and Rainbow Blocks. - Changes to Artist, Copyright, Description, and Date Taken in Metadata now save reliably, including on macOS 27. Metadata also shows the IPTC Creator. - The Privacy preset in Clear Metadata now also removes the camera owner, lens serial number, and the creator, contact, copyright, and location details stored in IPTC. - If a model can’t be deleted, Settings now tells you why. - AI Generation now shows the correct download size for each model.

• Every AI workspace has been redesigned with clearer, responsive controls and complete model and quality guidance. • Model downloads now share progress between feature pages and Settings, with pause, resume, cancel, and reliable continuation from partial downloads. • AI Image Generation now puts model and precision choices beside the prompt and completes every required component before generating. • Improved first-run AI setup, download-source switching, and model storage reporting.

• Tool cards can once again be dragged into the Processing Pipeline. • The “Add Step” menu now correctly shows operation names in your selected app language.

• A new OtterPix menu bar icon keeps your workflows close at hand. Drop images or folders onto it to send them straight to the Pipeline, and reopen the main window with one click. When the icon is enabled, closing the main window leaves OtterPix available from the menu bar. • New in Pro: Folder Automation watches selected folders and automatically applies a saved Pipeline preset to new images. • Run supported tools and saved presets from Shortcuts and AppleScript. Image processing stays on your Mac. • AI tools now check hardware compatibility before loading models and clearly explain when native Apple silicon is required. This release also improves the reliability of menu bar launch, folder permissions, window handling, accessibility, and localization.

• Stability and polish refinements throughout the app. • OtterPix is built by a tiny independent team. If it saves you time, a quick rating on the App Store helps more people discover it — thank you!

• OtterPix now speaks 18 languages — we've added Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Every menu, tool, and message is fully localized. • Plus stability and polish improvements throughout.

• AI Text Recognition: more faithful output — one-word headings and lead-in lines above figures are no longer dropped, merged table cells align correctly, and figure-only pages aren't misreported as blank. Copying from the rendered view now pastes a self-contained document, with figures included. • Memory returns to normal after using AI features — both when you leave the page and right after a run finishes. • Free plan: revisiting a photo you already used today's free run on keeps it free to refine (browsing other photos no longer locks it). • When a model isn't downloaded yet, the error now offers a one-click Open Settings path in every AI tool. • ⌘S saves everywhere it should, downloads verify integrity before landing on disk, cancelling a download is no longer shown as an error, and typing in the QR tool is smoother.

• New: AI Text Recognition (OCR) — pull the text out of PDFs, papers, and screenshots into editable text, with tables and figures kept intact. Runs 100% on-device. • Paste images or files into any drop zone with ⌘V. • More breathing room on wide windows; the crop selection now stays put when you resize. • Various refinements, plus a new Open-Source Licenses page in Settings.

New — AI Text Recognition (OCR) Turn papers, scans, PDFs, and screenshots into editable text, with tables, formulas, and figures kept intact. It all runs on your Mac — nothing is uploaded. (Requires Apple silicon.) Also new: • Wider windows, bigger previews — stretch the window and the image/canvas grows with it for a clearer view. • Paste to get started — press ⌘V to drop a screenshot or copied image straight into any tool. • Steadier cropping — your crop selection now stays put when you resize the window. • Assorted fixes and refinements throughout. As always, everything is processed on-device — your photos never leave your Mac.

Updated the App Store preview video to better showcase OtterPix. Fix a translation typo Change the model endpoints Add daliy free Pro trial quota to free users Support redeem Pro in setting

New in this update Two new on-device AI features • AI Anonymize — automatically detect people and vehicles, then blur or mosaic them in one tap. Toggle individual detections and pick which object types to hide. Perfect for sharing street and crowd photos privately. • AI Face Restore — sharpen and clean up faces in old, blurry, or low-quality portraits, with a Strength slider and per-face control in group photos. A refreshed, more refined design • Redesigned home that unifies the tool gallery and the Pipeline, with live search to find any tool instantly. • New brand color system, polished cards, a single coherent translucent window, and a native sidebar. • The Pipeline now lives in an always-visible dock — drop in images and build batch workflows without losing sight of your tools. • Customizable Quick Actions. Fixes & performance • Faster, freeze-free image loading, saving, and model scanning (moved off the main thread). • Fixed a Metadata Inspector crash, transparent AVIF exports, and Resize keeping a previous image's size. • Format Conversion gained a quality slider; QR Code gained foreground/background colors. • Downloaded AI models are now integrity-checked (SHA-256). Everything still runs 100% on-device — no uploads, no servers, no tracking.