ScreenFloat—Pro Screen Capture
Your Powerful Screenshot Hub
Only for Mac
$17.99 · In‑App Purchases
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ScreenFloat 2 is your powerful screen capture hub.
From capturing screenshots and recordings over editing, annotating, redacting and running data-detection on them to storing, organizing and syncing them, ScreenFloat is your all-in-one screen capture tool.
“Game-changer for managing screenshots” - Man.Osman
“Outstanding app. Buy this and use it for a week and you will love it” - Chuck's Review
= CAPTURE =
Capture screenshots, timed screenshots and screen recordings with a keyboard shortcut, the menu bar icon, or a widget.
Create Shots from content on your clipboard, or import from your iPhone or iPad.
Effortlessly recapture shots without having to painstakingly reframe the capture area.
“Accountant's Friend! Worth every penny!” - Savyasaci
= FLOAT =
By default, shots you capture float above all apps so you can reference their contents, or use them as a reminder.
Data-detection allows for quick copying, opening and even quicksmart-redacting of links, emails, phone numbers, addresses and QR codes
Option-right-click to pick colors
Run powerful, custom workflows with Double-Click Actions
“An animator's best friend!” - rengland77
= EDIT =
Crop, "fold", rotate, resize, trim and "de-retinize" shots
Annotate screenshots non-destructively
Trim and cut recordings, with microphone and system audio editable separately
“2 Gems: The app itself and User Support” - A Bostonian Visual Thinker
= SHARE =
Easily share shots to other apps via drag and drop, copy-paste or export from floating shots, or the Shots Browser
Share larger shots as a link via iCloud, ImageKit or Cloudinary
When dragging from a floating shot, adjust the format, quality, and other options on-the-fly
“One of my most used Apps” - paradox2222
= STORE =
ScreenFloat's Shots Browser keeps a library of your captures, where you can name, tag, rate, favorite and organize them.
Collect Shots in folders
Use Smart Folders to intelligently collect Shots by certain criteria, including whether they contain faces, or certain text, or which device you captured them on
Extensive search functionality (with Spotlight indexing)
Sync everything over iCloud
“Its Essential - what else is there to write” - JR123§123§12
= INTEGRATE =
Automate capturing your screen, importing, and managing your floating shots using Siri Shortcuts
Use widgets to get access to ScreenFloat's capture functionality, as well as shots, picked colors, tags, folders, and more
Run your own Siri Shortcuts and Apple Scripts on your shots
“I've used many similar apps over the years, and this is the best” - nodisorder
*** And so much more. ScreenFloat 2: More than just screenshots. ***
= System Requirements =
- macOS 12 Monterey or newer (some features require macOS 13 Ventura or newer)
- An iCloud account if you wish to sync your library over iCloud
= What the Press Says =
“One of the most comprehensive screenshot apps that there are” - Elaine Giles, MacBites After Hours
“Sometimes I'll cover an app that I just have to put in my war-chest of applications that I use every day - ScreenFloat 2 is one such app” - Lee Garrett, ScreenCastsOnline.com
“You may never go back to the Mac's default screenshot system” - MacFormat.com
“I have used numerous screenshot applications. ScreenFloat is the one I use daily” - MacAutomationTips.com
“Trounces most of the competition” - ScottWillsey.com
“Packed with loads of useful, flexible features” - MacStories.net
= What do YOU say? =
All this aside: ultimately, software needs to be tested personally to see if it fits one's needs.
So please download the free, 28-day trial from the website, and feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions or feedback - I look forward to hearing from you: https://eternalstorms.at/contact
= About In-App Purchases =
The available in-app purchases are completely voluntary tips and do not unlock any additional features.
Your one-time purchase of ScreenFloat gives you its full functionality.
more I had heard about this app a few months ago. I finally got around to purchasing it and I’m really, really happy I have. It’s a massive time-saver and saves me the annoyance of having to take screenshots and then going through the work of finding them and placing them where I need to which (in the past) involved having a finder window open and then dragging it into the editor I was working in. For example, as I watch videos teaching me how to use a program or whatever, I’ll take notes in an editor while I watch the video. Sometimes I want to grab a screenshot to drop into my notes to highlight a particular point. With ScreenFloat I can take that screenshot and have it float in my view where I can then copy it and drop it into my notes immediately instead of digging around in my file structure to complete the same task. The app is a little more powerful than that and I can see how it’ll come in handy for other tasks (like another reviewer mentioned taking a screenshot of server settings and having it simply “float” there while you type it all in instead of having to copy and paste it somewhere) but even just using it in the way that I am it’s a great utility. Well worth the money and I highly recommend it. Thanks, dev!
I had heard about this app a few months ago. I finally got around to purchasing it and I’m really, really happy I have. It’s a massive time-saver and saves me the annoyance of having to take screenshots and then going through the work of finding them and placing them where I need to which (in the past) involved having a finder window open and then dragging it into the editor I was working in. For example, as I watch videos teaching me how to use a program or whatever, I’ll take notes in an editor while I watch the video. Sometimes I want to grab a screenshot to drop into my notes to highlight a particular point. With ScreenFloat I can take that screenshot and have it float in my view where I can then copy it and drop it into my notes immediately instead of digging around in my file structure to complete the same task. The app is a little more powerful than that and I can see how it’ll come in handy for other tasks (like another reviewer mentioned taking a screenshot of server settings and having it simply “float” there while you type it all in instead of having to copy and paste it somewhere) but even just using it in the way that I am it’s a great utility. Well worth the money and I highly recommend it. Thanks, dev!
Update6 months later: I continue to be very impressed with both the app and user support, from the software developer, Mr. Gansrigler-Hrad. Once again, I got a very timely response to a query about a “missing” Print option. It was fixed the next day! Of course not all fixes happen so quickly. While the video screen capture is probably the most complex new addition, I’m most excited by the “Detect text” option. I use it regularly and it works very well. Indeed, from a screenfloat it detects both English and Chinese even if the original target was an image. This is definitely an app to get and to use if you ever take screenshots. Original Review:I've been using screenFloat for over 4 years. The free and periodic upgrades have led to a feature rich but still easy to use piece of screen capture software. I've only had to contact user support once about an issue - but the software developer responded very quickly and in a subsequent update resolved the quirk. I'm very glad I ran across this app.
Update6 months later: I continue to be very impressed with both the app and user support, from the software developer, Mr. Gansrigler-Hrad. Once again, I got a very timely response to a query about a “missing” Print option. It was fixed the next day! Of course not all fixes happen so quickly. While the video screen capture is probably the most complex new addition, I’m most excited by the “Detect text” option. I use it regularly and it works very well. Indeed, from a screenfloat it detects both English and Chinese even if the original target was an image. This is definitely an app to get and to use if you ever take screenshots. Original Review:I've been using screenFloat for over 4 years. The free and periodic upgrades have led to a feature rich but still easy to use piece of screen capture software. I've only had to contact user support once about an issue - but the software developer responded very quickly and in a subsequent update resolved the quirk. I'm very glad I ran across this app.
My previous review still stands, and thanks to the developer for updating it to work with the upcoming Sierra operating system:You may think to yourself, “I don’t see why I’d need this, I can already use the Mac’s built-in screen capture functionality, it’s fine.” I get that, but here’s what you’re missing.In just one day of using your computer try to pay attention to how often you need some information from another window, another space, or another app. You switch from window to window and back again, making sure you got it right. Or maybe you spend time resizing a bunch of things so you can see all of them at the sizes you need to. You might be a designer who needs to temporarily recall some RGB values in a Photoshop palette or dialog box. Or maybe you’re a developer who needs to recall the sizes of a couple of views but can’t have them on the screen at the same time. Boom, ScreenFloat is the answer. Just type your hotkey, drag around the thing you need to recall, then put it out of your mind and switch back to your other task. There’s the info, floating right where you need it, even though that other window/app/space is no longer visible. This app saves me hours of stupid switching back-and-forth or copying-temporarily-to-notepad or resizing windows or dealing with giant full-screen screenshots or writing on paper (heaven forbid!).So, so useful.
My previous review still stands, and thanks to the developer for updating it to work with the upcoming Sierra operating system:You may think to yourself, “I don’t see why I’d need this, I can already use the Mac’s built-in screen capture functionality, it’s fine.” I get that, but here’s what you’re missing.In just one day of using your computer try to pay attention to how often you need some information from another window, another space, or another app. You switch from window to window and back again, making sure you got it right. Or maybe you spend time resizing a bunch of things so you can see all of them at the sizes you need to. You might be a designer who needs to temporarily recall some RGB values in a Photoshop palette or dialog box. Or maybe you’re a developer who needs to recall the sizes of a couple of views but can’t have them on the screen at the same time. Boom, ScreenFloat is the answer. Just type your hotkey, drag around the thing you need to recall, then put it out of your mind and switch back to your other task. There’s the info, floating right where you need it, even though that other window/app/space is no longer visible. This app saves me hours of stupid switching back-and-forth or copying-temporarily-to-notepad or resizing windows or dealing with giant full-screen screenshots or writing on paper (heaven forbid!).So, so useful.
This has been so easily integrated into my workflow. I can grab images or text for reference while working on all manner of things from filling out forms, to referring to images for art or 3D modeling creation, to capturing things like texts or other fleeting important info. The fact that the grabbed image floats in front of everything else allows it to remain atop your work so it can be readlity utilized. I you want, you can even scroll your mouse to make the shot partially transparent.My only suggestions for improvement would be to make the shots optionally storable on iCloud or Dropbox so that they can be shared between computers. Also enable right-clicking (or control clicking) in the shots browser window for the actions on your shots, which now require going to the gear icon in the shots browser to select those functions.
This has been so easily integrated into my workflow. I can grab images or text for reference while working on all manner of things from filling out forms, to referring to images for art or 3D modeling creation, to capturing things like texts or other fleeting important info. The fact that the grabbed image floats in front of everything else allows it to remain atop your work so it can be readlity utilized. I you want, you can even scroll your mouse to make the shot partially transparent.My only suggestions for improvement would be to make the shots optionally storable on iCloud or Dropbox so that they can be shared between computers. Also enable right-clicking (or control clicking) in the shots browser window for the actions on your shots, which now require going to the gear icon in the shots browser to select those functions.
ScreenFloat v2.3.6 (2026.03.04) contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= NEW FEATURES =
- A new double-click action allows you to easily copy detected data like emails, phone numbers and links
- Screenshots and recordings made with macOS' built-in tools can now be automatically imported into ScreenFloat
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- When resizing, rotating or cropping a shot, the floating shot now resizes accordingly
- Improves handling of imported screen recordings
- Share more quickly with the new Share sheet (requires macOS 13 “Ventura” or newer)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a crash that could occur when cropping, rotating or muting video recordings
- Fixes a bug where the About window, when opened in another space, would not appear in the current space when opened
- Fixes a bug where the color panel sometimes refused to appear
- Fixes a bug where images with certain color spaces / profiles could not be edited correctly
- When a Quick Look'ed shot is deleted in the Shots Browser, the Quick Look panel now updates correctly to the next shot
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.3.6 Mar 23
ScreenFloat v2.3.5 (2026.01.28) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Searching in the Shots Browser has become better. For instance, searching for “design 25” will find a shot titled “Design Proposal 25”, as well as “2025 Design Template”, in addition to the exact phrase
- Shots in the Shots Browser's Trash can now be floated not only by double-clicking, but also from the toolbar or by pressing return/enter on the keyboard, just like outside the Trash
- You can now change whether or not your mouse cursor should be captured in timed shots
- The Copy double-click action now also copies a file in the desired format instead of data, since data is converted internally by the clipboard into tiff and png, thus overwriting the actually desired format
- ScreenFloat now shows an alert when it detects that there is no space for its item in the menu bar
- You can now drag and drop images and text into the shot markup editor (in addition to copy-paste)
- Hover your mouse cursor over a floating shot's dimension / file size information to reveal the shot title
- The appearance of widgets in the tinted and inactive states has been improved
- When picking a color in the floating shot's Color Picker that already exists in the Recents list, instead of adding that color again, it is moved to the top of the list
- Added the “Edit Title, Tags, Notes” menu item to the Shots Browser's contextual menu to make editing metadata accessible from there as well
- You can now recapture the previously captured area from ScreenFloat's menu bar item (in addition to press-and-holding the keyboard shortcut)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a rare crash that could occur when closing the Tags Browser
- Changed the title of the floating shot's contextual menu item “Edit Info…” to “Edit Title, Tags, Notes…” to make its functionality more obvious
- Fixes a bug causing ScreenFloat's Share extension to not work correctly
- Fixes a bug where, under rare circumstances, an image could not be annotated
- Fixes a bug where tipping wouldn't work on older versions of macOS
- Fixed a bug where the on-the-fly drag-out popover sometimes didn't respect the selected export settings for recordings
- The option to copy image data instead of image file paths has been made more accessible (from floating shots, the Shots Browser, and double-click actions)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.3.5 Feb 23
Happy new year. May you have a happy, healthy and safe year 2026!
ScreenFloat v2.3.4 (2026.01.05) contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= NEW FEATURES =
- The popover to easily drag out or share image shots in different file formats is now also available in the Shots Browser, and no longer exclusive to floating shots (2025.12.18)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Improves the performance of the Shots Browser's folder count calculations (2025.12.10)
- Improves the selection behavior in the Shots Browser when removing or deleting shots (2025.12.15)
- Improves the “Capture Selection” Control Widgets (screenshot / recording): Hold down the option key (⌥) to start a fullscreen capture (2025.12.15)
- On macOS 26 “Tahoe”, more menu items now have icons (2025.12.16)
- Improved how copying different data formats is handled: By default, a file path is now copied instead of the data, which would sometimes be auto-converted by macOS to TIFF, thus making conversion pointless (2025.12.18)
- Double-Click actions that are triggered with mouse buttons other than the left or right one now allow for the control modifier key (2025.12.19)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a formatting issue for the date and time in custom filenames (thank you, Lukas B.) (2025.12.04)
- Fixes a bug where the floating shots' alpha-scroll indicator behaved weirdly sometimes (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug where folders' shots counts in the Shots Browser weren't updated correctly (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug where updating the credentials for ImageKit or Cloudinary sometimes didn't work (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug where fullscreen capturing would take the focus from the active app and thus any windows would be captured in an inactive state, too (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug in the GIF exporter UI where sometimes a higher FPS value than available would be preselected (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug when printing, where pages would sometimes “spill” onto the next one (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug where dismissing the Search in the Shots Browser using the Search button in the toolbar would not reset the search parameters and not show all shots (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a bug where using the left/right arrow keys in the Shots Browser to go through different shots could result in the info panel not being updated for the new selection (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a crash that could occur when changing the file naming scheme (2025.12.10)
- Fixes a minor UI issue where, when only a QR code is captured and the menu pops up, some items that should have been disabled were enabled (2025.12.12)
- Fixes a bug where force-clicking a floating shot could interfere with dragging an image from the shot from the content area, and vice-versa (2025.12.12)
- Fixes an issue with the floating shots' Drag-Out-Options popover, where it sometimes wouldn't close (2025.12.12)
- Fixes a memory leak in the floating shots' Drag-Out-Options popover (2025.12.12)
- Implemented a workaround for a macOS 26 “Tahoe” bug where windows' shadows sometimes weren't captured (2025.12.15)
- Fixes a bug in the Shots Browser, where, after dismissing the search, pressing keyboard keys would not be received correctly (2025.12.15)
- Fixes a bug that could prevent dragging a floating shot to other apps (2025.12.17)
- Fixes a bug where a certain combination of modifier flags for double-click actions would not work correctly (2025.12.19)
- Fixes a bug where duplicating a shot in the Shots Browser and renaming it right after with sync enabled would revert the name back to its original after sync (2025.12.19)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.3.4 Jan 7
ScreenFloat v2.3.3 (2025.09.12) contains the following new features and improvements:
= NEW FEATURES =
- Capture your screen using Control Widgets (macOS 26 Tahoe or newer) (2025.09.08)
- A new look requires a new icon (2025.09.11)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Updated the Shots Browser to embrace the new Liquid Glass Look (macOS 26 Tahoe or newer) (2025.09.05)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.3.3 09/15/2025
- Fixes a bug where in some cases ScreenFloat erroneously reported its library to be inaccessible
ScreenFloat v2.3 contains the following new features and improvements:
= NEW FEATURES =
- Text recognition now checks for addresses, numbers, links and emails for a much improved user experience (2025.07.09)
- A new HUD, available during screen recordings, allows you to mute your mic and system audio, add "edit markers", and pause, resume and stop the recording (macOS 13 or newer) (2025.05.02)
- You can now add "edit markers" while you are recording your screen, making cutting easier later on. ScreenFloat automatically adds markers for muting and unmuting audio, for pausing the recording, and for switching apps and spaces. (macOS 13 or newer) (2025.05.29)
- Create GIFs from Screen Recordings (2025.04.07)
- New "Add Border" option for image exports and dragging out from floating image shots, to help prevent "bleed" when embedding into documents or websites with a similar background color (thank you, Adam C. E.) (2025.07.12)
- New double-click action to quickly add checkmarks, x-marks or numbered lists to floating shots (2025.07.17)
- New double-click action to quickly redact detected information (2025.07.17)
- Under Settings > Shots Browser, you're now able to change how Shots are named. Also available when exporting shots (2025.07.21)
- Fullscreen captures are now easier, by pressing the respective keyboard shortcut a second time (2025.05.12)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Improves compatibility of multi-track-audio screen recordings and sharing to other apps (2025.06.09)
- Image Shots can now also be marked up in the Shots Browser using Quick Look, especially useful if you like to annotate using your iPad and Pencil with Continuity (2025.06.18)
- The double-click action "Add tag" now supports multiple tags (2025.06.23)
- You can now add shadows to your annotations (2025.06.26)
- Re-capturing now opens on the screen the mouse cursor is on, instead of wherever a shot was last captured (2025.06.27)
- Rotating an image shot no longer touches the image data, but uses the EXIF orientation field instead, like Quick Look has been doing since macOS 12.3 at least (2025.07.14)
- Improved the way redactions are created, by tuning each redaction's parameters to every detected feature individually (2025.07.16)
- When dragging a floating shot to other apps, the filename can now be obfuscated (2025.07.22)
- Snap-to-edges works a little bit better when cropping shots (2025.07.23)
- The "Reduce DPI" setting in the floating shot's on-the-fly drag and drop settings popover is now also available for still images from videos (2025.07.23)
2.3.2 08/07/2025
ScreenFloat v2.3 contains the following new features and improvements:
= NEW FEATURES =
- Text recognition now checks for addresses, numbers, links and emails for a much improved user experience (2025.07.09)
- A new HUD, available during screen recordings, allows you to mute your mic and system audio, add "edit markers", and pause, resume and stop the recording (macOS 13 or newer) (2025.05.02)
- You can now add "edit markers" while you are recording your screen, making cutting easier later on. ScreenFloat automatically adds markers for muting and unmuting audio, for pausing the recording, and for switching apps and spaces. (macOS 13 or newer) (2025.05.29)
- Create GIFs from Screen Recordings (2025.04.07)
- New "Add Border" option for image exports and dragging out from floating image shots, to help prevent "bleed" when embedding into documents or websites with a similar background color (thank you, Adam C. E.) (2025.07.12)
- New double-click action to quickly add checkmarks, x-marks or numbered lists to floating shots (2025.07.17)
- New double-click action to quickly redact detected information (2025.07.17)
- Under Settings > Shots Browser, you're now able to change how Shots are named. Also available when exporting shots (2025.07.21)
- Fullscreen captures are now easier, by pressing the respective keyboard shortcut a second time (2025.05.12)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Improves compatibility of multi-track-audio screen recordings and sharing to other apps (2025.06.09)
- Image Shots can now also be marked up in the Shots Browser using Quick Look, especially useful if you like to annotate using your iPad and Pencil with Continuity (2025.06.18)
- The double-click action "Add tag" now supports multiple tags (2025.06.23)
- You can now add shadows to your annotations (2025.06.26)
- Re-capturing now opens on the screen the mouse cursor is on, instead of wherever a shot was last captured (2025.06.27)
- Rotating an image shot no longer touches the image data, but uses the EXIF orientation field instead, like Quick Look has been doing since macOS 12.3 at least (2025.07.14)
- Improved the way redactions are created, by tuning each redaction's parameters to every detected feature individually (2025.07.16)
- When dragging a floating shot to other apps, the filename can now be obfuscated (2025.07.22)
- Snap-to-edges works a little bit better when cropping shots (2025.07.23)
- The "Reduce DPI" setting in the floating shot's on-the-fly drag and drop settings popover is now also available for still images from videos (2025.07.23)
and v2.3.1 (2025.08.01) fixes the following bugs:
- Fixes a bug where, after a “Duplicate” double-click action, another double-click onto the original shot did nothing (2025.07.30)
- Fixes a bug where quicksmart-redacting something in a floating shot that was made smaller could result in the redaction area to be wrong (2025.07.31)
- Fixes a bug where a still image extracted from a recording did not receive the “(extracted)” file name suffix (2025.07.31)
- Fixes a memory leak when using shadows on annotations (2025.07.31)
- Fixes a bunch of strings and localizations (2025.08.01)
- Fixes a bug where the file name of a Shot dragged from the Shots Browser to another app would incorrectly be obfuscated (2025.08.01)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.3.1 08/05/2025
ScreenFloat v2.3 (2025.07.28) contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= NEW FEATURES =
- Text recognition now checks for addresses, numbers, links and emails for a much improved user experience (2025.07.09)
- A new HUD, available during screen recordings, allows you to mute your mic and system audio, add "edit markers", and pause, resume and stop the recording (macOS 13 or newer) (2025.05.02)
- You can now add "edit markers" while you are recording your screen, making cutting easier later on. ScreenFloat automatically adds markers for muting and unmuting audio, for pausing the recording, and for switching apps and spaces. (macOS 13 or newer) (2025.05.29)
- Create GIFs from Screen Recordings (2025.04.07)
- New "Add Border" option for image exports and dragging out from floating image shots, to help prevent "bleed" when embedding into documents or websites with a similar background color (thank you, Adam C. E.) (2025.07.12)
- New double-click action to quickly add checkmarks, x-marks or numbered lists to floating shots (2025.07.17)
- New double-click action to quickly redact detected information (2025.07.17)
- Under Settings > Shots Browser, you're now able to change how Shots are named. Also available when exporting shots (2025.07.21)
- Fullscreen captures are now easier, by pressing the respective keyboard shortcut a second time (2025.05.12)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Improves compatibility of multi-track-audio screen recordings and sharing to other apps (2025.06.09)
- Image Shots can now also be marked up in the Shots Browser using Quick Look, especially useful if you like to annotate using your iPad and Pencil with Continuity (2025.06.18)
- The double-click action "Add tag" now supports multiple tags (2025.06.23)
- You can now add shadows to your annotations (2025.06.26)
- Re-capturing now opens on the screen the mouse cursor is on, instead of wherever a shot was last captured (2025.06.27)
- Rotating an image shot no longer touches the image data, but uses the EXIF orientation field instead, like Quick Look has been doing since macOS 12.3 at least (2025.07.14)
- Improved the way redactions are created, by tuning each redaction's parameters to every detected feature individually (2025.07.16)
- When dragging a floating shot to other apps, the filename can now be obfuscated (2025.07.22)
- Snap-to-edges works a little bit better when cropping shots (2025.07.23)
- The "Reduce DPI" setting in the floating shot's on-the-fly drag and drop settings popover is now also available for still images from videos (2025.07.23)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes an issue where apps relying on a persistent location of shared shots sometimes would lose access (2025.06.09)
- Fixes a bug where the Print menu would not appear in a floating shot's contextual menu (2025.06.18)
- Fixes a bug with the opacity scrolling within a floating shot (2025.06.23)
- Fixes a bug where changing a text annotation's font style would also change its size (2025.06.24)
- When annotating image Shots, annotations that are out of bounds will not be saved (2025.06.24)
- Fixes a bug where folding a shot with annotations would, in some cases, move annotations to the wrong spot (2025.07.11)
- Fixes a bug where after using the hide, close or delete double-click action on a floating shot, a subsequent double-click wouldn't work (2025.07.17)
- Changed all relevant quotes to smart quotes (2025.07.21)
- Fixes a memory leak when trimming videos (2025.07.23)
- Fixes a bug where sometimes saving the captured browser window's location wouldn't work (2025.07.28)
- Fixes a few missing and wrongly translated strings (2025.07.28)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
To get in touch with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
– Matthias
2.3 08/04/2025
ScreenFloat v2.2.9 (2025.05.20) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- You can now copy your selection when cropping image shots (2025.05.02)
- Text and images can now be directly pasted when annotating Shots (2025.05.14)
- A new setting to en- or disable opacity scrolling for floating shots (2025.05.01)
- A new setting for changing how the recorded area is highlighted during screen recordings (2025.05.14)
- Improved keyboard navigation in the Shots Browser (wrap-around for left and right arrows) (2025.05.06)
- The double-click action "Export to Folder" no longer overwrites existing shots for same-named files (2025.05.13)
- Performance improvements in the Shots Browser (2025.05.16)
= BUG FIXES =
- Improved performance when scrolling through the Shots Browser with the space bar (2025.04.03)
- Fixes a bug that rendered "Work mode" defunct under certain circumstances (2025.05.01)
- Fixes a bug where the menu bar item's menu sometimes would display wrong keyboard shortcuts (2025.05.02)
- Fixes a crash when scaling images up using MetalFX (2025.05.05)
- Fixes a bug where trimming recordings wouldn't work when the "Are you sure" alert was shown on macOS 15.4 and newer (2025.05.06)
- Fixes a bug where large floating shots would sometimes be positioned off-screen (2025.05.12)
- Fixes a memory leak when cropping videos (2025.05.15)
- Fixes a bug where multiple, different double-click actions could be run at the same time (2025.05.15)
- Fixes a crash that could occur when adding a shot to a folder (2025.05.16)
- Fixes a sorting bug where sometimes duplicates weren't correctly sorted (2025.05.16)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.2.9 05/20/2025
ScreenFloat v2.2.8 (2025.03.24) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- When using "Restore and Float" from the Trash in the Shots Browser, the Shot(s) now appear at the mouse cursor for better visibility (2025.03.24)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a bug where the 'special thanks'-field would not properly display its contents in the release / update notes (2025.02.03)
- Fixes a bug in recognizing links from Google Chrome and Opera browsers (2025.02.13)
- Fixes a crash that could occur when cutting screen recordings with audio tracks (2025.03.21)
- Fixes a memory leak in the "About ScreenFloat" window (2025.03.24)
- The "What's New" window is no longer kept around in memory after it is closed for an anticipated subsequent opening (2025.03.24)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.2.8 03/25/2025
ScreenFloat v2.2.7 (2025.01.30) contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= NEW FEATURES =
- New systemwide Service to more easily capture menus and submenus (2025.01.15)
- When you take a shot of a browser window, the link of the captured tab/window is added as a note to the shot
(currently works with Safari, Google Chrome and Opera) (2025.01.23)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- Adds more checks to the "Repair Database" system (2025.01.14)
- Reintroduces the Take Floating Screenshot systemwide service (2025.01.16)
- Upon export, images now have a proper date in the EXIF creation date and IPTC creation date/time fields (2025.01.17)
- For cropping and recapturing, custom aspect ratios can now be saved and used (2025.01.22)
- Improves the display of the Settings window on smaller screens or resolutions (2025.01.30)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a rare crash when attempting to add shots to a folder via the contextual menu (2025.01.14)
- Fixes a bug where the deretinize double-click action would not update the image's file size (2025.01.15)
- Fixes a bug on macOS Ventura where the floating shot's close button's hover popup could cause lag (2025.01.16)
- Fixes a bug where, when cutting a video shot, the playhead would sometimes skip over cuts way too far ahead (2025.01.29)
- Fixes a bug that could cause loading up the video cutting editor to be sluggish (2025.01.29)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.2.7 02/03/2025
ScreenFloat for Mac v2.2.6 (2024.12.13) contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= NEW FEATURES =
- New Service in QuickTime Player: Extract still images from current playback position (2024.12.13)
- New Shortcut to extract still images from videos at a specific playback position (2024.12.13)
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- There's now an option to record the screen at a lower, non-retina resolution to reduce the resulting file size, but also the quality (2024.12.10)
- The selection UI for cropping, recapturing or selecting annotations is now displayed more prominently on light images / backgrounds (2024.12.11)
- Loading the Shortcuts list is now snappier and does no longer launch Shortcuts.app in the background (2024.12.11)
- Shots can now be copied from the opened Quick Look panel in the Shots Browser (2024.12.06)
- Improved the reliability of the "Import files" Shortcut (2024.12.13)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a bug occurring on macOS 15 Sequoia that caused the options in the Export dialog not to be displayed (2024.06.12)
- Fixes a crash that could occur when opening the Run Shortcuts contextual menu (2024.12.09)
- Fixes a bug where the esssf2://sci-clipcap.at url scheme wouldn't work without adding the supposedly optional "shouldFloat=true/false" parameter (2024.12.09)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.2.6 01/08/2025
ScreenFloat for Mac v2.2.5 (2024.12.04) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- ScreenFloat now pro-actively asks whether it should restore your last session's floating shots when it encounters a lot of them. You can also hold down the shift key (⇧) on your keyboard during launch to prevent ScreenFloat from restoring your last session (2024.11.06)
- Floating shots now show the dimensions and file size of the shot (2024.12.03)
- The Shortcuts list (for double-click actions, or when right-clicking a floating shot) now is more organized, mirroring the folder structure you have set up in Shortcuts.app (2024.12.02)
- On macOS 15.2 and onward, option-only keyboard shortcuts are allowed again (2024.11.29)
- Shortcuts and AppleScripts can now be run with more than just one shot (2024.12.03)
- Shortcuts and AppleScripts can now be run from shots in the Shots Browser (2024.12.03)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a potential crash during iCloud sync (2024.11.29)
- Fixes a rare crash that could occur when right-clicking a button in a floating shot (2024.11.29)
- Fixes a crash that could occur when using the File Size rule in the Smart Folder / search editor (2024.11.29)
- Fixes a bug on macOS Sequoia 15.1 where some thumbnails in the Shots Browser were distorted (2024.11.29)
- Improves the scrolling performance in the Shots Browser (2024.11.29)
- Fixes a bug on macOS 15 Sequoia where sometimes the Color-Picker UI in ScreenFloat's settings was just plain white (2024.12.02)
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
2.2.5 12/05/2024
ScreenFloat v2.2.4 (2024.10.15) brings the following bug fixes:
- Fixes a bug that prevented ScreenFloat from launching on some systems (2024.10.15)
2.2.4 10/15/2024
ScreenFloat v2.2.3 (2024.10.09) brings the following bug fixes:
- Fixes a bug where, after dragging a floating shot from ScreenFloat, the floating shot would not be shown again or have an undesired opacity value
- Fixes a bug where sometimes ScreenFloat would not launch correctly
2.2.3 10/09/2024
ScreenFloat v2.2.2 (2024.09.01) brings the following bug fixes:
- Fixes a bug where sometimes recording the screen would fail (2024.08.2200)
- Fixes a bug where, if the keyboard shortcut to capture a screenshot contained the control key, the resulting screenshot would be copied instead of floated, even though control was no longer pressed when the mouse button was released (2024.08.2200)
- Fixes a bug where the video recording settings panel would not come up when re-capturing an area (2024.09.01)
2.2.2 09/05/2024
ScreenFloat v2.2.1 (2024.08.1201) brings the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
=== NEW FEATURES ===
- A new permission overview in Settings > General > Authorizations gives you a better understanding of the permissions ScreenFloat requires, why, and how it uses those privileges (2024.07.31)
- Standby window capture: Screenshot windows with ScreenFloat from their green resize buttons, or from your menu bar (see Settings > Capturing > Images) (2024.08.09)
- AppleScripts and Shortcuts can now not only be run from a double-click workflow, but also from a floating shot's contextual menu directly (2024.08.1201)
=== IMPROVEMENTS ===
- Cancelling a recording with the keyboard shortcut now also works when the recording is still being set up (2024.07.08)
- When OCR-ing directly, the "Text copied" notice panel now appears more prominently (2024.07.08)
- When re-capturing an image shot, you can now choose between re-capturing as screenshot, timed screenshot, or video recording (2024.07.09)
- When cutting video recordings, the new duration of the final video, infos for the selected cut and the playhead's position are now shown (2024.08.08)
- While cutting a video, during playback, hold down x on your keyboard to add an on-the-fly cut for as long as the x key is pressed (2024.08.08)
- Improved how permissions are handled, and when they are requested or displayed (2024.08.01)
- Improved the scrubber feedback and functionality during playback of a video cut preview (2024.08.08)
- Unhiding floating Shots from the menu bar has been improved (2024.08.08)
- Shots can now have their visibility set not only to the currently frontmost app, but all other running apps as well (2024.08.08)
- The Shortcuts app no longer launches right away when opening the "Add Double-Click Action" menu (2024.08.1201)
=== BUG FIXES ===
- Fixes a rare crash when opening the Share menu (2024.07.01)
- Fixes a bug where "Don't Show Again" didn't work for the Empty Trash warning (2024.07.01)
- Fixes a rare crash when starting a recording, if another recording was somehow still active or getting set up (2024.07.08)
- Fixes a rare crash in the Shots Browser (2024.07.08)
- Pressing fn to temporarily toggle the "float shot after capture" setting now also works when re-capturing (2024.07.09)
- Fixed a bug where, when cutting a video, the playhead wouldn't follow along as you scrolled through the video preview (2024.05.10)
- Fixes a bug where sometimes the app could not relaunch itself (2024.07.31)
- Fixes a bug where screen reocrding would fail if you wanted to record your screen with your microphone, but ScreenFloat didn't have the permission (2024.08.01)
- Fixes a bug where alpha-scrolling a floating shot could result in the background app to also scroll (2024.08.07)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using the text annotation tool (2024.08.07)
- Fixed a bug in the Shots Browser where sometimes it would say "1 items" instead of "1 item" (2024.08.08)
- Fixed a bug where, after cutting a video, the new duration wouldn't be shown correctly in some cases (2024.08.08)
- The video cutting window now remembers its last used size (2024.08.1201)
2.2.1 08/13/2024
ScreenFloat v2.2 (2024.06.07) brings the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
=== NEW FEATURES ===
- Create permanent, shareable and embeddable links with ImageKit.io and/or Cloudinary.com (see Share menu, Double-Click actions and Settings > iCloud > Set up Link Copy…) (2024.05.16)
- Cut out parts of your screen recordings, or tracks individually (right-click onto a shot and select Cut Video…, or use a double-click action) (2024.06.04)
- New double-click action: Run AppleScript with Shot (2024.05.23)
- New double-click action: Run Shortcut with Shot (2024.05.23)
- "What's New" panel to show significant changes for the latest updates (2024.05.28)
- Siri Shortcuts: New shortcut to create a shot from your clipboard's contents (2024.05.17)
- Use the esssf2 URL scheme to automate capturing shots (2024.05.17)
- Smart Folders and Search now support File Size filter (2024.05.21)
- A ScreenFloat PopClip extension is now available that lets you create shots from selected text, and access all of ScreenFloat's other capture abilities (2024.05.28)
=== IMPROVEMENTS ===
- For iCloud Link Share links, choose between Landing Page links (default), or direct download links (see Settings > iCloud > Set up Link Copy…) (2024.05.16)
- Siri Shortcuts: All "New Shot" shortcuts now come with an optional "After Capture" action, so you can, for example, capture a shot and annotate right away (2024.05.17)
- Improved reliability of "Work mode" and its inversion modifier key (2024.05.21)
- Improved Dutch localization (2024.05.21)
- iCloud Link Share links can now optionally include their validity information (see Settings > iCloud > Set up Link Copy…) (2024.06.05)
=== BUG FIXES ===
- Fixes a bug where sometimes there would be duplicate entries in the re-capture screen for recently captured frames (2024.05.16)
- Fixes a crash when using a double-click action to decrease a floating shot's window size (2024.05.17)
- Fixes a bug where moving or double-clicking a floating screen recording from/in its center would not work (2024.05.30)
2.2 06/18/2024
ScreenFloat v2.1.7 (2024.05.13) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= Improvements =
- Re-capturing now remembers not only the last capture you made, but the last capture for every screen (right-click during re-capture for these options) (2024.05.13)
- When a double-click workflow begins with a "Duplicate Shot" action, all subsequent actions in that workflow are now run on that duplicated shot, instead of the original one (2024.05.13)
- Improved text rendering when creating a floating shot from selected, copied or dragged text (for example, when selecting New Shot from Clipboard) (2024.05.13)
- Improves Shots Browser's thumbnail performance (2024.05.07)
= Bug Fixes =
- Fixes a rare crash when adding a shot to a folder via the contextual menu in the Shots Browser (2024.05.06)
- Fixes a crash when exporting with sequential number file names (2024.05.06)
- Fixes a rare crash when control-clicking onto a floating shot (2024.05.06)
- Fixes a bug where ScreenFloat sometimes failed to clean up after itself (2024.05.06)
- Fixes a bug where quickly dragging a floating shot twice in quick succession would trigger a double-click action (2024.05.07)
- Fixes a bug where, when a screen is disconnected with a floating shot on it, the shot would not move to the active space on the main screen (2024.05.07)
- Fixes a bug where sometimes notes or tags would not be trimmed for whitespaces (and in the case of tags, newlines) (2024.05.13)
==== Info ====
Thank you for using ScreenFloat! If you have any feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to contact or connect with me: https://eternalstorms.at/contact
You can find a deep-dive into ScreenFloat 2's functionality on my blog: https://blog.eternalstorms.at/?p=3352 , where I'll also keep you in the know about updates and my other apps, like Yoink.
If you have the time, I'd very much appreciate if you could leave a review or rating of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store. Thank you!
2.1.7 05/14/2024
ScreenFloat v2.1.6 (2024.05.02) contains the following improvements and bug fixes:
= 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)
==== Info ====
Thank you for using ScreenFloat! If you have any feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to contact or connect with me: https://eternalstorms.at/contact
You can find a deep-dive into ScreenFloat 2's functionality on my blog: https://blog.eternalstorms.at/?p=3352 , where I'll also keep you in the know about updates and my other apps, like Yoink.
If you have the time, I'd very much appreciate if you could leave a review or rating of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store. Thank you!
2.1.6 05/03/2024
ScreenFloat v2.1.5 (2024.04.25) implements the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= 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)
2.1.5 04/26/2024
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.
ScreenFloat v2.1.2 brought the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= 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)
2.1.4 03/25/2024
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.
ScreenFloat v2.1.2 brought the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= 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)
2.1.3 03/25/2024
ScreenFloat v2.1.2 contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= 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)
2.1.2 03/22/2024
ScreenFloat v2.1.1 improves and fixes the following:
= 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)
2.1.1 03/13/2024
ScreenFloat v2.1 (2024.03.01) brings the following new features, improvements, fixes and changes:
= 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)
2.1 03/05/2024
ScreenFloat v2.3.6 (2026.03.04) contains the following new features, improvements and bug fixes:
= NEW FEATURES =
- A new double-click action allows you to easily copy detected data like emails, phone numbers and links
- Screenshots and recordings made with macOS' built-in tools can now be automatically imported into ScreenFloat
= IMPROVEMENTS =
- When resizing, rotating or cropping a shot, the floating shot now resizes accordingly
- Improves handling of imported screen recordings
- Share more quickly with the new Share sheet (requires macOS 13 “Ventura” or newer)
= BUG FIXES =
- Fixes a crash that could occur when cropping, rotating or muting video recordings
- Fixes a bug where the About window, when opened in another space, would not appear in the current space when opened
- Fixes a bug where the color panel sometimes refused to appear
- Fixes a bug where images with certain color spaces / profiles could not be edited correctly
- When a Quick Look'ed shot is deleted in the Shots Browser, the Quick Look panel now updates correctly to the next shot
Thank you for using ScreenFloat for Mac. I hope you're enjoying the app!
If you have some time and if it's not too much to ask, please consider leaving a rating or review of ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store - it would help me out a lot!
If you'd like to get in touch or connect with me, please visit https://eternalstorms.at/contact for all options.
Yours truly,
Matthias
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