iSkitch 2.0 — The biggest update yet New • History: your captures stay on this Mac for 30 days, still editable, and you can search them by the text inside. A new start window shows the recent ones. • Copy text or a QR code from any region with ⌥⌘7, or from the image in the editor, and select text right on the image with Live Text. • Quick access: an optional thumbnail after capturing to copy, save, annotate, copy its text or pin it. Turn it on in Settings ▸ Capture. • Pin to Screen: keep a capture floating above your windows, with adjustable opacity. • Frame tool: background, padding, rounded corners, shadow and aspect ratio, plus a text or image watermark. • Curved arrows, a Magnifier tool and saved styles for arrows, text and shapes. • While selecting a region: a magnifier with position and color, an option to freeze the screen and another to hide desktop icons. • iSkitch documents (.iskitch) you can reopen and keep editing. • Tabs in the editor, one-letter tool shortcuts (V, A, T, R…) and a cheat sheet when you press ?. • Actions for the Shortcuts app and Spotlight: capture a region, a window or the full screen, copy text, and open the last capture. • The Spotlight tool can now darken much more, from 20 to 90%. • Portuguese now comes in two versions, Portugal and Brazil. Changed • A new, fully native look for macOS 26 and 27: a system toolbar you can customize, a status bar with zoom and size, grouped tools, Settings laid out like System Settings, and a new icon. • iSkitch 2.0 requires macOS 26 or later. On macOS 14 and 15, iSkitch 1.10.3 keeps working. Fixed • Rotating a Retina capture no longer doubles its size.

iSkitch 1.10.3 — Remembers your arrow and line width Changed • The arrowhead style and line width you pick in the toolbar are now remembered: the next editor window, and iSkitch after a restart, start with them. Before, they were only kept if you set them in Settings ▸ Editor. Fixed • Settings ▸ Editor now shows the line width the editor really uses (it said 4 px while the editor started at 20), and its slider goes up to 60 px, like the toolbar.

iSkitch 1.10.2 — Ready for macOS 27 Fixed • Improved compatibility with macOS 27: the menus once again mark the capture timer, zoom level and save format you have chosen. macOS 27 hides images in menus, and iSkitch used one for that checkmark. • Dragging the image with the hand button now works in Slack and in web upload areas such as Gmail's: iSkitch hands over a real PNG file. The file is no longer named "Screenshot.png.png". Changed • One color for buttons: iSkitch pink is now the app's accent color, or the accent color you picked in System Settings takes over. Before, some buttons were pink, others blue and one orange.

iSkitch 1.10.1 — Out of the way when you capture Requested by a customer who switched from Skitch. Fixed • iSkitch now hides its own windows while you capture and brings them back afterwards. An open editor no longer covers what you want to capture or shows up in the shot. • ⌘C copies the annotated image, just like in Skitch. ⇧⌘C still works, and in a text field ⌘C copies the text as usual.

iSkitch 1.10.0 — Adjust the selection before capturing Requested by a customer who captures frames from videos and animations. New • Adjust a region before you capture it. Turn on Settings ▸ Capture ▸ "Adjust the selection before capturing" and, when you release the mouse, the selection stays on screen with handles. Drag a handle to resize it, drag inside to move it, or drag outside to start again. Press Return or Space, double-click inside it, or click Capture in the bar to take the shot. The screen stays live underneath, so you can wait for the exact frame of a video. It's off by default: drag and release still captures straight away. Changed • With more than one display, the display you click on now takes the keyboard, so the arrow keys and Return act on the selection you just made. • Pressing Return with nothing selected no longer closes the capture overlay. Escape cancels.

iSkitch 1.9.2 — Highlighter opacity, and pixelation that really hides Prompted by an email from someone who hadn't bought the app yet and missed an adjustable highlighter and a way to sharpen, and by a test that showed pixelated numbers could still be read. New • Adjustable highlighter opacity, from 10 to 100 %. A slider and a percentage box in the tool bar, with a preview swatch. It's saved with each highlight and remembered for the next one; 45 % is still the default, so nothing changes unless you touch it. • Restyle what's already drawn with the Select tool. Select an arrow, a highlight or a pixelated area and the bar shows that item's own options and values: change its colour, width, opacity or strength and it applies to that item. Text now shows its own size and bold or italic, not the tool's. • Sharpen the image. Image ▸ Sharpen… applies an unsharp mask to the whole capture, with a strength slider and a before-and-after preview at actual size. Annotations aren't touched, and ⌘Z undoes it. Fixed • Pixelation could leave numbers readable. Each block took a single pixel from its centre instead of the average, and on a line of text the blocks were about 3 pt high. Each block is now the true average of what it covers, a line of text ends up two or three blocks high even at the lowest strength, and a light noise on each block stops tools that rebuild pixelated text by trying candidates. No more stripes along the edges either. For passwords, Solid is still the safe choice, and the tooltip says so. • The pixelation strength didn't reach new areas. The slider only changed the selected one; new ones always came out at 1x. The bug dates back to 1.8.0. • Undoing a style change deleted the item. Changing the colour or width of something you had just drawn left no undo step, so ⌘Z went back to before it existed. ⌘Z now undoes just the style change, and a whole slider drag counts as one step.

iSkitch 1.9.1 — One shortcut for all three capture modes, and zoom with ⌘ + scroll The rest of what one Austrian user asked for, plus two bugs his screenshots uncovered. New • A mode bar while capturing, like the one from ⇧⌘5. Start a region or window capture and a bar appears at the bottom of the screen with Region · Window · Full Screen and Cancel. Switch before you capture, with the mouse or with the keys 1, 2 and 3 — so a single shortcut (⌥⌘4 or ⌥⌘5) reaches all three modes. The per-mode shortcuts are still there for anyone who has them in their fingers. • Zoom with ⌘ + the mouse wheel, and with the trackpad pinch. Over the canvas, ⌘ + wheel zooms in and out in the same steps as ⌘+ and ⌘−; on the trackpad the zoom is continuous. Without ⌘, the wheel still scrolls the image. Fixed • A capture opened at 51 % even when it fitted at 100 %. The initial zoom was worked out during the editor's first layout pass, while the window was still at its 800x600 minimum, and stayed locked there. It is now decided with the real window size: 100 % when the image fits, scaled down only when it doesn't. The bug dates back to 1.4.0. • The open editor covered what you were about to capture. With a capture already open, starting another one brought the editor to the front, on top of the window you wanted. The capture overlay now becomes the key window before the app activates, and the editor stays where it was. • Without Screen Recording permission, a capture no longer opens the overlay. The system dialog came up underneath the full-screen overlay, which took all the clicks, so the only way out was to cancel. iSkitch now tries a 2x2 px test capture first; if it fails, the system dialog appears on a clear screen and the Welcome and permissions screen explains the restart. Changed • A click without dragging no longer closes the capture. It stays open so you can pick another mode in the bar; Escape or Cancel still exits.

iSkitch 1.9.0 — WebP, quality where you save, and Resize in plain sight One support email, four suggestions. Two asked for things iSkitch already did — resizing, and JPEG quality — but hidden where nobody found them; the other two didn't exist. This release covers all four. New • Export to WebP: in Settings, in the editor's save button and in the save dialog, with adjustable quality and transparency preserved. 100% saves lossless. macOS reads WebP but still can't write it, so iSkitch brings its own encoder. • Format and quality in the save dialog itself: a Format pop-up and, for JPEG and WebP, a Quality slider — like Preview's Export sheet. What you choose there becomes the default. The slider in Settings ▸ Capture ▸ Output now appears for any lossy format. • Resize Image, in plain sight: ⇧⌘R, a button in the crop bar and another next to the pixel dimensions at the bottom of the editor. It was always in the Image menu; now you can find it. Fixed • The crop bar showed points, not pixels: on a Retina capture it said 1280x800 while the bottom bar said 2560x1600. It now works in pixels and says so, and typing 1281 crops to exactly 1281 (it used to give 1282). • JPEG at 80% is now really 80%: macOS's built-in encoder has its own quality scale, and its 80 wrote the tables every other tool (Affinity, XnConvert, Squoosh, ImageMagick) calls 94, so the file came out up to three times bigger than theirs at the same setting. The slider is now calibrated to the standard scale: the number you pick is the one any tool reads back from the file, and sizes are on a par. A user measured it across five apps. • Small images open centered: the editor window doesn't go below 800x600, and an image smaller than that sat in the top-left corner. It now opens centered (at 100% if it fits, scaled down if it doesn't).

iSkitch 1.8.1 — No Screen Recording permission? That works too On a company Mac without admin rights you can't grant the Screen Recording permission, and without it Capture doesn't work. Skitch got around that with the clipboard; iSkitch, until now, didn't. New • New from Clipboard: File ▸ New from Clipboard (⇧⌘N, Skitch's shortcut) opens whatever image is on the clipboard in the editor. Edit ▸ Paste (⌘V) does the same whenever no text field is waiting for it. The old habit is back: ⌃⇧⌘4 in macOS, then paste. No screen capture involved, so no permission needed — and a Retina capture keeps its 2x pixels. • When a capture fails for lack of permission, the alert explains the two ways around it — keep using macOS's ⇧⌘4 and let iSkitch open each screenshot, or paste with ⇧⌘N — with a button that turns the first one on right there. The welcome window and Settings ▸ Capture say so too. Fixed • Region and full-screen captures on a display running at a scaled resolution (for example a 4K monitor set to 2560x1440) came out at 1x or blurry. iSkitch now takes the region through the same screenshot machinery as macOS's ⇧⌘4 — pixel for pixel identical. • "Open editor after a system screenshot" now always opens the editor. It silently depended on the general "Open the editor" setting for iSkitch's own captures, so with that one off the watched screenshot opened nothing.

iSkitch 1.8.0 — Captures, as they should have been Capturing a window never actually captured a window: iSkitch photographed the whole screen and cropped out the window's rectangle, so anything on top came along too. Fixing that opened the door to the rest. New • Window captures arrive with the window's shadow and rounded corners, on a transparent background. • Capture the window you already have in front, straight away, with ⌥⇧⌘5. • Resize the image in pixels, with proportions locked and 25/50/75/100% presets (Image ▸ Resize Image…). Annotations scale with it and ⌘Z undoes the whole thing in one step. • Export to GIF and BMP. • Adjustable strength for pixelation and blur, saved per annotation: hint at an IP address and make a password completely unreadable in the same screenshot. • All five capture shortcuts can be changed one by one in Settings ▸ Capture ▸ Shortcut. • An optional window invites you to subscribe to product news. Your email only reaches us if you type it, accept the privacy policy and press the button. Fixed • Capturing a window captures that window, with nothing that happened to be on top of it. • ⌥⌘5, ⌥⌘3 and ⌥⇧⌘4 work from any app. Only ⌥⌘4 was a real global shortcut before. • JPEG and BMP no longer frame transparent areas in black. • The bottom bar reported half the pixels a capture really had, and resizing started from that wrong figure.

iSkitch 1.7.0 — Stamps, the way Skitch did them A stamp is no longer a lone symbol. It is now the Skitch callout: a colored disc with the sign in white, a tail to point with, and room for a label. This one comes from a long-time Skitch user who missed exactly this — and he was right. New • Exclamation (!) and question (?) stamps. The two signs most used to flag something or to mark a doubt. The Stamp tool now offers seven. • Stamps are drawn on a colored disc, with the sign in white — the Skitch look. Until now only the numbered stamp had it. • A tail to point with. With the Select tool, a stamp shows a loose handle to its right: drag it and the stamp grows a tail pointing wherever you want, like the tip of a speech bubble. Drag it back under the disc and it goes away. • A label beside the stamp. Double-click a stamp with Select and you can write next to it. On numbered stamps, the double-click corrects the number. Fixed • iSkitch no longer asks for Screen Recording permission over and over. The welcome window checked the permission by asking the system for its shareable content, which is a protected call: when the permission is missing, macOS shows its dialog. And it did so every two seconds. The periodic check now only reads the status and never opens a dialog. • Resizing no longer changes anything until the pointer really moves. It showed on stamp tails: a horizontal tail appeared that nobody had asked for, and ⌘Z would not undo it. Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.6.0 — Now in 18 languages iSkitch now speaks ten more languages. It follows your system language automatically, and you can change it any time in Settings > General > Language. As always, iSkitch collects no data and nothing leaves your Mac. Ten new languages • Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Indonesian and Catalan — eighteen in total. Better wording in the languages that were already there Translating the app in depth brought some long-standing mistakes to light: • The "open" arrowhead no longer reads as the verb "open". It describes an arrow tip that is not filled in, but six of the seven existing languages had turned it into a verb. • The Settings section named "Feedback" is now "Sound". It has a speaker icon and a single setting — play a sound when capturing — but the old name suggested it was for contacting the developer. • Tool and settings labels were reviewed across the board, and the shape fill, the Spotlight tool and the freehand pen now read correctly in the languages where they did not. Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.5.0 — Accessibility and reliability This update makes iSkitch far easier to use with VoiceOver and the keyboard, adds multi-display capture, and fixes several issues under the hood. As always, iSkitch collects no data and nothing leaves your Mac. More accessible • VoiceOver now announces the Settings controls, every tool button, the colors (by name), the line widths and the annotations on the canvas — each with its selected state. • You can work without a mouse: arrow keys move the selected annotation on the canvas (hold Shift for larger steps), and you can define a capture region with the arrow keys and confirm with Return. Faster copying • Copy the annotated image straight from the Edit menu, with a keyboard shortcut (Command-Shift-C). • Copying is now instant — the image is encoded only when you paste. Multi-display capture • On setups with more than one monitor, the region and window capture overlay now appears on every screen, not just the main one. Reliability fixes • The app stays light over long sessions: closed editor windows are now released from memory. • Undo after cropping, rotating or flipping no longer misplaces your annotations. • Entering crop from the menus now behaves consistently. • Saving or copying a large screenshot could lose your annotations: the file was written without them and the window closed as if it had been saved. iSkitch now warns you and exports nothing instead. • Hidden areas are always fully opaque. In rare cases pixelate and blur fell back to a translucent gray that could still be read — in the exported file too. • Saving and sharing full-screen captures is much faster: they were being processed at four times the size needed. • The default save folder is remembered between launches, and watching the system screenshots folder no longer stops after you change it. • iSkitch no longer even requests network access. It never used it: no telemetry, no update checks, no connections of any kind. Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.4.1 — Edit text you've already added You asked, we fixed it: you can now go back and change the words in a text annotation after you've created it. • Double-click a text annotation with the Select tool to reopen it for editing. • Or pick the Text tool and click an existing text to edit it, instead of dropping a new one on top. • Select a text and the top bar now shows its color, font, size and bold/italic, so you can restyle it without switching tools. Undo and redo work throughout — press Command-Z to bring back the previous text. Clearing a text completely removes it (and that's undoable too). Also fixed: new text now keeps the font you've chosen from the very first character. Thanks for using iSkitch, and thanks to everyone who wrote in. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.4.0 — True-size windows and precision cursors Two quality-of-life upgrades for the editor: • Opens at real size: the editor window now sizes itself to your capture at 100% zoom when it fits on your screen — no more fixed-size window with a shrunken image. Larger images fit to the visible area automatically. • Opens on the right display: with more than one monitor, the editor appears on the screen where you are working, not always on the main one. • Precision tool cursors: every drawing tool (and crop) now shows a crosshair with a mini icon of the active tool — it switches instantly when you change tools. The hotspot sits at the center of the cross for pixel-accurate pointing, and it stays sharp on Retina and non-Retina displays alike. Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.3.0 — Faster documentation Tools for step-by-step guides and quicker captures: • Numbered stamps (1·2·3): place auto-incrementing numbers, perfect for tutorials and runbooks. • Capture timer: add a 3/5/10s countdown before the shot — time to open a menu or trigger a hover state. • Recapture last region: repeat the exact same crop without selecting again (Shift-Option-Cmd-4). • Multi-display: with more than one screen, pick which display to capture full screen. • Quick capture: send a region or the full screen straight to the clipboard or a file, skipping the editor. • Copy at full size: optionally paste Retina screenshots at their true pixel size (1x) in apps that would otherwise shrink them — plus a size and resolution (dpi) readout in the editor. • Fixed: cropping now shows your annotations too, so you crop the full composition. Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.2.2 — Smarter cropping Cropping is much nicer now: • Crop fits the whole image to the visible area instead of jumping to full size — you see everything at once, with the entire image selected by default. • Drag the handles or type an exact width × height to crop. After you apply or cancel, the result fits the window again. • Crop handles, border and the rule-of-thirds grid now keep a comfortable on-screen size at any zoom level. • Fixed: opening an image no longer shows a stray resize cursor — the canvas now uses a crosshair while drawing or cropping, and an arrow with the Select tool. Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.2.1 — The menu bar is back, plus a richer About A small fix-and-polish update. • Fixed: the full macOS menu bar (File, Edit, Capture, Image, Tools) now reliably appears whenever you're working in the editor. • The About window is now more complete and fully localized — key features, credits, and official links (website, author, support and privacy policy). Thanks for using iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

Skitch 1.2 — Open the editor automatically after a screenshot By popular request, iSkitch can now open the editor by itself right after you take a screenshot — so you can keep using the macOS ⌘⇧4 shortcut you already know. • Open editor after a system screenshot: turn it on in Settings ▸ Capture, point iSkitch at the folder where macOS saves screenshots (usually the Desktop), and every new capture opens straight in the editor. • "After capturing" actions, Shottr-style: choose Show editor, Copy to clipboard and/or Save to file — in any combination. The default keeps the familiar behaviour (just show the editor). • Customisable capture shortcut: the built-in ⌥⌘4 can now be rebound to any key combination you like, in Settings ▸ Capture ▸ Shortcut. • Plus: the full macOS menu bar now stays available whenever an editor window is open. Thanks for trying iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.

iSkitch 1.1.0 — Multilingual update iSkitch now speaks 8 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean. The app auto-detects your system language; you can also pick one in Settings ▸ General ▸ Language. Also in this release (since 1.0): • New top menu with Image (Rotate left/right, Flip horizontal/vertical, Crop), Tools, Capture and Window • Drag images onto the Dock icon — they open straight in the editor (or "Open with iSkitch" from the Finder) • Save-before-close warning on window close and on ⌘Q if you have unsaved annotations • First click on the pinned Dock icon now reliably opens a window • Richer Settings: Show in Dock / Show in menu bar toggles, "Open at login" via SMAppService • A few more polish touches and bug fixes Thanks for trying iSkitch. Feedback always welcome at hello@iskitch.com.