Added
- Change trial based on date of first install
Fixed
- check for updates daily by the wall clock and offer new versions
- drop unused non-macOS window_levels stub
Changelog
What changed in each PolyShot release. Downloads and checksums are on GitHub Releases.
Added
- ScreenCaptureKit takes over when a CoreGraphics screen grab fails
- In Library support quick look on hover
- set the On this day card apart from today's screenshots
- calendar years fold, sortable list columns, sessions in containers
- one Display button for size, sort, sections and the strip, per view
- the List view shows a capture's best line of text
- On this day as a grid card, collection suggestions in the sidebar
- Option for preview pane to stay open for certain time
- setting to stop remembering recent searches
- search suggestions for filters and their values
- filter chips in the search field
- search tips popover with filters by group
- one registry for search filters, with group colors and counts
- Support back and forth actions using mouse and keyboard
- Calendar view popover slightly bigger now
- tell neighbouring days apart in shared grid rows
- on this day, landing captures, weekly recap
- board view for collections
- compact list and work sessions views
- tidy-up mode, one capture at a time
- timeline scrubber and suggested collections
- pick days and ranges in the calendar, strip over the grid
- search tokens as chips, match reasons, find similar
- label browser captures by site, titles from headings
- stack near-duplicate captures in the grid
- small days share grid rows, sticky day headings
Faster
- window list in one pass, and screen grabs no longer wait for it
Fixed
- closing a recording session never deletes its file
- recordings survive a failed file, and the core can't get stuck
- Capture window, region overflow between screens
- session containers hold their cards
- no library day headings as titles, PolyShot captures named after their view
- hand cursor on every clickable search chip
- stop asking for Keychain access on every start
- outline days in shared grid rows instead of tinting
- library toolbar fits narrow windows
- Latin-only file names
- restore tesseract-rs 0.4 so the Windows installer links
Added
- license-service: a test relay at api-test.ppolyzos.com
- choose the license relay per build and per dev run
- license-service: deploy the relay to api.ppolyzos.com
- a license pauses after 60 days without reaching the relay
- a way out when a key is stuck on a lost or broken computer
- a thank-you dialog when a key is activated
- "Your month with PolyShot" recap near the end of the trial
- a friendly note on the shelf when a capture starts the extra week
- gentler licensing: days of use, a week extra, renewal grace, never stop offline
- keep the trial across reinstalls without sign-up
- License server to include product lifecycle
- Support Auto Capture based on time and changes
Fixed
- recover from a clock that ran ahead, keep the key when deactivate is rate-limited
- Windows tests on saving to folders
Added
- Prioritize window when capturing region
- test workflows on the last capture, templates, Ask me first
- workflow access points and shortcut trigger
- workflow results on the shelf, history and undo
- workflow mark up and text actions, versions
- workflows home and editor
- workflows engine, storage and action registry
Faster
- fewer whole-library re-renders
Fixed
- unsaved-changes dialog focuses Keep editing first
- consistent shortcuts, dialogs and wording
- UI reliability across windows
- core concurrency, thread safety and startup order
- library data integrity
- workflows UI reliability and consistency
- workflow worker never blocks on text, step timeouts, batched asks
- workflow blur gate, undo reliability, pause expiry, trash
Added
- Cover basic licensing part
- Support measuring part of the screenshot
- Support color picker in a screenshot
- Support embedding screenshots on top of other screenshots
- Support drag and drop to a collection
- Quieter sidebar counts and apps ordered by recent capture
- Pin filters to the sidebar and reorder or hide its sections
- Sidebar Tags shows the user's own tags only
- Sidebar in folding sections with a Tidy up card and fixed footer
- One identity per app and one source per sidebar count
- Support pining screenshot on screen
- Export a recording now has progress bar enabled
- Support multiple shortcuts per action
- Support about version in settings
Fixed
- Placement of the recording bar slightly higher than docking station bar
Fixed
- Fixed problems with the Windows installers.
Known issues
- Windows recordings don't have sound yet.Windows
- Recording export isn't available on Windows yet.Windows
Added
- Record a screen, a window or an area, with a control box beside it: countdown, pause, resume, stop, start over and discard. The time shows in the menu bar.
- Record the system's sound and the microphone, mixed into one track, with live levels and a microphone mute (macOS).
- Recordings now live in the library, with their length on the card, a Recordings filter, recovery after a crash, and limits for a full disk and for the longest recording.
- A player for recordings, with a timeline, trim, frame stepping and speed, plus Save frame and Copy frame.
- Annotate a paused moment of a recording. It holds there when played, then plays on.
- Export a recording with the trim, holds and annotations included.
- Settings › Recording: frame rate, quality, Retina size, pointer, sound, countdown and longest recording.
- Screen recording on Windows (video only for now).
- Record window and Record screen, and a new Alt+Shift 1–6 shortcut scheme.
- A start panel with six capture tiles, so you can pick what to capture right away.
- A new capture bar: switch between screenshots and recordings, pick an area, window or screen, and capture from one button.
- Dragging files over the library shows "Drop to import", and skipped files now say why.
- Select recognised text directly on the preview image.
- A redesigned preview: zoom, a filmstrip of the whole library with day groups and a hover peek, and a details panel with the text found, suggested tags and file info.
Faster
- Saving shapes, shadows and quick styles no longer waits on the disk, so PolyShot stays responsive.
- Saving the preview settings and the login item no longer waits on the disk either.
- Starting, stopping, restarting and discarding a recording no longer waits on the disk.
- Only the recording clock redraws on each tick.
Fixed
- The capture overlay no longer jumps from the bottom to the top of the screen.
- Screen readers: the preview and the recording annotator are announced as dialogs, the recording clock no longer announces every tick, and the filmstrip's day labels are list items.
- Stronger focus rings on the tag and file-name fields, a readable shortcut hint on the Capture button, and a heading for the library window.
- Stopping an import that fails to stop now tells you.
- Settings and collections are written to disk before they replace the old file.
- A save folder that is a link into PolyShot's own folders is refused, and folder checks compare real paths.
- Language model downloads time out, stop at their expected size and can't collide.
- Clicking away from the shape you just drew goes back to Select.
- A filter was missing from the sidebar, and the filters in the main window are shorter.
Added
- Merge 2–5 screenshots into one, with layouts, background and spacing.
- A single mark up layout with a style row, icons and colour shades.
- Hand-drawn callout boxes for hand-drawn text.
- Magnifier zoom and Spotlight blur options.
- Compact quick styles, with a Manage popover.
- Simple and Advanced options in mark up.
- Bulk actions on the screenshots you select in the library.
- Better preset styles for annotations.
- A slider to resize thumbnails in the grid.
- Errors are written to the log, and PolyShot tells you when it quit unexpectedly last time.
Fixed
- Dropdown menus that don't fit the window now scroll.
- Crops show in the library and can be edited with handles.
- A crash in background work can no longer quit the app.
- Fixed a crash while reading the text in a screenshot.