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Changelog

Every release, newest first.

0.2.20

  • Right-click any window in a captured scene to bring it forward, send it to the back, or remove it — with undo and instant keyboard shortcuts.
  • Reordering windows in a scene is now instant and buttery smooth, and exports always match what's on screen.
  • Small windows and dialogs can now be picked out and rearranged too, not just full-size windows.
  • Windows brought forward keep their natural drop shadow and stay crisp on mixed-resolution display setups.
  • Pins fade to grey when their window is sent behind another.
  • Reopening a saved session now restores every window arrangement exactly as you left it.
  • Fixed a stutter when reopening a session while the history panel was closing.
  • Hover highlights on toolbar buttons no longer wash out their glass edges.

0.2.19

  • Fixed an issue where annotating a previously exported recording could lose its crop and re-save the full screen instead.
  • Reopening a recording now lands on the exact frame you clicked, with its notes intact.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking Annotate right after exporting could open an incomplete session.
  • Spelling errors are now underlined while typing a note.
  • Smart Select highlights now track the pointer instantly, and no longer flash the wrong element when moving between neighbors.
  • Comment previews now appear beside their pin, and editing a note opens right where its preview was.
  • The export card stack now tidies itself away after a few quiet minutes, with a Show Last Session option to bring it back.
  • Reduced memory use during long sessions.

0.2.18

  • Reduced memory use while stepping through a recorded clip; scrubbing no longer builds up memory over a long session.
  • Export previews now release their memory as soon as they're saved, cutting memory use substantially for large exports, and fixed a rare issue where quickly reopening the last export could show stale content.
  • History thumbnails no longer accumulate without limit while scrolling through a long history.
  • Background smart detection now frees up memory shortly after you stop using it, and more fully after several idle minutes.

0.2.17

  • Fixed a memory buildup in the on-screen element detection engine that could grow to several gigabytes during long sessions.
  • The highlight shown around detected on-screen elements now adjusts its color when the underlying content is a similar shade, so it stays visible instead of blending in.

0.2.16

  • Added Smart Select: click the new toolbar tool (or press S) to automatically detect and box UI elements, windows, or text instead of drawing selections by hand; shift-drag to merge elements, scroll to resize, or hover a window's edge to select the whole window.
  • Smart Select is noticeably faster at recognizing what's on screen.
  • Setup now asks for Accessibility permission so Smart Select can read what's on your screen, and downloads an additional small model needed for it, with a clearer message if that download needs to retry in the background.
  • Fixed annotation outlines clipping the tops of letters like "l" and "h"; shapes now draw slightly outside the text they frame, and stroke lines are a touch thinner.
  • Comment cards no longer overlap the selection they're attached to, and the spacing between a selection and its comment has been refined.
  • Fixed clicking near a screenshot/export card sometimes missing the desktop underneath; stale export cards now clear automatically when a new session starts, and dropping one onto its target dismisses it instead of bouncing back.
  • The recording toolbar's exit button now reads "Save," shows a spinner only while it's actually saving, and no longer shows a stray icon while idle.
  • Fixed the microphone silently dropping out when switching input devices (e.g., connecting AirPods mid-recording); it now retries reconnecting and tells you if it can't.

0.2.15

  • Faster saving and exporting of recordings, especially ones with several voice notes finishing transcription around the same time.
  • Numbered annotation notes with multiple paragraphs now stay properly indented under their number in exported text and images, instead of the second paragraph drifting to the left margin.
  • Exported annotation panels for multi-frame recordings now show which frame they belong to, with a time stamp, instead of a generic "Annotations" label.

0.2.14

  • Onboarding now offers to install Skills — guides that give your AI agents extra context — right alongside the command line tool setup.
  • Minor spacing polish in the new session screen for a cleaner look.

0.2.13

  • The session panel can now be dragged to either side of the screen and stays docked there — it opens on the left by default.
  • The session panel has new corner buttons for hiding it or moving it to the other side, and double-clicking a note opens it for editing.
  • Fixed a glitch where the video would visibly jump when leaving Picture-in-Picture.
  • Picture-in-Picture now shows a single centered progress indicator while a recording finishes processing, and its button fits its corner better.
  • New sessions now open on the recording view instead of the notes list.
  • The What's New window no longer pops up over onboarding or repair screens — it waits until they're finished.
  • Refined spacing and alignment across the session panel and voice recordings for a more consistent look.

0.2.12

  • Voice and video recordings can now continue in a small floating window if you close the panel or press Esc, so the take keeps going while you do something else.
  • The floating recording window shows a live waveform and transcript for voice, or a camera preview for video, with buttons to bring it back or finish.
  • Fixed the "jump to live" control showing up in the full-size transcript view even when there was nothing to scroll.
  • Tightened the spacing above the copy button in the playback view.
  • The waveform during recording now flows smoothly instead of stepping.

0.2.11

  • The recording timeline now supports press-and-drag scrubbing anywhere on the strip, so you can slide through frames like a playhead instead of only clicking to jump.
  • The panel and pin-mode buttons now show what tapping them will do next, with a smooth icon swap instead of a static state icon.
  • Recording a video or voice cover now waits for the microphone to actually start before the camera appears and the clock begins, so your first words are never lost; Save stays dimmed until there's something to save.
  • New keyboard shortcuts (Control-V/A/W) start a video, audio, or written cover from anywhere in a session, without opening the cover panel first.
  • Clicking an annotation in the session panel now opens its card right at the pin, instead of requiring a double-click.
  • A new Clipboard setting lets you choose whether copying a session puts a ready-to-run agent prompt or plain markdown text on the clipboard.
  • The setup step for enabling automation was redesigned to match the rest of onboarding, and setup now waits until the on-device model finishes downloading before letting you continue.
  • Inspecting a recorded session with a video cover is noticeably faster.