Screen Studio changelog

Updated 2026-09-12 · v0.2.18

Screen Studio updates itself: it checks on launch, and when there is something new you get a macOS notification plus a small badge on the menu bar icon — one click to upgrade. This page records what changed.

v0.2.17

• Six line styles for annotations. Solid, long dash, dashed, dotted, dash‑dot and dash‑dot‑dot — available for arrows, rectangles, ellipses and the pen. The arrowhead always stays solid so the arrow still reads as one, and dashes scale with stroke width so they look even at any size. The last style you used is remembered between sessions.
• Curved arrows. Select an arrow and drag the diamond in the middle to bend it — useful when the thing you are pointing at sits behind the straight path. Drag the diamond back to the middle and the arrow straightens again; drag either end to re‑aim it. Hold ⌥ while drawing to get a curve straight away. Curves follow their image when you rearrange a stitch layout.
• Arrow handles you can see are draggable. They appear as soon as you finish drawing, with no tool switch. Hovering turns the pointer into a hand, grows and brightens the handle, and shows a short label saying what it does; the bend handle has a small curve drawn inside it.
• Much smoother font sizing. Hold the −/+ buttons to repeat instead of clicking over and over, and each step is proportional so large sizes are reachable quickly. A whole hold counts as a single undo step.
• The annotation canvas redraws far faster. Every small edit used to re‑sample the entire backdrop image — most noticeable in a stitch tray holding several large screenshots. Dragging arrows, typing and resizing text now feel the same there as on a single image.
• Fixed: the Text tool would not turn off when focus moved away. Clicking elsewhere or switching apps mid‑edit left the field stuck in editing state, which killed every single‑key tool shortcut and made the next click insert another text block. Leaving an edit by any route now finishes it cleanly, blank blocks are discarded, and the Text tool returns to select.
• Fixed: starting a second text block abandoned the first one. The half‑typed block was left blank in the document and made it into the exported image.

v0.2.13

• Font picker for text annotations. 37 families in 5 groups (sans, condensed & display, serif, mono, handwriting & decorative) and 5 weights. Pick from the toolbar or from the bar next to a text block; every row in the picker is drawn in its own typeface. The last font you used is remembered between sessions.
• 12 new backdrops. 15 in total for video and 16 for the stitch tray, grouped as Dark · Neutral · Warm · Cool · Vivid. Gradients can now run diagonally instead of only top‑to‑bottom. The picker is a grid of colour swatches rather than a list of names.
• Freeform layout now shows what you will export. The canvas draws the real backdrop, outer padding, corner radius and shadow — previously it only showed the editor's dark chrome, so you had to export to see the result. Toggling annotation mode no longer jumps the frame either.
• Click an active tool again to turn it off. The mouse goes back to select/move instead of drawing. Also added Esc, right‑click, and a shortcut per tool (V A T R O P H N E B C).
• Scroll to zoom the timeline. Hold ⌃ and scroll, or pinch on the trackpad — the frame under the pointer stays put as you zoom.
• Emoji picker rebuilt. Hover feedback, the emoji you are using is marked, and a filter box for the groups.
• Fixed: diagonal backdrops lost their four corners in the exported image. They looked complete on screen, so this only showed up when you opened the saved file.
• Fixed: downgrading the app wiped every recording setting. A backdrop from a newer build broke the whole settings file, not just the backdrop.
• Fixed: tooltips on the annotation tools did not appear.

v0.2.11

• Zoom in every image canvas. Zoom buttons, ⌘− / ⌘+ / ⌘0, trackpad pinch and ⌃ + scroll — in the stitch preview, the annotation canvas, freeform layout and the markup window.
• Emoji stickers. 163 emoji in 8 groups, and you can type one that is not on the list; the same picker serves image markup and the annotation layer while recording.
• A video library inside the editor. The right rail has a Library tab listing your recordings (click to append to the timeline, drag onto the lane to insert in place) and a Clip tab with the selected clip's properties: source in/out points, position on the timeline, duration, source file, reorder, reveal in Finder, delete.
• Timelines can mix several recordings. One timeline now takes clips from different source files and exports them as a single video.
• Fixed: changing the colour and thickness of an existing annotation. Previously you could not recolour a text block after typing it — you had to delete it and start again.
• Fixed: the preview now matches the exported image. Turning annotation mode off used to draw the raw stitched image, so the annotations looked gone, and then reappeared in the export.

v0.2.9

• Tabbed Settings window. General, Recording, Screenshots, Shortcuts, License — instead of one endlessly scrolling list.
• Screenshot library. Browse what you have captured inside the app, reopen a shot to mark it up or drop it into the stitch tray.
• Anonymous usage statistics. The app sends action counters so we know which features get used — no screen content, no file names, and one checkbox turns it off. Details on the privacy page.

v0.2.7

• Export dialog. Pick MP4, MOV or GIF; original / 1080p / 720p; 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:3 framing; mute the audio; choose where it lands, with a percentage and a cancel button. See how to export a GIF.
• Per-display selection overlay. Region dragging, the recording-area indicator and the annotation layer now behave correctly on multi-monitor setups — one overlay per display.
• Countdown, pause, discard and a floating control bar, together with the webcam bubble, microphone picker and keystroke overlay.
• Screenshots: self-timer and full markup. Wait 3 / 5 / 10 seconds; arrows, boxes, ellipses, pen, highlighter, text, auto-incrementing number badges, blur redaction and crop. See the screenshot and markup guide.
• The stitch tray survives quitting the app, and you can drag or paste images in from outside.
• Redo for the on-screen annotation layer, plus a first-launch permission walkthrough.
• Settings are remembered between launches. Capture mode, zoom level, backdrop, webcam, audio, image format.

v0.2.5

• A "cancel everything" shortcut (⌥⌘0). Stuck in a region overlay or the annotation layer? One key returns the Mac to normal.
• Fixed a bug where only the last-registered shortcut worked.

v0.2.3

• A shortcut per mode. ⌥⌘1–⌥⌘3 to record full screen / region / window, ⌥⌘4–⌥⌘6 to capture — they fire immediately, no panel needed.
• Update notices as a macOS notification plus a badge on the menu bar icon.

v0.2.2

• Display name changed to "7 Screen Studio".

v0.2.1

First public release, signed with a Developer ID and notarized.

• Real-time auto-zoom that follows the cursor and your clicks, and zooms back out when you stop. Set the zoom level to 1.0× to switch it off entirely.
• Record the full screen, a region or a single window, pick which display, with a persistent border showing the recorded area.
• Backdrops, padding, rounded corners and shadow, plus a synthetic cursor that scales with the zoom and ripples on click.
• System audio and microphone, synchronised to the ScreenCaptureKit clock.
• Multi-clip timeline editor: split, cut, duplicate, drag to reorder, trim edges, undo/redo, step frame by frame.
• An annotation layer you draw straight onto the screen you are recording: arrows, boxes, pen, highlighter, text and stickers.
• Screenshots with a direct selection overlay, a floating card after capture, markup and a stitching editor.
• Auto-update through Sparkle and remappable global shortcuts.