What's new

Latest release

• improvedRecordings are no longer scaled. Every capture is now taken at the display's true pixel size and left there, because scaling is the single largest quality loss in the pipeline and the app was doing it by default: a 4K display asked for a fixed 1080p output was recorded once and then squeezed, and multi-source recordings were laid out on a canvas smaller than the sources they held. Native is now what the app opens on, every launch, for a single recording and for the merged canvas alike.
• improvedThe canvas picker says what each choice does. Picking a size now tells you, under the controls, whether your sources fit at their own size or how far they are shrunk, and it names the exact canvas Native builds. Nothing about the size is silent any more.
• improvedExport for sharing. The recording stays the master; the new Export button beside each recording writes a smaller copy at 4K, 1440p, 1080p or 720p, scaled once with an area filter chosen for keeping screen text readable. You can rename the copy and choose the folder it goes to.
• fixedThe elapsed-time timer never appeared on camera and mobile-screen recordings. It was baked onto display recordings only, silently, with nothing saying why.
• fixedThe Camera and mobile screen tab made the app slow. Opening it froze the app for about a second, and simply sitting on it cost real battery: it kept a full screen-mirroring session open on a connected iPhone just to draw a thumbnail, and it was scanning every open window four times a second to check whether Photo Booth was running. It now opens instantly and is quiet.
• fixedStart recording with a shortcut. Command-Shift-. now starts a recording as well as stopping one, and the menu bar shows a recording is running and for how long, so you can start and stop without going to find the window.
• fixedMerge live ignored the "Record Wispframe window" switch and always recorded the app's own window into the merge.
• fixedIn Multi mode, the single-source tick stayed lit underneath the numbered badges, and turning Multi off left the sources selected.
• fixedExporting a recording whose file had been moved or deleted ran the whole job and then failed with an unreadable path. It now says which recording is gone, before starting.
• improvedGIF export offers 2 and 5 frames per second, for the kind of GIF that is a few frames of a step rather than a video.
• improvedA referral code now works on at most three Macs. A code is good for one day, but the Pro it hands out is not, so a code that got passed around for a single day used to be permanent free Pro for everyone who saw it. Redeeming now checks how many Macs a code has already been used on, and a code that has gone astray can be withdrawn. Nothing about you is sent: the check sees a one-way fingerprint of the code and of the Mac, never the code and never anything that identifies you. Redeeming needs a connection; nothing is used up if it fails.