What's New 🌟

New in 2.8

Frame

• Fixing an issue with the rendering of the Golden Spiral
• Improving the check for when a golden-spiral cannot be drawn

New in 2.7

Frame

• In the golden-grid mode, the window aspect-ratio is locked to the golden ratio
• The curve fitting of the golden spiral is much better now.

New in 2.6

General

• Adds additional keyboard shortcuts for Italian keyboard. This accommodates some missing keys.
• TAB key can also be used to switch modes in tools that support mode-switching.

Ruler

• Fixes an issue where the Ruler angle was not reflected correctly on the Touch Bar slider.

New in 2.5

General

• Bug fixes and other improvements
• Added a tab for the Essential shortcuts in the Shortcut Viewer. This tab shows all the shortcuts available in the Menubar.
• On the Shortcut Viewer, the title bar has an option to show a generated HTML page of shortcuts.

Lens

• Introducing Live contrast checking between foreground and background colors. Use the B key to set a background color and check live contrast against the active color. Contrast checking can be toggled with the T key.
• Mouse tracking shortcut has been changed to M. The icon on the toolbar has also been changed to a cursor to better indicate mouse tracking.
• Retina mode is now indicated on the Lens toolbar. Use the R key to toggle retina sub-pixels for displays that support it.
• A brand new design for preview HTML sheet, which includes all color-blind values for every color.
• Fixed an issue with zooming via scroll-wheel, track pad or slider that caused the pixel-grid to shift.

Ruler

• You can now move the mouse over the Ruler to see its relative position. This only applies when the Ruler is horizontal or vertical.

Frame

• Snapshots are now copied to clipboard, or saved to file, without the grid. This is the new default. Hold the Shift key to copy / save with the grid. This also applies when you use the Camera icon on the Frame info window.

New in 2.4

General

• Fixed a crash that happens for some locales

New in 2.3

General

• Fixed a crash that happens when the app loads for the first time

Lens

• You can now toggle Retina sub-pixels using the shortcut: 'R'. This will affect displays that support Retina pixels. By default it is turned off and simplifies picking colors.

New in 2.2

General

• Notifications where a screenshot is captured are now consistent across tools.
• New Notifications have been added for some of the keyboard driven actions.
• Online Documentation is now available. You can visit it from the Help Menu or from the About pane of Preferences.
• Preferences window is now more streamlined with all advanced options moved into its own pane.
• You now have the option to hide the Dock icon and keep just the Menubar status item.
• Welcome tour has navigable buttons for the tools on the starting slide. Click on a tool to jump straight to it in the tour.
• Several bug fixes and styling tweaks

Lens

• New zoom controls have been introduced in the info-window.
• Improved the sensitivity of scroll-based-zoom on Lens window, for more predictable zooming.
• The overlay mode of Lens is now shown correctly.
• Shows a visual indication of "Outside Bounds" when the center moves outside of all screen bounds. This can happen when using keyboard shortcuts to move the center.

Guide

• Guides can now be snapped to the nearest edge while dragging. Hold the SHIFT key while dragging to snap guides.

Monocle

• Movement of the mouse center by keyboard shortcuts are kept inside the screen bounds.
• Similarly, movement of the monocle by keyboard shortcuts are also kept within screen bounds.

Crosshair

• Movement of the mouse location by keyboard shortcuts are kept inside the screen bounds. This is true for both the Crosshair and Distance modes.

New in 2.1

General

• Complete overhauling of the UX with the latest macOS Technologies.
• Touch Bar support for Macs that have it.
• Better tracking of active tool in the Tool Palette.
• A good dose of animations when performing tool actions.
• Much improved Shortcuts Viewer.

Lens

• Smooth zooming from 1X to 64X
• Pixel selection is maintained across zoom levels and scales accordingly
• Multiple palettes can now be created and saved

Ruler

• Ruler has been merged with the previously known Tape tool with support for rotations and angle measurements.
• Ruler can be resized from both sides, even when rotated.
• Length of the ruler can be reduced to 0px
• Improved readability of labels even when rotated
• Snapping of ruler angles to 5° and 90°.

Frame

• Better preset management

Guide

• Guides can be selected with single and multi-selection

Monocle

• Animated change in shapes

Crosshair

• Introduced a new mode: Bounding Box. This allows you to drag a selection on the desktop around an element to measure its dimensions.
• Measurements for Distance Mode and Bounding Box mode can be persisted on the screen.
• All edge detections are now done using Metal Compute Shaders, which run on the GPU at blazing speeds.