better-shot

Fixed

• Recording confirmations no longer show a black rectangle. Discard and Start Over now use standalone native macOS alerts instead of SwiftUI alerts attached to the transparent recording bar. Buttons and keyboard shortcuts share the same confirmation; Cancel keeps the current recording.
• Floating screenshot previews now dismiss after Overlay > Hide After. The timer pauses for the live pointer or a focused action, recovers from missed hover/focus events, and keeps saved files. Keep screenshot previews open now holds only unsaved staged captures; saved and retained captures follow Hide After.

Changed

• Restored native macOS window screenshot selection.
• Simplified region capture to BetterShot’s adjustable selector and removed the separate native region-selector option. Use Settings > Capture > Region > Capture as soon as I let go to capture on mouse release, or leave it off to adjust the area before confirming. Both keep the previous area for reuse. Window screenshots and OCR retain native macOS selection.
• Removed Notch Mode, its shelf, quick editor, capture gestures, and bundled dependencies. Previews use the floating capture deck.

Added

• Scrolling capture is now available. The 0.5.5 stitching engine shipped without a way to start it. Choose Scrolling Capture in the menu bar or Scroll in the capture bar, select an area, then scroll down through the content. A compact bar beside the area shows the stitched size; Stop sends the result to the normal capture preview and Cancel or Escape discards it. Stitching handles fixed headers and moving scrollbars, and a capture finishes on its own at 30,000 pixels (#169, thanks @ItisPratham)
• Scrolling Capture can be assigned a shortcut in Settings > Shortcuts (unassigned by default); triggering it again during a capture stops the capture. It is also available as bettershot://capture/scroll for automation.
• Choose any background color. Background > Color in the image and video editors now has a Custom color well below the preset swatches, and Settings > General > Default Look has one for new captures. The color is kept in saved projects and exports (#160, thanks @EthanL06)

Changed

• Normal screenshots save automatically on new installs. The default save folder is Desktop; change it or turn automatic saving off in Settings > General > Saving. Upgrades keep their existing behavior, including automatic saving staying off when it was never enabled. Capture & Copy, Edit, and Pin shortcuts still bypass automatic saving. Copying or dismissing an already-saved preview keeps the file. Settings now explains the active saving behavior (#149).
• Recording zooms now follow Cap's camera model for smoother, steadier zoom in and zoom out. Zoom level and framing move on separate springs, so every frame stays inside the recording. A zoom now aims at its target before it begins, so it scales straight toward the subject instead of zooming into the middle and panning across. When a zoom ends, the view zooms out in place without drifting back to the center first. Auto focus groups pointer movement into regions, so small cursor jitter no longer shakes the camera and the view only re-aims when the pointer moves into a new area (hovering is enough, no click needed). The pan-widening and click-snap corrections that caused wobble are gone. Instant zooms snap cleanly on both sides of the segment. Adapted from Cap under AGPLv3.
• Auto Zoom creates zooms at 2x, matching Cap's default. Existing zooms keep their saved level and focus.
• The floating capture preview cards are larger at every size (Small, Medium, and Large), with larger hover actions to match. The preview also appears faster: the deck window is reused between captures and a new card shows the already-rendered image instead of reading it back from disk.
• The image and video editors show a subtle dot grid behind the canvas, in both light and dark appearance.
• Capture Previous Region now defaults to ⌘⇧1, so the last area can be shot again without opening the selector. ⌘⇧2 stays the capture bar. A custom binding for it is kept, and it stays unassigned if another action already uses ⌘⇧1.

Fixed

• Region screenshots remember your last area again. ⌘⇧4 and Area in the capture bar open BetterShot's selector with the previous area already selected, as in 0.4: press Return (or double-click inside it) to capture the same area again, drag its edges to resize it, or drag anywhere, even inside it, to draw a new area (so a full-screen previous area never blocks a new selection). Space still switches to window selection and Escape cancels. The app you were using regains focus before the shot, so its windows are captured as active. OCR keeps the native macOS selector.
• Scrolling capture no longer lags, in Auto Scroll or when scrolling by hand. It now uses MacShot'

Changed

• Restored the 0.5.4 compact floating recording strip in both capture modes. Its popover again provides Display, Window, Area, Camera, Microphone, System Audio, and Teleprompter controls, while the shared timer menu configures screenshot and recording delays.
• Limited the notch to capture previews, saved shelf items, quick editing, and related status. Capture, recording, countdown, and teleprompter controls remain in their dedicated floating surfaces.
• Moved the customizable Notch capture modifier and hold action to Settings > Shortcuts.

Fixed

• Bare modifier presses no longer open or expand the notch, Option voice capture is opt-in so it does not conflict with tools such as Wispr Flow, and notch scroll indicators remain hidden.
• Switching between Normal and Notch modes no longer moves the recording bar between unrelated window hierarchies, preventing mode-switch lag and crashes.
• Switching into Notch Mode now opens its preview shelf immediately, even before the first screenshot is taken, then keeps the compact resting notch available while idle.
• Closing the final image preview no longer tears down its SwiftUI/AppKit window during the button event, preventing the close-action crash in Normal and Notch modes.

What's New

• Capture hold key setting with Control, Option, Shift, and Command choices; Option capture takes priority over the optional voice gesture.
• Scroll capture: select a region, then scroll (manually or with auto-scroll) to stitch a full-page screenshot. Uses Vision framework for pixel-precise alignment, TIFF byte comparison for frame settlement, frozen header detection, scrollbar exclusion, and incremental stitching up to 30,000 pixels.
• Restored hold-and-drag area screenshots as the default. Pressing the configured modifier alone leaves the notch hidden.
• Copied hex colors appear as persistent swatches in Notch Mode, with a separate collection setting enabled by default.
• OCR and Pick Color actions in the notch's folder menu show their configured shortcuts.
• Local voice screenshots: hold Option to draw and speak, then release to retain an annotated image with an on-device transcript.
• Optional local text history in General > Notch Shelf, with 50-item retention and duplicate removal.
• A compact quick editor below the notch with drawing, arrows, blur, crop, background and undo.

Notch improvements

• Simplified the notch to saved cards and filters, removing the capture toolbar and grid/viewfinder controls.
• Notch OCR text and colors now persist across launches and can be dragged into other apps.
• Reworked into a black horizontal shelf with white selected filter pills, media cards, and full-color swatches.
• Redesigned shared capture controls and notch recording setup with native Screen/Window/Area tabs, visible camera and microphone pickers, and explicit Start Recording action.
• Notch Mode never displays toast notifications; copy confirms directly on the result button.

Fixes

• Bare modifier presses no longer open or expand the notch; Option voice capture is opt-in.
• The notch shelf's All filter now places the newest capture first.
• Screenshot failures now show recovery guidance; window screenshots use the native macOS window picker via ScreenCaptureKit.
• Fixed an editor redraw loop in notch transfer-status routing that could consume a CPU core.
• Image and video editors can enter and leave native full screen again.
• 3D Scenes now use full-width buttons with readable names.

Downloads: Apple Silicon (arm64) and Intel (x86_64) DMGs are signed and notarized. Double-click to install.

Full changelog: https://github.com/KartikLabhshetwar/better-shot/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md