Changelog

Every update to Minshot, newest first.

0.16.0
July 22, 2026

Annotate your recordings

  • Masks land on the recording timeline: pick a stretch of time and write on the video — text, arrows, boxes, ellipses and lines, the same marks as the screenshot editor. They appear exactly when you choose and are burned into the export.
  • The camera gets a virtual background: keep yourself, hide the room — replace what's behind you with a color, a wallpaper, or your own image. Great for recording in places you'd rather not show, and your choice is remembered for the next recording.
  • Wrap an iPhone screenshot in a real iPhone 17 Pro body — silver, deep blue, or cosmic orange — right from the backdrop panel.
  • Screenshot history now survives a relaunch: closed sessions are saved on disk, and the last 10 can be reopened with full editing state from a menu with thumbnails.
0.15.0
July 9, 2026

Handwritten text

  • Text annotations can now be handwritten — flip the new font toggle on the text panel and your notes render in Caveat, a warm handwriting style that reads like a person pointing at the screen. The choice is remembered for your next note.
  • The filled text background looks better: softer, larger rounded corners and roomier padding that scales with the text size — labels now read as neat tags instead of tight boxes.
  • Press ? (or click the keyboard icon at the top right) for a shortcuts panel — every key and hidden gesture in one glance, including the backdrop tricks: shift-drag to move the screenshot, shift-pinch to scale it, shift-double-click to reset.
  • The size and zoom readout in the editor is now one clickable control: click the percentage to zoom in or out, jump to actual size, or fit the window.
0.14.0
July 7, 2026

Blur, three ways

  • The blur tool now has three styles — the classic pixelated mosaic, color fill, and a new soft blur that frosts over the area like glass: perfect when you want to de-emphasize something without fully hiding it. Switch styles with one click on the panel.
  • Every style is adjustable: drag the slider to set the mosaic's pixel size or the blur's strength. Color fill matches the surrounding background automatically so things simply vanish — or pick any color yourself.
  • Scrolling capture keeps your selection highlighted the whole way — the familiar selection frame instead of a faint dashed line — and a live thumbnail beside it shows the long screenshot growing as you scroll.
  • Annotations feel more solid: a freshly drawn shape can be moved and resized right away (no more accidental extra mosaics), marks stay glued to the picture when you add or adjust a backdrop, and nothing can be drawn past the image edge anymore.
0.13.0
July 7, 2026

Magnifier

  • Zoom in on the detail that matters, right on the screenshot — pick the magnifier tool (or press M) and drag over a spot; a lens enlarges what's underneath, in place and pixel-sharp.
  • Adjust the zoom (1.2×–4×), set the border color and thickness, and switch the lens between a circle and a rounded rectangle. What you see is exactly what exports.
  • A refreshed app icon — Liquid Glass on macOS 26, and proper rounded corners on earlier systems.
0.12.0
July 6, 2026

Scrolling capture

  • Capture a whole scrolling page as one long image — choose Scrolling Capture (or ⌥4), select an area, then scroll down and Minshot stitches what passes into a single tall screenshot.
  • A live readout shows how much you've captured; press Done or Return to finish, Esc to cancel. The result opens in the editor like any other screenshot.
  • Works anywhere you can scroll — web pages, documents, chats, and long lists.
0.11.0
July 6, 2026

Automatic captions

  • Turn what you said into captions automatically — done entirely on your Mac, with nothing sent to a server. Pick the spoken language and press generate.
  • Edit every line: fix the text in the side panel, click a timestamp to jump there, or drag the caption blocks on the timeline to retime them.
  • Two caption looks — a soft background or a clean outline — are burned into the exported video, and a .srt subtitle file is saved alongside.
  • Or hand it to an AI: one click copies a ready-to-paste prompt, then your coding agent can remove filler words, fix the segmentation, and trim the matching video — changes sync back live.
0.10.0
July 4, 2026

Camera, backdrops, and new ways to record

  • Recordings can include your camera now — pick one on the control bar and a small self-view appears; it's saved separately, so you can restyle or remove it any time in the editor.
  • In the editor, drag and resize both pictures freely — fill or fit, rounded corners, one-click arrangements, and layout blocks on the timeline to switch the arrangement mid-video.
  • Videos can have a backdrop, just like screenshots — colors and wallpapers, canvas ratios like 16:9 or 3:4, and a soft shadow.
  • Two new ways to record: a single window (it stays clean even when you move it or other windows cover it) or the whole screen, one click.
  • Fixed: exports default to the original resolution again — no more videos coming out smaller than what you recorded.
  • Also: ⌥1 / ⌥2 / ⌥3 as default capture shortcuts, and the selection size readout now matches design pixels.
0.9.0
July 3, 2026

Microphone recording

  • Screen recordings can now include your voice — pick a microphone on the control bar, then press record.
  • You can adjust the area before recording starts: drag the corners to resize, hold and drag inside to move.
  • The editor shows a waveform, so you can see where you spoke at a glance.
  • Don't want the audio? Click the mic button in the editor and the export comes out silent.
0.8.0
July 2, 2026

A smoother editor

  • Drag the image freely — hold Space or just grab it; it stops right at the window edges.
  • Zoom stays between 60% and 200%, so the preview never gets absurdly big or small.
  • The Backdrop panel is redesigned — clearer controls, a new 3:4 ratio, and it no longer locks the image in place.
  • Nicer details throughout: toolbar tooltips, menu-bar icons, and an About page in Settings.
0.7.1
July 1, 2026

Beautiful shadows

  • Screenshot shadows look much better — softer, more real, and they scale with the image.
  • Ten backgrounds picked for screenshots — white, gray, black, and seven rich colors.
0.7.0
July 1, 2026

Screen recording

  • Record a region and edit it right away — trim, zoom, and change speed — then export to mp4.
  • Recordings are saved as project files — reopen them anytime with every edit intact.
  • Delayed fullscreen capture — a 3-second countdown to open a menu or notification first.
0.6.0
June 26, 2026

Image compressor

  • Compress images right from the menu bar — one or many, with quality control and WebP, JPEG, or PNG output.
0.5.0
June 26, 2026

Languages, crop, and a cleaner editor

  • Full interface in English and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).
  • Crop tool, save and copy confirmations, and unified undo across the whole editor.
0.3.0
June 18, 2026

Clipboard and multi-image editing

  • Load an image from the clipboard, or paste and drag images straight in.
  • Work on several images at once, each edited on its own.