Changelog

What’s changed in each version of ShotFile.

Current version: 1.0.6

ShotFile

Polish and quality-of-life improvements:

• Light mode text is easier to read across Settings, Shortcuts, Clipboard history, and QuickShots.
• When a new version is available, choose Update from the menu bar to download and install in one click, progress shows beside the icon while it downloads.
• Drag images from Clipboard history into messaging apps, compose windows, and documents, anywhere you’d drop or paste an image.

A visual consistency and readability pass across light and dark mode:

• One blue accent everywhere: primary buttons, selected rows, tags, and the annotate toolbar now use the same colour in both light and dark.
• Primary actions (Next, Save and copy, Copy) are clearly highlighted so you always know which button moves you forward.
• Labels, subtitles, and status text are easier to read, including permission status in dark mode.
• The annotate screen shows which tool is active in light mode, and the editor backdrop follows the same design theme.

A round of polish:

• A cleaner installer: opening the download now shows a tidy window with a clear drag ShotFile to Applications layout that stays sharp on Retina displays.
• Clipboard history now shows the date and time an item was captured when you expand it.

A feature release that lets you pull text from anywhere and find screenshots by what’s written inside them:

• Copy text from anywhere on screen: drag a box over any part of your display from the menu bar or a keyboard shortcut, and the text inside it lands on your clipboard.
• Search your filing history by the text inside your screenshots, not just their names, folders, tags, and dates.
• Recent Screenshots: shift-click to select a range at once, filter by today, the last 7 or 30 days, or all time, and tags now sit before the date in a filename.
• Open and close QuickShots with its own keyboard shortcut.

A round of small visual tidy-ups across the app. The licence area in Settings was cleaned up so it reads more clearly and sits where you’d expect it.

Removed update notifications that were appearing when they shouldn’t have. The app no longer nags you with pop-ups that aren’t relevant.

The first public release of ShotFile, and the big one. Everything that makes ShotFile what it is came together here:

• Catches your screenshots the moment you take them, so you can name, tag, and file them straight away instead of leaving a mess on your desktop.
• A Recent Screenshots panel that keeps your latest captures to hand, where you can rename, tag, file, reveal in Finder, delete, and batch-file them without digging through folders.
• A clipboard history that remembers what you’ve copied, including images, so nothing useful slips away.
• QuickShots for keeping your most-used screenshots one click from hand.
• Built-in annotation with boxes, highlights, blur, and a combined arrow-and-text tool, so you can point something out and label it in one step without leaving the app.
• Pull the text straight out of any screenshot and copy it to your clipboard.
• A free 14-day trial with no account and no card needed, then a simple yearly licence you unlock instantly with a key.
• A clean, modern Mac interface designed to stay out of your way.

Before launch

These were the private beta builds leading up to the public release, where the app was tested and refined.

Final rounds of interface tidying and rough-edge smoothing ahead of launch.

Steady progress on the core experience, with the main features brought together into one cohesive app.

Continued work on capturing, filing, and annotating screenshots.

Early stability work and bug fixes as the beta took shape.

The starting point of the beta cycle, where the app was rebuilt around its final direction.