What’s new in iSkitch
Every iSkitch release, newest first. Updates are free for everyone who owns the app.
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The app in 18 languages
- New Ten new languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Indonesian and Catalan — eighteen in total.
- Fixed The “open” arrowhead no longer reads as the verb “open”: it was an adjective translated as a verb in six of the seven existing languages.
- Fixed Clearer labels in the languages that were already there: “Filled” and “Outline” now read right for shapes, the Settings section is “Sound” instead of “Feedback”, the Spotlight tool is translated rather than left in English, and the Pen tool is a pencil, not a bezier pen.
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Accessibility and reliability
- New Accessibility: VoiceOver now names the controls, tools, colors and annotations with their state, and you can work without a mouse — arrow keys move the selection and define a capture, Return confirms.
- New Region and window capture works on any display, not just the main one.
- New Copy the image from the Edit menu with a shortcut (⌘⇧C), and Undo/Redo are in the menu too.
- Improved Copying is now instant, and capturing straight to the clipboard confirms when it is done.
- Improved Cropping responds to the keyboard (Escape cancels, Return applies) and behaves the same from every menu.
- Fixed Fixed a memory leak in long sessions, undo after cropping or rotating, and a save that could fail silently.
- Fixed Saving or copying a large screenshot no longer loses your annotations: the file was written without them and the window closed as if saved. Now it warns you and exports nothing.
- Fixed Hidden areas are always fully opaque: pixelate and blur no longer fall back to a translucent gray that could still be read.
- Improved Saving and sharing full-screen captures is much faster — they were processed at four times the size needed.
- Fixed The default save folder is remembered between launches, and watching the system screenshots folder no longer stops when you change it.
- Improved iSkitch no longer even requests network access. It never used it: no telemetry, no update checks, no connections.
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Edit text you’ve already added
- New Edit a text annotation after creating it: double-click it with the Select tool, or click it with the Text tool to change the words.
- Improved Selecting a text now shows its color, font, size and bold/italic in the top bar, so you can restyle it without switching tools.
- Fixed New text now keeps the font you’ve chosen from the very first character.
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True-size windows and precision cursors
- New Precision tool cursors: every drawing tool (and crop) shows a crosshair with a mini icon of the active tool, switching instantly when you change tools.
- Improved The editor window now opens sized to your capture at 100% zoom when it fits on screen — no more fixed window with a shrunken image.
- Improved On multiple displays, the editor opens on the screen where you’re working, not always the main one.
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Faster documentation
- New Numbered stamps (1·2·3) that auto-increment — perfect for tutorials and runbooks.
- New Capture timer: a 3/5/10s countdown before the shot, to open a menu or trigger a hover state.
- New Recapture the last region with a single shortcut, without selecting again.
- New Multi-display: choose which screen to capture in full screen.
- New Quick capture: send a region or the full screen straight to the clipboard or a file, skipping the editor.
- New Copy to clipboard at full size (1x) so Retina screenshots paste at full resolution — plus a size and resolution (DPI) readout in the editor.
- Fixed Cropping now shows your annotations too, so you crop the full composition.
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Smarter cropping
- Improved Crop now fits the whole image to the window, with everything selected by default.
- Improved Crop handles and the rule-of-thirds grid stay a comfortable size at any zoom.
- Fixed Fixed a stray resize cursor when opening an image.
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Menus & polish
- Fixed The full macOS menu bar (File, Edit, Capture, Image, Tools) now reliably appears in the editor.
- Improved Clearer Save button — pick the format from a dedicated menu and save in one click.
- Improved Expanded, fully localized About window.
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Capture, your way
- New Open the editor automatically after a system screenshot.
- New Choose what happens after each capture: show, copy or save.
- New Customisable capture shortcut.
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Eight languages
- New Added French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean.
- Improved Expanded, fully localized About window.
- Improved Many editor refinements.
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Hello, iSkitch
- New First release: capture a region, window or the full screen.
- New 14 annotation tools and native macOS sharing.
- New Privacy-first: no accounts, no tracking, nothing leaves your Mac.