Clipmark 1.1.1

Snipping Tool on Steroids for Windows 11: screenshots and screen recording with annotations you can still edit later.

Install: download Clipmark-1.1.1-win-x64.zip, extract it to a folder of your choice and run Clipmark.App.exe. Windows 11 x64 (build 22000 or later), no runtime needed. The build is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first start ("More info" > "Run anyway").

License: from 1.1.0 on, Clipmark is under the Elastic License 2.0 (1.0.0 stays MIT). Most features are free; Premium features start with a 30-day trial. See the README for Free and Premium.

SHA-256 of the zip: 23a6d70ff396aa2894365c617d670ff4611798a8627247bd2307249b275f7132

Added

• Microsoft Store package: an AOT x64 .msix that uses the Windows App SDK framework from the Store.
• Ask AI: "Report answer by email" under each answer opens a prefilled mail with the Clipmark version, the model, the
  question and the answer; the capture is not attached.

Changed

• A capture larger than the window opens zoomed to fit and centered; smaller captures open at 100%.
• The tray menu looks like the Windows 11 menus (icons, rounded corners, acrylic, the theme setting) and opens above
  the taskbar; it starts with Open Clipmark and Settings, then New capture, New recording, Mode and Delay.
• Ask AI treats text in the capture and in earlier turns as content, never as instructions, and answers a request
  that is not about the capture with one sentence. When the relay declines a question, or pauses Premium AI after
  several declined requests, the flyout says so and names the end of the pause; the license stays active.
• Ask AI over the relay no longer shows the monthly budget left.

Clipmark 1.1.0

Snipping Tool on Steroids for Windows 11: screenshots and screen recording with annotations you can still edit later.

Install: download Clipmark-1.1.0-win-x64.zip, extract it to a folder of your choice and run Clipmark.App.exe. Windows 11 x64 (build 22000 or later), no runtime needed. The build is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first start ("More info" > "Run anyway").

License: from 1.1.0 on, Clipmark is under the Elastic License 2.0 (1.0.0 stays MIT). Most features are free; Premium features start with a 30-day trial. See the README for Free and Premium.

SHA-256 of the zip: eb2288f903303e40cdf507f78ddfb82953e34af9d3d7e3028668c9675f706b7a

Added

• Update check: once a day Clipmark asks GitHub whether a newer release exists (no identifier is sent) and offers a
  popup with Download, Never and Later when you open the window on an empty editor, never over a capture. Download
  opens the release page. Settings > About turns the check off or on, shows the last check, and has Check now and
  Download. The Store build does not check.
• Create GIF from a recording (GIF button after Share, as in Snipping Tool): Low (12 fps) or High (24 fps), long edge
  up to 1280 px, the first 30 seconds, Export or Copy, with progress and Cancel. A Low GIF stays under 7.5 MB so it
  fits a Claude upload; when it would be larger, Clipmark writes it again at a smaller size. Free.
• Emoji stamps (Shapes > Emoji, M): a picker with every emoji the Windows emoji font can draw, a search over names
  and keywords in the UI language and English, Recent (starts with Snipping Tool's 18) and group tabs. Click places
  an emoji, drag sets its size; Select moves, resizes and rotates it. Editable PNGs with emoji use format version 2,
  which earlier Clipmark versions cannot open; files without emoji stay version 1.
• Clipmark Premium: 30-day trial, then a license. Premium covers select, attached arrows, text, fill,
  eyedropper, editable PNG, Send to AI, Ask AI and the capture history; editable PNGs still open without a license.
  The trial starts on IT-BAER's licence server (releash.it-baer.net) at the first start with an internet connection
  and is bound to a non-exportable key of this PC (TPM when available), so reinstalling does not restart it.
  Settings > License takes an activation code (or a license key from an earlier version), shows how many PCs the
  license covers, and "Remove from this PC" frees the seat. The signed entitlement is checked offline and renewed
  once a day while online (a trial about every two weeks), so a removed or revoked seat locks within about a day;
  offline, Premium keeps working until the entitlement and its grace period run out. Premium comes only from the
  server's signed entitlement: there is no local trial, and a license key of an earlier version unlocks nothing
  until it is activated, which happens automatically at the next online start.
• Ask AI: ask Claude about the capture in a toolbar flyout (Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5 or Haiku 5.5; answer depth low, med,
  high or xhigh in the chat header or Settings). Answers stream in as formatted text with a collapsed Thinking
  summary; Stop, follow-up questions and New chat. Premium activated on the PC uses Ask AI without a key through
  IT-BAER's relay (the flyout shows the monthly budget left); with your own Anthropic API key (kept in Windows
  Credential Manager) Clipmark sends directly to Anthropic, also during the trial. The first send on each path asks
  for consent.
• Send to AI: pastes the capture into a running Claude Code or Codex CLI, the Claude or ChatGPT desktop app, or the
  Claude or Codex VS Code extension, with each agent's own icon in the menu.
• Capture history (opt-in): the last 25 captures, encrypted for the Windows user, with a thumbnail flyout; edits are
  written back to the item.
• The tray icon is shown on the taskbar the first time a copy of Clipmark runs; hiding it later in Windows settings
  is kept.
• Text actions: select part of the recognized text by dragging across it (by character, across lines) or by
  double-clicking a word, and copy it with Ctrl+C, the right-click menu or Copy selection; Ctrl+A selects all text.
  A drag that starts on recognized text selects it whatever tool is active; elsewhere the tool works as before.
• Text actions: Quick redact also covers IP and MAC addresses, bank data (IBAN, card numbers, BIC after a BIC / SWIFT
  label) and passwords or keys (known token shapes, and the value after a label such as "Password:"), each kind
  switchable in the menu. Redact selection blacks out the selected text from the right-click menu, the Redact
  selection button or Ctrl+Shift+R, as one undo step.
• Snipping Tool features (all free):
  • Capture overlay: Color picker with a loupe that copies HEX, RGB or HSL (Settings > Color format, also used by the
    eyedropper); Quick markup (Ctrl+E) draws a red pen on the frozen screen, and the strokes stay editable in the
    editor.
  • Editor: More menu with zoom (100%, in, out, fit; Ctrl+0, Ctrl+plus, Ctrl+minus), Ruler, Print, Edit in Paint and
    Open screenshots folder; Erase all mark-ups; Opacity slider (10-100 %) for pen, shapes, text and fill. The ruler
    turns with Ctrl+mouse wheel in 15 degree steps, and pen and highlighter strokes that start at its edge run along it.
  • Text actions: Copy as table puts a table from the capture on the clipboard as HTML (Word, Outlook, Excel) and
    tab-separated text; a title or note above or below the table stays out of its columns. Quick redact can skip email addresses or phone numbers and has Remove all redactions; QR codes with
    a phone number or email address offer Call or Send email; the text extractor can remove line breaks.
  • Recording: Pause / Resume on the record bar (the video has no gap), and the microphone or system audio can be
    muted while recording without changing the setting.
  • Settings: border on each capture (color, width), app theme (Windows default, Light, Dark), copy every edit to
    the clipboard, close the window after copying (Copy, Ctrl+C, or the copy after a capture), Open folder buttons
    for screenshots and recordings.
  • Opens .jfif, .jpe, .dib and .ico files.
• MSIX readiness: "Start with Windows" through a startup task, toast activation, capture capabilities.
• 16 interface languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Chinese
  (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Clipmark follows the Windows
  display language, or pick one in Settings > Language. German is reviewed; the others are machine-translated.

Changed

• Settings are grouped into cards: License and billing, General, Capture, Recording, Ask AI, About. With a paid
  license, License and billing has Manage subscription (Stripe customer portal), Request a refund (Link support) and
  Remove from this PC, which now says that it frees the seat and does not cancel billing.
• Mouse wheel in the editor zooms around the cursor; Ctrl+mouse wheel sets the width, text size or ruler angle
  (before: the plain wheel did, and Ctrl+mouse wheel zoomed).
• Output toolbar order: Copy, Save, Share, then Send to AI and Ask AI after a separator.
• The Delay button is highlighted while a delay is set and shows the timer icon with the seconds; it no
  longer grows taller than the other toolbar buttons, and neither does New.
• License: the Elastic License 2.0 replaces the MIT License. The source stays public; it must not be used to remove or
  work around the license key check, or to offer Clipmark as a hosted service. Release 1.0.0 stays MIT licensed.
• Text recognition uses Clipmark's own OCR engine (PaddleOCR PP-OCRv6 models on ONNX Runtime, on your PC). On a
  benchmark of 54 screenshot-style images it made 0.22% character errors, Snipping Tool 2.40% and the Windows text
  recognition used before 8.52%. Windows text recognition still reads non-Latin languages and is the fallback when
  the engine fails.
• Text actions dim the image with Snipping Tool's gray veil and show each recognized line as a rounded cutout.

Fixed

• Screen recording starts when the 3-second countdown ends. Before, the encoder and capture setup ran after the
  countdown, so the recording started up to 2.4 seconds late.
• Exiting from the tray right after an edit no longer loses that edit in the capture history.
• Send to AI into Windows Terminal: the menu names the agent's own tab, and Clipmark asks to switch tabs instead of
  typing into another tab when the agent's tab is not active.
• The editor no longer crashes on opening an image in the release (Native AOT) build.
• Share no longer crashes the release (Native AOT) build for a capture or a recording; if the file cannot be handed
  to Windows, the share window shows why.
• A recording shows a plain Save button, as in Snipping Tool; before, its arrow opened an empty menu.
• Licence server and relay errors: Clipmark tries once more when the server is busy, says when a long wait for too
  many attempts ends (minutes, or the date and time), says when the license plan lacks a feature, and asks to
  activate again when the server no longer knows this PC; Premium keeps working offline meanwhile, and Ask AI stops
  using the relay until then.
• License checks: Premium locks while the PC clock is set more than an hour behind the latest time Clipmark has
  seen, and Settings asks to correct the clock. A license from the server that this version cannot verify no longer
  replaces the working one; activation then asks to update Clipmark. After a 30-day limit on trials or activations,
  Clipmark waits for the date the server named instead of asking again every hour. Ask AI uses the relay only when
  the license plan includes it.
• A license key from an earlier version is kept in license.json encrypted for the Windows user (DPAPI) instead of
  as plain text; a copied file does not carry the key ...

Clipmark 1.0.0

First public release of Clipmark: screen capture, annotation and screen recording for Windows 11.

Highlights

• Capture: rectangle, window, full screen, all monitors, freeform; delay; hotkey (Ctrl+Print Screen, or Print Screen itself)
• Editor: pen, highlighter, shapes, arrows that stick to shapes, text, select / resize / rotate, crop with exact sizes, eyedropper, fill
• Editable PNG that reopens with live objects
• Text actions: OCR copy, quick redact of emails and phone numbers, QR codes; text extractor
• Screen recording to MP4 (H.264 + AAC) with system audio and microphone
• Tray app, start with Windows, notification banners

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list and known limitations.

Install

Download Clipmark-1.0.0-win-x64.zip, extract it, run Clipmark.App.exe. Windows 11 x64, no runtime needed.
The build is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may ask for confirmation ("More info" > "Run anyway").
To remove: run Clipmark.App.exe --restore-system once, then delete the folder.

SHA-256 of the zip is in Clipmark-1.0.0-win-x64.zip.sha256.