Toolbox 0.2.0

What's new in 0.2.0

Editing

• Undo and redo (⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z, Ctrl on Windows and Linux), plus cut, copy, paste and duplicate (⌘D) for nodes, from a real Edit menu.
• A short first-run tutorial, which you can reopen from the ? button or Help → Tutorial.
• Workflows replace Templates: ready-made chains for downloading a video or its sound as MP3, extracting audio, shrinking a video, video to GIF, compressing or watermarking photos, and more. Search finds them in the Tab menu too.
• Clearer node names, a resizable inspector you can hide, and no more red errors on empty inputs.

Photos

• Batch processing: drop several images and every node after them runs on each one. Save writes one file per image, named after the originals, into a folder you pick once.
• New Text / logo overlay node: text, a logo, or both, placed on a 3×3 grid with size, colour, opacity and margin. It works on photos, videos and batches.
• iPhone HEIC photos open in the Mac app.

Video and sound

• Video file has Start, End and Speed, and a playhead scrubber in the big view.
• Webcam records sound too (on by default), and two Encode video nodes can share one recording.
• Download from link has a File output with the download as it came.

Rendering and saving

• Render only rewrites Save nodes whose result changed. Each Save node also has its own Save button.
• Saving into a folder never overwrites: you get name (2).ext and so on.
• With no Save node, Render adds one after the selected node. One Save node takes images, text, sound, PDFs and videos.
• Dropped files are remembered and read again after a restart or when you open a graph.
• Large videos use less memory: ffmpeg reads files straight from disk.

Updates

• Toolbox tells you when a newer version is on GitHub.

Installing Toolbox

Download the file for your computer from the Assets list below, then follow the steps for it. Toolbox isn't signed with a paid Apple or Microsoft certificate, so the first launch takes one extra click.

Computer	File
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)	Toolbox-…-mac-arm64.dmg
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)	Toolbox-…-win-x64.exe
Linux (64-bit)	Toolbox-…-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Mac

1. Open the .dmg and drag Toolbox into Applications.
2. Open Toolbox from Applications. macOS says it can't check the app for malware: click Done (or OK).
3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the line about Toolbox, and click Open Anyway. Confirm with your password.

On macOS 14 (Sonoma) or older you can instead right-click Toolbox in Applications, choose Open, then Open again.

You only do this once. If macOS ever says Toolbox "is damaged", run this in Terminal and open it again:

xattr -cr /Applications/Toolbox.app

Windows

1. Run the .exe. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.
2. Toolbox installs for your user (no admin needed) and opens. It's in the Start menu afterwards.

Linux

1. Make the file executable: right-click → Properties → Permissions → "Allow executing", or chmod +x Toolbox-*.AppImage.
2. Double-click it, or run ./Toolbox-*.AppImage.

If it doesn't start: on Ubuntu 22.04 and newer install FUSE with sudo apt install libfuse2 (libfuse2t64 on 24.04). If it then complains about the sandbox, start it with ./Toolbox-*.AppImage --no-sandbox.

Good to know

• ffmpeg comes inside the app. The Download node fetches yt-dlp the first time you use it and keeps it up to date, since sites like YouTube change often.
• iPhone photos (HEIC) open in the Mac app. On Windows and Linux, export them as JPEG first.
• The app says in its top bar when a newer version is out; download it from the same page.
• ProRes encodes on Apple Silicon's media engine on a Mac and in software elsewhere. HEVC uses an NVIDIA, Intel or AMD GPU on Windows when there is one, otherwise software.