Screenroll 0.1.3 (alpha)

Screenroll 0.1.3 introduces Bracket Pal, its new identity, and a capture chooser on ⇧⌘5.

What changed

• A simple, flat app icon replaces the rolled-paper illustration.
• The menu-bar icon is designed for its actual 18-point size, with open space and no dense filled silhouette.
• While recording, the eyes become a small record dot. The brackets stay open and recognizable.
• Matching artwork appears in onboarding, About, the website, favicons and the installer.
• ⇧⌘5 asks what you want to do first: capture or record the whole screen, a window or an area. Choose with the mouse, keys 1–6, or the arrow keys and Return. Esc or ⇧⌘5 closes the bar.
• The last choice stays highlighted for next time. Recording then opens its settings panel, with Return for video and Option-Return for GIF.

The capture chooser replaces the old all-in-one panel that appeared after selecting an area. The other capture shortcuts, annotations and history remain familiar.

Install or update

Download Screenroll-0.1.3.dmg and drag Screenroll to Applications, or use Homebrew:

brew install --cask prerakgada/tap/screenroll
# Existing installation:
brew upgrade --cask screenroll

Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or newer. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Alpha status

Screenroll remains an alpha. The existing capture, recording and annotation limitations listed in the 0.1.2 release notes still apply. There is no in-app updater. Captures stay on your Mac; the app connects to the internet only when you send feedback.

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Checksums (SHA-256)

File	SHA-256
Screenroll-0.1.3.dmg	e016ba702667e23096561c20d0e3b25966c9e9040664a84dc3df9757df39b9a6
Screenroll-0.1.3.zip	7e8651e87946a961fdb44e99378217405b9668130031984f8be3549795e21082

Screenroll 0.1.2 (alpha)

Screenroll 0.1.2 is the third alpha. It adds one thing: a way to tell me what is wrong or what you would like,
from inside the app.

This is still an alpha. Capturing and recording the real screen have had very little use so far. Expect rough edges.

What is new

• Report a Problem… and Send Feedback… in the menu-bar menu, in the Help menu (while a Screenroll window is open)
  and in Settings › About. Both open one small window: choose Problem, Idea or Other feedback, write a few words, and
  add your name and email only if you would like a reply.
• It sends only when you press Send (or ⌘↩), once, straight to Prerak, who makes Screenroll. It sends your message,
  the name and email if you added them, and the Screenroll version, macOS version and Mac model. The window lists
  those details before you send. The server notes a rough location (country, region and city) from your connection
  and stores no IP address. It never sends captures, history, logs, the clipboard or anything else, and it does not
  remember your name or email. If sending fails, everything you typed stays in the window; nothing is retried or sent
  later.
• The privacy wording in the app and on the website now says exactly this: Screenroll never uploads your captures, and
  its only connection to the internet is the feedback you choose to send.

Nothing else changed since 0.1.1.

Known issues

• Real screen capture, recording, the selection overlay, the all-in-one panel and the global shortcuts have had very
  little use on a real screen.
• Text in screenshots is recognised and stored so history search can find it. It is not encrypted. You can turn this off
  in Settings, Text & Pins.
• The smallest pixelate size can leave large text readable on Retina screenshots. Use blur, or a larger size, for
  anything private.
• Other programs running as you can use Screenroll's command socket to take screenshots through Screenroll's permission.
• Opening a file in Screenroll while it is already running passes the file name in a way other programs on the Mac can see.
• After you share a marked-up screenshot, a copy can stay in a temporary folder for up to a day.
• A recording that the system refuses to stop asks you to quit the app. A recording saved to your folder because history
  was unavailable is readable by other users of the Mac.
• If the history database cannot be opened, captures for that session are kept only until you quit, without a warning.
• If a screenshot cannot be added to history, it is not copied or saved either, and the message only says it could not
  be taken.
• Hollow shapes can only be picked up by their outline. Drawing tools always start a new shape; press V to move an
  existing one.
• Plain text has no shadow or outline on busy backgrounds. Choose the outlined or pill style for those.
• The badge button in the toolbar shows white digits even on a white or yellow badge. Medium-length badge tails can look
  like a wedge, and the tapered arrow looks almost straight at thin widths.
• There is no copy and paste of individual marks; ⌘C copies the whole image.
• The spotlight preview dims your other marks while you drag; the saved image does not.
• Memory use while idle is about 100 to 150 MB.
• No in-app updater. Update with brew upgrade --cask screenroll or the new disk image.

Install

• Download Screenroll-0.1.2.dmg, open it and drag Screenroll to Applications. Or, with Homebrew:
  brew install --cask prerakgada/tap/screenroll, or brew upgrade --cask screenroll if you have an earlier alpha.
• Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. No account, no analytics, no update check. It connects to the
  internet only when you press Send in Report a Problem or Send Feedback.

Checksums (SHA-256)

File	SHA-256
Screenroll-0.1.2.dmg	9c50f94004cade30e7ac2b6d96acf7e1dc93a967dbe9584726b6338029f844fa
Screenroll-0.1.2.zip	791be1b96db337edbb66c746400c18e5450c1d8ba40c58e06f5d1a50dce6e010

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Screenroll 0.1.1 (alpha)

Screenroll 0.1.1 is the second alpha. It makes Screenroll the Mac's screenshot tool: it now answers the usual macOS
screenshot keys, adds an all-in-one panel and a way to bring back the last capture, opens at login, can bring in the
captures another capture tool kept on your Mac, and fixes the worst problems found after 0.1.0.

This is still an alpha. Capturing and recording the real screen have had very little use so far. Expect rough edges.

What is new

• The macOS screenshot keys by default. ⇧⌘3 captures the whole screen and ⇧⌘4 an area (press Space for a window).
  Your other shortcuts keep their 0.1.0 keys: window ⌃⌥5, previous area ⌃⌥2, record ⌃⌥R, text ⌃⌥T, history ⌃⌥H.
  If you never changed a shortcut, updating moves you to the new keys. A shortcut you chose yourself is left as it is.
• Making Screenroll the screenshot tool. macOS has its own ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4 and ⇧⌘5, and both would answer the key. The
  welcome window and Settings › Shortcuts offer Use Screenroll for ⇧⌘3, 4 and 5. Only when you press it, Screenroll
  turns those three macOS shortcuts off and checks they are off. If macOS will not let it, it opens Keyboard settings and
  tells you which switches to turn off. Give Them Back to macOS puts them back exactly as they were. ⌃⇧⌘3 and ⌃⇧⌘4
  (screenshot to the clipboard) are left alone.
• If another screenshot app is running and already holds a key, Screenroll says so next to that shortcut. It does
  not crash or take the key away; it picks the key up by itself as soon as that app quits.
• All-in-one on ⇧⌘5. Select an area, then choose Capture (Return), Record Video (⌘Return) or Record GIF (⌥Return).
  Also in the menu as All-in-One….
• Restore last capture on ⌥⌘Z. Brings your newest capture back as a thumbnail in the corner. Press it again for the
  one before.
• Opens at login by default. The first time an installed copy starts, it adds itself to your login items once. The
  welcome window and Settings › General have a switch to turn it off, and once off it stays off. If you had turned it off
  in 0.1.0, that choice is kept.
• Import earlier captures. If another capture tool on this Mac kept a history, Screenroll can copy those screenshots,
  videos and GIFs into its own history, with their original dates and window names. It is offered in the welcome window,
  in Settings › History and as screenroll import-captures. It only reads the other tool's files and never changes them.
  Running it again adds only what is new. Captures older than your "Keep for" setting are left out, and Screenroll tells
  you how many.

Fixed

• Quitting while an annotation window has unsaved marks now asks Save to History, Discard or Cancel, as closing the
  window does. If Screenroll is stopped from Terminal, it saves them to history without asking.
• Dragging a resize handle past the opposite side of a shape now flips the shape instead of collapsing it.
• ⌘Z while still dragging a shape no longer mixes up undo and redo. ⌘S saves once, and says so if saving fails.
• Delete and Clear History now remove every file of a capture, including files a crash left behind. They are also swept
  at launch.
• Temporary copies made for drag-out, the Pastebook vault and video edits are readable only by you and are removed after
  use, or at the next launch after a crash. Saving a blur now removes copies of the unblurred picture made for drag-out.

Known issues

• Real screen capture, recording, the selection overlay, the all-in-one panel and the global shortcuts have had very
  little use on a real screen.
• Text in screenshots is recognised and stored so history search can find it. It is not encrypted. You can turn this off
  in Settings, Text & Pins.
• The smallest pixelate size can leave large text readable on Retina screenshots. Use blur, or a larger size, for
  anything private.
• Other programs running as you can use Screenroll's command socket to take screenshots through Screenroll's permission.
• Opening a file in Screenroll while it is already running passes the file name in a way other programs on the Mac can see.
• After you share a marked-up screenshot, a copy can stay in a temporary folder for up to a day.
• A recording that the system refuses to stop asks you to quit the app. A recording saved to your folder because history
  was unavailable is readable by other users of the Mac.
• If the history database cannot be opened, captures for that session are kept only until you quit, without a warning.
• If a screenshot cannot be added to history, it is not copied or saved either, and the message only says it could not
  be taken.
• Hollow shapes can only be picked up by their outline. Drawing tools always start a new shape; press V to move an
  existing one.
• Plain text has no shadow or outline on busy backgrounds. Choose the outlined or pill style for those.
• The badge button in the toolbar shows white digits even on a white or yellow badge. Medium-length badge tails can look
  like a wedge, and the tapered arrow looks almost straight at thin widths.
• There is no copy and paste of individual marks; ⌘C copies the whole image.
• The spotlight preview dims your other marks while you drag; the saved image does not.
• Memory use while idle is about 100 to 150 MB.
• No in-app updater. Update with brew upgrade --cask screenroll or the new disk image.

Install

• Download Screenroll-0.1.1.dmg, open it and drag Screenroll to Applications. Or, with Homebrew:
  brew install --cask prerakgada/tap/screenroll, or brew upgrade --cask screenroll if you have 0.1.0.
• Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It works offline and sends nothing anywhere. No account, no analytics.

File	SHA-256
Screenroll-0.1.1.dmg	9b33fef254738a1fab2269528f82298c6f0a6c1370b227e90dfc852866d72e6d
Screenroll-0.1.1.zip	08f15a372bb3453134db35192c3284def5b24165930d968de21e4fd171d3507a

© 2026 Engaze

Screenroll 0.1.0 (alpha)

First alpha of Screenroll, a screenshot and screen-recording app for Macs with Apple Silicon on macOS 26 or newer. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

What is in it

• Capture an area (⌃⌥4), a window (⌃⌥5), the whole screen (⌃⌥3) or the previous area again (⌃⌥2), with a self-timer and a magnifier.
• An editor with arrows, lines, shapes, text, numbered steps, pencil, highlighter, blur, pixelate, spotlight and crop, with undo.
• A small preview after each capture: copy, save, edit, pin or drag it out.
• Screen recording to MP4 or GIF (⌃⌥R), with microphone, computer sound and click highlights, and a simple trimmer.
• A capture history (⌃⌥H) with search, including text found in screenshots. Copy text from the screen (⌃⌥T).
• A screenroll command for scripts.

What needs a permission
Nothing is asked at launch. Screenshots and recording need Screen Recording; recording your voice needs the Microphone. Each is requested only when you press its button in the welcome window or Settings, or first use the feature.

Known gaps in this alpha

• It passes its automated checks, but real screen capture, recording, the selection overlay and the global shortcuts have had very little use on a real screen. Expect rough edges there.
• Quitting (⌘Q or logging out) with an editor window open discards marks you have not saved. Close it with Done first.
• Dragging a resize handle past the opposite side of a shape collapses it. ⌘Z brings it back.
• Clear History and Delete can leave image files behind in Screenroll's data folder if a capture was interrupted.
• Images dragged out of the editor leave a temporary copy other apps on your Mac can read until it is cleaned up; after a blur, an unblurred temporary copy can stay for up to a day.
• Text found in screenshots is stored unencrypted for search. Turn it off in Settings, Text & Pins.
• The smallest pixelate size can leave large text readable on Retina screenshots. Use blur for anything private.
• Other programs running as you can use Screenroll's command socket to take screenshots through its permission.
• No in-app updater; update with brew upgrade --cask screenroll or a new DMG. Smaller editor quirks are listed in the project's notes.

File	SHA-256
Screenroll-0.1.0.dmg	7946d6024d5dd292b5c6b9f895794697d84ac5870138b5bf96a5165312664850
Screenroll-0.1.0.zip	c7c8d533d7fe4658745b07c931c104dbebdf376c337d2e7a416538b3c6d44e70

© 2026 Engaze