1.7.7

1.7.7 — 2026-09-19

New

• Build your own gradients. The + in the Gradients list now opens a gradient editor instead of a file picker. Pick linear or radial, set the angle, and add as many colour stops as you like — drag them along the ramp, or type exact positions and hex values. Saved gradients sit alongside the built-in ones.
• Grain for your gradients. A Noise slider lays a fine film grain over the gradient, which also smooths the faint banding wide gradients can show.
• Emoji stickers. A new Sticker tool stamps emoji onto a screenshot. Pick one from the Tools list, click anywhere to place it, then drag to move or drag a corner to resize. Stickers behave like any other annotation and export with the image.
• Drag pages between windows. Drag a thumbnail out of one editor window and drop it into another to copy the page; hold ⌥ while dropping to move it instead. ⌘-click and ⇧-click to take several at once. Crop, rotation, adjustments and annotations come along.
• Custom Backgrounds. Your own background images now have a category of their own, next to Gradients and Solid Colors, with its own + for adding more. Everything you had already added is still there.
• Save a PDF page as an image. Save As on a PDF now offers PNG, JPEG, HEIC and the rest. PDF writes the whole document; an image format writes the current page at the resolution of the bitmap inside it, so a 300 DPI scan exports at 300 DPI rather than 72.

Fixed

• Annotated PDFs lost their table of contents. Links and document details came through fine, so it was easy to miss. The cause was a PDFKit change in macOS 27, not SimplShot; contents entries now survive.
• The Templates menu claimed a template was applied even with no background on the image. It now reads None, and choosing None removes the background and watermark while keeping padding and corners.
• Text ran outside its bubble while editing if you had set the bubble's width by hand. The editor now wraps exactly as the finished bubble does.
• The Noise slider in Edit mode washed pictures out instead of graining them. Grain is now blended in properly, leaving tones and colours alone and falling strongest through the midtones.