Fader 1.8.3

• Notarized by Apple. Fader now opens without the "can't verify" warning, so new installs no longer need System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.
• After this update macOS may ask you to allow Accessibility for Fader again. If window gestures or the Number Pad stop responding, open Settings › Permissions and allow it once more.

Fader 1.8.2

• A new icon. Fader's icon is now a tile lit from its right edge, fading into graphite. In the menu bar it's a small square that does the same, and just its outline while Fader is paused.
• About Fader shows one short line instead of two descriptions.

Fader 1.8.1

• Every Settings page now starts in the same place. On some pages the title sat lower when its description ran onto two lines.

Fader 1.8

• Hold to start. Edge faders are much harder to set off by accident. Rest a finger on an edge until you feel a click and see the level on screen, then slide. A quick brush or a pointer move that starts at an edge is left alone. On by default with a 0.3 second hold; change the time (0.15 to 0.8 seconds) or turn it off in Settings › Edges.
• The setup guide shows the hold, and on its practice trackpad a ring fills around your finger as you rest it.

Fader 1.7.1

• Updates work however Fader was opened. If another app started Fader, Fader could end up saving its files inside that app's private folder. macOS then blocked those saves, updates failed with "An error occurred while downloading the update", and macOS asked whether Fader could "access data from other apps". Fader now notices this when it starts and reopens itself normally.

Fader 1.7

• A new look. Fader is quieter and quicker: grays, with one orange accent for whatever is live or switched on, far less text, and shorter animations. Settings is easier to scan, with rarely used options under Advanced, and no longer redraws while you slide.
• A new setup guide. Each feature gets a short moving picture of exactly what to do: where the sliders are on your trackpad, corners, the jog dial, windows and the number pad. It only asks for Accessibility if something you switched on needs it. Open it any time from the ••• menu › Setup Guide.
• Try it, fixed. The practice trackpad is now drawn to your trackpad's real shape, with the edges exactly where Fader reads them, and your levels shown beside it rather than under your finger.
• A new icon.
• Windows. Swipe two fingers on a window's title bar to place it: left or right for half the screen (again, without moving the pointer, for the next display), up to fill the screen, toward a corner for a quarter, down for its previous size. Push up twice without lifting for the top half, down twice for the bottom half. Pinch in to minimize, further to close, twice to quit; spread for full screen. An outline shows where the window will go before you lift. Turn it on in Settings › Windows.
• Side by side. Drag the edge two snapped windows share, and the other one resizes with it.
• Magic Mouse. Optionally, swipe one finger on the mouse with the pointer on a title bar for the same swipes.
• On the menu bar, rest two fingers for the app switcher, or swipe to change Space and down for Mission Control. On a Dock icon, swipe up to show the app, down to hide it, pinch to quit it. Hold fn to gesture anywhere on a window.
• Swipe to Type on the Number Pad. Turn it on in Settings › Number Pad, then glide through digits in one stroke instead of tapping each. Turn on each digit you want, or pause on one you'd otherwise pass straight over. Draw a small loop on a key to type it twice.
• Glide speed, like the pointer's tracking speed: a glide moves farther across the keypad than your finger does (1.6× to start, up to 2.5×), so going corner to corner doesn't take the whole trackpad. Taps still land exactly where you touch.
• The on-screen keypad draws your glide and shows what it reads as you go.
• One finger types; two fingers command. Swipe two fingers left to delete (straight after a glide, the whole number), right for Enter, and down to swap a glide that could be read two ways for its other reading. A glide can never be mistaken for a delete.
• Keys you cross on the way aren't typed: gliding from 3 to 7 over the 5 types 37. Pause on the 5 for 357. The reading on screen only shows a digit once you've turned or slowed on it, so you can see it's marked.
• It learns how you glide. Swapping a glide, or deleting and retyping it, teaches it most, so it fits the way you mark digits over time. It keeps only how you swipe and which digit tends to follow which, never the numbers you type.
• Tapping works exactly as before. With Swipe to Type off, one-finger swipes still delete and enter, and two-finger swipes work too.

Fader 1.6

• Every edge is assignable. Each of the trackpad's four edges can be Volume, Screen Brightness, Keyboard Brightness, Night Shift, Media or Nothing. Pick an edge in Settings › Edge Faders, then what it does, or right-click the Edges tile in the menu.
• Keyboard brightness is back. The top edge, right next to the keyboard, now sets the keyboard's backlight on Macs that have one, replacing the keys newer Macs dropped.
• Choosing something that's already on another edge swaps the two, and presets (Standard, Sides only, All four, Top & bottom) set everything in one click.
• Where two edges meet in a corner, the direction you slide decides which edge you're using.
• The menu shows every assigned edge live where it sits, with play controls for a Media edge.
• The Media Strip is now simply an edge set to Media, on any edge you like. Your current edges carry over, and the keyboard light is added to the top edge if it was free.
• The Loupe is gone. It wasn't pulling its weight, so it's been removed along with its ⌥⌘ shortcut. Fader no longer asks for Screen Recording, and you can turn that permission off for Fader in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

Fader 1.5

• Corners. Double-tap any corner of the trackpad for an action you choose: Mission Control, Show Desktop, Screenshot, Lock Screen, Sleep Display, media controls, opening an app, running any Shortcut, or pressing a key combination. Set them up in Settings › Corners, including how big each corner is. Quick Mute is now the Mute Sound corner, and stays where it was.
• Corners are built not to fire by accident: two quick taps right in the corner, never while you're typing, and every corner starts empty.

Fader 1.4

• A proper Settings window. Settings… (⌘,) now opens a window laid out like System Settings: General, Edge Faders, Jog Dial, Number Pad, Loupe and Permissions. Every page shows what the feature does, how to use it in a few steps, and only its own options.
• Settings you can see. Most options are now pictures you click: the edge zones on a little trackpad, haptic strength as bars, where the on-screen level appears, the border band between Number Pad keys drawn to scale.
• A simpler menu. The menu bar menu is now a control centre: your levels and a tile for each feature. Click a tile to switch it on or off; a badge means it needs a permission, and clicking it takes you to the fix.
• Edge Faders can be switched off on their own, leaving Quick Mute, the Media Strip and everything else on.

Fader 1.3

• A bigger, more accurate Number Pad. Digits only, each key a third of the trackpad wide. Flick left to delete and right for Enter, so those need no aim.
• No more silent wrong digits. A tap too close to a border between keys doesn't type; you feel a soft double buzz and see the two keys outlined. Choose how strict in Settings › Gestures › Precision.
• It learns your touch. The Number Pad learns where your taps on each key really land, and quickly follows your hand drifting while you type. Deleting a digit and retyping its neighbour teaches it most. Everything it learns stays on your Mac; reset it in Settings › Gestures.