v4.2.0

Added

• Highlight (spotlight) tool — drag a rectangle to keep that region bright while dimming the rest of the capture. Adjustable dim strength and a solid/dashed border.
• Boundary snap — the selection's edges snap to strong color edges in the image (UI lines, window borders) while dragging, resizing, or moving it. On by default; hold Option to bypass.
• Settings import/export — back up your preferences to a file and move them to another Mac or a clean install (Settings → General → Settings Backup). Upload credentials, your save folder, and screenshot history are never included. (#265, #280)
• macshot Offline — a separate app variant with upload and cloud storage integrations removed, with its own DMG, update feed, and Homebrew cask.
• Redesigned selection size control — split width/height fields, aspect-ratio and resolution presets, a custom ratio lock, and a pre-draw preset button for quick and scroll capture. Exact-resolution capture drags as a fixed-size frame.
• Loupe: rooted two-circle magnifier — a source circle stays where you click and the magnified lens follows your drag, connected by a line. Both move and resize independently, with an outline color option. (#197)
• OCR detects QR codes — with open, copy, and scan actions alongside recognized text.
• New URL scheme commands — macshot://ocr-translate?target=<lang> captures a region, OCRs it, and overlays the translation in place over the original text (#283); macshot://edit?id=<id> reopens a history entry in the editor with its annotations still editable (#272).
• History upgrades — right-click menu on history screenshots (copy, save, edit, pin, upload, OCR/QR, rotate, flip, open with, share, delete) and optional ordering by last edit.
• Paste into Editor — Cmd+V opens a clipboard image directly in the Editor window.
• Native AVIF export.
• Custom menu bar icon — the default, a built-in preset, or any SF Symbol.
• Quick Look snapping — window snapping can select Finder Quick Look windows.
• Smaller additions — hold Space while dragging to move the selection, numpad Enter confirms, Forward Delete removes annotations, silent "Clear History" hotkey, point handles for number annotations, configurable save action, hide-shadow-outside-selection and tooltip-shortcut settings.

Changed

• Removed scroll/pinch-to-zoom from the capture overlay (the editor window still zooms).
• macshot no longer prevents idle sleep while sitting in the menu bar.
• Selected text shows a plain selection rectangle instead of an outline tracing the letters.
• OCR/QR results UI aligned with Translate; actions moved into the header. Text fields use the standard edit menu.

Fixed

• Phantom Text Recognition window — no longer spawns on wake, unlock, or connecting a monitor after using OCR once. (#276)
• Text stroke — the glyph stroke now draws as an outline outside the letter fill instead of a centered stroke that thinned the text. Live editing, the committed image, resizing, and re-editing all render identically; older captures are converted on load. (#257)
• Menu bar icon freeze — clicking the icon could hang the app and kill the global hotkey.
• Crash on launch on macOS versions older than 12.3.
• Capture reliability on macOS 26, including the enlarged "shake to find" cursor no longer being captured when "Capture mouse cursor" is off.
• Clipboard copies keep retained backing files, so Finder paste and clipboard managers no longer point at deleted temporary files.
• Video editor Save no longer deletes the user's source file.
• Recording reliability — fixed a data race in the recording engine; broken or empty recordings are no longer reported as successful.
• Editor edit tracking — no more false "Save changes?" when closing without edits; moving, resizing, or rotating an annotation is undoable and counts as an edit.
• Beautify — removed the thin hairline around rounded screenshot edges when a drop shadow is enabled.
• Text boxes — clicking outside closes the box without dropping a new empty one; text no longer clips at the minimum box height.
• Window close buttons — closing the OCR, audio-merge, or onboarding windows with the red-X no longer leaks them; closing the audio-merge window still delivers the finished recording.
• The scroll-capture HUD no longer steals focus from the window being captured.
• Toolbar popovers close when their button is clicked again; the right toolbar stays clear of the notch.
• Window snapping ignores hidden windows behind the frontmost one.
• Save panels open focused; editable annotations and post-processing state are preserved when reopening captures; toolbar buttons no longer fire stale actions.