ImageCanvas 0.5.0

Release notes

Filename on hover

Hold Option while hovering over an image to reveal its complete filename in a floating capsule below the image. The label remains upright and readable at every canvas zoom level and stays within the current window.

Image actions

• Images now have a right-click context menu with:
• Rotate Clockwise
• Rotate Counterclockwise
• Flip Horizontal
• Flip Vertical
• Reveal in Finder

The same commands are available from the Selection menu. Right-clicking an image outside the current selection selects only that image; right-clicking an already selected image preserves the group.

New shortcuts:

• ⌘R — Rotate Clockwise
• ⇧⌘R — Rotate Counterclockwise
• ⌘F — Flip Horizontal
• ⇧⌘F — Flip Vertical

Transforms are saved with the board, leave the original files unchanged, and can be reversed with ⌘Z using the existing capped history.

Built-in update checks

ImageCanvas can now check the latest stable GitHub Release from ImageCanvas → Check for Updates…. Checks occur only when requested—there are no background requests, credentials, or telemetry.

For automatic installation, ImageCanvas verifies:

• GitHub’s published SHA-256 digest
• the ImageCanvas bundle identifier
• the release version and build
• the app bundle and executable structure
• the ad-hoc signature structure

A writable installation can be replaced and reopened automatically. The updater keeps an exact backup during replacement and restores it if the swap or relaunch fails. Translocated, read-only, or otherwise unwritable copies fall back to manual installation through GitHub without requesting administrator privileges.
Releases are not notarized or independently signed. GitHub supplies both the archive and its digest; the verification protects against transfer corruption or mismatched assets, but it is not independent publisher authentication.

Compatibility and updating

• macOS 14 or later
• Built with Xcode 27 beta 3
• Version 0.5.0

Moving to 0.5.0 is a one-time manual installation. Built-in updating is available for subsequent releases.

Image Canvas 0.4.1

Release notes

Snapshot export

• Added Take Snapshot, which copies a clean PNG to the clipboard and saves it to the user’s Pictures folder with configurable resolution from 0.25× to 8× and defaults to 2×..
• The default snapshot fits the entire board into the frame, centers it, and adds padding on a black background.
• Capture Current View optionally preserves the current pan and zoom instead.
• Export Snapshot… allows a different save location while still copying the image to the clipboard.

Tile Grid

Tile Grid now has two different options:

• Equalized Tiled Grid — adjusts the sizes of images to appear visually equal to each other.
• Native Tiled Grid — uses each image’s native resolution as a relative sizing influence, then packs the images into compact justified rows.

Application

• Icon is refreshed in macOS 27 style.
• Updated the project for Xcode 27 beta 3.

The downloadable application is ad-hoc signed and is not notarized. macOS may therefore require approval through System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway on first launch.

ImageCanvas 0.3.6 Beta

Release notes

This version features

• Folder layouts, text, and canvas positions are now restored correctly.
• New images in opened folders can be added with Update Canvas.
• Added Text, Paint, and Pointer tools.
• Arrange works with selected images.
• Improved Liquid Glass controls and fixed several interface issues.