Changelog

What’s new

Every release is free and fully featured.

1.1.1

After a capture, the floating thumbnail appears at the bottom-right corner of the screen, level with the Dock. In Settings › Capture you can put it back beside the capture.
It leaves after 4 seconds, and it arrives and leaves with a short motion.
Settings changes tabs straight away and stays quiet while you are reading it.
Closing the editor lets go of the picture it was showing.

Draw straight onto your screen: a shortcut and a drag places an arrow or a box over whatever you are showing, so you can point at something while sharing a screen or demonstrating in person. Escape takes them away one at a time, newest first.
Shapes size themselves to what you drew, so a box around a small button and one around a whole window both look right. Colour, weight and arrow style follow your editor settings.
Shotbar keeps a small, steady memory footprint however many captures you take in a session, and dragging out an area follows the pointer smoothly.
Area capture leaves the screen as it looks until you have something framed, and the dimming can be turned off entirely in Settings › Screenshots.
Element highlighting picks the button or card you meant rather than the panel around it, and now works in Chrome, VS Code, Slack and other Electron apps.
Backdrops travel with the shot everywhere — automatic copy and save, and the thumbnail’s own Copy and Save.
Recent captures can be dragged out of the menu bar the moment you take them.
Recordings keep a zoom held right at the start, and Re-plan is ready whenever you reopen a clip.
Performance and stability improvements throughout.

Recent captures can now be dragged out of the menu bar into Finder, Desktop, folders, Notes, Terminal, browser upload/drop areas, and other apps that accept images or file paths.
Report a Problem now stays fully local: Shotbar creates a diagnostic ZIP on the Mac and opens an email draft addressed to support@shotbar.app. Nothing is uploaded automatically.
Diagnostic logs are off by default and bounded on disk, with automatic cleanup to prevent unlimited local growth.

Report a Problem uploads diagnostic logs and returns a report ID.
On-device model translation and the Translate settings test no longer hang when the helper crashes.
Clearer help for shotbar:// automation in Settings › Advanced.

Area capture now highlights whatever is under your pointer — a button, a toolbar, a panel, a window — so a single click captures exactly that, with no dragging.
Dragging your own selection works exactly as before; the highlight steps aside the moment you start dragging.
The highlight can be turned off in Settings › Capture.

Scrolling capture now works your way: scroll the page yourself while a live preview shows the shot growing, or let Shotbar auto-scroll it for you like before.
The menu bar icon is bigger and easier to spot.
Recent capture thumbnails no longer get cropped oddly.
A quick one-time tip appears in the editor for anyone zooming with a mouse or Magic Mouse instead of a trackpad.

Shotbar is now free, with no paid tier.
Translation runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is sent to a server.
Updates are checked for authenticity before they install, so only a genuine Shotbar build can replace the app.
Smaller, quicker download, and a single build that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Scrolling capture now does the scrolling for you and stitches the result into one long image.
Screen recordings zoom more smoothly, and you can hold a zoom yourself with a shortcut.
New text callouts and refined markup tools in the editor.
Clearer menu bar icon.