Changelog

• Settings shows when a new version is available, with an Install Update button. A dot next to Settings in the sidebar and in the menu bar panel lets you know without opening it.
• Free Up Space can clean more: node_modules and Rust build folders of projects you haven't touched in 30 days, Xcode archives (moved to the Trash) and Mail attachments you've opened. None of them are selected until you choose them.
• In Free Up Space, expand a category to see what's in it and uncheck anything you want to keep.

• Macsential opens again on macOS 15. Version 0.1.18 couldn't be opened there ("Macsential cannot be opened because of a problem"). If you installed it, download this version from macsential.com and replace the app in Applications. Your settings, recordings and license are kept.

• Capture Text no longer fails with "The operation couldn't be completed (CRImageReaderError error 1)". If your Mac can't read the text on its Neural Engine, Macsential reads it another way.
• The first Capture Text is quick. macOS needs a minute or more to prepare text recognition for an app the first time, so Macsential now does that in the background shortly after it opens.
• Capture Text tells you what it's doing: "Reading text…" while it reads, then whether the text was copied, none was found, or it couldn't be read.
• In the screenshot editor, Copy Text shows a spinner while it reads, and "No text found" no longer looks like a success.
• The Macsential window now opens in front of other apps, instead of sometimes behind the app you opened it from.

• New: Capture Text. Press ⌥⇧⌘1, then drag over an area, click a window, or press Return for the whole screen. Macsential copies the text it finds instead of a picture. Text is recognized on your Mac and nothing is uploaded. You can change the shortcut in Settings ▸ Shortcuts.
• The screenshot editor has a new Copy Text command (⇧⌘C). It copies the text inside the cropped screenshot.
• Clipboard Manager: cells copied from Excel, Numbers, Word or PowerPoint come back as text, not as a picture that was sometimes cut off. When you paste them, rows and columns stay in place. Copied images are still saved as images, and your existing clipboard history is kept.
• Finder Quick Actions that run in the background, like Optimize Images, no longer open the Macsential window. The notification that says your files are ready also shows up the first time you use one.

• GIF export is many times faster and uses far less memory: a 30-second GIF now takes a few seconds instead of about 40, and long GIFs no longer slow your Mac down. The GIF is also exactly as long as the clip.
• The recording editor has a Done button that closes it. Your edits are saved as you make them.
• If the camera sends no picture during a recording (for example a MacBook with its lid closed), the editor now tells you instead of leaving the camera out silently.
• Macsential uses less memory when it starts at login and waits in the menu bar.
• The Export icon is the same everywhere in the editor, and no longer looks like Share.

• Screen recording: change the record shortcut in Settings ▸ Shortcuts, and use new shortcuts to pause or resume (⌥⇧⌘2) and stop (⌃⇧⌘2) a recording from any app.
• The Record button shows the shortcut that works from any app.
• Settings is now split into General, Shortcuts and Tools, with every app-wide shortcut in one place.
• Settings ▸ Language no longer lists each language twice.

• Macsential now speaks Vietnamese. It follows your Mac's language, or pick English or Tiếng Việt in Settings ▸ Language.
• Screen recording: fix a crash when starting a recording on macOS 27.

• Screenshots: Macsential no longer hides its own windows when you capture, so you can take a screenshot of any Macsential window, including the one you started the capture from.

• Screen recording: fix captions after transcribing. Click any line in the Transcript panel to edit it, or use Replace All to correct a word the transcription keeps getting wrong, such as your product name. Fixes show up in the preview, the exported video and SRT/VTT files, and can be undone.
• Screenshots: area and window captures can now include Macsential's own windows, so you can take screenshots of the editor or any Macsential tool.

• Window Manager: a half now fits around the window already on the other side. With one window on the left two-thirds, the right-half shortcut fills exactly the third that's left; press it again to cycle through sizes as before.
• Window Manager: the separate third and two-thirds shortcuts are gone. Press a half shortcut again to get one-third or two-thirds of the screen.

• Window Manager: press a half or corner shortcut again to cycle through window sizes. The first press uses half the screen; repeat to move through two thirds, three quarters, one quarter, one third, and back to half. Corner layouts keep half the screen height while changing width.
• Window Manager remembers the requested size when an app adjusts its window to a minimum size or character grid, so repeated shortcuts keep cycling.

• Screen recording can now record Macsential itself: bring its windows back while recording and they're in the video, with their sound. You can also pick a Macsential window to record. The camera bubble, the area border and the menu-bar timer still stay out of the recording.
• Screen recording: opening the menu-bar timer's menu pauses the recording while it's open, so the menu never shows up in your video.
• Convert Images keeps photos upright, even when the converted file has no orientation metadata.

• New: Finder Quick Actions. Right-click files in Finder ▸ Quick Actions (or use the buttons under Finder's preview pane):
  • Optimize Images makes smaller copies of PNGs and JPEGs next to the originals, in the background. A notification tells you when they're ready; click it to show them in Finder.
  • Convert Images… and Convert Video… open Macsential on that tool with the files already added. If they don't show up, turn them on in System Settings ▸ General ▸ Login Items & Extensions ▸ Finder.
• The menu bar panel shows work in progress, with a button to cancel it.
• Settings ▸ License shows lifetime use and updates on separate rows.

• New: Clipboard Manager keeps your 16 most recent copies (text, images and files). Press ⇧⌘V in any app to pick one and copy it again. Password-manager items are skipped, and the history stays on your Mac.
• Screenshots: pressing the shortcut no longer brings Macsential's windows in front of what you want to capture.
• Screenshots: Esc cancels and Return captures the whole screen, even when another app has keyboard focus.
• Screenshot editor: a clearer toolbar. Discard a screenshot with the trash button; Done saves it, and the menu next to Done has Save As… and Show Screenshots Folder.

• Esc cancels selecting an area again.
• In Area mode, click anywhere in the preview to select an area.
• Choose which corner the camera goes in, in the Camera settings or by dragging it in the preview. New recordings open in the editor with the camera there.
• Recordings no longer start with a black camera: the camera turns on during the countdown so it's ready when recording begins.
• The timer and pause/stop buttons under the floating camera sit on a blurred background, so they're easy to read on any screen.

• While recording, a floating bubble shows your camera, the timer and pause/stop buttons. Drag it anywhere. It never appears in the recording.
• Area recordings show a border around the area, and recording starts as soon as you select the area.
• When you stop a recording, the editor opens in front, even if you were in another app.
• New recordings start on a softly blurred wallpaper with padding, rounded corners and a shadow, and the camera is round.
• Wallpapers and your own images are now together in the background's Image tab.
• The editor opens larger, with Export, Share, Show in Finder and Move to Trash at the top right.
• Transcripts only offer languages your Mac can transcribe on-device, and start in English.

• Macsential now needs a license to record, export, convert and snap windows. Enter your key in Settings ▸ License.
• The first 100 licenses are free: get yours at macsential.com/buy with just your email address.
• Without a license you can still open and edit your recordings and screenshots, recover recordings and open your files.

• New Screenshots tool: press ⇧⌘1 to capture an area, a window or the whole screen, or ⇧⌘0 to capture the screen under the pointer.
• Style screenshots with a background, padding, rounded corners, a shadow and a window frame, crop them, and add text, then copy or save.
• Change the screenshot shortcuts in Settings ▸ Screenshots. Macsential warns if a shortcut is already used by macOS or another app.
• Window Manager shortcuts use the same shortcut recorder.
• Home now has cards for Screenshots and Free Up Space, and drops placeholder cards for tools that don't exist.
• Drop files on Home to see only the tools that can open them.

• New Free Up Space tool: clear caches, logs, build data and large files you no longer need.
• Choose whether the camera is mirrored in recordings.
• The menu bar panel now has Open, Settings and Exit right at the bottom.
• Settings has a new License section, ready for activating a license key.

• The camera now turns off as soon as you close the recording window, and pauses while the window is hidden or covered. Before, the camera light could stay on after the window closed.

The first release for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later.

• Record a display, window, or selected area, with optional camera, microphone, and system audio.
• Edit recordings with trims, zooms, backgrounds, camera layouts, audio, and captions; export to MP4, MOV, or GIF.
• Convert videos and convert, resize, or optimize images locally.
• Manage windows with keyboard shortcuts.
• Choose output folders, configure permissions, and check for updates inside the app.

Macsential is signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Screen recording, microphone, camera, and Accessibility permissions are requested when needed.