Changelog

Tables, redaction, and translation in Text Selection, and Shotlet in Spotlight and Shortcuts.

Added

• Tables & Lists. Text Selection in pins and History now opens a small bar. Turn on Tables & Lists and every table and list Shotlet recognizes gets a dashed outline; hover one and click Copy Table or Copy List. Numbers, Excel, and Notes paste real cells, and Markdown editors get a Markdown table. Anything you have pixelated copies as ••••.
• Auto Redact. One click pixelates every phone number, email address, Chinese resident ID number, and bank card number in the capture, and one undo takes them all back. In History the mosaics join the capture’s annotations and sync with it.
• Translate. The translation of every paragraph is painted over the capture, where the original was and in its colors, and can be selected and copied. Pixelated text stays •••• in the translation. Shotlet writes in your first preferred language that differs from the text’s; choose another in Settings › General › Translate To. Translation runs on your Mac with Apple’s Translation framework.
• Spotlight and Shortcuts. Snip, Snip & Copy, Paste, Show or Hide Pins, Open History, Open History Item, Pin History Item, Pin Image, and Find History Items run from Spotlight and the Shortcuts app, and Siri takes Snip, Snip & Copy, Paste, and Open History by name. Find History Items uses History’s search syntax and passes each match on as the image Copy exports.
• History in Spotlight. Spotlight finds captures by the text they show, and a result opens the capture in History. The index stays on this Mac; Settings › General › Show History in Spotlight turns it off and removes it.

Improved

• History search also finds text you add with the Text tool, and no longer finds text under a mosaic or cropped away; Find History Items and Spotlight match the same text.
• Text recognition keeps Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text in lines that mix it with English, for whichever of the three comes first in your preferred languages.

Fixed

• Live Text no longer reads text under a mosaic: it cannot be selected, looked up, or copied. Copy Image and Share Image leave its menu; Shotlet’s own Copy exports what is on screen.
• A photo pasted as an image file pins upright.
• A window partly off the screen is snipped as its visible part, so the pin is not stretched and Snip & Copy keeps the right scale.
• With Markup open in History, Command-Z in the search field undoes the typing, not the last annotation.
• Clicking a History row after a search moves focus to the list, so Delete and Command-C act on the item instead of the query.

Element snips, crops, and mosaics on macOS 27, and a square snip with Shift.

Added

• Snip elements. On macOS 27, press Tab in the snip overlay to switch from windows to elements: rest the pointer on a button, a row, a card, or an image and the highlight snaps to it; click to take it. Tab again turns highlighting off, and once more returns to windows.
• Crop to an element. On macOS 27, click instead of dragging in Crop and the marquee hugs the element under the pointer. Handles, confirm, Escape, and undo work as before.
• Mosaic an element. On macOS 27, click with the mosaic tool to pixelate the element under the pointer. The result stays editable, and a drag is still the brush.
• Square snips. Hold Shift while dragging a region to constrain it to a square.

Improved

• The snip highlight glides between targets, and snaps when Reduce Motion is on. A small ring at the pointer appears when element detection takes longer than usual; detection runs entirely on your Mac.
• The Simplified Chinese interface calls pins 贴图 throughout.

Fixed

• A window nested inside a larger one can be hovered in Snip: the highlight follows the frontmost window under the pointer.

History multi-select, and a snip overlay that can cycle windows.

Added

• History multi-select. Click, Command-click, Shift-click, and the arrow keys work like Finder. Copy, pin, save, share, and delete apply to the whole selection. Two or more items show a stacked thumbnail instead of the editor.
• Snip windows. The window under the pointer is highlighted as soon as the overlay appears. Scroll steps through overlapping windows; Tab turns window highlighting off for this capture.

Improved

• Snip’s dim mask is darker, so the selected region reads more clearly.
• Hovered windows show the same size badge as a dragged region.
• History search shows empty when nothing matches, and restoring the query restores the previous row.

Fixed

• Shotlet’s own History and Settings windows can be captured.
• Escape on a pin with Text Selection active leaves that mode first, then closes the pin.
• Deleting a History row moves the highlight in the same frame the row leaves.
• Pins stay above other menu-bar apps and just under the snip overlay.

Crop, roaming shortcuts, and a pin toolbar that is there when you need it.

Added

• Crop. Trim a pin or a History item without replacing the original capture. Drag a marquee, adjust the handles, and confirm. Undo puts the pixels back.
• Roaming settings. Shortcuts and Remove History Items follow your Apple ID through iCloud Key-Value storage. History images still sync separately through CloudKit; Launch at Login, Welcome, and pin windows stay on this Mac.
• Find in History. Command-F focuses the search field; a second Command-F selects the current query.

Improved

• Pins. New pins show the editor toolbar immediately, so copy, save, and annotate are at hand. Space still hides it.
• Snip. The dim overlay fades in and out. The selected region is punched through, so you see the freeze frame while everything else stays masked.
• History. Share no longer stalls the window. Delete keeps the next row selected. Keyboard shortcuts stay on the list after you click the preview, and the red delete control is there the first time the window opens.

Fixed

• Collapsing the annotation tool chrome no longer silently arms the pen.
• Quit Shotlet shows its Command-Q shortcut.

The first release, for macOS 26.

Added

• Snip. Freeze the screen, drag out a region — or click a highlighted window to take it whole — and get a floating pin, or send the selection straight to the clipboard with Snip & Copy. Escape cancels.
• Pins. Always on top, draggable, zoomable from 25% to 400% with the scroll wheel or a trackpad pinch, and adjustable from 20% to 100% opacity with Command and the scroll wheel. Double-click closes a pin, Space shows or hides its toolbar, and Show or Hide Pins toggles every pin at once.
• Paste. Pin whatever is on the clipboard onto the screen.
• Annotation. Rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, pen, marker, mosaic, and text, in six colors, with adjustable line width, font and size controls, editable shapes, and undo and redo. Available on pins and on History items.
• Text Selection. Select and copy the text inside a capture with Live Text.
• History. Every capture is saved locally and searchable — on-device text recognition, powered by Apple’s Vision framework, matches the words inside your images across Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and English. Pin, copy, save, share, mark up, select text, or delete any item.
• iCloud sync. History and annotations sync through your own iCloud private database, so your captures follow you to your other Macs. If iCloud is unavailable, Shotlet keeps working from a local store.
• Global shortcuts. Snip, Snip & Copy, Paste, History, and Show or Hide Pins, all rebindable in Settings › Shortcuts.
• Settings. Launch at Login, and a Remove History Items rule — manually by default, or automatically after a day, a week, two weeks, a month, or a year.
• Localization. English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

Privacy

• No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no ads, and no third-party SDKs. Text recognition runs entirely on your Mac; images are never uploaded for it.