Capture a long, scrolling page, then hit Copy — the whole stitched image lands on your clipboard, top to bottom. Previously a very tall capture could leave only the last screen behind.
\nTrigger Capture Text from the floating controls and the OCR Manager comes straight to the front — even when the main window is minimized. The Device Manager also now shows the exact number of Macs your plan includes.
\nPress ⌘⇧T, drag over anything on screen — a video still, a PDF, a slide, an error dialog — and the text is on your clipboard before you let go. 18+ languages, recognized entirely on your Mac, nothing sent to the cloud.
\nSee Capture Text in the guide →
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\nCinematic auto-zoom that follows the speaker and the cursor. One-click stabilization for shaky footage. Subject erase that lifts a person or object out cleanly. And a preview that is, frame for frame, the file you'll export.
\nAn address buried in a screenshot. A command on a tutorial video. A figure on a shared slide. A message in a dialog you can't select. Drag over it — it's editable text in about a second.
\nOwnClip now tells you when a Bluetooth headset will record in lower “call” quality, and how to get studio sound — so a take never surprises you.
\nBackground-noise removal got a safety net: it cleans fans, hum, and hiss but can no longer over-process your voice into silence. Cleaner takes, zero surprises.
\nThe meter now shows the music, call, or app sound you're capturing — not just your voice — so you can balance levels before you hit record.
\nUSB mics, audio interfaces, and external mics now capture reliably at full quality — pick your mic and record, no fiddling.
\nDragging to select a cut range now follows your cursor at full frame rate — the selection band keeps its own state while you drag, so the timeline behind it stays still instead of redrawing on every pixel. Reopening a clip you've already edited now shows its waveform right away instead of an empty track. And Trim, Speed, and Audio Polish now each confirm when applied, so no edit ever feels like it did nothing.
\nAfter eighteen builds patching the Cut tool one bug at a time, it's been rewritten with a single principle: the timeline IS the output composition, and the Cut tool speaks composition time natively. Drag from-point to to-point on the visible timeline, the band sits exactly where you dragged. Click Cut Selection — the range physically disappears, the duration drops, the kept audio fills the timeline edge-to-edge. Past cuts no longer render on the timeline at all (they're collapsed); the inspector now lists each one with a one-click remove.
\nBuild 264 switched the timeline to render in composition time so cuts and silence visually collapse — but a handful of width calculations were still calling timeToX(end - start), passing a delta into a function that expects an absolute time. In composition mode that returns the wrong width, so the cut selection band rendered at a wrong position with mis-aligned edge handles. Result: drag created a \"fixed block\" you couldn't resize. Fixed by routing every width / center calc through new widthBetween / centerBetween helpers.
\nReal bug fix. EditProject.addOperation for .silenceRemove was REPLACING any existing silence op — so when you re-detected with different parameters and applied again, the new silences were stored but the previously-removed silences came BACK into the composition. Net duration looked unchanged; users saw \"nothing happens.\" Now each Apply accumulates the new segments on top of what was already cut.
\nIf you applied Silence Removal once and then re-detected (after a slider change or re-opening the tool), the detector found the same silences again — because it runs against the SOURCE asset, which still contains them. Clicking Remove was then a no-op because TimelineMapper collapsed the duplicate ranges. Now the inspector filters out any detected silence that's fully inside a committed cut / silence-remove range. If everything found is already removed, you get a clear \"All detected silences are already removed\" hint instead of a deceptive \"2 of 2 selected\" prompt.
\nThree big-feel changes to make the editor read as a real NLE. The bottom timeline now physically collapses around cuts and silence (kept content fills edge-to-edge). The right inspector panel is collapsible (⌥⌘I or chevron), with a thin expand rail when hidden, persisted across sessions. And committed cuts no longer leave a stitch marker on the timeline — once you cut, you cut; ⌘Z is the undo path.
\nAfter cut or silence removal, the timeline rendered the kept content at its source positions with stitch markers / dim bands where the removed parts had been — they were still taking up horizontal space, just visually marked. Now the timeline renders in COMPOSITION time: removed regions disappear entirely, and the kept content fills the timeline end-to-end. Click Remove on a 10 s silence inside a 15 s clip → the bottom timeline shrinks to show only the ~5 s of kept audio.
\nBuild 262 cleaned up the inspector after Apply — but the orange bands disappearing + the auto-dismissing toast made it look like the action had been reverted, not committed. Now a persistent green badge stays in the inspector after Apply: \"✓ Removed N silent segments · saved Xs.\" One-click Undo if you change your mind. Cleared when you run a fresh detection or move to another tool.
\nThree UX gaps in Silence Removal closed. (1) Per-segment list in the inspector — each detected segment has a checkbox to skip it from the next pass + a tap-to-seek so you can listen before committing. (2) After clicking Remove, the orange preview bands and the projection row clear so you can't accidentally re-add the same op. (3) When you tweak the threshold / min-duration sliders, a \"Re-detecting at the new threshold…\" status appears during the 400 ms debounce so the slider change doesn't look silently absorbed.
\nOnce you apply a Cut, the timeline used to keep showing a big red block where the cut was — making it look like the cut hadn't taken effect. Now, committed cuts collapse to a thin 4-pt red stitch marker at the cut point, and the waveform bars inside cut regions are skipped entirely. The content reads as gone. When you switch back to the Cut tool, the full editable region with drag handles returns so you can adjust or remove a past cut.
\nThe B shortcut / floating-toolbar scissors button drops a 0.5 s cut selection at the playhead so you can drag the edges to refine it — but the action was silent and the button label said \"Split at Playhead,\" which sounds like it should commit. Now there's a clear inline message — \"Cut selection ready · drag the edges to refine, then press Delete or click Cut Selection\" — the tooltip describes the actual behavior, the icon switches to scissors-with-dots to suggest \"in progress,\" and B is documented in the keyboard help overlay.
\nTrim was always working under the hood (the player skipped the trimmed-out range, the export shrunk to match), but the editor toolbar still showed the SOURCE duration and SOURCE timecode, so users couldn't tell the trim had applied — \"nothing happens to the movie itself.\" Now the toolbar duration shows the output duration, the timecode shows composition time (0 at the start of the trimmed clip), and the discarded region is much more clearly dimmed.
\nA pass over the video editor against pro-NLE expectations. Frame-by-frame stepping with the comma / period keys (FCP convention). JKL shuttle for reverse / pause / forward at 1× / 2× / 4× / 8× speeds. Loop region — set in / out points with ⌥I / ⌥O, toggle playback with ⇧L. Click the timecode in the toolbar and type a precise time. Pre-roll playback (⇧Space) plays from 2 s back and returns the playhead when you pause. Plus better error handling: corrupt clips show an inline retry overlay, exports check for free disk space before starting, and AVFoundation errors get translated to actionable copy. Snap-to-cut-edge so cut edges click onto neighbouring cuts. And VoiceOver labels on every interactive timeline element.
\nOnce you apply a Cut, a green Play Preview button now appears in the Cut inspector — tapping it jumps the playhead to 1.5 s before the cut and plays so you can immediately hear the cut land. And the Play / Pause button in the timeline toolbar is now a brand-tinted circular pill that stands apart from the muted transport icons, so it's the loudest thing in the toolbar instead of one of five identical SF symbols.
\nEvery action button across the app — secondary, destructive, icon, the recording pill — now visibly greys out when its precondition isn't met (build 255 only fixed primary buttons). Plus: re-applying a template now asks before wiping your text edits, Recent tiles tell you when a file's gone instead of silently failing, Smart Share waits until Drive quota loads before letting you send, Smart Framing tells you when there are no faces to follow, and the Silence threshold slider no longer stutters on long clips.
\nTwo quick fixes. A new File → Open (⌘O) menu accepts any video or image and routes it to the matching editor (video → Video Editor, image → Screenshot Editor) — same routing the Finder double-click and drag-drop paths already use, so the result is consistent. And the editor's action buttons now visibly grey out when their precondition isn't met — Cut Selection used to look identical enabled vs disabled, so users reported \"the button doesn't work\" when it was correctly waiting on a range selection.
\nFive surgical fixes across the editor's most complained-about surfaces. Audio Polish presets are now obviously audible with a Hold-to-Compare A/B button. Detected silence shows up as orange bands on the timeline before you commit. Chapter markers are draggable / renameable / deletable directly on the timeline. Per-range speed zones replace global-only speed. And captions get a full style editor (font / color / position / animation) with live preview.
\nBuild 252's Cut tool dragged the trim start/end of the video instead of selecting a range. The trim block's body-drag zone (covers the entire kept range) was intercepting the drag before the Cut tool's gesture could run. Now the trim body slide is suppressed when Cut is the active tool, so drag goes straight to selection. Trim edge handles still work in any tool mode.
\nBuild 251's Cut redesign was unusable: the drag affordance was hidden behind Shift, and the alternate \"Cut at Playhead\" button auto-committed a 500 ms block you couldn't resize. Rewritten around the existing Cut tool mode — pick Cut, drag on the timeline to define a range, drag the edges or middle to refine, then press Delete or click Cut Selection. No modifier keys, no magic auto-blocks.
\nThree Video Editor pain points fixed in one pass. Cut now follows the Final Cut / Premiere / DaVinci convention: Shift-drag on the timeline to select a range, then click Cut. Timeline zoom got explicit + / − / Fit buttons plus ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0 keyboard shortcuts. And dragging the trim handles now dims the discarded regions clearly and shows a \"Keep: 12.4s\" label so you know exactly what'll survive the trim.
\nLibrary, Video Editor, and Image Editor were rendered without the same wrapper that Settings/Home/Brand were already using. The missing wrapper let their internal HSplitView mins propagate up to NavigationSplitView, which then collapsed the sidebar to give them room. Centralized the wrapper so every section behaves identically — sidebar stays at full width across the entire app.
\nBuild 248 removed the chevron sidebar toggle and locked the sidebar visible, which caused the main sidebar and Library's internal source sidebar to visually overlap in Library, Video Editor, and Image Editor. Restored the chevron toggle and the View → Toggle Sidebar menu item so you can collapse the main sidebar when working in multi-column views. Home's resize fix from build 247 is unchanged.
\nSettings kept the sidebar at full width when the window was narrow, but Home and other sections quietly auto-collapsed it. Even with the .balanced split-view style, SwiftUI was making per-section visibility decisions. Locked the visibility binding so the sidebar is structurally pinned across every section, plus removed the chevron toggle and the View menu's Toggle Sidebar item so the UI is consistent — the sidebar is just always there.
\nThe asymmetry between Library (sidebar stayed put, Library content compressed) and Home (sidebar compressed, Home content stayed large) is fixed. Home's hero visual, brand logo, recent thumbnails, and outer padding all got smaller fixed dimensions so the page never demands more width than the detail pane has, removing the pressure that caused NavigationSplitView to auto-collapse the sidebar.
\nBuilds 244 and 245 declared the sidebar at 180pt in code but SwiftUI's HStack layout was still collapsing it to zero at runtime. Replaced the HStack with a GeometryReader that measures the available width once and explicitly assigns every pane its width — no flexible children for SwiftUI to arbitrate. The sidebar now reliably renders at 180pt regardless of section, window size, or layout context.
\nBuild 244 shipped the new custom workspace architecture, but at runtime SwiftUI's HStack was eating the sidebar's fixed 180pt width and giving everything to the sibling content pane. The sidebar collapsed to zero and content filled the whole window. Locked the width with stricter constraints so SwiftUI can't argue with it.
\nOwnClip's navigation sidebar is now built like Lightroom, Final Cut, and Adobe Bridge build theirs: a fixed-width custom workspace fixture rather than the collapsible browser-app primitive Apple ships for Mail and Notes. No more hide chevron, no more auto-collapse at narrow widths, no more SwiftUI quirks to fight.
\nAfter several iterations bouncing between approaches, the sidebar is now structurally pinned across every section of the app via the right architecture instead of patches. Home and Video Editor regain their native chrome that the previous build accidentally stripped.
\nTwo stubborn problems gone. The sidebar is now structurally fixed in place (not a SwiftUI suggestion), so it can't get re-hidden by editor or library toolbars. And the Cut tool's drag handles no longer overlap on small cuts — you can grab and widen the right edge of a fresh split just like the left.
\nBuild 240 pinned the sidebar in simpler views (Settings, Home, Help), but the Library, Video Editor, and Image & PDF editor still had a way to hide it because their own toolbars were re-introducing the toggle. Plugged every remaining hole — the sidebar is now visible everywhere, no matter what.
\nThe sidebar is the one piece of navigation that has to be there. The previous window-minimum tuning kept it visible at the floor, but NavigationSplitView still had two ways to wipe it (the toolbar chevron, and an auto-collapse on narrow widths). Both are now disabled — the sidebar stays put at every window size and at every user action.
\nSettled the window-minimum question with the Adobe Bridge / Lightroom convention: shrink down to the most compact working window — sidebar always visible, every surface (Library, editors, settings) still functional — without going so small that columns clip or panels overlap.
\nThe previous build's window minimum was too aggressive — it blocked a valid macOS pattern of shrinking the window to a sidebar-only navigation state. Lowered the minimum to match what Apple's own apps (Mail, Notes, System Settings) use, so the sidebar always renders cleanly and the detail surfaces compress gracefully when narrow.
\nUntil now, dragging the window smaller than ~900 pixels wide silently squeezed the Library's three columns into each other and clipped the Video and Screenshot editors. The window minimum is now sized to fit the widest layout, so every surface stays usable at every resizable size — just like Settings has always been.
\nClicking Split at Playhead used to drop a 1-pixel marker on the timeline with no inspector feedback — you'd click, see nothing, and assume it was broken. Now the new cut is wide enough to see, the Cut inspector shows \"N cuts · X removed\", every split / resize / delete confirms with a toast, and there's a Remove-last-cut button so you don't have to hunt for the timeline trash icon.
\nTwo editor inspectors that looked like they did nothing now behave like real Mac inspectors. Audio Polish presets and Silence Removal thresholds update preview audio the instant you change them, persist into the project automatically, and tell you exactly what happened when you commit. Settings → Recording also drops a confusing \"Region · 1284 × 712\" line that read like a saved setting but was really just whatever was selected at the moment.
\nDropping the second image into Before & After used to throw you straight into the editor with no chance to swap a pick. Now you stay in the picker until you click \"Open in Editor\". Settings panels also got their full Mac-app width back — no more narrow column on big displays.
\nSettings panels are now a centered column with sensible width — no more shortcut chips floating at the far right of a wide window with nothing connecting them to their label. The Hotkeys page in particular got proper rows with an icon, a one-line description of what each shortcut does, and the chip kept close to the label it belongs to.
\nA bug-bash release. The File → Open PDF menu now actually opens the PDF and adds it to your Library in one step. Importing a file that's already there gets a clear message instead of a silent renamed copy. The custom-color picker in the annotation toolbar no longer overlaps the Black swatch. And the Recent row on Home only shows thumbnails it can show whole.
\nAfter you take a screenshot, the floating overlay now keeps every action inside OwnClip — no surprise hand-offs to other apps. Buttons in the overlay are roughly twice the size too, so they're comfortable to hit with a trackpad or with assistive input.
\nSmart Share now looks and feels the same everywhere you find it — recordings, screenshots, the editor, the Library. It also got promoted to the primary action in the video editor, where it belonged from day one. And anywhere you handle images in OwnClip, you can now drag them in or paste them straight from your clipboard.
\nSmart Detect now traces the actual outline of whatever it's selecting — a person, a sign, an object — instead of a rectangle wrapped around it. Pair that with the new Erase picker in Settings: three engines, each tuned for a different scene, all running on your Mac.
\nA new Stabilize tool in the video editor turns handheld and bumpy footage into clips that look like they came off a tripod. Non-destructive, so you can toggle it on, off, or fine-tune any time without re-rendering the original.
\nFirst-time transcribe used to look frozen for several minutes while OwnClip downloaded its one-time on-device speech model. The progress bar now moves continuously, the status line shows MB downloaded, and Cancel actually cancels.
\nThe Google Drive indicator on the Account screen was inflating your plan by about 10%. The number now matches what you see on Google's own page and on your invoice.
\nFour fixes to the public share page your viewers see. Studio shares now stay completely your brand. Downloads finally save on iPhone. The Share button opens the system share sheet on phones. And image shares stop calling themselves videos while they load.
\nPlay or open a file from the Library and it now opens inside OwnClip — same window, same keyboard shortcuts, one keystroke to jump into the editor or move to the next file. Your flow never breaks.
\nA round of polish on the Library — the file inspector now looks identical no matter what you click, switching files no longer flashes the old thumbnail, and big libraries with hundreds of items open instantly.
\nRebuilt the file-details panel from the ground up so its title, rating, tags, notes, and actions all render correctly on every resolution — including 5K and 6K screens that previously showed blank cards.
\nQuiet patch for users on 5K and 6K screens — the file-details panel was rendering most of its content invisibly. The cards now show through reliably on every resolution.
\nThree big ones land together. Transcripts on hour-long recordings now make it all the way to the end — no more half-blank subtitles. The Zoom tool auto-generates cinematic push-ins from your speaker's face. And the floating controls panel finally stays put across spaces and full-screen apps.
\nA heavy polish round driven by your feedback. The screenshot editor is now nearly fully unlocked on Free. Region recording finally records exactly the rectangle you draw. Select Subject feels effortless. And every paywall moment explains itself before sending you anywhere.
\nA round of polish on the screenshot editor — driven by your feedback. New history panel, smarter layer behavior, layers that survive a crop, and a much smoother Compare drop zone.
\nThree big threads land together. The editor preview now plays exactly what export will produce, edits and all. A new Quick Access overlay drops every screenshot into a floating panel for one-tap drag-out. And the floating bar, dock icon, and splash got the full Liquid Glass redesign.
\nTen fixes from a top-to-bottom audit of the video editor. AI passes are individually cancellable. Audio-polish EQ and noise reduction render live in the preview as you drag. Object tracking won't run out of memory on long videos. And exports bail with a clear error if your disk is full, before you waste 30 minutes.
\nHotfix for the Before & After export sheet. The preview rendered black on some setups, and the Generated Code panel showed unreadable single-line blobs. Both now show what you'd expect — the actual rendered preview and human-readable code.
\nA quiet maintenance release. Closed the open loops from the 1.2.x sprint: confirmed pins persist correctly across every flow, and re-verified Compare exports across all formats. Nothing changes in the UI — this one is about confidence.
\nPick a comparison, hit Share to Web, and OwnClip uploads the assets to your own Google Drive. You get a copy-paste embed snippet that works anywhere — every URL already points at your Drive, no extra setup. The files stay yours.
\nTwo fixes to the Before & After exporter. The live preview in the export sheet now renders properly instead of going black, and animated/interactive exports now produce a clean folder of separate files instead of one giant blob — ready to drop on a server or paste into a CMS.
\nA build-numbering mistake in 1.2.5 silently disabled auto-update for users on earlier 1.2.x versions — the app couldn't tell that newer releases were actually newer. 1.2.7 fixes the numbering so the next update check delivers every recent release.
\nDrop your screenshot into a device frame — iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or wall-mounted LED TV — for app-store shots, marketing decks, and 'here's how it looks on a real device' moments. The Beautify panel itself is now resizable, and the Quick Access overlay is cleaner across the board.
\nThe post-capture overlay is now fully drivable from the keyboard. Every tile gets the same hover actions. The auto-dismiss countdown is visible. Plus: macOS 15 Sequoia is now the minimum supported version.
\nThe Compare drop zone now tells you what to do next. Tapping a Library thumbnail fills the next empty slot. The file picker accepts two images at once. And when you've picked one, the empty slot now invites you to fill it instead of looking decorative.
\nThree new picks for Beautify. Smart Palette generates a background that matches your screenshot's colors. Studio users get a 'Match your brand' card built from their brand colors. And a hold-to-compare button above the canvas lets you A/B the styled and raw view in a single press.
\nOpen Beautify and three AI-curated picks land in your lap before you touch a single slider. Click one — done. Every previous capability is still here, just one tap away when you actually want to fiddle.
\nTwo regressions fixed same-day. The Compare preview wasn't animating — scrubber and Play did nothing. The floating recording controls flashed when you hovered their buttons. Both gone.
\nThe toggle that decides whether OwnClip's own UI appears in screenshots and recordings is now one global setting in Settings → General — covering every form of capture in one place.
\nReplaced the two-card UI from 1.1.4 with a single toggle that sits alongside Microphone, System audio, and Camera overlay in Capture Sources. One look, one decision.
\nNew choice in Recording settings: Hide OwnClip (recordings show only your work) or Capture everything (perfect for tutorials and product demos). Takes effect live, no restart.
\nTwo small annoyances fixed. The floating recording controls no longer get covered by other apps' floating windows. And the 'Recent from Library' strip in Compare populates the moment you open it instead of waiting for the next screenshot.
\nThe empty state of the Compare tool now shows a strip of recent images from your Library — tap one to fill the next empty slot. Drag-drop and the file picker still work the same way.
\nBefore & After now has a dedicated sidebar entry under Creative, right next to Brand Studio. The ⌘⇧K shortcut still works if you prefer it.
\nDrop two screenshots into the new Compare window, pick a transition, and OwnClip composes them on a Beautify background — then exports as MP4, GIF, animated SVG, or a self-contained interactive HTML embed. Studio tier.
\nThe WhatsApp brand icon in the Smart Share sheet was rendering as a distorted shape on some Macs. Every share icon — WhatsApp, Telegram, X, LinkedIn — now matches its official brand mark, pixel-correct at every size.
\nSwitching microphones or toggling Voice Isolation in rapid succession used to leave the audio engine stuck — your last click silently dropped. Every change now executes in order, no matter how fast you mash them.
\nTurning Voice Isolation off used to leave the EQ visualizer empty for some microphone setups. The EQ + spectrum now keep working through every toggle, no matter which mic you've selected.
\nThe EQ visualizer went silent for some setups after 1.0.38. This release simplifies the audio path so it stays alive in every Voice Isolation state.
\nVoice Isolation engages correctly on every microphone — USB mics, AirPods, audio interfaces. The earlier fix wasn't quite right; this one is.
\nThe Camera tab settings now actually do what they look like they do, and we added a server-controlled announcements channel so we can reach you between releases.
\nOwnClip is shipping fast and openly. Expect new features every week — and the occasional rough edge while we get there.
\nContinued polish on the Smart Share redesign and library experience. The next time you launch OwnClip, it updates itself in the background.
\nA full redesign of the share sheet: Liquid Glass surfaces, recipient-eye preview, and Google Contacts autocomplete (Pro/Studio).
\nSkip the daily meeting. Record a 60-second walkthrough of what you shipped, drop the link in Slack, and your team watches when they want.
\n\"Works on my machine\" dies when the bug report is a 30-second clip with annotations and a transcribed steps-to-reproduce.
\nRecord, chapter, transcribe, and ship a polished course video without leaving OwnClip — and without uploading raw footage to anyone's cloud.
\nBackground blur or a virtual scene, Smart Framing, Auto-Light, and AI noise removal — recorded once, sent to twenty prospects.
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