What shipped, and when.
Every change to the Sowiks Mac app that you would actually notice, newest first. Written by the person who made it, which is why the commentary is not entirely flattering.
Most of these dates are Saturdays and Sundays. That is not a release strategy, it is a weekday job. More about who builds this.
Both of your monitors now count
- The selection overlay appears on every display, not just whichever one the pointer happened to be sitting on.
- Full-screen capture asks which screen you mean, and names them properly instead of guessing from their shape.
- The editor and the corner preview open on the screen where the shot was taken.
A two-monitor desk is not an exotic setup. Sowiks spent a while treating the second one like a rumour.
Seven days, and then it is actually yours
- Everything is unlocked for seven days, starting at your first capture. No card, no account, no email.
- The countdown sits in the menu bar, so you never have to go looking for how long is left.
- You can buy Solo without creating an account at all — the purchase belongs to the Mac until you decide otherwise.
Most trials end with a wall. This one ends with window capture and the entire editor still free, forever. My growth advisor would be furious, if I had one.
Clips get a backdrop, Preferences get a sub-editor
- Clips can be composited onto a background image at export — pick it in the Clip Editor and watch the preview update live.
- The menu bar ticks when an upload lands, so you know the link is ready without going to look.
- Preferences reshuffled: Recording has its own tab, and After Capture collapsed into one plain list of checkboxes.
“Save to disk” is now “Save automatically”, because enough people asked me where the disk was.
Screenshots that are not rectangles
- Hold C while selecting an area to take a circular screenshot.
- Hold Shift to lock the selection to a square.
- A new app icon, and an onboarding demo that plays itself instead of describing what it would look like.
Nobody asked for round screenshots. Everybody who tried them kept using them. I have stopped trying to predict this.
Sowiks Connect: straight into WordPress
- Pair a WordPress site once, then publish a screenshot into it from the editor with one button.
- Connected sites are listed in Preferences, where you can pause one or revoke it outright.
The old route was: save, hunt through Downloads, open the media library, upload, copy the URL, resolve to delete the leftover file, never delete the leftover file.
GIF recording, and somewhere to trim it
- Record straight to GIF — the same flow as video, with its own scale and frame-rate settings.
- The Clip Editor trims the start and the end, and holds the export settings for both video and GIF.
- A 3·2·1 countdown before recording begins.
The countdown exists entirely so the first frame is not your cursor lunging at the Record button. It is, quietly, the thing here I use most.
Smart extend background
- Pad a screenshot out to the shape you need with an edge-aware fill, instead of a stretched smear or a grey bar.
- It runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded to make it work.
The least glamorous thing on this page, and the one that has kept me out of Figma most often.
Draw on the video while it is still recording
- Arrows, shapes and a spotlight, drawn live into the recording rather than added afterwards.
- Blur privacy zones — a live frost over anything on screen you would rather not ship.
- The camera can be mirrored, for anyone unsettled by their own unmirrored face.
The blur zones exist because I once recorded a flawless four-minute demo with my inbox open for three of them.
Screen recording, camera and all
- Drag out a region, resize it before you start, and record it.
- A floating camera bubble you can drag anywhere inside the frame, and a mic meter that genuinely moves.
- Pause and resume mid-take — the segments stitch themselves back together on stop.
- Finished recordings upload on their own and hand you a share link.
“Can you just record a quick video of that” is how this got specified, by four different people, in one week.
One key per tool, and a colour picker
- P, M, A, S, T, C and B switch tools — matched to the physical key, so they still work on a Cyrillic layout.
- A colour picker with a live readout: hover a pixel, press Tab, the hex is on your clipboard.
- After Capture rules — decide once what happens to every screenshot: save it, copy it, open the editor, upload it.
The keyboard-layout fix took longer than the colour picker itself. I write in Ukrainian and kept pressing П expecting the pen.
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Everything unlocked for seven days. No card, no account — and window capture with the full editor stays free after that.
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