Release notes.The features, improvements and fixes published with each NearKit version.

New radial menu and Modifier Drag, with improved window layouts across displays.

• Radial menu: Run everyday actions at the pointer, with groups, number keys, and drag-and-drop customization.
• Modifier Drag: Hold ⌃ and drag to move a window, or hold ⌥ to resize. Both keys are customizable.
• Window layouts: Switch target displays, with more reliable layout, restore, and error feedback. Follow the prompt after updating to replace the layout shortcut.
• Workspace: A three-column layout brings together apps, websites and tabs, and Window Layout.
• Fixes: Fixed the translation panel bringing Settings forward, installer file permissions, and other issues.
• App name: The Chinese app name is now NearKit too.

Requires macOS 15 or later and an Apple Silicon Mac. Enable the radial menu and Modifier Drag in Settings, then grant permissions when prompted.

A major screenshot upgrade: QR code scanning, a corner preview, one-click beautify, pins with opacity and click-through, plus delayed capture and last-region reuse.

• QR code recognition: Decode on device, copy results and open web links.
• Screenshot preview: Drag out, copy, save, pin or restore the original selection to keep editing.
• Screenshot beautification: Style captures with backgrounds, padding, shadows, rounded corners, window frames and presets.
• Improved pins: Adjust opacity and lock pins for click-through, with improved dragging and controls.
• Improved capture: Capture with a delay or reuse the last region. Scrolling captures are automatically copied and previewed.
• Toolbar customization: Show or hide buttons, drag to reorder and customize actions within groups.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac. Screenshots require Screen Recording permission; QR code and text recognition run on device.

An upgraded global search, grid selection for Window Layout, and a refreshed website with animated demos.

• Global search: more within reach: Search NearKit from any of the main panel’s three tabs. Find features, settings, widget styles and existing widgets, plus clipboard full text and existing OCR indexes. Launch features, locate widgets or change common settings directly in the results, with previews, an expanded results list and improved typing and scrolling responsiveness.
• Grid layout: drag out the space you need: The Window Layout menu now offers a Grid mode that adapts to your display. Drag across cells to preview an area, then release to apply. Press Esc to cancel, or use arrow keys to move and extend the selection. Grid layouts respect window spacing, Stage Manager reserved space and layout restoration.
• A refreshed website, with features in motion: A redesigned homepage introduces eight animated demos covering search, Window Layout, shortcuts, widgets, clipboard, screenshots, recording and selection translation. Click a chapter to replay key steps, including the upgraded search and grid layouts, with clearer help navigation and privacy information.
• More reliable screenshots: Fixed window preselection for Shadowrocket, undo behavior when re-editing text and consecutive notifications disappearing early. Capture permission denials are handled correctly, and failed saves of pinned screenshots now show an error.
• Clearer controls and setup: Reduced repeated instructions in shortcuts, recording settings and the focus timer. Window Layout shortcut setup now checks installation after import and offers a clear next step when ready.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac. Window Layout requires the bundled shortcut. Clipboard full-text and OCR search follow your existing privacy and recognition settings.

The website build now uses App Sandbox, with updated permission, browser, and recording workflows and a fix for the app icon on newer macOS versions.

• Sandbox and permission workflows: Window layout uses a system shortcut. Selection translation supports Services and standard copy; automatic paste checks the original window. Relaunch after permission changes uses public system APIs.
• You choose which files to access: Choose and authorize files or folders through the system picker when needed. After upgrading, you may need to select some folders and custom save locations again.
• Keep your familiar setup after upgrading: Your first upgrade migrates your settings, desktop widgets and their content, and key bindings. If you have already tried the new version, it keeps the data saved during that trial.
• Chrome and screen recording: Tab management supports Chrome with window and tab identity checks. Site icons use the app cache and public sources. Window and display recording use the system picker, and recording key display reports monitoring failures.
• A focused feature set: Removed standalone image editing, video trimming, sequence capture, and Finder extension entry points. Screenshots, scrolling capture, pinning, OCR, and translation remain. The mirror is controlled manually, and Settings includes a privacy policy link.
• App icon appearance: Fixed the black background around the app icon on newer macOS versions and included high-resolution icon assets.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac. Window layout requires adding the bundled shortcut.

Fixes adding the Window Layout shortcut.

• Adding the layout shortcut: Fixed the Window Layout shortcut failing to install with a message saying the person who shared it is not in your contacts.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

Fixes for the menu bar icon and shortcuts for a more reliable experience.

• Menu bar freeze: Fixed an issue where right-clicking the menu bar icon could leave the menu unresponsive and stop the main panel from opening or closing.
• Closing the panel from the icon: Fixed clicking near the edge of the menu bar icon reopening the main panel instead of closing it.
• Shortcuts while a menu is open: Fixed modifier-only shortcuts, such as Control on its own, not toggling the main panel while a menu is open.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

An upgraded Window Layout experience, smoother widgets, and a new tour of each release’s highlights.

• Redesigned layout menu: Find common layouts in one place, with previews and quick restoration.
• Title Bar Swipe: Arrange windows quickly with new trackpad swipe gestures.
• Dedicated layout shortcuts: Set individual shortcuts for your favorite layouts.
• Previews and feedback: Improved layout previews and haptic feedback, with more customization options.
• Powered by Shortcuts: Window Layout now works with system Shortcuts, with guided setup for first-time use.
• Easier shortcut setup: Simpler shortcut setup with fewer permission requests.
• Better widgets: Resize widgets by dragging, with improved layouts and smoother gallery navigation.
• Fixes: Fixed issues with consecutive recordings, screenshot selection, focus, and cursors.
• What’s new tour: Explore release highlights in an animated tour, available to replay from the main panel.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

A redesigned Clipboard History panel that helps you find things faster and paste them right back.

• Redesigned Clipboard History: Dock the panel to any edge of the screen with smooth open and close animations. Click to copy, press Space to preview, and use the arrow keys to browse. Cards show the content type, source app, character count, and image format and size.
• Search: Full-text and multi-word search with highlighted matches. Find items by source app name, including Chinese pinyin and initials, and search text inside images.
• Auto Paste: Pastes copied items back where you were typing. When it can't, it tells you why, such as a password field or missing permission. You can turn it off in Settings.
• Favorites and groups: Drag cards onto the Favorites or group tabs to organize them, or favorite them from the context menu. Edit text and recognize text in images.
• Multiple files: Files copied together are kept as one item; pasting, dragging out, and previewing include all of them.
• Size limits: Choose a 5, 10, 20, or 50 MB limit for text and images. Files and videos are no longer limited by size, and Settings shows storage usage.
• Screenshot Auto Paste: A new option pastes screenshots automatically after you copy them. Off by default.
• Widgets: Clipboard adds Recent and Favorites with group filtering, plus per-widget content type, privacy blur, and click-to-paste options; Translate adds favorite languages, history, and favorites; Calculator can copy results and continue from history; File Organizer supports Quick Look.
• Performance and fixes: Smaller downloads and faster updates; smoother Sticky Notes typing, desktop widgets, and screenshots. Fixed a crash when closing clipboard previews, incorrect content in window screenshots, delayed screenshot shortcuts while dragging cards, and other issues.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

• Added shortcuts to temporarily bring widgets to the front. Press again to restore the desktop layout.
• Improved Sticky Notes formatting. The Aa panel stays above other windows; fixed unexpected highlight changes and dragging issues after scrolling long notes.
• Unified rounded panels for widgets, screenshots, and recording; fixed widget colors changing when focus moves away.
• Fixed screenshot selections expanding unexpectedly beyond screen edges, incorrect content in some window captures, and transparent Stage Manager captures.
• Added a Settings shortcut to the recording toolbar and improved keyboard navigation for microphone selection.
• Added a consent button to the Clipboard History widget and improved browsing, copying, and data recovery.
• Fixed video seeking and replay issues; improved loading in File Organizer and Photo Frames.
• Fixed the Settings window opening at an unexpectedly small size.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

New widgets and a dedicated Settings window, with improvements to everyday tracking and screenshot annotation.

• New widgets: Paper journal, Cartoon doodle, Leather notebook, Light Launcher, Flat Calculator, Mirror, and Hydration.
• Sticky Notes and Daily Habit: Added an Aa formatting panel and improved scrolling and pasting. Daily Habit offers single-habit calendars, a weekly view, and today's checklist.
• Photo frames and tools: Photo frames support the photo library, image links, and playback controls. Calculators offer more sizes and calculation history, Progress supports custom periods, and Art Clocks can show the date.
• Sizes and configuration: More sizes and resizing animations, side-by-side translation, action multi-selection, and drag-and-drop list ordering.
• Dedicated Settings window: System-style settings with search and back/forward navigation. Fixed main-panel hotkeys and menu bar toggling.
• Screenshot and image annotation: Expanded to five line styles and four pen brushes: Round pen, Fountain pen, Brush pen, and Highlighter. Lines can be rotated.
• Screenshots and recording: Select a full-screen screenshot from an empty desktop area. Fixed Escape cancellation, overlapping toolbars, and stuck pinned-image highlights; unified recording device selection.
• Record fixes: Fixed failed saves reporting success, disappearing reminder content, and incorrect calendar displays. Language changes preserve custom names.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

More widget styles and consistent configuration make your desktop more personal and easier to use.

• New widgets: Added Wooden Photo Frame, Physical Calculator, Ceramic Progress, and eight Art Clock styles.
• Art Clock settings: Choose 12- or 24-hour time, color presets, custom colors, and a background option. Changes are saved immediately.
• Consistent widget settings: Added a hover settings shortcut, always-on-top controls, resizing, and removal, with unified forms, pickers, and popover layouts.
• Sticky Note upgrade: Adopted a unified design and improved titles, creation, editing, and native color selection.
• Gallery and dragging improvements: Reduced preview overhead, refined category layouts, size proportions, and File Organizer previews, and improved desktop dragging.
• Interaction fixes: Improved main panel transitions and focus handling. Fixed leftover transparent click layers blocking desktop interaction and transparent windows appearing as screenshot targets.
• Window layout fixes: Fixed half-screen positioning and window restoration issues.
• Compatibility and cleanup: Updated build and menu compatibility for macOS 27 and Xcode 27, removed Ceramic Calculator while migrating existing instances, and simplified interface text.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

Added Photo Frame and Daily Habit widgets to make photo displays and everyday tracking easier. The Calendar widget now supports medium and small sizes for more flexible desktop layouts.

Refreshed icons throughout the app for a clearer and more consistent interface.

Redesigned the widget tab showcases in the main panel with clearer categories, size previews, and browsing.

Also fixed a batch of bugs, improved performance, and consolidated shared components across the app.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

A clearer, more cohesive look with refreshed interface materials.

• Liquid Glass upgrade: Unified glass materials across the main panel, popovers and controls, with refined light and dark tones and interaction feedback.
• Customizable widgets: Added Liquid Glass mode while preserving colorful headers, with light and dark themes and separate tint strength settings.
• Interaction refinements: Improved widget popover positioning, button hit areas and hover feedback, and keyboard selection in search results.
• Refreshed website: Updated product screenshots and feature showcases.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release improves local auto-redaction, screenshot annotations and screen recording, with more stable canvas and annotation previews.

• Added a persistent local auto-redaction setting. Detected items are presented for review by default, and covers are applied only to selected candidates.
• Added dashed strokes, classic double-headed arrows and curved annotations, with improved toolbar interactions and annotation previews.
• Added a draggable and resizable keystroke display for screen recordings, and improved the camera permission and recording-control flow.
• Added a Restore action to quick window layouts, which can return a window to its recorded position and size.
• Added a dedicated OCR and translation results window for presenting extracted text and translations.
• Improved multi-image canvas dragging and annotation preview performance. Fixed mosaic sampling, annotation interaction latency, highlight trails, magnifier black flashes, cursor hints, annotation jitter and ghosting.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release adds multi-image canvases and continuous capture, with improvements to image editing and screenshot annotations.

• Added image and canvas modes with multi-image import, free arrangement, transparent backgrounds, rotation and perspective adjustments, and image or canvas export.
• Added continuous capture and multi-image editing. Scrolling screenshots now support removing captured segments with improved merge previews.
• Added center rotation for annotations, automatic step numbering and remembered tool settings. Improved annotation stacking, mosaic sampling, cropping and zoom interactions.
• Added AirDrop sharing for screenshots, with improved cancellation recovery and main-panel state protection.
• Simplified screenshot toolbars and improved icon hints, popover visibility and layouts on lower-resolution screens.

• Fixed invisible note widget text and flickering when switching appearance.
• Refreshed the website with bilingual product captures and on-demand full-size previews.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release adds a standalone image editor and camera overlays for screen recording, expands screenshot annotations, and refreshes shortcut icons and binding pickers.

• Added a standalone image editor with importing, cropping, annotations and export, plus a histogram, auto levels, white balance, highlights and shadows.
• Added emoji stickers and ordering, pattern mosaics, shape grouping, polylines and tapered arrows to screenshot and image annotations. Improved text input, colors, line width, and watermark spacing and rotation.
• Added rounded screenshot output, improved scrolling previews, pinned images and toolbars, and made it possible to pass a screenshot selection to the recording controls.
• Added camera overlays to screen recordings, with shape, mirroring, zoom, size and position controls, composited into the saved video.
• Refreshed special-action icons with flat rounded vectors and matching light/dark silhouettes. Application pickers now use four columns and special-action pickers use three; application cards no longer show bundle identifiers.
• Added repeated application-shortcut behavior settings: no action, minimize, or close the window.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release adds a Frequent Actions desktop widget and four time-progress rings, with improvements to desktop widgets, screenshots, and translation.

• Added a Frequent Actions desktop widget for arranging and running common actions directly from the desktop.
• Added year, month, week, and day rings to the Progress widget, with layouts adapted to each widget size.
• Improved widget appearance switching and wallpaper materials, with an optional experimental system-widget effect that is off by default.
• Improved widget dragging, snapping previews, and Show Desktop behavior, and fixed overlapping translation headers and unresponsive drag areas.
• Fixed starting screenshot selections at the top screen edge while keeping horizontal cursor movement smooth. The pointer magnifier now keeps its sample centered near screen edges.
• Made screenshot selection handles smaller and aligned them with borders and rounded corners, with improvements to small-shape previews and exports.
• Improved the placement and dragging of selected-text translation panels, and fixed cramped shortcut labels and truncated settings descriptions.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release expands screenshot annotation and clipboard widgets while improving panel performance and app stability.

• Added a Clipboard History desktop widget, with improved image and file thumbnails, history processing performance, and interaction feedback.
• Improved screenshot text, label, and magnifier annotations with multiline editing, independent zoom controls, and consistent preview and export rendering.
• Improved main panel presentation and clipboard processing, and now resets video editing sessions when the window closes.
• Fixed headless Chrome interfering with browser tab discovery and stale app instances causing duplicate menu bar items.
• The website and in-app update notes now synchronize bilingual version history, release dates, and build information.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release adds screenshot text recognition and Scrolling Capture, and updates the product presentation on the website.

• Added text recognition to the screenshot tool, allowing text in a capture to be extracted or translated directly.
• Added Scrolling Capture to continuously capture and automatically stitch scrollable content.
• Fixed incorrect Scrolling Capture stitching, black seam lines, and interaction issues with pinned screenshot windows.
• Reworked the website's product presentation and resource navigation, and added real product screenshots.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release completes Quick Cut's default settings and direct Settings entry, and standardizes related Chinese terminology.

• Added a Quick Cut settings category for default canvas, output format, post-export actions, and timeline zoom memory.
• Added default export location, quality, resolution, and frame-rate settings while continuing to ask the user to confirm the filename and final destination when saving.
• Added a Settings button to the Quick Cut window that opens the corresponding settings category directly.
• Standardized the Chinese interface, shortcut actions, and release notes on the “视频快剪” name.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release adds screen recording and lightweight Quick Cut video editing, and improves high-frequency interactions and runtime performance.

• Added screen, window, and region recording with a notch control bar, mouse-click effects, system audio and microphone controls, a countdown, and configurable actions after recording.
• Added lightweight Quick Cut editing with multi-clip import, splitting, trimming, reordering, deletion, undo, and redo, plus Fit, Crop, and Letterbox export modes.
• Added a Finder “NearKit Quick Edit” entry that imports selected videos into the editor or opens an empty editing window from a folder background.
• Unified Quick Cut menu and keyboard-shortcut routing, and refined the timeline, filmstrip previews, trim handles, and selected playback state.
• Streamlined frequently used call paths, icon caching, and release-package contents to reduce overhead in search, widget refreshes, and app packaging.

System requirements: macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release focuses on clipboard history, shortcut toggles, and frequently used Workspace actions.

• Added favorites and favorite filtering to clipboard history. Favorite items are exempt from normal retention and item-count limits, with a dedicated clearing action.
• Refined text, image, file, and video cards with interactive previews, source details, and metadata. Large items now use disk-backed payloads, file references, and bounded caches to reduce long-term memory use.
• Consolidated clipboard record types, excluded apps, storage limits, and cleanup actions in the main Settings window, with changes applied immediately.
• The main panel, clipboard history, Translate Selected Text, window layouts, and Show Desktop can now be closed or restored by pressing the same shortcut again. For rapid repeated input, the final action wins.
• Added two-column cards, four-column icons, and Finder-style list views for running apps in Workspace, plus confirmation-based quitting of the exact matched app instance.

System requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release adds native translation and a Gregorian and lunar Calendar widget, and unifies language and theme behavior across the app and desktop widgets.

• Added native translation and a 4×4 translation widget with automatic source-language detection, language-direction switching, and prompts to download required system translation resources.
• Added a 4×4 Gregorian and lunar Calendar widget with adjacent-month navigation, year-based month selection, and one-click return to the current month.
• Added independent Light, Dark, and System theme settings for desktop widgets, with consistent surface and text colors across widget types.
• Expanded Chinese and English localization and language switching so the menu bar, desktop widgets, screenshot tools, and translation windows remain consistent.
• Enlarged the main panel's Settings button hit area so the entire rounded outline opens Settings.

System requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release improves feedback for update checks and the settings panel, and keeps important system windows visible.

• Added a clear loading state for manual update checks and disabled repeated actions while a check is in progress.
• Fixed an issue where new-version prompts and update status windows could appear behind the NearKit main panel or settings panel.
• Fixed an issue where the system save panel for exporting diagnostics could appear behind the main panel.
• Fixed lingering hover and add-button states on underlying widgets after opening Settings or the shortcut guide.

System requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release improves local data management and standardizes widget removal behavior.

• “Remove This Widget” continues to mean permanent deletion. Removed the unreachable “Hidden” entry and its recovery logic while preserving compatibility with previously saved data.
• Improved local persistence and version migration for clipboard history, reducing the chance that legacy or malformed records interfere with later loading.

System requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

This release improves permission recovery and Workspace stability, and refines File Organizer previews, widget animations, and performance for frequently used actions.

• Improved Input Monitoring and Accessibility authorization flows for the main panel and window-layout shortcuts, with accurate status and next steps for permission requests, denial, recovery, and required restarts.
• Optimized concurrent Workspace refreshes and app-cache access to reduce redundant work. Browser tabs now show their titles and URLs first, then load favicons in the background.
• Updated the File Organizer gallery preview to use the actual new-widget appearance and size instead of sample files. The empty state now clearly asks users to drag in files or folders.
• Added consistent, fluid enter and exit animations for clearing search, shortcut states, settings sheets, and widget-category switching, while respecting the macOS Reduce Motion setting.
• Improved global search and Date Counter calculations. In fixed benchmarks, execution time decreased by approximately 29% and 50%, respectively, without changing search results or displayed dates.

System requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.

NearKit's first public preview release.

• Use Workspace, Shortcuts, and desktop widgets in one native panel.
• View running apps, windows, and authorized browser tabs together in Workspace.
• Use screenshots, window layouts, clipboard history, and multiple desktop widgets.

System requirements: macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon Mac.