What's new in PluckShot.

New

• Automatic update checks. PluckShot now checks for new versions on launch and every four hours after that — so you don't have to remember to look. Nothing downloads until you say so.
• Version at a glance. The current version sits at the bottom of the sidebar. When an update is available, the row lights up with a Download button right there.
• Menu bar update item. The PluckShot menu bar menu shows "Download Update v…" whenever a new version is ready, so you can grab it without opening the app.

Improved

• One shared update state. Settings, the sidebar, and the menu bar all read from the same source — find an update in one place, and every surface flips together. Download progress shows up everywhere too.

New

• Copy from the screenshot preview. The floating thumbnail now has a Copy button alongside Save — one click puts the image straight on your clipboard so you can paste into Slack, Mail, Finder, Figma, or anywhere else that accepts an image.
• Default Capture Mode dropdown. Choose which mode (Extract, Explain, Debug, Summarize, Guided, Screenshot, or Scroll) fires when you press the generic capture hotkey. Set it once in Preferences and it's remembered.
• Quick Access surfaces in Preferences. The Floating Toolbar, Vertical Toolbar, and Floating Bubble each get their own toggle in Preferences. Only one can be active at a time — turning one on hides the other two.

Improved

• Floating Pill click-area matches the visible toolbar. The Pill now resizes to fit its contents exactly, so windows sitting next to it stay fully clickable — including app close buttons that used to land just under the Pill's edge.

Improved

• Stay in your tool. Draw multiple shapes back-to-back without bouncing to the select tool. Click empty canvas to draw another rectangle, ellipse, arrow, line, highlight, blur, or pencil stroke. Click an existing shape to drag or resize it. Hit Delete or Backspace to remove a selected shape from any tool.
• Smoother freehand strokes. The pencil tool was rebuilt to render with quadratic-curve smoothing and behaves like every other shape — including drag, resize, and click-to-select.
• Dashboard quick action stays in sync. The "Session Active" card on the home screen now shows up only while a session is actually running.

Fixed

• "Open in Sheets" no longer disappears on table captures. When a capture had a calendar event plus the CSV trio (Copy CSV, Save .csv, Open in Sheets), the Sheets chip was being dropped from the popup. All detected smart actions now stay visible.

Improved

• Smart action chips wrap onto a second row when needed. Rich captures with multiple actions no longer clip at the popup edge — chips flow naturally to a new line so every action is one click away.

Improved

• Session indicator in the menu bar. A small blue dot appears next to the PluckShot icon in your menu bar whenever a session is running — so you can tell at a glance, even with the main window closed.
• Session indicator in the sidebar. The Session nav item now shows a blue dot while a session is live, visible from every screen in the app.
• Session indicator in the capture popup. The pulsing dot in the popup header now lights up only when a capture is being filed into an active session, confirming at the moment of capture that the session is recording.
• Dashboard quick action adapts. The "Start Session" card on the Dashboard becomes a "Session Active · Click to end" card while a session is live, so you can end the session in one click from the home screen.

Improved

• Claude (Subscription) provider runs reliably on every install. Pick it in Providers and PluckShot automatically finds your local Claude CLI — no paths to configure, no setup steps.

Improved

• Session notes keep your line breaks. The "Add a note" field is now a multi-line editor, so pasting a bulleted list or structured notes keeps every line exactly as you wrote it. Press Enter to save, Shift+Enter for a new line.
• Editing preserves formatting too. Clicking into an existing note and editing across multiple lines no longer flattens it into a single paragraph on save.

Improved

• Unified card styling across the app. Cards and list rows in History, Favorites, Session, and Settings now share the same lighter, borderless look — so browsing, reviewing, and configuring all feel like parts of the same app.
• Lighter row backgrounds in dark mode. A slightly brighter fill makes each row read as its own surface without relying on outlines, so long lists feel calmer and less boxy.
• Tuned light mode. Matching fills and subtle borders keep the new look crisp on light backgrounds too.

New

• Add captures from History to a session. Forgot to start a session before taking a bunch of related screenshots? Click Select captures in History, pick the ones you want, and add them to a new or existing session in one step. Works with both active and ended sessions — ended-session markdown exports regenerate automatically.
• Single-capture add too. Any capture's kebab menu now includes Add to session… so you can file a one-off into a session without entering multi-select.

Fixed

• Annotations land exactly where you click. On wider screens, drawing a shape while zoomed out would appear offset from the cursor. Shapes now follow the pointer precisely at any zoom level.
• The full screenshot is always reachable. Large captures no longer clip at the left edge — you can now scroll to every part of the image, and smaller captures stay neatly centered in the editor.

Improved

• Drawing tools stay selected. After placing a rectangle, ellipse, arrow, line, highlight, blur, or text, your tool stays active so you can keep adding more without clicking back to it every time.

Improved

• Get straight to Settings when you need a provider. If you trigger an AI capture without a provider configured, PluckShot now shows a clean in-app prompt with a single click that takes you directly to the Providers section in Settings.
• Hotkeys stay responsive while the prompt is open. You can still take a plain screenshot or use other shortcuts while the prompt is showing — the window no longer holds up the rest of the app.

Improved

• Granting Screen & System Audio Recording is now seamless. When macOS prompts to relaunch PluckShot after you grant permission, the app now restarts cleanly and comes back ready to capture — no more stuck tray icon or needing to quit manually.
• Auto-update install is more reliable. When PluckShot installs an update, the app now exits cleanly so the new version takes over on the next launch — particularly noticeable on Windows.
• Restart button is double-click safe. Tapping Restart PluckShot twice quickly no longer spawns duplicate processes.

New

• Download the original image from any saved capture. History, Favorites, and Session detail now include a Download image action in the capture menu, so you can save the source screenshot or scrolling capture as a PNG without recapturing it.

Improved

• Less clutter in History. The floating plus button has been removed from the History page so the screen stays focused on reviewing, searching, and organizing captures.

New

• Dedicated Permissions section in Settings. See the status of both macOS permissions PluckShot needs — Accessibility (so capture shortcuts work everywhere, including when an app has a menu open) and Screen & System Audio Recording (so PluckShot can capture your screen) — at a glance, with one-click links straight to the right System Settings panel.
• Live status updates. Grant a permission in System Settings and PluckShot reflects it immediately — the status pill flips to Granted without restarting the app.
• Auto-jump when something needs attention. Open the main window and PluckShot lands you on the Permissions section if anything's missing, so you never have to hunt for what to do next.

Improved

• Friendlier permission flow on first launch. When PluckShot needs a permission, it explains why up front and walks you straight to the right toggle — no surprise system dialogs hiding behind your other windows.
• One-click restart when Accessibility just got granted. A clear Restart PluckShot button appears the moment your shortcuts are ready to come online — no need to quit from the tray and relaunch yourself.

New

• Analyze button on the screenshot preview. Take a screenshot in Screenshot mode or a long scrolling capture, hover the preview, and you'll see a new Analyze button under Save. One click sends the image through your active AI provider and drops the extracted text in the capture popup like any other capture — no need to recapture in a different mode.
• Scrolling screenshots now flow to AI in one click. Capture a long recipe, a tall spreadsheet, or a full documentation page with Scroll mode, then hit Analyze to pull the text out of the whole stitched result in one shot. Works with annotated screenshots too — your markup rides along into the AI.

New

• Shortcuts work while menus and dropdowns are open. Press your capture shortcut any time — while a menu-bar popover is showing, a right-click menu is open, an autocomplete dropdown is visible, or any native menu is on screen — and PluckShot captures exactly what you see, menu and all. You no longer have to close the thing you want to screenshot before screenshotting it.
• One-time permission prompt on first launch. macOS will ask for Accessibility access so shortcuts can fire through menus. PluckShot only reacts to the specific shortcuts you configure — it never records or transmits your keystrokes. If the prompt doesn't appear, Settings will show a banner with a direct link to grant access.

New

• Day grouping in History and Favorites. Captures now sit under day headers — Today, Yesterday, weekday names for the past week, then dates after that. Each header shows the count for the day so you can see at a glance how busy a stretch was.

Improved

• Type and tags share a single line. The capture type badge and tag chips now flow together right under the title, instead of stacking into a separate row. Less visual noise on every card.
• Timestamp moved to the right edge. The relative time sits next to the three-dot menu now, so the title and tags lead and the time stays out of the way until you look for it.
• Roomier spacing. Tighter rhythm between the title, chips, and day headers makes long lists easier to scan.

New

• One click, every date. When a screenshot contains multiple dates — a meeting notes page, a project brief, a syllabus — the "Add to Calendar" chip now shows how many events were detected and opens a picker so you can add them all at once. Checkboxes for individual events, plus an Add All shortcut.
• Smarter date detection. The AI now picks up deadlines and "by [day]" action items as calendar events, not just explicit meeting times. A line like "Sarah: Finalize the landing page copy by Wednesday" gets its own chip right alongside "Next meeting: April 1 at 2:00 PM."
• Roomier popup. The capture popup is a bit wider and taller so long extractions breathe and the smart action chips have more room to line up.

New

• Export captures and sessions as plain text. A new Export as Text option joins PDF, Word, and HTML in the card menu on History, Favorites, and Session detail, and in the Export ▾ dropdown on the session page. Output is clean, markdown-free text — ready to paste anywhere a code fence or bolded heading would get in the way.

New

• Open in Sheets. Any capture with tabular data now has an "Open in Sheets" smart action chip. One click uploads the CSV to your Google Drive as a native Google Sheet and opens it in your browser. Uses Drive's non-sensitive drive.file scope — PluckShot can only see files it creates.
• Settings → Integrations. New section in Settings for managing Google Calendar and Google Sheets connections side-by-side. Shows "Connected" with a green indicator dot or "Not connected," plus a single-click Connect/Disconnect button for each.
• Smart action chips on expanded cards. Previously only the capture popup showed action chips. Now History, Favorites, and Session detail cards all surface the full smart action chip set when expanded — Call, Email, Open Link, Open in Maps, Add to Calendar, Copy Code, Open in Sheets, and more.

Fixed

• Add to Calendar now actually opens the event. After creating a calendar event, PluckShot now opens the event in your browser automatically — matching the Open-in-Sheets pattern.
• Calendar "unverified app" warning removed. Switched Calendar to the non-sensitive calendar.app.created scope so OAuth consent is a clean single-scope flow. Events go into a dedicated "PluckShot" secondary calendar that shows up in your Google Calendar sidebar.
• Annotated screenshots no longer lost on drag-and-drop. Dragging an annotated screenshot into another app now preserves the annotations instead of reverting to the original image.

New

• AI-generated tags on every capture. PluckShot now adds 2–3 contextual tags to each capture automatically — a Python error gets python, fastapi, authentication; a recipe screenshot gets recipe, cooking, italian. Tags appear as small pills on every capture card.
• Add your own tags. A + Add tag chip on every capture opens an inline input with autocomplete from your existing tags. Build your own taxonomy as you go. Up to 20 tags per capture.
• Filter by tag in History, Favorites, and Session Detail. Click any tag pill to filter the list to captures with that tag. Click a second tag to narrow further (AND semantics). The active filter chip strip at the top shows what you're filtering by, with a one-click clear all.
• Search and tags work together. Type in the search bar while tag filters are active and the two combine — only captures matching both the text and every active tag are shown.
• Format-aware filtering. The detected content type (CSV, JSON, Python, etc.) is added to the tag list automatically, so you can filter to "show me every CSV I've captured" without typing anything.
• Smart Tagging toggle. A new switch in Preferences lets you turn AI tagging on or off. When off, no new tags are generated, but any existing tags on prior captures are preserved and still filterable.
• Removable per pill. Every tag has an ✕ to drop it from a single capture without affecting the rest of your library.

Improved

• CSV auto-detection in Extract mode. When a screenshot contains tabular data (rows and columns), Extract now returns clean CSV instead of wrapping it in a markdown code fence. No more manually unwrapping quotes.
• Format dictionary. Captures now track the detected format (CSV, JSON, Python, etc.) as a first-class field. The badge on each card reflects this, and the format is surfaced as a filter in History and Favorites.
• AI-declared content type. The model now explicitly declares the content type via a <content_type> tag instead of relying on brittle keyword heuristics. Catches more edge cases (shell output mislabeled as code, CSV mislabeled as text) than the old detector.
• Model tracking per capture. Every capture now records which AI model produced it. Shown on expanded cards alongside processing time.
• Simpler reprocess panel. Reprocess UI consolidated — fewer clicks to re-run a capture in a different mode.

Redesigned

• The session detail timeline now matches the lean-card layout used in History and Favorites. Each capture in the timeline shows its thumbnail, title, badge, action row, and three-dot menu — the same way it looks in your History list. A small left rail labels each capture with its sequence number (#1, #2, #3) and timestamp.

Improved

• The How sessions work helper now also explains that you can type timestamped notes into the input bar at the bottom while a session is running.
• Long session annotation notes now have a max height with internal scrolling, so a wall of text doesn't push the rest of the timeline off the screen.
• The Generate Summary input row no longer pushes the Export button out of alignment when it appears.

Fixed

• Editing a note and then clicking another card's three-dot menu now opens that menu on the first click. Previously it took two clicks because the timeline was rebuilding itself in the background.

Improved

• Click any screenshot preview to instantly reveal its Save, Annotate, and Close buttons — especially helpful after you've dragged a preview into another app.

Improved

• Every session page now has a friendly How sessions work helper at the top that explains the basics in one sentence: while a session is running, any screenshot you take is added to it automatically, and when a session ends, new screenshots stop being added. Click the helper to collapse it once you've got the hang of it — click again anytime you need a refresher.
• The Resume button on ended sessions is now labeled Resume Session so it's obvious what happens when you click it.

Redesigned

• History is now a lean list of your captures. Each row shows a thumbnail, title, type, and time at a glance. Click a row to expand it inline and see the full content, note, and actions — only one row is open at a time, so a long history stays scannable. Yellow icons next to the timestamp tell you which captures have a note or are favorited.
• Favorites uses the same lean-row layout, with a search bar that filters by title or note text. Click the star to remove a capture from favorites — the row leaves the list automatically.
• Sessions list rows are now click-anywhere. The crowded row of action buttons is gone — click a session to open it, where Resume, Export, and Delete have always lived.

Improved

• The main app window opens larger by default, giving every screen more breathing room.

Fixed

• Dragging a screenshot preview into another app now properly clears the preview's hover overlay.

New

• Add a freeform note to any capture from History, Favorites, or the Session timeline — click Add note on the card, type, click out to save.
• Notes follow the capture everywhere: edit in History and it updates in Favorites and any Session that contains it.
• History search now matches note text, not just titles.
• Exports (PDF, Word, HTML, Notes App) include notes when present.

Fixed

• The screenshot preview's hover overlay no longer stays stuck after dragging the image out to Finder or another app.

New

• Click any capture thumbnail in Sessions, History, or Favorites to open it in the annotation editor — mark it up with arrows, text, highlights, or blur, then save back in place.
• Works on AI captures too: open Show capture from the card menu, then click the preview to annotate.
• Favorites now has full parity with History — screenshot thumbnails, context menu, export options, and re-process.

Fixed

• Screenshot-mode captures now display their thumbnail in the session timeline instead of an empty code block.

New

• Full documentation page at pluckshot.io/docs covering every feature.
• The in-app Documentation menu now opens the online docs.

Improved

• The Floating Toolbar logo badge now flips on hover to reveal the mode selector.

A brand new system for mouse-first users who don't want to memorize hotkeys.

New

• Tray Popover — an expanded left-click menu on the tray icon, with a visual mode grid and keyboard navigation.
• Floating Toolbar — an always-on-top horizontal pill with buttons for every capture mode.
• Floating Vertical Toolbar — the same toolbar rotated 90 degrees for sidebar-style placement on wide monitors.
• Floating Bubble — a minimal 52-pixel blue circle you can click to capture instantly in your armed mode.
• All four Quick Access surfaces can be toggled from the tray menu. Only one floating surface is visible at a time.
• Redesigned Dashboard KPI cards with a cleaner stacked layout.

Fixed

• Missing tray icon in some packaged builds.

Improved

• Scroll capture stability and alignment.
• Redesigned screenshot preview.
• Annotation editor polish across the board.

Two major features: a full-featured annotation editor and a scrolling capture mode for content that extends beyond the visible screen.

New

• Annotation Editor — accessible from any screenshot preview, with 10 tools: select, rectangle, ellipse, arrow, line, text, pencil, highlighter, numbered markers, and blur/pixelate for redacting sensitive content.
• Zoom controls and fit-to-window for pixel-perfect annotation work.
• Live color picker and stroke-width slider in the top toolbar.
• Scroll Capture — capture long web pages and documents beyond the visible viewport. PluckShot auto-scrolls through the content and stitches the frames together into one tall image. Powered by the macOS Vision framework.
• Switched all icons to Phosphor Icons for a more consistent look across the app.

Fixed

• Scroll capture overlay alignment and stitching artifacts.

Fixed

• Silent error handling across the app — errors now surface in logs instead of disappearing.
• Windows logging reliability improvements.

New

• Screenshot Mode — plain screen captures with a floating preview and no AI processing, for when you just need a quick screenshot.
• Google Calendar integration — Smart Actions can now create calendar events directly from dates, times, and meetings detected in your captures.

Improved

• Native file drag-and-drop for captured screenshots.
• Dismiss animation for the floating preview.
• Square preview layout.

Improved

• Additional session management features.
• Tray icon redesign for better visibility.

Improved

• Rename sessions inline with a pencil icon indicator — no more context menus.

Fixed

• Increased default window height so dashboard action cards are visible without scrolling.

Improved

• Light theme redesigned with a cool neutral zinc palette.
• New dark logo variant for the light theme.
• Unified blue accent color across both themes.

Improved

• Reduced blue accent color overuse for a calmer interface.
• Wired up keyboard shortcuts throughout the app.

Fixed

• Support menu behavior.

Improved

• Security hardening across error handling, file permissions, and log sanitization.
• XSS protection in capture result rendering.

PluckShot launched with everything you need for AI-powered screen capture.

Capture

• 9 AI providers: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, Claude Code CLI, ChatGPT Codex CLI, and PluckShot AI (Managed).
• 5 capture modes: Extract, Explain, Debug, Summarize, and Guided (custom prompt).
• Per-mode global keyboard shortcuts.
• Persistent capture popup replacing native notifications — always-on-top, reprocessable, with copy / favorite / re-process controls.
• Smart Actions — one-tap chips for phone numbers, emails, URLs, addresses, errors, code, calendar events, and tracking numbers.
• Auto-copy to clipboard on every capture.

Organize

• Unified capture history with search.
• Favorites for starring important captures.
• Sessions with auto-generated AI summaries — group a sequence of related captures into one document.
• Dashboard with a 7-day activity chart and quick stats.

Export

• PDF, DOCX, and HTML export for individual captures and full sessions.
• Notes App export to Obsidian, Logseq, or Bear — writes markdown with YAML frontmatter and copies screenshots into your vault.

Experience

• First-run onboarding wizard.
• Dark and Light themes with system preference support.
• Cross-platform: macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Dynamic dock icon that hides when no windows are open, keeping your dock clean while the menu bar app stays running.
• 14-day Pro trial with Stripe + Supabase auth.
• Auto-updater for seamless version updates.