The version number jumps from 1.0.6 to 1.7 — same app, nothing to do on your side.
Permissions that stay granted
- Fixed: after updating from 1.0.3 or earlier, System Settings showed Aperture's switches on while Aperture said "not granted" and macOS never asked again. Aperture now detects a grant that no longer matches its signature, clears it once, and asks fresh — with a note explaining why.
- Fixed: after a reboot (and periodically) macOS wants Screen Recording re-confirmed. Aperture used to show its own "not granted" screen; it now lets macOS ask ("Continue to Allow"), and the capture you asked for happens right after — no relaunch, no hunting in System Settings.
- New Permissions window: every permission on one card with live status and one button each. Grant… opens the exact System Settings pane and parks a small guide beside it holding the draggable Aperture icon: turn on the switch, or drag the icon into the list if Aperture isn't there. The guide turns green when the grant lands.
- Repair… in the Permissions window clears stale entries and asks again, for the "Settings says on, Aperture says no" case.
Grab the original image or video, from any page
- In screenshot mode, right-click an image on any web page: the popup gets the image file itself (full resolution), ready to annotate, copy or save. Animated GIFs stay GIFs. Needs only the Accessibility permission — no browser automation, no scripts.
- Right-click a video on X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitch and more: the popup appears at once with the video's title and poster and a progress bar showing size and speed, then becomes a regular recording card — copy, save, trim, GIF, file into a folder. The original file, not screen pixels. If a page has no downloadable video, you get the screenshot as before.
- You see what will be grabbed before you click: the image or video under the pointer gets an outline and a label ("Video · right-click to download").
- In a feed or a sidebar of suggestions, right-clicking a video downloads that video — not the one playing on the page.
- Keep just a part: downloaded videos show a filmstrip in the popup. Drag the two handles, press Cut, and the popup becomes that range. The full download stays in History.
- The downloader keeps itself up to date, so videos keep downloading after sites change; a download that fails on an out-of-date copy retries automatically against a fresh one.
Popup
- New option — Settings → Quick Access → "New screenshots appear: At the pointer, then dock": the popup appears under your pointer with its controls already up, so ⌘C, ⌘S, 1–9 and typing work without moving the mouse. It glides to the corner once the pointer leaves it (delay adjustable).
- Type over a popup: letters search your folders, ↑↓ pick, ⏎ files the capture there. Or switch "Typing over a popup" to naming: type a name, ⏎ saves under it, ⇧⏎ keeps the name and lets you pick the folder.
- Folder menu: type to filter, ⏎ files into the highlighted folder, and when nothing matches the last row creates that folder and files into it. It opens centred on the folder icon, and "Show at most" keeps long lists short.
- Two new shortcuts: Focus Popup (⌃⇧Space) puts the keyboard on the newest popup where it sits; Summon Popup (⌃⇧P) brings the whole stack beside the pointer. ⌘A acts on all popups at once.
- Pick the format per screenshot: press ⇥ over a popup, or right-click it, and choose PNG, JPEG or HEIC for that capture only. Settings → Screenshots → Format stays the default.
- Closing a fresh popup you haven't used moves the capture to History's Trash instead of keeping it around. Recoverable from menu bar → Trash….
- The popup's controls invert on hover (dark with white glyphs) — readable over any screenshot, dark ones included — and the popup's edges are a touch more defined now that it can appear mid-screen.
Editor
- Every editor window is independent: open as many screenshots and recordings as you like, side by side. Re-opening something already being edited brings that window forward.
- ⇧-click selects several annotations: move, recolour, nudge, duplicate or delete them together.
- Lines and arrows are grabbed by the stroke itself, hollow shapes by their outline — the empty middle no longer steals clicks from what's underneath.
- Hold ⌘ to draw on top of an existing annotation; hold ⇧ while resizing to keep a square or circle, or to snap a line to 45°.
- One Mask tool for blur, pixelate and solid (B / I / X), with style and strength in its options.
- The option row no longer jumps around: every control keeps its place and dims when it doesn't apply.
- Changing colour or thickness only affects what is selected — it no longer recolours the annotation you drew before.
- Crop: no more white borders. Growing past the image fills live with the screenshot's edge colour, the part being cropped away is darkened, and a click inside the frame applies the crop.
- A trash button under the close button sends the capture straight to History's Trash — no save prompt. The video editor has one too, beside the traffic lights.
- Edit any picture on your Mac: Finder → Open With → Aperture, or right-click → Services → Edit in Aperture.
All-in-One, redesigned
- The panel under your selection is now three compact dark cards in one row: recording options (microphone, system audio, webcam, mouse clicks, keystrokes), Record Video / Record GIF, and Screenshot / Scrolling.
- Keys: ↩ records video, ⌥↩ records a GIF, ⌘↩ takes the screenshot.
- The sliders button opens recording settings right there — countdown, frame rate, maximum height, show the cursor, dim the screen, elapsed time in the menu bar, open the editor afterwards, GIF frame rate and width, and the exact selection size. The same options live in Settings → Recording.
- Turning on the webcam shows its bubble inside your selection straight away, so you can see the framing before you record; it follows the selection and stays for the recording.
- With two displays, All-in-One always opens on the one your pointer is on.
Recording & video
- The recording controls no longer end up in the recorded video.
- "Original quality" export now really keeps the source quality (it used to come out visibly soft), a "Smaller file" option joins it, and exporting shows a progress bar with Cancel and closes the editor when done.
- Video editor timeline: opens showing the whole video, ⌘-scroll / ⇧-scroll / pinch to zoom around the pointer, with a filmstrip, an audio waveform and a time ruler.
- For a region recording, the controls appear where the All-in-One panel was instead of at the top of the screen.
- Move the recorded zone while recording: drag the handle on the recording controls and the zone follows live. Click it for follow mode — the zone pans with your pointer as it nears an edge.
- Closing the video editor without exporting hands the recording back as a popup instead of dropping it.
- The 3-2-1 countdown is readable in Light mode.
Menu bar
- The recents strip scrolls back through your whole library. Click a thumbnail to get it back as a popup; right-click for every action (copy, save, pin, annotate, file into a folder, delete…). Recordings carry a ▶ badge, GIFs a "GIF" badge.
- New Folders submenu: click a folder to open it in Finder.
- Send Feedback… — tell us what's missing or broken, straight from the app.
Selecting
- With screen dimming off, the crosshair and the size readout adapt to what's under them — light on dark content, dark on light — and the crosshair is a slim line instead of the chunky system one.
Reliability
- Menu bar → Record Debug Session: records the screen with Aperture's own windows in it, so you can show us exactly what went wrong.
- Settings → Advanced has a one-click Send Diagnostics button: it uploads Aperture's logs (what the app was doing, version, macOS, Mac model — nothing personal) so a bug you just hit can be fixed.
- Launching a newer Aperture while an older copy runs replaces it instead of yielding to it.
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