From 1.9.1 to 1.10.3: Six Updates Born from Support Email

Since 1.9.0 we’ve shipped six updates in three weeks, between September 28 and October 14. We didn’t write them up one by one because each was small, but together they change quite a bit of the day-to-day. They all started the same way: with an email from someone using iSkitch, or about to.

1.9.1: one shortcut for all three modes, and scroll-wheel zoom

When you capture a region or a window, a mode bar like the one in ⇧⌘5 now appears at the bottom: Region · Window · Full Screen. You switch modes before capturing, with the mouse or the 1, 2 and 3 keys, so a single shortcut gets you all three. The per-mode shortcuts are still there for anyone who has them in their fingers.

On the canvas, ⌘ + scroll wheel zooms in and out, and pinch works on the trackpad. Without ⌘, the wheel still scrolls the image.

And three fixes you’ll notice:

A capture that fit entirely in the window opened at 51%. The initial zoom was decided while the window was still at its minimum size; now it uses the real size.
With a capture already open, starting another one brought the editor to the front, on top of what you wanted to capture. Not anymore.
Without Screen Recording permission, the system prompt appeared behind the overlay and all you could do was cancel. iSkitch now checks before covering the screen.

1.9.2: highlighter opacity, and a pixelate that actually hides

Highlighter opacity is now yours to choose, from 10 to 100%, with a slider in the tool’s bar. The usual 45% is still the default.

With Select you can now change the color, width or opacity of something you drew a while ago: the bar shows the options of the selected item. And there’s a new Image ▸ Sharpen…, with a before-and-after preview at actual size.

The important fix in this release was pixelate. It took a single pixel from the center of each block instead of the average, and the blocks were small enough that you could guess the digits in a line of text. Now each block is the average of what it covers, a line of text ends up two or three blocks tall, and a little noise stops anyone from rebuilding the text by trying candidates. We checked with the intensity at its minimum: it can’t be read. For passwords, a solid block is still the safest choice. More on that in how to hide sensitive information in screenshots.

Along the way, ⌘Z after a style change no longer deletes the arrow you just drew: it undoes only the change.

1.10.0: adjust the region before you capture it

A new option in Settings ▸ Capture: Adjust the selection before capturing. With it on, when you release the mouse the box stays on screen with eight handles. You move it, resize it from any side, and capture with Return, Space or a double-click. The screen stays live underneath, so you can wait for the exact frame of a video or an animation. It’s off by default: without it, releasing the mouse captures right away, as always.

1.10.1: iSkitch gets out of the way, and ⌘C copies

This one shipped the same day as 1.10.0, after an email from someone who had just switched from Skitch and was about to ask for a refund. Two things were in the way:

The iSkitch window covered what they wanted to capture. Now editors and Settings step aside while you capture and come back when you’re done, even if you cancel with Esc. Skitch already did this.
⌘C didn’t copy the capture. Now it copies the annotated image, as in Skitch. Inside a text field, ⌘C copies the text, as always.

1.10.2: ready for macOS 27

In macOS 27, the system stops showing images in menu items, and three iSkitch menus used one to mark the chosen option. They now use the system’s own checkmark.

Dragging the image into Slack or into Gmail in the browser didn’t work either: those upload areas only accept a file, and iSkitch was offering the image in memory. Now it offers a real file. And buttons use a single color, iSkitch pink, or the accent you picked in macOS.

What you pick in the editor’s bar, the arrowhead and the width, becomes the default for the next window and for the next time you open the app. Before, you had to set it in Settings ▸ Editor, which also showed 4 px while the editor started at 20. Now it shows the real value, and the slider goes up to 60 px, like the bar.

Available now

1.10.3 has been on the Mac App Store since October 14, 2026. It’s a free update for anyone who already has iSkitch, with no subscription and no account. And if something is in your way, write to us: almost everything on this list started like that.