Releases

Enabling AI now works without restarting the app.

• Improved: enable Apple Intelligence in System Settings while PowerPic is running and the AI input updates by itself — through “model downloading…” to ready
• Improved: pasting a Gemini API key enables open editors immediately
• Fixed: an editor opened before Apple Intelligence was available could show an enabled AI input that silently did nothing

File saving fixes and editing polish.

• New: default font size and line width are driven by image width
• Fixed: .powerpic project files are never modified (only if re-saved using Save Project)
• Fixed: .powerpic files no longer show greyed out in the Open dialog
• Improved: discarded captures (History and editor’s Trash button) go to macOS Trash — recoverable
• Improved: when re-saving using Save Project, location and filename are pre-filled
• Improved: resizing an image also scales annotation text and stroke sizes; Cancel/undo restore everything
• Improved: Gemini image edits are far less likely to bake annotations into the result

• Annotation defaults scale with image size and screen density
• Gemini edits return at your original size — unless you ask to upscale or reshape
• Keyboard zoom: ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0
• New font lineup (draftsman-leaning), sizes up to 128 px
• “Remember last style” now on by default; text styling no longer disturbed by shape tools
• Transparent-color drawing falls back to a visible stroke
• Fixed: stray color-panel echo could tint a new text box
• Docs: expanded guides + full shortcuts reference

• Fixed: AI input and ⓘ tips were dead on Macs without Apple Intelligence — Gemini now works regardless
• App icon shows in Finder, dialogs, and System Settings
• Retina captures open at true physical size
• Welcome screen: shortcut badge, permission heads-up, full-menu-bar tips
• Online Docs… menu item; Settings window fits its content

Onboarding, branding, and quality-of-life fixes.

• New: first-launch welcome window — points you at the menu bar icon, teaches the capture shortcut, and warns when a crowded menu bar is hiding the icon (with tips to make room)
• New: custom PowerPic menu bar icon (template — adapts to light/dark menu bars)
• New: in-app feedback — Send Feedback… files bug reports and feature requests directly
• Improved: capture region drag starts on the very first click
• Improved: custom capture shortcuts no longer request Accessibility permission (only the ⌘⇧4 override needs it)
• Fixed: ⌘C/⌘V of selected annotations now duplicates them — a stale clipboard image no longer pastes over a fresh internal copy

The first public beta of PowerPic.

• Region capture with a global shortcut
• Annotations: shapes, arrows, freehand, text, image overlays — with presets, locking, layer ordering
• Image editing: crop, rotate, flip, resize, auto-enhance, straighten
• AI assistance: Apple Intelligence (on-device) or Google Gemini
• History, one-click copy / export, editable .powerpic projects