Roadmap

v2.5.1 current release

• npx -y openscreenshot starts the MCP server — with no arguments on a piped stdin, the openscreenshot package starts the MCP server, as MCP clients and catalogs expect. openscreenshot serve still works, and a terminal still gets the CLI usage.

v2.5.0

• Redaction for CLI and MCP captures — the openscreenshot CLI and MCP server cover CSS selectors, email addresses, phone numbers, API keys, and pixel rectangles with black boxes before the screenshot. The capture fails with no image if a selector matches nothing or the page moves a target during the capture.

v2.4.1

• Fix: a full-page capture now includes scroll boxes inside the page, such as tables, code blocks, and dashboard widgets, at their full height. A dashboard panel that scrolls only a little now comes out whole too.

v2.4.0

• Very long pages split into several images — a full-page capture taller than one image now saves as up to six images instead of failing. Download names each part, and the editor opens each part in its own tab.
• Capturing a local file without file access now names the toggle to turn on: “Allow access to file URLs” on the extension’s details page.

v2.3.1

• The Chrome extension’s name now includes Screen Recorder in every language, so a store search for recording finds it too.

v2.3.0

• Controls in their own tab — Record opens a control tab beside the page, with a live camera view. The controls never appear in the video.
• Record part of a tab — draw the area to record on a still of the page. Zoom, click ripples, and the pointer work inside it.

v2.2.0

• Capture a page element — hover or use the arrow keys to select a card, chart, table, or image, then grow or shrink the selection through parent and child elements.
• MP4 recording export — H.264 + AAC MP4 is now the default, with WebM beside it.
• Save into a folder inside Downloads — a / in the filename template saves into a subfolder, and the preview shows the cleaned path.
• More shapes and arrows — rounded rectangle, oval, and triangle shapes with an optional solid fill; filled, open, double, and dot arrow tips; and arrows that bend from a middle handle.
• Your own tool order — drag tools on the rail, or move the focused tool with Alt+↑ / Alt+↓.
• Stroke widths that fit the capture — presets scale with the capture width, plus a new 24px preset.
• Tabbed settings — a settings page with visual controls, and the capture delay next to the screenshot modes in the popup.
• Optional error reports — after a failed capture, the popup offers a report. Nothing is sent until you press Send.
• Fixes: full-page capture now handles dashboards that scroll an inner panel, and the macOS visible-capture shortcut moved from Command+Shift+V (paste and match style) to Option+Shift+V.

v2.1.3

• Firefox rating buttons and reminders now open Mozilla reviews. Website install buttons match your browser, with an alternative for the other browser. Updated roadmap priorities and screenshot workflows.

v2.1.2

• Capture quick actions and success feedback — copy, save PNG, or export PDF from the capture progress window, with clearer clipboard and download confirmations.

v1.5.0

• Full keyboard operation and screen reader support — a focusable canvas with keyboard layer cycling, placement, move, resize, and crop; live-region announcements for every mutation; roving tabindex on both toolbars; visible focus rings and 24×24 minimum target sizes; forced-colors and prefers-contrast support; and the editor’s UI strings moved behind chrome.i18n.
• Cut tool — mark one or more horizontal bands on a full-page capture and remove them with a live preview. Cuts are non-destructive and undo like every other edit.
• Named Beautify presets — one-click looks that set padding, corner radius, shadow, and background together, over the existing Beautify sliders.
• Adjustable crop handles, with undo — eight resize handles on the crop rectangle, and applying a crop no longer clears the undo/redo stack.
• Multi-select, duplicate, and arrow-key nudge — shift-click to select more than one annotation, Alt+D to duplicate, and arrow keys to nudge the selection.
• Capture history shelf — the last twelve captures instead of one, reopenable from the editor.
• Pin a capture in a floating window — via Document Picture-in-Picture, the only always-on-top surface Chrome offers.
• Per-layer blur strength control — a slider on the blur tool instead of one fixed strength.
• Two-click recording setup — tabCapture is requested inline from the Record button on its first click.
• Recorder undo, and a simplified rail — undo/redo for the recording editor, Beautify collapsed behind one popover, and “Add zoom” moved onto the timeline.
• Recordings, reachable from the popup — a Recordings link beside Reopen last opens the recorder’s session list, previously reachable by no button anywhere. Each row shows the date, duration, file size, source, and which tracks (mic, tab audio, webcam) it holds.
• Redesigned editor chrome — a stable style bar, a grouped tool rail, a coral-themed range slider and canvas stage that adapt to light and dark, a consistent pressed state, and real loading and error states on export.

v1.3.0

• Auto-hiding control bar — the recording control bar hides itself about three seconds after your pointer leaves it, so it stays out of the video. Move your cursor to the bottom center of the page to bring it back. It stays visible while you hover it, and while the recording is paused.
• Synthetic cursor overlay — a “Show cursor” toggle in the editor’s settings rail, on by default, draws a smooth pointer from the recorded cursor path in both the preview and the WebM export, since tabCapture never records the OS cursor.

v1.2.0

• Screen recorder with auto zoom — record the current tab, with a tabCapture permission requested once, at your first recording. The editor plays the take on a timeline with automatic zoom at cursor clicks, manual zoom blocks, and per-segment trim, then re-renders the export through canvas, mixing in mic and tab audio, click ripples, and an optional webcam bubble. 1-second chunks land in IndexedDB as you record, so a crash or a killed background page recovers.

v1.1.0

• Quick capture — an “After capture” row in the popup sends a capture to the editor, the clipboard, or your downloads folder. It covers the popup buttons, the keyboard shortcuts, and the context menu.
• Eyedropper color picker (I) — samples the rendered canvas, so a color inside a spotlight or on a beautify gradient picks as it looks. A swatch on the color row opens Chrome’s screen-wide picker.
• Drag, drop, or paste any image — annotate a picture you already have. An import takes the same seat a capture takes, so every tool and export path keeps working.
• Crash-safe editor drafts — edits are saved locally as you work and offered back when the editor reopens. Restoring is always a click.

v0.7.0

• Beautify mode — padding, rounded corners, drop shadow, and six gradient presets, a solid color, or transparent. It previews live and travels into every export.
• Export at any scale — 25 / 50 / 100 / 200 % or an exact pixel width. It refuses sizes past Chrome’s canvas limits instead of writing an empty file.

v0.6.1

• Delayed capture — Off / 3s / 5s / 10s in the popup, with a countdown on the badge, for hover states, dropdowns, and tooltips.
• Right-click context menu capture — full page, visible area, or region from the page’s own menu. It honors the delay setting.
• Repeat last region — re-capture the previous selection rectangle from the popup footer or the context menu.

v0.6.0

• Solid and mosaic redaction — a mode on the blur tool: soft blur, coarse mosaic, or an opaque fill that survives recompression.
• Spotlight tool (O) — rectangle, rounded rectangle, or ellipse cut-outs that merge into one dim layer.
• Resize every annotation type — pen and highlighter scale on their bounding box; text and step badges scale from the corner handles.

v0.5.0

• Straight line tool (L) — the arrow without a head.
• Shift constraints — square rectangles and blur regions, and lines and arrows snapped to 45°.
• Number keys 1–8 set the color.
• Double-click a text layer to re-edit it.

v0.4.0 and earlier

• {domain} filename token, alongside {date}, {time}, {title}, {w}, and {h} (v0.4.0).
• Numbered step badges and the highlighter tool (v0.3.0).
• Shortcut sheet in the editor, with Export bound to ⌘S (v0.3.0).
• One zoom menu, with keyboard zoom controls (v0.3.0).
• Named swatches, a custom color, and recent colors (v0.3.0).
• The export dialog can save its settings as the new defaults (v0.3.0).
• Clickable filename tokens with a live preview (v0.3.0).
• Ko-fi donation links in the README, the site, and the popup footer (v0.2.7).