Changelog

Screention 0.14.0 lets you pin screenshots to the screen, keep a selection to an aspect ratio, and copy, cut or delete many screenshots at once from the gallery. The gallery also has a new list view and can be sorted. Errors are now shorter and say what to do.

Added

• Pin a screenshot to the screen with the pin button or Ctrl+T. The next screenshot includes your pins, so you can arrange several and capture them together.
• Drag a pin to move it and scroll to zoom it. Double-click or Esc closes it, and right-clicking it lets you copy it, save it to the gallery or reset its size.
• Aspect ratios for the selection: 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16, or your own, typed as a ratio (5:4) or a size (1200 × 800). The selection keeps that shape while you draw and resize it.
• Select several screenshots in the gallery with their checkboxes, Ctrl or Shift and click, or Ctrl+A. You can then copy, delete or (on Linux) cut them all at once, and paste them into a file manager or chat app.
• A list view for the gallery, with columns for width, height, aspect ratio, file size and date.
• Sort the gallery by date, name, file size, width, height or aspect ratio. Screention remembers the view and order you pick.
• Messages keeps the message you are writing until you send it, even if you close Screention.

Changed

• The selection guide is now a short animation of a cursor dragging out a selection. It plays every few seconds until you select an area, even while you move the mouse.
• Gallery cards show each screenshot's size in pixels and its file size.
• Errors are one plain sentence that says what to do. The technical details go to the log.
• Hotkeys are written the same way everywhere: Ctrl+Alt+A on Linux and Windows, Cmd+Option+A on macOS. The Super key is called Win on Windows.
• Update notes in Settings are formatted instead of showing raw Markdown.
• "Download from the website" opens the download page instead of the GitHub releases page.
• A failed upload says when you have uploaded too much in a short time or the screenshot is too large.
• Settings > Privacy lists every detail that is sent with the usage counts.

Fixed

• On Wayland, closing the system screenshot dialog without taking a screenshot showed an error.
• After an upload that returned no delete link, the result said the online copy could be deleted later from the gallery.

Screention 0.13.0 rebuilds the screenshot editor. It adds new tools with their own options, lets you select and change what you have drawn, and shows the result after reading text or a code. Text recognition gains 22 more languages. You can now send us messages from inside the app, and from this version on, updates can be installed from inside the app. The Linux packages run on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and Linux Mint 21 again, and this release fixes a startup crash on Windows and random crashes on Linux X11. Moving from 0.12 to 0.13 is still a manual download.

Added

• A welcome screen that shows your screenshot key, lets you try it, and offers to start Screention when you log in.
• New tools: pen, straight line, text, numbered steps, solid box, and a Select tool (V). Hold Shift for 45-degree lines, squares and circles.
• Numbered steps can count in letters, Roman numerals, or Bengali, Arabic, Persian, Devanagari, Thai or Chinese numerals, and you can set the next number.
• Options for each tool: click the active tool again to set thickness, line style, arrowheads, fill, rounded corners, blur type and strength, or the font and style of text. [ and ] change the size.
• Change what you drew: select, move and resize annotations, and double-click text to edit it. Delete removes the selected annotation and Ctrl+D duplicates it. The edit panel (Ctrl+P) lists every annotation as a layer.
• A right-click menu in the editor with its main actions. Ctrl+A selects the whole screen.
• After reading text, a QR code or a barcode, or after uploading, a window shows the result. You can edit the text, open a link, or choose to just copy next time.
• 22 more text recognition languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Each one downloads when you turn it on (0.4 to 3 MB).
• Gallery search can also find text inside your screenshots. This is off by default; turn it on in Settings > Text recognition.
• Messages: send us a problem, idea or question from inside the app, and read our replies there.
• In-app updates for the versions after this one: Screention checks once a day and downloads new versions in the background. "Restart to update" installs them on Linux (.deb, .rpm, AppImage) and Windows; macOS shows a download link.
• Take a screenshot in 3 or 10 seconds from the tray menu.
• You can choose where screenshots are saved. New installs use Pictures/Screention; existing installs keep their current folder.
• New options for what happens after a capture: copy as soon as you finish selecting, also save when copying, also copy when saving, and show or just copy results.
• Default color and options for each tool, with "Remember my last choices".
• A switch in Settings > Privacy to stop sharing usage counts. No counts are sent until you finish the welcome screen.
• If you cancel a screenshot that had annotations, the next screenshot within 15 minutes offers to bring them back.
• macOS: without the screen recording permission, Screention explains what to do and opens the right System Settings page.
• Settings > Help and about: report a problem, suggest an idea, open the logs folder or the user guide.

Changed

• Esc now cancels the screenshot. Minimize, which keeps your annotations for the next screenshot, is now Ctrl+M.
• The toolbar appears next to your selection once you make one, and a short guide shows how to select. With the Select tool, arrow keys move the selection (Shift: 10 px); click a handle or press Tab to move a single edge.
• Delete removes only the selected annotation. Undo now covers every change, including clearing all annotations.
• The background adds padding around your selection instead of covering its edges.
• On Windows, macOS and Linux X11, screenshots are taken from the monitor under the pointer instead of the main monitor.
• Copy and Save close the editor right away and finish in the background.
• Uploading asks once before the first upload and explains that the image goes to a public image host. Large screenshots are compressed before uploading, and you can delete the online copy from the gallery.
• The gallery loads small previews, so large galleries open faster.
• Errors and confirmations appear inside the app. A failed screenshot says what went wrong, and Settings shows when the hotkey is not working.
• Settings is split into sections.
• New file names look like "Screention 2026-11-03 14-05-09.png".

Fixed

• The Linux packages of 0.11 and 0.12 would not start on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or Linux Mint 21.
• Windows: Screention could crash at startup during the first minute after the PC was turned on.
• Windows and macOS: a second tray icon that did nothing.
• Linux X11: Screention could crash at startup or after the first screenshot.
• Copies and saves could come out as a see-through image that showed only the annotations.
• Typing in a color field could switch tools, close the editor or delete annotations.
• Editor shortcuts did not work with non-Latin keyboard layouts.
• Recording a new hotkey stopped when Ctrl or Super was pressed first on GNOME with X11.
• On GNOME, a hotkey shortcut left over from a Wayland session kept working in an X11 session, next to the hotkey set there.
• The update check said you had the latest version when it could not check.

Removed

• Custom two-color gradient backgrounds. The preset gradients and custom solid colors remain.

This release reworks Wayland support, makes text recognition work offline, reads more barcode types, and allows single-key hotkeys such as Print Screen.

Added

• On GNOME with Wayland, Screention sets up its hotkey as a GNOME keyboard shortcut, so it works whichever app is in front. On other Wayland desktops it registers the hotkey through the desktop's global shortcuts service where one exists.
• screention --capture takes a screenshot straight away, so you can bind it to any key in your desktop's settings.
• Hotkeys can be a single key: Print Screen, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, Insert, Pause, Scroll Lock or F1 to F24.
• More barcode types: Micro QR, Code 93, Codabar, ITF and GS1 DataBar.

Changed

• Text recognition works offline. The English engine now comes with the app instead of being downloaded when you use it, and it starts sooner.
• QR and barcode reading also finds codes that are sideways, low in contrast, or surrounded by empty space.
• On Wayland, screenshots go through the desktop's screenshot service first, with grim, gnome-screenshot, Spectacle, wayshot, scrot and maim as fallbacks.
• On Wayland with several monitors, the screenshot shows the monitor under the pointer instead of all monitors in one image.
• After you leave a screenshot with Esc, the next one takes a fresh screenshot and keeps your selection and drawings.
• Taking a screenshot with the hotkey or from the tray no longer hides the main window.
• If a screenshot cannot be taken, the main window opens.
• Messages such as "No code found" go away by themselves after 2 seconds.
• Uploading and text recognition stop with an error if they take too long, instead of waiting forever.

Fixed

• Copying on Wayland could get stuck when wl-copy was installed.
• Hotkeys that include Print Screen could not be saved.
• After Capture Now, the main window did not come back.
• A failed screenshot left the tray icon hidden.
• The editor could flash blank as it opened. This is now less likely.

Screention is rebuilt on a lighter app framework, so downloads are about a tenth of the size. This release adds QR code and barcode scanning and new editor shortcuts. Updates are now downloaded by hand.

Updating from 0.10: 0.10 does not offer this update, so download 0.11.0 from the website. On Linux, 0.11.0 needs Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13 or another system with glibc 2.39 or newer; 0.13.0 lowered this to Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 12. Your screenshots, notes and upload links carry over. Your custom hotkey resets to Ctrl+Alt+A.

Added

• Scan QR codes and barcodes (Ctrl+Q): the decoded text is copied. It works offline and reads QR, Aztec, Data Matrix, PDF417, Code 128, Code 39, EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A and UPC-E.
• Enter or a double-click inside the selection copies it, and a right-click closes the editor without saving.
• Copy, Save and Upload work with nothing selected and use the whole screen.
• Recording a hotkey shows the keys live, accepts the Super key, F-keys and Print Screen, and warns about common system shortcuts.
• The tray menu shows your hotkey.
• Usage counts: Screention sends a random install ID, basic system details (operating system and Linux distribution, CPU type, desktop, X11 or Wayland, number of monitors, screen size) and counts of the features you use. Screenshots and recognized text are never sent. This version has no setting to turn it off; 0.13.0 added one.
• New downloads: a Windows .msi installer, the Linux .rpm again, and a macOS build for both Intel and Apple Silicon.

Changed

• Much smaller downloads: the .deb went from 103 MB to 10 MB and the Windows installer from 134 MB to 6 MB.
• Opening Screention shows the main window instead of starting a screenshot. Starting at login keeps it in the tray.
• Esc sets the screenshot aside, and the next screenshot brings back the same one with your selection and drawings.
• Updates are no longer downloaded automatically. Settings checks for a new version and links to the download.
• Taking a screenshot hides the main window first.
• Ctrl+Alt+R is no longer reserved by Screention.
• Linux: the app installs to /usr/bin instead of /opt/Screention. If "Launch at startup" was on, turn it off and on again.

Removed

• Automatic update downloads and "Install & Restart Now".
• The separate macOS .zip download.

Added

• Opening Screention, or opening it again while it runs, starts a screenshot right away.
• Linux: if the built-in capture fails, Screention tries grim and then gnome-screenshot, if installed.

Removed

• The Linux .rpm package. Linux downloads are the .deb and the AppImage.

Changed

• The main window opens only from "Open Screention" in the tray menu. Opening Screention again while it runs, and clicking its Dock icon on macOS, no longer open it.
• Ctrl+Alt+R no longer brings the main window to the front.
• The main window closes right away when you click Install & Restart Now.

Screention Pro is discontinued, and every feature is free. The editor now remembers your colors and background settings.

Added

• Recently used colors and recently used background setups, up to six each, with a Clear button.
• A Solid and Gradient switch in the background panel, so you can make your own two-color gradient.

Changed

• Screention Pro is discontinued. The Pro page, license activation and the plan label in the sidebar are gone. Pro did not limit any feature, so everything works as before.
• Your last drawing color and background settings are remembered, also after a restart.
• The default background has more padding and rounder corners.
• Starting Screention no longer opens the main window; it starts in the tray.
• Saving a screenshot no longer opens the main window.
• "New Capture" and "Capture New" are now both "Capture Now".

Fixed

• Typing an incomplete color into a gradient background could break the editor.

Changed

• You can drag the editor toolbar out of the way by grabbing an empty part of it.

This release adds uploading: upload a screenshot from the editor or the gallery and get a link you can send.

Added

• Upload & Share (Ctrl+U) on the editor toolbar uploads the screenshot, copies a share link and saves the screenshot to the gallery. Anyone with the link can see the image.
• Upload to Cloud in the gallery menu.
• Uploaded screenshots show an "Uploaded" badge in the gallery, with Copy Upload URL in their menu.

A test build of 0.9.0 with the first version of Upload & Share. Uploads did not work in this build; 0.9.0 fixed that.

This release adds a background for your screenshots and an image viewer in the gallery.

Added

• Background (Ctrl+B) on the editor toolbar: a color or gradient frame with padding, rounded corners and a shadow. In this version the background covers the outer edge of the selection, so select a little more than you want to show.
• An image viewer in the gallery. Zoom with the mouse wheel, the + and - buttons or keys, drag to move the image, press 0 to reset and Esc to close.

Changed

• Clicking a gallery thumbnail opens the viewer. Copy is in the image's menu.

Changed

• Screention no longer turns "Launch at startup" back on each time it starts. New installs start with it off.

Changed

• The color button on the editor toolbar is smaller, to match the other buttons.

This release shows the selection size, lets you adjust the selection with the arrow keys, and makes in-app updates work.

Added

• The selection's size in pixels is shown next to it while you select.
• Arrow keys move an edge of the selection out by 1 pixel, and Shift+arrow moves it in.

Changed

• New versions download in the background as soon as they are found. Click "Install & Restart Now", or the update installs when you quit Screention.
• The default drawing color is orange.
• The color button shows three overlapping colors, and the blur tool has a new icon.
• Extract Text messages are shorter, and the editor closes sooner after copying text.

Fixed

• Checking for updates failed in 0.6.0. Users of 0.6.0 need to download 0.7.0 by hand.
• The Extract Text message could cover the toolbar.

This release adds Extract Text, which copies the text in a screenshot.

Added

• Extract Text (Ctrl+E) on the editor toolbar reads English text in the selected area and copies it. It needs an internet connection, because the text recognizer is downloaded when you use it.
• A Software Update section in Settings. In this version the update check could not reach the update files, so new versions still had to be downloaded from the website.

Changed

• Deactivating Pro also releases the license on the store's side, so it can be activated on another device.
• Screention also registers Ctrl+Alt+R (Cmd+Alt+R on macOS), reserved for a future feature. It brings the main window to the front.

Added

• A Screention Pro page, opened by clicking your name in the sidebar, where you could buy and activate a Pro license. The sidebar shows "Pro Plan" after activation. Pro was discontinued in 0.10.0, and every feature has been free since.

This release adds a startup switch and a hotkey recorder, and changes where screenshots are saved.

Added

• A "Launch at startup" switch in Settings. In this version Screention turned it back on each time it started.
• Change the capture hotkey by clicking "Change" and pressing the keys.
• An About section in Settings with the version number.

Changed

• Clicking the tray icon takes a screenshot again. "Take a Screenshot" is now first in the tray menu.
• Copy no longer saves the image to the gallery; only Save does.
• The default drawing color is blue instead of red, and the palette has 12 colors (orange, pink, black and gray were added).
• Clear All also removes the selection.
• Screenshots are saved in .screention/screenshots in your home folder. Screenshots saved by 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 stay in .screention/gallery and no longer show in the gallery.
• New file names use 12-hour time, for example "11-jan-2026 08-16-35 am.png".

Fixed

• A custom capture hotkey now survives a restart.

Removed

• The Check for Updates button.
• The "Upgrade to Pro" placeholder in Settings.

Added

• Check for Updates in Settings. If a newer version exists, it offers to open the download page.
• Change the capture hotkey in Settings. In this version it went back to Ctrl+Alt+A after a restart.
• An Open Folder button in the gallery.

Changed

• Clicking a gallery thumbnail copies the image instead of showing it in its folder.
• Gallery cards show the file name.
• New file names use local time, for example "09-jan-2026-06-45-37-759.png".

Fixed

• Copy in the gallery did nothing.
• Settings always showed version 0.1.0.

This release adds a main window with a gallery of saved screenshots, and Save and Copy buttons in the editor.

Added

• A main window with a Gallery and Settings. It opens when you start Screention, click the tray icon, or choose "Open Screention" in the tray menu.
• Save (Ctrl+S) and Copy (Ctrl+C) buttons on the editor toolbar. In this version Copy also saved the image to the gallery.
• A gallery of saved screenshots with search, notes, Copy, Rename, Show in Folder and Delete.
• A "New Capture" button in the main window.
• A custom color picker with a hex code field.
• Single-key tool shortcuts: A (arrow), S (rectangle), C (ellipse), B (blur), H (highlight). Delete clears all drawings, and Ctrl+Y also redoes.
• Minimize (Esc) and Close buttons on the toolbar.

Changed

• Esc hides the editor and keeps your selection and drawings for the next screenshot. Close discards them.
• Clicking the tray icon opens the main window. Taking a screenshot is in the tray menu.
• Opening Screention while it is already running shows the main window instead of starting a second copy.
• Closing the main window keeps Screention running in the tray.

Fixed

• After copying, the next screenshot showed the previous selection and drawings.
• On macOS, Cmd+C did not copy.

The first public release of Screention, for Windows, macOS and Linux.

• Press Ctrl+Alt+A (Cmd+Alt+A on macOS) or click the tray icon, then drag to select part of the screen. The selection can be moved and resized.
• Mark it up with arrows, rectangles, ellipses, blur (pixelate) and highlight, in eight colors.
• Undo, redo and clear all.
• Ctrl+C copies the selection with your drawings; Esc closes without copying.
• Screention starts when you log in and waits in the tray.
• Downloads: Windows installer, macOS .dmg, and Linux AppImage, .deb and .rpm.