Annotate Files

🎯 Highlights

Annotate adds a Redact tool that hides sensitive content behind solid, pixelated, or blurred rectangles, so screenshots of the overlay are safe to share. Shortcuts also get more flexible: overlay actions are now customizable, every tool shortcut accepts modifiers, and letter shortcuts follow your active keyboard layout.

🚀 New Features

Redact Tool (#107)

• Hide Sensitive Content: Drag a rectangle over names, IDs, or anything else that shouldn't leave your machine. The content is already hidden when you take a screenshot
• Three Styles: Choose Solid (the default), Pixelate, or Blur in Settings > Tools. Pixelate and Blur preview live while dragging
• Works Like a Shape: Redactions never fade, can be selected, moved, or erased, and refresh their sample when moved
• Screen Recording Permission: Only Pixelate and Blur need it, and it's requested from Settings > Tools, never from the overlay. Without access, redactions fall back to solid black
• Keyboard Shortcut: X by default, or pick it from the toolbar or status bar menu. If you already bound X to another action, your binding is kept

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Customizable Overlay Shortcuts (#100)

• More Editable Actions: Fade mode, toolbar visibility, size stepping, and Clear All can now be rebound in Settings > Shortcuts
• Modifier Support: Every customizable tool and utility shortcut accepts modifiers, so Pen can be Option + P instead of P
• Conflict Detection: Conflicting and reserved bindings are rejected, and existing custom bindings carry over on upgrade
• Live Labels: Menus and toolbar chips show your configured bindings

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Built-in Shortcuts Reference (#96)

• Built-in Shortcuts Section: Settings > Shortcuts now lists the fixed keys (Space, Delete, Option + Delete, Command + Z, Escape, and more) alongside the remappable ones

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Keyboard layouts (#99): Undo, Redo, Close, and Counter Reset now follow the active keyboard layout. On French AZERTY, Command + Z undoes instead of closing the overlay, and Dvorak, QWERTZ, and non-Latin layouts like Russian, Greek, and Hebrew work too
• Dark Mode text editing (#103): The text editor now picks a light or dark background based on the annotation color, so black text no longer disappears while typing in Dark Mode
• Toolbar fixes: The floating toolbar stays on one row on wide overlays like 1920×1080 instead of wrapping to two (#104), and on macOS 26 its Liquid Glass matches the background immediately instead of changing on the first click (#105)

🔧 Improvements

• Documentation: README covers the quick pickers, bracket stepping, Redact tool, and customizable shortcuts (#96, [#100], [#107])
• Code Quality: Test suite grows to over 640 tests, with new coverage for keyboard layouts, shortcut modifiers, editor contrast, toolbar sizing, and redaction

📝 Full Changelog

Full Changelog: https://github.com/epilande/Annotate/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0