Release Notes

List of the changes applied to Screenbits after each update can be found below. This list gets updated every time a new version arrives.

Dec 2025

Version 10.2.1

  • Ability to record audio in 320kbps (requires Windows 11)
  • Ability to record capture audio sources onto individual tracks (multitrack recording)
  • Ability to select profile (baseline/main) for H.264 harware encoders
  • Ability to exclude user interface from screen capture
  • Ability to manually select dark/light theme for user interface
  • Improved hotkey control
  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Fixed "Camera format is not supported." error caused after rotating camera image from system settings
  • Fixed flashing white background when restoring the app in dark mode
  • Fixed an issue with the window frame on recent versions of Windows 10
  • Fixed a video encoding issue
  • Fixed untranslated strings

Oct 2025

Version 10.1.1

  • Ability to add outline to Image overlay
  • Ability to select font for drawing text on screen
  • Ability to allow/disallow selecting areas across multiple displays
  • Improved recording performance
  • Improved low disk space management
  • UI improvements
  • Fixed child window/object selection for Area mode
  • Fixed a scaling issue for area selection tool on multi-display setups
  • Fixed "Unsupported file extension" error for selecting .BMP image files
  • Fixed "Arithmetic result exceeded 32 bits." error
  • Fixed an issue related to changing hotkeys using Japanese keyboard

Jul 2025

Version 10.0.1

  • Ability to capture keystrokes
  • Ability to add image and text separately
  • Ability to use rounded rectangle shape for camera
  • Ability to use hotkeys to turn camera on/off
  • Ability to use hotkeys to turn audio on/off
  • Added splash screen to show startup progress
  • Added icons to menu items
  • Settings UI is now integrated into the main view
  • Improved hotkey control to accept wider range of keys
  • Improved design for icons
  • UI improvements
  • Prevented capturing invisible windows to avoid 'Unable to capture selected window' error
  • Fixed an issue which could prevent using the selected hardware encoder
  • Fixed chroma key color picker malfunction when the application was maximized
  • Fixed animated images only animate when the source image gets updated
  • Fixed blurry icons
  • Fixed missing translations

May 2025

Version 9.13.1

  • Ability to use newest capture APIs as an alternative screen capturing method
  • Ability to detect if camera and microphone require access permissions
  • User interface improvements
  • Fixed "Camera format is not supported" error which occurred right after allowing the app to access camera
  • Fixed "resource deadlock would occur" error

Feb 2025

Version 9.12.1

  • Internal improvements
  • Fixed "Sink could not create..." error caused by the previous update
  • Fixed an issue related to capturing virtual cameras
  • Fixed overexposed screen capture output

Jan 2025

Version 9.11.1

  • Ability to pause recordings using scheduler
  • Ability to mute/unmute audio from UI and hotkeys
  • Ability to fade out drawing
  • Ability to use hotkeys to select drawing tools
  • Ability to use middle and extra mouse buttons for hotkeys
  • Ability to view name of the monitor for selected display
  • Ability to view name of the application for selected window
  • Improved hotkey system
  • UI improvements
  • Internal improvements
  • Fixed an issue which could cause pointer capture to ignore pointer scaling settings
  • Fixed an issue related to capturing default audio device when system audio devices change
  • Fixed incorrect video scaling for portrait sources

Dec 2024

Version 9.10.1

  • Ability to capture content of top level windows even if obscured by other windows
  • Ability to manually restore minimized windows from the app to capture their content
  • New appearance for pointer highlight effect
  • UI now scales correctly on multi-display setups with different scaling settings
  • Minor UI improvements
  • Fixed an issue which could cause pointer capture to ignore pointer scaling settings
  • Fixed an issue related to capturing default audio device when system audio devices change
  • Fixed incorrect video scaling for portrait sources

Oct 2024

Version 9.9.1

  • Improved area selector performance on multi-display setups
  • Fixed oversaturated screen capture from HDR enabled displays
  • Fixed 'The object was not found...' error which could occur after changes to system display/adapter setup
  • Fixed 'The parameter is incorrect' error which could occur after changes to system display/adapter setup
  • Fixed an issue in capturing audio from output devices

Sep 2024

Version 9.8.1

  • Ability to flip camera image vertically
  • Improved screen capturing performance
  • Internal improvements
  • Minor UI fixes