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.
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
Aug 2024
Version 9.7.1
- Improved screen capturing performance
- Improved mouse pointer capturing
- Improved recording performance on Windows 11
- Improved audio capturing quality
- Fixed a mouse pointer capturing issue related to magnifier
Jul 2024
Version 9.6.1
- Fixed an issue which caused glitches in the captured audio since the last update