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