Changelog
What changed in each release, newest first. Bigshot updates itself, and shows these notes after each update.
1.12.1
- Library tiles show the time, source and tags on the picture.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.12.0
Images you copy join your screenshots. An image copied in a browser, Preview, Figma or Finder is kept as a capture in the Active Project, marked Clipboard on the island and in the Library. The clipboard is left as it is. It is on by default; switch Add copied images off in Settings or the Setup Guide.
- Right-click a stack of duplicates on the island to Delete Duplicates, keeping the newest, or Delete All.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.11.0
Share a screenshot on a background. The Share window puts a copy of a capture on a gradient, a colour or your own image, in a Window or Browser frame, at a ratio or a size for X, LinkedIn or Instagram, and copies, exports or drags the result. The screenshot file stays as it is. Open it with Share in the editor, Share… on a capture, or from the Library.
- All Gradients has 95 gradients, sorted by family.
- Balance trims a flat border and centres what is left.
- Save a look as a preset, and each capture keeps the look you gave it.
- The editor and the Share window stay in the Dock and ⌘-Tab while they are open.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.10.0
Arrange the island yourself. Settings › Island is a board where you drag widgets into place on an 8×3 grid and drag a screenshot's corners to resize it. Peek and Expanded View can share a layout or have their own, and there are new widgets for your Project, tags, the Library and your last colour. The Free plan shows the layout; arranging it is part of Pro.
- The MCP Server Guide walks you through letting Claude Code and Codex search a Project, from Install on the Project to your first question. Settings › General has a switch for every Project.
- The editor's controls show a tooltip with their name, what they do and their key.
- Press comma with the island open to go to Settings.
- The Library adds a column on large screens rather than stretching its tiles.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.9.1
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.9.0
Agents can search your Projects. Switch on Let agents search this Project in Project setup or the Project's Agent search card, and Claude Code and Codex can search its shared screenshots, find retakes and find the code behind a screen, through Bigshot on this Mac. They can't change anything.
- Creating a Project takes up to three steps, and Skip Setup creates it with the defaults.
- Create several Projects at once: tick the Git repositories you want and use Start from to begin from the recommended setup or copy another Project's.
- Every window, sheet and popup uses the same greys, and switches read as on or off without colour.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.8.0
Every feature is now free: Capture, Code Lens, Inline Agent, Hooks and screenshot context all work in the free version, with one Project. Pro adds unlimited Projects and stops the reminders to upgrade.
- The island's stack holds any three of six tools: Code Lens, Capture, Agent, Colour Picker, Ruler and Smart Capture. Drag them into order in Settings › General › Island or in the Setup Guide; the rest stay in the menu bar.
- Colour Picker copies any pixel's colour in the editor's format, and Ruler measures an area in points. Neither needs Screen Recording.
- The editor runs Code Lens, X-ray and Agent on the open capture, from the card in its top row.
- X-ray draws the page's structure: each component that renders others gets a frame, each item of a list its own numbered box with the entry it shows, and parts of the page that are off screen show as tabs on the frame's edge. A Map beside the selection lists the tree.
- The Setup Guide offers the Code Lens image model with a Download button, and switching a Project's Code map on downloads it when it is missing.
- The capture preview stacks repeats of the same shot, like the island.
- In Settings › Projects, click a Project to open its captures in the Library.
- A new app icon.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.7.5
Code Lens has X-ray. After a lens, click X-ray on the card or press X, and a loupe follows the pointer: each line of text under it is drawn as the line of code it comes from, with its line number. Components show as boxes, with arrows to what renders them and to the data and translation files they read. Click inside the loupe to open that line in your editor.
- Copy for Agent includes the part of the page's tree that is on screen: the components in render order and the files they read.
- Update from the What's New window or Settings: Install and Relaunch downloads the new version and restarts Bigshot.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.7.0
A new Setup Guide shows you around in about a minute. Each step ticks itself off as you do it: allowing Screen Recording, pressing your screenshot key, taking a first screenshot, and hovering, holding and clicking the island. It ends by showing where Bigshot lives, in the notch and in the menu bar. It opens once after this update, and any time from Setup Guide… in the menu bar or Settings › General.
- Use ⇧⌘3 and ⇧⌘4 for Bigshot in one click. Turn Off macOS Keys in Settings › Shortcuts switches the macOS screenshot keys off for you; ⇧⌘5 stays with macOS.
- Auto tags: each Project capture can get a few labels and a sentence about what it shows, from the vision model of the connection you choose in Settings › General. Switch it on per Project. The labels are searched with the rest of a capture's text and shown in the Library's inspector under What's in it.
- Take the same shot again and the island stacks the takes under one thumbnail with a count. Press and hold the stack to spread it out. The Library marks the older takes as Duplicate.
- Check for Updates… is also in the app menu, under About.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.6.0
The island works on every display. Displays without it show a plain notch, and pointing at that notch or clicking it brings the island over.
- Make a Project from the island's Project picker: choose New Project… or press +. Create Project opens in its own window, without the Library.
- Right-click a capture in the island for Edit…, Move to Project, Set Tag and Move to Trash. Press and hold a capture to show its delete button.
- Project setup offers to map the code for Code Lens and to run agents from screenshots, and says when a folder is not a Git repository yet.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.5.0
Code Lens has a calmer look. Labels sit on the text they belong to, a hairline leads back when a label has to sit further away, and the result card grows out of the loading card.
- The first time you open Code Lens or Agent mode, the banner says what to do.
- Similar captures in the Library show other takes of the same screen, not every screen that contains it.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.4.0
Code Lens works in any language. It reads templates, layouts and translation files too, and opens the line that puts the text on screen, not the file the text is kept in.
- The island has a new stack at the end of the capture strip: Lens, Capture and Agent. With the pointer on the island, C, L and A do the same, and H pauses or resumes Hooks. The strip scrolls through every recent capture.
- Cursor, Gemini CLI and opencode can run Agent Runs and Hooks. Agents started from the Finder now see the same environment as your terminal.
- The Library searches text and images in one field. With the image model installed, it also finds captures by what they show, and the inspector lists similar captures.
- In the Library, point at a capture and press S, T, P, K, E or ⌘C to select, tag, move, keep, edit or copy it. Drag to select, click a day to select it, and use the arrow keys. ⌘Z undoes a move, tag or Delete.
- Check for Updates… is in the menu bar menu, and What's New shows after updating.
- Delete a Project from Edit Project.
- Code maps from an older version rebuild in the background.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
1.3.0
Code Lens shows the code behind your screen. Select part of the screen and each component your Project renders there gets a label with its file and line. Click a label to open that line in your editor. Code Lens needs a Licence.
- Open Code Lens with ⌃⌥L, with L on the island, or with Lens in the island's dock. Copy for Agent copies the matches for a coding agent. Nothing is saved.
- A Project can map its code (TypeScript/JSX, Markdown, Swift) on this Mac. Turn this on in Project setup or on the Project's Code map card.
- An optional image model also matches icons, images and charts. It is a 390 MB download, runs on this Mac and can be removed in Settings › General. Without it, the Code map matches on text.
Also new:
- The Library moves to ⌃⌥O and O on the island.
- Use ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4 and ⇧⌘5 for Bigshot now turns off the Bigshot shortcuts those keys replace (⌃⌥D, ⌃⌥A, ⌃⌥I). Turn On brings any of them back.
1.2.1
Expanded View is now free: the tray, the notch and ⌃⌥I open it for everyone. Projects still need a Licence.
Also new:
- The Capture Editor has a key for each tool (O R H S, A L, T, N, B, C, M, I), 1–7 for colours and [ ] for line weight.
- The Shape, Line and Measure menus show each tool's glyph and key.
- A Screen Recording guide sits beside System Settings and shows what to drag into the list.
- The upgrade prompt shows the current price from the site.
1.2.0
Agent Runs: take a screenshot, write what should change, and a coding agent carries it out on its own branch. Bug Fix Mode does the same for a bug report.
Also new:
- The editor has a measure tool, a colour picker, numbered steps, highlight and spotlight. Measurements and picked colours are copied as you go.
- Capture Frame: put a box on screen and take it on a timer, so menus and hover states can be captured.
- A capture can carry several tags and move between Projects, from the island, the editor or the Library.
- Press P or T with the pointer on the island to switch Project or tag without leaving what you're doing.
- The Library shows a tag as a masonry board and can filter a Project by tags.
- Bigshot checks for updates.