Changelog

Fixed

• capkiku no longer crashes on launch when an unfinished capture is waiting. 1.0.18 opened Recovery before the app object existed.

Fixed

• Saving a capture to another folder is only for that file. Settings still shows the default folder, and the next capture goes there.

Fixed

• USB microphones record as You. The previous build enabled Apple voice processing on every input, which can mute a USB mic. Voice processing stays on for the built-in mic only. If the microphone cannot start, Review keeps that warning even when Others was silent.

Fixed

• After allowing Control Scrolling, the scrolling-capture intro card’s Select Region and Cancel buttons work again. The card is a real key window instead of a modal panel that swallowed clicks and greyed the menu extra.

Fixed

• Turning on Check automatically no longer turns on Launch at login, Include diagnostics, or Record my microphone as You. Changing Others, Microphone, or While recording no longer rewrites the other menus.

Added

• Send Feedback… in the menu extra, the Help menu, and Settings opens a Mail draft to feedback@capkiku.com. Every draft includes the app version and macOS version. Captures are not attached. Include diagnostics (off by default) adds permission and phase state; folder paths, app names, and transcripts stay off.

Fixed

• The website permissions list now says capkiku asks for Accessibility for scrolling capture. It had been listed under Never asks for.

Fixed

• Sparkle shows this version’s release notes in the updater. 1.0.11 and 1.0.12 were published without per-version notes files, so Sparkle fell back to a compact Skip / Install alert.

Added

• Capture a scrolling region while capkiku automatically scrolls, stitches, and recognizes the page.
• Pause, resume, or finish from a compact floating control panel.

Improved

• Ignore sticky headers, sidebars, and local animations while stitching long pages.
• Keep scrolling through temporary alignment ambiguity until the page actually stops.
• Deduplicate clipped OCR lines across stitched overlaps.
• Make Screen Recording and Control Scrolling prompts, relaunches, cancellation, and foreground recovery reliable.
• Polish Review inspector motion and scrolling-permission prompts.

This release makes screen and system-audio permission recovery reliable after updates, improves first-use on-device transcription guidance, hardens multi-display capture, refreshes stale Recent bookmarks, and prevents rapid audio stop/start teardown races.

Fixed

• Report System Audio status only after a real recording verifies it, with clearer retry and System Settings guidance.
• Explain Apple’s macOS 26 on-device speech-model download and surface transcription failures without implying uploads.
• Wait for a stable display layout before region selection, with a clear retry if displays are changing.
• Refresh stale security bookmarks for Recent captures without slowing availability checks.
• Drain in-flight audio callbacks before finalizing the files to prevent tail-buffer loss and teardown races.

Fixed

• Launch at login, Check automatically, and Record my microphone as You once again use native compact switches aligned with the rest of the Settings control column.
• Layout regression checks now cover every Settings pane at the minimum and standard window widths.

Fixed

• Screen Recording can now be requested again when macOS keeps a stale or denied permission after an update.
• If macOS does not show capkiku or a permission prompt, the app opens the correct Settings pane and explains how to add capkiku.app with +.
• When macOS accepts Screen Recording but requires a full relaunch, capkiku now says Restart required and offers Quit capkiku instead of showing contradictory recovery instructions.
• Development packages use a separate app identity with no production update feed, preventing test builds from interfering with the production app's privacy permissions.
• Release verification now blocks updates that change capkiku's designated code requirement and would invalidate existing macOS permissions.

Changed

• Review, OCR, and save states now use brief, purposeful motion that follows macOS Reduce Motion. The Review inspector uses the native trailing-column transition, and Settings carries its selection between panes.
• Action buttons now use one content-sized macOS treatment: teal capsules for primary actions and matching neutral capsules for secondary actions.
• Preview and Saved Capture keep their content clean instead of decorating it with capture brackets.
• Review Audio no longer repeats the window title inside the content.
• Copy actions in Review, Receipts, and Recents now confirm only after the text reaches the clipboard.

Fixed

• Launch-time recovery windows now come to the foreground instead of opening behind another app.
• Review keeps its three panes within the window while the inspector opens and closes.
• Settings booleans use one compact macOS switch, permission actions share one height, dark permission states stay legible, and Review toolbar hover feedback no longer draws doubled button chrome.
• The region selector keeps Kiku and the FRAME! prompt farther below the menu bar without overlapping each other.
• The final setup step no longer frames Kiku with decorative capture corners.

Fixed

• Downloaded updates now keep their install window visible, so you can finish installing and relaunch capkiku.

Added

• Launch at login in Settings → General.
• Check for Updates… in the menu and automatic update checks in Settings. The Sparkle feed is signed; captures still never leave this Mac.

Fixed

• Kiku and the FRAME! callout now stay in the top-right of the region selector, clear of the Dock and capture controls.
• Removed the redundant Audio Settings… menu item.
• Closing a screenshot review no longer stops or saves an unrelated live recording.
• Starting and immediately stopping a recording no longer leaves an open audio file behind.
• Quitting during transcription no longer opens a second review for the cancelled job.

Fix Delete Draft leaving the unfinished-capture window stuck.

Remove the radiating koma lines from setup, Recents, and draft recovery.

Clean first-run identity.

Leftover dev copies of the same bundle ID could make Screen Recording look allowed in System Settings while the running app still saw it as denied, and they reused the old capture folder. After you allow Screen Recording, quit and reopen.

Proper Kiku app icon.

The canvas is teal; the face is the canonical inverse logo (cream bubble, teal strokes, coral cheeks), used verbatim. Finder applies the macOS squircle.

Install: unzip capkiku.zip and move capkiku.app to Applications.

Installable capkiku.app for Applications.

v1.0.0 was Developer ID signed and notarized, but it shipped as capkiku-local-capture.app with no icon. Its zip also contained AppleDouble ._* files, so a normal unzip could break the signature and Gatekeeper would treat the app as damaged.

This build is the product app:

• capkiku.app (drag to Applications)
• Kiku app icon
• Developer ID signed, timestamped, notarized, and stapled
• Zip has no resource forks; unzip still produces a sealed, Gatekeeper-accepted app

Requirements: macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon.

Superseded by v1.0.1.

This first stable zip was Developer ID signed and notarized, but it shipped as capkiku-local-capture.app with no icon. The zip also contained AppleDouble ._* files, so unzipping it could break the code signature.

Use v1.0.1 (capkiku.zip → capkiku.app) instead.