Changelog

⭐ Improvements

• Cursor size is properly adjusted to the image size
• XS cursor size added as an option

🎁 New Features

• Step text blocks now support html markup
• Cursor' position is marked when capturing with shotcut
• Choose format date ( ISO too) in app settings
• [PPT Export] Adjustable Guide and Step titles alignment during export
• [PDF Export] Page size can be changed to A3, A4, A5, Letter, Legal
• [WORD export] New Simplified template can be chosen to export guide in a simple format without tables, etc
• Account name can be changed via Account Settings

⭐ Improvements

• Updated at column in Guides List
• [PPT export] Master slides fully reworked for easy styling.
• During export latest export template is stored and preselected

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Multiple small bugs and issues are fixed

🔧 Changes

• Doc export speed improvements
• Dutch translation 🇳🇱
• Step text block is saved on adding new one
• Compatibility mode for Folge to work properly with screensharing

⚠️ ⚠️ This is an experimental build which has major speed improvements for capturing on Mac and Windows. If you experience any issues with capturing please contact me at [email protected]

🔧 Changes

• Capturing speed is now about 3 times faster
• Fully discontinued support for Windows 32-bit. From now on Folge only works on 64bit Windows
• Windows build is now half the size it was
• PDF footer and header are properly aligned when a logo is used
• Styles of substeps are aligned across all HTML and PDF exports
• Guide description correctly displays indentations
• When exporting to HTML, JSON, or Markdown, user-defined image paths are correctly handled on Windows and Mac

🎁 New Features

• Automatic Bulk Blur - Automatically blur areas across multiple steps
• Blur can now be either blurry or pixelated

⭐ Improvements

• Arrow tool can have two arrowheads
• In Word export, step titles are now headings and support automatic Table of Contents
• When exporting original images, PNG or JPG formats are properly preserved
• Footer and header in Word exports are properly sized and work in Google Docs as well
• Images in Word export don't overlap

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Focused view properly responds to image replacement
• Small blur areas no longer resize to larger ones
• Fixed A4 height in PDF export
• Shadow works properly for both regular and pointy arrows
• Markdown export step titles don't have anchors when Table of Contents is hidden
• On Windows first click during capturing sometimes didn't work
• Improve UI recognition on Windows

🎁 New Features

• Automated Annotations - Folge detects elements you click and prefills step title

⭐ Improvements

• When holding shift, on canvas snap with 45 degrees step
• Rich HTML has "Description before/after image" option

🔧 Bug Fixes

• When dragging step down in list, it was jumping to +1 position
• Dragging step out of step list could remove it

🎁 New Features

• Folge Cloud Beta - Export your guides as online guides, share with others 💥
• Folge Cloud supports embedding guides as widgets

⭐ Improvements

• Adding new steps to existing guide is now much faster especially on big guides with > 100 steps
• Toolsbar active icon is better indicated
• Esc key deselects active object, or returns to the normal mode if any tool is chosen
• App alerts if step block is unsaved when navigating away
• 'Add New Step' button creates step at the bottom of the steps list
• 'Change Parent Step' feature correctly preserves the step order and adds steps at the bottom of the list
• When adding a new step, or navitaging to the guide, steps list automatically scrolls and focuses on the selected step
• Focused zoom is more precise
• Pasting images into Folge as new steps doesn't crash the app anymore
• Markdown export' image paths now always match user entered template
• Markdown export properly strips out image attributes

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Color picker cant hang the app anymore (yes, this is a surprise to me it could!)
• Step number text align now works
• Tooltip text color is working properly
• Focused view panel is properly positioned for smaller images
• DND placeholder has proper size when dragging steps
• Fix broken styles in Rich HTML export for multiimage steps

🎁 New Features

• Timer in Simple Capture - Take screenshots with a delay
• Markdown export can embed images
• Mardown' TOC has links to steps
• Select date format dd/mm or mm/dd in application settings
• Change size of the cursor that marks clicks
• Ctrl/CMD + Shift + V inserts image from your clipboard as a new step
• Configure the step number size
• Step number size is preserved between steps

⭐ Improvements

• Folge can now capture applications working in full screen mode
• Fully refactored steps list and dragging. Now works like a charm!
• Ctrl/CMD + Shift + Del deletes current step
• Full screen capture mode works with any screen, not only with the chosen one
• Active Window can be captured with hotkeys
• 'Add New Step' button moved to the top
• 'Add New Step' context menu improved

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Region capture correctly stores coordinates when switching between modes
• In the Guides List number of steps doesn't display deleted steps
• Folge properly works with 2 and more external monitors
• Substeps in HTML exports now have div wrapping them

🎁 New Features

• App is available in Spanish
• Focused view. ✨ Automatically crop and focus your screenshots to speed up guide creation. Read more here.
• Restore guides into folders. Ability to restore guides into certain folders.
• Customize and display substep elements. From now on, multi-image steps can display their substep's titles, images, and descriptions. Define order and visibility per element! Read more here.
• Change parent step by right clicking. You can select one or multiple steps, right-click and select the new parent step without dragging and dropping images. Read more here.

⭐ Improvements

• App no longer freezes when adding new captures to a guide with many steps.
• Use CMD/Ctrl + Shift + Arrows to move between steps
• Pressing Tab always focuses on the Step Title. Following Tab focuses on the step description editor.
• New text edit cursor.
• Export document filename can now be one of the following: 1) Original Guide Title; 2) Sanitized with hyphens; 3) Sanitized with underscores
• Showing custom cursor when dragging handles on canvas
• Step text blocks can now be reordered
• Textbox can be resized on drawing
• Dragging steps with substeps is now allowed

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Step numbers can be letters and numbers
• If something goes wrong during capturing, Folge doesn't crash but restores its state
• In rich HTML header logo doesn't have a border
• In rich HTML, ToC can't get bigger than the screen and is now scrollable

🎁 New Features

• App is available in Portuguese . Thank you, José, for your help!
• Header logo in Rich HTML. You can now add your logo to the rich HTML export, and it will nicely hover on the right.
• New Crop UI. Completely reworked standalone Crop UI for pixel-perfect crops 🤌.
• Bulk crop multiple images. Ability to crop multiple images at the same time. It saves you time!
• Fit image into width/height. By default, images are resized into max width/height during export so they all look the same.
• Grab mode. In the editor, press Space to grab and move the canvas.

⭐ Improvements

• Backup guides directly from the guides list by selecting multiple and choosing the Backup option.
• Import steps dialog now has search functionality
• Step numbers can be locked to preserve numbers, even if the previous step number has been deleted.
• Improved steps nesting experience; now UI visualizes nesting.
• New text blocks positions: before, after the title, and before, after the image
• Localized dates everywhere in the UI and exports
• Images are optimized when exported, so the final export is smaller

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Scrolling was happening when the spacebar was pressed.
• Clicking outside of the steps list doesn't unfocus the current step anymore
• OCR footer is not displayed mid-screen anymore
• Fix guide description for rich HTML so it is visible on smaller screens
• Make images in simple html respect alignment
• Hide empty titles in PDF

🎁 New Features

• Start screen, bye bye 👋 . You welcomed Folge users for almost 3 years, thank you for your hard work. From now on Folge opens the Guides List screen right away
• Step text blocks. Add more context, information or warnings to your steps with text blocks that can be created for each step and placed before or after the step description. How to use Text Blocks
• Automated backups. No need to manually backup guides anymore. Automated backups can be performed in the background, and backup all your work to local or shared locations. More about Automated Backups
• Shadow control. It is now possible to edit shadows, and not just enable or disable it. Color, distance, blur can be adjusted.
• Draw straight lines. Lines and Arrows can be drawn while holding the Shift key to achieve perfectness
• Separate Apple Silicon Build. From now on Folge will have a separate Apple Silicon build which makes Folge notably faster on new chipsets.

⭐ Improvements

• Show spinner when deleting/moving/duplicating multiple guides at once.
• Simple Capture mode now loads faster.
• PDF export template looks better.
• Actions with steps in the Step List now performed via right click and context menues.
• Reworked the watermark for free users.
• Markdown export: switched to using Markdown Extra to support more elements.
• Markdown export: headings are properly represented with each nesting level.
• Active window capturing is faster.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Properly display scrolling for a very long guides list table.
• Step image border color picker is displayed properly in the export settings.
• When drawing vertical lines or arrows they sometimes were changing angle.
• Copy pasting assets from one step to another was sometings buggy
• Adjust mark click area and cursor during capturing, sizes are now properly scaled
• Switching between region and active window modes works as expected.