Marquee

A free, open-source menu-bar app for macOS that takes screenshots and screen recordings, measures and picks colors, and remembers everything you copy.

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Contents

• What's new
• Features
• Install
• Using Marquee
• Privacy
• Troubleshooting
• Updates
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• License

What's new

0.5.21

• Copy Text reads QR codes: their contents are copied, and links or email addresses in them get the Open Link prompt.
• A calmer window: Liquid Glass stays on the floating controls, while cards and tiles use quiet solid surfaces, following Apple's design guidelines; plus larger small buttons and better Reduce Motion and Increase Contrast support.

0.5.20

• Open links found by Copy Text: when the text you capture has a web or email address, a glass panel offers to open it (Return) or close it (Esc). The text is copied either way.

0.5.19

• Marquee for Windows preview: an early build for Windows 10 and 11 (tray, shortcuts and settings so far) is in the windows-v pre-releases. Home has a card for it.

0.5.18

• Recordings keep their true colors (no more washed-out video), and Annotate always fits its toolbar.
• Quick Access hides after 20 seconds if unused, and can be tucked to the screen's edge.
• Copy and paste sounds work everywhere, play once, and you can pick them.
• More Liquid Glass: glass cards across every page and a glass tab bar in Settings.
• QuitX: a card on Home and a page in the sidebar for the free menu bar app that quits apps.

0.5.17

• Drag text anywhere in the video editor, with a layers panel to show, hide, reorder and delete text.

0.5.16

• More video editing. Cut sections out of the middle and put text on the video (caption, bold or highlight).
• Mute the mic or hide the camera while recording, and separate voice files saved in a folder with their video.
• Redact three ways in Annotate: pixelate, smooth blur or a solid block, and redactions stay movable. A new Select tool moves any shape.
• Updates show up within the hour: a red dot on the menu bar icon and a notification.
• Windows open in the middle of your screen, and the camera bubble follows its settings right away.

0.5.15

• Edit recordings. Trim, remove the sound, and export as MP4 (original, 1080p or 720p) or GIF, from the ✂ on a recording's thumbnail or Library → Edit….
• Recording resolution. Record at full Retina sharpness, 1080p or 720p.
• A new Quick Access thumbnail. Hover for actions in its corners and Copy in the middle.
• A cleaner annotation editor with one glass toolbar and single-key tools.
• About Marquee shows who makes it, with a Buy Me a Coffee link.

0.5.14

• Ignore apps in clipboard history. Nothing copied in Passwords, Keychain Access or popular password managers is saved, even when the app doesn't mark it as private. Add any other app in Settings → Clipboard → Ignored apps, or right-click an item → Ignore Copies from .

0.5.13

• Liquid Glass everywhere. Every page of the Marquee window shares one macOS 26/27 design: a large title, the page's controls grouped on glass, and matching rounded cards. The update window, onboarding, Quick Access and toolbars match.

0.5.12

• Updates install from anywhere. Opened from the disk image or a protected copy, an update now installs into Applications (asking for your password if your account needs it) and closes any other running copy first, instead of failing with "can't replace itself".

0.5.11

• All-in-One remembers. Screenshot and Record repeat what you used last; the small icon on each switches between Area, Full Screen, Window and Scrolling, with a back button.
• Scrolling capture macOS 14+. One long screenshot of anything that scrolls, by hand or with Auto-scroll. Fixed headers and bottom bars appear once.
• Camera bubble. Show yourself in recordings with any connected camera, in a circle, rounded, square or portrait bubble with an optional glow border. Drag it anywhere, even while recording.
• Your voice as its own file. Optionally save the microphone as an .m4a next to the recording.

0.5.10

• Clipboard categories. Make categories with a name and a color, add any item, and filter by them. Items in a category are kept like pinned ones.
• Link previews. Copied links show the page's title, image and icon.
• A better clipboard panel. It sits on the bottom edge of the screen, a click pastes, times read "5 min ago", and scrolling no longer reaches the app behind it.
• 14 more menu bar icons.

0.5.9

• Measure guides. Press H or V to add a guide; guides snap to edges, show the distance between them, and move with a drag or the arrow keys.
• Measure on every display at once.

0.5.8

• Image and video previews for files you copy in Finder.

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