Magpie 2.1: straight into the editor

Taking a screenshot you already know you're going to annotate meant taking it, waiting for the overlay card, and hitting a small button on a thumbnail before it timed out. Capture & Annotate (⌥⇧E) skips all of that: drag out an area and land in the annotation editor. It has its own row in Settings ▸ Shortcuts and its own entry in the menu-bar menu.

The other change is at the other end of a recording. The pre-record panel now carries system audio and microphone toggles next to the format and frame-rate pickers, so turning the mic on is a decision you make where you start recording rather than a trip into Settings beforehand. Switching it on asks for permission right there, and if you denied access at some point in the past it sends you to the Microphone privacy pane instead of failing silently. A Microphone picker in Settings ▸ Capture ▸ Recording lists every input on your Mac: "System Default" follows the macOS Sound setting, and pinning a specific mic falls back to the default if it happens to be unplugged when you hit Record.

Scrolling capture stops fighting you

Scrolling capture used to take your mouse for the duration. It doesn't now. The pointer is placed inside the region once, when the capture starts, and after that it's yours: move it within the region and the scrolls follow it, move it outside and the capture simply pauses (the chip says "Paused") until you bring it back. Stop and Cancel are reachable the whole way through.

The edge handles are also visible for the first time. They were described in the hint, but they drew nothing at all, and macOS routes clicks in fully transparent window areas straight through to whatever is underneath, so they couldn't be clicked either. Each edge has a grabber tab now. The hint tells the truth too: fixed headers and footers are detected automatically, and the handles are there for marking one yourself when the detection needs help.

Two fixes from 2.1.2 worth knowing about

Microphone recording didn't work at all in the shipped 2.1 build. The release was missing the hardened-runtime audio-input entitlement, so macOS denied access silently: no permission prompt ever appeared, and Magpie never even showed up in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Microphone. If you tried the new mic toggle and got nothing out of it, that's why, and 2.1.2 puts it right.

Captures also match your screen again. Screenshots were being converted to sRGB on the way in, which on a wide-gamut Mac display clamps colors and dims antialiased text, so captures came out slightly washed out and fuzzier than the real thing. Every capture is now taken and saved in Display P3 with the profile embedded, and it survives the whole pipeline: scrolling stitches, Retina downscaling and annotated exports all keep the wide gamut. The color picker still reports hex in standard sRGB, so picked values keep matching what design tools expect.

Magpie is $9.99 one time for 3 Macs, with a 14-day full Pro trial and screenshots free forever after that. Grab it from the Magpie page or with Homebrew: brew install --cask skulkworks/tap/magpie. Full details are in the changelog.