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ScreenFloat v2.2.1, a free update for existing customers, is now available on the Mac App Store and includes numerous improvements for cutting recordings, automation, and more.

What is ScreenFloat?

ScreenFloat is your Screenshot All-Rounder.
Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you to reference anything on your screen, anywhere. It’s like Picture-in-Picture, only for screen captures.
It keeps your Desktop clutter-free, as every capture you make is stored in its Shots Browser, where you can manage, organize and find your shots. They’re also synced across your Macs.
Easily copy the non-copyable, as ScreenFloat recognizes text, barcode and faces in your shots, which also allows you to effortlessly redact sensitive parts of your screenshots.
Add non-destructive annotations, redactions and markup, crop, “fold“, resize, or de-retinize your shots, or trim, cut or mute your recordings. Quickly pick colors.
Create shareable and embeddable links for your captures using iCloud, ImageKit.io or Cloudinary.com.
And so much more.

A screenshot is just a screenshot. Until you use ScreenFloat.

Tip: Check out the Get to Know ScreenFloat 2 Blog Post series for a deep-dive into its functionality and what it can do for you.

What’s New in ScreenFloat v2.2.1?

  • When you cut your recordings, you now get more info about the resulting video, where the playhead is, and how long your individual cuts are.
    Also, preview playback has been improved, as well as scrubbing through the recording.
At the top, you now see the duration of the finished recording. At the bottom left, you can see the duration and range of the currently selected cut, and at the bottom right the position of the playhead
  • There’s now an easier way to make new cuts, by holding down X on your keyboard as you play back your recording:
  • Standby Window Capture (macOS 14 or newer required) – grab a screenshot of any window from its green resize button, or from the Capture item in your menu bar.
  • AppleScripts and Shortcuts can now be run on floating shots directly, in addition to the already existing Double-Click Workflow Actions.
Right-click a floating shot to send it off to an AppleScript or Shortcut.
  • The new Permissions overview gives you all the details you need to know about why, how and when ScreenFloat makes use of certain privileges you grant it
  • You’re now able to set a floating shot’s visibility not only to the currently active app, but any currently running app
  • And many more minor improvements and bugfixes, like the Shortcuts app no longer launching right away when setting up a new Double-Click action, or the cutting window remembering its size.

Links and Availability

ScreenFloat is a one-time purchase, exclusively available on the Mac App Store for USD 15.99 / EUR 14,99 / GBP 15.99 , and a free update for existing customers.
A free, 28-day trial is available for download from the website.
It requires macOS 12 Monterey (macOS 14 Sonoma recommended for full functionality)
A (free) iCloud account is required if you want to sync your ScreenFloat library across your Macs.
ScreenFloat is currently localized in English, German, Chinese (Simplified), and Dutch.

ScreenFloat Website + Free Trial
ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store
Eternal Storms Software Productivity Bundle on the Mac App Store (includes ScreenFloat, Yoink for Mac and Transloader at ~25% off)

Get to Know ScreenFloat 2 Blog Post Series
ScreenFloat 2 Usage Tips

Contact & Connect

I hope you enjoy ScreenFloat (and my other apps) : )

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Tameno v1.0.6 is now available, implementing a bunch of improvements and fixes.

What is Tameno?

Tameno is your interval-based, self-repeating timer.
You want to stretch parts of your body 15 seconds each? Tameno.
You’d like to do Yoga poses for 30 seconds each? Tameno.
You want to water each of your hedge-plants for 45 seconds each? Tameno.
You want to brush each side of every quadrant of your teeth equally for 10 seconds? Tameno.
You want to make sure to look away from your screen every 20 minutes? Tameno.
You meditate and re-align every couple of minutes? Tameno.
You want to advance your slideshow at an even pace? Tameno.

The point is: Tameno – Stop counting. Start doing.

It features Siri Shortcuts integration, interactive Widgets, and syncs your recently used intervals across all your devices.

“I’ve been looking for exactly this app!”

Bernd, by eMail

“The only app of its kind! It’s great because of its versatility.”

MolluscaPhylum, Mac App Store (US)

What’s New in Tameno v1.0.6

Bug fixes aside (in some translations, the interval could be cut off, or on the Watch, the Settings screen was not immediately scrollable using the Digital Crown), the following improvements have been made:

  • Better support for Always-On displays on Apple Watch
  • On Apple TV, you can now change the interval by seconds and by minutes, by long-pressing the + and – buttons
  • On Mac, changing the interval by minutes with the arrow keys (left and right) and scrolling (left and right) is now possible. Up and down still changes by seconds
  • On Mac, CPU usage has been drastically reduced if the app is in the background

Availability, Links

Tameno is a universal purchase: buy it on one platform (Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV) and use it on all the others without an additional purchase.
The app is a one-time purchase on the App Stores, at the price of USD/EUR/GBP 3.99, currently available in English and German.

Tameno Website
Tameno on the Mac App Store
Tameno on the iOS App Store

Tameno – Stop counting. Start doing.
Enjoy : )

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ScreenFloat v2.1.1 is now available and comes with a bunch of cool new features and improvements. Read on to learn what’s changed.

What’s ScreenFloat?

ScreenFloat powers up your screenshots and -recordings in numerous ways.
First of all, it can make them float, like Picture-in-Picture; incredibly useful for keeping information always visible when you need to remember or reference something.
Next, it allows you to extract, view and redact information like text lines, faces and barcodes with a simple right-click.
Share and export quickly and easily with drag and drop.
Pick colors.
Crop, “fold”, rotate, resize, “de-retinize”, trim and mute your shots.
Annotate, markup and redact them.
Organize and collect them with its Shots Browser.
Synchronize your shots over iCloud.
And more – see my 8-part (and counting) blog post series “Get to know ScreenFloat 2” for an in-depth look.

What’s New in ScreenFloat v2.1(.1)
Highlight your Mouse Cursor and Keyboard Input in Screen Recordings

You can now highlight the position of your mouse cursor, cursor clicks and pressed keyboard keys in your video recordings, and customize the highlights’ appearance.

You can change the placement of the key stroke highlight, give highlights different colors and strengths and decide which modifier keys should be displayed, or if all keyboard input should be shown.1

I’ve also lowered the system requirements for these new highlights to macOS 12, so every user of ScreenFloat can make use of it!
Speaking of which, I’ve replaced ScreenFloat’s use of the screencapture CLI for video recordings with macOS’ ScreenCaptureKit APIs when running macOS 13 or newer.

Auto-Trim of Ending Video Recordings

ScreenFloat now auto-trims your video recordings so it does not include you ending the recording.
That means, when you go to the menu bar, click ScreenFloat’s icon and select Stop Recording, instead of that being part of the video, it gets trimmed away for you.
Consequently, when you highlight key strokes and use ScreenFloat’s keyboard shortcut to end the recording, that will get trimmed away for you, too.

Selective Audio Removal (All, System, Microphone)

When recording your screen with audio input and output, you can now not only remove all audio from the video later on, but decide if you’d like to remove only the system audio or the microphone audio you recorded.

This can also be set up as part of a double-click workflow for floating shots, of course:

Please note that this only works with captures recorded using ScreenFloat v2.1 – it adds app-specified metadata to the audio tracks to identify them, enabling this feature.

Save and Re-Use Often-Captured Screen Areas

If you find yourself capturing the same area of your screen repeatedly, ScreenFloat now allows you to save that capture area and use it any time you need it during re-capturing.

Aspect Ratios for Re-Capture

Just like when you crop shots in ScreenFloat, you can now set a fixed aspect ratio for your re-captures, making it easy to frame screenshots and recordings in 1:1, 3:2/2:3, 4:3/3:4, and 16:9/9:16 with a simple right-click.

Force-Sync Shots

Shots that would not normally sync because of a limit you have set up (like “only sync images / only sync videos”, or a file size limit), can now be forced to sync in the Shots Browser.

Repair your Database

In the rare case you have double-entries for “All Shots”, or “Trash”, for example, or if you’d like to restore unreferenced image- and video files, or sanitize tags and other metadata, you can launch ScreenFloat in Repair mode by holding down option (⌥) and shift (⇧) when launching it.

Links

ScreenFloat Website (+ free, 28-day trial)
Get to Know ScreenFloat 2 Blog Post Series
ScreenFloat 2 Usage Tips

ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store (one-time purchase)
Eternal Storms Software Productivity Bundle (includes ScreenFloat, Yoink for Mac and Transloader at ~25% off)

If you have any feedback or questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

  1. Keyboard input monitoring begins and ends with video recordings and does not operate at any other time when ScreenFloat is running. Key strokes are neither stored, nor logged, and certainly not transmitted. Input monitoring is exclusively used to display key presses in your video recordings. You can grant and revoke input monitoring permissions any time in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Input Monitoring. Please refer to my privacy policy for further info. ↩︎
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Long story short, I done goofed: A bug snuck into my trial time code and ended it early for some users.
If you experienced this, please feel free to re-download the trial from the website (direct download here) for another, full 28-day trial.
My apologies for the inconvenience!

Links

ScreenFloat Website (+free, 28-day trial)
Get to know ScreenFloat 2 8-part Blog Post Series
ScreenFloat 2 Usage Tips

Purchase ScreenFloat on the Mac App Store
Purchase the Eternal Storms Software Productivity Bundle on the Mac App Store (includes ScreenFloat, Yoink and Transloader at ~25% off)

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