Snapboard v0.2.0 — Scroll captures that actually stitch, plus QR scan and auto-update

Snapboard v0.2.0 is a big correctness + feature release. Scrolling capture went from "takes a snapshot and forgets to stitch" to PicPick-style content-only captures that work on Chrome, Edge, Electron, Slack, Discord, and Cursor. There's a new QR & barcode scanner, a GitHub-powered auto-updater so you never miss a release again, and a long list of capture polish so Snapboard's own UI never bleeds into your screenshots.

Highlights

Scrolling capture, completely rebuilt

• Content-only selection. Hover any scrollable window and Snapboard outlines just the inner scrollable child in red — no title bar, no tabs, no toolbars. Click once and that's exactly what ends up in the stitched image.
• Correct stitching on long pages. The image stitcher now uses multi-strip overlap correlation and a near-identical-frame detector, so long Chrome/Slack/Discord pages actually combine into one tall image instead of saving the last frame only.
• Live red outline during capture tracks the target window in real time, so you always know what's being recorded.
• Snapboard is invisible to its own captures. The session and outline windows use SetWindowDisplayAffinity(WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE) and Snapboard physically hides its other windows (dashboard, settings) during capture — so the dashboard no longer ends up pasted into your scrollshots.
• Tray toast when capture starts, so background scrolling is never a mystery.
• Results are copied to the clipboard + prompt you to save, same one-shot flow as window capture.

QR & barcode scanner (new)

• Hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+Q (configurable in Settings → Hotkeys).
• Drag a rectangle over any code — QR, Data Matrix, Aztec, PDF-417, Code 128 / 39, EAN-13 / 8, UPC-A / E, ITF — and Snapboard decodes it fully offline via ZXing.Net.
• Smart fallbacks for real-world scans: tiny codes are retried at 3× upscale, light-on-dark "dark-mode" QRs get an automatic colour-inversion pass, and multiple codes in one selection all come back at once.
• Dark modal result window with Copy and — for http(s) URLs only, for safety — a one-click Open link button.

In-app auto-update from GitHub (new)

• Snapboard checks the public GitHub Releases feed on startup and once every 24 h.
• When a newer version exists you get a dark prompt showing the release notes and three choices: Install, Later, or Skip this version.
• Install runs the official installer silently (/SILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /CLOSEAPPLICATIONS /RESTARTAPPLICATIONS), Snapboard quits so the upgrade can land in place, and the installer auto-relaunches Snapboard afterwards — back to the tray, no dashboard flash.
• No telemetry, no analytics — it's literally one unauthenticated GET /repos/Flowdesktech/Snapboard/releases/latest.
• Toggle it off any time under Settings → Updates, or trigger a check manually from the tray menu / Settings.

Window capture polish

• 1-second hide-and-delay before every window capture so the fading dashboard / tray toast never bleeds into the screenshot.
• Snapboard's own windows are temporarily hidden during single-window and scrolling captures.

Installer

• New "Launch Snapboard" checkbox on the final installer page (pre-checked, interactive installs only).
• For silent updates triggered by the auto-updater, the installer launches Snapboard.exe --autostart automatically so the app is back in your tray the moment the upgrade finishes — no manual relaunch needed.

Tray menu clarity

• Every tray menu action now shows its hotkey on the right (via ShortcutKeyDisplayString), so you always know what combo triggers what without opening Settings.
• New Scan QR code entry in the tray menu and the dashboard.

Settings additions

{
  "QrHotkey": "Ctrl+Shift+Q",
  "AutoCheckUpdates": true,
  "LastUpdateCheckUtc": null,
  "SkippedUpdateVersion": null
}

Snapboard 0.1.0

Snapboard 0.1.0 — initial public release

Snapboard is a privacy-first, all-in-one screenshot & screen utility for Windows
10/11. Capture, annotate, blur, OCR, color-pick, measure, pin-to-screen, and
reverse-image-search — all offline, no sign-up, no cloud upload, MIT licensed.
This is the first public release. Everything is in the box; nothing phones home.

Highlights

• Region capture — Lightshot-style drag-to-select with a live pixel readout,
  resize/re-select, and a full annotation toolbar (pen, rectangle, arrow, text,
  blur, undo).
• Window capture (PicPick-style) — a compact dark dropdown lists every open
  top-level window (title + process + icon). Pick one and Snapboard captures
  it via PrintWindow(PW_RENDERFULLCONTENT), copies it to the clipboard, and
  opens a save dialog with a pre-filled filename. Works with hardware-
  accelerated Chromium, Electron, and UWP apps.
• Scrolling capture (auto-scroll + auto-stitch) — click any scrollable
  window and Snapboard takes over: it posts WM_MOUSEWHEEL straight to the
  correct child HWND (so Chrome, Edge, Electron, Slack, Discord, and Cursor
  all work — not just legacy Win32), captures every frame, detects per-frame
  overlap, fires a page-sized booster scroll before declaring the page done,
  then stitches, copies to clipboard, and prompts to save.
• Pin to screen (Snipaste-style) — stick any capture to the desktop as a
  floating, always-on-top card. Drag, zoom (25–400 %), set opacity, stack
  multiple pins. ShareX does not ship this.
• Reverse image search — one-click Google Images + Bing Visual Search from
  the capture toolbar. The bitmap is uploaded directly to the search engine,
  never to a third-party host.
• Privacy-first blur — pixelate passwords, tokens, emails, and account
  details. Layered blurs survive copy and save.
• OCR on selection — extract text via the built-in Windows.Media.Ocr
  engine (no downloads, no cloud).
• Color picker — fullscreen magnifier with HEX / RGB / HSL readouts.
• Pixel ruler — PicPick-style floating ruler with orientation flip,
  resizing, and opacity presets.
• Instant full-screen save for fast documentation flows.
• System-wide configurable hotkeys with startup conflict detection.
• Dark theme everywhere via DWM immersive-dark-mode title bars.
• Launch at sign-in — per-user registry entry, no admin required.

Snapboard vs. alternatives

	Snapboard	Lightshot	PicPick	Greenshot	ShareX
Region capture + annotate	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Window capture (dropdown + save)	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Scrolling capture (auto-scroll)	✓	✗	✓	✗	✓
Pin to screen (Snipaste-style)	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
Reverse image search (Google/Bing)	✓	partial	✗	✗	✗
Sensitive-data blur	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
OCR on selection	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓
Color picker / pixel ruler	✓	✗	✓	—	✓
100 % offline, no account	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Open source (MIT)	✓	✗	✗	GPL	GPL
Free for commercial use	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓

Downloads

File	Description
Snapboard-0.1.0-Setup.exe	Windows installer (recommended — adds Start menu shortcut + uninstaller)
Snapboard-0.1.0-win-x64.exe	Standalone single-file exe, no install required

Requirements

• Windows 10 build 19041+ (2004 / 20H1) or Windows 11, x64
• No .NET runtime install required — the build is self-contained

Default hotkeys

Tool	Default
Region capture	PrtScn
Instant full-screen save	Ctrl+PrtScn
Color picker	Ctrl+Shift+C
OCR on selection	Ctrl+Shift+O
Pixel ruler	Ctrl+Shift+R
All hotkeys are configurable in Settings → Hotkeys.

Known limitations

• x64 only; no ARM64 build yet.
• Some DRM-protected surfaces (Netflix, some secure browser canvases) may
  appear black in window capture — this is a Windows DWM restriction, not a
  Snapboard bug.
• Scrolling capture follows modern wheel-driven scroll containers. Virtualised
  lists with custom scroll handlers (a few enterprise apps) may still require
  manual capture.

Feedback

Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue — this is 0.1.0 and we're actively
iterating.