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The Cropped Blog.
New every week.
What's new in Cropped each week, with pictures from the app. Follow along on @croppedapp or by RSS.
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Cropped Core is now free, forever
The whole capture, record, crop and optimize app is now free on Mac, Windows and Linux, with no account and no card. Pro adds sharing, video, guides and AI for $24.99 a year.
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A warm welcome to Jeff Black, our new Co-Founder
Jeff Black is joining Cropped as a Co-Founder. Jeff designed the new cropped.app and the cleaner look in the app, and there's much more ahead.
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A major upgrade to Cropped, with much more ahead
A redesigned Annotate, padding numbers while you pick an area, capture sounds, video recipes for many videos at once, names and descriptions in the Drop Zone, and a new look for cropped.app.
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This week in Cropped: Share link, a simpler Drop Zone, an accessibility check and Intel Macs
Share any capture as a link people can comment on with nothing to set up, a simpler Drop Zone, one-file .cropped projects you can send, an accessibility check for screenshots, a cleaner Studio and Cropped on Intel Macs.
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This week in Cropped: Jump Cuts, HDR video, smaller PDFs and several windows in one screenshot
Jump Cuts takes the pauses and retakes out of a talking video, captions now edit the video itself, HDR videos stay bright from import to export, the Drop Zone shrinks PDFs, and one capture can hold several windows.
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This week in Cropped: Jump Cuts, editing a video from its words, and Early Access pricing ends Friday
Jump Cuts takes the pauses, ums and retakes out of a talking video for you, captions now edit the video itself, and the Mac app installs like any other. Buy by Friday, October 23 at 11:59 pm PT to get the Early Access price and keep every Pro tool for life.
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This week in Cropped: a cleaner Studio, website capture everywhere and subject tracking
A cleaner Studio with Fill and Record a how-to, plus: record any website at every screen size on Mac, Windows and Linux, preview every social size before you export, put callouts on the video timeline, follow a moving subject, remove backgrounds and make captions, all on your own computer.
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This week in Cropped: screenshots and recording on Mac, Windows and Linux, a video timeline and AI tools
Cropped learned to take screenshots and record the screen on Mac, Windows and a new Linux Beta, gained a video timeline with music and a voiceover, and opened its tools to Claude, Cursor and Codex.
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Cropped so far: from a drop window to a full Studio
How Cropped grew through September, from a window you drop images on to a Studio for images and videos with smart crop, social sizes, GIF and video presets, and a lifetime license.