Retrace v0.9.0

This release brings together the improvements made since v0.8.7 in April: a more useful activity dashboard, better search and timeline navigation, capture improvements, and fixes reported by the community.

Privacy during conference calls

• Added automatic face blurring during detected conference calls.
• Added a menu-bar action to disable face blurring for the current call after confirming that participants consented to unblurred recording.
• Added call-protection and consent status to the dashboard.

Understand your activity over an exact period

• Enter exact dates and times in the existing dashboard date-range picker. Date-only input still selects the full local day.
• Open a chosen dashboard range from another app with retrace://dashboard?start=...&end=....
• Get the app/window breakdown before slower charts finish loading. Custom ranges skip unrelated all-time storage scans.
• See improved browser and website usage breakdowns. Dashboard engagement counts respect the selected time bounds.

Search and navigate more easily

• Improved search-result deduplication and faster navigation between matches within a frame.
• Better handling of shell commands and technical text in searches.
• Improved keyboard shortcuts, search focus, copy/paste, calendar controls, and natural-language date jumping, including numeric offsets such as “2 days from now” and compact times such as “feb 28 1417”.
• Restored select-all and clipboard shortcuts in the settings search field, while leaving shortcuts with whichever field is focused.
• Easier access to comments, tags, hiding, and deletion through the timeline’s context controls.

A more predictable timeline

• Fixed the timeline closing when a window becomes active on another display.
• Improved focus behavior when using the live view and interacting with other windows.
• Prevented stale pagination results from replacing a newer view.
• Improved cached-frame decoding and bounded still-image cleanup so it does not hold up capture.

Capture quality and OCR

• Improved capture color fidelity by preserving screen color information during encoding.
• Refined capture quality defaults and made storage estimates easier to understand.
• Improved window-change capture behavior and menu-bar capture feedback.
• Fixed foreground app/window attribution when Computer Use and screen-sharing indicators are present.
• Added “Set to Max Priority when Plugged In” in Power settings: OCR temporarily uses Max processing while connected to power and returns to your saved priority when unplugged.

Reliability and everyday fixes

• Clearer alerts when the recording pipeline is interrupted.
• More reliable handling of inactive recording writers, duplicate launches, and relaunch handoffs.
• Fixed pause-reminder presentation, low-storage banner updates, and quit-confirmation behavior.
• Improved Rewind cutoff setup and guidance for browser features that are not supported.
• More consistent appearance and clearer settings descriptions.
• Smaller feedback diagnostic exports and better control over when diagnostics are included.

Updating

Open Settings → General → Updates → Check for Updates. The release targets macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon.