Responsive capture. A new Responsive button captures the page at
desktop, tablet, and phone widths and sets the three side by side in one image with
a transparent background. A switch above the preview shows the set as one image or
as three stacked screenshots, and Download saves the view you’re looking at. You can
set your own tablet and phone widths in Settings.
Changed
Mac shortcuts are now Control+Shift+1 through 4. macOS keeps
Command+Shift+3 and 4 for its own screenshots, so Peel’s Region and Element
shortcuts never worked on a Mac. If you never changed your shortcuts, they move over
when you update. Windows and Linux stay on Ctrl+Shift+1 through 4.
Fixed
The Copy capture action copies again. With the format set to PNG or
PDF, the preview opened but nothing reached the clipboard.
Polish and fixes, including the element picker’s slider no longer flashing at the
top of the page before its panel appears.
Switching tabs mid-capture no longer mixes in the other page. If
you move to another tab while Peel is capturing, it now stops cleanly, puts the page
back how it was, and tells you what happened.
Downloads no longer hold things up. With Download as your capture
action, the page is restored as soon as the capture is done instead of waiting for
the file to save, you can start your next capture right away, and small files that
save instantly no longer leave Peel stuck.
Smoother crop and Beautify animations. Framing and cropping now
ease into place on every capture, including ones that fit at 100%, and no longer
stutter at the end on large captures. Beautify’s sliders also keep up with your drag
on very long screenshots.
Polish and fixes, including no more flash around the capture when you apply or
cancel a crop, and Crop and Beautify now apply instantly when you use their keyboard
shortcuts.
Beautify’s sliders keep up with your drag. Padding, corners, and
shadow now track the slider instead of trailing it, settling to the full-quality
frame the moment you let go. Downloads, copies, and PDFs always use the settled
version.
Polish and fixes across the preview and the popup, including smoother crop
transitions.
Crop, right in the preview. A new Crop button opens a session over
your capture: drag a rectangle with eight handles, see the live size, and apply with
Enter or back out with Esc. Rule-of-thirds guides appear while you drag, arrow keys
nudge a handle, holding Alt (Option on Mac) resizes from the center like photo
editors, and reopening Crop returns you to your last rectangle.
Keyboard shortcuts in the preview. Press
C for crop, B for Beautify,
= and - to step the zoom,
0 to fit the window, and 1
for actual size.
An Animations toggle in Settings. Turn it off and every transition
in Peel’s own UI becomes instant, from the popup to the element picker. Your
system’s reduced-motion preference is always respected either way.
Reset all settings. A new control in Settings puts everything back
to its default, with a two-click confirm so it cannot happen by accident.
Improved
The preview opens fitted to your window. A capture larger than the
window now starts scaled to fit instead of at 100% with the bottom off screen, and
that fit becomes a step on the zoom control that keeps tracking through crops and
resizes until you zoom yourself.
Peel’s own tooltips. Buttons now show a rounded, high-contrast
tooltip with the keyboard shortcut next to the label, replacing the browser’s plain
ones.
Beautify feels more direct. The sliders and the color picker now
update the frame the instant you move them instead of after a pause, and corner
radius is a slider too.
Element picker polish. The panel is easier to read, the selection
slider now labels its ends Wider and Narrower so it is clear what dragging does, and
“Hide parts” is now called “Hide elements”.
Fixed
The preview toolbar no longer overlaps itself in narrow windows.
Switching theme in the preview now updates every control in the same frame, instead
of the page flipping first and the buttons catching up.
Better dark mode contrast throughout, and the previewed capture now carries a subtle
edge so it separates from the background.
Turning transparent background off and on again no longer clears your trim setting.
Beautify is fast now, and long screenshots no longer freeze the
preview. Framing a tall full-page capture used to lock up the preview tab
for about ten seconds on every change, whether you opened the panel, dragged a
slider, or picked a background. That same capture now frames in about a quarter of a
second. Ordinary captures got quicker too, so clicking through backgrounds feels
immediate instead of laggy. The frames themselves look exactly the same.
Seven new Beautify backgrounds. Gold, Lush, Sky, and Ember fill the
gaps in the palette, and three understated neutrals (Mist, Stone, and Cream) are
there for when you want a frame that stays out of the way.
Improved
Beautify frames look considerably better. Softer, more realistic
shadows that lean on the background’s color, smoother rounded corners, and a fix for
gradients that washed out through the middle. Frames now start on a soft neutral
grey with lighter padding, replacing the Auto background that guessed a color for
you.
Screenshots are now named after the site they came from. The
default file name pattern is {site}-{timestamp}, so a capture saves as
something like github.com-2026-08-03 instead of
peel-2026-08-03. If you have set your own pattern, nothing changes.
Polish across the Settings page, which is now grouped into clearer sections, and the
preview’s options popover in narrow windows.
Fixed
Clicking a dropdown or a text field with the mouse no longer leaves a focus ring
around it. Keyboard users still get the ring.
Full-page captures are faster on pages with broken or lazily loaded images. Peel
used to wait over a second per section for images that were never going to finish
loading; it now skips them.
Capturing too quickly, like double-tapping a shortcut, no longer shows a cryptic
Chrome error. Peel retries automatically, and if it still cannot capture it explains
what happened in plain words.
A site’s own styles can no longer hide Peel’s on-page UI. Aggressive page CSS could
wash out or hide the selection highlight and the countdown while leaving the capture
running; they now stay visible everywhere.
Cancelling a full-page capture during the countdown no longer leaves the popup stuck
on “Cancelling…”.
A batch of smaller fixes: the element picker no longer selects Peel’s own tip toast,
moving the selection onto a part you hid no longer produces a blank capture, copying
a screenshot viewed as JPEG now matches what is on screen, and quick double copies
no longer leave the toolbar button showing a stuck checkmark.
Full-page capture now gets pages that scroll sideways. A page wider
than your window used to be cut off at the right edge of the screen. Peel now
captures it as a grid, working across each row before moving down, and stitches
everything into one image the full width and height of the page.
Stop a long capture and keep what it got. While a full-page or
tall-element capture runs, the popup now shows Stop next to Cancel. Stop ends the
capture where it is and keeps everything captured so far, opening it in the preview
as a shorter screenshot. Cancel still throws the whole thing away, and Esc still
cancels.
Improved
Peel no longer asks for access to all websites. The install prompt
drops “Read and change all your data on all websites”. Peel now gets access to a
single tab only at the moment you ask it to capture, and loses that access as soon
as the tab navigates. Nothing about your settings or saved captures changes, and no
one is re-prompted on update.
Fixed
Elements pinned to the screen that are taller than the window now capture in full
instead of repeating their top section over and over. This completes the fix that
landed for sticky elements.
Pinned headers and sidebars no longer leave stray fragments scattered down a
full-page screenshot. Some sites could sneak pieces of their pinned chrome past
Peel’s hiding step, most visibly on Reddit, where the left gutter picked up dozens
of stray slivers.
A capture that loses access to its tab now says so and tells you to try again,
instead of wrongly claiming the page cannot be captured.
Save as PDF. PDF is now a format option alongside PNG, JPEG, and
WebP. Pick it in the preview to save exactly the capture you are looking at as a
PDF, framing and all. Choose a single page sized to the screenshot, or split a long
capture across A4 or Letter pages in portrait or landscape, and optionally stamp
every page with the page URL and the date. You can also set PDF as your default
format in Settings, so a capture goes straight to a PDF file without opening the
preview.
True color on wide-gamut displays. On a Display P3 screen,
screenshots now keep the richer colors you actually see on the page. Peel used to
quietly flatten them at several points along the way, including on every copy to
clipboard. A new Color profile setting decides whether exports keep those colors or
convert to sRGB for the widest compatibility, and wide-gamut captures get a
per-capture Color option in the preview plus a small P3 badge. PDFs are always sRGB,
since PDF viewers cannot read wide-gamut color reliably.
Improved
The preview toolbar is tidier. The format dropdown is always visible, and the other
output options now live behind the sliders button at every window size.
Fixed a rare case where the popup showed a raw “Could not establish connection”
error, most often right after the extension updated. Peel now retries automatically,
and if it still cannot connect it shows a clear message instead. A failed full-page
capture start also no longer leaves the popup stuck on “Capturing…”.
Fixed random capture failures where Peel would error out on pages that were still
loading or had just been reloaded. It now waits for the page and retries cleanly
instead of showing a connection error.
Tall element captures are more reliable: they no longer hide sticky elements while
capturing, they line up correctly on pages scrolled sideways, and you can now cancel
one from the popup the same way as a full-page capture.
Improved
Smoother, subtler animations across the preview panels, buttons, and the element
picker.
Element captures taller than the screen are no longer cut off. When you pick an
element that runs past the bottom of the window, Peel now scrolls through it and
stitches the whole thing into one image, the same way full-page capture works. If
the element is fully scrolled out of view, Peel scrolls to it for you.
Fixed
Triggering a capture with a keyboard shortcut while another capture is already
running no longer starts a second, overlapping one.
Switching the default format to JPEG in Settings no longer overwrites your saved
JPEG quality.
An element capture that fails partway through no longer leaves the page looking
broken.
Hide parts, a new way to clean up an element capture. After you
pick an element, turn on Hide parts and click the bits you don’t want left in (a
stray button, a label) to drop them. Marked parts show a dashed outline and a live
count; click one again to bring it back, or Reset to clear them all. With
transparent background on, the hidden areas come out transparent.
Improved
The preview toolbar no longer overlaps itself on narrow or split-screen windows. Its
controls now tuck away neatly as the window gets smaller.
Beautify now gives small or thin captures, like a single button, a proper amount of
padding around them instead of a barely-visible frame.
Finer zoom control in the preview, now in 10% steps.
Fixed
Changing the image format in the preview no longer snaps the zoom back to 100%.
Capturing while on the Chrome Web Store no longer shows a confusing error. Pages
that genuinely cannot be captured (browser system pages, the extensions gallery) now
show a clear “cannot capture this page” message up front.
The preview no longer spins forever if a screenshot fails to load. It now shows an
error instead.
Improved
Friendlier, more consistent wording across capture, preview, and download error
messages, plus minor polish.
Beautify, a new way to frame a screenshot in the preview. Click the
sparkles button to set your capture on a colorful background with rounded corners
and a soft drop shadow, then fine-tune it in the panel that opens.
Cancel a full-page capture while it runs. When you start one, the popup shows a
Capturing status with a Cancel button (or press Esc). It runs in the background, so
you can close and reopen the popup and still stop it. Cancelling leaves the page
exactly as it was, with no half-finished screenshot.
Press Enter to capture the element you have selected in the element picker, without
reaching for the Capture button.
Improved
The element picker can now grab icons. Clicking an icon that is drawn as artwork,
like the icon inside a button, selects it instead of doing nothing.
The selection highlight now stays locked onto your chosen element while you scroll
the page or resize the window.
Fixed
Clicking a link while the element picker is open no longer navigates away and loses
your selection.
Pressing Esc to close the picker no longer affects the page behind it, so it will
not close a popup or lightbox you were trying to capture.
Element captures stay accurate even if the page scrolls or changes while the picker
is open.
Full-page captures of long pages are more reliable. Lazy-loaded images now finish
loading before each section is captured, so you no longer get blank or half-loaded
pictures in the screenshot.
Pages that keep loading more content as you scroll (infinite scroll) no longer
create a runaway, never-ending image. Peel captures the page as it is when you
start, so scroll down first if you want more of it included.
Fixed
Fixed a visible seam where two sections met on pages with a header that pins to the
top as you scroll.
Headers and banners that pin to the top once you start scrolling no longer repeat
down the screenshot.
Image resolution setting for high-density captures. Choose Full to keep their native
resolution, or Standard to save them at 1x for smaller files. Set a default in
Options, or pick per screenshot from the new Resolution dropdown in the preview.
Drag to pan in the preview. When a zoomed or large capture spills past the window,
grab the image and drag to move around it.
Improved
Zooming in the preview now expands from the top center of the view instead of the
top left, so the part you are looking at stays in place.
The element picker now lands on the actual card or container when you click through
deeply nested layout wrappers, instead of stopping on an inner wrapper.
Choose what happens after you capture: open the preview tab, download immediately,
or copy to clipboard. Set your preference once in Options and it applies to every
screenshot.
When Download is selected, you can also turn on “Skip preview” so the preview tab
doesn’t open at all.
Improved
Options page toggles are easier to use - clicking the label now flips the switch.
Cleaner layout with hints placed right next to the controls they describe.
The element picker panel is now a floating card you can drag anywhere on the page.
Grab the handle at the top to move it out of the way of the element you’re
capturing. Peel remembers where you left it for next time.
If you start a viewport or full-page capture while the element or region picker is
still open, the picker now closes first instead of showing up in your screenshot.
Element captures with transparent background no longer pick up stray bits of the
picker bar when the element you’re grabbing sits behind it.
The element picker now remembers where you first clicked. Drag the slider left to
widen your selection out to a parent, or drag right to narrow into a child. If Peel
picks too big an area, you can dial it in without starting over.
Options to automatically copy every screenshot to your clipboard and/or
auto-download it, so you don’t have to click through the preview.
Region capture now shows crosshair guides and a live size readout while you drag.
Changed
Filename patterns got a refresh. {host} is now {site},
{mode} is gone, and {timestamp} now uses a clean date like
2026-04-12 instead of a long timestamp.
Fixed
Downloads now use the filename pattern you set in options, instead of a random ID.
Options page no longer occasionally fails to save quality settings.
Keyboard shortcuts for all four capture modes: ⌘+Shift+1 through ⌘+Shift+4.
Options page for defaults. Pick your preferred format, quality, countdown length,
transparent background, trim behavior, and filename pattern.
Countdown timer before viewport and full-page captures. Useful for capturing hover
states and menus. Press Esc to cancel.
Save as JPEG or WebP in addition to PNG. Transparent captures automatically use a
format that supports transparency.
Friendlier error message when you try to capture a Chrome system page or the Web
Store, instead of a silent failure.
When something goes wrong, Peel now shows a red badge on the toolbar icon and an
error message in the preview tab, including for keyboard-shortcut captures that fail
before the popup opens.
Peel keeps your last 5 captures so switching tabs mid-preview doesn’t lose your
screenshot.