Capture, instant links and Undo

Capture, then the link

Give Capture and upload a shortcut, or click Capture in the panel, and macOS's own screenshot tool opens: select an area, or press Space to pick a window, and Esc cancels. The screenshot is uploaded like a pasted image and its link copied, so Use For, image processing and the destination's path apply as for any image. The first time, Aktar asks for Screen Recording, which macOS's tool needs. On Windows, the shortcut, Capture in the panel and Capture and Upload in the tray menu open Windows' own snipping bar, the one Win+Shift+S opens: snip an area, a window or the whole screen. No permission is needed there. There's no editor and no annotations, on purpose.

The link right away

Aktar now copies the link as soon as it knows where the file goes: after its own work on the file, such as converting it to WebP and hashing it, and before the bytes are sent. Even a large video doesn't keep you waiting. The link works once the upload is done, and when that takes a while, a notification says Link copied while it's still uploading, then Uploaded. It's Copy the link right away in Settings › General › Uploads, on by default.

Uploads that something waits for, from the local API, the aktar CLI, Raycast or Shortcuts, still return their link when they're done, as before. A folder kept with its structure, a drop to several destinations and Replace File get their links at the end, as before.

Offline, uploads wait

Without a connection, an upload no longer fails. It shows Waiting for a connection, with Retry and Cancel, and goes on by itself when the connection is back. An upload whose link was copied is kept until it's done, so it continues after Aktar quits or the computer restarts, and goes to the same link. Aktar keeps it for up to a week.

Paste the link where you're typing

Two new shortcuts, Upload clipboard and paste the link and Capture, upload and paste the link, paste the link where you're typing, for GitHub, Slack, Linear or anywhere else. On the Mac they need Accessibility (on macOS 27 the list is called Device Control and Data Access), and Aktar asks for it; without it, the link is still copied. Windows needs no permission. These and the other new shortcuts are off until you set them in Settings › General › Keyboard shortcuts.

Undo, for 10 seconds

For 10 seconds after an upload, and while it's still uploading, Undo takes it back. It deletes the file, its bucket thumbnail, its short link and its history entry, stops what's still uploading, and puts back what was on the clipboard before. A password manager's copy is never put back: the clipboard is emptied instead. Undo is on the upload's notification, next to Copy on the recent upload in the panel, and on the Undo the last upload shortcut.

Text and links from the clipboard

Copied text now uploads too, as a .txt, .md or .json file, depending on what it contains. It's never named after its first line, which could be a password. A copied link to a file is downloaded and uploaded to your own bucket; a link to a web page is refused, with a note to copy the link of the image or file itself. The local API's upload-clipboard and aktar://upload-clipboard take text and links as well. Text files that are valid UTF-8 now go up with charset=utf-8, so browsers show accented and Turkish letters right.

On your phone

The iPhone and Android app 1.11.0 copies the link right away too, with Copy the link right away in Settings › General. An upload without a connection waits, and one whose link was copied goes on after the app is closed or the phone restarts, to the same link; on Android, for files up to 512 MB. Undo is in the message at the top of the screen after an upload, next to Copy in Recent uploads and on the notification. For an upload from the clipboard, it puts back what was there; for other uploads, it clears the copied link from the clipboard. Paste on the Upload tab takes text and links, and so do aktar://upload-clipboard and, on the iPhone, the Upload Clipboard shortcut.