Aktar changelog: Raycast

A security release for every Aktar: Aktar changelog

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Aktar 0.18.0 is a security release from a review of every Aktar app, the aktar CLI and the Raycast extension. It closes ways another app, a web page or a shared file could get Aktar to do something you didn't ask for. Most of it works without you noticing. A few things now ask first, and if you use automation apps on Android or Aktar's MCP server, there's one step for you below. Aktar for Windows, the iPhone and Android app get the same fixes. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.

Improved: Files sent from another app through the Services menu or the Share menu are only uploaded after you confirm. Aktar names the files and the destination. Uploads from Finder aren't asked about.
Improved: Import from Another Device shows where the destination sends files, links, short links, webhooks and scripts before saving it. Webhooks and scripts come in off, and Use For rules and the output template are only kept if you choose to.
Improved: Updating an existing destination from an import keeps its own webhooks, scripts and Use For rules unless you keep the imported ones.
Improved: Connect Raycast only hands over the local API token to Raycast itself. Otherwise nothing is shared and Aktar says why.
New: Local API: GET /v1/hello lets the CLI and Raycast check they're talking to Aktar before sending the token.
Improved: The local API refuses uploads larger than the free disk space (keeping 2 GB free) and more than 32 connections at once.
Improved: Watched folders only upload, move to Trash or move to Uploaded a file that's still the one Aktar checked. An Uploaded folder that's a link to another folder is never used.
Improved: Files from a Shortcuts action always stay in Aktar's temporary folder, whatever their name.
Improved: XSLT stylesheets, .shtml pages and web archives (.mht, .mhtml) download when their link is opened, like HTML, instead of running on your bucket's domain.
Improved: Thumbnails of bucket files are made from a download under a safe file name, whatever the file's key.
Improved: aktar CLI 0.6.0: aktar mcp uploads only from --root or the folder it runs in and never secrets, offers replace_file only with --allow-replace, caps temporary links at 60 minutes (--max-link-minutes) and logs tool calls with --log.

Clean URLs and short links: Aktar changelog

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A link like files.example.com/2026/10/7f3c2a91-screenshot.png works, but it isn't one you'd read out or put on a slide. Aktar 0.17.0 makes links shorter in two ways: a clean path in your own bucket, like files.example.com/A7kdP2x.png, and, if you use one, your own link shortener. Aktar manages the workflow; you own the infrastructure. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.

New: {short} in a path template: a random 7-character code for links like files.example.com/A7kdP2x.png, never written over an existing file. New destinations use {year}/{month}/{short}.{ext}.
New: Presets next to a destination's path: Clean URL (Recommended), Short with Date and Original File Name. A destination on your own domain suggests a clean URL.
New: Short Links on each destination: Shlink, YOURLS, Kutt, Dub, Short.io or a custom HTTP request, with Test, a minimum length and temporary links. The short link is copied, used in every format and shown in the QR code.
New: Import ShareX Configuration (.sxcu)… turns a ShareX custom URL shortener into a custom request, after showing where your token will be sent.
New: History shows short links with their clicks and last click, with Copy Short Link, Copy Original Link, Create Short Link and Delete Short Link.
New: Local API: shortUrl on uploads, short=1 or short=0 for one upload, and GET and POST /v1/uploads/{id}/short-link. Webhooks and scripts get upload.shortUrl.
Improved: Deleting, renaming, moving and replacing a file keep its short link in step, and an expiring upload's short link expires with it.
Improved: Set Up Cloudflare R2… saves {short}.{ext} as the path when links use your own domain.
Improved: Share to Another Device carries a destination's short link settings and token.

Files that find their own destination: Aktar changelog

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Aktar 0.14.0 finishes three things that were half there: destinations that act as profiles, replacing a file while its link keeps working, and automation after an upload. Screenshots can go to one bucket and builds to another without picking each time, a fixed PDF can take the place of the old one under the same link, and Shortcuts can upload for you. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.

New: Use For on each destination: file types and extensions that go there when an upload doesn't name a destination. The drop area lists where files go.
New: A Keyboard Shortcut for each destination that uploads the clipboard there.
New: Replace File… in History and the bucket view: a new file at the same key, so its link keeps working, with a Replaced date and a new thumbnail.
New: Short cache time and an optional Cloudflare cache purge for replaced files, also when a watched folder writes over its upload.
New: After Upload on each destination: webhooks and scripts after each upload and replace.
New: Shortcuts actions: Upload File, Upload Clipboard, Replace File and Get Recent Uploads.
New: Local API: replace endpoints, and uploads without a destination follow Use For. aktar replace in the CLI uses them.
Improved: Share to Another Device carries Use For, the cache settings, the Cloudflare token and the hooks.

Thumbnails for every file, and videos that play: Aktar changelog

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Until now only photos had thumbnails in Aktar, and everything else was a file icon. Aktar 0.13.0 makes thumbnails the way Finder does, for videos, PDFs, RAW photos, Office and iWork documents and more, and lets each destination decide where they're kept: nowhere, on this Mac, or in your own bucket. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.

New: Thumbnails for videos, PDFs, RAW and HEIC photos, Office and iWork documents, fonts and more in History, the menu bar and the bucket view.
New: A Thumbnails setting for each destination: Off, On This Mac or In the Bucket, with a folder of your choice.
New: Thumbnails in the bucket are deleted, renamed, moved and expire together with their files, and their folder is hidden in the bucket view and the local API. Leaving that mode asks whether to delete the ones already there.
New: Videos and audio files play in a file's details, streamed from the bucket, private buckets too.
New: Settings › General shows how much space thumbnails take on this Mac, with Clear… to remove them.
New: The local API serves thumbnails, so the Raycast extension can show them too.
Improved: Thumbnails are sharper (512 pixels instead of 320) and take about a tenth of the space.
Improved: Thumbnails are kept next to your history, so macOS or a cleaner app emptying caches no longer leaves rows with only an icon.
Improved: The Thumbnails setting travels with Share to Another Device.
Fixed: Screenshots pasted from the clipboard get a thumbnail in History again.

Folders that upload themselves: Aktar changelog

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Much of what you share lands in the same few places: the screenshots folder, a design tool's exports, a build's output, Downloads. Aktar 0.11.0 adds Watched Folders: pick a folder and every new file in it is uploaded on its own, about 1.5 to 2 seconds after it's completely written, with that folder's own destination, path and rules. Any file type works, not only images. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.

New: Watched Folders in Settings: files that land in a folder you pick are uploaded on their own once they're completely written, about 1.5 to 2 seconds after they arrive.
New: Per folder: destination, Object Path, link and Delete after; which files count (all, images, videos, screenshots only, or your own patterns, with sizes and subfolders); what happens when a file changes (ignore it, upload it again, or replace the upload so the link stays); and what happens to the original (keep it, move it to the Trash or an Uploaded subfolder, or tag it Aktar in Finder).
New: Partial downloads, temporary and hidden files are never uploaded, a renamed file isn't uploaded twice, and files that arrived while Aktar wasn't running are picked up when it starts.
New: Upload Screenshots Automatically watches the folder macOS saves screenshots to and copies each screenshot's link as soon as it's up.
New: Delete it from the bucket too (off by default) removes an upload when its file is deleted from the folder. Ask before deleting (on by default) asks first every time; with it off, Aktar still asks when many files disappear at once.
New: More than 50 new files at once wait for Upload or Skip, in the menu bar and in Settings.
New: Pause watching for an hour, until tomorrow or until you resume it, from the menu bar or Settings, and on battery power or Low Data Mode and metered networks if you like. Files that arrive meanwhile wait in their folder.
New: A webhook or a script from Aktar's scripts folder for each watched folder, run after every upload with the link, the key and the file.
New: Watch Folder with Aktar in Finder's right-click menu for folders.
New: {folder} and {subpath} in the Object Path: the watched folder's name and the subfolders a file is in.
New: Uploads from watched folders say where they came from in the menu bar and the Library, which can show only those.
New: The local API lists, pauses and resumes watched folders (/v1/watched-folders), and aktar://watch, aktar://watch/pause and aktar://watch/resume do the same from a link.
Fixed: Show notification after upload in Settings › General is respected.

QR codes, smarter uploads, no size limit: Aktar changelog

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Aktar 0.10.0 brings five upgrades to every app at once: a QR code for any link, the existing link when the same file comes up again, file names from the file's hash or your own words, lighter images, and big uploads that survive a dropped connection. If you're on 0.3.0 or later, Aktar offers it automatically.

New: Show QR Code for an upload, with Copy Image and Save Image.
New: Reuse links for duplicate files (on by default): the same contents in the same destination copy the existing link instead of uploading again.
New: {md5} and {sha256} in a destination's Object Path, for names that follow the file's contents.
New: Rename before upload: hold ⌥ while dropping or choosing files in the menu bar, or give Rename and upload clipboard its own shortcut. On Windows, hold Alt.
New: Image Processing per destination: WebP or AVIF, Light, Medium or Strong compression, and resizing by the longest side.
Improved: Files over 64 MB upload in parts, with no 5 GB limit, real progress, automatic retries and resuming after a failure or a restart.
Improved: Uploads in progress can be cancelled, which also frees what was already sent to the bucket.

Uploads that delete themselves: Aktar changelog

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Not every file needs to stay forever: a screenshot for a bug report, a build for a tester, a draft for a quick review. In Aktar 0.5.0 you pick Delete after next to the destination, and the file is gone after 1, 7, 14 or 30 days without you lifting a finger.

New: Delete after next to the destination picker in the menu bar: 1, 7, 14 or 30 days. Expiring files go under tmp/{N}d/ and the bucket deletes them itself, even when Aktar isn't running.
New: One-click setup of the bucket's lifecycle rules from the menu bar or Settings → Destinations, leaving the bucket's other rules untouched. If the key can't change lifecycle rules, Aktar shows which ones to add in your provider's dashboard.
New: Auto-delete can be turned off per destination, keeping or removing the bucket's rules.
New: History, the Library and upload notifications show when an expiring file will be deleted.
New: The local API takes expires= (in days) on uploads and returns expiresAt.

Browse your buckets: Aktar changelog

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Until now, Aktar only knew about the files it uploaded itself. Aktar 0.4.0 opens up the whole bucket: every folder and every file, whoever put it there, right in the Library window.

New: Bucket browser in the Library: every folder and file in each destination's bucket, including files not uploaded with Aktar.
New: Search the whole bucket, or just the open folder and everything below it.
New: Temporary links valid for 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days, which also work for private buckets.
New: Upload into any folder, create folders, rename, move and delete files from the Library.
New: Opt-in local API for the Aktar Raycast extension (Settings → Integrations), limited to 127.0.0.1 and protected by a token kept in the Keychain.
New: aktar://library, aktar://settings and aktar://upload-clipboard links. Uploading the clipboard only works while Aktar is already running.
Fixed: Retrying a failed upload, or uploads queued for different destinations at once, go to the destination they were started for.
Fixed: A new upload's row in the Library no longer shows up clipped to half its height.
Fixed: Thumbnails keep the image's shape and orientation instead of being squashed into a square, and are sharper on Retina displays.