In Limbo

Gearing up to release 0.0.18. This release fixes some bugs throughout the app, including some issues with hovering (thanks @abinesan and @ajijoyo).

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Bug Fixes

• fixes a bunch of minor inconsistencies and weirdness, mostly around hover states

Hypercube

This beta might be the most excited I've been about a release of Pika in a minute (and I'm usually pretty excited). It adds an incredible amount of functionality, in that you can now use the system picker alongside Pika. That means you can drop in hex codes, darken and lighten colours, and generally have more granular control over colour contrast.

And if that wasn't enough, it also adds support for OpenGL colours. Joy!

And it's all thanks to suggestions from @alexkaessner and @cadupuy. Thanks for being great.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds support for using the system colour picker alongside Pika
• adds support for OpenGL colours

Xìngfú (Happiness)

This release adds simplified and traditional Chinese tranlations thanks to @Ssssv11. Thanks so much!

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• simplified and traditional Chinese tranlations

Hackers (1995)

Version 0.0.17! Happy days!

This release increases the number of keyboard shortcuts (and updates swap color to x to more closely match other design software), and adds the pika:// URL scheme so you can write more complex scripts to pick, format, and copy colors. You can learn more about it here (and thanks @Hydro8). It also adds a setting to have Pika show at launch (thanks @franciscolourenco).

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds new keyboard shortcuts
• adds the pika:// URL scheme so you can write more complex scripts to interact with Pika
• adds a setting to show Pika at launch
• minor visual updates to settings

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue with window rendering and maintaining state

Bright Future

Minor update to the URL schemes in this update. You can now append the format you'd like to the pika:// URL scheme when picking and copying. You can learn more about it here (thanks @Hydro8).

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds more URL schemes for triggering

We Go On Walks

Somehow we are nearly three months through 2024. That's not relevant to anything, just, whoa.

This release increases the number of keyboard shortcuts (and updates swap color to x to more closely match other design software), and adds the pika:// URL scheme so you can write more complex scripts to pick, format, and copy colors. You can learn more about it here (and thanks @Hydro8). It also adds a setting to have Pika show at launch (thanks @franciscolourenco).

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds more keyboard shortcuts
• adds URL schemes for triggering
• adds a setting to show Pika at launch
• minor tweaks to settings and about

Bug Fixes

• fixes a bunch of minor inconsistencies and weirdness, mostly around displaying keyboard shortcuts and focus states

Holiday In Spain

It's been a minute! This release adds Spanish language support (thanks x 1,000,000, @axiel7). It also fixes a reeeeeal annoying bug that a number of people have reported, where the Pika icon in the menu bar would appear in places it most definitely 100% should not appear. Thanks for looking after it, @bikrrr!

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds Spanish language support
• moves to "Settings", instead of "Preferences", as per macOS Sonoma

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue where the Pika icon would wander out of the menu bar

Atrapando Insectos!

(It's Spanish for catching bugs.)

This beta fixes a reeeeeal annoying bug that a lot of people have reported, where the Pika icon in the menu bar would appear in places it most definitely 100% should not. Thanks for looking after it, @bikrrr!

It also adds Spanish language support. Thanks x 1,000,000, @axiel7!

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds Spanish language support
• moves to "Settings", instead of "Preferences", as per macOS Sonoma

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue where the Pika icon would wander out of the menu bar

New Beginnings

This release fixes a pretty glaring bug that's been there for a while—auto-updates don't auto-initialise until you manually update the first time. So that's not ideal. It also sorts out a small bug on a link to the Pika website, and adds a link to give feedback or report bugs via GitHub Issues.

Also, as a result of the changes to the way Pika handles updates, it needs to be downloaded ✨fresh✨, so you might find the download size is a little bigger than normal. My humble apologies, and we should be back to standard functioning updates from here on out. Phew.

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds a link to give feedback in the navigation and menubar

Bug Fixes

• fixes broken auto-updater for first installs
• fixes broken link

Left Behind

This beta fixes a pretty glaring bug that's been there for a while—auto-updates don't auto-initialise until you manually update the first time. So that's not ideal. Phew, let's just pretend this never happened, hey?

As always, cheers for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Bug Fixes

• fixes broken auto-updater for first installs