Hallo!

This beta explores the Pika-but-not-as-a-menubar-app. That's right, in Preferences you can now choose to run Pika as a regular app, meaning it behaves like a regular app. That includes shortcuts, a macOS menubar, standard window management, etc.

It also adds German translation. Massive thanks to @david-swift for submitting it.

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

Updates

• adds the option to run Pika as a non-menubar app
• adds German translation

Architecture

Change is as good as a holiday, so this release introduces the most signicant change to the core functionality in a while—a new default layout for the WCAG compliance information, and the introduction of an appearance option to toggle back to the old view if that's preferable.

Need to export colors without any formatting? Well, now you can, with the newly simplified and consoliated preferences pane. Display and export colors for either CSS, design applications, or in an unformatted style. Works with text and JSON exports, too, so everyone wins!

The preferences panel has grown over time, and this update ensures it will continue to display (and be scrollable) should the display available be smaller than its height.

And finally, incredibly, Pika hasn't had undo / redo, which is silly, because it should. So this update adds it. Thanks to @sj26 for the suggestion.

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

Updates

• introduces a new default WCAG compliance layout
• adds an appearance preference section to manage the default WCAG compliance layout (so you can roll it back if you'd prefer)
• adds a preference for copying / displaying colors for either CSS, design applications, or in an unformatted style
• introduces a scrollable preferences panel for smaller displays
• cleans up the preferences view, consolidating menu items
• updates color names
• adds a preview colour to the preferences panel when showing the export options
• adds undo / redo (with ⌘ + z and ⌘ + shift + z respectively)

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue when displaying French in the preferences panel
• fixes an issue with long text being truncated unnecessarily

Before And After

Incredibly, Pika doesn't have undo / redo, which is silly, because it should. So this update adds it. Thanks to @sj26 for the suggestion.

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

Updates

• adds undo / redo (with ⌘ + z and ⌘ + shift + z respectively)

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome

The preferences panel has grown over time, and this update ensures it will continue to display (and be scrollable) should the display available be smaller than its height. (Also, it sneaks in a couple of spacing fixes.)

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

Updates

• introduces a scrollable preferences panel for smaller displays

Bug Fixes

• fixes some slightly not-quite-right spacing on the preferences panel

A Rose By Any Other Name

This beta introduces the most signicant change to the core functionality in a while—a new default layout for the WCAG compliance information, and the introduction of an appearance option to toggle back to the old view if that's preferable.

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

Updates

• introduces a new default WCAG compliance layout
• adds an appearance preference section to manage the default WCAG compliance layout (so you can roll it back if you'd prefer)

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Phew, bugs squashed! Features added! As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds a preview colour to the preferences panel when showing the export options

Bug Fixes

• fixes an issue when displaying French in the preferences panel
• fixes an issue with long text being truncated unnecessarily

Freedom! '90

Need to export colors without any formatting? Well, now you can, with the newly simplified and consoliated preferences pane. Display and export colors for either CSS, design applications, or in an unformatted style. Works with text and JSON exports, too, so everyone wins!

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

Updates

• adds a preference for copying / displaying colors for either CSS, design applications, or in an unformatted style
• cleans up the preferences view, consolidating menu items
• updates color names

Redshift

This release adds a much requested feature with automatic copy on pick. This, coupled with the global shortcut, means you can now use the app without ever needing to see it at all. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Copy And Haste

This release adds a much requested feature with automatic copy on pick—that means you can now use Pika without ever needing to actually see the app. As always, thanks for the support, and if you have any issues or feedback, let me know on GitHub.

Updates

• adds a toggle to copy the color on pick

Call Me By Your Color Name

Thanks to you, the community, this is a big update that's packed with big features, including the first internationalisation effort—French language support. Très bien! If you'd like to get involved with Pika, or if you have any issues or feedback, head over to GitHub.

Updates

• adds French language support
• adds the color space of your main display to the preferences, and uses it as the default option (if you haven't chosen another)
• adds toggleable color names (thanks to color-names)
• adds the ability to export data as text, and in JSON format
• adds a toggle to suppress the format of the color on copy (so no more pesky #)