Changelog

First installable Windows release. A native WinUI 3 rebuild of the tray-based capture workflow, with most of the Mac build's core recording and trimming tools, plus the accessibility work that's been going into it release after release.

Capture

• Three capture modes: full screen, a single window (picked from a searchable thumbnail grid), or a drag-selected area with a dashed guide border, a live width × height readout, and a warning if the drag is too small to use.
• Frame rate 5-24 fps and resolution 25-100% scale, both sliders showing the live output pixel size, with a warning banner if your settings are likely to produce a large file.
• Optional countdown (1-30s) before recording starts, and an auto-stop timer (5-300s) so you don't have to watch the clock.
• A floating HUD tracks elapsed time and frame count while you record, with a Stop button and an Escape-key shortcut.
• Global hotkey Win Shift G starts and stops recording from anywhere, using your last-used settings.

Preview & export

• Drag trim handles to cut the start and end of a recording after the fact.
• Reverse and Boomerang (forward-then-reverse) playback, without re-recording anything.
• Right-click any frame to copy or save just that frame as a PNG.
• Drag the finished GIF straight out of the preview window into another app.
• Auto-copy skips the preview and puts the finished GIF on your clipboard the moment recording stops. A GIF too large to copy is saved automatically and revealed in File Explorer instead of silently failing.
• Optional 3-second branded end card appended to the GIF, off by default.
• The preview window remembers its size and position between opens.

Windows fit & finish

• Per-user install into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\GifMint. No UAC prompt, no admin rights. The installer bundles and installs the Windows App SDK 1.6 runtime automatically, and checks for the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime before it starts.
• Pure system-tray presence: no taskbar entry for the hidden background host.
• Light / Dark / System appearance picker, matching the Mac build's own picker; the whole app repaints live without a restart.
• Adopted the twoplus11 fleet color system: GifMint's own accent (mint) throughout the app UI, replacing an earlier shared placeholder scheme.
• Settings and license writes are serialized and atomic, so an app close mid-write can't corrupt them.
• Business licensing, Check for Updates, and a tray Report-an-Issue action, matching the rest of the twoplus11 Windows lineup.
• Fixed: the update check was offering Windows users an update built for macOS, which could never actually install. It now correctly identifies itself as the Windows build.
• DPI-aware window sizing throughout, so panels stay correctly sized at non-100% Windows text scaling.

Accessibility

• WCAG 2.1 AA gate in the release process, with 13 contrast and naming violations it found already fixed.
• Narrator live regions and accessible names across capture, preview, and picker windows: frame counts, encode progress, area-selection dimensions, and error banners are all announced as they change.
• A full keyboard path through every window, 44×44px minimum touch targets, and Windows High Contrast support.
• Tested structurally and against automated contrast/naming checks; a human screen-reader pass with Narrator or NVDA hasn't been logged yet. If you use one, that feedback is the most valuable thing you could send.

Known in this beta

• This build is not code-signed yet, so Windows will very likely show an "Unknown publisher" warning on first run. See the install notes.
• MP4 export and the Mac build's "shrink to a size limit" tool aren't in this Windows build yet; GIF and single-frame PNG export are.
• The Mac build's 13-language interface hasn't been ported to Windows yet; this beta is English only.
• Multi-monitor and per-monitor DPI-scaled capture haven't had a wide beta pass; see the beta feedback section if that's your setup.