Release notes
Changelog
1.2.8 — July 18, 2026 · Merged-PDF text fix
- Fixed: text in a merged PDF could become unextractable — copying, searching, or "Extract text" would find nothing on a file that looked perfectly normal. Merged files now keep a valid page structure.
1.2.7 — July 17, 2026
- New: 13-language localization with an in-app language picker.
- Fixed: "Find & mark" redaction now shows a truncation warning instead of silently capping at 2,000 matches on very large documents.
- Fixed: export now waits for any in-progress redaction box to finish before saving, so a box drawn mid-export can't be missing from the saved file.
1.2.6 — July 16, 2026 · White dark-icon glyph
- The dark-appearance app icon now draws the staple in white, matching the rest of the twoplus11 apps, instead of keeping the full coral color.
1.2.5 — July 15, 2026 · “Tip”
- Renamed the “Donate” link to “Tip.”
1.2.4 — July 15, 2026 · Dark icon refinement
- Refined the dark-mode Dock icon: now a true near-black, monochrome-style background with just a hint of indigo, instead of a deeper tint of the same color.
1.2.3 — July 15, 2026 · Icon fix
- Fixed: the app icon could show the wrong light/dark variant in Finder, Spotlight, Launchpad, and the Dock while Stapl wasn't running. It now updates everywhere immediately, not just the Dock tile of an already-open app.
1.2.2 — July 14, 2026
- New: the Dock icon now follows your Mac's light/dark appearance automatically.
1.2.1 — July 13, 2026
- twoplus11 wordmark credit in the footer and About panel.
- Occasional, low-pressure prompt to support twoplus11 after extended use — never more than once, easy to dismiss for good.
1.2.0 — July 12, 2026
- New: Fill & Sign — a 17th tool. Type into a PDF's form fields and drop your signature onto the page, typed in a handwriting-style font or drawn with the trackpad, entirely on your device.
- New: Drop a PDF straight onto Home — drop a single PDF and pick which tool should open it; drop several and they go straight to Merge.
- New: Open a page up close to redact — click any page (or its expand button) to open it in a full-window view where you can zoom right in and pan around, so tiny text, numbers, and signatures are easy to black out precisely. Zoom with the buttons, the slider, +/− keys, or ⌘-scroll / trackpad pinch toward the cursor; pan by dragging in Pan mode, holding Space, or using the scrollbars. Boxes you draw here appear on the page grid too, and flatten away for good on Redact.
- New: Zoom in while you redact — a zoom slider above the pages enlarges them so you can draw precise black boxes over small text, signatures, or numbers. Pages now render at higher resolution, so they stay sharp when blown up; drag any page up to fill the whole working area. Your zoom level is remembered between sessions.
- New: Automatic update checks — the app quietly checks about once a week and badges the update button when a newer version is available (never a pop-up; nothing is downloaded or installed automatically). Turn it off with the toggle in the update panel.
- Improved: the header's Report-an-issue icon is now a clearly-labeled Help button, alongside a new Review button to leave feedback in one click.
1.1.5 — July 9, 2026
- New: Keep original file dates — edited files keep the source PDF's original “Date Created” and “Date Modified” instead of resetting to now. On by default, with a toggle in the new Settings dialog (header gear or ⌘K); applies to every single-file tool — compress, crop, encrypt, unlock, metadata, rotate, watermark, page numbers, redact, and split
- Personal use now says so plainly: the licensing screen spells out that Stapl is free for personal use and includes free updates forever — no catch, no expiry
1.1.4 — July 2026
- Fixed: you can once again drag the window from anywhere along the top bar to move it — previously only a thin strip at the very top would move the window.
1.1.3 — July 2026
- Under the hood: Compress, OCR, Redact, and PDF → Images now run on a new, self-contained rendering engine — page rendering and image compression are handled entirely in-app. Same tools, same 100%-on-device privacy; nothing changes in how you use them.
1.1.2 — June 2026
- Check for Updates is now a button in the toolbar (next to About) — no need to remember the ⌘K shortcut. It tells you whether you're on the latest Stapl and links you to the download page when a new version is out.
1.1.1 — June 2026
- New: Check for Updates — from the ⌘K palette, check whether you're on the latest Stapl; when a new version is out it links you straight to the download page.
1.1.0 — June 2026
- New tool: Extract Text — pull a PDF's selectable text into a plain
.txtfile, entirely on your device. If the PDF is a scan with no text layer, Stapl says so and offers to open it in OCR first. (Brings the toolkit to 16 tools.) - Tools now remember your last settings between sessions — compression quality, export resolution, crop margins, watermark text & opacity, and page-number style & position all come back the way you left them.
- Password fields (Protect & Unlock) now warn you when Caps Lock is on, so a mistyped-case password doesn't silently fail.
- New: a Recent row on the home screen puts the tools you've used lately one click away, and the ⌘K palette lists them first.
- New: every result you save now offers a one-click Open (in Preview, or whatever opens PDFs on your Mac) right alongside Reveal in Finder — no more digging for the file you just made.
- New: a ⌘K command palette — press ⌘K from anywhere (even mid-tool) to jump straight to any tool, switch the theme, open About or your license, report an issue, or return home, all by keyboard.
- New: search the toolbox right from the home screen — start typing to filter all 16 tools by name or by what they do. "password" finds Unlock and Protect, "shrink" finds Compress, "split" finds Organize. Press the / key to jump straight to search.
1.0.1 — June 2026
- Merge no longer dead-ends when one file in the set is corrupt or password-protected — the readable files still merge, and the bad one is shown as skipped.
- Password-protected PDFs now offer a one-click "Open in Unlock" across every tool (Merge, Compress, Crop, Protect, Watermark, Page Numbers, PDF→Images) instead of a dead-end error.
- Fixed: the Batch tool could get stuck on "running" if a file failed mid-batch.
- Fixed: in Batch, two input files with the same name (from different folders) no longer silently overwrite each other — outputs get a numbered suffix.
- Fixed: a damaged 0-page PDF no longer leaves Reorder/Rotate stuck on "Reading pages…".
- Fixed: starting a second OCR while one is running no longer makes the first job impossible to cancel.
- Fixed: dialogs no longer occasionally pull keyboard focus back to the button behind them while you're interacting with them.
1.0 — June 2026 · Initial public release
- 15-tool PDF toolkit that runs entirely on your Mac — nothing is ever uploaded
- Merge, split, reorder, and rotate pages
- Compress PDFs to shrink file size
- OCR to make scanned PDFs searchable
- Permanently redact text and images
- Password-protect with AES encryption
- Add watermarks
- Signed and notarized by Apple — macOS 12+, Apple Silicon & Intel
- Free for personal use; one-time $5 business license per computer