Changelog

Site update — August 14, 2026 · Headlines in one color

Website only; no change to the app.

• The headline no longer fades from one color into another across the letters. A gradient poured through text is the house style of every generated landing page on the web, and it was on the hero here, on the small uppercase label above each section, and on the license label in the purchase panel. The words are one solid color now — the accent this page already used everywhere else — so the headline finally matches the page under it.
• The figures on the download-stats page were faded the same way and are plain white now. The color belongs to the bars beside them, not to the digits.
• Gradients are kept where they belong — the buttons, the app tile and the rule above the support panel are untouched. It is only text that stopped fading.
• No change to the app.

Download update — August 12, 2026 · Opens without an internet check

• The copy of Squishr in the download now opens without needing the internet. macOS checks that an app has been approved by Apple before it runs for the first time. That approval can travel inside the app itself, and in the download it did not — so the first launch had to reach Apple to confirm it. Offline, behind a hotel or campus login page, or when Apple’s service was slow, that check could fail and macOS would report that Squishr “cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.” The approval now travels with the app, so the first launch works with no connection at all.
• Automatic updates were never affected — the copy they install already carried its approval.
• The installer window opens at the right size. It was one title bar too short, so the artwork behind the drag-to-Applications arrow was cut off along the bottom and the window opened already scrolled. It now fits exactly.
• The app itself is unchanged: same version, same signature. Only the download was repackaged, so there is nothing to do if you already have Squishr installed.

Site update — August 12, 2026 · How updating really works

• The update instructions were out of date. They described downloading a new copy and dragging it over the old one. Squishr updates itself — it checks about once a week and offers to install the new version in place, refusing any download that isn't signed by us. You can still replace it by hand, and you can turn the automatic check off.
• Nothing else changed. What this page already said about your files — that they are never uploaded, and that there is no account and no telemetry — was accurate and is unchanged.
• No change to the app.

Site update — August 12, 2026 · Readable buttons and small print

• The buttons in the header say what they say. The Tip and Download pills were drawing their label at 55% opacity over a colored fill, which measured as low as 1.6:1 against it — well under the 4.5:1 the accessibility guidelines ask for. Their labels are now solid, and the fill behind them is set a shade deeper so the text genuinely clears that bar.
• The Subscribe and Support buttons too. Their labels were colored for one end of a two-color gradient and disappeared into the other end. Both now use a single fill that the label is legible on all the way across.
• The newsletter note, the “More apps” caption and the version line under the download button were all set too faint to read comfortably; each is now above the AA threshold.
• Keyboard shortcut chips are legible against their own background.
• No change to the app.

Site update — August 11, 2026 · Clearer search results

• The description under this site in Google is no longer cut off. It ran past the length Google shows and broke mid-word; it now reads as a complete sentence.
• The page title was also long enough to be truncated in search results, and has been shortened to fit.
• Sharing a link to the privacy, terms or changelog page now shows a proper preview card instead of a bare URL.
• The sitemap now reports when each page actually changed, so search engines re-check pages that have been updated instead of assuming they are stale.
• No change to the app.

August 11, 2026 · A new look

• Changed: Squishr has a new app icon. Every twoplus11 app moved to one generated palette, so the color in your Dock, on this site and on the download page is now the same color — they had drifted apart.
• Changed: refreshed the site to match, including the tab icon and the link preview image.

Site update — August 10, 2026 · Real screenshots of the app

• The product page illustrated the app with a hand-drawn mock-up of a window rather than showing Squishr itself. It now shows the running app: the target picker with the quality meter reading out the predicted size, the finished result, and a short animation of switching target and compressing a clip until it fits. No change to the app.

1.0.11 — August 9, 2026 · Automatic updates

• New: Squishr updates itself. When a new version is out you get a prompt with the release notes and can install it in place — no more visiting the site and dragging a new copy over the old one. This is the last update you have to install by hand.
• New: refreshed appearance — Squishr now uses the shared twoplus11 palette and a regenerated app icon, so it matches the rest of the family.
• Fixed: contrast and keyboard-navigation problems (WCAG 2.1 AA) — faint text is now readable, and every control can be reached and used from the keyboard.
• Fixed: the Check for Updates button spins while it checks, instead of flashing an empty window.

1.0.10 — July 17, 2026 · 13 languages

• New: 13-language localization with an in-app flag picker (auto-detects your Mac's language, override anytime).
• Fixed: the trim range now actually applies to the preview player — previously the preview always played the full source and only the exported file was trimmed.
• Fixed: a queued item's settings are now frozen when it enters the queue, so changing global settings mid-queue can't mismatch a waiting item's quality-meter display.

1.0.9 — July 16, 2026 · Appearance override fix

• Fixed: pinning the appearance to Light or Dark (instead of following the system) now restyles the whole window — previously the translucent header and footer kept the system's appearance, leaving hard-to-read text when the override and the system disagreed.

1.0.8 — July 15, 2026 · “Tip”

• Renamed the “Donate” link to “Tip.”

1.0.7 — 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 orange, instead of a deeper tint of the same color.

1.0.6 — July 15, 2026 · Icon fix

• Fixed: the app icon could show the wrong light/dark variant in Finder, Spotlight, Launchpad, and the Dock while Squishr wasn't running. It now updates everywhere immediately, not just the Dock tile of an already-open app.

1.0.5 — July 14, 2026 · Dock icon appearance & padding fix

• New: the Dock icon now follows your Mac's light/dark appearance automatically — or pin it to Light or Dark from the new appearance toggle.
• Fixed: the Dock icon rendered edge-to-edge with no padding, making it look larger than every other app in the Dock. It now follows Apple's standard icon grid, sized and spaced to match.

1.0.4 — July 13, 2026 · twoplus11 credit & support prompt

• twoplus11 wordmark credit in the footer and update panel.
• Occasional, low-pressure prompt to support twoplus11 after extended use — never more than once, easy to dismiss for good.

1.0.3 — July 12, 2026 · Signal preset & a clearer footer

• New: Signal joins the share-target presets — a true 100 MB attachment cap.
• Improved: Help and Review, split apart. The footer's Help button now goes straight to support; keyboard shortcuts moved to their own Shortcuts button, and a new Review button lets you leave feedback in one click.

1.0.2 — July 11, 2026 · Deliver anywhere

• New: Copy, then paste the file — after a squish, Copy puts the finished video on your clipboard; paste it straight into Messages, Discord, Mail, or Finder.
• New: More share targets — presets for iMessage and Telegram, plus a true 25 MB Gmail limit.
• Improved: Honest progress — the progress bar tracks the real encode front to back instead of stalling near the end.
• Fixed: the quick “fix” pills now apply only to the selected item instead of changing your defaults for everything.
• New: a Business license button in the header — one click to upgrade to, or manage, a business license.
• 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 Automatically check for updates in the update panel.

1.0.1 — July 11, 2026 · Security, privacy & accessibility

• No more accidental lock-outs — a brief licensing-server hiccup used to be able to lock a paid seat for up to a day; it now falls back to your offline grace period and re-checks automatically.
• Tighter privacy & security — your license file is stored so only your account can read it, and update links are restricted to twoplus11.com over HTTPS.
• Reduce Motion — Squishr now fully honors the system Reduce Motion setting.

1.0.0 — July 9, 2026 · Initial public release

The first release. Drop a video, tap a target, it fits — every time.

• Guaranteed fit — pick Discord (10 MB), WhatsApp (16 MB), Email (20 MB), Discord Nitro Basic (50 MB), Nitro (500 MB), or any custom size. Squishr works out the exact bitrate, encodes with Apple hardware, then checks the real file size and automatically re-encodes smaller if needed — falling back to two-pass precision encoding. The file always lands under the limit
• Honest quality meter — before you wait for an encode, a meter shows how the video will look at that size: Great, Decent, Rough, or Won't look good — with one-tap fixes (drop to 720p, cap 30 fps, smaller audio, drop audio, trim it shorter)
• Trim — drag handles on a filmstrip to keep just the moment. A shorter clip means dramatically better quality at the same target; the meter and estimate update live. Fully keyboard-driven and VoiceOver-accessible
• Batch — drop any number of videos (or a whole folder) and compress them all to one target, two at a time, with per-file progress
• The hard files work — rotated iPhone portrait video stays portrait, HDR is tone-mapped so colors don't wash out, 120 fps screen recordings get capped when the budget is tight, 5.1 surround is downmixed, GIFs become tiny MP4s, and variable-frame-rate captures keep their timing
• Non-destructive by design — originals are never modified; every compress writes a new file ("clip — Discord.mp4") next to the original or into a folder you choose, and existing files are never overwritten
• Private by design — everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no telemetry
• Signed and notarized by Apple — macOS 12+, Apple Silicon & Intel
• Free for personal use forever — unlimited files, no account, no trial, no watermarks; commercial use requires a one-time $5-per-computer business license