What’s new
Short notes on every release. The full story is in the commit log.
0.1.84
October 11, 2026
- New Brush tool paints on a picture, press B or use Insert ▸ Brush
0.1.83
October 11, 2026
- Remove ▸ Background makes a picture’s background transparent
0.1.82
October 7, 2026
- Very large SVGs now open
0.1.81
October 2, 2026
- Fills can now be a gradient, horizontal or vertical, with opacity at each end
0.1.79
October 1, 2026
- Chat now sees every artboard in large documents
0.1.78
September 29, 2026
- Fixed a crash when removing a color from a picture
0.1.77
September 29, 2026
- Punch Out is much faster on detailed traces and shows how far along it is
0.1.76
September 29, 2026
- Click a color with the wand, then ask chat to remove that color
- Chat can see the picture now, so “put the cloud back” and “remove everything but the dog” work
0.1.75
September 29, 2026
- Chat can now remove one color from a picture, like the gold on a coin
0.1.74
September 28, 2026
- Reopening Skechworks brings back your tabs without extra blank ones
0.1.73
September 28, 2026
- The eraser is much faster, even on long strokes
0.1.72
September 21, 2026
- Sign in now works after updating Skechworks while it is open
0.1.71
September 21, 2026
- SVG export no longer has a scale menu
0.1.70
September 17, 2026
- A new tab opens on the monitor the window is already on
0.1.69
September 16, 2026
- SVG exports are always 1x, whatever the scale menu says
0.1.68
September 16, 2026
- Copied pictures now paste as pictures into ChatGPT and other chat apps
0.1.67
September 11, 2026
- Text you are typing on the canvas now zooms and pans with the canvas
0.1.66
September 9, 2026
- Group width and height now match what is actually inside the group
0.1.65
September 9, 2026
- Pages with a lot of photos now pan and zoom smoothly
0.1.64
September 6, 2026
- An Edit Points button in the toolbar, for a path you can select but not double-click
0.1.63
September 6, 2026
- Edits no longer round sizes and positions to whole numbers on their own, Arrange › Round to Pixel does it when you ask
0.1.62
September 5, 2026
- Save follows a document you moved or renamed in Finder while it was open
0.1.61
September 5, 2026
- Documents now save as .sw, your .sw.png files still open and move over the next time you save them
0.1.60
September 5, 2026
- A document you’d opened in Preview no longer gets the “could not verify it is free of malware” warning when you double-click it
0.1.59
September 3, 2026
- Quit with three documents open and all three come back
- Open Recent keeps twenty documents, including ones iCloud has put away, and a picture dropped in to trace doesn’t take a slot
- Sizes and positions land on whole numbers
- A shape a hair past the artboard exports without a clip around it
0.1.58
September 3, 2026
- With the ratio locked, typing a width and tabbing to the height keeps the height that followed
0.1.57
September 2, 2026
- The layer list shows each shape as a small silhouette of itself instead of a generic icon
0.1.56
September 2, 2026
- Punch Out runs in the background and puts down one finished path, so a detailed trace no longer locks the app
0.1.55
September 2, 2026
- Path › Punch Out folds a stack of black and white shapes into one shape, with holes where the white was
0.1.54
September 2, 2026
- Closing the last window closes it, Skechworks stays open
0.1.53
September 1, 2026
- Ungroup keeps the rotation of a turned group or combined shape
0.1.52
September 1, 2026
- Vectorized white shapes, like the lettering on a dark coin, are now their own shapes and can be selected on their own
- Vectorize Image is down to Black and White and Full Color
0.1.51
September 1, 2026
- No more repeated keychain password prompts from sign-ins made under the app’s old names
0.1.50
August 31, 2026
- Pasting an image with an artboard selected puts it in that artboard, fitted
0.1.49
August 31, 2026
- The rotate cursor only appears outside the selection, so edge handles are easy to grab
- The selection box follows the text when the font size changes
- Dragging a text box’s edge re-wraps the copy, a corner scales the type
0.1.48
August 30, 2026
- Vectorize Image adds Bold Black and White, which redraws line art with thick, even strokes
0.1.47
August 30, 2026
- New text always has a fill
- Pictures too big for Extend, Remove or Vectorize are shrunk to fit before they go, and the answer comes back at full size
0.1.46
August 29, 2026
- Cut pixels paste back at exactly the width and height they were cut at, even from the edge of a picture
0.1.45
August 29, 2026
- Pixels cut out of a resized picture paste back at the size they were
0.1.44
August 28, 2026
- Vectorize Image now offers Black and White or Full Color
0.1.43
August 28, 2026
- Vectorize leaves the background out
0.1.42
August 28, 2026
- The wand eraser can now pick a background out from around a shape
- The wand’s Range is now called Tolerance
0.1.41
August 28, 2026
- Paste or drop an .svg file and its shapes land in the document you have open
0.1.40
August 27, 2026
- Sketchyworks is now Skechworks. Same app, same gem, same files, new name and a new home at skechworks.com
0.1.39
August 27, 2026
- Bigger mark on the app icon
0.1.38
August 27, 2026
- Simplify now works on traced shapes with straight edges
- The default icon is the gem in its own colors on white
0.1.37
August 27, 2026
- New Skechworks icon
- Refresh button in Settings shows credits bought on the web right away
- Saving a file with the old .acmplc.png name renames it to .sw.png
0.1.35
August 27, 2026
- Accomplice is now Skechworks
- Documents now save as .sw.png, old .acmplc.png files still open
0.1.34
August 26, 2026
- Fixed point editing on vectorized pictures, no more stray lines across the shape and moving a point no longer breaks it
0.1.33
August 26, 2026
- New Scissors tool cuts a segment out of a vector path, press C while editing points or use Path ▸ Scissors
- Fixed per-point corner radii resetting when you moved a point
0.1.32
August 26, 2026
- Drop shadows now work on images and come through in SVG exports
- Fixed drop shadows falling upward and not scaling with zoom
0.1.31
August 24, 2026
- Hold Shift while drawing vectors to snap to 45° angles
0.1.30
August 16, 2026
- Fixed bug where an exported SVG could come out blank
0.1.29
August 15, 2026
- The eraser now does ovals as well as boxes, hold Shift for a circle
- Running out of credits now says so in the chat, with a button to buy more
- Vectorize and AI Draw now say why they didn’t run
- Exported SVGs now start at the origin
0.1.28
August 13, 2026
- Magic select, double click a picture and click a color to select all of it
- Paste SVG straight from another app
- Remove and Extend now ask up front, Simple or with AI
- Borders can be dashed or dotted, and set on several shapes at once
- Path › Edit Path for a shape you can’t click
- The on this Mac model is gone, use credits or your own OpenRouter key
0.1.27
August 8, 2026
- Perspective now adds far fewer points to a shape
0.1.26
August 8, 2026
- Vector shapes now do real perspective, command-drag a corner to make one side smaller than the other
- Skew moved to command-dragging an edge
0.1.25
August 8, 2026
- Vector shapes now skew, command-drag a corner just like distorting a picture
- Vector points can now be aligned to each other
- Pasting onto a selected object now puts the copy on top of it
0.1.24
August 7, 2026
- Better drag and drop, cut and paste both into and out of Skechworks
- Vector points can now have different rounded corner values
- Fixed bug with dragging and selecting several vector points at once
- Escape now properly deselects, edited text jumps around less
0.1.23
August 7, 2026
- Remove now works locally as well as via AI if needed
- Fonts now support Bold, Italic, etc if Font Family supports it
0.1.22
August 7, 2026
- Resizing an artboard resizes the artboard. What's on it stays the size you drew it.
- Inside a picture, Delete removes the part you selected instead of the whole picture.
- Union and Subtract can be ungrouped again.
- Vectorize says what it's doing in the chat, and can be stopped.
0.1.19
August 6, 2026
- Skechworks opens Figma files. Drop a .fig on it and the frames, shapes and colors come across.
- Vector drawing improvements: can now select multiple points at a time when editing.
0.1.18
August 6, 2026
- AI Draw redraws a picture as a handful of shapes you can edit, on a new artboard beside it.
- New artboards land in clear space instead of on top of your work. Pasted ones too.
- Chat history now saves.
0.1.17
August 5, 2026
- Exporting one layer or artboard now asks what to call it: the name is prefilled, you can type over it, and clicking a file in the list takes that name. Exporting several at once still picks a folder.
0.1.16
August 5, 2026
- Opening a file from Finder brings its window to the front. It used to load behind whatever you were already looking at, which reads as nothing happening.
0.1.15
August 5, 2026
- Fixed: opening an SVG that uses a clip, mask or pattern drew the definition as artwork, putting a full-canvas rectangle over the picture. That covers our own exports and most files Illustrator and Figma write.
- SVG gradient fills are read at last. The gradient handler had never once matched, so every gradient came in unpainted.
0.1.14
August 5, 2026
- Text wraps inside its box. A sentence used to run straight off the layer however narrow the box was drawn.
- Editing text happens in place: the words you type sit where the artwork sits, in its own face and color, instead of a white field laid over the top.
- New text arrives with its aspect ratio unlocked, and the padlock is gone from the inspector for text.
- Line height is a multiplier now: 1 is single spaced and the default, 2 is airy, 0 packs the lines together. Files written before this still lay out the same.
- Fixed: arrow keys stopped nudging the selection on the canvas in 0.1.12.
- Fixed: nudging or dragging a layer inside a flipped group moved it the wrong way. Rotated groups behave too.
- Fixed: editing text on canvas showed two sets of words, the old ones ghosting a line below what you typed.
0.1.13
August 5, 2026
- Every number field steps with the arrow keys: 1 at a time, 10 with shift. Position, size, angle, radius, font size, kern, line height, shadow offsets, brush size, color channels and border width all behave the same way.
- New rectangles arrive with their aspect ratio unlocked, ready to stretch into a panel or a band. Circles, images and shapes keep the padlock on.
0.1.12
August 5, 2026
- Renaming a layer in the layer list works: double-click, type, Enter.
- The tool keys (R, O, T, P, V, E) only fire when the canvas has focus. They no longer interrupt you while you are typing a layer name, a color value, or a message.
- Fixed: selecting a text layer stretched the inspector wide enough to squeeze the canvas.
0.1.11
August 5, 2026
- Perspective. Hold command and drag a corner handle of an image, and that corner follows the pointer. Right-click offers Flatten Distort to put it back square.
- Pixel select. Double-click a bitmap, drag a box, copy those pixels or paste over them.
- Paste puts the copy on whatever you have selected, stacked directly above it.
- Thin lines are clickable along their stroke.
- Escape keeps a drawn line instead of discarding it.
- Erased areas stay put through resizes and perspective warps.
- The font menu shows every family in its own face.
- Quitting can no longer lose recent work, and opening a file that is already open focuses its tab instead of duplicating it.
0.1.10
August 4, 2026
- Quit with files open, launch with the same files open
- The eraser edits the layer you selected, not whatever sits on top
- Erasing happens live under the brush
0.1.9
August 4, 2026
- Arrow keys nudge the layer you picked in the layer list
- Shift-cmd-click steps down through overlapping layers
0.1.8
August 4, 2026
- Shift erases in a straight line
0.1.7
August 4, 2026
- Drag a layer out of its artboard and it lands on the canvas; drop it on another board and it moves in
0.1.6
August 4, 2026
- The W/H padlock: aspect ratio locked by default, shift inverts while dragging
- Group selection boxes include bitmaps, not just shapes
0.1.5
August 4, 2026
- Click what you see: clipped art can't be selected from another panel
- One layer aligns to its artboard
- Align and flip from the Properties panel
- The icon looks right on macOS Tahoe
- Fixed: downloads rejected as unverified on other Macs
0.1.4
August 4, 2026
- Autosave: unsaved work comes back after a restart
- Paste lands in the tab you're looking at
- Paste at Selection (⇧⌘V) lands exactly on the selection
0.1.3
August 4, 2026
- Faster with big files
- Artboards select by their name label
- Paste can no longer replace an artboard
- Chat recolors reliably
- Sign-in fixed
0.1.2
August 3, 2026
- Sketch files open correctly again
- Artboards and Frames look like they do in Sketch
0.1.1
August 3, 2026
- Remove: box anything in a photo and it's gone
- Vectorize: bitmaps become editable paths
- Crop, brightness, contrast and a safe eraser
- Sign in and see your credits
- Lots of small fixes
0.1
July 30, 2026
- First public release