Release notes

Tabs

• One tab per photo: every photo you open gets its own tab along the top of the window, so looking at another photo no longer means putting the first one away.
• Switch with ⌃Tab (⌃⇧Tab goes back), or just click a tab. The Window menu lists every open photo too.
• Each tab keeps its own settings: scale, method, format and the rest stay with the photo they were set for, and a new tab starts from your saved defaults.
• Drop or open several photos at once to open them all, each in its own tab. Opening a photo that is already open takes you to its tab.
• Export All Tabs: File ▸ Export All Tabs… saves every open photo to one folder you choose, each with its own settings.
• Closing asks only if something would be lost: ⌘W closes a tab and ⌘⌥W closes them all. You are asked only when closing would throw something away, such as a crop you confirmed and have not exported yet.

Update notifications

• MacnifyIt now tells you when a new version is out. If you're using it, you'll see a message in the app. If it's running in the background, you'll get one Mac notification for that version. Click it for the release notes, or choose Download or Skip This Version.
• New, and off unless you switch it on: MacnifyIt ▸ Also Check When MacnifyIt Is Closed (macOS 13 or later) checks once a day even when the app isn't open. It shows up in System Settings ▸ General ▸ Login Items.
• Checking only reads one public file, macnifyit.com/version.json. It sends nothing about you, your Mac, your licence or your photos, and there's no push service. Turn it all off with MacnifyIt ▸ Check for Updates Automatically.

Run MacnifyIt from Terminal, Shortcuts and scripts

• Command line: a new macnifyit command is built into the app. It enlarges photos and folders from Terminal, runs your saved recipes, shows the state of a job (status), stops one (cancel), and checks that everything is set up (doctor). Add --json to get one clear result that a script can read.
• Shortcuts: three new actions for the Shortcuts app on macOS 13 or later: Enlarge Images, Run MacnifyIt Recipe and Get MacnifyIt Recipes. They return the new files, so a shortcut can pass them on to the next step.
• Background jobs: a job from the command line or a shortcut opens no window, shows no sheet and does not take over your screen. If MacnifyIt was not running it starts quietly, does the job and quits when it is done, and a notification tells you how many files were exported. Add --dry-run to see what would happen first; it exports nothing and uses none of your trial.
• Installer: choose MacnifyIt ▸ Install Command-Line Tool… and pick for everyone on this Mac (asks for your password once) or for you only (no password). The same menu removes it again, and only ever removes links that point into a MacnifyIt app.
• Same rules everywhere: the free trial and your licence count exactly as they do in the app, an existing file is never overwritten unless you ask, and anything made with Enhance is marked “Contains AI-estimated detail”. This is for photos only.
• Private: the command and the actions make no network connection and send no telemetry.

Use MacnifyIt from scripts and AI agents

• Changed: only ⌘Q quits MacnifyIt. ⌘W closes the photo; with no photo open it does nothing. Closing the window keeps MacnifyIt running, and clicking its Dock icon brings the window back.

• Changed: ⌘W now closes the photo and returns to the start screen. On the empty window, ⌘W quits MacnifyIt.
• Fixed: the Remove Background (AI) mask window can now be resized, so you can inspect more of the photo at 100%.

• Fixed: MacnifyIt now follows macOS Dark Mode — the inspector, panels and text are readable in both Light and Dark.
• Fixed: ⌘W now closes the window. Closing the last window quits MacnifyIt, unless an export is still running.
• New: Check for Updates… in the MacnifyIt menu, plus an optional automatic check once a day. The check fetches a small public version file from macnifyit.com and sends no account, device, licence or usage information; turn it off with Check for Updates Automatically in the same menu.

Contains AI-estimated detail.

• Enhance (AI): a third method, alongside Exact and Clarity, that adds AI-estimated detail. Every export made with it is clearly marked “Contains AI-estimated detail”, and an AI detail slider (starting at 50%) lets you choose how much of the AI result to blend in.
• Exact output sizes: set the size by longest side, exact width, exact height, or fit within a box, as well as the familiar 2×, 4× and 8× scales.
• WebP export, alongside PNG, JPEG and TIFF.
• Recipes: save one or more outputs as a named recipe and apply it to a single photo, a whole folder, or straight from Finder’s right-click menu.
• The Export Queue: batches run through a queue with per-file progress, Stop at any point, and Retry for files that didn’t finish.
• Canvas with Remove Background (AI): crop or resize the canvas, place the subject with Suggested framing (AI), or cut the subject out; padding and cut-outs can be transparent in PNG, TIFF and WebP. The two AI canvas tools need macOS 14 or later.
• Colour policy: choose what happens to the embedded colour profile and metadata, with a flatten colour picker for transparent sources saved as JPEG.
• Job receipts: every export gets a small receipt recording how it was made, kept in the app (or beside the file, if you choose).
• Compare view zoom: step through view levels from 50% to 200%, not just Fit or 100%.

Contains AI-estimated detail.

• Exact: precise Lanczos-3 enlargement in linear light at 2×, 4× or 8×, with Clarity’s bounded sharpening as an option.
• Finder right-click: enlarge photos straight from Finder’s context menu.
• Batches: open or drop several files and whole folders at once.
• A 100% check before export, plus colour profiles and metadata kept.
• Free trial: a dozen full-resolution exports, no account needed.