LangLens: Changelog

0.1.7

Cleaner Mac look across Settings, Hotkeys, Welcome, and every floating panel. Frosted glass backgrounds match throughout (same material as Translate and Quick Translate).
Settings, Hotkeys, and Welcome use standard Mac window controls.
The translation bubble opens next to the text you selected, not wherever the cursor is.
Multi-Translate cards move one at a time; grabbing one card no longer drags the whole stack.
Capture tips stay visible inside the frame; the Multi-Translate hint sits at the top with a clearer blue outline.
Selection crop and pin control behave correctly again; Quick Translate padding matches the rest of the app.
The menu-bar menu opens right away when you click the icon.

Onboarding user guide has been added.
Removed LangLens's own Screen Recording and Accessibility permission windows. macOS prompts on first use; a blank capture still opens System Settings with a short message.

Welcome walkthrough on first launch and after updates: six short pages covering the menu-bar icon, language settings, Translate, Quick Translate, Multi-Translate, and hotkeys.

Click a language name on the result bubble or Quick Translate to change the target for this result only (searchable list). Settings defaults are unchanged.
Drag edges or corners to reshape the result bubble and Quick Translate window.
Pressing a translate hotkey no longer brings up the Hotkeys or Settings window if it was left open in the background.
Pin control uses a clear thumbtack icon with a blue border when pinned.
Cleaner rounded corners on the bubble and Quick Translate; Quick Translate no longer grows taller on every keystroke.
Highlighted-text capture waits longer for Accessibility before falling through to OCR.
Quick Translate steals focus so macOS dictation can target the field; Settings auto-saves with a single Close control.
Screen Recording blank-capture no longer stacks LangLens's primer on top of the macOS system dialog.

The single-capture hotkey (default ⌘⇧Space) translates highlighted text in the frontmost app when Accessibility permission is granted; otherwise it opens drag-select OCR capture. Selection is read via the macOS Accessibility API, not the clipboard.
Multi-Translate mode: a separate hotkey (default ⌘⇧M) or tray item freezes the screen so you can select up to 10 regions, then numbered translation labels appear at each region. Uses your Settings primary and secondary languages.
Pin overlay: a thumbtack in the result bubble header keeps it on screen when you start a new capture; multiple pinned bubbles can coexist.
Quick Translate: tray Quick Translate… or hotkey (default ⌘⇧T) opens a window to type or paste text for a translation without screen capture.
Hotkeys window: tray Hotkeys… configures Single, Multi, and Quick Translate shortcuts separately; hotkey fields removed from Settings.

A fix for the most annoying update papercut.

Updating LangLens no longer re-asks for Screen Recording permission when it was already granted. The app now checks access by actually capturing a frame instead of trusting the macOS permission flag, which reported stale values after a download-and-replace update. Just drag the new version over the old one.
The Settings window now shows the app version in its footer.

A polish pass on the menu-bar icon, language pickers, and shortcuts, plus a packaging fix.

The menu-bar icon is now the correct macOS size, so it matches other menu-bar apps instead of reading oversized.
Language pickers have a search box at the top: type to filter instead of scrolling through every language.
The capture-hotkey recorder accepts any modifier and key combination, including three- and four-key shortcuts. If macOS reserves the shortcut, Settings shows a clear error instead of silently failing.
Fixed spurious microphone and audio-capture permission prompts on install. LangLens never uses audio, and the packaged app no longer asks for it.

The first release of LangLens.

Press a hotkey or use the tray menu to drag-select any on-screen text and read its translation in a floating bubble near your cursor.
On-device text recognition with Apple's Vision framework: the screenshot never leaves your Mac.
No setup and no key entry. Translation runs through the shared LangLens service; the detected source language is shown automatically.
A primary and an optional secondary target language, so each capture can show two translations at once.
A resizable, persistent result bubble with a scrollable body, plus a keep-format option to preserve the original line breaks.
Light and dark appearance support that follows your system setting.
Privacy by design: nothing is copied to the clipboard, nothing is saved, and there is no history.