Releases

New features, improvements, and fixes in Rotato for Mac.

  1. Download Rotato 144.1

    Fixes and improvements

    • Added iPhone 15
    • Added MacBook Pro M3 16-inch
    • Added MacBook Pro M3 15-inch
    • Added MacBook Air M2 13-inch
    • Added MacBook Air M2 15-inch
    • Added a "Simple Universal" scene for a clean, floating image or video
    • That's a lot of devices, so you can now pick among the most recent ones in the grid
    • You can now pick among the most recent templates, too
    • You can now scale individual devices when there is more than one on the scene
    • You can now press Cmd-V to paste an image to the selected device
    • You can now copy an image from Figma, Finder, or any other app and paste it into Rotato
    • You can now copy a video, image or animated gif file from Finder and paste it into Rotato
    • Beta preview: You can now paste a URL to a website to render a screenshot on the current device
    Improvements6
    • Improved perspective on the MacBook Air M1
    • Dragging a background image's scale, blur, or saturation now changes the value in smaller bits, making it easier to control
    • Multi-device beta: Improved the 3D arrows (gizmo), bug fixes and performance
    • Multi-device beta: You can now undo deleting a device
    • Multi-device beta: The device selector is now smaller
    • Multi-device beta: Improved stability and performance
    Fixes5
    • Fixed a bug where scenes with multiple, rotated devices introduced before 2022 would cause the devices to rotate and overlap each other.
    • Fixed a bug where the background in a scene grid item would not change to dark or light when the macOS system changes to dark or light
    • Added Samsung Frame TV, which was present in earlier versions of Rotato. Welcome back, Frame TV.
    • Multi-device beta: Fixed a bug where deleting a device with backspace would not remove the gizmo in some cases
    • Multi-device beta: Fixed a bug where the gizmo would be too big in specific camera configurations
  2. Download Rotato 143

    Fixes and improvements

    • You can now add multiple devices to the scene, like an iPhone, iPad and a Macbook, all in the same scene. See examples and how to do it.
    • Added iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. iPhone 15 coming soon.
    Improvements1
    • Improvements, performance, bug fixes in license handling
    Fixes5
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato would Rotate or otherwise mess up certain laptop and monitor models. If this still happens for you, go to the Splash screen and right click the scene, then click Update
    • Fixed a bug where the duration of a saved .rotato file was not always saved. Thanks for reporting!
    • Fixed a bug where a newly installed license could crash on Sonoma on the next launch
    • Fixed a bug where iPhone XS and 3 x iPhone XS would not open correctly in some cases
    • Downloading older versions from rotato.app/releases didn't work for a short period in December. Downloads now work again.
  3. Download Rotato 142.378

    Fixes and improvements

    Bug fixes and performance improvements.

    Fixes8
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato could crash if you right clicked a scene to update it
    • Fixed a bug where pressing Cmd+3 would crash Rotato
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato would apply a subtle environment to .rotato files saved in previous versions where environments were turned off
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato would crash if you dragged in non-relevant files
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato could crash when trying to download a scene with no internet connection
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato could crash on macOS 11 and 12 when opening a scene with no device screen contents
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato could crash if you opened a .rotato document with no animations and tried to adjust the movie length
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato could crash if you tried to add animations to specific App Store image templates
  4. Download Rotato 142.377

    Fixes and improvements

    • 7x quicker download for this and future updates
    • Redesigned animation timeline
    • Redesigned sidebar
    • Improved rendering quality
    • Improved video file size
    • Improved video quality
    • New camera control widget

    Stay tuned for more details in our discord or @rotatoapp on Twitter!

  5. Download Rotato 140.37

    Fixes and improvements

    $ pod deintegrate

    I saw the best minds of my coding generation tethered by dependencies / starving for solutions, dragging themselves through the open-source streets at dawn / looking for an angry fix / angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection / to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night / CocoaPods! I sing of thee, whose code and wisdom brought us light / Yet now we part, untethered and released, into the vast cosmic byte.

    Improvements1
    • Thousands of lines of code refactored for optimization. You should see Rotato launch faster, download faster, and feel lighter.
    Fixes1
    • Fixed a bug where the document window could be super narrow the first time the best minds of my coding generation tethered by dependencies / starving for solutions, dragging themselves through the open-source streets at dawn / looking for an angry fix / angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection / to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night / CocoaPods! I sing of thee, whose code and wisdom brought us light / Yet now we part, untethered and released, into the vast cosmic byte.
  6. Download Rotato 140.36

    Fixes and improvements

    • Template gallery BETA. Take a look at the new template gallery and let us know what you think on our Discord
    • Hovering a scene in the splash window now shows the first screen size so you can prepare your assets
    • You can now import a screenshot from the clipboard, using Edit > Paste Screen Image
    • You can now import a background image from the clipboard, using Edit > Paste Background Image
    • You can now choose 8K as your default still image output size, as well as render movies in 8K (not recommended for regular use, the files are gigantic)
    • You can now adjust line-spacing in the label editor
    • You can now center, right/left-align a label
    • You can now paste an image onto the mockup using Edit > Paste Screen image (you can assign a shortcut in macOS Settings)
    • You can now paste an image onto the scene's background using Edit > Paste Background image (you can assign a shortcut in macOS Settings)
    • Rotato is now compatible with macOS 11 (Big Sur) and newer
    Improvements4
    • The splash grid of scenes now looks nicer
    • The splash grid of sences loads images in a more robust way
    • The label editor now always has a white background
    • Smaller output files when exporting with audio. We're now using AAC (stereo, 44.1khz, 256kbps) rather than raw PCM audio, which can lead to 50% smaller files and high quality.
    Fixes7
    • Fixed a bug where Rotato would become unresponsive when switching or launching with the Preset tab active, but only in some unknown circumstances where the system was under memory pressure. Huge thanks to everyone who helped track this down!
    • Rotato now respects the new AppStore preview guidelines that require an audio track in the video, even if the video doesn't have audio
    • Rotato now respects the new AppStore preview guidelines for sizes
    • Fixed a bug where the images in the splash grid of scenes would show a weird Rotato logo placeholder in some strange cases
    • Fixed a bug where enabling Simple Lighting, then saving, then opening, would not enable Simple Lighting in some cases
    • Fixed an issue where the universal scene's screeen would repeat the bottom pixels at the top in rare cases
    • Fixed an issue where the iPhone 14 Pro would have a tiny sub-1px colored line at the top when using a screen image that has a different color at the top and at the bottom
  7. Download Rotato 138.2

    Fixes and improvements

    • iPhone 14 Pro Max is now available
    Fixes2
    • Rotato no longer reminds you to verify your email
    • Rotato no longer shows you the intro animation if you've already seen it in addition to if you've exported, or if you've installed Rotato on a previous version, or if you've launched Rotato by clicking on a .rotato file. That means if you're reading this, you may have no idea what I'm talking about. And that's the point.
  8. Download Rotato 138.1

    Fixes and improvements

    • iPhone 14 Pro now appears in the main list of scenes
    • Official device colors now appear below the device color selector in the right hand "Style" sidebar
  9. Download Rotato 138

    Fixes and improvements

    • iPhone 14 Pro is here, go play on the dynamic island
    Improvements7
    • Rotato now remembers shadow intensity across shadow styles
    • The toolbar got a makeover with a logical grouping of the actions
    • Rotato now remembers which sidebar tab you used last
    • Collapsing and expanding the sidebar is now smoothly animated, and it smartly adapts to the available space on the screen
    • Improved overall stability througout the app
    • The Rotato.app bundle and templates are now slightly smaller, you may experience this as "wow, that mockup downloaded fast" or no reaction at all, which is the whole point.
    • The default placeholders are now consistent across all mockups
    Fixes1
    • Fixed a bug where email activation wouldn't activate Rotato in some cases
  10. Download Rotato 137

    Fixes and improvements

    It's the saving-and-opening release! If you don't use templates, you can skip this version. If you do, you'll like it!

    Improvements3
    • macOS standardized documents saving. Rotato will no longer go and save edits on its own, but wait until you're ready and click save, as is standard on macOS.
    • Templates in the Splash screen now look a lot nicer in dark mode.
    • Templates in the Splash screen now all have a fixed height and it looks so much nicer.