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Every public version of the Clipy Chrome extension, with the highlights from each release. Install from the Chrome Web Store.

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The Clipy Chrome extension release history tracks public extension versions, recording changes, permission updates, webcam bubble improvements, streaming upload fixes, and other user-facing changes before you install from the Chrome Web Store.

  • v2.1.5

    Jun 19, 2026In review
    • Repositioned as a free Loom alternative + Loom migration helper: new store name and listing focused on switching from Loom, downloading your Loom videos (single or a batch of up to 20 public links via clipy.online migration mode), and re-hosting them free on clipy.online. No functional change to recording — same recorder, clearer positioning for people moving off Loom.
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  • v2.1.4

    Jun 19, 2026In review
    • Cleaner post-recording flow: 'Record another' now fully clears the previous share card (no more lingering 'copied' state) with a smooth fade instead of a flaky snap, and the ready screen fades back in.
    • Decluttered sharing: the most-used destinations (Slack, Markdown, Embed) stay up front while the rest collapse behind a 'More ways to share' expander.
    • Recent recordings and the copy/download diagnostics move into a collapsed Advanced section so they no longer stack up and clutter the main flow.
    • Cursor effects (spotlight, highlight, auto-zoom) once again render in tab recordings — a headless cursor reporter keeps tracking even while the on-screen controls are hidden, fixing a regression where effects silently dropped on stationary tabs.
    • Thin, theme-matched popup scrollbar replaces the chunky default.
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  • v2.1.3

    Jun 17, 2026
    • Full-page screenshots: alongside the visible-area capture, a new 'Full page' button scrolls the whole tab and stitches it into one tall screenshot, hiding sticky headers so they don't repeat down the image.
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  • v2.1.2

    Jun 17, 2026In review
    • Camera views: choose a floating bubble or dock the camera as a fixed strip along the left, right, top, or bottom edge — matching the Clipy Mac app's camera layouts.
    • Docked camera strips use center-cropped, rounded framing, and the countdown preview now shows exactly where the camera will sit for each view.
    • Always-visible recording overlay and popup timer with Stop, Pause/Resume, finalizing state, live annotation tools, and clear-all for on-recording markup.
    • Restart is now available from both the popup and floating overlay, so a bad take can be discarded and started again with the same settings.
    • Toolbar badge now reflects setup, countdown, recording, paused, and finalizing states instead of showing one generic active state.
    • Clearer finalizing state: after Stop, the popup and overlay explain that Clipy is preparing the hosted link and show uploaded MB as context.
    • Upload retry status is now visible in the popup and floating overlay, including chunk retry, finalizing, and share-link preparation steps.
    • Upload finalization is more resilient: chunk, finalize, and complete calls now retry transient failures before local recovery is needed.
    • Local recording recovery: failed or interrupted recordings are surfaced in the popup, can be retried to Clipy, or downloaded as WebM; users can also opt into keeping a local WebM backup after successful upload.
    • Successful recovery uploads now update the same hosted last/recent recording history as normal recordings.
    • Recorder heartbeat watchdog now detects hidden-recorder crashes and surfaces a recoverable failure notification instead of leaving the UI stuck.
    • Diagnostics can now be copied directly from the popup as sanitized JSON for faster support reports.
    • Diagnostics now include sanitized Sentry monitoring status so support can tell whether crash reporting is active without exposing the DSN.
    • Failed recordings now include a Contact support action that opens a sanitized email draft to support@clipy.online.
    • Local recovery now requests durable Chrome extension storage and reports quota/persistence details in diagnostics.
    • Finalizing recordings now expose a Save local WebM fallback action when cached chunks are available, while the Clipy upload continues.
    • Destructive discard actions now require confirmation for active recordings, finalizing uploads, and local recovery copies.
    • When Keep local WebM backup is enabled, the completion screen now exposes the preserved local file immediately.
    • Device permission troubleshooting now links directly to Chrome camera and microphone settings from the popup and setup page.
    • Webcam overlay controls now include explicit size, mirror, and corner placement presets alongside shape selection.
    • Camera and microphone setup improved with device refresh, previews, and explicit permission setup so OBS virtual camera is no longer silently treated as the only option.
    • Microphone cleanup is now visible and adjustable with a Reduce mic noise toggle.
    • Optional clip title field now sends a useful name to the hosted Clipy recording and is preserved for recovery retries.
    • The setup panel now shows clipy.online as the upload destination before recording starts.
    • New effects and polish: click auto-zoom, cursor/click highlighting, center-cropped webcam overlay, text labels, numbered steps, arrows, boxes, blur regions, and quality/countdown controls.
    • Screenshot editor now supports visible-tab markup, blur redaction, undo/clear, and crop-to-region copy/download.
    • Share actions now include bug-report snippets, Markdown links, iframe embed code, Gmail compose, Linear drafts, LinkedIn shares, X share drafts, and direct access to the hosted Clipy library.
    • No-OAuth share copy formats now include Slack-ready messages, Teams-ready messages, GitHub issue bodies, Jira issue bodies, Trello card notes, Asana task notes, and Notion meeting notes.
    • Completion and recent-link panels now explain that Clipy links are viewable by anyone with the link and point owners to the library for management.
    • The popup header now links directly to the hosted Clipy privacy policy.
    • Copying latest or recent hosted links now keeps the share panel open and shows copied feedback.
    • Bug-report snippets now include compact support context: extension version, browser, Clipy upload target, and crash-reporting status.
    • The popup now keeps a small recent-recordings list so recent hosted Clipy links can be copied or reopened without leaving Chrome.
    • Soft 5-star review prompt after your 2nd successful hosted recording — 4-5 stars open the Chrome Web Store, 1-3 stars open clipy.online/feedback with the rating prefilled, so gripes reach support instead of becoming a public 1-star review.
    • Ready notifications are now actionable: clicking the notification opens the latest Clipy share link.
    • Optional Sentry crash reporting hooks across popup, service worker, offscreen recorder, permissions page, and content script; source maps are now excluded from the default Web Store build and generated only through an explicit Sentry build.
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  • v2.0.4

    Jun 17, 2026
    • Popup compacted: Source picker + Start recording button now sit at the top so the primary action is always visible without scrolling.
    • Audio, Webcam overlay, and Effects moved behind an 'Advanced settings' disclosure (collapsed by default) — saves ~400px of vertical space on the default view.
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  • v2.0.3

    Jun 16, 2026
    • Popup dropdowns are now custom-styled so the mic/camera picker stays legible on Windows (native <select> rendered white text on the OS-default white menu background).
    • Post-recording panels share a uniform 4-action layout — Copy link, Open, Email, Post to X.
    • Soft 5-star rating ask under the share buttons after your 2nd successful recording. 4-5 stars opens the Chrome Web Store reviews tab; 1-3 stars opens clipy.online/feedback with the rating prefilled, so gripes land with us instead of as a 1-star public review.
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  • v2.0.2

    May 22, 2026
    • Recording state machine: live streaming chunk progress no longer flips status to 'uploading' before Stop is pressed (fixes overlay disappearing mid-recording).
    • Floating Stop on the toolbar now actually stops the recording instead of being treated as already-finalizing.
    • Webcam bubble removed from the recorder chrome where it was duplicating the OS-level webcam preview.
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  • v2.0.1

    May 10, 2026
    • Webcam overlay refinement — clean device-preview UI and smoother enter/leave transitions.
    • Device picker shows live previews for each connected camera + mic so you pick the right one before recording starts.
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  • v2.0.0

    Apr 28, 2026
    • Full Chrome extension rebuild on Manifest V3.
    • Drive / share-file surface purged — extension is now pure capture + streaming upload to clipy.online.
    • Loom-parity feature pass: drawing, draggable webcam, draggable blur, in-recording screenshots, CORS-safe subdomain auth.
    • Live webcam bubble with permission onboarding and upload diagnostics built in.
    • Tabs permission removed; only the permissions Chrome reviewers can justify ship in the manifest.
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Looking for the macOS desktop app instead? See Mac release history.

Web app changes are at /changelog.