What’s new in Screenr

When people draw or point on a shared screen, their name now shows beside their laser dot and pen, in their colour, so you can tell who is pointing at what. Turn it off with Names above the video, or Name chips while you share; the choice is yours alone and is remembered.

A server can have a picture too. Its owner sets one from the server menu, and it shows next to the name in the sidebar and in the header for every member, prepared and checked the same way as a profile picture.

Share part of a screen: pick "Part of screen" in the share dialog, choose a screen, then drag out the area to send. Lock it to 16:9 or 21:9 if you like, and the app offers the largest area of that shape that fits. The area is remembered for next time, and drawings on the desktop land on it.

The share dialog opens as soon as you click Share instead of a second or so later. The screens and windows are listed right away and their previews fill in a moment after, those for the tab you are on first.

On macOS, clicking the menu bar icon only opens its menu. It no longer brings the Screenr window forward and takes focus from the app you were in.

Set a profile picture in Settings → Account. It is cropped square and shrunk on your computer, then shows wherever your name does for friends and the people on your servers. The server checks it for explicit pictures itself, without sending it anywhere else.

While you are in a channel call, Ask to join in the members panel rings anyone online who is not in a call. They get a ringtone and a card with Join and Decline, and you see Ringing… with Cancel until they answer. You do not have to be friends.

Mention someone by typing @ and picking their name. They get a desktop notification, the message stands out in the thread, and the unread count for that channel turns red until they read it.

A crash or power cut while a message was being saved no longer corrupts that conversation on disk. The half-written message is dropped the next time it opens, and everything after it is kept.

A message sent to a friend who had just reinstalled the app could be lost while it showed as delivered. It now waits until their new install has introduced itself and reaches them.

Messages from someone who later left a server, or was removed from it, now reach every device, including one you sign in on afterwards. Before, a device that caught up later never showed them.

Leaving a call while the microphone permission prompt was still open could leave the microphone on until you quit the app, and leaving while picking a screen to share could leave the capture running. Both now stop when you leave.

A friend request that is declined or cancelled now disappears from the other person’s list straight away, instead of lingering until the app next reloaded it.

A half-written message no longer follows you into the next channel or conversation, where pressing Enter would have sent it there.

Opening Settings during a call no longer cuts your microphone out for a moment.

Coming back to the window clears the unread count of the conversation you have open. Before, messages that arrived while the window was in the background stayed unread until you left the conversation and opened it again.

Clicking the … server menu or a message’s reaction button a second time closes it, instead of opening it straight back up.

The thread no longer jumps to the bottom when a message arrives while you are reading further up. It still follows along when you are at the end, and when you send something yourself.

A conversation you open with unread messages starts at a New messages line above the first of them, instead of at the end. The line stays while you read and is gone the next time you open it.

The Friends row in the sidebar counts unread direct messages as well as friend requests, so a message waiting for you shows while you are on a server page.

After three wrong passwords for an account, every further sign-in to it waits a few seconds before answering, longer each time, whether the password is right or not. Signing in successfully resets it. Guessing a password from many computers at once no longer gets around the limit.

Direct messages live on the Friends page now instead of the sidebar. Friends who have written to you sit at the top under Unread, with how many messages are waiting and the last one.

Click anywhere on a friend to open your conversation, and use Back to Friends to return.

Text channels and audio rooms are one thing now: every channel has a thread and a call. Start call sits in the channel header, and while anyone is in the call it shows above the thread. The rail lists channels once, with who is in the call under the one you are looking at.

The people listed under a channel in the rail show whether they are muted or deafened, also to someone who is not in the call. Before, everyone looked unmuted.

The rooms you had carry over as channels with the same name and history, after the channels that were already there. New servers start with one channel, #general.

Share screen is now a labelled button in channel calls, with a smaller Leave button beside it.

Leave server and Delete server moved into a … menu at the top of a server, next to Copy invite link.

Turn on two-factor sign-in in Settings → Account. New sign-ins require an authenticator code. Save the recovery codes in case you lose access to your authenticator.

You can change your password in Settings → Account

You can delete your account from Settings → Account

Sign-up now includes a password strength indicator and a confirmation field to catch typos.

Settings now has General and Account tabs. Manage your signed-in devices under Account.

Read a conversation on one device and it is marked as read on your others, including devices that reconnect later.

The tray icon turns green when your mic is live and red when muted. Hover for call details, or use its menu to mute, deafen or leave without opening Screenr.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Space (⌘⇧Space on Mac) to mute or unmute during a call from any app. A short tone confirms the change, including when you use the mute button. The shortcut is inactive outside calls. On Wayland, KDE and GNOME handle the shortcut through the desktop portal; Hyprland needs the configuration shown in the README.

Hover a message to add an emoji reaction. Hover a reaction to see who added it, or click your own to remove it. Reactions are end-to-end encrypted and sync when offline friends reconnect.

Moving a room call to another device now asks for confirmation and shows which device is currently in the call.

Offline friends now show when they were last seen.

The default window size now shows the server member list and invite panel without manual resizing.

Removed redundant counts and helper text from the sidebar, channel headers and message boxes. Empty rooms now have one call button; screen sharing is available after joining.

The app now uses screenr.eu for all accounts. Custom server and plain-HTTP settings have been removed; existing custom connections switch to the public server.

Settings now groups Audio and Diagnostics on the left, with Notifications, devices and messaging keys on the right.

Device names now include the account and computer name so shared computers are easier to identify. Existing devices get the new name when they sign in again.

Sign in on several computers at once. Incoming calls ring on all of them; answer on one to take the call. Joining a call or room from another device moves it there.

Messages sync across your signed-in devices. New devices receive history from a device that has it, and each has its own messaging key. Conversations show when a friend adds a device or changes a key.

Settings lists your devices, says which are connected, and signs any of them out.

Invite links now open Screenr. The invite page also shows a code you can copy if the app is not installed.

The status you pick applies to every device you are on.

The Mutual servers, Safety number and Pending cards had lost the padding above their headings.

Send end-to-end encrypted direct messages to friends. Messages to offline friends wait on your device until you are both online.

Servers now have text channels and a chat thread for each audio room, with call activity shown in the thread. Members sync missed messages with each other.

The server page is redrawn: channels and rooms on the left, the open one in the middle with the call above its thread, members on the right.

Compare safety numbers with a friend to verify your messaging keys. The conversation shows when their key changes.

New direct messages trigger desktop notifications when Screenr is in the background. Channels and rooms show unread badges.

Settings shows your messaging key.

A new app icon, on the desktop and in the tray.

A search field on the friends page, and All, Online and Pending tabs over the list.

The friends list now shows when someone is in a room on a shared server, with the room name.

The sign-in screen now shows server connection status and response time.

The sign-in screen is redrawn as two panels, the brand beside the form.

The friends page groups cards by online and offline status. Add friends and respond to requests in the panel on the right.

Text typed into the sign-in fields is no longer the same grey as the placeholder.

Direct one-to-one calls between friends, with no room to meet in first.

Incoming calls show a popup by the tray icon when Screenr is in the background. Accept, silence or decline from the popup.

Pick your status — online, away or invisible — and away sets itself while the machine is idle.

After an update the app says what changed, and Settings keeps the whole history.

Updated colours, the Inter font and redesigned sidebars, panels and cards throughout the app.

Call controls now stay in place when the voice panel opens.

Screen shares use less upload bandwidth when others view them as small tiles.

The laser trail is filled as one ribbon, so it no longer darkens where the pointer slowed down.

Copy invite link now copies the link to the clipboard.

On macOS, Restart now installs the update rather than hiding the window in the menu bar.

Server members show presence and when they were last seen; rooms show who is sharing.

Servers have invite links.

The sidebar gained a voice footer with mute, deafen and volume.

The session token survives a restart on Hyprland and other desktops Chromium does not recognise.

macOS builds are signed and notarized again, so they can update themselves.

The macOS app is now signed and notarized, enabling automatic updates. If you use 0.5.0 or earlier, download and install once to enable future updates.

A tray icon keeps the app running when the window is closed, with Quit and your status in its menu.

Get a desktop notification when a room on one of your servers reaches two people. Turn these off per server.

The laser trail curves through its samples instead of joining them with straight lines.

Each release now publishes itself to the download page, which is also the update feed.

Servers with audio rooms replace lobbies, reached from a sidebar.

The app checks the download page for a newer version and installs it in the background.

F toggles fullscreen on the stage.

Drawing and a laser pointer on a shared screen, for everyone the sharer allows.

A chime when someone joins or leaves the lobby you are in, with a toggle for both.

Lobbies now stay available when empty. Each owner can create three.

An occupancy light on each lobby card.

The Fullscreen button works.

Accounts, friends and lobbies, with voice over a peer-to-peer mesh and screen sharing on top.

Noise suppression you can switch mid-call: RNNoise, GTCRN or Speex.

Quality controls per share, and a per-peer panel with codec, bitrate, frame rate and loss.