Releases

Fixes

• On Mac, opening the app straight from the disk image now explains what to do about it. The app used to report that a privacy setting was blocking the camera, which sent people looking in the wrong place. All that is needed is to drag the app to your Applications folder and open it from there.
• On Mac, the Terminal command shown when camera access stays blocked now has a Copy button.
• The Check screen no longer overlaps itself when the window is made short.

Improvements

• On Windows, USB checks now start straight away. About one check in fifty used to sit for anywhere between ten seconds and five minutes before the app made contact with the camera, with Cancel unable to respond during that wait.

Fixes

• Some Canon cameras reported that the shutter count could not be read and asked you to take a photo and check again, when the camera had in fact sent the count. Affects the EOS 1000D, EOS 40D, EOS 6D and EOS 5D Mark III, on both Windows and Mac.
• On Windows, a camera could stop being readable once the USB driver had been installed for it. The check gave up in a fraction of a second instead of falling back to the standard Windows connection, which reads these cameras perfectly well. Seen on the EOS RP, EOS 750D and EOS 5DS R.
• A camera read through an installed USB driver could be saved as a second, separate camera, splitting its history in your Gear list instead of adding to the camera you already had.

What’s new

• On Mac, the app now spots when a saved privacy setting is stopping it from seeing your camera, and offers a one click fix. This is the cause behind cameras that never show up even though they are plugged in and switched on, with no error to explain it. After the fix, unplug the camera and connect it again. The app waits for that reconnection before telling you whether the fix worked.

Fixes

• On Windows, a camera whose USB connection has locked up is now reported straight away, instead of after a 30 second wait. The wait was there to give the camera a chance to recover, but it never actually rescued one. Reconnecting the camera and checking again is what clears it, so the app now tells you that immediately.
• Canon PowerShot G12 and PowerShot A590 IS now report that they do not make a shutter count available, instead of asking you to take a photo and check again. Neither camera can return one over USB, so the old advice could never work.
• When a camera is busy, the app now asks you to wait a few seconds and check again, rather than telling you to power it off and on. Looking at how these checks actually recover, waiting about ten seconds is what works. Powering the camera off and on was never needed.
• On Windows, a camera that is unplugged or lost partway through a check is now reported as a connection problem, with a prompt to check the cable, rather than as a stuck camera.

Fixes

• On Windows, Canon EOS R and EOS RP cameras now connect reliably over USB. While setting up the connection the app asked these cameras for an older setting they do not use, which could lock up the link before the shutter count was ever read.
• USB checks now recover when a Canon camera replies with a leftover response that carries no shutter count. The app asks the camera again instead of giving up and reporting that the counter was not recognised, which sent you off to take a photo and check again for no reason. Seen on cameras such as the Canon EOS 700D.
• On Mac, a camera that does not answer the very first request is now reported as a connection problem, with a prompt to reconnect it. This previously surfaced as a generic communication error that gave you nothing to act on, when reconnecting the camera is what actually clears it.

Improvements

• Clearer help when a Canon camera cannot be read over USB. When the camera is not ready or the connection has dropped, the app now points you to the right next step, such as reconnecting or power cycling the camera, instead of asking you to take a photo and check again.
• On Mac, a check against an unresponsive Canon camera now ends promptly with a clear result, rather than quietly retrying in the background.

Improvements

• More reliable USB connections on Windows, including a faster response when you cancel a check that is taking too long.
• Improved support and reliability for a range of Canon EOS cameras.

What’s new

• The app is now available in Romanian, Slovak, and Persian: 31 languages in total.

Improvements

• The language choices on the welcome screen now lead with the languages most relevant to your region.

Fixes

• Fixed USB checks on Canon cameras that repeatedly failed with “we’re having trouble reading the shutter count” even though the camera was connected and responding (seen on the EOS 50D, 5D Mark III, 2000D, and others). A camera sends its details once per connection, and another program on the computer can use that up: the app now asks the camera to send them again, so the check completes.
• When a camera really isn’t sending any data, the error now says what actually helps: power the camera off and on, and close other Canon software such as EOS Utility. Before, it wrongly suggested taking another shot and rechecking.

Improvements

• USB checks on macOS now work with a full memory card in the camera. Reading a card with hundreds of photos can take a few minutes: the app now shows what is happening, offers the choice to wait or remove the card for an instant result, and completes the check either way.
• A Cancel button now appears while a USB check is running, so a slow read never locks the check screen.
• USB checks on Windows recover automatically from most connection hiccups: a stalled read now retries on a fresh connection in seconds instead of failing after a long freeze.

Fixes

• Unplugging the camera mid-check now says so clearly on both platforms, instead of reporting the camera as busy or showing a long timeout.
• Fixed several camera connection errors on macOS that were wrongly reported as “we can’t read this camera”: the app now tells you it was a connection problem and that trying again will likely work.
• Fixed activation hanging forever when an install had been deactivated from another device. The app now recovers and reactivates cleanly.

Improvements

• Clearer error messages when Windows cannot pass a read command to your Canon camera. The app now explains it is a connection problem, and retries automatically, which recovers many checks that used to fail.
• Connecting a non-Canon camera over USB now explains that USB checks are Canon only, and points you to the photo check instead.

Fixes

• Memory cards, card readers, and USB sticks are no longer mistaken for a connected camera on Windows.
• On Mac, a check could freeze for 90 seconds when the camera never responded. It now recovers in a few seconds and retries on its own.
• Improved reading reliability on some Canon cameras: if the camera is not ready to report its count yet, the app now asks for a quick re-check.

Improvements

• Small refinements to the check screen.

Improvements

• Added more than 80 cameras to the database across Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Pentax and Samsung, including the Fujifilm X-HF1, so more bodies are recognized when you check a photo.
• The camera’s serial number now shows reliably for more Canon bodies read over USB.
• Cleaner, more accurate model names for some cameras.

Fixes

• The app no longer asks you to install a driver for devices that aren’t cameras, such as card readers and external drives.

Improvements

• More reliable shutter reads over USB on recent Canon DSLRs, including some EOS 5D Mark IV bodies that previously failed to return a shutter count.

What’s new

• Newer Canon mirrorless cameras (DIGIC 8 and later, such as the EOS R series) now split the shutter count into mechanical and electronic (silent) frames instead of one combined total. Your mechanical shutter count, the figure that reflects shutter wear, is the headline, with electronic frames noted separately. Flip the results card to see the breakdown. New checks only.

Improvements

• The back of the results card now scales its content to fit, so everything stays clear and fully visible in every language.

Fixes

• Saved results now show their firmware when you revisit them.

Improvements

• More Canon EOS bodies now read reliably over USB, including some EOS 80D cameras that previously failed to return a shutter count.
• Better behind-the-scenes diagnostics for the few Canon cameras that are still hard to read, so more of them can be supported in future updates.

Improvements

• Improved shutter-count accuracy when reading several Canon DSLRs over USB. A number of DIGIC 6 and DIGIC 7 era bodies now read more reliably, and some that previously failed to read now return a count.

Improvements

• Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish now appear on the welcome screen’s language picker, not just in Settings.
• Replaying the welcome tour now opens in the language you are currently using.
• Traditional Chinese is now detected correctly for more regions.

New

• Initial support for four new languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Finnish. The app is now available in 28 languages. Select your language in Settings.

Improvements

• More reliable USB shutter count readings for the Canon EOS 5DS R, including bodies that previously could not be read.

New

• Four new languages: Czech, Greek, Hungarian and Hebrew. The app is now available in 24 languages.
• Full right-to-left layout for Hebrew, with the charts, numbers and result card all correctly mirrored, joining the Arabic support added last release.

Improvements

• More reliable USB shutter count readings on newer Canon cameras, which could occasionally report busy partway through a check and cause it to fail.
• Small right-to-left layout fixes in the Gear screens.

New

• Three new languages: Arabic, Ukrainian and Dutch. The app is now available in 19 languages.
• Full right-to-left layout for Arabic, with charts, numbers, data values and the result card all correctly mirrored.

Improvements

• More accurate and reliable USB shutter count readings for the Canon EOS 80D, 77D, 800D, 200D, 750D and 760D, including bodies that previously could not be read.
• More accurate USB shutter count readings for the Canon EOS 5DS, 5DS R and 5D Mark IV.

Fixes

• Checking a Canon EOS 6D Mark II over USB could show a shutter count far higher than the camera’s real count (or, in some cases, slightly lower).

Fixes

• The Canon EOS RP can now be checked over USB. The RP reports its shutter counter in a format the app previously rejected as unreadable, so every check ended in an error. The count is shown with the “up to” (≤) treatment because this camera reports in 1,000-shot steps.

Improvements

• More reliable Canon EOS shutter-count checks over USB. Cameras that are still busy with their memory card right after you plug them in are now handled correctly on more connection paths, and some Canon firmware revisions that report the count in a slightly different format are now read correctly.
• If the app cannot recognise your Canon camera’s counter yet, it now asks you to take a photo, run the check again, and repeat that a few times. The way the count changes across those attempts helps us add support for that camera in a future update.

Fixes

• Several USB error messages now show the correct explanation when a check cannot complete.

Improvements

• Improved the reliability of shutter-count readings on certain Canon EOS cameras when checking over USB.

Fixes

• Canon cameras that are still busy reading their memory card right after you connect them, such as the EOS R6, no longer fail the USB shutter-count check. The app now waits for the camera to settle and reads the count reliably.
• Windows: your Canon camera’s serial number is now read correctly over USB.

What’s new

• Canon EOS R100 and many other recent EOS bodies (DIGIC 8 and newer) can now be read over USB. Plug the camera in and the app reads its shutter count directly. These newer bodies report their count in 1,000-shot steps, so the app shows it as an upper bound, for example “≤ 44,000”, and explains on the card that your true count is at most the number shown.

Improvements

• Preview checks now default to revealing the back of the result card.

Fixes

• Canon EOS R-series cameras now show “Canon” as the maker, not “Canon.Inc”.
• Windows: the app no longer offers to install a USB driver when a check fails for another reason.

Improvements

• Groundwork to expand Canon EOS support.

What’s new

• USB shutter-count checks now support more Canon EOS bodies.
• New “Active Window” setting under Settings → Gear: choose how many months a body or lens can go unused before the Gear page marks it Retired. Default 24 months, or set it to 0 to never auto-retire.

What’s new

• New “Mask Serial Numbers” toggle under Settings → Privacy (off by default). Hides your camera’s serial number wherever it appears in the app, so screenshots you share don’t reveal your camera’s unique identity. Only the first couple of characters stay visible.

Fixes

• Result cards now show each camera maker’s official brand colour in every theme.

What’s new

• Major translation quality pass: every non-English language has been rewritten for native fluency, replacing stiff machine-translated phrasing with wording a native speaker would actually use. Covers German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

What’s new

• New “Help Us Improve The App” toggle under Settings → Privacy lets you opt out of anonymous usage stats
• Cleaner macOS installer DMG with properly aligned app and Applications icons

Fixes

• Release notes in the in-app updater now render as formatted Markdown instead of raw text

Fixes

• Replaying the welcome tour no longer overwrites an attached paid licence with a preview when an activation magic link arrives mid-tour

Highlights

• Initial release