What's new

By Alexis Rios-Negron · Voltkit 0.13.1

This page lists what changed in every Voltkit release, newest first, with links to the full explanation of each feature. Your version is shown in ☰ → About Voltkit and by voltkit --version.

Tip

Update with sudo apt upgrade (Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives) or sudo dnf upgrade (Fedora). Your settings and snippets are kept.

Version 0.13.1#

November 15, 2026

The snap reaches its background service without claiming a name on the session bus, so the Snap Store can publish it without a manual review. Nothing changes for apt and Fedora installs.

Version 0.13.0#

November 15, 2026

Voltkit is in the Snap Store. Install it with sudo snap install voltkit or find it in Ubuntu's App Center. See Install for what to do after installing.
The snap tells you what it can't do. Apps from the Snap Store run in a sandbox, so a few tools need a permission connected once, and some features (GPU changes, Hosts & Environment, App Permissions, typed triggers) work only with apt or Fedora. Each affected page shows a banner with the exact commands or the reason, and voltkit doctor lists them too.

Version 0.12.0#

November 13, 2026

Undo in App Permissions. After Forget, the toast has an Undo button that puts the answer back exactly as it was, including a remembered location accuracy or screen-sharing choice. See App Permissions.
GPU Tuner reports. Not every graphics card can be tested, so the manual now asks you to report your findings for your GPU: which card it is and how it worked.
The project page on GitHub is shorter and points to this manual for how to use each tool.

Version 0.11.1#

November 9, 2026

Keyboard keys in Shortcut Detective. Make Caps Lock an Escape or Ctrl key, swap Alt and Super, or turn on a Compose key, with one click. The change takes effect at once and is undone by choosing the first entry. See Shortcut Detective.
A guide to typing accents. The new manual page Typing accents and symbols shows how to type é, ñ, ü, ç, € and more with the Compose key, and other ways to type special characters.

Version 0.11.0#

November 9, 2026

Three new tools, and a shortcut cheat sheet. Voltkit now has eighteen tools.

Feature	How it works	Read more
Batch Rename	Search and replace, regular expressions, numbering with `{n:3}`, letter case, a preview that names every conflict, all-or-nothing renaming and undo. `voltkit rename`	Batch Rename
Image Resizer	Add pictures, choose a size (or click one of the ideas, such as "Email or chat"), then click Resize. Copies go beside the originals. `voltkit resize`	Image Resizer
Zoom & Annotate	Freeze the screen, zoom in and draw on it with a pen, lines, boxes, arrows and text, then copy or save the picture. `Super`+`Shift`+`Z`. `voltkit zoom`	Zoom & Annotate
Shortcut cheat sheet	A Cheat Sheet button in Shortcut Detective and `Super`+`Shift`+`/` open a searchable sheet of every shortcut, grouped by owner. `voltkit shortcut-guide`	Shortcut Detective

Choose where annotated pictures are saved. Zoom & Annotate saves in Pictures/Voltkit by default; Change… on its page picks another folder, and Ctrl+Shift+S saves one picture anywhere. See Zoom & Annotate.
The author's other apps are in their own "More from the same author" group in the About box.
The words in the Screen Ruler page's diagram are centered.

Version 0.10.5#

November 7, 2026

A detailed manual. This manual covers every tool, control, shortcut and command, with light and dark screenshots, search and a page for each tool. It is published at arios4k.github.io/voltkit/manual.
A Help button. The ? button in the header, Help & Manual in the main menu and F1 open the page of this manual for the tool you are using. See A tour of the app.

Version 0.10.4#

November 7, 2026

GPU Tuner is organized into tabs and gets new tools.

Feature	How it works	Read more
Monitor, Tune, Profiles and Sessions tabs	The long page is split into four tabs, each scrolling by itself	GPU Tuner
Why the clock is held back	A live Held back by row names the cause: the power limit, heat or another limit (NVIDIA). Sessions record it, and comparisons include it	Monitor tab
Idle power check	Explains why the video memory clock stays high with nothing running (several monitors, mixed or fast refresh rates). `voltkit gpu idle`	Idle power check
Session cost	Type your electricity price and every session shows what it cost	Sessions
Suggest a power limit	Finds the lowest limit that keeps almost all the speed, from sessions you recorded. `voltkit gpu advise`	Sessions
Steam and Proton game rules	A profile can switch on while a game runs: type `steam:<App ID>`	Profiles
Keep under a temperature	A fan mode where you pick a target and Voltkit builds the curve	Tune
Share a profile	Copy a profile as one line of text and import it with checks	Profiles

About now fits without scrolling.

Version 0.10.3#

November 7, 2026

Other apps by the same author. The About box links to ThermalPrint and Battery Health Center, with their official icons.

Version 0.10.2#

November 6, 2026

A clearer session comparison. The comparison window is larger, has a Close button, and names one better session in each category instead of marking both. See Sessions.
Everything stays visible. Controls and charts a card does not support stay in GPU Tuner, disabled, with the reason, instead of disappearing. See Tune.
Accessibility. Names for switches, check boxes, the color swatch and the ruler canvas, so screen readers announce them.

Version 0.10.1#

November 6, 2026

A new graphics-card icon for GPU Tuner.
Voltage and frequency curve chart. On AMD cards with a full curve, drag points on a chart instead of typing numbers. See Tune.

Version 0.10.0#

November 6, 2026

Drag-to-edit fan curves. A graph with draggable points, a choice of temperature source and of which fans to drive. See Tune.
Profiles that switch by themselves by power source, running program, load or temperature. See Profiles.
Sessions. Record how a profile behaves and compare two side by side, with energy and efficiency. See Sessions.
Voltage and frequency curves on AMD cards that have them.
voltkit gpu check compares Voltkit's readings with nvidia-smi and measures what monitoring costs. It also fixed video memory reading too high on NVIDIA. See GPU on the command line.

Version 0.9.2#

November 6, 2026

New tool: GPU Tuner. Monitor NVIDIA, AMD and Intel graphics cards and change power limits, fans and fan curves, temperature targets, clocks and voltage, with every change previewed and undone unless you confirm it. See GPU Tuner.
Fixed unreadable number fields in the light theme.

Version 0.9.1#

November 5, 2026

Translated guidance for busy items. What's Using This? explains in your language how to inspect busy files, drives and network ports.
Refreshed documentation and project funding links.

Version 0.9.0#

November 4, 2026

French and Simplified Chinese. The app, the command line, --help and the man pages are translated. See A tour of the app.

Version 0.8.0#

November 3, 2026

Spanish and German. The app, the command line, --help and the man pages are translated.
Follows the system language, falling back to English.

Version 0.7.0#

November 2, 2026

A redesign of every tool with adaptive card layouts and consistent light and dark styling. See A tour of the app.
Searchable lists of snippets (Text Expansion) and of apps and permissions (App Permissions), and a shortcut details workspace in Shortcut Detective.
A branded About dialog, a larger default window and compact tool navigation.

Version 0.6.0#

November 2, 2026

Typed triggers turn on with one switch: one password, no logout or restart. See Text Expansion.
PNG compression is built in, so oxipng is no longer needed. See Asset Compressor.
Quit in the main menu (Ctrl+Q) and more room beside header buttons.

Version 0.5.0#

November 2, 2026

New tool: System Report. Your hardware explained, with checks for drivers, drive health, temperatures, firmware and memory, plus what changed since earlier days. See System Report.
New tool: Shortcut Detective. See who owns a shortcut, find clashes and change them. See Shortcut Detective.
The menu lists the tools alphabetically.

Version 0.4.3#

November 1, 2026

The download page links the Fedora COPR repository. See Install.

Version 0.4.2#

November 1, 2026

Hotkey results show up in the open app: text, QR codes and colors captured by a shortcut appear on the tool's page when the window is open.
The Color Picker page names its hotkey.

Version 0.4.1#

November 1, 2026

The first Fedora package. It sets itself up on first launch (background service and hotkeys). See Install.

Version 0.4.0#

November 1, 2026

New tool: Smart Paste. Paste the clipboard converted: JSON, tables, clean links, letter case. See Smart Paste.
New tool: Why Didn't It Sleep? See what keeps the computer awake and what woke it. See Why Didn't It Sleep?.

Version 0.3.0#

November 1, 2026

New tool: What's Using This? See which apps keep a file, folder, drive or port busy, and close them. See What's Using This?.
New tool: App Permissions. Review and forget the answers you gave apps. See App Permissions.

Version 0.2.2#

October 29, 2026

A logo in QR codes you create, with a read-back check that the code still scans. See QR Code.

Version 0.2.1#

October 29, 2026

Documentation fixes.

Version 0.2.0#

October 29, 2026

New tool: QR Code. Scan a code on screen, or create one. See QR Code.
New tool: Screen Ruler. Measure anything on screen in pixels. See Screen Ruler.
New tool: Keep Awake. See Keep Awake.
New tool: Hosts & Environment. Edit /etc/hosts and your session's environment variables. See Hosts & Environment.
Portal dialogs attach to the app window, and tools that open their own window now come to the front.

Version 0.1.3#

October 29, 2026

Manage snippets in the app with an editor, replacing the earlier playground. See Text Expansion.

Version 0.1.2#

October 28, 2026

Fixed portal requests that hung after the first one in the app.
A clearer color picker button and an About window.

Version 0.1.1#

October 27, 2026

Added screenshots and a feature tour to the project page.

Version 0.1.0#

October 27, 2026

The first release.

Text Extractor (OCR) and Color Picker with global shortcuts through a background service. See Text Extractor and Color Picker.
Text Expansion with a snippet picker and optional typed triggers. See Text Expansion.
Asset Compressor. See Asset Compressor.
Man pages for the command-line tools, voltkit doctor with an in-app banner for anything missing, and a signed apt repository. See Troubleshooting.