Release

Meet the new Kaleidoscope

catlan
October 7, 2021October 7, 2021
4 min read

For the past year, we’ve been working hard on modernizing Kaleidoscope, and today we’re proud to release Version 3! Kaleidoscope 3 is a milestone for the app. We have listened to your feedback and enhanced the app accordingly, with new tools for inspecting version control changesets and more settings for text comparisons. We have also brought a fresh new design specifically tailored for macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey, including support for the Apple M1 chip. Our goal was to modernize this longtime favorite essential app. We’re very excited about the results, and we can’t wait to hear what you… Read More »Meet the new Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope artwork for your Desktop

Florian
October 3, 2021October 7, 2021
2 min read

As mentioned on Twitter, while working with us on some things for a new version of Kaleidoscope, Peter (Instagram, Web) created this beautiful artwork. Immediately, I wanted to use it as a desktop picture (wallpaper) for all of my devices. To this day it’s in constant use on both my iPad and my MacBook Pro.

Florian
July 29, 2021October 7, 2021
1 min read

It’s about time we show you a glimpse of what we’ve been up to in the last few months, besides listening to that great Leonard Cohen album.

Florian
April 14, 2021October 3, 2021
3 min read

In addition to smaller fixes, there are two changes particularly worth noting in our latest release, Kaleidoscope 2.4.1: New tricks in kspo In case you missed how Kaleidoscope and its new Xcode lldb integration can help improve your debugging workflow, read our previous article Xcode Debugger Integration. In some follow-up support cases to the last release, we came to realize that we could do better and make sending images to Kaleidoscope easier. As it turned out, some AppKit/UIKit classes are notoriously hard to convert into the right destination format. Under the hood, the runtime sometimes uses optimized structures. In Kaleidoscope… Read More »Kaleidoscope 2.4.1

Xcode Debugger Integration

Florian
February 22, 2021October 21, 2021
8 min read

Sometimes things take a while, from initial idea to a full-blown feature usable by everyone… It was October 2018 when Christopher had the idea to integrate Kaleidoscope with lldb, the Xcode Debugger. Back then, he tweeted a gist that showed how to get this to work for his needs. He needed a way to compare the fidelity of his own RTF parser with what macOS/iOS does. The system parser had a serious bug, plus Christopher wanted two extra features while being fully compatible with the operating system. Except for that bug, of course. Constantly comparing the two generated NSAttributedString objects… Read More »Xcode Debugger Integration

Release

Meet the new Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope artwork for your Desktop

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Kaleidoscope 2.4.1

Xcode Debugger Integration