Fixed URL recognition for Figma file import.

• Fix Figma importing - Figma removed the ability to fetch a list of documents. Now you can paste in the Figma URL into the import window in order to import.
• Improved support for macOS Sonoma.

Support Sketch 97.

Support Sketch 96.

Fix Sketch Import bugs.

Flinto 30: MacOS Ventura and Importer improvements

• Support for macOS Ventura
• Figma and Sketch importer fixes
• Support for Sketch 93
• Updated device sizes and frames
• Improved preview window layout

Flinto 29: M1 Support, Import Improvements, UI Updates

• This version has full support for the new Apple Silicon (M1) chips.
• Flinto's UI has been updated in line with Apple's latest macOS updates including a fresh new Icon by Parakeet.
• Improved Sketch and Figma import, including support for Sketch 76

Flinto 28: Haptics, State Change Gesture & Scrubbable Ruler

New Flinto version 28 allows adding haptic feedback on links, a state change gesture and introduces the scrubbable ruler.

Haptics

Haptic feedback can now be added to links in your Flinto prototype with a click. Choose from several haptic variations. The haptics can be felt when using your prototype on a haptic-compatible iOS device.

State Change Gesture

Trigger screen-to-screen links based on the state of a behavior. This frequently requested feature allows for more robust interactions that no longer need to rely on precise timer links.

Scrubbable Ruler

This beautiful detail enhances the experience of “scrubbing” on numeric inputs by adding a visual aid. Flinto also now ignores the edge of the screen when scrubbing to allow easier manipulation of numeric values.

Fixed Sketch and Figma import problems.

This version includes improved macOS Catalina support, fixes several bugs, and changes the sort order of the link target list to be alphabetical.

This version fixes the Figma import feature which had stopped working.

Flinto 27

Flinto 27 is available now with Figma Import and Dark Mode.

Figma Import is Finally Here!

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An increasing number of our customers are using Figma for their UI design, and Figma import has been a popular feature request for Flinto. We’re thrilled to give Figma customers access to Flinto’s easy and powerful animation tools. This will allow you to create high-fidelity animated prototypes from designs you created in Figma.

Flinto's Figma integration maintains editable text layers and editable vector shapes where possible, allowing you a great deal of flexibility within Flinto. Layers with features that Flinto doesn't support are flattened into bitmaps upon import.

Dark Mode

Flinto 27 also finally adds support for macOS Mojave’s dark mode system, for all you night owls.

This version includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Faster zoom in/out speed with traditional wheel mouse.
• Fixed a crash related to selecting all layers
• Fixed a crash related to replacing a missing font
• Fixed a crash related to undo

This release supports importing from Sketch v53 and fixes a variety of bugs and crashes.

Bug fixes

This release includes behind-the-scenes changes to improve stability and fix bugs. Many bugs have been fixed related to the preview window, drawing layers and other small details.

Added support for iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, Apple Watch 40mm and Apple Watch 44mm. This update also includes several bug fixes.

• Added support for importing from newer version of Sketch
• Small bug fixes

Fixed issues related to borders not adjusting correctly, live preview not updating correctly, videos always looping, and some crashes.

The color picker now correctly accepts hex codes, and the eyedropper is more accurate.

Animation timing no longer resets after closing a document, and spring animation works correctly in the preview.

Sketch import no longer incorrectly flattens layers into bitmaps and borders on lines now appear correctly.

Flinto 26

Flinto version 26 with Sticky Tools and Shape Expand is available now. This version adds a convenient Sticky Tool feature which allows certain tools to be activated with a single click or keypress. We've also added a way of quickly expanding a shapes to the edges of the screen. There is also a huge list of small improvements.

Sticky Tools

The usual way to draw a shape is to click down, drag, and release. There are several modifiers you can use while drawing too.

• Command - disable snap lines
• Option - resize from the layer's origin
• Space - reposition layer
• Shift - constrain proportions

Holding down a combination of keys along with the mouse can feel awkward, so we set out to make this easier without disrupting the way things currently work.

We call the result we arrived at “Sticky Tools” because now, you if you click once, you can draw a shape without continuing to hold down the mouse button and you can complete the shape with a second click. While drawing a shape, if you press command once, you can toggle snap lines without needing to hold the key down. If you tap space, you can toggle reposition mode, and so on. That means you can easily combine these modifier keys without needing to hold them all down. But everything still works the old way too, you can hold down the mouse or modifier keys if that’s what you’re used to.

Shape Expand

It’s very common to resize shapes so that they hug the edge or corner of a screen. We even allow for starting your shape drawing outside of a screen so that you can easily create the shape in a way that it fits into the edge or corner of a screen easily. In Flinto 26, we’ve added another convenient way to get shapes up against the edge.

Double click a resize handle on a layer and that layer will be expanded to fit to the edge of the screen. It works on the corner handles too. If you hold option while double clicking, it will expand both the side you clicked, and the opposite side.

Other Improvements

• Improved the animation of connected scroll and clip groups in transitions
• The time taken to prepare for a transition to begin in large documents with thousands of layers is now up to 9x faster
• Copy and pasting large prototypes is up to 4x faster
• Temporary video files created by the preview window recording feature are correctly removed from the system
• Text layers with small line height are now easier to select
• Updated the default shadow to a more pleasing value
• Links now appear when selected, and while being drawn, even if “hide links” is enabled in the canvas
• Extensive improvements to undo in terms of correctness and performance
• Performance improvements for saving files, opening the preview window, undo/redo, preparing for animation
• Fixed other issues with connected layer animation where the layers would shift unexpectedly
• The Sketch import feature has been improved to fix issues where Sketch documents wont import, where an error occurs causing the import window to get stuck, and where layer names in Flinto are not correctly updated from the Sketch document
• When dragging multiple selected layers, the layers no longer shift relative to one another
• Fixed a problem that would cause a blank prototype to appear when previewing a document with an expired trial
• The empty area inside of a group no longer blocks clicks intended for layers behind the group
• Newly drawn shapes now consistently snap to the visible snap line when the shape is first created
• Improved behavior designer animation to remove unexpected delays
• Improved the reliability of timer links in the behavior designer
• Links that start off-screen inside a scroll group are no longer inactive when scrolled into view
• Improved canvas panning in the Behavior Designer
• Rotating a layer by command-clicking its handle is more accurate
• Fixed a problem in the behavior designer where layers would animate to an unexpected location
• Undoing a change the document's background color property no longer results in the wrong color appearing
• Undoing the creation of a behavior now works as expected
• Undoing the creation of a behavior state after renaming a state now works correctly
• The iOS viewer live preview now correctly displays newly added text layers when they are added
• Undoing a color change now correctly groups undo states together so that a single undo goes back to the previously selected color
• Copying and pasting a group with a non-initial state behavior now reliably results in a correctly-sized group
• The home indicator icon on the home screen no longer appears outside of the screen frame
• The home indicator no longer disappears when changing the screen size from the document inspector
• Deleting a screen is now correctly reflected in the preview window
• Changing a screen name in the canvas is now correctly reflected in the layer list
• Recording the preview window on an external display now works correctly
• The cursor in the preview window no longer changes from a circle to an arrow when using the keyboard shortcut to start recording
• The layer thumbnail now better reflects the actual layer appearance after resizing grouped layers
• Layers inserted while holding shift no longer jump around
• Layers inside clip groups no longer jiggle during animation
• Layers animating with extreme cubic-bezier easing now have smoother movement
• The scroll range indicator arrow no longer jumps when a scroll group has an initial offset value
• Improved performance of behavior designer when the document has lots of layers
• Layers with a height of 0 are now correctly hidden from view in the preview window
• Layers with a stroke percent set now correctly display drop shadows
• Drawing a rectangle in a scroll group with an initial offset value now follows the cursor as expected
• Inserting points on paths now works correctly after zooming
• Copying a group with multiple behaviors into a new document now correctly maintains all the behaviors, not just the first one
• Layers no longer unexpectedly deselect when selecting the child layer of a group in the Transition Designer
• Tabbing through text fields in the document inspector now correctly cycles back to the first field after reaching the bottom
• Layers can now be added to an empty group
• The link overlay is now hidden when editing the properties of a layer to provide a better view of how the layer is changing
• Layers with non-default vertical alignment in Sketch now import correctly
• Undo of vector path modifications is now correctly reflected in the preview window

Support Sketch version 51 (public beta)

Updated our privacy policy. See more details here.

Added support for Sketch 50

Fixed a few issues that cause crashes, and one issue that causes the wrong screen to appear in the preview window.

• Fixed Sketch Import problem where fixed-size text layers appear as a single line in Flinto.
• Fixed a problem with duplicating screens where the original screen and the duplicate are swapped.

• Added the ability to paste a layer into multiple screens, select screens then paste and the layer will appear in the same place in each screen.
• Fixed an issue where undo caused the incorrect changes to be applied
• Fixed issues related to the corner radius inspector
• Fixed some bugs that caused crashes

Fixed a crash that affects non-english languages.