Version History
Here you can find the changelog of ReaderView since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-27.
The latest version is 8.7.7 and it was updated on soft112.com on 26 March, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 8.7.7
posted on 2024-03-20
Mar 20, 2024
Version 8.7.7
- "Continue reading" feature: saves page where we are (Thanks Yuriko and Raul)
- Added Look-up/define "A-z" option in swipe menu (Thanks Aharon!)
- Now using "Note" in the menu to add a comment to a highlight
- Better reader for shadow root articles (e.g. msn.com)
- New option to only share the link when sharing an article
- Fixed bug when clicking share icon upper right of screen (Thanks Sam!)
version 8.7.6
posted on 2024-02-19
Feb 19, 2024
Version 8.7.6
- important bug fix for iOS 17.3+ (now we need to cast NSObject to NSDictionary in loadItemForTypeIdentifier)
- Emojis now appear correctly
- added San Francisco back in the list of available fonts
- under settings, picking a new font updates the selected font in the settings page too
version 8.7.5
posted on 2023-12-16
Dec 16, 2023
Version 8.7.5
- added support for all fonts that come with iOS (thanks Raul!)
version 8.7.4
posted on 2023-09-14
Sep 14, 2023
Version 8.7.4
- using new API to add custom entries in the context menu
- removed dependency on old MenuItemKit library
- default margin and line height values look nicer
version 8.7.3
posted on 2023-09-07
Sep 7, 2023
Version 8.7.3
- new: sharing option "Copy text" (in addition to Link + Text or PDF)
- new: tap on images to display them fullscreen (thanks Raul!)
- fixed missing articles on NationalGeographic (thanks Jiyul!)
- fixed missing images (thanks Raul!)
version 8.7.2
posted on 2023-04-27
Apr 27, 2023
Version 8.7.2
- new swipe right action to mark your articles as READ/UNREAD (their titles will be grayed out (thanks you Raul for the suggestion!)
version 8.7.1
posted on 2023-04-21
Apr 21, 2023
Version 8.7.1
- removed Trash icon in a folder view on top right, because it was too easy to tap (thanks Raul!)
- you can delete folders by swiping left on their name
version 8.7.0
posted on 2023-03-25
Mar 25, 2023
Version 8.7.0
- fixed width of font settings panel to show the line height's label
- now works with Irish Times (thanks Mark!)
- fixed dependency compile cycle
version 8.6.6
posted on 2022-05-21
May 21, 2022 Version 8.6.6
- font names are not read aloud (thanks German)
- context menu has a new Speak option to read aloud selected text (thanks German)
version 8.6.5
posted on 2022-04-02
Apr 2, 2022 Version 8.6.5
- fixed crashing bug on iPad when sharing
version 8.6.4
posted on 2022-02-21
Feb 21, 2022 Version 8.6.4
- added option to share as PDF or simply link + text
- fixed bug on iOS where share sheet would not have access to the PDF
- allow sharing to be cancelled and pick another sharing option
version 8.6.3
posted on 2022-01-30
Jan 30, 2022 Version 8.6.3
Very useful if you have hundreds of articles highlighted
- much better memory utilization (not loading full text in memory, thanks Hakiem!)
version 8.6.2
posted on 2021-09-30
Sep 30, 2021 Version 8.6.2
- you can now Archive or change the Folder of articles already inside a Folder (thanks Allan for the great suggestion!)
version 8.6.1
posted on 2021-04-03
3 Apr 2021 Version 8.6.1
- automatically right justifies articles if Hebrew is detected (thanks Aharon!)
version 8.6.1
posted on 2021-04-03
Apr 3, 2021 Version 8.6.1
- automatically right justifies articles if Hebrew is detected (thanks Aharon!)
version 8.6.0
posted on 2021-02-06
Feb 6, 2021 Version 8.6.0
- Titles are editable (simply tap on the title when the article is shown)
- Sharing keeps HTML and TEXT formats (useful to Copy and Paste to other apps)
version 8.5.1
posted on 2020-12-28
Dec 28, 2020 Version 8.5.1
- archived articles can be restored
- copy as text from the list of highlights works
version 8.5
posted on 2020-12-21
Dec 21, 2020 Version 8.5
- tested on iOS 14+
- better reader mode for blogs
- finds more images, e.g. hpmuseum.org
version 8.4
posted on 2020-07-12
Jul 12, 2020 Version 8.4
- new "Archive" option to declutter your main list of articles (thanks Ian)
- better reader with high resolution images (e.g. Medium)
- CODE sections well detected
- Right to Left (RTL) language support is back (thanks Aharon)
- Better reader mode for many sites (thanks Olaf)
- Fixed autoscroll (thanks Andrew)
- Fixed line height (thanks Umahad)
version 8.3
posted on 2020-05-10
May 10, 2020 Version 8.3
- fixed critical bug on iPad that prevented text selection
- new: app respects text sizes you chose in your device (for accessibility)
- new: 4 themes to choose from (white, sepia, gray and night)
- new: font size, theme, font are easily accessible from the aA icon (without going to the main app)
- new: tapping the "highlights" icon (bottom right) shows redesigned "highlights view" where you can tap colored dots to filter your highlights
- reworked context menu to show highlight colors first
- improved speed and accuracy of the reader mode
- fixed bug when sharing articles (or just highlights)
- improved dark mode support when you picked another theme manually
- fixed bug when opening the "comment" view in landscape mode
version 8.2
posted on 2020-04-29
Apr 29, 2020 Version 8.2
- faster reader mode (optimized code a lot)
- even better reader mode on many more sites
- better reader mode for PDF documents
- simplified sharing: link only, full text or just highlights
- disable buttons until article is shown
- fixed line spacing in options
- nicer styling of CODE sections
version 8.1
posted on 2020-04-10
Apr 10, 2020 Version 8.1
- fixed bug with text selection (thanks Peter!)
- fixed bug and animations when deleting articles
- fixed bug when dealing with tags/folders
- compact data saving in JSON
- notes updated in real-time between devices
- better reader mode (TheIntercept, Medium, TechCrunch, etc.)
- handling of SVG images
- dark mode has subtler text color
- tested on iPad with iOS 13.4
version 8.0
posted on 2020-03-31
Mar 31, 2020 Version 8.0
- new option to not save images
- fixed bug when deleting all articles
- tested on iOS 13.4 and fixed orange navigation bar
- images are deleted when article is deleted
- export to PDF (Open In...) works in main app and extension
- fixed justify option
- better reader mode for NewYorker, SFChronicle, Politico, CNN, Apple, Reuters,
- show year in dates if not the current year
- send URL when iCloud sharing is OFF
version 7.9
posted on 2020-03-18
Mar 18, 2020 Version 7.9
- added support for PDF and Word documents (text-only for now)
- main app shows date of each article
- new font Menlo in settings
- better reader for SVG images
version 7.8
posted on 2019-12-06
Dec 6, 2019 Version 7.8
- Automatic iCloud synchronization using CloudKit
- (thanks David) ReaderView is now available in many other native iOS apps (Apple News, FlipBoard, Google News, NYT, Washington Post, etc.)
- Option to view Word (DOC/DOCX), RTF and TXT files from other apps (such as the Files app or Email attachments)
- fixed bug in "swipe to highlight" (offset from touch location)
- fixed styling in Folders list
- (thanks David) Asks to confirm upon deleting an article or folder
- (thanks Aharon) Sharing links of highlighted articles now uses iCloud public databases instead of appblit.com servers
version 3.5
posted on 2015-01-15
version 8.6.0
posted on 1970-01-01
6 Thg 02, 2021 Version 8.6.0
- Titles are editable (simply tap on the title when the article is shown)
- Sharing keeps HTML and TEXT formats (useful to Copy and Paste to other apps)
version 8.3
posted on 1970-01-01
10 мая 2020 г. Version 8.3
- fixed critical bug on iPad that prevented text selection
- new: app respects text sizes you chose in your device (for accessibility)
- new: 4 themes to choose from (white, sepia, gray and night)
- new: font size, theme, font are easily accessible from the aA icon (without going to the main app)
- new: tapping the "highlights" icon (bottom right) shows redesigned "highlights view" where you can tap colored dots to filter your highlights
- reworked context menu to show highlight colors first
- improved speed and accuracy of the reader mode
- fixed bug when sharing articles (or just highlights)
- improved dark mode support when you picked another theme manually
- fixed bug when opening the "comment" view in landscape mode
version 8.6.1
posted on 1970-01-01
2021年4月3日 Version 8.6.1
- automatically right justifies articles if Hebrew is detected (thanks Aharon!)