v2025.9 September Release

Elytra v2025.9.0 delivers a fresh Liquid Glass look, performance improvements, and deeper customization for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.

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New

• All-new app icon featuring the Liquid Glass design aesthetic for a modern, vibrant look.
• Enhanced menu integration on iPadOS for smoother usage with external keyboards and input devices.
• Revamped onboarding experience for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 newcomers.

Improvements

• Major engine overhaul with new APIs—enjoy faster responses, smoother caching, and greater stability.
• Cover images now smartly display only if defined by articles, matching iOS 26’s cover art style.
• Cover images are now showcased above article titles by default on iOS 26, with flexible preferences in Settings.
• Find interaction and image loading are more responsive and efficient.
• Smoother switching between full-text and original source views for articles.
• Custom feed accent colours and improved appearance customisation, including glass effect on iOS 26.
• Liquid Glass toolbars now animate and respond with greater accuracy.
• macOS: Article reader improvements: horizontal insets, reading width calibration, and toolbar scroll effects.
• macOS: URL schemes work reliably again, plus better icon, favicon, and folder assignment.

Fixes

• Numerous crash fixes and stability updates, especially for expanding windows on iPadOS.
• Sidebar and navigation bar layout tweaks for better alignment and visual consistency.
• Bookmarks, feeds, and folder management are more reliable, with enhanced syncing and assignment.
• macOS: Fixed custom font handling within the article reader.
• Resolved issues with notifications, search crashes, text decoding, dark mode, feed indentations, favicon display, localisation, article rendering, and more - ensuring the smoothest Elytra experience yet.

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The notaried build for this release is also available to download from Github.

v2024.10 October Release

The 2024.10.0 release contains on-going bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Added missing localisation strings for all supported languages.

• Feeds with no icons now show a generated icon using letters from the feed name.

• Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes hang loading a remote video (only when streaming over HLS).

• Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes hang loading a remote video subtitles track (only supported over HLS).

v2024.9 September Release

The September 2024 release brings a improvements and bug fixes to both the iOS and mac apps.

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New Features

• Spotlight Search Upgrade: Elytra now uses the new Spotlight Search Queries to provide faster, context-aware search results.
• iOS: New App Icons: Elytra now offers Light, Dark, and Tinted app icons, giving you even more customization options to match your style.
• Article Reader Enhancements: A new "Headings" button in the article reader’s bottom bar allows you to quickly scroll to headings in long articles.
• macOS: Context Menu for Images: You can now access the context menu for images, offering download and share options.
• macOS: Feed Delete Prompt: A new preference allows you to control whether the app should prompt for confirmation when deleting a feed.
• macOS: Bulk Delete for Feeds: Added a bulk delete option in the context menu when selecting multiple feeds.
• macOS: Bulk Selection for Articles: The articles list now supports bulk selection with actions like Mark as Read/Unread, Bookmark, and Redownload.
• macOS: Gallery Image Handling: Double-click on images to open them in Quick Look for a faster, more immersive viewing experience.

Improvements

• Widget Performance: Major performance upgrades to widgets, including more reliable image loading.
• Sync Performance: Improved overall sync performance for faster updates across your feeds.
• Swift 6.0 Foundation: Elytra is now built on Swift 6.0, providing a solid foundation for future improvements.
• macOS: Sidebar Stability: The sidebar now maintains open folder states when reloading, ensuring a smoother experience.

Fixes

• Sync Bug: Fixed an issue where the app would stop syncing due to an incorrectly encoded sync token.
• Folder Widget: Resolved an issue with article sorting in the Folders widget.
• Background Cleanup & Sync: Fixed a crash related to configuring background cleanup and sync on iOS 17 and iOS 18.
• Article Reader Links: Resolved issues with rendering links in the article reader.
• Sidebar Item Crash: Fixed a crash when selecting a sidebar item in the articles list.
• Selection State on iPadOS: Corrected selection state appearance issues on iPadOS.
• Spotlight Indexing: Fixed an issue with Spotlight indexing.
• Article Redownloading: Resolved unnecessary redownloading of articles.
• Article Reader Browser Icon: Now shows a browser icon for articles that open in the browser.
• Margins Fix: Improved margins for the articles list for a cleaner, more polished appearance.
• Filtered Articles: Fixed an issue where filtered articles appeared in certain timelines.
• macOS: App Update Check: Fixed an issue where the app would not check for updates on launch. You can still manually update via the "Check for Updates..." menu.

v2024.4.0

• Fixed a crashing bug that would sometimes occur when adding a new feed.

• Fixed syncing of feed updates and changes across devices.

• Improved sync: changes to feeds and folders are now picked up before syncing articles begins.

• Fixed a bug where article enclosures would not get saved properly to disk.

• Fixed a bug where articles with no explict cover image assigned, would show no cover image, if it had an image enclosure.

• Fixed a bug where article enclosures without any articles would linger around consuming disk space. These are now cleaned up when the app starts.

v2024.2.1

2024.2.1

• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when adding a Youtube channel.

v2024.2.0

Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon...

• Fixed taking changes from folder updates (feeds added, removed)

• Fixed feed local metadata not persisting

• Feed titles can now be edited to set custom titles, similar to smart folders and folders.

• Fixed loading favicons

• Added Internet Access Policy

• Fixed local notifications title and body being swapped. Title articles/excerpts will now be readable.

• Fixed a bug where adding/deleting feeds would require an app restart for it to take effect.

v2024.1.0

The January release contains Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon...

Please send feedback, suggestions, and crash reports to support@elytra.app

• Notifications from smart folders now open the smart folder instead of the article’s feed. Local and push notifications from feeds retain existing behaviour.
• Local notifications are now delivered more reliably.
• Moving feeds across folders or out of folders no longer crashes the app.
• Folder counts are now updated more reliably, using fewer resources.
• Implements importing/exporting feed settings under the “File” menu.
• Fixed subscribing and unsubscribing to push notifications on a feed.

v2023.12.0-563

Please send feedback, suggestions, and crash reports to support@elytra.app

• mark newer/older menu items for articles list

• Fetch and remove full text for articles

• Auto fetch full text for all articles in a feed (configure from feed settings)

• Fixed some minor bugs and crashes

v2023.11.2

Initial AppKit release

Major improvements to the app, multiple bug fixes, and more coming soon...

• Fixes for multiple widgets crashes

• Fixes fetching adhoc articles from push notifications

• Fixes changing feed preferences sometimes hanging the app

v2023.11.2-599-Beta

Do not install this release for creating a new account. Only recommended for existing users with an account already setup.

Initial AppKit release, now available to download from Github

• Login with Apple ID will be unavailable at the moment.
• Fixed local notifications being incorrectly scheduled and posted.