Backups - Your backup list now shows whether each backup is automatic or manual, and whether it can actually be restored - An interrupted backup can no longer leave behind a partial file that looks complete - Automatic daily backups are incremental, so they save storage on your device - A damaged backup no longer takes a slot that a working older backup could have kept - Backup and restore progress now says what it's working on in plain language Songs and Albums - Duplicate cleanup (in Settings -> Advanced Data Management) now finds duplicate songs and albums - Merging keeps every artist credit, and fills in artwork, album, release date, and link from whichever copy has them - Songs and albums now appear in library statistics, missing ID repair, and the data integrity check Navigation - Reopening Clew keeps your place even when one item along the way was deleted - On iPad and Mac, jumping to a list from a detail view no longer opens a second list beside the first - On iPad, resizing Clew in Split View or Stage Manager—or rotating your device—keeps you where you were Other Fixes - Fixed a rare problem setting up Clew on a new device while iCloud was still importing - Repairing missing IDs for a single kind of item now saves the repair

Pinned Highlights - Pin highlights and filter the list by pinned/unpinned. Pinned highlights now appear on the dashboard, and they're at the top of the list when configuring a widget to show a specific highlight. Widgets - New Typewriter theme: paper and ink with monospaced type Photo Scanner - Your queue now survives a crash or a force quit — reopen the scanner and Clew offers to restore it - A spinner now shows while photos transfer from your library - Fixed tag suggestions not refreshing after selecting text Sharper Artwork - Book covers, album artwork, and webpage icons are fetched at higher quality and no longer saved at thumbnail size - Fixed a bug where song artwork got stuck as the old image after you changed it Keyboard and Sheets - ⌘S now saves on Create and Edit sheets - Keyboard shortcuts no longer act on the view behind an open sheet - Fixed a freeze when creating a book, tag, song, or website from inside the Create Highlight sheet or a picker Other Fixes - Fixed a crash and a partial save when acting on many highlights at once - Dashboard cards no longer cut highlights to a single line on iPhone - Quick Search opens cleanly, keeps up as you retype, and shows covers at the right size - On iPad, a new highlight now opens in place instead of stacking a screen on top - Minor design refinements throughout

Check out the redesigned look for highlights and sources! Now, it's more fun—and intuitive—to browse through your collection, add new items, and customize your home screen with widgets. - NEW: A colorful look for highlights and sources uses an item's cover image or artwork to paint the UI, buttons, and accents. It adapts to light and dark modes, too. - NEW: 3-column view on iPad gives you more information on screen. Plus, rich keyboard commands and navigation with the arrow keys make using Clew faster. - NEW: A better onboarding experience means you don't have to start from scratch. New users can start off with a few example highlights. Existing users can also add (and remove) these examples at any time from Settings → Advanced Data Management. New ways to import highlights in bulk into Clew: - Bring in highlights from CSV and XLSX spreadsheets. Clew automatically detects the format of the data to create highlights and add their sources. - Select multiple photos of physical book pages and documents, and Clew will help you create rich new highlights for them quickly. More new features and improvements: - Change the text size across the whole app and customize the font for highlight quote text - Improved support for Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight - Better multi-window support on iPad - Drag & drop highlights between tags and sources - Convenient tag suggestions appear right in a highlight's detail view - More stats, including "Standouts"—discover your longest, most-tagged, and most-revisited highlights - A new artwork-split layout for medium and large single-highlight widgets, which pairs the cover art with the quote. There are also refreshed built-in themes - Better undo/redo descriptions when you shake your device or use three-finger gestures - By default, book search now uses a source with better-quality book cover images Bug Fixes - Fixed a bug where a failed backup restore could damage existing data. Older backups that previously failed to import now restore correctly - Fixed crashes opening results from Quick Search and Spotlight - Fixed editing a book adding a "finished reading" date it never had, and preserved the original date when toggling a book's read status - Fixed restored books losing their read status when a backup recorded a finished date but no read/unread flag - Fixed More From Tags showing the wrong number of highlights on a tag - Fixed cover images being lost or attached to the wrong item - Fixed tag colors not updating in list rows - Fixed landscape photo orientation causing incorrect text recognition - Fixed the keyboard dismissing while editing scanned text chunks during bulk import from photos

Improved Scanner and Photo Import - Use the camera button to take a photo of a book’s page or import images from your camera roll. The button is on the main highlights list and above the highlight text box when creating/editing highlights. - Better bulk photos import: tap on a page’s thumbnail when reviewing it to open a full-size Live Text view of the photo, where you can highlight right on the photo to select text. New Related Clusters and Connections - Find Connections between highlights that share 2+ tags with each other. - See Clusters of highlights that share exactly the same sets of tags. And more… - Improved source creation via web API search when creating a highlight. - Fixed a bug where the camera view’s close (X) button didn’t work. - Fixed a widget-related crash.

Scan Multiple Book Pages at a Time - Quickly capture new highlights from multiple book pages or documents using the camera or photos you've already taken. Now, you can finish a chapter—or even a whole book—and then add all your annotations to Clew at once, right from your camera. - Clew will try to detect page numbers and book titles/authors to make it even faster to create highlights from images. So, go ahead and start saving all those photos of book pages cluttering your camera roll. New Stats View - See your most-used tags, track highlight counts over time, and discover more insights about your collection. Other Improvements - Better quality images for book covers and album covers - Improved Dynamic Type support for large text - Better backup management - A smoother experience on the Mac - Fixed disappearing paste and hide keyboard buttons - Fixed book web search - Fixed author name matching when creating books - Lots of other lil bug fixes

- Smarter search: Search now handles punctuation seamlessly, whether it's smart (curly) punctuation from your device's keyboard or straight punctuation pasted from somewhere else. You can find your highlights easily, even when quotes, apostrophes, or dashes don't match exactly. - Improved search performance with optimized database indexing. - Fixed bug where choosing different sort methods on lists didn't work. - Resolved freeze when the Compare Backup feature had to download files from iCloud. - Improved reliability of iCloud backup file operations in general.

- Improved the backup and restore system so it's easier to keep track of what's going on while you're browsing backups, doing complete or selective restores, and comparing backups with the current database. - Also added full support for custom widget themes in automatic backups, so you can always restore a deleted theme or pick up right where you left off on a new device. - Fixes and improvements to the widget setup process and widget data refresh.

New Widgets! Undo/redo! Bulk highlight actions! New and Expanded Widgets - If there's one specific highlight you want to display permanently on your home screen, now you can use the Specific Highlight widget. - Display a book’s cover image or album artwork from one of your saved sources. - Add a list of up to 5 highlights in one widget along with their images. - Explore more customization options in the app! Undo/Redo - If you accidentally deleted something, just shake to undo. No more needing to go into your backups to restore it. You can also tap the buttons that conveniently appear when you delete an item. Other improvements: - Batch operations: Select multiple highlights to share, delete, or tag at once. - Added a search bar so that it’s easier to select tags, sources, and specific highlights in both new and old widget types. - When you're sharing a highlight as rich text and the highlight contains Markdown, Clew will process the Markdown as rich text, too. - Improved favicon image quality. Bug fixes: - Fixed widget sort bug that didn't actually show the latest highlights when configured in "latest" mode. - Fixed highlight list sorting.

Restored Scan button for quickly creating a highlight by scanning a book page.

Safari Extension — Capture highlights directly from Safari with automatic page title, author, and published date detection. (This is better for webpages than using the share sheet, but you can continue to use whichever you prefer.) Quick Search — Now, search everything you've saved so that you can quickly jump to any highlight, book, author, song, etc. Use the search button under the main collections list, or tap the title bar of any detail view to "search everything". Cross-Filtering — When you're looking at a book, webpage, or song's details, you can filter the highlights shown by specific tags. And when you're looking at a specific tag, you can filter by source. Other New Features - Song support in widgets - New highlight row option to show the source - Settings quick access by tapping the top menu on any detail view Design Improvements - Now, you can share highlights with more (or fewer) details and choose from rich text, Markdown, and plain text formatting options. Share to Messages, social media, Notes, journals, and all your other favorite apps. - Long-press highlights in the list to see an expanded peek at its full details. - Highlights without a source now show a placeholder icon when you've turned on the setting to show images in the highlights list. - Improved support for large Dynamic Type Bug Fixes - Fix tag color dots not updating after editing a highlight - Fix lists not refreshing after tag edits - Fix Mac crash when opening edit sheets - Fix widget not showing the latest highlight

- Improved VoiceOver support for list items - Added reduced motion accessibility support - Added accessibility indicators to improve differentiation without color alone - Fixed paste button in highlight creation

- New: Now you can filter the main highlights list by source type (Book, Song, Web, or None) in addition to whether or not it has tags. - Improved onboarding flow for new users starting with an empty database. - Improved filtering and sorting menus for lists. - Fixed tip jar.

- Improved auto-loading details of the URL you enter when creating a highlight from a web source so it updates faster and is more reliable. - New customization settings: 1) Option to use colorful tints for the toolbar items on list views, and 2) Option to turn off the colorful tag names in lists if they're too hard to read. - New and improved onboarding flow with starter data for new users, so you can quickly get a sense of how you can build a collection of highlights and sources. - Enhanced accessibility support. - Fix: Missing Edit button on detail views restored. - Fix: When creating a highlight from a web source and viewing the advanced details view, navigating back to the main create highlight view no longer changes the source type from web to book or song. - Fix: The setting to select the most recently used source type for a new highlight works properly again.

- Tip Jar: I've added a few one-time in-app purchases as completely voluntary but very much appreciated tip options. If you love using Clew, now you can directly support its development! - Fix: The share extension now properly shows a webpage's title instead of arbitrary numbers when creating a new highlight from your web browser using the share sheet. - Fix: Recently created and recently selected sources now appear for quick selection when creating a highlight. You can customize the number of items to show in settings. - Updated the Tag Detail view to show richer information about each highlight in the list.

New features: - Share Highlights: Quickly share your highlights as text or Markdown to friends and other apps. - Shortcuts Integration: Create highlights via the iOS Shortcuts app and Siri.   and images. Much more to come! - Huge performance improvements: Even with thousands of items in your collection, lists and detail views will load quickly, scroll smoothly, and respond instantly. Other improvements: - Fixed potential sync issue between devices. - Better grouped views for browsing your content by people, websites, and albums. - Scanner improvements, with better paragraph detection, margin handling, and smart hyphen removal. - Quick navigation menus in detail views so that you can jump from a detail view to another list view right from the top menu bar. - Smart image quality enhancement system. - Better author/artist management with auto-matching and creation. - Year published sort option for books. - Selectable ISBN on book details.

• Redesigned for LIQUID GLASS: You'll see glassy elements in the buttons, toolbars, and more! • MUSIC SUPPORT: In addition to books and web pages, you can now use songs as sources for your highlights. You'll see the album artwork along with artist information, and you can even group songs by albums. • Intelligent Tag Suggestions: AI-powered tag suggestions when creating highlights. • Redesigned Widget System: New lock screen widgets, Control Center widgets, configurable widget themes, and an optional quick-add "+" button to add a new highlight directly from a widget. Even more improvements: • Enhanced list and item views, a quick navigation menu, and new customization options. • Overhauled book page scanner for even faster highlight creation. • Keyboard shortcuts and search. including Command+Shift+H to create a new highlight from anywhere. • Improved backup and restore system, including a complete settings backup, as well as advanced data management features. • Share extension improvements. • Many, many bug fixes.

NEW: Keyboard shortcuts to search, create, save, and show settings NEW: Search field shows item count Improvement: Some minor UI enhancements and minor bug fixes

- WIDGET CUSTOMIZATION: Personalize your home screen and lock screen widgets with font styles, text color, background color, and more. With widget themes, each of your widgets can have a different style. - BACKUP AND RESTORE get new features: Your complete database is already backed up automatically once per day. You can also manually back up at any time. Now, it's easier than ever to completely restore from a backup. Or, choose Compare with Backup to compare your current data with any backup so that you can easily restore specific items if you accidentally deleted something. - BETTER SCANNER: The scanner continues to improve, with better handling of paragraph breaks and punctuation. - ACCESSIBILITY: The app's UI components are now more accessible with VoiceOver. More improvements: - The add highlight button is now conveniently visible on all views. - Widgets are more interactive—you can tap a book title or author name to quickly open that page. - You can filter highlights by untagged or tagged only, in addition to showing all. - The web search for autofilling new book information has better, more comprehensive results from multiple sources. It also now uses a work's original publication year instead of the specific edition's publication year. - When editing a highlight, tapping Add Note will automatically focus the note text editor, and tapping Add Tags will automatically show the select tags sheet. - The plus (+) button on widgets is optional now. You can add/remove it by tapping and holding on a widget and choosing Edit Widget. - There's a new, convenient Add Source button when you're viewing a highlight that doesn't have one yet.

- NEW: Scanner button — Tap the camera button to quickly snap a photo of a book page or document and select the text you want to add as a highlight, conveniently separated into paragraphs or sentences. - When you scan a book page, Clew now looks for the title, author, and page number in the margins and automatically applies that information to the new highlight or suggests book options if it finds multiple matches in your library. - You can now sort books by their number of highlights. - Other improvements and bug fixes.

- NEW: Your list of books will now show the books' cover images. - NEW: When you create a new highlight from a book's or webpage's detail view, it'll automatically select that book or webpage for the new highlight. - The Create Highlight button is now visible on more views, so it's convenient to create a new highlight for more places in the app. - If a website is missing its title, you'll see a button on that website's detail page to quickly add and save the title using its URL. - Searching the web for a book cover image autocompletes the book’s title in the search field.

- **Improved iCloud syncing** and added a Sync button to Settings to manually trigger a sync between devices. - Added intelligent tag suggestions when editing an existing highlight (this was previously only available when creating a new highlight). - You can now sort a book's highlights by page number. - Fixed Share Sheet Save/Cancel buttons disappearing and improved the overall flow when sharing text or a URL from another app. - Improved backup and import so websites are handled better. - When viewing a highlight's detail page, each tag now shows the most recently created highlights first. - Added a "Remove Book" button when editing a highlight to remove the book from that highlight.