What’s new on Papercove.
Everything that has changed in Papercove, release by release.
- Feature
- UI
- Bug fix
2026
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Focus mode
- Feature: Focus mode: build reading profiles by length, freshness, topic or source, then read a selection one item at a time.
- Feature: New Distraction-free settings to freeze animated GIFs and calm down ALL-CAPS subjects.
- Feature: The API now posts items to your inbox with named tokens, each shown as its own sender.
- Feature: New accounts start with welcome items and a Discover card in the inbox.
- Feature: New “No topic” filter on the subscriptions page.
- UI: Delete, read and favorite actions on hover in inbox rows and cards.
- UI: Previous and next buttons in the reader toolbar.
- UI: Tooltips on icon-only controls, and redesigned keyboard hints.
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Discover
- Feature: Discover: hand-picked collections of feeds, followed in one go.
- Feature: Filter read-later items by site, and open a sender’s items right from the reader.
- UI: Redesigned subscriptions and search toolbars, with a reset button.
- UI: Colored letter avatar for subscriptions without a favicon.
- UI: Reorganized avatar menu, with a new support window.
- UI: Themes now recolor overlays, settings, fields and empty states.
- Bug fix: The Android splash screen and navigation bar now fit dark mode.
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OPML import and export
- Feature: Import an OPML file with a preview and a per-feed report, and export your feeds as OPML.
- UI: Feed errors are now explained in plain language.
- Bug fix: Word counts now work with every alphabet.
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YouTube and a better mobile app
- Feature: Follow YouTube channels and playlists, with a minimal player.
- Feature: Install Papercove on your phone more easily, with install prompts and splash screens.
- Feature: Sort the inbox by reading time or source engagement.
- Feature: Long press to enter select mode on mobile.
- Feature: Mark an unwatched video as read from the reader.
- Bug fix: Links shared from Android are now extracted from the shared text.
- Bug fix: Pages left open during an update now reload on your next action.
- Bug fix: “Mark all as read” now includes favorites.
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Advanced cleanup
- Feature: New cleanup panel: mark all as read, an anti-FOMO mode and custom rules.
- Feature: Sender and topic menus show status counts and a “mark all as read” action.
- UI: Filters now respond instantly, with a loading skeleton when needed.
- UI: Keys 1 to 4 switch inbox status, and the shortcuts window is more compact.
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Smart sender grouping
- Feature: Mail subscriptions are grouped by mailing list, shared address or sender domain.
- Feature: LaTeX formulas now render as real math.
- UI: The inbox heading becomes a source menu, with status shown as a segmented control.
- UI: The inbox loads progressively and no longer needs a page size setting.
- Bug fix: Swipe navigation no longer triggers on horizontally scrollable blocks.
- Bug fix: Code blocks now stay within the reading column.
- Bug fix: Separator-only paragraphs in articles now render as clean rules.
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Save from anywhere
- Feature: A bookmarklet and a share link to save pages from any browser or custom shortcut.
- Feature: Undo a delete from the toast when confirmation is turned off.
- Feature: Create a topic directly while adding a feed.
- Feature: Choose how many past entries to fetch when subscribing to a feed.
- Bug fix: Old posts republished by a feed no longer flood the inbox.
- Bug fix: Images in tables stay in place, and wide data tables now scroll in the reader.
- Bug fix: Long email text now wraps on narrow screens.
- Bug fix: Focusing an input no longer zooms the page on iOS.
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Magic paste
- Feature: Magic paste: read a link from the clipboard, guess its type and add it in one tap.
- Feature: Swipe inbox rows to delete them or toggle read.
- Feature: New shortcut to cycle through themes.
- UI: Redesigned login and signup pages.
- UI: Digest settings reworked with a preview card.
- UI: A tighter add window and a scrollable settings menu on mobile.
- Bug fix: Swipe gestures now avoid the system edge gesture in the reader.
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Better unsubscribe
- Feature: Unsubscribe tries every available method and tells you how it went.
- Feature: Block a sender’s domain for good.
- UI: Restyled reader, with larger media.
- UI: Reworked subscriptions toolbar with a sort menu and links to the inbox.
- UI: Keyboard shortcut hints are now hidden on touch devices.
- Bug fix: Special characters now display properly in subscription windows.
- Bug fix: Long inline code now wraps in the reader.
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Retention and engagement
- Feature: Storage settings, with usage stats and retention controls.
- Feature: A sortable engagement gauge shows the attention you give each source.
- Feature: Per-subscription settings, including items marked as read after a set time.
- Feature: First Distraction-free settings: hide counters and strip emoji from titles.
- Feature: Rename your topics from the settings.
- UI: Newsletters and RSS merged into a single subscriptions view.
- UI: A sailboat now celebrates inbox zero.
- Bug fix: Favorites are kept when you unsubscribe from a feed.
- Bug fix: Renamed mail subscriptions keep their name when new mail arrives.
- Bug fix: Blocked images in the reader now show a labelled placeholder.
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Light and dark, on your terms
- Feature: Themes follow your device between light and dark.
- Feature: Pull to refresh, with a toast when new items arrive.
- Feature: Reading time in the reader and on inbox cards.
- Feature: A setting to skip the delete confirmation.
- UI: New action bar in the reader on mobile.
- Bug fix: Items now follow their subscription when its topic changes.
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A new look and onboarding
- Feature: Typography settings.
- Feature: Read-later articles are ready as soon as you save them.
- UI: New logo and favicon.
- UI: Reworked login and onboarding.
- Bug fix: Feeds recover automatically after a successful fetch.
- Bug fix: Feeds with invalid XML are repaired instead of failing.
- Bug fix: Fixed the blank email reader with some themes.
- Bug fix: Fixed an outdated inbox after clicking the logo.
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Keyboard first
- Feature: Keyboard shortcuts across the app, with a help window and inbox navigation.
- Feature: The digest now covers every source, with an email preview.
- Feature: Fetch the full article of truncated RSS entries on demand.
- Feature: Rename newsletter and RSS subscriptions.
- UI: Infinite scroll in the inbox.
- UI: Clearer dates and improved search.
- Bug fix: Fixed the height of the bottom sheet on mobile.
- Bug fix: Fixed bulk edit shortcuts.
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RSS and read later
- Feature: Follow RSS feeds alongside your newsletters.
- Feature: Save articles to read later, with their content extracted.
- Feature: First HTTP API to send items to your inbox.
- Feature: Mobile layouts, with swipe to move between items.
- Bug fix: Previous and next now follow your inbox filters and sort order.
- Bug fix: Clearer message for feeds that are too large.
- Bug fix: Fixed the sender filter, the copy button and feed deletion.
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Bulk edit
- Feature: Select several emails at once and act on them from a floating bar.
- Feature: Reading settings, with a default inbox filter.
- UI: The inbox remembers your last filter and view.
- Bug fix: Dates now use your timezone.
- Bug fix: Fixed garbled characters in some email headers.
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Zen view, themes and search
- Feature: Zen view: read any newsletter as a simple article.
- Feature: Themes.
- Feature: Search your newsletters.
- Feature: Topics to organize your subscriptions.
- Feature: Email digest.
- Bug fix: Emails that fail to parse no longer cause errors.
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The first version
- Feature: Receive your newsletters in Papercove, away from your personal inbox.
- Feature: Filter the inbox by sender domain.
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