What changed across Social Archiver

Mobile Settings now opens a localized release notes hub, with Android reader highlighting improvements and cleaner activity job handling.

• Open the localized release notes hub from Settings to check recent updates more easily.
• Improved Android reader highlighting and reduced accidental text selection while scrolling or swiping.
• Failed activity jobs are dismissed automatically so stale status badges are less likely to remain.
• Improved subscription setup tracking and related UI polish.

Release notes now have one public home across Social Archiver clients, with settings links that open the relevant platform filter.

• Added a shared release notes page for mobile, Obsidian, web, and Chrome extension updates.
• Added settings entry points that open the correct platform-filtered view.
• Kept GitHub Releases focused on Obsidian distribution while product-facing notes move into the Social Archiver web surface.
• Started the backfill path for mobile App Store notes, share-web changes, and Chrome extension updates.

YouTube downloads can now run through desktop download-only jobs and sync completed local media back into existing archives.

• YouTube downloads can run as desktop download-only jobs and update the existing archive note or timeline when media is ready.
• Mobile handoff reflects desktop-downloaded media after expired CDN refreshes.
• Failed or expired queue activity can be cleared so stale badges do not remain.
• Reader CSS was cleaned up for current Obsidian review checks.

The mobile app added a beta setup flow for profile, channel, blog, RSS, and supported social subscriptions, plus share extension AI and author sync polish.

• Paid users can use the subscription beta to set up profiles, channels, blogs, RSS feeds, and supported social sources more smoothly.
• Share extension AI actions now include a better flow for choosing the target language when translating body text.
• Author avatars, bios, and subscription metadata sync more consistently across devices.
• Threads replies, Threads articles, and X long-form articles render more cleanly.
• Fixed mobile UI issues around drawer scrolling, author avatars, and iOS font handling.

Reader comments now show reactions when comments are rendered with media, and the font selector supports more language-specific choices.

• Comment reactions are shown when comments appear together with media.
• Reader mode now has more font choices.
• Added Japanese and Korean font options.
• General app notes can use the system font through a new setting.

Screenshot Studio gained more styles, archive share sheets can open the reading page directly, and Reddit image rendering was improved.

• Added more Screenshot Studio styles.
• Archive share sheets can open the reading page directly.
• Fixed Reddit archive cases where some images or comments were missing.
• Included additional small bug fixes.

Transcription can run through the Obsidian plugin, while AI Actions can hand tagging and translation work to local AI.

• Transcription can run through the Obsidian plugin and reuse the existing desktop setup, similar to AI CLI configuration.
• AI Actions can hand tagging and translation work to local AI.
• Sync status badges now explain queued work more clearly.
• Included additional small bug fixes.

Share pages and Reader views now preserve avatars, titles, comment paragraphs, and external article links more reliably.

• Reduced cases where Reader avatars were missing or degraded on share-web.
• Post titles and multi-paragraph comments render without collapsing into a single dense line.
• Mobile article cards expose external links more clearly.
• Signup attribution now tracks which client surface brought users into the product.

Mobile AI comments, AI actions, and transcription requests can be handed off to a capable desktop Obsidian plugin and synced back.

• Mobile AI comment and AI action requests work through a capable desktop Obsidian plugin environment.
• AI actions include content translation variants, tag suggestions, and language-aware timeline and reader rendering.
• Mobile transcription requests can be handed off to Obsidian and receive completed transcript results through sync.
• Improved AI job backlog recovery, executor targeting, and realtime reconnect stability.

AI comments can use local AI CLI configuration through the Obsidian plugin, and Screenshot Studio can save posts as image exports.

• AI comments can use local AI CLI connections such as Gemini, Claude, and Codex through the Obsidian plugin.
• The mobile app can request AI comments in a similar flow to the web surface.
• Screenshot Studio can export cards, long screenshots, original media pages, and collages.
• Generated test screenshots can be used as app information assets.

The mobile app added Japanese language support.

• Added Japanese text across core mobile screens and settings.
• Prepared the language-selection foundation for broader localization.

The mobile app added Korean support and archive retention controls for choosing how archive data uses device storage.

• Added Korean language support.
• Opened the feedback path for users who want more preferred languages.
• Added archive retention policy controls.
• Prepared retention behavior around offline archive use.

Fixed YouTube Shorts cases where downloaded local media still played through embeds, plus AV1 album-save failures.

• Fixed YouTube Shorts cases where local downloads still played through YouTube embeds.
• Improved Shorts imports that used AV1 media and could fail when saving to the album.

Review cleanup for the Obsidian plugin plus a small mobile toolbar polish item.

• Fixed the mobile bulk toolbar select button so it matches the other icon buttons.
• Removed the duplicate media-gallery selector warning.
• Updated Obsidian metadata, DOM handling, networking, timers, inline styles, and CSS review-warning cleanup.
• No intended feature or workflow changes.

Fixed cases where a video from another archive could play in the current post, plus Shorts and billing notice UI issues.

• Fixed a case where a video from a different archive could play in the current post.
• The Shorts tab now stays full-screen.
• Billing notices no longer cover the active video.

Added a notice banner for important messages, plus plan upgrade and subscription management improvements for beta users.

• Added a notice banner for rare but important or urgent messages.
• Beta-tier users can upgrade their plan.
• Improved subscription management usability.
• Included smaller bug and performance fixes.

Free-tier users can earn archive quota through onboarding features, and sync reliability improved with better rate-limit handling.

• Free-tier users can earn archive quota by using selected onboarding features.
• Sync reliability improved with better rate-limit handling.

The beta plan transition and in-app notices moved users toward the Free plan and mobile-managed subscriptions.

• Existing beta users transition to the Free plan automatically.
• The Free plan includes 10 archives per month, with more available through mobile app rewards.
• Subscriptions and the lifetime offer are available through the mobile app because Obsidian community plugins cannot host in-plugin payments.

Improved web article handling and added subscription and usage status to the settings page.

• Improved handling for web articles.
• Added subscription and usage status to the settings page.
• Included minor bug and usability fixes.

Reader font choices expanded for more languages, web articles render better, and highlight platform stability improved.

• Reader mode font controls gained more language choices, including Japanese and Chinese.
• Web articles render more reliably.
• Highlight platform stability improved when changing fonts.

Reader post cards gained action items such as Share, Archive, and Delete without leaving the reading flow.

• Pull-to-refresh at the top and push-to-refresh at the end are available in Reader.
• Post cards now expose Share, Archive, Delete, and related action items.
• Included smaller UI/UX and bug fixes.

Added iPad support and reflected the Chrome extension flow for archiving Instagram Saved Posts.

• Added iPad support.
• Adjusted some UI/UX for the larger iPad canvas.
• Improved performance when switching tabs.
• Instagram Saved Posts can be archived through the Chrome extension.

Reddit comment imports now handle deeper threads and more comments, up to roughly 500 comments.

• Reddit imports can include deeper comment levels and larger comment sets.

Added the All tab across Inbox and Archive, plus long-press bulk actions on post card icons.

• Added the All tab so users can view all posts, including Inbox and Archive, in line with recent Obsidian changes.
• Long-press Archive, Save, and Tag icons on each post card to open bulk options.
• Included smaller bug and performance fixes.

Added tag reordering and delete actions, with clearer local cache, iCloud, and server streaming priority.

• Tags can be reordered in the Tag tab, and tag sync was improved.
• Added a delete action to the Shorts player.
• Added a retention cache period setting for choosing how long cached files stay available.
• Clarified priority between local files, iCloud files, and server streaming.

Improved inline rendering for X articles, web/blog articles, and Thread posts, plus multi-device sync reliability.

• Revamped inline rendering for X articles, web/blog articles, and Thread posts.
• Improved multi-device sync reliability so archive deletions identify the correct record.
• Added a safety threshold for bulk sync operations to protect local data during large server-side changes.

Post cards gained bulk action menus, while author detail, Thread rendering, and media handling improved.

• Long-press Archive, Delete, and Star icons to open the bottom bulk action menu.
• Added the Author Detail view.
• Thread posts render inline with the correct image index.
• Fixed several media-handling bugs and stability issues.

Improved cross-device sync for highlights, starred state, and share links, plus initial CDN image failure handling.

• Improved cross-device sync stability for highlights, starred state, and share link status.
• Handled initial CDN image failures more reliably until the proxy path returns the correct image.

Archives, deletes, and composed posts sync in realtime across Obsidian, mobile, and web.

• Archives, deletes, and composed posts sync in realtime across Obsidian, mobile, and web via WebSocket.
• Mobile app v1.3.3 or later is required for realtime sync.
• Delete sync can be toggled independently in Settings > Sync.
• Crosspost mode supports Share Link, Crosspost to Threads, or both.

Obsidian login can be approved from the mobile app, and Android app links were added for smoother setup.

• Log into the Obsidian plugin by scanning a QR code or entering a pairing code from the mobile app.
• Universal Link QR codes work on both iOS and Android.
• When you log in via the mobile app, sync is automatically enabled.
• Sign-out cleanup now removes sync client registration more reliably.