### Added - **Complete App Redesign**: Epilogue has a gorgeous new visual design! We've completely overhauled the user interface with custom backgrounds, smooth transitions, premium typography, dotted dividers, and refined UI elements for a highly immersive writing experience. - **Word Count Home Screen Widgets**: Keep track of your daily progress without opening the app. We've added native word count widgets across iOS and macOS. - **5 Offline Dictionaries & Stable Spellcheck**: You can now download and use 5 dictionaries offline, with a fully fixed and robust spellcheck engine ensuring a seamless typing flow. - **Mobile Formatting Toolbar**: A brand-new dedicated formatting toolbar is now available on mobile phones, placing markdown actions right at your fingertips. - **New Onboarding Flow**: Completely re-architected and simplified the onboarding experience to get you from landing to writing a new book in seconds. ### Changed - **Redesigned Landing Page**: Overhauled the marketing website and landing page to mirror the elegant new aesthetic of the app. - **Unified Canonical Vault**: Behind the scenes, we've merged per-device vault silos into one single canonical vault per user. Multiple devices now sync under the exact same vault automatically, resolving issues with invisible files or duplications. ### Fixed - **App Hang Issues**: Fixed two major performance bugs that could cause the app to freeze or hang in specific edge cases. - **Floating Comments on Mobile**: Disabled the floating comment popup on mobile devices to prevent layout conflicts and screen overlap. - **Clean Sign Out Flow**: Fully resolved issues during sign out to ensure cache, tokens, and active sessions are cleared cleanly without throwing errors. - **Layout & Image Fixes**: Polished shadow buttons, transitions, settings screens, and author images across all platforms. - **User Archive on Delete**: Added server-side support to properly archive deleted user accounts and clean up profiles.

Epilogue is the writing environment built for writers who take their craft seriously. Whether you're drafting your first novel, structuring a script, compiling a collection of poems, or sharing a finished book with a large alpha reader group, Epilogue keeps you in flow. No distractions, no server lag, no lock-in. --- YOUR WORDS. YOUR FILES. Epilogue is built on a simple promise: your words belong to you. Everything you write is stored as plain Markdown files directly on your device. No proprietary formats. No cloud dependency. Files you can open, move, and back up yourself. Today, tomorrow, or if you ever switch apps. Write offline. Write without interruption. Write knowing your work is safe. --- DESIGNED FOR EVERY FORMAT Most writing apps are built for fleeting notes or corporate documents. Epilogue is built for books, scripts, and anthologies. The distraction-free editor handles manuscripts of any length, from a delicate poem to a 400,000 word epic without slowdown or compromise. Organize your structure with chapters, scenes, or stanzas, keeping reference materials, character sheets, and lore documents right alongside your main text. Everything you need is one tap away without ever leaving your writing session. --- CAPTURE IDEAS EVERYWHERE, FINISH ON YOUR TERMS Inspiration doesn't wait for your laptop. Epilogue syncs across all your devices so you can capture a line of dialogue, a verse, or a plot twist on your phone and refine it at your desk. Seamlessly, without losing context. Your work follows you. Your progress is always up to date. --- FEARLESS FEEDBACK WITHOUT THE CHAOS Sharing your work shouldn't mean losing control. Epilogue lets you send secure sharing links to beta readers, editors, and collaborators. Comments arrive in private threads visible only to you. No messy email chains, no shared documents with tracked changes you didn't ask for. Get the feedback you need. Keep the control you deserve. --- FREE AS IN FREE BEER & FREEDOM Not a trial, not a nag screen, just free. Also, all your files are plain Markdown, so if you ever want to leave, you just... leave. No lock-in. What's the catch? There is none! We plan to make _some_ money later, when _you_ do. Our plan is to help you publish and sell your books, scripts, and collections. --- KEY FEATURES - Format Flexibility: Distraction-free Markdown editor optimized for novels, scripts, poems, and books. - Local-First Storage: Your files stay securely on your device. - Seamless Sync: Pick up exactly where you left off across all your devices. - Offline Writing: No internet required to keep working. - Secure Sharing: Send read-only links to beta readers and collaborators. - Private Feedback: Comment threads are visible only to you. - Unified Workspace: Organize chapters, scenes, stanzas, lore, characters, and references in one library. - Future-Proof: Plain `.md` files. Portable, open, and always yours. - Truly Free: No subscriptions or hidden payments. - World-Class Support: Email the founder at rav@epilogue.page anytime.

### Added - **Publish your book**: You can now publish your book directly from Epilogue to the web. Hit publish in the editor toolbar, set a title and cover, and your book gets a public page at epilogue.page/@username/your-book. - **Author profile**: Each account now has a public author profile at epilogue.page/@username listing all your published books. - **Username**: Set your username in Settings. Your username appears in all your public book and author URLs. - **Rename & archive books**: Long-press any book in the Library to rename it or move it to the archive. ### Fixed - **AppHang on macOS/iOS**: Fixed a hang at launch caused by PBKDF2 key derivation running on the main thread. Key derivation now happens on a background isolate. - **Touch Bar hang on macOS**: Fixed a freeze triggered by `PlatformMenuBar` rebuilding on every startup event. Menu bar is now built once at startup. - **Sync key re-index loop**: Generating a sync key was triggering a continuous re-index loop and spurious directory create/delete events. These are now suppressed correctly after key generation. - **Image resizing**: Fixed images not resizing correctly when the editor column width changed.

### Bug-fixes - **Proactive session refresh**: Tokens are now automatically refreshed before they expire. This prevents "silent" failures where the editor would stop saving comments or PowerSync would stall during long, uninterrupted writing sessions. - **Review page highlights**: Fixed a bug where stale comment highlights could appear at incorrect locations or fail to load entirely on the shared review page.

Added 1. Drag-and-drop chapter reordering: You can now grab any heading in the outline sidebar and drag it up or down to reorder entire chapters. The full text of the chapter moves with it, and your document is updated instantly. 2. Starter templates for new books: New books now open with ready-to-use content. A two-chapter structure in your writing file and a full planning scaffold (premise, characters, chapter outline, themes, and notes) in your planning file, so you can start writing right away. 3. Classic books sample library: The in-app sample library now includes 50 public domain classics. Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Hugo, Joyce, Kafka, Tolstoy, Twain, and many more giving you real-world, long-form view of how published book experience will feel like. Will open this up for authors shortly. Changed 1. “Vault” is now called “Library”: The term “vault” has been replaced with “library” everywhere in the app for clearer, friendlier language. Bug Fixes 1. Web: book list blank on first visit: Opening the web app for the first time would show an empty book list until you refreshed the page. Fixed a browser database issue that caused the loading step to hang silently. 2. macOS: “Operation not permitted” error on launch: On macOS, the app could fail to open your library folder after relaunch with a permissions error. Fixed a timing issue in how macOS security permissions are established at startup so your library opens reliably every time.

Multiple books, one vault You can now keep all your books in a single folder. Switch between them right from the editor, no more juggling separate folders. Easier Onboarding Linking a new device is now automatic. Just scan the QR code and your books appear, no extra steps. Share your writing with anyone Review links are now public by default, so collaborators can read your work without needing a password. You can still add password protection if you'd like. Polished writing experience The book switcher has a cleaner pill-shaped look. Icons in the editor margins now look crisp in dark mode. Bug fixes - Fixed the app hanging for ~2s on copy-pasting a 5000+ word book. - Fixed an issue where syncing a new iOS device after scanning the QR code would show "Name your first book" instead of your existing books.

Release Notes: Epilogue 1.1.0 Performance & Polish * Large Document Support: We’ve optimized how the editor handles large text imports and pastes. Pasting entire chapters or long manuscripts is now significantly faster and won't cause the app to hang. * iOS Clipboard Fix: Resolved a specific issue on iOS where the app could briefly freeze when accessing the clipboard or long-pressing for context menus. * UI Responsiveness: We’ve refined how the app handles mouse hovers and sidebar transitions to ensure the interface stays buttery smooth while you're in the flow. New: Real-time Status Pills We’ve added minimal, themed status indicators to the editor margins. * Live Sync Status: A new indicator at the bottom right shows you exactly when your work is saved locally and when it has been successfully synced to the cloud. * Word Count: A dedicated, unobtrusive pill at the bottom left keeps you updated on your progress without cluttering your view. Reliability & Stability * Stale Path Recovery: Fixed a rare issue where the app could encounter save errors after being reinstalled on iOS. The app now automatically detects and repairs stale file paths from previous installations. * Hardened Sync & Logout: We’ve completely rebuilt the logout and account-deletion process. The app now instantly stops all background sync tasks during these transitions, ensuring your local database is cleaned up reliably without hangs. * Database Resilience: Multiple under-the-hood fixes to prevent rare crashes when closing the app or switching vaults rapidly. Platform Specifics * macOS: Improved keyboard shortcut handling for Search and Replace. * iOS: Added a haptic-friendly loading indicator in Settings during account operations. --- A Note for Writers As Epilogue grows, we are committed to the "File-over-App" philosophy. Your words belong to you, and these stability updates ensure that your local markdown files remain the absolute source of truth, no matter which device you pick up. Happy Writing! Ravdeep