Optics now focuses on clearer headline framing: improved Wording Gap explanations, better source-map language, cleaner story grouping, share-card exports, and a cleaner Optics brand refresh.

What is new in 1.3.1: • The 7-day free trial on annual is now front-and-center on the paywall. Same offer that's always been configured on the App Store — now actually shown to you. Start free, see every framing gap for a week, pay nothing if you cancel before day 7. • Story-specific paywall: when you hit the daily Spin Check limit, you now see THIS story's framing gap as a number and the names of the two outlets you can't compare yet. No more bland "you've used your limit" wall. • "Last free Spin Check" warning surfaces before you run out, so you can start the trial without losing access mid-story. • New Architecture (Fabric) for smoother animations across both iOS and Android. Bias-bar fills, framing-gap pill, and spring transitions all run on the new renderer. • Stability tweaks across the share flow.

What is new in 1.3.0 — The Forensic Update: • A complete visual rethink. We killed the horizontal blue/grey/red bias bar that every news-bias app uses and rebuilt the Spin Check from scratch. • New "wire-service slug" source counts: 1 LEFT · 2 CENTER · 1 RIGHT, set in IBM Plex Mono. Looks like a wire copy deck. • Per-source framing-intensity strips. Length encodes how loaded each source's language is, color encodes which side. • Red rubber-stamp framing gap — the score now lands like a dossier stamp, not a marketing pill. • Warm-paper palette, Playfair Display headlines, ink-and-stamp accents. Reads like a forensic report instead of a Material card. Under the hood: faster grouping that no longer over-merges unrelated stories sharing a single political entity. Gemini now post-flags false-positive merges and splits them back apart. We also added haptics across the app, skeleton loaders on the feed, SF Symbols on iOS, and bias-bar animations.

What is new in 1.2.0: • Spin Check side-by-side: Left vs Right headlines on the same story, with the words that signal spin highlighted. • Echo Chamber alerts: spot stories only one side is covering. • Spin Share Cards: share the comparison as an image. • 250+ news sources across the political spectrum. • Faster feed, better grouping, fewer false matches. • Improved paywall clarity, fixed restore-purchases edge cases, and a number of stability tweaks.