Finish a conversation and it gets stamped. The stamp stays on that episode's page, and the next one on the shelf is offered where you are. The first time the app opens, the sun comes up over the ridge. Hold any episode for a short menu: play it from the start, pack it, share it, or mark it heard if you heard it somewhere else. Drag your finger down off the scrub bar to scrub more slowly. If you jump too far, a button takes you back. The sleep timer fades out instead of cutting off, and saves your place a little before the fade so you pick up where you were still listening. A pack removed from the Kit by mistake can be put back. A pack that fails now says why, whether it was the signal or a full phone. The Kit keeps a small field record of the ground you have covered. On iPad the player opens into a listening room with the transcript following along, and long transcripts keep to a readable line. Plenty of smaller fixes, and the shelf no longer shifts under your finger when something starts playing.

Trailmark now runs properly on iPad. Turn it sideways and the shelf sits beside the page, the player gets a pane of its own, and Read and the Kit open into columns. Widgets show the episode art again on tinted and clear Home Screens. A new tale in Read: The slow drip, and the shortcut. The app uses less battery while an episode plays in the background.