• New: the “Friends” tab. Invite friends and look at each other’s shelves. Optional, with Apple or Google, and you can report any post and block anyone. • Your own shelves, a search across all your books, and your “Favourites”. • E-books and audiobooks, with progress in percent or minutes. • Import from StoryGraph, a backup file and an optional “Account” that takes your purchases to your next phone. • A “Daily Goal”, “Roll My TBR” and the “Scan a Book” widget.

• Halloween moves in: from October 15, your reading rooms and your shelf dress up, with fairy lights in orange and violet, autumn leaves and pumpkins along every board. Winter follows, then Christmas in December. • Prefer the usual look? Tap “Classic” in your reading room or under “More”. A seasonal app icon waits there too. • Decor for your books: Novely paints little pieces for your shelf to match what you read. The first one is yours; more come with Novely Club (in-app purchase), as do the pumpkin lantern, the snowman and the little fir tree. • The Novely Club page and “More” now work better on iPad and with larger text. • Novely is now much smaller: the moving reading rooms and the sounds download the first time you pick them.

• Message Damian: questions, ideas or a bug go straight to Damian, who built Novely and reads every message personally. Under “More” and on every book page. The reply shows on your shelf. • A new book page: description, author and edition at a glance. • Discover opens instantly: your picks are prepared in the background. Vibe search has its own pages. • Missing covers are found, also after a Goodreads import. • Rating asks what fits the book. • New pictures for empty shelves and searches. • Small improvements and fixes.

• Reading, tidied up: one card per book, with “Progress” and “Start Reading”. Progress is now logged in pages. • Your stats open from the days-in-a-row card on the Reading tab. • A clearer start: your shelf previewed at full width. • Novely Club now speaks English. • Small improvements and fixes.

• New: Discover. Recommendations that fit your shelf, as rows of covers, plus title search, an ISBN scanner and vibe search by mood. • Reading time on your Lock Screen: your running session as a Live Activity and in the Dynamic Island. • In the reading room, one tap on the picture opens the session card. • A new start: the reading room right at the beginning, with clearer words. • Small improvements and fixes.