- fixed issue with Facebook reels/videos transcripts

ReaderView 8.8.50 improves conversations, highlights, and article navigation: - Better importing and formatting of ChatGPT conversations - User prompts now provide quick navigation through ChatGPT conversations - New native Contents and Highlights panels - Swipe to delete highlights - More accurate jumps to highlights and sections - Native image viewer with pinch and double-tap zoom - Correct image sizing in imported ChatGPT content - Video transcripts now display a consistent video indicator - Fixed highlight actions unexpectedly triggering text-to-speech - Additional layout and reliability improvements

Transcripts are now smarter and faster: - Improved language detection for more accurate non-English transcripts. - Publisher transcripts for Apple Podcasts and Spotify now appear immediately when available. - Fixed X/Twitter post text appearing below live transcripts. - Added “Import from Pasteboard” and removed automatic clipboard prompts. - Additional transcription and reliability improvements.

- PDF titles are now detected more accurately and displayed in ReaderView. - Added an option to hide AI Summaries. Thanks, Aharon! - Swipe to Highlight now works on Mac.

- Sharing by email: inline email bodies for Text, Markdown, HTML, and VTT as opposed as attached files

What’s New in 8.8.46 - Summaries now follow the language of the article or transcript. - Improved YouTube word-highlighting timing and context. - Highlighting is now available to everyone. - Improved ReaderView PRO prompts across articles and transcripts. - Additional reliability and interface improvements.

What’s New in 8.8.45 - Summarize articles, videos, and podcast transcripts using Apple Intelligence on supported devices. - Added support for public Facebook videos and Reels, including captions and transcription. - Automatically creates chapters when a transcript doesn’t include them. - Added playback progress and scrubbing for audio-only content. - ReaderView can detect copied links at launch and asks before processing them. - Added thumbnails and richer details for videos and podcasts. - Summaries are saved and remain available in ReaderView and its share extension. - Improved YouTube layouts with cleaner channel and video links. - Improved share-extension behavior and compatibility with newer iOS versions. - Refreshed the launch screen and ReaderView PRO card.

What’s new in 8.8.44 - Already-punctuated captions are better detected, fixing paragraphs split in the middle of sentences. - Unpunctuated transcripts are repaired and streamed into the UI chunk by chunk instead of appearing unpunctuated and changing all at once. - Only complete sentences are revealed during punctuation processing. - Every punctuated sentence is guaranteed to begin with a capital letter. - ⌘N now opens a fresh search directly from an article or video on iPad and Mac, without requiring two presses. - Several list actions now use clearer SF Symbol icons, and the share extension’s initial loading presentation was polished.

New in version 8.8.43: - immediate podcast transcripts when available through RSS. - More reliable X video detection, including posts that quote another video. - X publisher captions loaded directly from HLS subtitle tracks. - Full Note Tweet text and timestamped chapters preserved. - Showing YouTube thumbnails and video show/hide behavior. - Clear handling for YouTube videos without transcripts. - Cleaner share-extension loading status and icon-based swipe actions.

8.8.42 build adds: - Much stronger X/Twitter extraction, including new X Articles and long Note Tweets. - Better podcast, X-video, and YouTube transcripts: caption-first processing, punctuation repair, semantic chapters, creator links, and chapter-list cleanup. - Improved media playback with background audio, lock-screen controls, synchronized word highlighting, playback speed, and video visibility controls. - YouTube thumbnails displayed at 16:9. - Videos without captions now show a message and aren’t saved. - More reliable PRO transcript gating and recovery after backgrounding. - Media durations shown in the article list and improved row/date layout. - Fixed highlighting plus highlights-only Text, Markdown, HTML, and PDF exports. - SF Symbol swipe actions for Archive, Folder, Delete, and Cancel. - Cleaner share-extension loading status without the orange progress bar. - Refined launch screen and settings UI.

What’s New in 8.8.41 - Added export to Text, Markdown, HTML, VTT, PDF, or original link, with quick Copy and Share actions. - Export only your highlights and notes directly from the Highlights panel. - Videos now open in distraction-free Reader Mode by default, with a button to show or hide the player. - Added background media playback with Lock Screen controls, seeking, artwork, and transcript context. - Added automatic chapters for YouTube and X/Twitter videos when none are provided. - Improved punctuation, capitalization, and sentence boundaries for caption tracks that lack punctuation. - Improved X/Twitter extraction, caption loading, chapter detection, and low-bandwidth video playback. - YouTube now respects the video’s default caption language and handles links shared from the YouTube app more reliably. - Added clickable YouTube channel and podcast show links. - Media duration is now displayed in the library. - Swipe a queued transcription to cancel and remove it. - Fixed highlighting, notes, and swipe-to-highlight in articles and media transcripts. - Fixed play/pause behavior for podcasts, Spotify, and X/Twitter videos. - Fixed Pocket TTS loading, background reader recovery, transcript gating, media volume, and numerous layout and playback issues.

What’s New in Version 8.8.40 - Added support for Spotify podcast episodes, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. - ReaderView now uses publisher-provided captions for supported videos whenever available, including X/Twitter, avoiding unnecessary transcription. - Added automatic on-device chapter detection and support for chapters written in X posts. - Videos are hidden by default for a cleaner reading experience, with a new show/hide control and preference. - Added playback-speed controls for podcasts, audio, and embedded video players. - Swipe to cancel and remove queued transcriptions. - Redesigned Share & Export with Text, Markdown, HTML, VTT, PDF, and Link formats, each available to copy or share. - Embedded videos are now edge-to-edge and remain visible while scrolling when shown. - Improved transcript sentence and paragraph formatting. - Improved handling of text-only tweets and podcast links that are not episode pages. - Fixed media occasionally resuming immediately after being paused. - Fixed low volume for X/Twitter videos. - Fixed in-article search sometimes displaying a blank page. - Fixed Read Aloud resources occasionally failing to load. - Fixed video visibility after loading, rotating the device, or changing appearance settings. - Fixed share sheets appearing from the wrong position. - Improved formatting of large numbers in articles and live transcripts. - Refreshed the launch screen, settings icon, upgrade card, timestamps, and other interface details.

ReaderView can now turn Apple Podcasts and videos from X into clean, readable transcripts. On iOS 26 and later: • Watch transcripts appear as they’re created • Play the original audio or video • Tap any word to jump to that moment • Follow along with synchronized highlighting • Navigate automatically generated chapters • Download available source media We’ve also improved YouTube transcripts, podcast artwork and metadata, Share Extension support, background processing, and playback stability.

YouTube transcripts are working again, and embedded videos now play reliably inside ReaderView. We’ve also refined the video thumbnail and play button for a cleaner reading experience, along with general stability improvements.

- Added option to turn "Read aloud" OFF in the Settings

ReaderView 8.8.36 improves article loading on pages where only part of the story was previously detected (thanks Aharon!). It can now recover more complete article text on difficult sites, avoids accepting short sidebar-like snippets as the full article, and improves image quality on pages that provide low-resolution preview images instead of the original media. Video and media-heavy posts should also display more reliably. It also keeps videos from X or Twitter articles.

ReaderView changes in 8.8.35: - Article images now use the same margins as the main article instead of being widened with negative margins. - ReaderView image loading is more reliable offline and for srcset image URLs. - AI voice playing keeps the iOS display awake while reading so playback can continue. - TTS no longer reads long visible URLs aloud; it speaks concise hostnames like "github dot com". - PDF handling is more reliable when preprocessing detects a PDF.

This update improves PDF articles, sharing, and text-to-speech reliability. PDF images now load more reliably in the reader, including PDFs opened from Safari through the app extension. PDF article images are sharper, with higher-resolution preview rendering. Sharing a PDF article with “Link + Text” now preserves images in email by embedding them directly in the shared HTML. “Link + Text” now shows a spinner while the share content is being prepared. Plain “Link” sharing is faster and opens immediately. Fixed an issue where shared email content could be missing when preparing article text asynchronously. AI voices can now play at different speeds without changing the pitch. Improved AI voices playback behavior, including native playback support so audio can continue even when the phone is set to Silent. Adjusted PDF reader display so duplicate PDF titles are no longer shown at the top of the article.

This update improves ReaderView support for X articles (thanks to @kepano from Obsidian for the tip), including better extraction of long-form articles, cleaner formatting, and improved image handling. It also fixes article images that could appear broken in ReaderView, improves text-to-speech reliability on X articles and other web pages, and makes TTS sound more natural around quoted text. This update also includes compatibility improvements for iOS 16+, fixes several deprecated API warnings.

ReaderView 8.8.32 improves article display, text-to-speech, and reader settings. - Faster English text-to-speech startup with streamed audio. - Improved pause and resume behavior during streamed text-to-speech playback. ( thanks Mario!) - Better sentence detection for non-English languages, including German. (thanks Mario!) - More natural pauses between spoken sentences. - More robust text-to-speech playback when a sentence fails to generate. - Improved article image handling so saved pages avoid large embedded image data while keeping images available offline. - Cleaner exported/shared HTML with original web image URLs instead of internal ReaderView asset links. - Fixed an issue where small margin settings could reset back to 16. (thanks Aharon!) - Extended automatic PRO access for earlier ReaderView users. (thanks Ray!)

- More reliable ReaderView PRO restore, including promo/free-Pro and historical App Store transactions. - Restore no longer relies on a persisted PRO flag in app-group defaults. - Restore Purchase stays available in Settings. - Includes the previous high-resolution PDF image work: crisp PDF image crops after initial thumbnails. - Removes noisy PDF crop timing logs.

ReaderView 8.8.29 improves the ReaderView PRO experience. This update fixes cases where ReaderView PRO could appear restored in Settings while some articles still showed the “Upgrade to PRO” message. It also improves purchase restoration handling and keeps support for users who bought ReaderView before the switch to in-app purchases. The upgrade message inside articles now also respects dark mode, so it no longer appears as a bright white card while reading with a dark theme.

ReaderView 8.8.28 improves article extraction, reading layout, and reliability. New and improved: • Better extraction for shared ChatGPT conversations (thanks Aharon!) • Added support for shared Gemini conversations. • Improved BBC article extraction and removed more ad/layout clutter. • Cleaner article layout with softer table styling and fewer oversized gaps around paragraphs. • More reliable recovery when reopening the share extension after the iPhone locks or the screen turns off. Also fixed: • Reopening an article from Safari now restores it from Trash automatically. • Text-to-speech skips noisy YouTube timestamps and uses clearer localized placeholders for tables, images, and code blocks.

ReaderView now has better AI voices, with faster English playback and smoother loading when voices are already available. The app also has a new first-run screen, a refreshed Help page, clearer voice cache controls, and improved article cleanup for a cleaner reading experience. We also fixed several small reading and listening issues, including better link handling, fewer duplicate text blocks, and more stable voice controls while audio is preparing.

- supports 31 languages for AI voices (including German and Arabic, thanks to Mario and Ahmed for your suggestions and testing!) - automatically detects the language of your articles (using native iOS API) - you can overwrite the detected language - optimized AI voice on first tap - fixed loading articles (much faster now)