Flat comes to Apple TV. Your Up Next queue and Saved videos now feel right at home on the big screen. Continue where you left off, manage your queue, read notes, and let Auto-Play take you to the next video—all synced with Flat on your other devices. Social reading is richer, too. Adding Fediverse feeds by handle now works more reliably. Posts have cleaner layouts, accurate previews of linked articles, and quote cards with text and media. This release also improves video and podcast handling and fixes an issue with opening articles on iPhone Duo.

Since launching Flat, I’ve received a lot of positive feedback, along with many thoughtful questions and suggestions. Especially for videos and podcasts, they encouraged me to rethink how things work and simplify the app in many places. The result is Flat 2.0. At its heart are a chronological stream for blogs, news and social feeds, redesigned queues for YouTube channels, playlists and podcasts, and “Saved” for everything you want to read, watch or listen to later. Here’s what else has changed: • One-time purchase instead of a subscription: Try Flat free for 30 days, then unlock it with a single purchase. Anyone who previously had a paid Flat subscription receives permanent access to Flat Pro. • More timeline layouts: Make the timeline your own, from compact lists to large image cards. • New browser extensions: Save links directly to Flat with Chrome and Firefox, including from Windows and Linux computers. • More devices: Support for iPhone Duo, updated layouts for iPad and Macs with Apple silicon, and podcast controls on Apple Watch and CarPlay. • Less complexity: Many workflows have been simplified and rarely used options removed. “Saved” replaces the previous “Stash”; automatic archiving has been removed. • Many improvements to sync, stability and speed. Reading positions and playback progress are also preserved more reliably. • Reddit has announced the end of its RSS support. Flat therefore no longer supports Reddit feeds. I hope these changes and the new pricing model make Flat accessible to even more people. Thank you for your questions, feedback and support!

Automatically stashed items now stay hidden until their New Items notification is opened or dismissed. Reading controls, including the back button, fade away while scrolling and return with a tap or at the end of an article without shifting the content. YouTube Shorts hidden for a channel no longer appear in the video queue.

Fixes and improvements • Saved and queued YouTube videos that arrive from another device now show the channel name and channel image instead of a generic icon. • Invisible leftover copies that could pile up through iCloud sync are now cleaned up automatically. • Article images no longer fail to load when a site still offers outdated image variants. • Embedded Instagram reels are no longer cut off in the reader. • Text you have already typed in a sheet, for example when adding a feed, is no longer lost while feeds refresh in the background. • Mac: tapping the new-items pill now takes you to the line between new and older articles instead of jumping to the top of the list, and the new articles appear without the previous delay.

New • Set a custom playback speed for each feed. Handy when some podcasts or channels should run faster than others. • Flat can now skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos automatically, using the video's own chapter markers. Improvements • Busy feeds now stay in sync across your devices. An article you've read on one device still shows up on the others, even if it has already scrolled out of that fast-moving feed elsewhere, so nothing goes missing between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • The new-items pill is much more reliable: it only appears in your main Home stream, survives an app restart, and merges new articles instead of stacking up or re-counting. • Mac: a big round of performance work makes the feed list faster and smoother and lowers memory use. • Dimmed, already-seen articles now appear only in Home, not inside filters and timelines. • Podcasts: downloads resume after a force-quit with a visible "downloading" state, and the widget's progress ring is back. Fixes • Saved (stashed) articles no longer lose their mark during iCloud sync conflicts. • Mac: the window no longer pops open by itself when a background sync arrives. • Wide Mastodon and Bluesky posts no longer break the feed layout. • News posts now sort by their real publish time instead of landing in the middle of your timeline. • Podcasts: fixed a stale "now playing" in the car or on HomePod that offered the wrong episode. • Fixed a startup crash when debug logging was on, a black area behind Picture-in-Picture, and a scroll-position jump when new items loaded. • Plus more podcast and reliability fixes under the hood.

This is our biggest update yet, with the features Flat users asked for most, plus a lot of reliability work. New • Saved custom filters: build your own named views with a search and an icon, and add them to your timeline. They sync across your devices with iCloud. • Flat Pro Lifetime: buy Flat once and keep Pro forever. • Reddit feeds work again. If you use Reddit, open the new Reddit setting and follow the steps to get your feeds running smoothly. • Choose how each feed opens its articles: in Flat, in Reader mode, or in the in-app browser. • Keep your place more easily: turn on "Dim items you've caught up on" in General settings to gently fade the articles you've already read. • Your reading position can now sync across devices, so you can pick up right where you left off. • Swipe past the top or bottom of an article to jump straight to the previous or next one. Improvements • Shared articles now appear as their own feed you can manage like any other. • Article links now open in a full-screen browser inside the app. • Adding feeds is more reliable, especially on a poor connection. • The dark app icon is now a softer matte gray instead of pure black. Fixes • Fixed a subscription glitch where Pro could briefly fall back to Free right after launch. • Fixed a crash when saving an image. • Podcast episodes you delete by hand no longer get downloaded again automatically. • Fixed some videos in the queue that wouldn't start playing on their own. • Mac: video no longer jumps back to the start when you go full screen, and the next video keeps playing in place instead of forcing full screen. • Plenty of other fixes and improvements under the hood to make iCloud sync faster and more reliable, along with podcasts and the new-items notification.

This quick bug fix update improves feed refresh reliability. It fixes an issue that could make the article list flicker when opening the app or switching tabs, and another issue where the new-items button could appear repeatedly even when no new items were available.

First: Thanks for reading, watching and listening with Flat. This update adds and fixes a few important things. More feeds, free The free plan now includes up to 30 feeds instead of 10. More room to follow what you love. Shape what's next Send us your ideas and vote on upcoming features right inside the app, your feedback now directly guides where Flat goes. Your data is safe in iCloud Flat now keeps all of its data in your personal iCloud container. So even if you delete and reinstall the app, or switch devices, your feeds, saved episodes, playback positions, and all app settings are backed up and come right back. More reliable iCloud sync Syncing across your devices is noticeably more dependable and recovers smoothly after interruptions or an account switch. Much better on slow connections Feed refresh is far more robust on weak or spotty networks, so loading no longer stalls when your signal is poor. Faster and smoother, on iPhone and Mac Quicker feed loading, smoother scrolling, and lighter on your battery. Plus a handful of fixes, including the "new items" pill piling up on Mac.

Flat 1.0.4 includes the following improvements and fixes: - Image previews can be closed properly on iPad with swipe gestures and a close button. - Feed search text is easier to read in Dark Mode. - Podcast artwork is more reliable offline and when switching queued episodes. - The podcast widget now starts the expected episode.

Flat 1.0.2 fixes several issues: - Large feed updates are now less likely to leave items missing from the timeline. - Downloaded video podcast episodes can play without a network connection. - Video podcast detail screens now show the download action where expected. - Active subscriptions are now restored and recognized more reliably. - Video detail screens now refresh the remaining playback time after swipe dismissal. - Images in Readability mode now appear more reliably. - Regular links in social posts are no longer shown as link cards by mistake.