Phloem now runs on iPhone. On a phone it keeps things simple: one bar with Library, Look up, Listen, Find and More, so you can listen to a paper or look up a word wherever you are. Turn the phone on its side and the bar moves to the edge. On iPad, everything works as before. - Night light: a warm lamp over the page for reading in a dark room. Tap the new Night button on the Zen dock (under More on iPhone), and set how far the light reaches in Reading settings. - Close Listen and open it again: it picks up at the start of the sentence it was reading. - Turning a single page now shows its back the right way round: the same page, mirrored, like real paper. - Highlighting next to blank paper on iPad no longer selects the whole page, and a selection no longer jumps onto the next page.

Write on sticky notes. A sticky note on a PDF now takes handwriting: place one with Apple Pencil or your finger and just write. Switch to Type for the keyboard, erase whole strokes, and undo stroke by stroke. - Spotlight, a new guide shape beside Rows and Columns: a magnifying glass that enlarges the words under it while the rest of the page dims. Tap to place it and drag its handle to move it. Find it in the Zen guide menu or in Settings. - Listen highlights the sentence being read on every PDF page, including pages with figures, and skips diagram labels and captions. - Only the play pin moves where Listen reads, so tapping the page no longer makes it jump. - In Zen, the upright Highlight strength slider follows your finger up and down. - White ink on a sticky note stays visible in the dark Workspace.

Listen, Phloem's read-aloud, now uses the voices installed on your iPad, including the natural Premium and Enhanced voices you can download for free in Settings > Accessibility > Read & Speak > Voices > English (try Jamie). Everything is spoken on your iPad; nothing you read is sent anywhere. - Listen has its own button on the side rail. - The sentence being read is highlighted and kept in view while the rest of the page fades back. - Drag the play pin onto any line to start reading from there, or tap it to jump to a section. - A speed slider from 0.5x to 2x, with 1x in the middle. - The page layout control is now a round button like the rest.

- New: reading lists. Line up the papers you want to read, note the question you are reading each one for, and tick them off as you go. Add a paper by title, author or DOI, or import a list from Zotero, Mendeley or Google Scholar. Tap a paper to read it: papers in your library open right away, and open-access papers open straight from the list. - Listen: Phloem reads the paper aloud with your iPad's own voices, skipping equations, tables, captions, citations and the reference list. Start from any section or paragraph, and choose Jamie or another natural voice. Phloem shows where to download one in Settings. - Select text for the new Copy button and, with the optional AI assistant, "What does this mean?". Define now gives a single word its dictionary meaning. - Holding a citation shows its reference, even in papers whose citations are not links. - Settings shows your Phloem version, and a small notice appears when a newer one is on the App Store. - With a keyboard attached, Escape after a tap in the Workspace clears your lasso selection instead of closing the paper. - Definitions you looked up before 1.2 stay saved and work offline. - Smaller fixes.

- Handwriting in the Workspace keeps up with your Pencil, even on long, full sheets. - No more pause after writing with a large book or library open: sync no longer re-reads the copy it just saved. - Sticky notes on PDF pages: tap a spot, type, and the note stays there at every zoom. - Export an annotated PDF: your highlights, handwriting and notes are written into the original file. - DeepSeek is no longer offered as an AI provider, for privacy. Any DeepSeek key saved on this iPad is deleted. AI stays optional and off unless you turn it on. - In portrait, the Workspace can sit below the paper. - Smaller fixes: white Workspace ink in dark mode, zoomed page turns land where you were reading, a second tap on an open tool closes it, guide thickness in percent, Pencil and finger taps no longer open PDF links by accident, and clearer contrast and labels for accessibility.

Phloem 1.2 adds a Workspace beside your paper and optional sync across devices. Workspace - Open a writing board next to the paper you're reading. Add sticky notes, write and sketch with Apple Pencil, and move or resize notes and handwriting together with the lasso. - Drag a note from the Note button and drop it exactly where you want it. - Handwriting on a note moves and resizes with the note. - Fingers scroll and pinch-zoom the Workspace smoothly while Apple Pencil writes. - Typing in a note keeps it above the keyboard. Sync - Optional private iCloud sync keeps your library, notes, highlights, handwriting, progress and original documents in your own iCloud. - Optional Google Drive sync uses Phloem's private app folder in your Google Drive (not available in China mainland). - Phloem stays offline-first: your local library keeps working when sync is off or unavailable. Writing and reading - Smoother, more natural Apple Pencil strokes with a wider pressure response. - A faster, steadier eraser. - Many reliability and interface refinements.

Phloem 1.1 turns your iPad into a focused reading and annotation desk for academic and technical documents. Also new: - More natural handwriting with gentle pressure changes and tapered ends. Choose Natural or Clean for new ink in reading settings; existing notes keep their appearance. Holding at the end of a line is more tolerant of tiny Pencil movements and confirms when the line straightens. - Rename papers directly from the open title or from the library, and scroll through up to six recent papers in Continue reading. - Write directly on PDF pages with Apple Pencil, including margins, figures, and scanned or blank pages. Choose eight pen colors and three widths. Hold at the end of a long open stroke to straighten it, adjust the endpoint, then lift. Turn on Write when you want to handwrite; it is off by default. - Erase handwriting and text highlights with either PDF eraser; one Undo restores the whole sweep. - Switch between Pen and Highlighter with one tool active at a time, including touch and Zen controls. - Smoother continuous handwriting, including previously saved strokes, without changing your original ink points or notes. - Undo the latest handwriting or highlight edit directly from the Zen dock, without leaving focused reading. - Highlight selectable text with Apple Pencil: drag across a passage and lift to save, including complete words at each endpoint. Mark opens its colors immediately and keeps them available between marks and color changes. - Use Define directly from the bottom Highlight toolbar for your selected passage or latest selected highlight on the current page. - Clean, professional note lettering is now the default, with a Handwritten switch when you want the original style. - The reading-guide handle now stays on the left side of the guide band, clear of the Zen dock. - Reliability and iPad interface refinements throughout the reader. Handwriting stays editable in Phloem and is included in JSON backups. Export original PDF exports the original document without Phloem handwriting or highlights.