What shipped, month by month

2026-09

• iOS launched on the App Store. The iPhone app is live on the App Store (not yet available in the mainland China storefront). The iOS Early Access list is closed; its old links now open the App Store listing.

2026-08

• Three MiniMax models joined the official channel — M2.7 for text, the M2-her roleplay dialect, and H3 video generation (5s, 2K) — live server-side, no app update required.
• Prompt templates became first-class agent assets: the in-app agent can list, inspect, and bind your saved Reader templates, and reuse a saved art style when generating images.
• Reader AI helpers (chapter recap, character glance, ask-AI) no longer fail silently without a usable model — they now walk you through signing in, picking a utility model, or configuring BYOK.
• Deleting a character card can keep the solo chat; group chats are managed by their own session card, so a member menu can no longer take down a whole group.

2026-07

• Android launched on Google Play. The app left closed testing; the listing is live worldwide. iOS Early Access sign-up opened.
• VN Theater: switch any novel on the shelf into a visual-novel performance mid-read — typewriter dialogue, speaker nameplates, choices that write back as real branches, entry and exit on the same reading line.
• Visual identity for characters: confirmed reference-image sets keep moment cards, selfies, and group photos recognizably the same character; AI-generated images carry machine-readable origin marks.
• Companion photo features: moment cards from chat, photo replies, and periodic photo moments with strict cost gates.
• Bulk-import hardening after the 315-book real-device test, including the staging-directory data-safety fix.
• Official prompt-template packs published to the community hub (continuation styles, video prompts, media template bundles).
• The agent learned to shop the community on your behalf — browse, inspect, and import with provenance records and per-turn quotas.

2026-06

• SillyTavern parity push: Quick Replies v2, STscript-style commands, variables and macros, group chat with natural/list/manual/random speaking strategies, group JSON import, V3 .charx and decorator support.
• Plugin center: memory (dual-engine), auto-summary, re-roll guard, story choices, state tracker, stepped thinking, prose polish, lorebook suggestions, image trigger, favorites — per-turn call budgets and itemized billing included.
• Reply ideas: three candidate lines in your voice, tap to send or long-press to edit.
• App-wide visual redesign to the borderless Airy language; paper-ink companion archive theme.
• EPUB import alongside txt; five page-turn modes including real page-curl simulation.
• Reader agent composer: edit-and-regenerate any AI segment, continue from segment ends, editable branch options.
• Companion agent v1: file-based memories, sticker packs, proactive messages with quiet hours, moving-box export.
• In-app agent moved to a native tool-calling loop with visible reasoning and approval cards.

2026-05

• Foundations: the branching reader (continuations land beside the original, never over it), character card import (v1/v2/v3), lorebook runtime, tavern chat.
• BYOK across 60+ providers with on-device encrypted keys; per-modality default models.
• TTS listening with chapter caching; scene illustration and video generation through user-selected providers.
• This website, the docs, and the first blog posts.