Dev Logs

A record of updates and changes

v2.2.0

November 8, 2026

Our latest update polishes the UI and reading experience with smooth page-turn animations, squashes several publishing bugs, and hardens our backend security.
  • ✦Page Turn Animations: Bring your digital library to life! We've added beautiful, fluid page-turn animations for a more immersive, book-like reading experience.
  • ✦Updated Reader Guides: We refreshed the helpful overlay guides in the reader to make navigating our tools and shortcuts clearer and easier than ever.
  • ✦Strict Text Formatting: Fixed an issue to ensure your custom text formatting (bolding, italics, spacing) is perfectly preserved and adhered to throughout the app.
  • ✦Editor Publishing Fix: Squashed a bug where publishing a book directly from the Live Editor would occasionally fail or drop content.
  • ✦Newsletter Privacy: Your private reads stay private. We've updated our email engine to ensure private books are strictly filtered out of the automated weekly newsletters.
  • ✦Enhanced Security & Stability: Under-the-hood improvements to harden API authentication, upgrade dependency security overrides, and streamline error handling.

v2.1.0

October 8, 2026

Our latest update brings requested file formats, Netflix-style browsing, and major under-the-hood stability improvements.
  • ✦MOBI File Support: You asked, we delivered! You can now drag and drop `.mobi` files directly into the upload zone. Our engine will instantly extract the text, format it, and add it to your library.
  • ✦Netflix-Style Browsing: We've revamped the homepage with a brand-new horizontal "Category Row" layout. You can now seamlessly swipe and scroll through curated genres (like Fantasy and Non-Fiction) in beautiful, snapping carousels.
  • ✦In-App Dev Logs: Added this very page! You can now track all the latest updates, bug fixes, and new features directly from the footer of the app.
  • ✦Ghost User Fixes: Fixed a rare bug where invalid or guest accounts could permanently skew the community reading stats.
  • ✦Smoother Loading States: The sign-in page and homepage carousels now feature polished, row-based skeleton loading animations to eliminate visual jumping while data is fetched.
  • ✦Smarter Audio Routing: Rebuilt the way our audiobook engine talks to the cloud. Switching between different AI voice models (Aura vs. Kokoro) is now completely seamless and much faster.

v2.0.0

September 15, 2026

Welcome to GooseBooks 2.0. We completely rewrote the core architecture to make the app significantly faster, completely crash-proof on older phones, and packed with incredible new ways to consume content.
  • ✦YouTube to Book Integration: Yes, you read that right. You can now paste a YouTube video URL into the uploader. We will instantly extract the closed captions, intelligently format them into readable paragraphs, and turn the video into a book!
  • ✦Zero-Crash Memory Engine: We completely overhauled how books are saved to your device. By automatically sweeping old, unused chapter caches in the background, we've entirely eliminated the "Out of Memory" browser crashes on older mobile phones.
  • ✦Smarter Book Updates: When an author fixes a tiny typo in an epic 5MB novel, your device no longer redownloads the whole book. We now magically patch only the specific paragraph that changed, saving your mobile data.
  • ✦Buttery Smooth Scrolling: We rebuilt the reading progress tracker. Rapidly scrolling through massive chapters is now incredibly smooth, with zero UI stuttering.
  • ✦Offline Cover Reliability: Fixed a bug where book covers in your "Saved for Offline" library would sometimes disappear when your phone lost internet connection.
  • ✦Upload Queue Polish: Uploading massive PDF or EPUB files no longer locks up your screen. Heavy text processing is now offloaded to background Web Workers, so you can keep browsing the app while your books finish uploading.
  • ✦Editor Stability: Fixed a frustrating issue for authors where paragraphs would sometimes "jump" or merge incorrectly while using keyboard shortcuts in the Live Editor.

v1.8.0

August 12, 2026

The Ultimate Audiobook Experience. We've upgraded our Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine to ensure your stories never stop playing, no matter where you are.
  • ✦Multi-Engine Voice Fallback: Drive into a tunnel? Lose your cell service? Your audiobook won't stop. If our ultra-realistic cloud AI voices drop out, the app instantly and seamlessly falls back to your phone's native built-in voices until your internet connection returns.
  • ✦Karaoke Auto-Scrolling: When you are listening to an audiobook, the screen will now automatically highlight the exact paragraph being spoken and scroll the page for you. Perfect for reading along!
  • ✦Zero-Latency Audio: Say goodbye to awkward pauses. The app now silently prepares the next 4 paragraphs of audio in the background, ensuring smooth, uninterrupted playback between chapters.
  • ✦Floating Audio Controls: Play, pause, skip paragraphs, and seamlessly switch narrator voices on the fly with our sleek, out-of-the-way audio controller.
  • ✦Advanced Anti-Bot Security: We implemented incredibly strict device fingerprinting (Canvas, WebGL, Audio). Malicious bots and scrapers are now permanently banned from the platform, keeping the app lightning fast for real users.
  • ✦Admin Control Panel: Introduced a suite of tools for community moderators to review user reports, issue warnings, and perform cascade-deletes on inappropriate content.

v1.7.0

July 13, 2026

A massive leap forward for creators and gamers alike. We're introducing AI co-authoring tools and a hidden treat for word lovers.
  • ✦Introducing "Goose Writes" (AI Co-Author): Have a great idea but struggling with writer's block? Simply enter your premise, and our AI will help you craft a Story Bible, build out character profiles, and establish world-building rules.
  • ✦Interactive Plotting: The app now acts as your creative plotting assistant. For every chapter, you will be offered distinct narrative directions. Pick your favorite path, or write your own custom beat.
  • ✦Background Auto-Drafting: Once your outline is set, you can literally step away. Our engine will draft and polish your chapters scene-by-scene in the background while you do other things.
  • ✦Goosedle Mini-Game: Need a break from reading? We added a hidden, real-time multiplayer word game! Compete against time and other readers to find words in a scrambled grid.
  • ✦Automated Newsletters: Integrated a sleek email system. You'll now receive beautiful weekly updates on trending books, and email confirmations when your bug reports are resolved by our admins.

v1.6.0

June 20, 2026

Reading is an adventure, and now your profile reflects it! We've introduced a massive gamification system to make tracking your reading habits incredibly fun.
  • ✦Level Up Your Reading (RPG Stats): You now earn Experience Points (XP) for every single page you read and every minute you listen to audiobooks. Watch your level grow on your brand-new Stats Dashboard!
  • ✦Unlock Spirit Animals: Based on your reading speed and favorite genres, the app will now award you a unique "Persona" title (like The Swift Dragon or The Steadfast Owl).
  • ✦Year-in-Review Heatmap: Added a beautiful new calendar heatmap to your profile. See exactly how many books and pages you've consumed across every month of the year.
  • ✦Reading Speed Tracker: Ever wondered how fast you read? A brand-new visual chart now tracks your personal reading velocity (pages per hour).
  • ✦Interactive Drag & Drop Tier Lists: You can now visually rank the books you've read! Sort your library into S, A, B, C, D, and DNF (Did Not Finish) tiers using an incredibly satisfying drag-and-drop interface.
  • ✦Untiered Drawer: Books you've finished but haven't ranked yet now sit conveniently in a sliding drawer right below your tier list, waiting for your final verdict.
  • ✦Reflections Journal: Highlight text while reading to save private notes to your personal "Reflections" journal, or publish them publicly as in-line community quotes for other readers to enjoy.
  • ✦Bug Reporting: Added a frictionless in-app reporting tool so you can notify us of formatting bugs, broken features, or community violations directly from the sidebar.

v1.5.0

May 12, 2026

Finding, organizing, and uploading your next great read is now easier than ever.
  • ✦AI Auto-Tagging: When you upload a book, you no longer have to manually write a synopsis. Our system will automatically read the first chapter, write a catchy description, and assign the correct genre tags (e.g., Sci-Fi, Romance).
  • ✦Bulk Folder Uploads: Have a massive offline collection on your computer? You can now drag and drop entire folders of books into the app, and it will process them all in a queue automatically.
  • ✦Flawless PDF Parser: Uploading PDFs used to result in messy text. Our brand-new smart parser automatically calculates margins, strips out annoying page numbers, and removes weird headers so the text flows beautifully.
  • ✦FB2 File Support: We added native support for FictionBook (.fb2) files, automatically extracting their embedded base64 cover images.
  • ✦Auto Cover Generation: If you upload a book that doesn't have a cover image, the app will no longer show a blank grey box. It will automatically generate a gorgeous, colorful gradient cover featuring the book's title.
  • ✦"Last Read" Quick Resume: Your homepage has a massive new upgrade. A dynamic banner now displays the book you are currently reading right at the top. One tap throws you right back into the exact sentence you left off on.
  • ✦"For You" Recommendations: Your Discovery page now features a hyper-personalized feed. We analyze your reading history and tier lists to recommend hidden gems guaranteed to hook you.

v1.4.0

April 20, 2026

We've completely overhauled the reading interface to give you total control over how your books look and feel.
  • ✦Paged vs. Scroll Mode: You now have total control. Choose between an infinite vertical scroll or a traditional horizontal page-flipping experience.
  • ✦Swipe to Turn Pages: In Paged mode, you can tap the edges of your screen or physically swipe left and right to turn pages, just like a real physical book.
  • ✦Fractional Page Precision: We completely re-engineered page-turning math. Tapping to the next page now calculates your screen width to the exact decimal, ensuring you never skip a line or see text cut in half.
  • ✦"The Story So Far" AI Recaps: Put a book down for 3 months and forgot what happened? Tap the new "Recap" button. The app will generate a spoiler-free summary of everything you've read up to your exact current chapter to refresh your memory!
  • ✦Deep Personalization: Make the reader yours. You can now change your font family (Serif, Sans, Mono), adjust line spacing (Tight to Loose), tweak font weights, and restrict the max text width so your eyes don't get tired on large monitors.
  • ✦Themes & Contrast Options: Choose between Light, Dark, or a warm Sepia theme. You can even adjust the contrast override to protect your eyes when reading in a pitch-black room.

v1.3.0

March 20, 2026

Navigating massive novels and editing your own works is now an absolute breeze.
  • ✦The Progress Scrubbing Slider: Want to jump to the middle of the book? You can now drag a visual slider at the bottom of the screen to rapidly scrub through the entire novel by percentage.
  • ✦"Undo" Jump Button: Accidentally bumped the slider and lost your place? A helpful "Undo" toast now pops up, allowing you to instantly warp back to your previous reading position.
  • ✦Smart Table of Contents: The app now automatically generates a beautiful dropdown Table of Contents for every book, allowing you to instantly warp to any chapter.
  • ✦The In-Reader Editor: Notice a typo while reading your own published story? Just tap "Edit"! The reader interface instantly transforms into a live text editor. Fix the mistake and save—no need to delete and re-upload the file!
  • ✦Notion-Style Shortcuts: While editing, you can now press "Enter" to seamlessly split paragraphs, use backspace to merge them, and type shortcuts to instantly format text.
  • ✦Auto-Detect Chapters: Formatting raw text uploads is tedious. The editor now features a smart toggle that detects plain chapter text (like "Chapter 1") and automatically turns them into beautiful, bold headers.

v1.2.0

February 9, 2026

A major update bringing true offline support and lightning-fast local performance.
  • ✦Install as a Native App (PWA): You can now tap "Add to Home Screen" on your mobile device! GooseBooks now functions as a true standalone app, loading the interface instantly even if you are totally offline.
  • ✦True Offline Reading: We integrated cutting-edge browser storage (OPFS). You can now save massive novels (millions of words) directly to your device's hard drive to read on airplanes or subways without an internet connection.
  • ✦Quick Bookmarking: We added a tiny bookmark icon to every book cover on the discovery grid. You can now save a book to your offline collection with a single tap, without having to open its details page first.
  • ✦Instant Library Loading: Reworked how our library data loads in the background. The app should now feel significantly snappier when hopping between the homepage and the search grid.
  • ✦Auto-Bookmarking on Close: Never lose your place again. Your exact reading position is now instantly saved the exact millisecond you close your browser tab or switch to another app on your phone.

v1.0.0

November 17, 2025

The launch of GooseBooks! The ultimate sanctuary for your digital library is born.
  • ✦Core Reader Experience: Enjoy a clean, distraction-free reading interface capable of handling massive web novels without lagging your phone.
  • ✦Account Syncing: Securely sign up and log in using your Email or Google account. Your library, bookmarks, and exact reading progress sync across all your devices instantly.
  • ✦Format Agnostic Uploads: Drop raw TXT, EPUB, and PDF files directly into the browser. We instantly format them into a beautiful, readable layout.
  • ✦Infinite Scroll Engine: Read seamlessly from chapter to chapter with an endless vertical scroll.
  • ✦Discovery Grid: Browse our growing catalog of community uploads with basic category filtering and sorting.