Changelog

1.0.10 11 September 2026

Built and tested on device; not yet on the web or uploaded to TestFlight or Play testing.

• Place a page by hand. Any page can be taken off the engine and arranged yourself: drag a photo anywhere, resize it from the corners, tilt it, overlap photos, and run one off the edge for a full bleed. Photos snap to the print-safe margin, to the page centre and to each other. A selected photo can be forced to Square, 4:5 or 3:2, have its corners rounded, or take a plain, Polaroid or torn-paper border. Handing the page back to the engine splits it across as many pages as it needs rather than dropping photos.
• Collage pages and page templates. A collage page holds up to twelve photos, far more than the engine places on its own, as a Grid, a Mosaic or a Scatter, with Shuffle for another arrangement of the same photos. Templates lay out a page to a set design.
• A library of books, not just the last one. Every book you make is kept and listed under Your photo books, so starting a second no longer overwrites the first. A book can be saved to a file and opened again later, and sent straight to another device.
• Make a photo book in a browser. Hand over a whole folder — or any set of photos — and the same curation the phone does runs on your own machine: faces, sharpness and exposure, near-identical bursts folded down to their best shot, people balanced against places. Nothing is uploaded. Picking the same folder again is close to instant, since the scores are remembered. Reading a photo album and your favourites are still the parts that need the phone app.
• Change the book itself while you edit. Binding and size can be changed from inside the editor — the pages re-flow to the new shape, and pages you arranged by hand stay as you left them.
• Fixed on iPhone: albums now actually work. The album reader and the on-device photo analysis were never being loaded, so building a book from an album was slow and no photo was ever scored for what was in it. Anyone on an earlier iPhone build should update.
• Fixed: only three of the eight hardcover sizes could be seen when choosing a book — the rest were off the edge of the screen. Every size for a binding is now shown at once, with its dimensions.
• Fixed: To page… and Remove were off the right-hand edge of the toolbar under a selected photo on a phone, so a photo could not be removed. The toolbar wraps now.
• Large folders no longer run the browser out of memory part-way through building a book.

1.0.9 7 September 2026

On the web now; uploaded to Android internal/alpha testing and to TestFlight processing on iOS, not yet promoted to either store's production track.

• The photo book editor is now a full build/edit/modify workflow, not just page-by-page swaps: three densities (Roomy, Balanced, Full) to change how many photos share a page, with a live page count; insert, delete, move, split and merge pages; a caption under any page; chapter title pages the engine adds automatically for a multi-day book, or you add and edit yourself; redo alongside undo; a cover that can sit inside the page instead of bleeding to the edge, with the title positioned at the top, middle or bottom; and a photo picker with three sources when adding or swapping a photo — the ones the engine passed over, the rest of the source album, or anywhere else on the phone.
• A promo code field at photo book checkout.

Unreleased

In development — not on any store track yet.

• Place a book page by hand. Any page can be taken over from the engine: drag a photo anywhere on the page, resize it from the corners, tilt it, and overlap photos as you like. The 10mm print-safe margin is drawn as a guide and photos snap to it, to the page centre and to each other — or run off the edge deliberately for a full-bleed page. Switching moves nothing: you start from the arrangement the engine made. Handing a page back to the engine splits it across as many pages as it needs rather than dropping photos.
• Photo shapes. A hand-placed photo can be forced to square, 4:5 or 3:2 instead of its own proportions, given rounded corners, or given a border — a plain edge, a Polaroid margin, or torn paper. The same shapes the collage editor has always had, drawn by the same code, so the preview and the printed page match.
• Photo books work on a computer now. The web version used to lay chosen photos out one per slide and could not make a book at all. Choose your photos and it curates them the same way the phone does — faces, sharpness and exposure, near-identical bursts folded together, people balanced against places — then lays out the book and opens the editor. It all happens on your own machine, and fast enough to hand it a whole shoot: a folder of 500 full-size camera JPEGs is about half a minute, where it used to be seven and a half. Reading a photo album, and reading which photos you favourited, still need the phone app.
• Every book is kept, and books can move between devices. Books used to share a single slot, so starting a new one silently replaced the last; each now has its own entry under Your photo books, where it can be reopened, renamed or deleted. A book can also be sent to another device as a one-use encrypted link, or saved as a file with its photos inside — no size limit, no expiry, and the only thing that survives a browser clearing its storage. Importing a book adds it alongside what you have rather than replacing anything.
• Favourited photos always make the book. A photo you starred in your phone's own photo app is treated as an instruction, not a hint: every favourite in the album goes in before the engine picks anything else, the best of them becomes the cover, and a favourite always survives when a burst of near-identical shots is collapsed. Star more than the book holds and it says how many didn't fit rather than losing them quietly. Favourites are marked with a star in the photo picker. Needs Android 11 or newer, or iOS.
• Collage pages. Up to twelve photos on one page, well past the four the engine will place on its own, arranged as a grid, justified mosaic, or a tilted overlapping scatter, with a shuffle for a different take on the same photos. It leaves an ordinary hand-placed page behind, so anything can be nudged afterwards.

1.0.8 5 September 2026

On the web now — the iOS, Android and desktop apps still carry 1.0.6. The photo-book parts need the Android or iPhone app.

• A start screen: continue your last board, build a photo album, start from a template, or continue a saved book. Turn it off there; File → Start screen brings it back.
• Photo books. Pick a hardcover, softcover or layflat book in A4, Letter, A5 or square; the engine picks the photos from an album and arranges them — by day, by date or shuffled — into pages that keep each photo's own proportions. A page-by-page editor to swap, crop, move and remove photos, flip layouts, and title the cover. Saves as you go. How it works. Ordering runs in test mode; books are not on sale yet.
• Album scanning on a phone with a large library is now seconds, not minutes; analysis resumes where it stopped if you leave, and the screen stays on while it runs.
• Photos placed on a slide or a book page are now read at full resolution rather than from the phone's small cached thumbnail.

1.0.7 3 September 2026

Web only at the time; superseded by 1.0.8 above.

• Eight new one-tap starting points for an occasion — weddings, baby showers, milestone birthdays and anniversaries — in the Decorate tab under Templates. Each drops a decorated board with your message already set; everything on it is editable afterwards.
• Eight matching themes (Just Married, Ivory & Linen, Oh Baby!, Welcome Baby, The Big One, Decades, Years Together, Our Story), usable as a background for any set of party photos, at any slide count.
• Decorated boards are no longer buried in Advanced — Scenes now appear in Simple mode too, and both modes say plainly what turning Simple off adds.
• Account & unlock is now reachable on the web editor, not just the desktop app. If you bought the unlock on iPhone or Android, you can link that phone and use it here — how to do that.

1.0.6 2 September 2026

• Works offline: the background-removal model is now bundled inside the iOS app as well as Android, and the app's typefaces are self-hosted, so a cut-out or an export with no signal no longer silently falls back to a system font.
• Cut-out on a photo with no isolable subject (a landscape, a flat scene) used to replace it with a near-blank sticker; it now leaves the photo alone and says why.
• Desktop: a completed purchase unlocks automatically instead of needing a manual Refresh; the app icon and version shown by the Mac app are correct.
• Web: installable as an app from the browser, with an offline shell for the editor.
• New guides: carousel sizes, seamless carousels, panorama splitting, LinkedIn and TikTok.

1.0.5 31 August 2026

• Send a project to another device by QR code or link. It's encrypted on your device first; the key travels only in the link and the copy on our server is deleted on first open or after an hour, whichever comes first.
• Desktop app for macOS, with the watermark-free unlock bought through Stripe.
• Optional account, by emailed sign-in link (no password), so one purchase can work on several devices; link a phone to it by scanning a QR code. Never required.
• A proper home page at framescrll.com; the editor moved to /app.

1.0.4 23 August 2026

• Simple mode: a switch that shows just Photos, Text and Export, hiding the advanced tools until you want them.

1.0.3 21 August 2026

• Fixed the feed preview overflowing on phones.
• Android closed testing opened.

1.0.2 20 August 2026

• Smaller, optimised Android build; the watermark-free unlock went live in both stores at $4.99; first iOS build in TestFlight.

1.0.1 18–19 August 2026

• Sharper exports: photos are rendered with stepped downscaling so slides no longer come out soft, and RAW photos from the album no longer break import.
• Photos are imported one at a time and downscaled, which fixed crashes with large libraries.
• Gap control for collages; canvas no longer jumps when a layer is tapped; Android navigation bar hides with swipe-to-reveal.
• Touch-usable canvas, undo that restores the whole project, a real Back button, and a first-run tour that says what the app actually does.

1.0.0 4–17 August 2026

• First release: one wide canvas sliced into Instagram-ready slides, with photos, text, stickers, paint, backgrounds, frames and filters as layers.
• Auto collage (mosaic, scatter, pile), face-aware cropping, panorama stitching from overlapping shots, and album auto-select on Android.
• MP4 export — pan across the strip or hold on each slide — with a seamless loop option.
• The "Paper & Ink" look and the Framescrll mark; free exports carry a small watermark, removed by a one-time in-app purchase.