- Improved snapshot reliability and fixed intermittent issues.
- Rewrote user feedback in KMP, removing the React Native dependency to reduce app launch time.
- Fixed unnecessary consecutive line breaks in WeChat Official Account articles.
- Minor improvements.
Slax Reader · Release Notes
Every version, in one place.
20 releases across mobile apps, web, and extensions. The latest is v1.0.12, shipped May 12, 2026.
- Minor improvements.
- Minor improvements.
- Less intrusive extension UI that stays out of page content.
- Minor improvements.
- Major UX overhaul for the extension sidebar.
- Refines the highlight-and-comment flow.
- Adds highlight & comment on Android.
- Improves highlight & comment performance on iOS.
- Adds highlight & comment.
- Improves web page loading experience.
- New UX for the mini entry point.
- Outline generates automatically when opening the original article.
- Clicking the mini entry now expands the Outline directly.
- Adds quick switching between Inbox, Starred, and Read lists on the home page.
- Improves list state tracking and list switching, with polished empty states and swipe interactions.
- Resets image display state to default on the detail page — state is no longer persisted.
- Refines the home page type menu, cell icons, download status icon, and the swipe actions for starred/read items.
- Article detail now remembers and restores your reading position, with faster navigation.
- Refines the Outline interaction and adds a delete action on the detail page, including an experimental delete animation.
- Adds background image caching with new Settings options for cache size and whether to cache images.
- Supports Twitter quote rendering and improves line-wrapping for images that carry outgoing links.
- Fixes Outline anchor positioning issues in certain articles.
- Switches the AI model from GPT-4o to Gemini 3 Flash.
- Improves mind-map node rendering.
- Improves photo-saving reliability and overall app stability.
- Minor UI refinements across several screens.
- Rebuilds the login flow.
- Adds GTAG analytics across the app.
- Adds an onboarding screen to the bookmark list.
- Full GTAG analytics integration.
- Improves the user feedback flow.
- Icon refinements.
- Improves SEO metadata and structured data.
- Adds pricing and contact pages on the home site.
- Social-media fetching now supports Xiaohongshu, Twitter, Reddit, Weibo, and WeChat Official Accounts.
- Migrates the RN UI layer to the new architecture.
- Fully rebuilds detail-page calls for better performance.
- Raises the minimum iOS version to 15.1 and Android
minSdkto 26. - Adds feedback entry points in the sidebar and article view.
- Improves several i18n strings.
- Adds Sign in with Apple on the web.
- Adds a download page and a Blog nav link on the home site.
- Improves subscription details on the profile page.
- Adds
hreflangand related language SEO on the home site. - Improves highlight rendering on the share page.
- Polishes the KOC invitation entry.
- Improves Outline parsing and icons.
- Adds empty-content and network-error placeholders on the detail page.
- Stops caching empty articles, adapts to new PowerSync WebSocket rules, and updates dependencies.
- Improves dependency consistency and overall stability.
- Account & sync
- Sign in with Google or Apple.
- Local-first sync for your list.
- PowerSync connection and offline state handling.
- Content & caching
- View article content and tags.
- Share to save on iOS and Android.
- Auto-caches articles from the last 3 days.
- Detail page
- Native detail pages on both platforms for smoother reading and scrolling.
- Tap images to zoom.
- Star and archive from the detail page.
- Manage tags — add, delete, and create.
- Tap to toggle the top bar.
- iOS-native enter/exit animations for the detail view.
- Home & navigation
- Long-press and swipe menus on the home page.
- New sidebar with a sign-out entry.
- Adds KOC promotion pages (e.g.
https://r.slax.com/daguang-reader).
- Adds a comments list.
- Adds article summaries.
- Improves the toolbar on original pages and underline styles in articles.
- Sidebar toggle with keyboard shortcut:
Ctrl + Shift + Z. - Extension adds multi-tag support.