1.5.4
2023-07-25
To all speed readers:
This release only includes a new statup screen and App Store screenshots
Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the app!
Remember you can always get in touch at help.chapps@gmail.com. If you like the app, please write a review!
Have some great readings ;)
1.5.3
2023-07-23
To all speed readers:
This release includes a few bugfixes:
[-] Fixes a small bug in the font selection settings
[-] Fixes a bug with dark mode
Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the app!
Remember you can always get in touch at help.chapps@gmail.com. If you like the app, please write a review!
Have some great readings ;)
1.5.2
2022-09-09
To all speed readers:
This release includes a few bugfixes:
[-] Fixes a bug causing the app to crash when sent to background
[-] Fixes a new bug with dark mode in the reader settings
Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the app!
Remember you can always get in touch at help.chapps@gmail.com.
Have some great readings ;)
1.5.1
2020-09-16
To all speed readers:
This release includes a few minor changes:
[-] Fixes a bug with dark mode in the settings
[+] Adds some minor improvements here and there
[+] Makes sure everything works fine with the upcoming iOS 14 release
Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy the app! Remember you can always get in touch at help.chapps@gmail.com.
Have some great readings ;)
1.5.0
2020-07-12
Hi speed readers!
Hope you’re doing well and learning a lot of useful stuff faster ;)
[+] To further improve your performance, we’re adding full support for multiple words display, up to 5 words at a time.
[+] We’re also improving the behaviour of the speed reader, by re-sizing the text if it is too long, but only if necessary.
[-] We had a new issue fixed, a crash occurring when selecting where to start reading from.
[-] Finally we’re fixing an issue happening with a rather common caching system used in web pages (AMP). Now the app should import such pages seamlessly!
As always, thank you a lot for your support.
Have some great readings!
PS: you can get in touch shall you have any feature request, bug report or even if you just want to say hello by writing to help.chapps@gmail.com!
1.4.3
2020-06-17
Dear readers,
We're fixing a few bugs and marginally improving the app in this release.
Feel free to reach out to us (help.chapps@gmail.com). We're eager to get your feature requests!
Take care
1.4.2
2020-05-16
Dear readers,
We're introducing a new plan management page, where you can easily check you plan status and manage it!
Feel free to reach out to us (help.chapps@gmail.com). We're always happy to hear from you!
Take care
1.4.1
2020-04-26
Dear Avid readers,
This release fixes a few minor bugs.
As always, you can reach out to me at help.chapps@gmail.com.
Good reading!
1.4.0
2020-03-25
Dear Avid readers,
This release removes the optimisations for the word positioning due to a patent owned by another company. Don’t despair though, we’ll come up with new ways for letting you read even faster! Check out the news section inside the app for details.
As always, you can reach out to me at help.chapps@gmail.com.
Stay strong and safe in these difficult times.
1.3.0
2019-11-13
Hello avid readers,
We've re-branded the app to a new fancy name: UpRead. The style of the app has been improved a lot.
Here is the full list of changes:
- New branding
- New polished design
- iOS 13 Dark mode
- More color themes with an improved picker
- Fixed a bug in the import recovery process that was preventing from importing web articles with an unsafe https connection (nerd stuff)
- Improved the design of the Share extension and made it much easier to use
- Improved localisations
- Improved payment screen
- Making web articles import much more robust
As usual: thank you very much for your support!
Enjoy your reading,
Alain
1.2.0
2019-09-19
Hello my friends.
I’m working hard on Blast and will be doing that in the upcoming month or so. This release includes the first big bunch of news.
Here is the usual list:
- New “focus” mode. You can enable a focus point that helps preventing eye movements while reading and results in a nice increase of speed.
- Much, much better import of web articles. Blast now supports articles behind a paywall (only if you are a subscriber and import from Safari). It is faster and much more robust when things don't go as expected.
- Import from the News app and many more sources.
- Improved onboarding. If you're updating from a previous version, you may not see this. I've improved the onboarding process for new users. This is something many of you reported to be an issue. Thank you for letting me know.
- Full online documentation. Tapping "How does it work" inside the app brings you to a documentation website I created. From there you can reach to me or access the documentation for the most common issues and workarounds.
- Improved settings: you can now set your custom min and max reading speed. That makes tweaking it much easier and gives you full control.
- Improved color themes: yes, the ones included in the original version were terrible. I've added just 4 themes now and they finally look great imho.
- Much better support for recovering web articles errors. Whenever the app thinks there is something wrong it will guide you trough a simple recovery process.
- Fixed prices for the old subscription. It was 5$ cheaper than intended and still available for purchase. If you took advantage of that I will never find out so well done. Now that is fixed and all subscription prices are consistent.
That's it. Of course there was quite a lot of performance improvement and bug fixing. That should go without saying.
As usual, if you like the app, write a review. It makes my day.
Enjoy your reading
1.1.0
2019-07-18
Hello readers!
We're finally releasing this much needed update. What's new:
- Improved handling of web articles. It is now more reliable and supports a much bigger set of websites. Downsides? Yep, we admit it now takes a couple seconds more to complete an import. Not a big difference but we love transparency :)
- Made pdf and txt files import more robust too and tested it with massive files (up to 1000 pages and tens of MBs). The pdf files must contain text. They may also contain images, but Blast won't be able to extract text from them (not yet at least)
- Added a new settings menu.
- Made instructions clearer and richer
- Made it easier to contact us if some article has parsing issues
- Removed the “review us” button from the bottom bar. You were right, it was annoying and not nice, sorry about that!
- Introduced AUTO-PLAY mode! Double tap the read button to start, tap again anywhere to stop. Isn't it cool?
Final note: we're now switching to the standard prices. The launch offer has been now deprecated, but do not despair!
We're introducing 3 options:
- A new weekly option for whoever doesn't like long commitments
- A classic yearly option with a competitive price
- A lifetime option without any recurring payments, as some of you requested
For anyone having the propotional yearly plan: you can keep it as long as you like! Price won't change and you'll be able to renew when it expires at the same price. If you cancel you must join one of the new plans tho.
Thank you very much to all the subscribers and to anybody giving us feedback. It has been super useful! You're amazing. Keep the good feedback and feature requests coming, we appreciate them.
Cheers
1.0.5
2019-06-10
Hi fast readers!
We're finally ready to release Blast! This update includes the very first complete version of the app. Hurray!
Let us know if you like the app ;)
1.0.1
2019-04-16
This release includes some minor improvements and bugfixes. We're working hard to add all the promised features before the official release. Stay tuned!