** New **
- Improved sentence tokenization - This provides a much more smoother and natural reading experience
- Sentences are now also highlighted with TTS is used .This allows for better focus without being lost on the page when TTS is playing

**  Fixes **
- Fixed a bug with TTS that resulted in unresponsive touch when toggling overlay controls

** New **
- Improved sentence tokenization - This provides a much more smoother and natural reading experience
- Sentences are now also highlighted with TTS is used .This allows for better focus without being lost on the page when TTS is playing

**  Fixes **
- Fixed a bug with TTS that resulted in unresponsive touch when toggling overlay controls

New

- Updated the TTS and Media Overlay reading experience for a smoother UI. Quickly choose a voice, adjust playback speed, and skip forward or back by sentence.
- Superscript footnotes are now excluded during TTS playback.
- Added support for inline EPUB footnotes. Simply tap to view them.

Fixes

- Fixed an issue where HTML/code could appear in book descriptions for some books.
- Fixed highlight positioning in certain PDFs where highlights were previously displayed incorrectly.

New

- Updated the TTS and Media Overlay reading experience for a smoother UI. Quickly choose a voice, adjust playback speed, and skip forward or back by sentence.
- Superscript footnotes are now excluded during TTS playback.
- Added support for inline EPUB footnotes. Simply tap to view them.

Fixes

- Fixed an issue where HTML/code could appear in book descriptions for some books.
- Fixed highlight positioning in certain PDFs where highlights were previously displayed incorrectly.

** New **
- Realistic TTS Voices -  Advanced and Power users now get unlimited streaming of our newly released realistic TTS voices
- TTS Voice Previews - You can now preview TTS voices before setting them as your default voice

** Fixes **
- Fixed oversized math formulas in some books
- Fixed text truncation in some vertical writing books
- Empty tags no longer appear

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.

** New **
- Realistic TTS Voices -  Advanced and Power users now get unlimited streaming of our newly released realistic TTS voices
- TTS Voice Previews - You can now preview TTS voices before setting them as your default voice

** Fixes **
- Fixed oversized math formulas in some books
- Fixed text truncation in some vertical writing books
- Empty tags no longer appear

* New: Realistic TTS for eBooks/articles. Advanced & Power: unlimited streaming on Android/Web/iOS. All plans: download select offline voices via BookFusion Voice (varies).
* New: BookFusion Voice integration on Android (offline TTS; 100+ voices, 38+ languages).
* New: Seekbar navigation keeps progress in back stack.
* Fix: Open Highlight/Note from Search Results (Android).
* Fix: Blank voice picker on devices without system TTS.
* Fix: TTS rewind position + backward page navigation.

** Updates **
* Widget fixes - This improves performance and makes widgets more reliable
* Polish & Spanish translation fixes
* Improved comic book handling to now show the appropriate error for invalid comic books
* Replace Files -  We improved the handling of book updates to make this more seamless

- Polish Localization - The iOS app has now been localized in Polish. Please reach out to us at support@bookfusion.com if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.

- Spanish Localization  Fixes -  We corrected a few errors with the Spanish localizations

Would you like to see your language supported? Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** New **

- Metadata updates - You can now see and edit Publisher and the Publication date.

- Spanish Localization - The iOS app has now been localized to Spanish. Please reach out to us at support@bookfusion.com if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.
Would you like to see your language supported? Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** Fixes **

- Fixed an issue on the Highlight Discussion screen when typing messages in Korean
- Improved rendering of PDF books in Dark Mode

** New **

- Metadata updates - You can now see and edit Publisher and the Publication date.

- Spanish Localization - The iOS app has now been localized to Spanish. Please reach out to us at support@bookfusion.com if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.
Would you like to see your language supported? Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** Fixes **

- Fixed an issue on the Highlight Discussion screen when typing messages in Korean
- Improved rendering of PDF books in Dark Mode

** New **
 
- Metadata updates - You can now see and edit Publisher and the Publication date. 
 
- Spanish Localization - The iOS app has now been localized to Spanish. Please reach out to us at support@bookfusion.com if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.
Would you like to see your language supported? Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** Fixes **

- Fixed an issue on the Highlight Discussion screen when typing messages in Korean
- Improved rendering of PDF books in Dark Mode

* Fixed a crash during text-to-speech (TTS) playback in PDF books
* Fixed incorrect play button state in the PDF reader
* Fixed an empty screen issue when opening malformed EPUB files

* Fixed a crash during text-to-speech (TTS) playback in PDF books
* Fixed incorrect play button state in the PDF reader
* Fixed an empty screen issue when opening malformed EPUB files

** New **

- BookFusion Browser Extension (Beta): Save, highlight, and sync web articles to BookFusion as rich EPUBs—complete with images, audio, video, and seamless reading across your devices.

** Improvements & Fixes **

- Better Text-to-Speech: Added a natural-language tokenizer for more accurate sentence detection, fewer awkward pauses, and improved handling of hyphenated words in PDFs.
- Fixed Layout EPUBs: Resolved an issue where the reader controls didn’t reappear after tapping an image.

** CarPlay Support - Vroom Vroom! **

We now support our first native version of CarPlay. With CarPlay you can:
- Control audio playback (play, pause, fast forward, rewind) directly from your CarPlay screen—no need to touch your phone
- Play your downloaded books hands-free for a more focused, distraction-free drive
- Easily change playback speed right from CarPlay

** Player improvements **

- Added a small pause between TTS sentences for more natural listening
- Fixed skip forward / back so it behaves exactly as expected
- Now Playing shows the book’s author, so you always know whose work you’re listening to

** Better experience for vertical writing **

- Improved support for vertical writing
- Ruby annotations are now skipped in Search, TTS, Copy, and the Highlights list so you get cleaner text and results

** General Fixes **
- Fixed proper book opening from the widget.
- Fixed an issue where the same text couldn’t be selected in the PDF reader.
- Fixed a crash on iOS 12 in the EPUB reader.
- Prevented text from previous pages from playing during TTS.
- Fixed a white flash that occurred when opening a book in dark mode.
- Improved continuous playback for TTS and Media Overlay players.
- Fixed a rare crash during TTS in EPUB books.

** Vertical Writing Fixes **
- Added support for horizontal chapters in EPUB books with a vertical primary writing mode.
- Prevented RTL layout for horizontal text (bookmarks, TOC) in Japanese books.
- Fixed images that were split across two pages.
- Ignored ruby annotations during TTS.
- Improved ruby annotation formatting in the highlights list and when copying (wrapped pronunciation in parentheses).

** New **

- Portuguese (Brazil) Localization:  The iOS app has now been localized to Portuguese (Brazil) thanks to one of our readers. Please reach out to us at support@bookfusion.com if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.  Would you like to see your language supported? Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** EPUB Vertical Writing Improvements **

- Apply correct writing mode for some Japanese books
- Return back vertical scroll for horizontal Chinese books
- Added Link preview for vertical writing books
- Fixed Horizontal writing chapter truncation in vertical writing books
- Terminal punctuation symbol position in Japanese books

** Other Fixes **
- Fix crash in PDF after touching link without page attached

** New **
- Added support for horizontal margins in vertical writing books
- Added “Next Page” and “Previous Page” tap zone actions, now independent of reading direction

** Fixes **
- Fixed image truncation in vertical writing books
- Fixed “Left Page” and “Right Page” tap zone actions in vertical writing
- Fixed TTS for Japanese books
- Fixed issue causing infinite TTS playback on the last sentence of a chapter
- Now when audio playback finishes, the next audio starts automatically instead of pausing in reflowable EPUBs
- Fixed EPUB 3 Media Overlays (Audio) in Multi-Column Mode
- Improved positioning of the translation popover on iPad
- Improved “Join Library” flow — now shows an error if the library cannot be joined

** New **
- Sort reviews by Date Added, Title, Author or Rating
- Expired book indicator now appears in Reviews and Highlights
- Better detection of media-overlay fragments so the Play button is available when starting audio from a selected passage

** Fixes & Improvements  **

-  Fixed text selection in PDFs with OCR
-  Don't override background in EPUBs with default color when only text color was changed
-  Correct spread layout for RTL in fixed-layout EPUBs
-  You can now remove a rating or submit an empty comment in a review
-  Fixed a crash when filtering reviews while offline or not signed in
-  Fixed incorrect hex color value in color picker. After changing color for highlight by typing hex color value in color picker. And when we opened the color picker again for this highlight hex color was different
-  Fix when adding book with series. Series was not saved
-  Arabic and other RTL UI layout refinements
-  Fixed an issue in certain invalid EPUB 3 files where two chapters share one audio track and the next chapter resumes from already-played time

** New **

- Native PDF Comments :  Native PDF comments will now be displayed in a popup inside the app when tapped.

- Support for Kotatsu Index metadata: You will now have TOC and other enhanced metada for comic books that uses Kotatsu metada.

- Arabic Localization - The iOS app has now been localized to Arabic thanks to one of our readers. Please reach out to us at support if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.

Would you like to see your language supported?  Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** Fixes & Updates **

- Fix incorrect page offset of EPUB RTL books
- Fix reader controls appearance in fixed EPUBs in iOS 12

** New **

- Native PDF Comments :  Native PDF comments will now be displayed in a popup inside the app when tapped.

- Support for Kotatsu Index metadata: You will now have TOC and other enhanced metada for comic books that uses Kotatsu metada.

- Arabic Localization - The iOS app has now been localized to Arabic thanks to one of our readers. Please reach out to us at support if you notice any issues with the translation or layout of the app.

Would you like to see your language supported?  Reach out to us to have the app localized in your language as well

** Fixes & Updates **

- Fix incorrect page offset of EPUB RTL books
- Fix reader controls appearance in fixed EPUBs in iOS 12

** New **

- Natural Image Colors in Dark Mode for PDFs (Experimental)  - The natural colors when reading PDFs in dark mode will now be retained for images once enabled. This will now prevent images from being inverted .  To enable this open BookFusion app then do the following:  Open the Menu -> Settings -> Advanced Settings ->  Dark Mode  and then select Simple (fast) or Smart (slow)

If you have properly structured PDFs you will have great results with Simple (fast).  For the better results  when the PDF might not be ideal and there are artifacts or background in the image then you want to set your settings to Smart(slow). Smart(slow) does additional image processing to try and exclude image backgrounds to cover cases when images in the PDFs might not be ideally structured.

-  PDF images list -  Similar to our image gallery and navigation feature that was released for EPUBs. You can now browse and navigate to images using the gallery view inside the reader.

- Preserve Zoom Level in Pagination Mode ( Supported with PDFs, Comic Books & Fixed Layout EPUBs) - Now you can easily and comfortably read between pages and without being required to readjust the zoom level when you move to the next page.  You can enable or disable this by opening Reader Settings -> Advanced -> Scale -> Preserve zoom between pages

- Fill Width Scaling  (Supported with PDFs, Comic Books & Fixed Layout EPUBs) - You can now easily scale documents to do full width for a better reading experience. You can do this by going to Reader Settings -> Advanced -> Scale -> Fill Width

- PDF Page Labels Support -  Support for PDF labels has been added.

** Fixes & Improvements **

- Show images in real size in reflowable epubs, scale them only if they exceed the screen size
- Fix iOS 26 jump in iPad after click on a screen
- Preserve audio player speed after system interruption in background
- Fix rendering bug with some PDFs

** New **

- Highlight Color Filter on Bookshelf – Filter your highlights by color directly from the bookshelf on the highlight tab.

- Copy Function Customization – Choose how text is copied:
- - Only Quote: Copies just the selected text.
- - Rich: Copies the text plus book title, author, and highlight link. Configure this in Menu → Settings → Advanced.

- Enhanced Quote Copy – When using Rich mode, copied quotes now automatically include the book title, author, and highlight link.

** Fixes & Improvements **

- Copying a quote now correctly includes the highlight link instead of linking to the quote itself.
- Fixed a crash that occurred after modifying a book or highlight.
- Advanced settings can now be changed directly in the app (Menu → Settings → Advanced) without going into device settings.

** Fixes and Improvements **

- Sharing or copying highlights now includes book title, author and highlight URL . The highlight URL allows you to quickly go to the highlight inside the book
- Fix issue where images were split across two pages
- Resolved empty page issue in some PDFs
- Fix truncated page width in EPUBd in iOS 26

** New **

- Filter Highlights by Tags in Reader:  You can now easily filter highlights by tags inside the reader. Quickly find and review the exact highlight you are looking for.
- Enhanced Friend/Family Book Details Screen: Tappable tags, categories, authors, and series are now available when Browse friends' bookshelves, making it easier to explore and borrow books.
- Font and Metadata Support: Added support for Adobe Font Obfuscation and Kobobooks metadata.

** Fixes **

- Resolved issues with skipped audio overlays in background
- Fix flash in dark mode in EPUBs
- Fix iOS 26 crash during text selection
- Fix empty pages and crash in PDF reader