June 14th, 2025
📲 Mobile App
[NEW] New Dark Mode Highlight Share Template
[NEW] You can now add an image to a highlight
[NEW] Improved physical book highlighting (You can now highlight directly in the photo, instead of having to physically highlight the book)
[NEW] Allow adding and editing page number of a highlight
[FIX] Fixed an issue that was preventing the correct font from rendering on Android
Make sure you update to the latest version to get all these new updates
💻 Web
[NEW] Import Highlights from PDF Files - https://app.screvi.com/integrations/pdf-import
[NEW] Manual Bulk imports - https://app.screvi.com/integrations/manual-input
[NEW] You can now add a youtube video as custom source
Updated docs at https://screvi.com/docs/
June 12th, 2025
New
Improved
📱iOS/Android
[NEW] Share Extension. Create highlights from anywhere on the web
[NEW] Share directly from Kindle mobile app
Added button to view large highlights during review
🌍 Web
[NEW] Button to open the book in the Kindle Web Reader
[NEW] You can now import Kobo highlights directly from the web, without the desktop app
Improved UI/UX on trash bin
Improved UI/UX on the highlight card actions
Highlight card now includes a “location” field (page number or kindle/kobo location)
✉️ Emails
Highlight emails now render markdown (bold, italics)
Clicking on “Open in App” now opens the mobile app directly, if installed
⬇️ Imports & 3rd party integrations
Improved highlight quality returned from “Popular Highlights”
Fixed kindle import issue for users with 200+ highlights per book
May 23rd, 2025
New
Improved
[NEW] Kobo Import via Web App
You can now import your Kobo highlights directly through the Screvi web app. Just drag and drop your Kobo database file. No desktop app required.
[NEW] Stats Page
The new stats page shows your most highlighted books, tweets and your totals across screvi.
[Web] Kobo Import Improvements
[Web] Source Page Performance Boost
Navigating your highlights by source is now noticeably faster, especially for users with hundreds of entries.
[Mobile] More Stable Physical Book Transcription
Improved the reliability of the image-to-text scanning feature for physical books, reducing crashes and failed scans.
[Mobile] Faster Feed Loading
Feeds with hundreds or thousands of highlights now load more smoothly on mobile.
[All] Better Handling of Large Imports (2K+ Highlights)
Fixed several issues that caused timeouts or partial imports when users brought in over 2,000 highlights from Readwise, Kobo, or Apple Books.
[Email] Reliable Highlight Export Emails
Fixed a bug where some users weren’t receiving their scheduled highlight emails.
May 9th, 2025
New
Improved
[NEW] Manual Highlight Modal
Redesigned the “Add Highlight” flow to make it significantly faster and easier to manually add highlights.
Upgraded React Native & Architecture
Upgraded to the latest React Native versions and architecture for improved performance and long-term stability. (Android version still pending approval on the Play Store)
Improved Delete Feedback
Added Visual feedback and improved UX when deleting highlights
App Version in Settings
You can now see the current app version directly in the Settings page.
Improved Performance on Feed and Source Views
Fixed an issue where it was possible to add a highlight on a deleted book
[NEW] Change Highlight Source
You can now update the source of any existing highlight.
[NEW] Allow Searching for a book and directly adding it to the source library
Better Manual Highlight UI
Adding a manual highlight is now cleaner and more intuitive.
Improved Edit Interface
Editing highlights and notes modals have been improved for faster, easier updates.
Improved UI when user has no highlights
Bugfix: Fixed issue where Friend invites were not working for Google/Apple Signups
“Review in App” Now Auto-Logs You In
Clicking Review in App from your email now takes you straight into the app, no login needed.
Clickable Source Titles
Source titles in highlight emails now link directly to the source in the app.
May 1st, 2025
New
Fixed
Global
New logo!
[NEW] Allow inviting friends to screvi
[NEW] Allow discarding/restoring highlights from reviews, without deleting them
[NEW] Allow setting the amount of highlights to review
Overhauled onboarding & registration page
Web app
[NEW] Added highlights reviews in the web app
improvements & bugfixes
Fixed Twitter images on review email
Added keyboard navigation to highlight review
Fixed a bug preventing favorites from being imported from readwise
Improved spaced repetition highlight algorithm
Minor UI/UX improvements & bugfixes on the web app & mobile apps