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Follow new updates and improvements to screvi.

Jun 12

📱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

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May 23

✨ Features

  • [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.

🛠 Bugfixes & Improvements

  • [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.

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May 9

📱 Mobile Apps (iOS & Android)

  • [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

💻 Web App (app.screvi.com)

  • [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

✉️ Highlight Emails

  • “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.

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