Chimahon v2.4.6

Added

• Camera OCR dictionary lookup
• Anime updates screen parity with manga, including filters and sort order
• External video player playback for anime
• Parallel anime downloads and external downloader support
• Anime extension lib 17 support
• Default anime category in library settings
• Discord rich presence for anime playback
• Edit info action on the anime details screen

Fixed

• Local EPUB books failing to open when all-files access is granted
• Novel TTU progress sync overwriting remote progress and misreading timestamps
• Anime tracking on a season not finding the series track
• Anime tracker sync not updating local episodes past the last seen one
• Anime migration, history, and search behaviour
• Anime library sort direction and unread pinning
• Tapping a search result in anime migration not applying the match
• Local anime covers not refreshing when episodes are fetched
• Subtitle position not being lowered to the bottom of the video
• Crash when changing the subtitle font in the player
• some manga extensions crashing when running JavaScript
• Extra gap at the top of the updates screen

Chimahon v2.4.5

Fixed

• Novel chapters rendering blank from publisher kobo-style script headers

Chimahon v2.4.4

Added

• Floating add button in the manga library for local imports
• Novel TTU (Google Drive) progress and statistics sync
• Novel clear database screen

Fixed

• Local manga covers not showing (uppercase extensions, missing cover fallback)
• Novel stats duplication, local book imports, and broken-book repair
• Novel library sort order not persisting across restarts
• Anime extension ABI mismatch with extensions-lib v16

Chimahon v2.4.3

Added

• Anime seasons support, tracking, and migration
• Anime feed and per-source feed with saved searches
• Mass migration for selected anime
• Anime recommendations, bulk favorite, and tracker autofill
• Anime extension lib 16 support with repo names
• System fonts for player subtitles
• Player settings parity with mpv args and deband

Changed

• Anime extension installs use the built-in downloader

Fixed

• Extension installs crashing in the background
• Subtitle font choice not applying to on-screen subtitles
• Entries without covers showing wrong cached images

Chimahon v2.4.1

Changed

• Remove default novel extension repo

Fixed

• Novel library updates crashing on Android 16
• Re-downloaded EPUB books staying invisible in library
• EPUB downloads leaving online novel unfavorited
• Novel history needing restart + wrong chapter numbers

Chimahon v2.4.0

Added

• LNRReader extensions support
• EPUB novel extensions support
• DB-first novel library/reader/history
• Paddle OCR on-device engine

Changed

• Point repo links to Chimahon org
• Bump chimahon-ffmpeg to v8.1.1.7
• Use Chimahon AniList and MAL client IDs

Fixed

• Playback order and sentence audio failing on valid videos
• Anime downloads failing on HLS and referer-locked sources
• Korean recursive lookup not triggering
• Dictionary floating button showing in screen lookup captures

Chimahon v2.3.4

Added

• Separate language filter for anime extensions and sources, independent from manga

Changed

• Player gesture settings renamed and clarified to match Anikku
• Updated mpv/ffmpeg builds with improved sentence audio and animated AVIF mining
• Clearer error details when sentence audio capture fails

Fixed

• YouTube videos stuck at low quality even when higher resolutions were available
• Dictionary floating button going off-screen after rotating the screen
• Screen lookup crop presets not producing correct crops
• Panel detection crashing while the AI model was still downloading
• Anki single-glossary options not showing sometimes
• Crash when loading cover colors in the background
• Discord presence crashing when it starts
• About screen crash when the app is backgrounded
• Picture-in-picture popups crashing when they don't fit the window

Chimahon v2.3.3

Added

• Panel-by-panel navigation with runtime AI model detection
• Dedicated OCR settings screen with categorized sections (engine, boxes, overlay, behavior, cache)
• Active text and background opacity controls for OCR overlay
• Dynamic "App" theme option for dictionary popup
• Compact glossaries layout option for dictionary popup
• Reset button in custom theme palette personalizer
• Novel reading statistics autostart setting (Off / On open / On page turn)
• Library sync button in anime library toolbar
• Category visibility controls for novels and anime in library
• selected-glossary-no-fallback marker for Anki export templates
• Tap-to-retry action for failed items in the OCR processing queue

Changed

• History tab reselect now resumes the most recently viewed media across anime and manga
• Screen lookup launch no longer triggers background library sync
• Two-finger tap OCR gesture in reader disabled by default
• Cached Anki duplicate card IDs to open and edit existing cards instantly
• Aligned OCR queue item title hierarchy with download queue items

Fixed

• OCR on download failing or getting stuck during processing, with automatic retries for failed chapters
• Subtitle lookup popup positioned above full subtitle text block in player
• Anime player subtitle swipe controls (swipe up to replay subtitle, swipe down to toggle visibility)
• Subtitle timing accuracy and seek precision in anime player
• Reader settings page now shows flash delay and scroll-flash options
• 4-side E-Ink outer border for dictionary lookup popup
• Anki return-to-app behavior after opening a card
• UI icon text overlap in Data and Storage settings screen
• SAF read-only access for animated AVIF scene mining in player
• Restored manga "Sync library" toolbar label and gated novel TTU background sync
• Excluded E-Ink mode and screen flash toggle settings from backup and sync to keep them device-local

Chimahon v2.3.2

Added

• Dictionary backup and restore via zip export/import
• Edit mpv.conf and input.conf directly from settings
• Size and opacity settings for the screen-lookup OCR capture button
• Configurable delay before the e-ink flash (manga and novel readers)
• Flash on scroll/movement for continuous readers
• Per-anime dictionary profile override (matching manga)
• Per-source dictionary profile override for anime extensions
• OCR word resolution lookup mode with per-language scan/search settings
• Clear OCR cache option on the entry three-dot menu
• Subtitle delay remembered per episode
• In-player Jimaku API key setup
• Animated AVIF scene mining for player lookup
• Strip leading French elisions in dictionary lookup variants
• Option to disable cross-screen search history

Changed

• Anime and manga updates consolidated into one screen
• OCR re-runs immediately when the OCR source switches
• Google Lens OCR results now persist
• Milliseconds shown on controls-hide delay options

Fixed

• Preferred audio language codes now validated like subtitles
• "Add" button showing both '+' icon and label
• Anime related-section divider displaying only half-width
• Spanish deinflection
• English reading order and text-line selection preserved in OCR
• Stale-subtitle flash
• Reserve space for dictionary recursive lookup tabs
• Player lifecycle hardening
• General YouTube and anime player fixes — sentence audio extraction, YouTube signed media URLs, NewPipe extractor update

Chimahon v2.3.1

Added

• OCR source selection in the reader
• Cross-screen search history
• Long-press mode switcher on Browse navbar icon
• Animated AVIF scene mining for Anki

Changed

• Enabled history tab swiping
• Reduced long-press duration for library/browse mode dropdown menus
• YouTube sentence audio mining now uses AAC transcode

Fixed

• Audio path update failing on some devices
• Novel reader incorrectly triggering image taps on unrelated space
• Fix oversized images in novel reader
• Anime downloads not respecting extension quality preferences
• OCR lookup popup crash on narrow screens
• YouTube crash on some older Android versions
• Crash when adding anime repositories
• Anime cover images not loading for some sources
• MPV certificate storage on some devices