2.4.1

🎉 v2.4.1

A redesigned tag-based library, more ways to act on chapters, and storage/backup data-safety fixes.

• 🏷️ New tag-based library experience — An optional redesigned library built on tags instead of fixed sections. Filter by one or many tags (Any/All), sort by 12 options, and manage tags — create, rename, recolour and delete — from a dedicated Library Tags screen. Your existing sections are migrated to coloured tags automatically, and the classic library stays available: toggle it from Settings → Appearance → General.
• 🔲 Adjustable library grid — Choose how many cover columns the library grid shows (1–4, default 2) from Settings → Appearance. The sort popup is now a pair of compact dropdowns, and covers refresh with a non-blocking progress strip so you can keep browsing while a sync runs.
• 📤 Share a link to add it to your library — Share a supported novel URL to NovelLibrary and it opens that novel's details ready to add.
• 🖼️ Refresh library covers — A new action re-fetches every cover image, clearing the cache so covers update even when the image changed behind an unchanged URL.
• ⬇️ Auto-download new chapters on update — Optionally download newly found chapters automatically whenever the library updates.
• 👉 Swipe chapters to act — Swipe a chapter right to toggle read/unread, or left to toggle the bookmark — each with an Undo snackbar.
• 🔊 Volume keys switch chapters at the edges — With volume-key scrolling on, volume-up at the top of a chapter jumps to the previous chapter and volume-down at the bottom jumps to the next; elsewhere they scroll as before.
• 🛡️ Manual Cloudflare verification where it was missing — Novel-details and reader-mode fetches that hit a Cloudflare challenge now open the manual verification on the correct gated URL instead of failing silently or opening the wrong site.
• ⚡ Faster library sync — Library updates now fetch novels in parallel with per-domain throttling, so a full sync finishes noticeably faster.
• 🗂️ Storage migration only moves your novels — Switching the download location no longer relocates and deletes non-novel folders (voice models, app data) that sit beside your novel downloads. Folders that aren't novels are now left in place, and the result tells you how many were skipped.
• 💾 Backups include downloaded chapters from the SD card — A "backup with chapters" now reads from your active download location, so moving downloads to the SD card no longer silently leaves the chapters out of the backup.
• 🔤 Font picker no longer crashes on a missing font — A per-novel font whose file was removed or lives on unavailable storage now falls back to the default instead of crashing the font dialog.

🎉 v2.4.0

Offline reading that stays put, a tap-to-open reader, and reliable RoyalRoad loading.

• 📶 Downloaded chapters stay visible offline — Opening a novel with no connection no longer hides your list. Downloaded chapters are served straight from the device, and the app falls back to them if a refresh can't reach the network — so your offline library is always there.
• 👆 Tap the screen to open the reader menu — Tap anywhere in the reading area to toggle the reader menu — no more hunting for the floating button (now hidden). Taps on links, images and text selection keep working as before, and the system bars reveal alongside the reader bars.
• 🛡️ RoyalRoad loads reliably again — RoyalRoad's new JavaScript anti-bot check broke chapter loading. RoyalRoad now always routes through the in-app browser fetcher, which runs the verification like a real browser, so chapters load again.
• 📱 App icon resumes where you left off — Tapping the app icon now returns to whatever you had open (such as the reader) instead of dropping you back on the main screen.
• 🔊 Cleaner TTS notification behaviour — Tapping the text-to-speech notification no longer stacks duplicate reader and controls screens — it reuses the one already open.
• 🗓️ Accurate "Last Updated" after a refresh — Refreshing a single novel now updates its Last Updated date, matching the behaviour of a full category sync.
• 🐛 Fewer false error reports — Cancelling a fetch (for example during Cloudflare verification or a screen rotation) no longer shows a spurious error prompting you to report a non-bug.
• 📜 Chapter-list scrollbar restored — The vertical scrollbar is back in the chapter list.