v3.1.3

🐛 Fixed

• The app no longer crashes when you open a chapter or episode from a title, or switch to another app while a title is open.

Tip

If you are unsure which version to download, use katari-v3.1.3.apk.

desktop-v1.0.0-beta.8

✨ Added

• Settings › Advanced has a WebView engine page that shows, downloads and removes Chromium.

🔄 Changed

• The AppImage no longer carries Chromium. The first source that needs WebView asks to download Chromium once, and a source that needed it before then says so in the Library and in a notification.
• A double-click switches full screen without pausing the video, in the player and in feed clips.

🧩 Improved

• In the subtitle editor, you drag subtitles by their lines or move them with the arrow keys, they snap to guides, and a position grid has a Recenter button.
• Pressing E, ? or S again closes the episode list, the shortcut list or the manga reader's area selection.
• The app's icon shows from launch until the window opens.
• WebView pages send the platform and browser hints that match their user agent, so sites ask less often to prove you're human.

🐛 Fixed

• Previous and Next over a video now dim while another episode opens.
• A stream with separate audio shows loading until its audio is in, instead of a still picture, and its subtitles no longer delay the start.
• WebView starts again after Chromium fails to start or stops, instead of staying unavailable until the app restarts.

Chromium 150.0.14.1233-9df0879ddc3d for Katari's desktop app (web view download)

Not an app release. Chromium for x86_64 Linux as JetBrains builds it for the JCEF of the JetBrains Runtime, unchanged, packed from the runtime Katari's desktop app runs on by :desktop:assembleChromiumArchive. Its licences are in the archive's LICENSES folder.

Katari's desktop app downloads it from here when a web view is first needed and checks it against the checksum it was built with.

SHA-256: a972b57e17cd82025961a0d9965b660aaaf9e52e89c74b2ce156bfb22af6d72e

v3.1.2

🔄 Changed

• The immersive feed no longer saves progress or adds to History.

🧩 Improved

• Tablets, foldables and phones in landscape open sheets at the side of the window you pressed, each with a close button.
• In large windows, short choices such as the profile switcher open beside their button, and side sheets lay out their rows in two columns.
• The immersive feed shows a loading title's cover and name, loads the next two titles ahead, and offers Next title when media fails to load.
• Extension filter pills open the filter, and the filter can search languages.
• The player's skip button stays readable over dark credits.

🐛 Fixed

• With mpv, a video paused for several minutes no longer drops frames shortly after it resumes.

Tip

If you are unsure which version to download, use katari-v3.1.2.apk.

v3.1.1

✨ Added

• History names the other device a title was last read on.

🔄 Changed

• Background sync runs every 30 minutes unless you pick another interval.

🧩 Improved

• Changes reach your other devices closely to real-time instead of after a pause of several seconds.
• The sync status icon also shows on Updates, History and Statistics, and at the foot of the side dock on wide windows.

⚡️ Performance

• Sync no longer checks for changes every few seconds while the app is open with nothing to send, and each run reads less of the database.

🐛 Fixed

• An entry's cover in the merge sheet looks the same on every visit.

Tip

If you are unsure which version to download, use katari-v3.1.1.apk.

v3.1.0

✨ Added

• Each device chooses what it syncs: history, statistics, covers, fonts and other data, settings by area, and which profiles.
• Syncing can be paused, run in the background as often as you choose, and keep changes off mobile data.
• Settings rows show whether each setting syncs, and each Settings screen opens its sync choices.

🧩 Improved

• The sync status warns when synced changes wait for a Katari update.

🐛 Fixed

• Chapters a library update finds on one device now reach your other devices.
• A device's first library update no longer fills Updates with a title's old chapters.
• Opening the Sync page from a notification while it is already open no longer crashes the app.

Tip

If you are unsure which version to download, use katari-v3.1.0.apk.

desktop-v1.0.0-beta.7

✨ Added

• The immersive feed goes full screen with F or a bar button.
• Clips in the immersive feed play at the player's volume, which Shift+↑/↓ and a slider on the sound button change.
• The desktop's media controls and keys play and pause the shown clip in the immersive feed.

🔄 Changed

• The immersive feed no longer saves progress or adds to History.
• Space and K play or pause in the player without bringing up hidden controls.

🧩 Improved

• The immersive feed fills the window, its controls show and hide with the mouse as the player's do, a click plays or pauses a clip, and buttons step to the previous or next title.
• Tall media in the immersive feed has the title and its actions in a panel beside it.
• Long-strip chapters in the immersive feed read down a column that the wheel scrolls.
• The immersive feed shows a loading title's cover and name, loads the next two titles ahead, and offers Next title when media fails to load.
• Enter, D and S work the shown title's actions in the immersive feed, and clip timelines always show the time played.
• Sheets open at the side of the window you pressed and each has a close button, and short choices such as the profile switcher open beside their button.
• In large windows, side sheets lay out their rows in two columns.
• Extension filter pills open the filter, and the filter can search languages.
• The player's skip button stays readable over dark credits.

🐛 Fixed

• Tab in an open sheet, dialog or reader panel now reaches its controls.
• A video paused for several minutes no longer drops frames shortly after it resumes.
• Settings pages opened from another page in two-pane Settings now have a back button.
• Statistics lists no longer run under the side dock.
• The last card on a Settings page no longer touches the bottom of the window.

desktop-v1.0.0-beta.6

✨ Added

• History names the other device a title was last read on.

🔄 Changed

• Background sync runs every 30 minutes unless you pick another interval.

🧩 Improved

• Changes reach your other devices closely to real-time instead of after a pause of several seconds.
• Changes from other devices arrive within seconds while the app is open, even when its window is minimized or another window has focus.
• The sync status icon also shows on Updates, History and Statistics, and at the foot of the side dock on wide windows.

⚡️ Performance

• Sync no longer checks for changes every few seconds while the app is open with nothing to send, and each run reads less of the database.

🐛 Fixed

• An entry's cover in the merge sheet looks the same on every visit.
• Grid scrollbars, such as the library's with a Pinned shelf, no longer run past the end of their track.

desktop-v1.0.0-beta.5

✨ Added

• The manga reader recognises text on pages to select, copy, translate and read aloud, with keyboard shortcuts.
• Downloaded manga chapters can be translated in the background.
• Each device chooses what it syncs: history, statistics, covers, fonts and other data, settings by area, and which profiles.
• Syncing can be paused, run as often as you choose, and keep changes off metered networks.
• Settings rows show whether each setting syncs, and each Settings screen opens its sync choices.

🧩 Improved

• The sync status warns when synced changes wait for a Katari update.

⚡️ Performance

• The app starts faster.

🐛 Fixed

• Windows open at their final size and layout instead of resizing after they appear.
• Chapters a library update finds on one device now reach your other devices.
• A device's first library update no longer fills Updates with a title's old chapters.
• Opening the Sync page from a notification while it is already open no longer crashes the app.

v3.0.1

🧩 Improved

• The sync link and invite code fields take a code typed or pasted in any form and show it in dashed groups of four.

🐛 Fixed

• Syncing no longer hides statistics a device recorded before another device started counting, and statistics hidden this way show again.
• The offer to go where another device got further shows the place on its own line, so its name no longer breaks halfway.
• Episodes whose audio comes as a separate track no longer play without sound for their first moments.

Tip

If you are unsure which version to download, use katari-v3.0.1.apk.