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Changelog

Latest version: 3.2.1

Oct 4, 2026

v3.2.1

Fixes

  • Fixed Application bundles (.app) and other executable files not showing appropriate icons in archive previews
  • Fixed folder previews not working for application data containers
  • Fixed path bar in folder preview being clipped occasionally

Oct 3, 2026

v3.2.0

New Features

  • Added interactive previews and Finder thumbnails for 3MF (.3mf) and STEP (.step) files, with rotation, pan, and zoom controls
  • Added Restore Purchases to license settings

Fixes

  • Fixed Quick Look previews opening at the wrong size or resizing unexpectedly after loading

Changes

  • Added an Open Unfold button to previews that require license activation or refresh

Sep 15, 2026

v3.1.0

New Features

  • App localized to Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as English dialects for Australia, Canada, India, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with licensing affecting a small subset of users

Sep 8, 2026

v3.0.2

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue causing some previews to fail

Sep 7, 2026

v3.0.0

New Features

  • Added live reload for source code, JSON, plain text, LaTeX, Mermaid diagrams, Jupyter notebooks, subtitles, and tabular previews
  • Added progressive loading for comic and EPUB previews

Fixes

  • Fixed CBZ and CBR files not being recognized when associated with Panels and other comic readers
  • Fixed comic files sometimes being handled by the ebook preview extension
  • Fixed NFO preview compatibility with other installed apps
  • Fixed VTT subtitle files not being recognized under some file type identifiers
  • Fixed folders inside archives showing a size of zero
  • Fixed unnecessary permission requests when previewing application bundles
  • Fixed some files failing to preview because of overly restrictive file access checks
  • Fixed the license settings showing an activated state for accounts without an Unfold license
  • Fixed character encoding detection for Japanese and Western text
  • Fixed characters being split or lost at page boundaries in large text previews
  • Fixed line numbering and Markdown heading navigation across paged previews
  • Fixed Markdown frontmatter handling on subsequent pages
  • Fixed stale preview results appearing after switching files or reloading
  • Fixed comic page ordering across chapter folders
  • Fixed hidden macOS metadata files appearing as comic pages
  • Fixed a corrupt later comic page invalidating pages that had already loaded
  • Fixed EPUB cross-chapter links losing anchor positions
  • Fixed stale folder thumbnails and icons after files change

Changes

  • Improved loading speed and memory usage for large previews across supported formats
  • Improved scrolling and rendering for large source files, Markdown documents, and code blocks
  • Improved large table previews by loading and caching rows as needed
  • Improved comic image loading, thumbnail caching, and resolution handling when zooming
  • Improved folder scanning, archive browsing, and application metadata loading
  • Improved cancellation and temporary-file cleanup when closing or switching previews
  • Added source or plain-text fallbacks for documents and diagrams that are too complex to render
  • Improved handling of malformed, deeply nested, oversized, and malicious files
  • Strengthened protection against unsafe archive extraction, local-file navigation, and embedded web content

Aug 25, 2026

v2.8.2

New Features

  • Added metadata-strip to all plain-text, tabular, and subtitle previews

Changes

  • Updated licensing to make it better for offline users
  • Updated scroll-position setting. You can now choose how long scroll positions are remembered
  • Updated transparent mode UI for markdown and ebook previews

Fixes

  • Fix .nfo files not previewing properly
  • Removed custom RAR (.rar) UTI
  • Fix text encoding in .nfo file previews
  • Reduce prompts to enter your password

Aug 19, 2026

v2.8.1

New Features

  • Added a path-bar and a toolbar to folder and archive previews
  • Added sub-folder navigation to folder previews (double-click a folder to navigate into it)
  • Added support for copying files and folders directly from the preview to folder previews

Fixes

  • Deprecated native layout for folder preview and archive preview extensions
  • Fixed folder previews showing garbled file names when previewing empty folders
  • Fixed folder previews lagging on scroll during progressive size updates
  • Improved folder preview and archive preview UI
  • Improved file type detection in folder previews
  • Updated icon size in application (.app) previews to match macOS

Aug 6, 2026

v2.8.0

New Features

  • Added line-wrapping for text-based previews
  • Added zoom controls for mermaid diagrams in markdown previews
  • Added Frontmatter support to Markdown preview extension
  • Added ability to highlight text by clicking line numbers. Clicking and dragging across the line number column highlights the corresponding lines too. You can also double a line number, then move our cursor to highlight a text snippet - clicking elsewhere exists the highlight mode. (Keyboard actions like ⌘ + Click, and SHIFT + Click are also supported)
  • Added transparent background support for all text-based previews

Fixes

  • Fixed click delay in Markdown code blocks
  • Fixed click delay in folder and archive previews
  • Fixed click delay in folder preview and archive preview extensions
  • Fixed copying a code block in Markdown previews adding a trailing blank line
  • Fixed previews not updating theme when switching between light and dark mode while a preview is open
  • Fixed Markdown checkbox rendering
  • Fixed table of contents width not persisting between previews
  • Fixed table of contents row hitbox
  • Fixed the selected table of contents row being washed out
  • Fixed the content pane flickering while dragging the table of contents divider
  • Fixed hover effect on line numbers in code previews
  • Fixed text highlighting in JSON preview
  • Truncated table of contents headings now show in full on hover
  • Revamped app settings UI
  • Optimized plain-text previews
  • Optimized Markdown preview
  • Updated maximum font-size for code previews to 30pt

Aug 2, 2026

v2.7.4

New Features

  • Added a dedicated comic preview extension
  • Redesigned the preview UI for CBZ and CBR files

Fixes

  • Fixed performance issues when previewing large comic files
  • Fixed cursor and text-selection behavior across previews
  • Fixed cursor and text-selection behavior across previews Fixed PopClip not appearing when selecting text in some previews
  • Fixed incorrect cursor behavior when hovering over controls

Changes

  • Improved folder preview performance and cancellation
  • Improved archive preview performance when previewing very large compressed files
  • Removed unnecessary network permissions from extensions

Jul 26, 2026

v2.7.3

Fixes

  • Fixed trials not starting for new users

Jul 21, 2026

v2.7.2

New Features

  • Added PopClip support

Changes

  • Updated license settings tab

Jul 18, 2026

v2.7.1

New Features

  • Added archive encoding options
  • Added support for .mdc markdown file format
  • Added device management to in-app settings
  • Updated app icon

Fixes

  • Fixed garbled archive filenames
  • Fixed improper horizontal padding in EPUB previews

Jul 9, 2026

v2.7.0

New Features

  • Added hot reloading for Markdown previews
  • Remember table of contents and ebook thumbnail sidebar widths between previews
  • Added a setting to enable or disable scroll animations for table of contents navigation
  • Highlight the active line in source code previews on hover

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash when copying text from Quick Look previews
  • Fixed text selection and double-click word selection in Markdown and other WebKit-based previews
  • Fixed Cmd+C copy for selected text in WebKit previews
  • Fixed SubRip (.srt) previews failing for some file type identifiers

Changes

  • Lowered the minimum table of contents sidebar width for more flexible layouts
  • Improved code block copy button interaction in Markdown previews

Jul 2, 2026

v2.6.1

New Features

  • Added a copy button to code blocks in markdown previews.

Jul 2, 2026

v2.6.0

Adds LaTeX (.tex, .latex, .ltx) and BibTeX (.bib) previews, plus the TeX-family source formats.

Jun 30, 2026

v2.5.0

New Features

  • Added per-category toggles for previews

Jun 19, 2026

v2.4.0

New Features

  • Added support for Swift Interchange Format (.sif) and Foundation (.foundation) file formats
  • Added syntax highlighting to Subrip (.srt) previews

Fixes

  • Fixed plain text rendering for non-English content

Changes

  • Dropped support for macOS 14 (Sonoma). Minimum supported version is now macOS 15.6 (Sequoia)

Jun 13, 2026

v2.3.2

Fixes

  • Fixed the expired Discord server invite in the settings.
  • Updated markdown (.md) and subtitle (.srt) identifiers to ensure they get matched

May 26, 2026

v2.3.1

New Features

  • Folder previews now show a size summary.

Fixes

  • Fixed the expired Discord server invite in the settings.

May 17, 2026

v2.3.0

New Features

  • Added support for macOS application bundle previews (.app)

Revamped About Tab

  • Revamped the About tab in app settings

Apr 27, 2026

v2.2.0

New Features

  • Added support for FB2 ebook format (.fb2)
  • Added transparent background option for source code and plain text previews
  • Added support for web archive formats (.mhtml, .mht)

Fixes

  • Fixed some subtitle rip files failing to preview
  • Fixed binary plist files failing to preview

Changes

  • Updated ebook settings label to reflect expanded format support

Apr 8, 2026

v2.1.1

New Features

  • Added support for previewing torrent files (.torrent)
  • Added support for GROMACS extensions (.top, .gro, .mdp, .itp, .xvg, .ndx, .err, .out)

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where folder previews could display generic app icons for applications
  • Fixed an issue preventing RAR files preview from working
  • Fixed an issue preventing contents dropdown from rendering in markdown previews
  • Fixed an issue where markdown preview mode toggle would not show for some users
  • Fixed scroll position restore behaviour in EPUB previews
  • Fixed an issue where image dimensions wouldn't show in folder previews' grid view

Changes

  • Improved archive size handling (no longer limited to a strict 10G cap)

Mar 26, 2026

v2.0.0

New Features

  • Preview Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb)
  • Redesigned settings with dedicated sections for each preview type
  • New controls for folder and archive previews, including subfolder expansion and scan depth
  • More control over Markdown and EPUB previews, including zoom, scroll position, and table of contents behavior
  • New themes for EPUB previews
  • Unfold now runs as a standard app and opens Settings on launch
  • Customize fonts for source code previews
  • Source mode toggle and initial render mode for Markdown
  • Zoom controls for Mermaid diagrams
  • Support for tab-separated values (.tab, .tsv)
  • Support for subtitle files (.srt, .ass, .vtt)
  • Support for .nfo files
  • Expanded source code support, including TOML, CJS, and Luau

Improvements

  • The table of contents now adapts to window width and can be resized
  • Faster, more reliable JSON previews for large files
  • Clearer guidance when Full Disk Access is required
  • Refined text truncation and overall visual polish
  • Improved launch and reopen behavior for a more consistent desktop experience

Fixes

  • Fixed dark mode issues in EPUB previews
  • Fixed an issue where archive previews didn't always show the full file list
  • Fixed interaction issues caused by delayed click handling
  • Fixed an issue where the About screen could crash for some users

Changes

  • Property list files now display as XML
  • Support for select legacy file extensions has been removed
  • Transparent preview background removed for Markdown previews

Mar 4, 2026

v1.2.1

  • Improve plain-text fallback
  • Improve error handling
  • Add custom background for plain-text previews
  • Fixed an issue where .json files were not being matched/previewed correctly

Mar 3, 2026

v1.2

  • Fix JSON syntax highlighting, previews not adhering to font size, and line number setting not applying
  • Add support for TSV and TAB files and render as tabular previews
  • Collapse EPUB TOC chapters by default
  • Add support for over 100 additional file types
  • Add support for Homebrew (brew install --cask flewgg/tap/unfold)

Feb 26, 2026

v1.1

  • Public release of Unfold.
  • Added auto-update support.