Updates

Where Ewig is headed

No dates, no promises. Just what we’re working on, in the order we care about it.

• Background sync: new bookmarks on all your devices, even with the app closed.
• Video covers everywhere: auto-playing video covers in the iPhone and iPad grid.
• Your ideas: tell us what you’re missing at ewig [at] xy [dot] co.

Version 2: rock-solid capture & deeper backups

A new capture engine and a big stability pass everywhere. The release where even the stubborn pages archive cleanly. That’s the two-point-oh.

New

• Smarter screenshots: captures wait for pages to settle, retry through interstitials, and quality-check every result. Archives come out right far more often.
• Consent banners, handled: cookie popups are dealt with before capture. Your snapshots show the page, not the popup.
• PDF in every backup: every archive now includes a full-length, selectable-text PDF alongside the snapshot and screenshot.
• Automatic covers on iOS: covers now generate on-device, no Mac required.

Improved

• Big stability pass: smoother syncing, less grid flashing, faster covers, and automatic recovery from startup errors.
• Redesigned browser-extension save popup and improved iOS onboarding.
• Fixed the Archive tab on iPad.

Command palette, detail panel modes & a tidier library

One search surface for everything, a detail panel that adapts to how you work, and new tools to keep your archive clean.

New

• Unified search palette: press ⌘K to search bookmarks, jump to collections, switch views and run actions. Fully keyboard-navigable on Mac, iPad and iPhone.
• Detail panel presentation modes: open any bookmark as a side panel, a popover, or full screen, with Web, Edit and Archive tabs in every mode.
• Duplicate Link Finder: scan your library for repeated URLs and remove them in one pass.
• macOS share extension: “Save to Ewig” from any Mac app’s share menu, matching the iOS experience.

Improved

• Copy all links from a collection’s context menu.
• Edge-triggered full-screen detail view and smoother panel resizing on macOS.
• Scoped “Search in…” actions decouple palette search from the grid.
• iOS no longer shows a paste prompt when opening the palette.

Custom covers

Make your library yours: shoot your own photo or video covers, with smarter, smaller storage under the hood.

New

• Photo & video cover capture: replace an auto-generated cover with your own, on Mac and iOS. Video covers encode as space-efficient HEVC.
• Clear Archive Data: reset the local index without touching your files.
• iCloud-synced default archive: your storage choice follows you across devices.

Improved

• HEIC by default for covers and screenshots: the same quality in a fraction of the space.
• Browser extension popup now shows the page favicon.
• iOS: tapping a parent collection opens it instead of only expanding it.
• Clearer archive-mode labels throughout Settings.

Dead Link Finder: the first public release

Ewig’s first release out in the world, headlined by the feature that proves the point of the app: finding out which of your links have already died.

New

• Dead Link Finder: run “Broken Links” from the palette to find bookmarks whose originals no longer load. Your snapshots, of course, still open.
• New collections from the extension: create a collection right from the browser popup while saving.

Improved

• Visual polish across the Safari and Chrome-family extensions.