• Timeline: option to open at the newest posts on a cold launch (Settings → Timeline → Load Top of Feed on Cold App Launch). Off by default, synced with iCloud.
• Mac: Settings → Links & Integrations → Open External Links In... picks Default Browser, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more, or In Skyscraper, which opens the page in the column you tapped it in. ⌘-click still opens a browser behind the app.
• Settings: option to hide the "Your Last Week" banner.
• Composer: @-mention suggestions rank people you follow first, and a banner shows when you're writing a Direct Message.
• Shortcuts and Siri: App Intents now run in an extension, so they no longer launch the Mac app.
• Mastodon: the composer uses your server's alt text limit.

IMPROVED

• Notifications: action text uses your accent color, with the type icon on the avatar's corner.
• Settings: with Unified on, picking an account shows its settings instead of switching.
• Unified: older Bluesky posts load 100 at a time.
• Mac: Reader articles are lighter on big pages, timeline headers line up with the avatar, and Mastodon mentions and DMs open from Notifications.
• Mac: uploading photos no longer renders them at double size, which could use huge amounts of memory.
• Reader: Tags with nothing unread are hidden when Unread Only is on.
• Browser hand-off encodes links correctly for Firefox, Brave and Opera.
• Mastodon: link quotes resolve with several accounts signed in, and a rate-limited fetch keeps your hashtags and lists.
• Add links to your Bluesky profile!

FIXED

• Typing a bare Mastodon username looks it up instead of failing.
• Hashtags starting a line are no longer Markdown headings, and links drop trailing punctuation.
• Code blocks, mixed image order, "1000.0K" counts, Chinese script names, searches with "+", and two-digit feed years now display correctly.
• App-password sign-in ignores a leading @ and spaces, accepts "Https://", and defaults to bsky.social.
• Push: tapped pushes open as their recipient; replies use the parent's thread root; mutes and blocks apply to the receiving account.
• Widgets pinned to an account open that account's screens.
• Chats close when you switch accounts, only one-to-one chats offer Delete and Block, and Mark All as Read on Mac leaves message requests alone.
• Late results from a previous account (chats, notifications, profiles, search, moderation, trending) no longer appear after switching.
• Likes, reposts, mutes, reports, threads, followers and list actions on another account's row use that row's account.
• Signing out or switching mid-refresh can no longer overwrite a new session or sign as the wrong account.
• Composer: closing a mention-only reply skips the draft prompt, kept photos survive picking more, and a server draft no longer deletes your open local draft.
• Threadgate and postgate settings save for the right account and retry once.
• Unsubscribed feeds no longer reappear after iCloud sync, and new feeds aren't dropped.
• Reader: Mark All as Read marks are kept, and NewsBlur honours the cutoff.
• Timestamps follow time zone changes, and the Year recap includes December 31.
• Mastodon: signing out clears its push badge, and erased filter keywords are deleted.
• A number of additional fixes I couldn't list here due to space constraints!

Don't worry about 1.8.1 and 1.8.2. They were small hotfixes for 1.8!

NEW

• Mastodon (beta): sign in alongside Bluesky and get your home timeline, notifications, DMs, Explore, lists, bookmarks, favorites, polls, content warnings, custom emoji, scheduled posts and push notifications.
• Unified timeline: read every account's following feed in one combined timeline, with merged Notifications. A badge on each post shows which account it came from, and replies, likes and boosts go out as that account.
• Cross-Post: write once and post to several accounts at the same time, from the app or the share sheet.
• Reader: a new tab for RSS, Standard.site publications, Micro.blog and YouTube channels. Sync with Feedbin, FreshRSS, Inkwell or NewsBlur, organize with tags, filter to Unread Only, and pull up to go to the next story. Your first RSS feed is free.
• Save links to Pinboard and Instapaper, with title, description and tag suggestions from Apple Intelligence.
• Likes and Favorites: search them, and sort by newest or oldest.
• Save videos to Photos.
• Share a user Profile in a profile's ⋯ menu.
• Thread authors can hide a reply or detach a quote of their post.
• The composer saves drafts on your device, and your post comes back after a crash. Undo, drag and drop, camera video, and posting videos in the background are all supported.
• Settings to auto-play GIFs and video with Reduce Motion on, or in Low Data and Low Power Mode.
• Timeline widgets: choose how many posts the medium and large sizes show.
• New Blocked Accounts and Muted Accounts pages.
• Hide the New Posts banner, and clear the app badge whenever you like.

MAC

• Open posts and profiles in their own windows, with one window per composer.
• Right-click menus on posts, links, mentions, hashtags, images and chat bubbles.
• New menu bar commands, a Keyboard Shortcuts window, and Settings as Mac-style preference panes.
• Copy Image, Save Image, Print articles, the Services menu, Open With, and drag-and-drop in and out.
• Spotlight, App Intents, Controls, and a Dock badge with live counts.
• Native sidebar with unread badges, plus a System accent color option.

IMPROVED

• Skyscraper is translated into 30 languages.
• Better VoiceOver, Voice Control and Reduce Motion support across posts, chat and profiles, and image alt text is read aloud.
• Faster launch, less background activity, and an app that's about 60 MB smaller.
• iPad: Settings, your avatar and Compose sit in the sidebar.
• Profiles, hashtags, feed previews and Saved Posts lay out posts like the timeline.
• Mute words now apply to notifications too.
• Block and Delete ask before acting, and an Undo banner follows common actions.
• Your reading position is restored more accurately when coming back after a few days.
• iCloud syncs more settings, and restores them after a reinstall.
• Vision Pro: readable labels, gaze highlights, and better sign-in sheets.
• Custom themes reach more screens, including Settings text and post text.

FIXED

• Videos no longer go black when you return to the app.
• The timeline tells you when Bluesky is down instead of failing quietly.
• A deleted post says it was deleted and leaves your timeline.
• Replies keep their context when the parent post appears lower down.
• Fixed a handful of rare crashes.
• Many small bug fixes, layout improvements, and much more.

• Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen: Timeline, Timeline Photo, Followers, Latest Followers, Recent Activity, Post Performance, Saved Posts, On This Day, Trending, Trending Topics, and Weekly and Monthly Recaps.
• Introducing Skyscraper for Apple TV! Watch your feeds on the big screen, play videos, and follow a hashtag or an account.
• Explore has a scrolling ticker of trending hashtags.
• Lists show whether they're pinned to your feeds.
• Saved Posts loads your whole list, and Unsave All clears it.
• Share sheet: add alt text to shared images, or generate it with Apple Intelligence, in your post's language.
• Compact Media Thumbnails can be set separately on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• Mac: standard keyboard shortcuts, arrow keys to open and leave posts, a new Post menu, and ↑/↓ in Chats and Notifications.
• Mac: paste or drag images and videos into the composer.
• Publications (Standard.site) load faster.
• The manager has Following, Popular, Trending and Cam's Picks tabs, plus search.
• On the Publications feed, a ? button replaces the avatar, and sites open in the in-app browser.
• Polish and Hungarian localizations, plus string and translation updates.

IMPROVED

• Apple Watch: opening the app fetches fresh posts, even when Skyscraper isn't open on your iPhone.
• iPad: larger compact thumbnails, narrower quoted posts in wide layouts, and the sidebar remembers if you hid it.
• Thread replies use distinct colors on Mac, and threads continue past the first level.
• Icons and chat screens follow your theme everywhere.

FIXED

• The Following feed updates more reliably in some unusual situations.
• Switching feeds or accounts no longer shows the previous one's posts or notifications.
• Logging out of one account takes you to Home on the remaining account and stops its notifications.
• Tapping like, repost or bookmark twice in a post's detail view now undoes it.
• Editing a quote post keeps the quote.
• Lists that fail to load no longer vanish from your feed order, and removed feeds stay removed.
• Translated posts no longer revert as you scroll.
• Chat: older messages no longer vanish on refresh, and the newest stays visible above the keyboard.
• Composer: alt text and pasted images survive edits, and Button Shapes no longer pushes your post off-screen.
• Profile: switching tabs quickly no longer mixes posts, and new names and avatars show right away.
• Search stops refreshing when you're not looking, and muted accounts stay hidden.
• Adding someone to a list no longer adds them twice.
• Closing a link opened from a sheet no longer closes the sheet too.
• Long names in Notifications no longer run under badges.
• Custom themes sync their light and dark palettes across devices.
• Apple Watch: large images no longer crash the app.
• Fixed crashes when opening a deleted or blocked thread.
• Mac: videos and quoted posts no longer clip the action bar, and the sign-in window opens in front.
• Vision Pro: choosing a photo in the composer works reliably.

• Auto-Translate: posts in other languages can now translate as you scroll. Turn it on in Settings › Post Customization › Translations, where you can also download languages
• Posts already in your language offer Translate to… so you can pick another language
• Better alt text with Apple Intelligence on iOS 27 and macOS 27
• Pro bought on iPhone or iPad now unlocks on Mac automatically
• Settings pages fully match your theme
• Faster image loading across the app
• Fixed the timeline sometimes freezing after tapping the status bar
• Fixed new posts sometimes starting with someone else's handle
• Fixed feeds from one account appearing in another account's feed list
• Fixed quoted posts not opening after going back
• Fixed the tab bar losing its background on iOS 18
• Mac: sharing from apps like Apple News now works and opens Skyscraper
• Mac: liking a post no longer makes the timeline jump
• Mac: posts opened in a column no longer get cut off
• Mac: click the dots under Trending to see more

• Show more like this / Show less like this now works on iPhone and iPad.
• Chinese language support, available in Settings (中文支持，可在“设置”中启用)
• macOS: a column can read as any account you're signed in to. Put your main Following beside another account's, side by side, and each column loads, scrolls and refreshes on its own.
• macOS: pick the account and the feed in one go — a column's header menu now lists every account's feeds, grouped under the account they belong to.
• macOS: a column reading as another account says so in its header, with that account's avatar and handle.
• macOS: liking, reposting and replying from a column all happen as that column's account, not as whoever you're switched to.
• The composer shows which account a post is going out as. It sits on the "Replying to" line for a reply, and appears on any composer that isn't posting as your active account.
• macOS: an account switcher next to Settings in the sidebar. Long-press and right-click on Settings still work; the icon just makes it findable.
• macOS: the Publications feed works per column too, so you can read one account's subscriptions while signed in as another.

FIXED

• Paste a screenshot straight into the composer. iPhone and iPad offered no Paste command at all when the clipboard held only an image, which read as text and images having separate clipboards. Copying a picture along with its link still pastes the text when that's what you meant.
• Typing an @mention after an emoji cut characters off the handle and dropped the finished mention in the wrong place.
• The composer's mention list stopped going to the network on every pause in typing — it was making three calls each time, which is what kept the reply composer from letting you finish a mention.
• Sharing from Safari posted the site's bare domain instead of the article. The page title was being read as the link whenever that title ended in the site's own domain name.
• Tapping a hashtag inside a feed preview opened from Explore crashed the app.
• macOS: Go ▸ Top of Timeline and Bottom of Timeline, and ⌘↑ / ⌘↓, did nothing — in every feed and every list.
• macOS: joining a group chat from an invite link did nothing while the conversation was open in a column.
• The composer's mention and hashtag suggestions stay above the toolbar while you type. A reply card, a quoted post or an attached image used to push them below the fold, so you had to scroll away from your own cursor to see them.
• macOS: replying twice in a row could send the second reply from the wrong account, and to the wrong post. The reply and quote windows were reusing the previous composer instead of building a new one.
• macOS: switching accounts left the timeline under the loading shimmer — eventually showing "This is taking longer than usual" — with the new account's posts already loaded underneath it.
• macOS: a column pinned to another account no longer offers to manage that account's publication subscriptions from the wrong account.

• Skyscraper now supports macOS natively! Enjoy a fresh, multi-column, native Mac app.

New icon!

• New app icon from the Iconfactory! Available in 3 flavors, standard (changes color based on your device being in light/dark mode), or always view it in the light or dark styles.

Custom Themes!

• Custom Themes: paint Skyscraper and make it yours, with a live preview as you edit.

Much more!

• Community Themes: browse and install themes other Skyscraper users have made, or submit your own for review.
• Publications: read the standard.site publications you subscribe to right in the app, including articles the publisher never cross-posted to Bluesky.
• Share Post as Image: turn any post into an image, complete with its photos, link card, quoted post and the rest of the author's thread.
• Screenshot OCR: pull the text out of any image entirely on your device, ready to select and copy.
• Account backups now include image and video embeds
• View Labels: see exactly which moderation labels a post carries, who applied them and when.
• Account Data: browse your own repository in plain English or raw AT Proto, including records written by other AT Proto apps.
• Post timestamps can now show the actual clock time instead of "2h", from Timeline settings.
• Long-press a chat to peek at the last few messages without opening it.
• LIVE badges now open the stream, and appear in the timeline as well as on profiles.
• Mute someone's quote posts, alongside the existing repost mute.
• Translate your own draft in the composer before you post it.
• Dutch and French added as new internationalized languages in-app.

Improved

• Chat unread checks use far less data — about 100 MB an hour less while the app sits idle.
• The timeline decodes images off the main thread, so scrolling stays smooth.
• Your reading position now remembers how far into a post you were, not just which post, and survives a relaunch.
• Self-threads draw each post once, and macOS numbers the posts in a thread.
• Feeds show how many people have liked them.
• New Skyscraper artwork on the loading and sign-in screens, and the app icon picker now credits every icon's designer.

Fixed

• Editing a reply works, and an edited reply stays attached to its thread.
• Signing out of one account lands on another instead of the sign-in screen.
• Fixed feeds reordering themselves, and an endless rebuild loop that showed up as scroll stutter.
• A person who liked several of your posts is counted once in notifications, not once per like.
• Reply context shows the quoted post it used to drop.
• GIFs play natively instead of through a hidden web view.
• Long display names no longer squeeze the timestamp off a row.
• Various bug fixes.

• Live search: results update as you type, with a running count.
• "Save as Pinned Feed" on the search filter panel turns a hashtag or any query with its filters into a column/feed you can return to. Search now defaults to sorting by Latest, and pinning is disabled under Top, since a pinned feed only means something for a chronological sort. Synced across devices via iCloud.

THREADS AND REPLY CONTEXT

• Replies now show the thread ROOT rather than the immediate parent. Most timeline replies are replies-to-replies, and a mid-thread parent read on its own is a fragment — the root is what the conversation is about. This matches Bluesky. Paired with a "Show full thread" link that opens the posts in between.
• The handle a reply opens with is now accent-colored and bold in reply pills and thread continuation rows, so it reads as a mention instead of flat body text. Links and hashtags in that text are colored too.
• Self-threads are marked with a dotted outline carrying a "Thread" caption at the top-left and bottom-right, fieldset style.
• A thread root now draws a connector down out of its avatar, so it links to the posts below it the way the continuation rows already linked to each other.
• Threads of videos play inline. They previously rendered as a column of "Video" buttons with nothing to watch. The button is kept as the fallback when "Show Videos" is off in Settings.
• Quoted posts inside thread continuation rows now render as the full quote card instead of a "Quoted post" pill, and tapping the card, its author or its hashtags all work.

PHOTOS, VIDEO AND LINK PREVIEWS

• Full-screen photos rotate on iPhone. Turning the phone sideways to fill the screen with a landscape photo is the point of full screen, and previously only video could do it. Zoom resets to fit on rotation.
• With "Show Full Size Image Previews" on, a wide photo now gets the full content width at its natural height instead of being stretched taller and cropped at the sides — most visible on screenshots of text, which were losing their left and right edges. Tall photos are unchanged, and the setting's off state renders exactly as it did before.
• Link card thumbnails are laid out at the standard 1200x630 card ratio rather than a fixed height, so a normal og:image lands uncropped.
• GIFs posted as a Giphy page link (what clients other than Bluesky's own picker post) now resolve to the actual animation instead of spinning on a placeholder forever.

TIMELINE

• Tapping "X reposted" opens the reposter's profile — which is where you'd go to mute their reposts when they flood your feed, or just to see who they are.

NOTIFICATIONS

• Grouping ("X and 3 others followed you") now happens on the All tab only. On a filtered tab you've already narrowed to one kind of notification, so collapsing hid the very thing you asked to see — the Follows tab now reads as a list of people, and each row goes straight to that profile.
• The last segment's icon is now a bell badge instead of an ellipsis.

CHAT

• Muted conversations now show a bell.slash indicator.

Bug Fixes

• Improved missing "X reposted" headers in the main feed.
• Fixed an issue where you would see an inflated "N posts above" badge, which could read in the hundreds or thousands after a cold launch.
• Two crashes: a theme object read from inside a toolbar item, and a duplicate identifier when a post both quoted and replied to the post you were viewing.
• Tapping "Show full thread" opened the leaf reply pinned to the top of the screen, alone above a blank area with every parent scrolled off above it. The thread now opens with its parents on screen.
• The Chat Requests list rendered on pure black instead of the themed background, which stood out against off-black dark styles like Sleeping Panther.

• Grouped notification details - Tap a grouped notification (X and N others liked/followed you") to see the full list of accounts. Each row has a Follow / Following button, and like/repost groups include a link back to the post.
• Advanced search filters - Filter post search by language and by linked domain, alongside the existing sort, time range, from-user, and mentions filters.
• Automatic server detection at login - Your hosting provider (PDS) is now resolved from your handle, so accounts on a custom/third-party PDS sign in without entering a server URL manually.
• Video upload progress — A live loading bar (with percentage) shows while a picked video is prepared, and you can keep typing in the meantime.

Improvements

• Video uploads now post reliably - Videos are converted to MP4 as Bluesky requires, fixing "Expected video/mp4" errors when posting mov clips from Photos.
• Over-limit videos are caught early — Videos longer than 3 minutes or larger than 300 MB are rejected up front with a clear message, before any processing.
• Standard Site cards handle large text - On the Leaflet/standard.site cards, the Subscribe button no longer wraps into a blob and moves to its own full-width row at accessibility text sizes.
• More reliable sharing to Skyscraper — Images shared from other apps (e.g. Tapestry's "share as image") now attach correctly, and the composer no longer jumps when sharing a link from Safari.
• Cleaner group chats — Clearer display of member names when someone joins a group chat.
• Storage cleanup - Temporary video files from the composer are cleaned up so they don't accumulate.
• Group chat invite links now open and join right inside Skyscraper instead of bouncing you to the Bluesky website.
• New "Show Full Size Image Previews" setting (on by default) — single timeline images render at their true aspect ratio instead of being cropped square.
• Share extension: live @mention autocomplete, and sharing a Bluesky post link now creates a real quote post instead of a plain link card.
• Text sizes are now consistent everywhere — Timeline, Notifications, Chat, thread replies, and link cards all follow your in-app text size setting.

Improved

• GIFs always autoplay and loop with no player controls, matching Bluesky.
• Thread view: replies you're reading are highlighted, parent posts are no longer dimmed, and body text is uniform throughout.
• Better colors for grouped notification cells and quoted posts.
• App Tips now respects your chosen dark mode style.

Fixed

• A crash when scrolling past inline videos, and a crash on launch caused by timeline media layout.
• Images, videos, quote posts, and link cards no longer slide or clip inside their containers while scrolling.
• Tab bar labels no longer truncate to "Noti…" and "Expl…" on larger iPhones.
• Chat notices no longer render backwards when someone's display name contains a right-to-left override character.
• Notification rows no longer show the wrong person's avatar while scrolling fast.
• Posts with large link-preview thumbnails no longer fail to send.
• Share extension: images from apps like Tapestry attach reliably, and mention suggestion chips respond to taps.
• Chat list rows now update when someone reacts to a message.
• The composer keeps a loaded link card while you edit or delete the URL text, matching Bluesky.
• Fixed crashes when opening deep reply threads (stack overflow while walking the thread).
• Fixed verification-badge crashes ("No ObservableObject of type AppTheme found").
• Fixed a crash when opening certain profiles (type-metadata demangler overflow).
• Fixed opening bare @handle mentions (no domain) in chat.
• Fixed a share-sheet bug when sharing content into the app.

• Browse your timeline directly from your wrist
• Full post detail view with reading support
• Post actions (like, repost, reply) from the Watch
• Background sync bridged from your iPhone so your feed stays fresh
• Watch complication/widget for quick access
• Image caching optimized for the Watch

A big round of DM improvements

• Attach content to DMs — share posts and content directly into messages
• Chat data export — export your conversation history
• Granular chat notifications — finer control over which conversations notify you
• Notification bundling — grouped notifications so chat alerts are less noisy
• Spell check in chat
• Improved message reactions handling
• Chat list fixes and better handling of message requests

Other Fixes

• Share sheet now supports hashtags and mentions
• Bluesky link routing — Bluesky links now open directly inside Skyscraper
• Added standard.site support for alternative PDS accounts
• Continued work on accounts hosted outside bsky.social
• Improvements to OAuth sign-in reliability
• Fixed a video playback crash
• Improved blocking within hashtag views
• Badge count calculation fixes
• Composer fixes: paste handling and word-wrap/run-on issues while posting
• Accessibility improvements

• Added "Advanced Search". Add filters to search top or most recent, limit time window, save favorite search parameters, filter search to a specific user, and more
• Added support for pinning/unpinning posts from Profile
• Add ability to take a photo or upload a photo/video from Files when composing a post
• Tweaks to improve how View Posts and View Reposts work
• Worked on improving issue where Chats would become "corrupt" and not display
• Improved Dark mode behavior across a few screens
• Copy/paste images from a web browser or other app into a post you are composing
• Color consistency on some of the Explore tabs in Dark mode
• Some improvements to OAuth management over time
• Fix issue where Tapestry shares wouldn't load when Skyscraper needed to cold launch

From 1.3.2

• Fixed an issue with push notifications not respecting all block parameters
• Drafts saved for Chat messages

From 1.3.1

• Mute Hashtags from your Timeline
• Portuguese support
• New Skyscraper Text User Interface (TUI) mode in Explore tab