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What changed, release by release.

Every update to the Mac app is included in the one-time price. Newest first.

v0.7.3 Current

New wordmark

The Boardify name in the top bar now wears the brand gradient.

Changed

  • The "Boardify" name next to the logo in the top bar is set in the new wordmark style: bold, tightly spaced letters painted with the brand gradient from orange to blue, matching the logo on the website. The mark itself and the app icon are unchanged.
v0.7.2

Column colours

Columns can be coloured like boards.

Added

  • Give a column a colour: hover its header and click the palette icon left of the collapse button, then pick from the same colours a board tile offers, or "No colour" to return to neutral. A coloured column is washed with that colour so the cards inside stand out on it. Copy Style and Paste Style carry a column's colour to other columns.
v0.7.1

Easier to grab drawings

Thin drawings are easier to select.

Changed

  • A drawing can be selected by clicking near a stroke, not only on it: a band of 12 px on either side of every stroke now takes the click, at any size of the drawing.
v0.7.0

Recolour drawings

A drawing's colour can be changed after it is saved, without drawing it again.

Added

  • Change a drawing's colour after it is saved: select the drawing and pick a colour from the bar above it, or open the custom colour picker; every stroke takes the new colour. Copy Style and Paste Style carry a drawing's colour to other drawings.
v0.6.0

Hide pictures

Pictures can now be covered for privacy or revealed one by one during a presentation.

Added

  • Hide a picture behind a blur: the Hide button in the picture's toolbar, "Hide picture" in the right-click menu, or Shift+H. A small eye-off badge marks a hidden picture; clicking the badge shows it again. Hidden pictures stay hidden when copied, duplicated, moved to another board or after a restart, and several selected pictures can be hidden or shown together.
v0.5.3

Bug fixing and stability release

Small fixes and groundwork under the hood; nothing changes in how the app is used.

Fixed

  • Bug fixing and stability release.

Requires macOS 12 or later on Apple silicon. Signed and notarised; no first-launch workaround needed.

v0.5.2

Signed and notarised for macOS

The Mac download is now signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens right away on any Mac. Nothing changed inside the app.

Fixed

  • The download opens without a warning: macOS 15 had refused earlier builds as "damaged" after downloading, since they were not signed by a registered developer. Anyone who saw that message can download again from the website.

Requires macOS 12 or later on Apple silicon. Signed and notarised; no first-launch workaround needed.

v0.5.1

Links open in the Mac app

A fix for link cards in the Mac app, which had not opened their pages since the app shell was built.

Fixed

  • Links open again in the Mac app: clicking a link card's title or its play button, on the board or inside a column, now opens the page in your browser. It had silently done nothing since the app shell was built.
v0.5.0

Search, picture editing and one-click editing

Search across every board, edit pictures without touching the original, and edit any text with a single click. The title and note bars are now one compact row each.

Added

  • Search the whole workspace from the magnifier in the top bar or ⌘F: boards and cards, each with its board path, plus the last eight boards you opened. Picking a hit opens the board and centres the card.
  • Crop, rotate and flip pictures from their bar. The original image is kept, so every edit can be undone or changed later.
  • Titles can stand vertically with a quarter turn to the left or right.

Changed

  • Notes, titles and to-do rows open for editing on a single click, with the caret where you clicked. A double-click is no longer needed.
  • To-do lists end in a faint "To-do" line; click it to add the next item.
  • Dragging a tool off the palette shows a small chip with the tool's icon and name.
  • The title bar folds alignment, fill, text colour and formatting into menus, and the note bar follows the same one-row layout.
  • A title's Bold, Italic, Underline and list buttons always style the whole title; ⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘U inside the editor still style only the selection.
  • Paste Style onto a title now carries bold, italic and underline along with size, fill, colour and alignment.
  • Two-finger scroll always pans and pinch always zooms. ⌘+scroll no longer zooms.

Fixed

  • After switching apps or using a ⌘ shortcut, scrolling could stay stuck on zooming until ⌘ was pressed again.
v0.4.0

Folding columns and import in Settings

Columns fold away, the Milanote import lives in Settings, and new cards land near the middle of the view.

Added

  • Columns fold to their header from the chevron; hover the name to see the rename pencil.

Changed

  • The Milanote import moved from the top bar into an Import section of the Settings panel, between Toolbar and Backup.
  • Clicking a tool adds the card near the centre of the view, offset a little each time so repeated clicks do not stack.
  • The Image and File tools add an empty card to drop a file onto instead of opening a file picker; the picker is still on the empty card.
  • A card's style bar shows only while that card is the sole selection.
v0.3.0

Snap guides, rich titles and style pasting

Cards line up while dragging, titles gain rich text and a colour of their own, and a card's look can be copied to others of the same kind.

Added

  • Snap guides: while dragging, cards snap to the edges and centres of the cards around them. Hold ⌘ to drag freely.
  • Copy Style and Paste Style in the right-click menu, between cards of the same kind (titles, notes, shapes, lines and board tiles).
  • Titles are rich text, with bold, italic, underline and lists, and a text colour of their own next to the fill.

Fixed

  • Outlined shapes can be grabbed anywhere along a comfortable band around their border, not only on the hairline itself.
v0.2.0

Drawing, files and group resizing

Draw freehand on the canvas, keep any file as a card, and resize several cards at once.

Added

  • Draw tool: sketch on the canvas in colour and width, then save the strokes as a drawing card that scales like a picture. Return, a double-click or "Edit drawing" reopens it.
  • File cards for anything that is not a picture. PDFs preview inline, text files show their first lines, and every file opens in its own app on the Mac.
  • Shift+click or ⌘+click adds a card to the selection or removes it.
  • Dragging one selected card's handle resizes the other selected cards by the same amount. Pictures keep their proportions.
  • A short notice under the top bar explains when something could not be added, such as a folder.
v0.1.0

Initial app release

The first build of Boardify for Mac, with the same app running in Safari and Chrome. Everything stays on your machine: boards, settings and images are plain files in the app's folder, or the browser's own storage on the web.

Added

  • Infinite canvas with notes, titles, to-dos, images, links, boards, columns, frames, shapes and lines. One Shape tool opens a picker of shapes and a line.
  • Boards inside boards, with breadcrumbs in the top bar and Back and Forward between boards.
  • Columns hold cards in order; drag any card in or out, or onto a board tile to move it there.
  • Rich-text notes with size and tint; titles with size, fill, alignment and a height you can set by hand.
  • Link cards with a title, description and image fetched on this machine, never through a third party.
  • Marquee selection, drag and resize with the handles, duplicate, a right-click menu, and copy and paste across boards.
  • Undo and redo for every edit.
  • Board tiles with a colour bar, toggled from the palette icon on the tile.
  • Settings panel: canvas colour and dot grid, toolbar on any edge, icons-only palette, and tool order by dragging the tools along the palette.
  • One-click ZIP backup of every board and image, and restore from a backup.
  • Milanote import from the account's Markdown export, or from a full JSON capture of the account for boards, columns, images and links with their positions.
  • The macOS app remembers its window size and position, and the Mac's swipe gesture goes back and forward between boards.

Requires macOS 12 or later.

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