Kurozora

Summer has arrived in Kurozora, and the Summer Solstice update is the biggest one yet: a fresh start in your language and improvements across the app. Here’s what’s new: ---- New Features: - Kurozora now speaks your language! Available in 18 languages, with live switching that updates everything instantly. No restart required - The returning Hanabi, Pink Lemonade, and Shio Suika summer app icons - Parental Guide for shows, games, and literature, with community voting, editing, and reporting - Two-factor authentication with authenticator app and recovery code support - Seasonal browsing by season and year, with badges that link straight to the season - New Up Next widget for marking episodes watched from your Home Screen, plus more Date widget customization - Real-time notifications, plus a batch edit mode to mark or clear many at once - A new mention notification for when someone tags you - Feed composer upgrades: drafts, @mention autocomplete, Markdown, account switching, and a drafts menu - Quote and re-share feed messages, with room for your own take - Expand long feed messages inline with a tap - Review detail pages with selectable, copyable text - Delete your ratings, backed by a cleaner alert design - A full-screen media viewer for images - Manage blocked users from a dedicated list in settings - A new user reputation list - Smarter search with token filtering and an in-library scope - Profile picture studio: emoji, kaomoji, and monograms, Image Playground art, smart cropping, and one-tap removal - A redesigned, centered profile banner with smooth update transitions - Live activity status on profiles, so you can see who is around - Library upgrades: table layout, batch editing, per-item visibility, custom columns, title visibility, and search - Manage your subscription, restore purchases, and request a refund without leaving the app - Install Kuro-chan stickers for WhatsApp - A reminder subscription page with more calendar apps and a copy-link option - Added Fantastical and Proton Calendar support - New cache settings to see and clear stored data - Refreshed settings with headers, descriptions, and scroll-to-selection in pickers - A redesigned achievements page - New splash screen animations with a preview in Motion settings - A sidebar profile view, plus tab bar media controls on iOS 26 ---- Improvements: - Rebuilt entirely in code, retiring the last storyboards for faster, more reliable screens - Quicker launch with parallelized startup - Faster pagination and batch loading across the app - Smoother feed scrolling with height caching and image prefetching - Sharper rich link previews and caching - Locale-aware date and number formatting throughout - Better color contrast for accessibility - A new theme download flow with clear download states - Unified detail and list screens for consistency ---- Fixes: - Fixed many crashes across sharing on iPad, number formatting, sign-out, library switching, window resizing on Mac and iPad, and sign-in - Profile images no longer fall back to placeholders, and the account header is centered correctly - The feed text editor resizes correctly while typing, and GIFs size properly - Fixed Up Next issues when marking episodes watched - Polished the library on Mac and iPad: column resizing, gestures, per-kind layout, and square game posters - Corrected styling on iOS 18 and 26: nav and tab bars, search bars, quick actions, and glass buttons - Fixed chime audio dimming, the empty default chime label, and full songs not playing with an Apple Music subscription - Resolved missing authentication prompts and the auth screen flashing on cold launch - Fixed monogram editing animations and auto-cropping of selected images - Notification badges now reflect unread counts correctly - Plus many more layout, constraint, and stability fixes That’s it for this bright summer update, with more on the way. Thanks for tracking along, and enjoy the summer. Happy tracking!