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Releases

Every update that reached people, newest first. The same notes are in the app, under About.

Each update is marked with the build it reached people in: iOS for iPhone and iPad, macOS for the Mac.

  1. iOS 96 macOS 96 4 changes
    • Search finds anything in a listing Search matches every field, the summary and the description. Results are grouped: listings, pages and settings, the manual.
    • A listing opens on its cover The cover photo across the top, then a strip of the rest. Inventory shows two tiles a row on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
    • Every way out asks first With unsaved changes, the X, closing a window, Command-W and Back all ask before your edits are discarded.
    • Photos stay loaded Photos no longer fail after you leave the app and come back.

  2. iOS 90 macOS 91 4 changes
    • A new look on iPhone, iPad and Mac Your pages sit in the sidebar, Inventory has status tabs, and Site holds your details, layout and address. The Mac saves again.
    • Changes wait for the check mark Nothing goes live on a single tap. Edit, then tap the check mark to publish, or the X to discard.
    • See photos full size Tap a photo to page through them all; turn the iPhone sideways for full screen. The privacy policy now says the camera takes photos too.
    • Search everything Search the sidebar, or press Command-F, to find listings, pages, settings and the manual.

  3. iOS 87 1 change
    • A new address for saving Your showcases now save through Showcaser's new server address. Earlier builds can no longer save; update to keep editing.

  4. macOS 86 4 changes
    • The manual, inside the app About has the whole manual, searchable, beside the release notes, the features, the keyboard shortcuts and the legal texts.
    • Report an Issue and Diagnostics Both are at the foot of the sidebar. A report goes privately to the people who make Showcaser; diagnostics only if you attach them.
    • Settings for this Mac Command-comma opens Settings: the window's text, and whether it wears the open showcase's theme.
    • Removed showcases stay removed A showcase taken off this Mac no longer comes back on the next launch; its recovery key brings it back.

  5. macOS 85 4 changes
    • Showcaser on the Mac The same showcases, keys and listings as your iPhone, arriving by iCloud Keychain. One purchase covers every device.
    • Drag photos in from the Finder or Photos Drop them on a listing, or on the list to start a new one. Drag them among themselves to reorder; the first is the cover.
    • Listings side by side Command-click a second listing or page to put them next to each other, or open any card in a window of its own.
    • Keyboard shortcuts for the daily verbs Command-N for a new listing, Command-S to publish, Command-1 to 9 for each status.

  6. iOS 84 4 changes
    • Dimensions: a real size for every piece Add a Dimensions field in Listing schema: width, height and depth as numbers, in or cm. Sizes you have used appear as one-tap shortcuts.
    • See a painting on your own wall On the site, a piece with dimensions has View on your wall: it opens in AR on iPhone and iPad, at its real size, as a stretched canvas.
    • No made-up titles A piece with no title shows none. In the app it is named by the date it was added, and every row shows that date.
    • Contact and tabs only when needed Contact appears once you add contact details; a site with just one tab shows no tabs.

  7. iOS 80 2 changes
    • A Gallery can open on its wall Settings, Layout, Gallery: Opens on Grid or Wall. Wall hangs every piece at its real size, so pieces need a Size.
    • New layouts and fonts arrive without an update The Layout and Fonts screens now come from your site, so new choices appear as soon as they exist.

  8. iOS 78 2 changes
    • See each font before you choose Settings, Fonts shows your showcase's name and tagline in every face, so you can compare them right there.
    • Categories are simply your Category field Its choices are the buttons above your list, on the site and in the app, in every layout. The search switch no longer decides it.

  9. iOS 76 4 changes
    • Gallery layout, square photos and fonts Settings, Layout: Gallery shows every picture whole in a wall, a red dot when sold; Cards can be square. Settings, Fonts sets the site's type.
    • Black and white until you pick a theme With no showcase yet, or no theme chosen, the app is black on white, or white on black in dark mode. Once you pick one, the app wears your site's theme.
    • Categories on the list The same category chips the site shows sit above your listings. A pick-list also has New category at the bottom while you edit.
    • Photos on any page Add photos to a page in Settings. They show after the words; a page with only photos is a photo page.

  10. iOS 70 4 changes
    • Two devices never save over each other If your iPad changed a listing while your phone had it open, your phone asks: keep mine, use theirs, or keep editing. Nothing you typed is lost.
    • Site changes just add up Contact details on one device and the theme on another: both are kept, without a question. A listing schema changed elsewhere is shown as it is now.
    • Deleted elsewhere? Put it back Saving a listing another device deleted offers Put it back or Discard. Deleting one changed since you opened it asks first.
    • The list freshens itself Come back to the app after a minute away and your listings are as they are now.

  11. iOS 62 4 changes
    • Showcase is now called Showcaser The same app with a new name on your home screen. Your showcases, keys and listings are untouched.
    • Every showcase has its own address A new showcase takes one made from its name, like yourname.showcaser.app, or the next free one. Change it in Settings > Address.
    • The app wears your site's theme Change it in Settings > Theme and the app changes with it. Themes you make are on your phone for every showcase.
    • Switch showcases from the title Tap the showcase's name at the top of the list. Settings is now just the settings of the one you're in.

  12. iOS 55 4 changes
    • Your listing schema, made your own Settings > Listing schema: pick Vehicles, Tools & equipment or General, or change it and it becomes yours. Remove a status and its listings move to another.
    • Add, rename, remove any field, price included Removing a field shows the listings that have it: delete the values, keep them out of sight, or hide it. Price has When empty, show, like Call for price.
    • Some things only you can see Switch a field to the lock in its editor: it stays in the app, sealed with your key. A ring shows each listing being re-saved, and finishes if you close the app.
    • Choose a theme, or make one Settings > Theme: try Quiet, Harbour and others in the preview, then Publish. Or make your own from a few colours; the rest is worked out.

  13. iOS 45 4 changes
    • Run your showcase from your phone Your listings in three lists: For sale, Sold and Hidden. Swipe one to mark it Sold, Pending or Hidden; tap it to change anything. The site follows straight away.
    • Photos and video, in the order you choose The first one is the cover. Video is made smaller on the phone before it goes up, and location is taken out of every photo.
    • Several showcases on one phone Tap the name at the top of Settings to switch, start a new one, or add one with its recovery key or by scanning its QR code.
    • Your site's words, pages and header photo, in Settings Name, phone, hours and footer; the pages that become the site's tabs; a photo across the top. Back up shows the recovery key that owns it all.