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Screvi Changelog - August 2026

Hello! And welcome back to another Screvi update. Here's what's new.

Thank you to everyone who sent requests and bug reports. Most of this month came straight from them.

Send to Kindle

You can now send articles and EPUB books from Screvi straight to your Kindle by email.

Send to Kindle settings page in Screvi

Follow the Send to Kindle setup guide →

Reader AI Assistant

Select a passage and ask the new AI assistant to explain it, translate it, or look up a word, then ask follow-up questions. Answers stream in as they are written. Select just one or two words and it opens the dictionary automatically. The assistant is available in both the web and mobile readers.

The reader's AI assistant explaining a selected passage

Two more reader changes shipped with it. Selections can now cross a page break in the book reader: hold at the edge of the page and it turns, keeping your selection going. And the highlights panel can sort by location or by date.

Save More From Instagram

Instagram posts shared to Screvi now save as highlights, with their captions, images, and videos on the card. For reels, you can also press Get transcript to turn the audio into searchable text, folded into the highlight alongside what was written.

An Instagram post saved as a highlight, with its videos and a Get transcript button

Shared reel links in the newer /reels/ format now work too. Previously they saved Instagram's login page as the article.

A New Feedback and Bug Report Hub

The support area now gives bugs and feature requests their own space, so reporting an issue or asking for something is easier than email and third party tools: app.screvi.com/roadmap. Bug reports get a proper form and a thread you can follow at app.screvi.com/bugs.

  • The feedback button asks whether you want to report a bug or send feedback, and takes you to the right place.
  • You can attach a photo or a short video to any report, request, or comment. Pasting a screenshot attaches it.
  • The roadmap is a single ranked list instead of a board, with Open, Shipped, and Yours tabs, sorted by newest so fresh requests are not buried. There is a new Highlights category.
  • A Yours page collects everything you filed or upvoted in one place.
  • You can withdraw your own feature requests and bug reports.

The roadmap as a single list with Open, Shipped, and Yours tabs

New MCP and Public API Endpoints

Screvi's MCP and public API have new tools and endpoints for working with your library, including tags and notes. Use them in your own workflows or through an AI assistant like Claude.

The new MCP actions also let your assistant manage your articles and their content, which was previously limited to highlights: archive, favorite, or move articles to Later in bulk, update a bad title, and re-fetch an article that saved badly. Write access is a separate permission you approve when connecting.

That was the start of a much bigger MCP release that landed this week. It has its own post.

A Few More Things

  • Search is much improved for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
  • Blank articles imported from Readwise or Pocket fetch their content when you first open them.
  • Review streaks follow your cadence, including weekly reviews.
  • The web app starts faster, and menus stay responsive after a long scroll.
  • Fixes include article notes that didn't save, newsletter images disappearing during AI cleanup, and large Kindle imports stalling.

The rest of the month, in full.

Other Improvements

Reading and reviewing

  • [ALL] Searching for a word inside a sentence in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean returned nothing before. It works now.
  • [ALL] Articles imported from Readwise or Pocket that had been sitting blank now fetch their content the first time you open them. Emails forwarded to Readwise Reader, which have no page to fetch, can be filled from Readwise with your Readwise token.
  • [WEB] The Read button on a source opens the reader whenever the source has an EPUB or PDF file.
  • [WEB] Podcasts can be excluded from reviews and reminder emails under Advanced filters.
  • [WEB] The review-reminder banner on Streaks can be dismissed.
  • [ALL] Streaks follow your review cadence. A weekly reviewer now sees "2 reviews" instead of "2 days", on web, on mobile, and in reminder copy.
  • [MOBILE] The streak calendar lists the highlights each review session resurfaced.
  • [WEB] Turning on an article filter switches to the All tab, so filtered results are never hidden in another tab.
  • [WEB] The RSS preview with its AI summary is now a button on each row instead of opening on hover.
  • [WEB] Links inside highlights open in a new tab, so the feed keeps your place.
  • [ALL] Book search falls back to Apple Books when Goodreads is down or returns few real covers, so the cover picker has usable images for more titles.
  • [ALL] Onboarding topics were reworked: sixteen topics instead of twenty-four near-duplicates, with every sample highlight chosen by hand and checked against the book.

Capture

  • [EXTENSION] Web highlights keep their hyperlinks. The extension is at 1.6.6.
  • [EXTENSION] When a page cannot be fetched, the extension offers what it captured from the tab instead.
  • [MOBILE] Sharing to Screvi with an expired subscription now says so, instead of looking like a network error.
  • [ALL] Connecting Notion from the mobile app now completes instead of leaving the sheet open.

Account and performance

  • [WEB] The app loads faster on a cold start: icons are bundled instead of fetched one by one, cover art is resized to the size it is shown at, and duplicate profile requests are gone.
  • [WEB] Opening menus after scrolling a long feed no longer lags.
  • [WEB] Navigating to a new page scrolls to the top; back and forward still restore your position.
  • [WEB] Invite links opened directly in the app keep their attribution, and the referral copy now says what the invitee and the referrer actually get.
  • [WEB] The pricing page has Lifetime back as a full column, and notes that one subscription works on every platform.
  • [WEB] Uploading an avatar works on touch devices.
  • [WEB] The MCP consent screen shows when a client is asking for write access.

Bugfixes

  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where Instagram reel links in the /reels/ format saved Instagram's login page as the article.
  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where the streak calendar counted highlights that were never reviewed, inflating the day's total by about a third.
  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where the cover search could hang forever on "Searching for covers".
  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where a note added to an article was not saved.
  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where the AI cleanup removed images from newsletters.
  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where some articles saved from HTML reported the wrong parse state.
  • [ALL] Fixed an issue where golem.de articles saved the consent wall instead of the article.
  • [WEB] Fixed an issue where highlight card titles were cut short even when there was room for them.
  • [WEB] Fixed an issue where the Sources count for All did not match what the All tab listed.
  • [WEB] Fixed an issue where the home tabs were slow to load and reading progress could fail to save.
  • [WEB] Fixed an issue where importing a large Kindle My Clippings file could stall the tab.
  • [WEB] Fixed an issue where the back button on the pricing page was missing for users without an active subscription.
  • [WEB] Fixed an issue where Obsidian and other tools using a scoped API key could not export highlights.
  • [MOBILE] Fixed an issue where opening an external link could fail silently.
  • [MOBILE] Fixed an issue where the highlight location in the reader was wrong after a page change.

As always, if you have any issues or feedback, let me know.

Happy reading ✌️

Pedro @ Screvi