Version History
Stable Releases
3.0 (download) – 2025-07-19
(SHA-256: e9749258a08f3418e036296204ce0dca3fc772c0a258df9e6ed451dde3bc1c60)
This update is mostly "under the hood", just modernizing some of the code and laying groundwork for future features with saved searches. Still, these are the new bug fixes and features in this version:
– WebM videos can be played again
– "Bold font" accessibility option in iOS no longer causes lag
– Adjacent posts can’t be accidentally zoomed in any more to overlap the current post
– App’s settings can be exported and imported back in for backups and sharing settings and saved searches between devices
– Post order is corrected again in some pools
– Title bar no longer stutters when unzooming in a pool
– When viewing favorites, selected sort/interval options apply properly
– Posts lazyloaded in horizontally scrolling detail view now properly use the selected sorting option
This version also includes the features of v2.3 that was never published outside of a beta version:
– Sort order and date range for post thumbnail views are always available from a dropdown menu in the top right corner (the arrows up and down button)
– "Popular posts" view can now show popular posts by week, month or year in addition to day
– "Favorited posts" can now be sorted by date they were favorited
– Default order and date range options have been moved to the settings
– External screen mirroring improvements:
– WebM videos play properly
– The mirroring features can now be disabled in the settings so that the device’s screen is mirrored 1:1 to the external display
– New image zooming that should work better for tall images
– Information about the post (ID, sources, resolution, etc.) are displayed underneath its tags
– Adds an option to autoplay .gif animations in posts’ thumbnails
– Fixes a "There were no posts to show" error for users in time zones that are behind UTC
2.2.1 (download) – 2022-06-12
(SHA-256: 69f3900ec63a6bb49a90ba634dea20d6231ff0654a09b2269244b247b336e6a2)
– Fixes a visual glitch where the pincode screen would show a pixel’s width of previous content
2.2 (download) – 2022-06-08
(SHA-256: f60d607b6fb68dcfecfcc60d526a804c1cc8f14aeebf0dd02f0e18f4603258fa)
– Four new quirky themes (two light and two dark)
– Also a pretty large overhaul to the theming system making it easier to create new themes in the future – suggestions/inspiration welcome!
– Multiple new icons, including a couple of "incognito" icons to blend in with your regular apps
– Icon ideas, concepts, and suggestions are also much appreciated, and they’ll always be credited to you in the app’s settings.
– Image scaling modes in Behavior settings:
– Always fill screen horizontally (current default option),
– Scale to fit in landscape mode,
– Always scale image to fit screen
– A slideshow option for images (available from the long press menu when viewing them in the horizontal detail view)
– Added a search for pools
– Redesigned pool list and pool indicator in the posts’ detail view
– Post relationships: parent/child posts are listed below the post’s tags like the pools that the post belongs to
– Post filters in the sorting menu: hide still images, hide animations, or hide child posts
– Date range shortcuts in the sorting menu: quick filters for searching posts within the last day, month, week, year or decade
– Fixed an issue with tags that had ":" in their name
– Fixed an issue where a manually searched tag, that was also favorited, would change its color to gray
2.1.1 (download) – 2025-07-18
(SHA-256: 62cae55c15b060895ce40c154a4f7cbd1c6afab2b6ab28f7afecd38b2f2f9f39)
– Fixes gif animations’ playback speed on 120 Hz iPhone displays
2.1 (download) – 2021-09-20
(SHA-256: 31d36e5b6a585db26de0c5b4f4485762a227111a38df1ba97ccfba0b1fd987e3)
– Adds iOS 15 compatibility in addition to iOS 14
– Allows playing WebM videos fullscreen
– Fixes updating and caching issues with favorited tags
– Improves the performance of thumbnail lists and fixes visual glitches with updating them
2.0.1 (download) – 2021-05-25
(SHA-256: dc493402636a16cd24f198c7af2197b9d1f8f1918701cd0f1a86dcabd1df63f4)
– Fixed an issue with handling Cloudflare’s captcha
2.0 (download) – 2021-02-27
(SHA-256: 102aceb564f4be4d2264511d08fc6957ccb09179f1e2aa79eff0f71dff43a666)
WebM’s playing natively in app:
– If you’ve previously used an external WebM player (VLC or Infuse), the setting will automatically default to the new in–app player
New search view:
– Supports multiple tags in one search, just like it works on the web page
– Last typed word will autocomplete (taking into account the special "–" and "~" prefixes too)
– Supports (but won’t autocomplete) all meta searches, like date:, order:, pool:, and so on
– Long pressing on tags in a post detail view has two new search options: add to current search and filter from current search
Passcode lock when app is launched:
– Choose between a 6–digit and alphanumeric passcode that will be required to open the app
– Hides the app screenshot from multitasking menu when enabled
– Supports face recognition and fingerprint reading too on most devices
Alternative web browsers:
– Browser can be changed from Safari to Firefox, Brave or Chrome
– Tails will also honor the systemwide default browser
Other resolved issues:
– Improved dark mode text visibility
– Fixed infinite scrolling in pools
– Fixed a visual glitch with the image moving upwards when zooming images in
– Fixed a subscribed tag to no longer show as updated if the new posts are blacklisted
– Fixed incorrect colors when automatic light/dark mode switching is used
– Fixed posts appearing as zoomed after navigation
– Fixed incorrect content overlapping on devices with a camera notch in the screen
1.1 (download) – 2020-08-08
(SHA-256: f2c0dd19ca75720f5045094eb5b9f46ccacf5202c1bd1c91ab16b77372b2d47c)
General improvements in this version:
– Improved Cloudflare captcha handling
– Built–in support for proxying
– Support for manually changing the web endpoint the app connects to
– Option to force low data mode on, regardless of device’s setting
– The app should load even less secondary information in low data mode
– Better error messages when a search or a pool doesn’t have any posts
Changes to viewing pools:
– Tapping an image in a pool view zooms it in instead of opening the post’s details, to match the detail view behavior. Details can now be opened from the image’s long press menu.
– Improvements to the pool navigation to keep the navigational hierarchy flat
– Fixed downloading posts from a pool
Other resolved issues:
– Reduced memory usage overall, making the app less likely to crash after browsing a lot of posts
– Fixed the app showing a wrong post after returning from a WebM player app
– Fixed a crash when opening certain posts
1.0 (download) – 2020-05-19
(SHA-256: 81018120c6f552c7f87d9eef151b3288f0b2f68ea18a067dc8e6fb92b8b8af30)
This is the first public release of Tails, version 1.0.