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July 5, 2025

Remember where you left off

Remember where you left off

Katalog now automatically saves your listening progress in any article. You can leave and come back later to pick up right where you left off. You can also navigate the article by clicking directly on the paragraph you want to listen to, rather than using the audio player.

Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug that caused audio to start playing automatically when selecting a different paragraph to begin from.
July 1, 2025

Changelog banner in web app

Changelog banner in web app

We’ve added a changelog banner to the homepage to keep you up to date with the latest improvements.

June 27, 2025

Extension Update & Improved Error Handling

Extension Update & Improved Error Handling

We’ve released a new version of the Chrome Extension (v0.0.4) with several improvements and fixes.

  • Open from extension: You can now open a saved article directly from the success message in the extension.
  • Better error messages: If an article fails to save, the extension will now show a clear error message. In the web app, a notification will appear for any articles that failed during processing.

Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where the extension might not work on a page immediately after installation.
June 20, 2025

Better article parsing and image descriptions

Better article parsing and image descriptions

We’ve improved the quality of the automatically generated descriptions for images within your articles. The new description should be shorter and more to the point.

You will also now see a status indicator while articles are being processed after you save them, so you don’t have to wait until we generate these descriptions.

Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where certain elements like image source URLs were incorrectly included in the article text.
June 18, 2025

Chrome extension to save articles to Katalog

Chrome extension to save articles to Katalog

You can now save articles to Katalog directly from your browser. Download the extension from the Chrome Web Store, sign in to your Katalog account and click the icon in the top bar to save the current URL.

June 13, 2025

Auto-generating descriptions for images

Auto-generating descriptions for images

When an image inside the article doesn’t have an alt attribute or a caption, Katalog will now generate its description using AI.

Fixes:

  • Email templates. Fixed a broken link in the Magic Email template.
June 12, 2025

Display images in transcripts

Display images in transcripts

When you add new articles to Katalog, we now parse and properly display images inline with the rest of the text.

Fixes:

  • Article parsing: list items. Fixed cases when nested list items would be duplicated in the parsed articles
  • Article parsing: images. Fixed cases images that are inside paragrapgs are ignored inthe final transcript.
May 30, 2025

Change playback speed

Change playback speed

You can now easily switch between different playback speeds while listening to an article.