Updates

We’re excited to share the first beta of the Katalog app for iOS. You can try the early preview by installing it via TestFlight. This release also brings many quality-of-life fixes to the iOS, addressing the feedback we’ve received so far.

iOS

Improvements:

• More reliable auto-advance to the next track during playback
• Improved image rendering defaults and sizing on iOS

Fixes:

• Resolved keyboard overlap on login screens
• Fixed loading and error indicator behavior on article details
• Ensured mini player uses a consistent light theme

Personalize your listening experience by choosing custom narration voice! Select from 10 different voice options in settings.

New:

• Voice Selection: Choose your preferred voice for article narration from the settings page
• Consistent Voice Experience: Your chosen voice now works across both article audio and real-time AI conversations

Improvements:

• Enhanced Playback Speed: Added 1.75x playback rate option for faster listening
• Better Settings Interface: Improved settings page design. It’s now accessible from the top-left dropdown menu.

With the new version of the Chrome extension 0.0.5, you can now save more links and articles that would have previously failed.

Improvements:

• Enhanced Article Parsing: Chrome extension now passes full HTML content to the web app for better article extraction and improved parsing accuracy
• Better Error Handling: When article saving fails, you’ll now see a helpful toast notification with a direct link to install Chrome extension as an alternative

Fixes:

• Fixed issue where users couldn’t type spaces in the feedback form on article details page
• Improved article content parsing to remove unnecessary whitespace and formatting issues
• Fixed various parsing edge cases that could cause articles to fail processing

You can now have real-time voice conversations about any article! Ask questions, get explanations, and discuss content using natural speech while listening to articles.

New:

• Real-time AI Conversations: Hold voice conversations about articles - just press and hold spacebar to talk
• Feedback: New feedback dialog to easily share your thoughts and suggestions directly from the app
• Enhanced Quote Narration: Improved quote detection and custom voice assignment for better listening experience. Katalog would now intelligently pick a custom voice to represent a quote in the article.

Improvements:

• Error Tracking: Improved app stability with better error monitoring

Fixes:

• Fixed audio auto-play issues when selecting different paragraphs
• Fix several issues around microphone permissions handling

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.

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.

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.

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.

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