Changelog

Four new layouts & a better iPad experience

New

• New layout: Text wallpaper — an Instagram-ready way to post; everyday shots look good
• New layout: Postcard — keep your trips and your days as postcards
• New layout: Heritage palette — everyday snapshots, an eye for color
• New layout: Travel tag — open up your travels, luggage-tag style
• ColorWander on iPad — a native interface, with a two-column editor in landscape
• The Calendar layout can start the week on Sunday or Monday
• A heads-up inside the app before your free trial ends
• Stamp layout adds selectable perforations — closer to the real thing

Improved

• Layout picker reordered and grouped — new and limited-time-free layouts are easy to spot
• Slimmer color controls in the editor panel
• A unified look for everything Pro
• A new mini height for the bottom panel — more room for the canvas
• Consistent section headings across panels

Fixed

• The “Add location” hint no longer lingers after hiding captions

Colors your way, every layout to preview, and a new rounded typeface.

New

• Text color is yours to set — fixed custom colors being silently overridden in some layouts.
• Preview every layout — Pro layouts can be previewed freely; unlock only if you love the result.
• New rounded CJK typeface, GoRound — soft, generous curves for Chinese captions.
• Traditional Chinese typefaces — WenKai TC and Han Serif TC, no more Simplified glyph shapes.
• Literary quotes now come in real Traditional Chinese, not converted text.
• Added German localization.

Improved

• Glass palette HEX labels now follow your chosen typeface.
• Glass palette exports fixed — high-resolution output no longer washes out and matches the preview.
• Live Photo covers now match the static export's glass finish, and the glass reads more clearly during playback.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the app could get stuck on first launch on iOS 16.0/16.1.
• Fixed Chinese characters being clipped at the top in certain typefaces.
• Fixed captions being cut off on landscape ratios.
• Ticket layout: the number can now be cleared, and coordinates show 2 decimal places instead of 4.
• Fixed missing HEX labels on the glass palette when the panel sits on the left or right.

Now supports iOS 16, plus a batch of hand-polished details.

New

• Now runs on iOS 16 — older devices welcome.
• New 4:5 export ratio — made for Instagram posts.
• All six palette chips are now editable — shared across Glass palette, Color story and Palette bands, with an eyedropper that picks straight from your photo.
• Smarter color extraction — near-duplicate colors are told apart, and even monochrome photos fill all six chips.

Improved

• Tap-to-edit canvas — tap the color block, palette or watermark to jump straight to its controls.
• Gallery keeps your exports byte-for-byte — 4K and lossless stay lossless.
• Buying Lifetime during a trial now warns you and helps cancel the subscription first — no double billing.
• The membership page's feature carousel now plays automatically.
• The default Latin font is now a vintage typewriter face (Ticket keeps its modern sans).

Fixed

• More reliable saves — transient Photos errors retry automatically, and a one-tap email sends diagnostics to the developer if anything still fails.
• A batch of small fixes — clearer error states, tighter selection outlines, and smoother tap targets.

New Ticket & Perler layouts, a freer canvas with transparent export, reworked literary quotes, and a redesigned welcome.

New

• Ticket layout — real ticket-stub texture with an auto ticket number, barcode, and coordinates. Four edge styles (perforated / stamp / notched / rounded) and adjustable margin. Free for a limited time.
• Perler-bead layout — turn your photo into a pixel-bead mosaic. Free for a limited time.
• Shrink the photo to reveal the canvas behind it — fill the canvas with a solid color, gradient, or blurred photo.
• Adjustable background opacity, with transparent PNG export.
• A redesigned welcome flow and membership page — real user cards and feature previews.

Improved

• Fully reworked literary corpus — 1,400+ Chinese and 2,800+ English public-domain passages, with better time-of-day matching.
• More accurate auto scene labels and mainland-China location captions.
• Faster all around — launch, photo picking, export, and Gallery.

Fixed

• Fixed an occasional 4K / lossless Live Photo export failure.
• Fixed Polaroid and color-block seam jaggies, and title clipping on some fonts.

Fixes some photos that wouldn't export when photo blur was on.

Fixed

• Some photos failed to export or save as a Live Photo when photo blur was on — fixed now.
• Image export is more reliable overall.

New Receipt layout, photo blur & background opacity on every layout, multi-line captions, and 27 new fonts.

New

• Receipt layout (free for a limited time) — capture your everyday moments on a little till slip.

Improved

• Photo blur on every layout — Gaussian and Motion (the Instagram-style pixel stretch).
• Adjustable background opacity on every layout — play with translucent color blocks.
• Adjustable photo corner radius on layouts with an inset photo (Editorial poster, Receipt, Color story) for a softer, rounder look.
• Captions now wrap across multiple lines (up to four).
• Color-left / Gradient-left / Color-right / Gradient-right layouts now support horizontal text.
• Richer font selection with category filters — 27 new fonts added for different moods.
• Gallery can now sort by capture date (previously save date only).

Fixed

• Fixed Live Photos not being recognized or exported when Photos access was limited to selected photos.
• Performance: smoother layout switching, faster photo loading, snappier Gallery thumbnails.

Glass Palette fully upgraded, two new Calendar layouts, Color Story free for a limited time.

New

• Glass Palette fully upgraded — customize panel position (6 placements incl. centered), chip labels (HEX code, or Chinese / English / Japanese traditional color names), arrangement (3×2 grid or 6×1 row), and opacity. The world is one giant glass palette.
• New Calendar-top (limited-time free) and Calendar-bottom layouts — a whole new way to journal your day. Tap any day on the card to move the highlight, or reset it back to the photo's capture date.
• Color Story — the seed users' favorite layout — is free for a limited time.

Improved

• Layout picker reordered to better match how you actually use them.
• On iOS 26, Glass Palette export uses the real Liquid Glass material — exports now match the editor preview's frost and specular highlights exactly.

Editorial poster polished, Gallery re-edit more complete, new Live Photo diagnostic.

New

• Editorial poster + literary mode now lays out quote / location / author as a clean 3-row stack
• Live Photo diagnostic tool in Settings — self-serve check when a Live Photo isn't recognised

Improved

• Editorial poster default font feels right across all ratios — landscape no longer crowds the photo
• Editorial poster title / subtitle slots stay stable when fields are cleared — time no longer jumps to the title row
• Gallery re-edit preserves more state: emoji, literary quote, location, and time stay exactly as saved

Fixed

• Pro "remove watermark" now actually applies on Editorial poster (preview, export, and Live Photo)
• Switching literary language / rerolling now updates the quote on Gallery-reopened cards
• What's New sheet now reaches v1.1.3 upgrade users (was previously skipped due to a canary mismatch)

New Editorial poster layout, gallery re-edit, and a limited-time share-for-Pro campaign.

New

• Editorial poster layout. Free to use; Pro removes the watermark.
• Tap any saved Gallery card to preview it on a 3D-tilt paper card, swipe through, and tap Edit to keep working on it.
• Limited-time campaign — share your ColorWander experience to earn free Pro membership.

Improved

• Layout strip reordered; switching and picking layouts feels smoother.
• Localized text polished across many places.

Smoother gestures, gradient in every direction, more free features.

New

• Gradient layout in all 4 directions — top, bottom, left, right
• Glass Palette and Gradient (top) free for a limited time (was Pro)
• Live Photo dynamic export is now free for everyone (was Pro)
• Caption time now shows on photos from any date, not just today

Improved

• Tap caption once to edit (no more double-tap)
• Tap caption works on every layout, every zoom level, every panel state
• Glass Palette export is more transparent — your photo stays visible behind the panel
• Settings section titles fully translated across all 7 languages
• Polished dark-mode UI details for better visibility
• Polaroid layout no longer lets you pick a white caption color that disappears on the white card

Fixed

• Pinch-to-zoom restored on every gradient layout variant
• Close / Export buttons stay responsive after pinch-zooming the photo
• Inline caption editor stays above the keyboard on rapid repeated taps
• Switching layouts and operating panels is more consistent and responsive

Bug fixes from user feedback.

Fixed

• Caption editor input no longer hides behind the keyboard
• Glass Palette layout fits cleanly inside 16:9 cards
• Pinch zoom and drag are preserved on every export
• Lossless export keeps chrome sharp on low-resolution sources
• Emoji keeps showing on cards even after location text is cleared

Improved

• Tighter close animation when leaving the Text panel
• Bottom toolbar auto-hides while typing for more focus
• Layout panel no longer hides the rightmost thumbnail behind the close button

Smoother color cards, smoother flow.

New

• Live preview while you adjust styling — the panel no longer covers the photo
• Glass Palette: first chip color now follows your Color-tab pick
• Universal angle control on every gradient (was custom-only)
• Pinch-to-zoom on the photo (1× — 3×), works on both still and Live Photo sources
• Real scanned-film grain texture with adjustable intensity
• Korean (한국어) and Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) fully localized
• Live language switching — no app restart

Improved

• Auto-recommended gradients now follow your photo's hue family
• Caption double-tap editing no longer jolts the canvas
• System color picker and eyedropper lifted out of the bottom panel
• Toolbar order matches the natural color-card editing flow
• Fast handle drag is buttery, even at high speed
• Glass Palette Live Photo export keeps the frosted-glass effect over the moving frames
• Editor "Next" button renamed to "Export"
• One-tap "Back" after exporting returns to the editor
• Caption renders consistently for ~6,800 GB2312 L1+L2 hanzi (up from ~2,750)
• Font names localized across all 7 supported languages
• Faster launch — bundled city data and literary corpus shrunk ~60% via LZFSE

Fixed

• Live Photo export no longer drops the original audio
• System color picker eyedropper now correctly applies the picked color
• Same edit session no longer creates duplicate cards when you save / share / export Live Photo

A little more color.

New

• Pro access with a 1-week free trial: Monthly, Yearly, and Lifetime
• 1,900+ Chinese & English literary quotes for caption mode
• 4K and lossless export support
• Live Photo card export (long-press in Apple Photos to play)
• Glass Palette layout — frosted color chips floating over your photo

Improved

• Caption rendering more stable with smoother font fallback
• Subscription status clearly separates trial from renewal
• Cross-tier upgrades managed in-app via Apple's subscription flow
• Multiple Live Photo audio and glass rendering fixes from beta feedback

ColorWander is here.

New

• Classic layout: photo + dominant-color side panel
• Caption modes: Location, Time, Custom — all on-device
• 2K JPEG export
• Gallery: save your cards locally
• Share sheet integration
• Multiple languages: English, 简体中文, 日本語, Français, Español