🔒👀 Spoiler text (free for all!). You can now hide any text behind a click! Use spoilers in your docs and drafts, in comments, or in the Reader for your audience.

Select any text → hit the Spoiler button (closed eye icon) on the bottom bar or under Styling in the Format panel.

📄 Document defaults (for Ellipsus Plus). Set your favorite font, size, spacing, alignment, and pages/pageless layout once... and every new doc will open looking just how you like it. (Want something different for an individual doc? You can still tweak everything in the Format panel.)

You can access your defaults panel in any document, from the gear icon on the top of the right sidebar. Learn more in the Help Center.

The engineering team has made some updates and improvements related to compaction and fetching behavior that should reduce lag -- especially for users with a large number of custom themes -- and speed up theme population.

• We think all writers should be able to stand behind their work, and now… every writer can. That’s why Emboss’s writing journey is now free for everyone.
• Every writing journey now also gets its own standalone URL. You can share it wherever you share your work: anywhere you want to show the human labor behind it.
• And—on URLs, the writing journey turns your writing progress into a picture with a new words-written-over-time graph.
• What’s staying the same: Emboss still does not judge the quality of your writing, and it does not assign "AI or human" probability.
• Writing Journey metrics come from the same processes as version history and real-time writing in Ellipsus, turning the record your document already creates into an easy-to-read picture of a document’s progress. (You can learn more about Emboss on the Help Center.)
• Of course—everything is AI-free and private by default, and shared only on your own terms. Nothing about your writing process is public unless you actively choose to share it.Public version history sharing is accessible via Ellipsus Plus.

Check out our blog post about why we hate AI verifiers; and watch the video to see what’s new! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EclImkAVWbQ

Deleting a folder with works inside now requires the folder name to be typed as a confirmation step.

We’re launching the Ellipsus theme gallery so you can browse and download homemade themes that we’re writing on. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do 😎

👉 Check out the gallery

👉 Learn more about custom themes

We're adding new custom themes to the gallery every week.  #ThemeThursday is back!

💡 Note: Custom themes are an Ellipsus Plus feature. On the free plan, you can still browse the gallery, but you won't be able to import themes. Learn more about Ellipsus Plus ->

To make better use of the space and move to a format that will better accommodate potential future improvements, we've adjusted the layout of the Settings -> User details page.

Our authorization provider has made further updates to continue supporting older 15.xx iOS versions.

Following framework updates done by our authorization provider, the minimum version of iOS required by their services is 16.4.

If you are able to update your device to at least iOS version 16.4, this immediately remedies the issue, but they have confirmed that devices running older versions of iOS are no longer supported by their services—or Apple's—due to the compatibility and security risks.

There is no other workaround at this time.

Over the last three years, we've managed to acquire quite the lengthy list of feature requests!

In order to better reflect and communicate the development status, visibility, and organization of the ideas board, we're making some changes and updates, including:

• Adjusting labels and categories
• Updating statuses
• Enabling a (rough) roadmap view + announcements page

We appreciate your patience and understanding while we carry out these slightly messy updates!

These changes should improve the performance of syncing and version history, especially at peak times!