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Every feature, improvement and fix — in one place. Product announcements and release notes are merged here so you always know what changed and what it unlocks for your translations.

Currently shipping v0.10.0 · Beta

Recent highlights

Feature

Docs hub, page re-slicing & smarter onboarding

Oct 5

Project quality check page with the checklist editor
Feature

Quality checks & sign-off

Sep 26

Feature

Editor power tools: re-clean, find & replace, version history

Sep 23

October 2026

FeatureOct 5 v0.10.0

Docs hub, page re-slicing & smarter onboarding

  • A full documentation hub is live — guides with a table of contents, prev/next navigation and instant search, managed from the admin
  • Re-slice imported pages without re-uploading: preview the new cuts first, then let the pipeline re-crop everything with live tracking
  • Jokai is now readable by AI agents — MCP server with OAuth, llms.txt discovery and agent-friendly content signals
  • Jokai-hosted AI models can power the pipeline, with admin kill-switches for every utility LLM call
  • New onboarding: a sample project, a getting-started checklist and an activation flow that gets you to your first translated page faster
  • Indie plan recalibrated — credits rebalanced and API access moved to Indie+
  • Recent chapters join recent projects on the dashboard, so where you left off is one click away
  • Server-side edits now appear live in open collaborative documents

September 2026

FeatureSep 28 v0.10.0

Mobile editor, social login & a faster pipeline

  • Sign in with Google or Discord — and link either account from your profile, with a password settable anytime
  • The editor now works on phones: touch navigation, block actions, stacked-page drag and a clipboard bar
  • Collaboration is sturdier — strict block claims with fair arbitration, and a dropped connection no longer loses your work
  • Exports embed the right fonts, run in the background with a progress indicator, and build much faster
  • Process a single page on demand — re-run OCR, translation or inpainting for just that page
  • Quarterly billing arrives: pay every three months and save on every plan
  • Security hardening — user-supplied AI endpoints can no longer reach private networks, and all known dependency vulnerabilities are patched
  • Long webtoon strips scroll smoother: canvas memory, gestures and selection handles tuned page after page
FeatureSep 27 v0.9.0

Find your projects faster

  • Recent projects surface right on the dashboard
  • Pin the series you are working on and reorder them — they stay on top
  • Move a chapter to another project — images, OCR and translations follow
Projects dashboard with recent and pinned sections
Recents and pins, on top of the stack
Chapter move dialog choosing a target project
Chapters travel with their work
FeatureSep 26 v0.9.0

The style presets dashboard

  • Browse and manage every preset in the new Presets dashboard, with usage stats for each
  • Share presets with your whole workspace or with selected projects
  • Push a style change to every block using a preset, wherever it lives
Style presets dashboard with usage counts
Every preset, and where it is used
FeatureSep 26 v0.9.0

Quality checks & sign-off

  • Build a quality checklist per project — your own steps, from “SFX typeset” to “names match the glossary”
  • Work through it chapter by chapter and sign off when everything passes
  • Compare any two versions of a page side by side before approving
  • Review comments surface where you sign off — nothing slips through
Project quality check page with the checklist editor
Your release checklist, per project
Chapter quality card with sign-off button
Sign off when everything is green
Snapshot compare modal showing two page versions side by side
Before / after, side by side
FeatureSep 25 v0.9.0

Your own font library

  • Upload your licensed fonts from Settings → Fonts — drag & drop, with type and size checks
  • Every upload is virus-scanned and reviewed before it goes live
  • Font storage scales with your plan
Font settings with the drag and drop upload zone
Drop a font, use it everywhere
FeatureSep 23 v0.9.0

Editor power tools: re-clean, find & replace, version history

  • Re-clean any already-cleaned page from its original image — your kept zones are reapplied, and it is free
  • Find & replace across a page or the whole chapter, with whole-word and regex modes
  • Version history keeps the last 20 snapshots per page — restore any of them in one click
  • Re-run OCR on a single block or a whole selection
  • Apply every exact translation-memory match on the page in one click
  • The stacked pages layout now switches to the right mode as you move between pages
ImprovementSep 22 v0.9.0

A smoother editor, page after page

  • A guided product tour walks you through the editor on first launch
  • Zoom level and pan position follow you between the canvas, stacked pages and the preview reader
  • Pages added to a chapter after translation are the only ones that translate — no more redoing the whole chapter
  • Pages stuck in “processing” now recover on their own
  • Custom fonts no longer render blank in stacked pages while they load
Editor product tour overlay on the canvas
A guided first pass over the editor
FeatureSep 21 v0.9.0

Quarterly & team plans

  • New quarterly billing — the same plans, paid every three months
  • Team plans come with seats: bring your artists, typesetters and proofreaders under one subscription
  • Plans and prices are now managed from a live catalog — changes reach the pricing page without a deploy
Pricing page showing quarterly and team plans
Pay quarterly, equip the whole team
FeatureSep 20 v0.9.0

Whole-chapter context & consistency audit

  • Translation can now read the whole chapter: pages are translated as one continuous story, with a rolling summary keeping names, tone and plot straight
  • A consistency audit runs at the end of every chapter translation and flags diverging terms, tone breaks and pronoun drift
  • Retranslate any flagged finding in one click from the report
  • Real-time collaboration is now included on the Indie plan
Consistency report drawer listing findings with source and target pairs
The audit report, with one-click retranslation
Translation context mode setting on a chapter
Chapter-wide context, per project
FeatureSep 20 v0.9.0

Workspaces & team library

  • Workspaces group projects, members and storage — one per team or per series
  • Bring your own S3 bucket per workspace: your files, your retention rules — or stay on Jokai storage
  • Number of workspaces is plan-gated, from 1 on Starter to unlimited on Max
ImprovementSep 18 v0.9.0

Admin: activity log & utility models

  • Every user action is logged — browse the trail in the new admin logs page and export it as CSV or JSON
  • A dedicated utility endpoint now serves the cheap LLM tasks: OCR correction, glossary detection and reformulations
  • Admins can enable or disable reference languages, with deletion protected while they are in use
  • Page snapshots can be deleted individually
Admin activity log page with export buttons
The full trail, exportable
FeatureSep 16 v0.9.0

Share any project with a link

  • Public share links give read-only access to a project — reviewers need no account
  • Reviewers comment right on the shared pages, and their notes land next to your team’s
  • Revoke a link anytime — access disappears instantly
Project share link dialog
One link, read-only, revocable
ImprovementSep 15 v0.9.0

OCR that explains itself

  • Blocks flagged “needs review” now say why — low confidence, empty detection or suspicious characters
  • Processing badges on the chapter board are time-aware: no more stale spinners on pages that already finished
Editor block flagged for review with its reason
A reason, not just a flag
FeatureSep 14 v0.9.0

Profile & account controls

  • Upload a profile picture — it shows across the dashboard, comments and review links
  • Delete your account yourself from Settings → Account, with a confirmation step and full data cleanup
  • Profile settings are reorganized into clear sections: profile, security and account
Profile settings page with avatar upload
Your profile, picture included
AnnouncementSep 3 v0.9.0

API docs with a request builder — and live testing

  • New public /api documentation page covering every endpoint, webhook and limit
  • “Build your request” panel: configure languages, model, custom prompt and context — code updates live in cURL, Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, PHP, C# and Java
  • “Try it” runner: execute a real one-shot translation from the docs page and see the before/after result
  • Syntax highlighting (mononoki font) on all code examples
FeatureSep 3 v0.9.0

Server-rendered final images

  • POST /api/v1/chapters/:id/render queues a composed image per page and language
  • Renders use the very same engine as the web editor — fonts, strokes, vertical text and effects are identical
  • Webhook events page.render.completed / failed, pixel ratio up to your plan export limit
ImprovementSep 3 v0.9.0

Import Studio & preview reader refinements

  • Full-page lightbox preview for uploaded pages
  • Double-click a page in Import Studio to open its preview
  • Preview reader gains zoom and a pages grid
FixSep 3 v0.9.0

Editor reliability pass

  • Pending edits are now flushed on unmount, page switch and tab hide — no lost keystrokes
  • Glossary matching now understands Latin plural forms of terms
FeatureSep 1 v0.9.0

Automatic glossary detection

  • When a chapter’s OCR settles, recurring names and terms are detected automatically
  • Suggestions merge into your glossary as auto entries, per project target language
  • One detection per chapter — review, rename or dismiss from the glossary panel
FeatureSep 1 v0.9.0

Per-project custom translation prompt

  • Shape the translator persona per series: tone, reading level, name handling
  • Project prompt takes precedence over your global preference
  • Placeholders for source and target languages

August 2026

FeatureAug 31 v0.8.0

Editor redesigned for mobile and tablets

  • Native-style sheets replace cramped desktop panels on small screens
  • Touch-first tools, page strip and app bar
  • Block popover anchored properly on desktop layouts
FeatureAug 30 v0.8.0

Multi-gateway billing

  • Dodo and Lemon Squeezy supported alongside existing gateways
  • Credit packs, storage add-ons and entitlements unified across gateways
ImprovementAug 30 v0.8.0

Richer text editing

  • Cleaned-image cache busting keeps the canvas in sync after inpaint
  • Script panel reformulation variants surfaced while editing
FeatureAug 29 v0.8.0

Block reformulations & reasoning level

  • Generate alternative translations for any text block, glossary-constrained
  • Choose your reasoning level per translation for speed/quality trade-offs
  • Reformulations persist per block with a rolling limit
FeatureAug 28 v0.8.0

Per-chapter translation model

  • Model picker directly in the editor — switch models per chapter
  • Catalog-driven: costs and plan gating follow the selected model
ImprovementAug 28 v0.8.0

Interleaved undo/redo

  • Image and text stacks now share one history — undo feels like one editor
  • Zoom persistence debounced for smoother canvas work
ImprovementAug 28 v0.8.0

Admin: BYOK presets & model overrides

  • Bring-your-own-key provider presets manageable from the admin panel
  • System-wide model overrides for OCR correction, glossary detection and reformulation
FeatureAug 27 v0.8.0

Vertical typesetting & CJK font fallbacks

  • True vertical Japanese typesetting in the editor and exports
  • CJK font fallback chain for mixed scripts
  • Baked bitmaps cache for rich text effects — heavy effects stay smooth
FixAug 27 v0.8.0

Collaboration & canvas stability

  • Atomic first paint on page switches — no stage teardown flicker
  • Preserved-zone text no longer glitches around cleanup
  • Solo-saved zones seed correctly into the shared document
FeatureAug 25 v0.8.0

Public API v1: keys, webhooks, one-shot translation

  • API keys with SHA-256 hashing, show-once, expiry and revocation
  • Signed webhooks (Stripe-style HMAC) for OCR, translation, inpaint and render events
  • One-shot translate endpoint: send an image, get blocks + cleaned + translated result
  • Per-key rate limiting and request logs

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