- NEWA first-install guide shows how to pin Essentials, open the popup, and add your first site. Existing installations skip this guide.
- FIXLicense validation uses Polar's stable 2026-10 API contract and retains an existing purchase when the service returns an API-version error.
- FIXUpdated favicon image parsing rejects malformed icons safely.
Changelog
Release notes in plain language.
- FIXSite icons now match the exact icon shown by an open browser tab, while closed and signed-out pages fall back to website-supplied icons before the browser cache.
- FIXExplicit light and dark site icons now follow browser appearance. A single available icon is reused in both appearances without adding a background.
- FIXExisting automatic icons refresh themselves after the update, so saved sites do not need to be deleted and recreated.
- FIXSync settings now state that sync is enabled by default and clarify that it stays within desktop installations of the same browser using the same sync account.
- FIXPrivacy and license wording now accurately describes what reaches the developer without broad "never" or "every device" claims.
- FIXReduced synced license data to the license key and activation date. Payment-provider customer IDs and email addresses are no longer retained.
- FIXIf Chrome sync cannot save a validated activation, the form now explains the problem and lets you try again.
- FIXSite icons are now checked and resized before caching; corrupt or oversized images are skipped instead of leaving a blank tile.
- FIXSlow or excessive site-icon responses are now bounded, so an unresponsive website cannot keep icon resolution running indefinitely.
- FIXChanging a synced tile's website no longer leaves the previous website's automatic icon on another device.
- FIXSite icons now refresh when websites change them and are periodically rechecked without reloading them every time the popup opens.
- FIXDeleting tiles and spaces now removes their unused cached site icons instead of leaving local data behind.
- FIXRemoved the generic Google favicon fallback. Site icons now come only from saved-site or browser/website-supplied resources; unresolved tiles use initials.
- NEWInitial release for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi. A toolbar grid of your favorite sites, organized into spaces, with browser sync, drag-and-drop reorder, keyboard shortcuts, and full light & dark support.