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Every entry from the Catalogie build log - the features we ship and the reasoning behind them, newest first. Open any entry to read the full write-up.

  • Releasev1.3.012 September 2026

    Bring your history with you - imports, catch-ups and a library you can sort

    The largest release since launch, and most of it comes down to one idea: the years you already spent tracking things somewhere else should not be the reason you cannot move. Catalogie now imports from TV Time, IMDb, The StoryGraph, Backloggd and a Trakt-shaped watch history - and it shows you exactly what it is about to do before it does it, row by row, so you can fix a wrong match or drop something you never watched before a single thing is saved. Around that: tick an episode in the middle of a season and Catalogie offers to catch up everything before it, split across the days it actually happened over; a library you can sort, filter by year or studio and group the way you think; and a title you can mark private so that it has no viewer at all - not a follower, not a mutual, not someone holding a direct link. Underneath, the whole app was audited for security with every finding closed, the pages you use most got measurably faster, and a long list of things that were quietly wrong are now right.

    • Import your history from TV Time, IMDb, The StoryGraph, Backloggd or a Trakt-shaped CSV - you tell us the source, so nothing is guessed from a file name
    • See the whole import before it happens: every row we will add, every row we matched to the wrong thing and every row we could not place at all - and overrule any of it before it commits
    • Letterboxd and Goodreads are in the picker marked coming soon - both are written, and neither is switched on until a real export has been through end to end
    • Queue a second import instead of being turned away while the first is running, and an interrupted one picks up from where it stopped
    • Tick an episode in the middle of a season and catch up everything before it - split across the days it really happened over, rather than landing all on today
    • Sort your library, filter it by year or studio, group it by status, studio or decade, and see the release calendar for the titles you actually track
    • Mark a single title private and it has no viewer at all - it leaves the lists, the counts and the activity it would otherwise have appeared in
    • Report a comment, be told when one of yours is removed, appeal a dismissed report, and keep adult reporting off unless you turn it on
    • A full security audit with every finding closed, a faster dashboard, library, game and book pages - and fixes throughout, starting with deleting a tracked record now asking first
  • Releasev1.2.025 July 2026

    Books from readers, sharper ratings, dozens of new badges

    The biggest update since launch. If a book is missing from the catalogue you can now add it yourself - describe it once, and after a quick check it becomes a real entry everyone can use, with a note back to you when yours goes in. Ratings have been rebuilt around the way people actually think about scores: choose 5 stars with halves or a 10-point scale, separately for TV, movies, games and books, rate individual episodes, and see what the Catalogie community made of something right next to its IMDb score. On top of that: more than 35 milestone badges to work through, a rebuilt Yearly Wraps page, a dashboard that closes up its own gaps, and a TV tab that finally tells the difference between a show you have finished and one that is only between seasons.

    • Add a book the catalogue does not have - describe it once and it becomes a shared entry for everyone once we have checked it, and you are told when yours goes in
    • Rate your way: 5 stars with halves or a 10-point scale, set separately for TV, movies, games and books, with the Catalogie community average shown alongside IMDb
    • Rate individual episodes, each with its own IMDb score on the still
    • Milestone badges grew from 6 to more than 35, in tiers you can work through, and Yearly Wraps was rebuilt: pick any year, see your top genres ranked and both your longest and current streaks
    • A series that is still airing is no longer filed away as finished - it now sits under "More episodes coming" instead of alongside shows that ended years ago
    • Fixed: clearing a rating failed every time, follower counts stopped counting at 200, and the bottom bar could go missing in the installed app
    • Closed a privacy gap where the follower and following lists of a private profile could be read by anyone, and hardened the tools we use to run the service
  • Patchv1.1.317 July 2026

    A faster library, clearer messages and performance improvements

    A patch built almost entirely out of things that were quietly wrong. Logging a game session with tomorrow's date could take your whole dashboard down with it - that is fixed, and nothing can be marked watched, played or read before it is out. Your library and your follower count now keep themselves up to date as you move around the app, so a change you make on your phone shows up on your laptop without a reload. Movies finally show when you watched them: those dates were recorded all along, going back years, and the list simply never showed them. Everything is quicker, too - posters load as you scroll instead of all at once, the library sends about half the data it used to, and book pages come back faster and far more reliably.

    • Fixed a bug where a game session logged with a future date could take your entire dashboard down
    • Nothing can be marked watched, played or read before it is out - and when Catalogie refuses something, or a service it relies on is having trouble, it now says why instead of shrugging
    • Your library and follower count refresh as you use the app - no more reloading to see a change you made on another device
    • Movies now show when you watched them, going back to the very first one you logged
    • Faster all round: posters load as you scroll, the library sends about half the data, and book pages come back quicker and far more reliably
  • Patchv1.1.216 July 2026

    A clearer sign-in, steadier rendering and these diaries

    A patch focused on getting people in - and back out - cleanly. The sign-in and create-account screens now state the Terms and Privacy Policy you agree to, link both, and add a copyright line and a prominent "Back to home" button, so signing in is transparent and never a dead end. We also closed a rendering bug where slow or blocked web fonts could briefly scramble a page - fonts are now self-hosted from our own domain - and shipped the standalone Dev Diaries page you're reading.

    • Sign-in and create-account now state the Terms and Privacy Policy you agree to, with both linked and a copyright line
    • A prominent "Back to home" button on the auth screens - the login page is no longer a dead end
    • Fixed a bug where slow or blocked web fonts could briefly scramble a page - fonts are now self-hosted from our own domain
    • Shipped this standalone Dev Diaries page, with Terms and Privacy links in the homepage footer
  • Patchv1.1.115 July 2026

    Sign-up safety, a friendlier date picker and polish

    A reliability, polish and hardening patch gathering everything shipped since v1.1.0. We closed a sign-up bug that could lock people out of their own account, added a fail-safe for missing verification emails, shipped a friendlier date picker, refined profiles, finished the rename to Catalogie, and made the app more crawlable - with mobile fixes throughout.

    • Fixed a sign-up bug that could permanently lock someone out of their own account
    • Unverified sign-ins now auto-resend a fresh verification email if one goes missing
    • A new date picker for logging watch dates - jump by month or year
    • Profile activity heatmaps now open on your most recent week, not January
    • Made the app readable to search engines and hardened it against false flags
    • Tightened test coverage and CI so regressions get caught before release
  • Releasev1.1.014 July 2026

    Following, notifications and a faster library

    Our first feature drop after launch makes Catalogie social. Follow other people, keep a profile that is yours to share down to a single title, and get a quiet nudge when it matters - all on top of a library that now loads noticeably faster.

    • Follow people and shape a public profile you control
    • Comments and reactions on the titles you track
    • Opt-in push notifications when someone follows you
    • Founding Member badges for the first 1,000 accounts
    • Faster library loads and a stack of launch-week fixes
  • Launchv1.0.013 July 2026

    Catalogie is live - one home for everything you track

    The first public release. Movies, TV series, games and books finally live in one catalog, with progress tracked down to the episode, chapter, page or hour, and a dashboard that turns your history into something worth opening.

    • Track movies, TV, games and books in a single library
    • Progress by episode, chapter, page or hours played
    • A dashboard with streaks, genres and time counted
    • Accounts with email or Google sign-in, private by default
    • Real-time sync across devices and one-click import