SpeedyNote

Releases

• Sep 3, 2026 1.6.3
  <p>Bug Fixes and Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Fixed the problem that the add page button below the last page could cause undefined behavior when tapped by a finger, and not respond to stylus input at all.</li> <li>Fixed the problem that the missing pdf banner could not respond to stylus input, and physically shift during a viewport scroll.</li> <li>Fixed the problem that text annotations could be moved with the ObjectSelect tool.</li> <li>Fixed the problem that the PDF exporting tab would still show up right after an edgeless document was exported before saving, causing an invalid pdf range error.</li> <li>Force maximized all dialogs on the iPad version because of the lack of window resizing abilities.</li> </ul>
• Sep 1, 2026 1.6.2
  ## New Features - Added OCR options into the current document settings override panel. - Added a confidence marker option to the OCR text overlay. - New iPadOS GitHub Actions autobuild script is available. It outputs an `.ipa` file for Trollstore users and a `.deb` file for the Sileo installation. ## Bug Fixes and Improvements - Fixed the problem that manually selecting Chinese handwriting recognizer resulted in different (inferior) accuracy than the default settings on Windows. - Corrected the "auto-detect" option in handwriting recognizer option on Windows to "System Default". - Fixed the problem that the number of matches did not display correctly in edgeless mode. - Fixed the problem that the colored markers on the scroll bar was not updated when a URL link or a markdown note was added to one of the slots.

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  - Fixed the problem that the scroll bars still hide themselves when the cursor is floating over them. ## Notice - [apt.speedynote.org](https://apt.speedynote.org) APT server is fixed and correctly serves usable SpeedyNote for iPadOS packages.
• Aug 31, 2026 1.6.1
  <p>New Features:</p> <ul> <li>Added a new right click menu for LinkObjects for copying text and deleting the LinkObject.</li> <li>Extra add page button positioned below the last page in paged mode.</li> </ul> <p>Bug Fixes and Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Corrected the behavior of the copy button on the object select action bar so that it copies the text of the annotation, instead of the linkobject itself.</li> </ul>
• Aug 31, 2026 1.6.0
  <p>New Features:</p> <ul> <li>New LinkObject/Highlighter UX with region style selection, color override, and region selection.</li> <li>New position link object feature to link to a specific position in a document.</li> <li>Region outside of pages in paged mode now acts as the pan tool when any tool is selected.</li> </ul> <p>Bug Fixes and Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Repositioned the LinkObjectBar to be more accessible and intuitive.</li> <li>Repositioned the search button and the search bar for easier access.</li>

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  <li>Updated the macOS version build documentation to include new dependencies and update the minimum macOS version to 14.0</li> </ul>
• Aug 28, 2026 1.5.3
  <p>New Features:</p> <ul> <li>Trackpad axis autolock feature to prevent accidental horizontal scrolling Mac touchpads.</li> <li>New performance overlay for the viewport to show the frame rate and memory usage. Press F10 to toggle.</li> </ul> <p>Bug Fixes and Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Vastly improved long stroke rendering performance.</li> <li>Adjusted stylesheet of the text box format bar for better visibility and accessibility on Windows 11.</li> </ul>
• Aug 21, 2026 1.5.2
  <p>New Features:</p> <ul> <li>Completely redesigned text box feature with WYSIWYG editing, markdown support, and OCR conversion.</li> <li>New multi-source PDF relinking/management feature to handle multiple PDFs in a single document.</li> </ul> <p>Bug Fixes and Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Vastly improved picture inserting performance.</li> <li>Made each scroll bar hide and show ondemand.</li> <li>Combined the export to PDF and .snbx features into a single export dialog.</li>

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  <li>3 Separate buttons for text box, link object and image object insertion.</li> <li>Fixed the problem that a starred document in the launcher lost its star after a name change.</li> <li>Updated the Object insertion UX to be more consistent and intuitive (right click to create and left click to select, with an alternate mapping toggle) </li> <li>Automatically resize the inserted images to fit within a page / tile on insertion.</li> <li>Made the page wheel picker support wheel input.</li> <li>Fixed the problem that the onnxruntime model download script always downloaded the amd64 version of the models on ARM64 systems.</li> <li>Removed obsolete SDL2 and DocumentConverter code from the codebase.</li> <li>Fixed the problem that InsertedObjects could be moved outside a page and could never be selected again.</li> </ul> <p>Notice:</p> <ul> <li>The executable with an `x86` suffix is only meant for 32-bit legacy Windows, like Windows 7. For most Windows users, the `AMD64` version is a more suitable choice.</li> </ul>