Everything new, fixed, and improved in Cinolo. Updated with every release.
v2.7
July 2026
🐛 Fix Trending, Top Rated, and New Releases now load properly and stay fresh across reloads — a data-provider issue meant Top Rated and New Releases could fail to load at all, and Trending could get stuck repeating the same movies.
🐛 Fix Swiped movies no longer reappear after reloading the page.
🐛 Fix Discover posters loading correctly again after briefly getting stuck on placeholders.
🐛 Fix Fixed the discover card occasionally collapsing to zero height with no card visible.
🐛 Fix Plus/Pro plans now activate correctly regardless of email capitalization.
🐛 Fix Fixed the app incorrectly switching to light mode based on system settings.
🐛 Fix The app now survives gracefully if Firebase is blocked by an ad-blocker or strict firewall, instead of breaking the page.
🐛 Fix Added null-safety guards across 30+ functions to prevent crashes from missing UI elements.
📝 New Feedback form and an Articles page for film writing, both linked from Settings.
🔗 New Social links added to the homepage footer.
🎨 Improve Sitewide visual redesign — reduced visual noise, unified design tokens, cleaner typography and spacing throughout the app.
⚡ Improve Streamlined Discover filters — Hidden Gems and World Cinema folded into the Filters panel, redundant decade/runtime bars removed from the main screen.
⚡ Improve Movie cards now scale up properly on desktop instead of being capped at a small fixed width.
⚡ Improve Compact circular action buttons, pill-style chips, and a cleaner nav bar.
💰 Improve Plan naming clarified — "Basic" renamed to "Plus" everywhere in the app and on pricing pages.
📬 Improve Feedback submissions now email straight to the support inbox.
⚡ Improve Functional emoji converted to crisp SVG icons for a more consistent look across devices.
🏠 Improve Landing page trimmed down — removed placeholder testimonials and boilerplate copy.
v2.6
May 2026
✨ New Native slide transitions between tabs — the app now feels like a real iOS/Android app, with each view sliding in from the correct direction.
🔁 New Movies you've already seen no longer come back — seen IDs now persist across sessions so the same film never resurfaces.
🎬 New Out of swipes? Watch a short ad for 30 minutes of unlimited swiping.
⚡ Improve Free tier adjusted to 35 swipes per day.
🐛 Fix Ad bonus countdown now ticks down in real time and clears automatically when the 30 minutes run out.
v2.5
May 2026
▶ New Tap the play button on any swipe card to instantly preview the trailer — no need to open the info sheet.
🎬 New 7 new director collections: Coen Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, Ridley Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lynch, Bong Joon-ho, and Wong Kar-wai.
🏷️ New Folder tags are now visible on social feed cards so you can see what a list is about at a glance.
♿ Improve All modals now have proper ARIA dialog roles and labels for screen-reader users.
⚡ Improve Rate-limit errors (429) now surface a friendly toast with the retry countdown instead of silently failing.
🔒 Improve Sign-out now clears all session data reliably — no preference or genre leakage on shared devices.
v2.4
April 2026
🌍 New "Where to Watch" now shows your country in the info sheet header (e.g. "🌍 US").
⭐ New Quick Rate modal auto-opens when you swipe right on a movie you've already watched.
🐛 Fix Actor and director filmography (tapping a name in the info sheet) now loads correctly — a missing route in the API allowlist was silently returning an error.
🐛 Fix TMDB "Where to Watch" key now loaded exclusively from secure environment — removed hardcoded fallback.
🐛 Fix Streaming provider country now resolves correctly for 3-part locales (e.g. zh-Hant-TW → TW).
🐛 Fix Escape key now closes rate-limit slowdown modal.
🛡️ Security Simkl API proxy hardened with path allowlist — prevents open-proxy abuse.
v2.3
April 2026
🎉 New Free tier raised from 25 to 50 swipes per day.
✨ New For You mode now biases picks toward your favourite decade.
🎭 New Re-run the genre picker from Settings any time to retune For You.
📋 New Copy your watchlist as plain text for sharing in chats.
🎲 New "Pick for me" button on the watchlist — instant random pick when you can't decide.
📥 New Letterboxd CSV import (watchlist + ratings + diary).
🎨 New Sub-genre chips — Romcom, Dark Comedy, Cyberpunk, Noir, and more.
🌍 New Country-of-origin filter with 16 countries.
♿ New Accessibility mode — larger text and bigger controls.
📸 New Instagram-style film grid on your profile.
💾 New Watched movies now persist in the panel even after being removed from the watchlist.
✨ Improve Stories rebuilt with a cinematic, Instagram-quality design.
⌨️ Improve Desktop keyboard shortcuts (←/→, ?, Ctrl+Z) with a one-time hint.
💾 Improve Saved filter presets (up to 10, Basic+).
🐛 Fix Daily swipe count now resets at local midnight, not UTC.
🐛 Fix Escape key now closes every modal.
🐛 Fix Long DM messages no longer appear on the wrong side of the thread.
🐛 Fix Followed users now appear in the DM list before the first message.
🛡️ Fix Comprehensive XSS hardening across folder, group, story, review, and chat rendering.
v2.2
April 2026
🔒 Security Removed exposed API key from frontend — all movie data now proxied securely through Cloudflare Workers.
🐛 Fix Fixed poster fallback that was leaking API keys via img.onerror handler.
🛡️ Fix Hardened XSS protection in HTML escaping functions.
💾 Fix localStorage quota errors now handled gracefully — no more silent failures on full storage.
🎬 Fix Loading skeleton now shows correctly when fetching more movies at end of deck.