Changelog

Product updates

New features, updates, and enhancements in Galley

  • Enhancement Print PDFs are about eight times smaller with no loss during compression.
  • Enhancement Performance and cache improvements across exports. Previews are also much faster.

  • Enhancement Galley works with a screen reader and a keyboard now. Many more accessibility features were added as well.

  • Fix Quote marks are now based on the book’s language rather than defaulting to the English curly quotes. Russian and Ukrainian get «», German and Polish get „“, Danish gets »«, Swedish and Finnish get ””.

  • Feature Japanese, Chinese, and Korean support added: chapter numbers in kanji, emphasis dots instead of italic, Japanese trim sizes, and the 奥付 colophon.
  • Feature Show or hide invisible characters with ⌘⇧8. Same key Word uses.
  • Enhancement Added Prologues, epilogues and interludes.
  • Enhancement Share a copy sends adds URL as a new option aside from PDF and EPUB.
  • Enhancement Generating shared URLs allows for expiry and passwords, as well as a visual indicator on whether the link was clicked
  • Enhancement Column resize handles in tables are easier to grab with a stylus or trackpad on iPad.
  • Enhancement Galley now says which languages KDP publishes, and switches off the KDP-only bits where it does not. Every export still works.
  • Fix Japanese and Chinese print PDFs wrap their lines. They were running off the page.
  • Fix A line of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi or Bengali starting with an English word now sets joined, and inside the margin.
  • Fix A long table now splits across pages in the print PDF.

  • Fix Improvements to make sure Urdu exports print, Arabic sets correctly in Scheherazade New, and Persian in Markazi Text.
  • Fix Chapter titles and running heads set correctly in Hindi and Bengali too.

  • Feature New text formatting options like strikethrough, headers, lists, superscript, subscripts, tables, and invisible characters.
  • Enhancement Selecting text now offers formatting options above the tagging options.
  • Enhancement A proofreading view shows spaces, line breaks and paragraph ends.
  • Fix Shift+Enter line breaks and underlines reach the exports.
  • Fix Numbered lists count in the book's word counts in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Thai.
  • Fix Arabic, Persian and Urdu chapter titles stop being letter-spaced.

  • Fix Thai paragraphs break into lines in the print PDF instead of running off the page.
  • Enhancement Thai, Japanese and Chinese books count characters, not words, everywhere a number is shown.
  • Fix Urdu gets the line height Nastaliq needs, so lines stop overlapping.
  • Feature Page break estimates are marked in the editor margin
  • Fix A glossary or a cast list sorts in the book's own alphabet, not the browser's.

  • Feature Books can be written right to left. Arabic and Persian are currently supported. New books set the writing direction based on the selected language, and can be changed.
  • Enhancement Print PDFs of a right-to-left book mirror the gutter, move the running heads, and tell the reader which way the pages turn.
  • Enhancement A Latin name or a number inside an Arabic sentence now sets the right way round in print.
  • Enhancement EPUB and Word exports carry the book direction, so a reader and Word both lay it out correctly.

  • Enhancement New books pick a language, and the typeface list narrows to faces that can set it.
  • Enhancement Italic is hidden where the script has none, instead of doing nothing.
  • Fix Book titles in any script now download under their own name, not underscores.
  • Fix Search no longer drops Hindi and Bengali matras, which change the word.
  • Fix Text fields set their own direction, so Arabic and Latin can sit side by side.

  • Feature Margin comments in a Word file now come back with it, attached to the sentence your editor was talking about.
  • Enhancement Every book typeface has a real bold now, including in Russian, Ukrainian, Greek and Bulgarian books, where bold came out as empty boxes.
  • Enhancement Middle-click a book on the dashboard to open it in a new tab.
  • Infra Books and chapters open faster with better auth checks.
  • Fix The cast list no longer carries over from the last book you had open.
  • Fix A new book could be created with chapters missing.

  • Enhancement Better toolbar structure for finding things.
  • Enhancement The style sheet, research, cuttings, and permissions moved into Drawers.
  • Fix Focus mode now hides all the toolbars.
  • Fix The editor page is finally true to the chosen trim size. A 6x9 was about 30% too wide earlier.

  • Fix Autosave stops claiming "Unsaved" on a chapter that was never touched.
  • Fix A failed write now says so explicitly instead of looking saved.
  • Enhancement Every dialog closes on Escape and hands focus back.
  • Enhancement Glossary terms and references can be added and edited straight from the selection menu in the editor.

  • Fix The momentum sparkline shows the days you actually wrote.

  • Feature Cosmetic time-of-day touches when logging in to the dashboard.

  • Feature Research and cuttings can be seen as a list or a grid.
  • Fix Cuttings are no longer clipped off the bottom of the page.

  • Infra Opening a book got MUCH faster.
  • Security Signing out clears this device’s local copy of the book, after flushing anything unsent.
  • Infra The bin empties itself every night (for items reaching expiry).

  • Feature A clipping can become a glossary term, an endnote citation, or a permissions entry.
  • Feature ⌘K now searches the entire book as well.
  • Feature A new Manuscript format (.docx) export option added for submissions.
  • Fix Better export formatting for scene breaks stranding at the top of a page, and chapters ending on a stub page.

  • Fix Offline writers stopped being told they were offline every few seconds.
  • Fix The cast and places lists are now alphabetical rather than chronological.

  • Feature Added a consistency sweep, spelling inconsistencies, and hyphenation, excluding dialogue.
  • Feature Added delivery readiness for books.
  • Feature Introduced statistics in-book.
  • Feature Added the ability to tag a character or location somewhere and update every mention.
  • Feature One Bin for books, chapters, cast, and places.

  • Feature Early access opens.
  • Feature Drag the binder sidebar wider, and see unresolved comments on the chapters holding them.

  • Security Pasted text gets cleaned up on the way in (applicable for HTML and other formats that might bring in malicious characters).
  • Feature A real interactive demo to test Galley for 30 minutes without signing up or adding any payment information - The Lantern of Quiet Hours.

  • Feature Added draft milestones to mark an entire book as a draft stage.
  • Feature Added Cuttings.
  • Feature Added Permissions to keep a track of copyrighted material in the book.
  • Feature Import a manuscript into a book you’ve already started, with a per-chapter Update, Create or Skip.
  • Feature Import a revision of one chapter, straight into its History with a diff shown.
  • Feature Large print PDF for accessibility. 16pt, looser leading, ragged right, same trim.
  • Feature EPUBs declare their accessibility with reading modes, features, hazards, and a summary.
  • Feature "Next in series" in the New Book modal to create a series. Book two onwards carries book one’s bible, matter and design.
  • Enhancement Real bold and bold-italic cuts for the five recommended faces, and kerned chapter titles.
  • Enhancement Front and back matter managed in place from the sidebar.
  • Enhancement New toolkit commands answer to ⌘K.
  • Fix Search scrolls to the right match on the page.

  • Feature Writing offline got a big enhancement. Chapters mirror to the device every two seconds and replay when you reconnect.
  • Feature Galley can be "installed" as a web app onto your desktop.
  • Feature A conflict from another device lands in History instead of overwriting your current work.
  • Feature Writing goals are quiet by default unless you opt in to Goals.
  • Infra Export quotas added into the demo.

  • Feature One tuned EPUB available per store (Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play, Nook), zipped.
  • Feature Per-store "Also by" links in the back matter.
  • Feature Preview your book on a Kindle, iPhone, iPad, or as print.
  • Enhancement Deleting a book is "harder" to avoid accidentally deleting your work.

  • Feature Read-through mode added. Preview the whole book in one continuous scroll, with 3 theme options.
  • Feature The copyright page is added with live title, author, year, and ISBN blocks as samples, with a review gate before export.
  • Feature Matter pages get layout presets and per-type placeholders.
  • Enhancement Hyphenation split from justification, so you can have one without the other.

  • Feature New user Account and Settings added.
  • Enhancement The app is gated below 768px to work on tablets, laptops, and larger screens.

  • Feature Translations and editions added.
  • Feature A translation edits beside the original, side by side.
  • Feature Justification, hyphenation, widow and orphan control, and f-ligatures in the print PDF.
  • Feature 45 book languages added for localization settings, with hyphenation patterns for 36 of them.
  • Feature Type @ for a character and # for a place, or create one from the menu.
  • Feature Endnotes number per chapter and group by chapter in every format.
  • Feature Version history compares against current, and restores.
  • Feature Series and grouped books added.

  • Feature Five chapter-opening presets added, followed by the print PDF and the table of contents.
  • Feature Six accent themes for the UI.
  • Enhancement Books live at a readable URL instead of an id.

  • Feature Fifteen OFL book typefaces added, all licensed for commercial publishing.
  • Feature Six trim sizes added, and the editor page is the true size of the one you pick.
  • Feature You can now upload your own chapter ornament and scene-break flourish.
  • Feature One-click backup zip added: markdown plus the full JSON.
  • Feature A submission package in standard manuscript format added.
  • Feature Draft watermarks and review copies added.
  • Feature A 30-day bin for deleted books and chapters added.

  • Feature A table of contents now builds itself, with parts nested, in the app, and in every export.
  • Feature Parts added. Group chapters, drag between them, and get centred part pages.
  • Feature Glossary and references as calculated back matter, set as two-column pages.
  • Feature Add a term to either straight from the selection menu.
  • Feature A 2-up proofreading PDF available for personal revision.
  • Enhancement The print PDF rewritten with embedded fonts, mirrored 6x9 margins, verso and recto running heads.

  • Feature Typewriter scroll, focus mode, zoom, and a page set to print convention at 66 characters a line.
  • Security Row-level security, so nobody but you can read your book.

  • Feature Galley v0.1 Live 🎉
    • A distraction-free editor on a real page with autosave.
    • A binder to show chapters that you can drag, reorder, and group into front and back matter.
    • A story bible with characters, locations, timeline, world-building, research, and a style sheet.
    • Inline comments and backlinks excluded from export.
    • Find and replace across the whole book.
    • Metadata built for KDP: blurb, keywords, BISAC codes, ISBNs, cover upload.
    • Four export types for print PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown.
    • User accounts and books.

See the roadmap for what’s coming.