v1.2.0
Live
June 15, 2026 Android
Premium launches on Android — local AI voices, MP3 export, offline queue.
Added
- ThreadCast Premium — Monthly $4.99 · Yearly $39 · Lifetime $99 (first 100 lifetime purchases at $69 launch promo)
- Local AI neural voices on mobile — Lite, Plus, and Studio engines unlock with a Premium license; all synthesis stays on-device
- MP3 audio export — turn any Reddit thread into a shareable podcast file. Saves to Downloads/ThreadCast/ with ID3 tags, album art, and a friendly filename
- In-app library player — play exported MP3s inside ThreadCast with lock-screen and Bluetooth controls, prev/next track buttons, and a persisted auto-advance toggle
- Offline queue (free) — queued posts and their comments save to your phone automatically so playback works on the subway, plane, or anywhere without signal
- Auto-prune setting (off by default) — automatically remove queued posts older than 7, 30, or 90 days
- License activation via threadcast://activate deep-link from the purchase confirmation email
Changed
- All three AI neural engines (Lite, Plus, Studio) on mobile now require a Premium license. System voices remain free.
- Engine picker shows lock icons for free users on AI tiers; tapping a locked tier opens the paywall sheet
v1.2.0
Live
June 10, 2026 Chrome Extension
A fourth voice engine, a native side panel, and a rebuilt settings experience.
Added
- AI Neural GPU Lite — a fourth voice engine. A compact neural voice model running on WebGPU with five English accents: lighter to download and quicker to run than the full AI Neural GPU engine, and a clear step up from the CPU engine. Fully on-device.
- Native Chrome side panel — pop the player out into Chrome's side panel and keep listening with full controls while you browse
- Start playback from any open Reddit tab — press play in the popup and ThreadCast reads the Reddit thread you already have open; an 'Open Reddit' invite appears if there isn't one
- Parked queue — set threads aside in a saved-for-later list, separate from the active queue
- Custom ambient sounds — add your own audio to sleep mode alongside the 10 built-in tracks (parity with the mobile app)
- Now-playing highlight — the post or comment being read is highlighted on the page as playback moves through the thread
- Getting-started sheet — a short first-run guide to the engines, queue, and sleep mode
Changed
- Four voice engines now: System, AI Neural CPU, AI Neural GPU Lite, AI Neural GPU
- Rebuilt Settings page — mobile-parity design with a theme picker and per-engine cards, plus live theme sync across the popup, side panel, and settings
- Reworked popup player and playback lifecycle for steadier state across tabs and windows
- Reader and Settings now reuse their existing tab instead of opening a duplicate
- Extension version aligned to 1.2 — one ThreadCast version line across the extension and the apps
Fixed
- Seeking mid-playback on GPU Lite no longer freezes the player (model runs are now serialized)
- GPU Lite playback state now propagates correctly to the controls
- 'Read this page' permission prompt fixed
- Quieted benign WebGPU log noise on the extensions page
v1.1.1
Live
May 30, 2026 Android
Engine diagnostics, a leaner build, and landscape polish.
Added
- Voice engine diagnostics in Settings — tap any AI voice engine for a quick health check (speed, thermal headroom, and memory) with color-coded readouts
Changed
- Smaller download and faster startup
- Sleep banner now uses the brand accent color
Fixed
- Mini-player and sleep banner now render correctly in all landscape layouts
v1.1.0
Live
May 26, 2026 Android
AI Plus voices, landscape mode, user profiles, and saved posts.
Added
- AI Plus voice engine — eight new on-device voices in a single 26 MB download, sitting between AI Lite and AI Studio in size and quality
- Landscape mode on every tab — Feed, Subreddits, Post detail, and Settings all switch to a split-view master-detail layout on tablets and unfolded foldables
- User profiles — tap any author name to see their posts and comments, with follow support
- Saved posts — bookmark icon in the post header saves posts to a new section in the Subreddits tab
- Infinite scroll on feeds and profile pages
- Native share sheet, swipeable galleries, and Reddit video playback in fullscreen with Picture-in-Picture
Fixed
- Pinch-to-zoom on images
- Foldable layout transitions no longer leave stale viewport caching when crossing the cover-to-inner-screen boundary
v1.0.1
Live
May 17, 2026 Chrome Extension
Post overlay fixes, queue badge, and popup polish.
Added
- Queue-count badge on the toolbar icon — shows how many threads are queued; auto-hides when empty and clears when you open the popup
Fixed
- Post + button no longer flickers when moving the cursor from the post body toward it
- Overlay now survives Reddit's client-side navigation — no page reload needed when clicking into a thread
- Thin custom scrollbar in the popup replaces the chunky native scrollbar
v1.0.0
Live
May 13, 2026 Chrome Extension
ThreadCast launches on the Chrome Web Store.
Added
- Three on-device voice engines: System voices, AI neural CPU (28M-parameter model on WASM), AI neural GPU (82M-parameter model on WebGPU)
- Multi-voice author assignment — FNV-1a hash maps each username to a consistent voice across every thread
- Up to 11 voices rotating on the AI neural GPU engine; unlimited rotation on System voices
- Per-author voice overrides — pin a specific voice to a specific user
- Gender-aware voice matching
- Voice preview — 3-sentence sample at your current rate, pitch, and pause settings
- Reads post body and comments in thread order; comments-only mode included
- Adjustable playback rate, pitch, and sentence-pause multiplier
- Multi-thread queue with drag-to-reorder and auto-advance
- Drag-to-seek scrubber within each segment
- Sleep mode with 10 hand-picked ambient tracks and a fade-to-silence timer
- Independent voice / ambient volume sliders and configurable sleep rate (default 0.85×)
- Engine switcher with per-file model download progress
- Engine-aware Settings — voice lists, overrides, and gender priority adapt to the selected engine
- Public AI neural model mirror at huggingface.co/Pixel-Labs/threadcast-neural-models — one-time download, then fully offline
- Dark mode and import / export settings as JSON
- Works on reddit.com and old.reddit.com with full SPA navigation handling