Release Notes

The Evolution of ClientPDF.

Follow our journey as we build the world's fastest, safest, and most beautiful strictly-offline document suite.

Apr '26

New ToolExpand Canvas: Add custom margins and uniform borders to your PDFs natively. Easily expand document dimensions for printing or annotation space without losing quality.
UXTwo-Tier Back Navigation: Every PDF tool now supports smart back routing. Clicking back from the download screen returns you to your current edit session, while clicking back from the editor safely clears your file and returns to the hub.
EngineState Integrity: Completely refactored Zustand state propagation across all 20+ modals to ensure stable memory management and zero compiler warnings during build.

Apr '26

New ToolRepair Corrupt PDF: Rebuild broken PDF structures directly in the browser using QPDF compiled to WebAssembly. Fixes missing xref tables, broken streams, and EOF markers — all 100% offline via a dedicated Web Worker.
New ToolDuplicate Pages: Clone and append selected pages within a document. Supports bulk duplication with visual page selection.
New ToolHeaders & Footers: Stamp custom text, dates, and auto-incrementing page numbers onto every page with full position, font, and margin controls.
New ToolEdit Metadata: View and edit document properties like Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords. Inspect creation and modification timestamps.
New ToolRemove Pages: Selectively delete specific pages from any PDF with a visual page picker and instant preview.
New FeatureBulk Watermarking: Apply text or image watermarks to multiple PDFs at once. Complete with a batch progress UI and auto ZIP archiving for multi-file downloads.

Apr '26

BrandClientPDF Identity: Officially decoupled from legacy branding. All routing, manifest protocols, edge namespaces, and visual assets are completely transitioned to the unified ClientPDF identity.
InterfaceSaaS Legal Hubs: Overhauled the Security and Terms pages into highly immersive architectures featuring an interactive glassmorphic Bento-Grid and a sticky document reading terminal.

Apr '26

Dark ModeFull Dark Mode Polish: Every modal, tool card, bento grid icon, and blog component now uses semantic theme tokens. No more hardcoded white backgrounds or invisible text in dark mode.
NavigationNavbar Redesign: Perfectly centered desktop navigation with Framer Motion animated active-pill indicators. Hall of Fame and Support buttons now glow vibrantly in dark mode.
MobileMobile Menu UX: Enhanced mobile drawer with active-state highlights, spring-animated tap feedback, and subtle translate micro-interactions on every link.
TypographyFont Pipeline Overhaul: Migrated from CSS @import to Next.js native next/font/google for build-time font loading. Removed aggressive antialiasing and letter-spacing clamps that were thinning text on mobile Retina screens.

Apr '26

New ToolSearchable PDF: Turn scanned, image-only PDFs into fully searchable documents. Uses an embedded parallel WASM OCR engine to invisibly overlay selectable text natively in the browser.
New ToolFlatten Forms: Secure your interactive PDF form inputs by permanently baking them directly into the static document visual layer.
UXMobile Polish: Deep responsive optimizations across the OCR and new modal suites, fixing compact viewport scaling and overflow layout issues.

Apr '26

EditorAnnotation Studio 2.0: Rewrote the interactive bounding boxes for 8-way matrix resizing across images and annotations.
TextInline Typography: Text insertion natively maps text scales, with integrated native Eyedropper API pickers for foreground elements.
HighlightDecoupled Colors: Highlighting logic detached from generic pen strokes, restoring isolated live-preview capabilities.
UXUI Cleanup: Streamlined the tools palette by removing redundant UI states and clashing color pickers.

Apr '26

CommunityHall of Fame Launch: We launched an exclusive, gorgeous Hall of Fame board. Donate to secure a permanent spot with social links.
UXSupport Overhaul: The support hub has been fully optimized with responsive hero layouts and strategic visibility enhancements.
DesignOmnipresent Links: Direct navigation integration for Support and Hall of Fame with beautiful active-state gradient styling.

Apr '26

UX UpdateComplete Bento Redesign: The legacy grid has been entirely replaced by a stunning, floating 'Bento Box' dashboard logic. Tools are intuitively categorized with native physics.
InterfaceFrosted Glass Standard: All primary components (Headers, Modals, Hero layout) now strictly utilize absolute blur backdrops, highly-polished borders, and pill configurations.
Tool CoreLive Canvas Sampling: The Edit PDF tool now features explicit Eye-Dropper extraction pipelines for flawlessly pasting edits over native colored backings.
ArchitectGlobal System Refresh: Consolidated Tailwind spacing paradigms, corrected unlinked TS schemas, and strictly enforced Apple HIG aesthetics seamlessly everywhere.

Mar '26

UpgradeTool Enhancements: Merge gets drag-to-reorder. Rotate adds 180° and Reset. Split gains burst mode thumbnails.
SecurityPrivacy Specs: Redact adds an undo stack and global search-to-redact. Unlock intelligently audits specific lock intensity heuristics.
ConfigTypography Controls: Page Numbers and Watermarks gain absolute positioning grid mechanics and dynamic custom hex colors.
EngineOCR Upgrades: Client-side optical recognition scales to 40+ language dictionaries supporting Retina device pixel ratios seamlessly.

Mar '26

Major CoreEdit PDF Launch: Launched the comprehensive annotation studio, unlocking advanced multi-layered DOM drag manipulation for live character replacements.
GraphicsPrecision DPI Exports: PDF-to-Image extractors now allow forced raw scaling up to Ultra 600 DPI graphic sizes for extreme clarity printing.

Feb '26

FormatStandalone Extraction: Natively extract entire raw text strings isolating paragraph logic purely into .txt logs.
MobileViewport Autonomy: Corrected extreme CSS pointer-event scaling anomalies on mobile Safari boundaries.

Mar '26

New ToolTextbook Splitter: Smart split with draggable spine for slicing A3 landscape scans into individual A4 pages.
New ToolDeskew Studio: Manually straighten crooked scans with precision angle controls.
New ToolSign PDF: Professional signature studio with transparent PNG support for legally compliant e-signatures.
UI/UXCore: Floating Glass UI and mobile Bottom Sheets for a polished, native-feeling experience on every device.

Feb '26

EngineParallel Batch Compression: Shrink unlimited PDFs simultaneously via true multi-threaded Web Workers & JSZip.
New ToolComplete Image Suite: State-of-the-art Image-to-PDF compiler and a robust PDF-to-Image extractor featuring a loop kill-switch.
SecurityMetadata Scrubber: Instantly wipe Title, Author, and modification timestamps for absolute document privacy.
SecurityOffline Decryption Engine: Strip passwords and restrictions globally without any server pings.
FeatureProfessional Pagination: Dynamic page numbering engine featuring multiple styles and perfect typography caching.

Early '26

GenesisSoftware Bootstrapped: Assembled the strictly-offline WebAssembly integration parsing architecture removing all cloud computing endpoints from core PDF operations.