New Features
- New privacy controls in Settings. Turn off anonymous crash reports or automatic update checks whenever you like. Both stay on by default, but now it’s your call.
Improvements
- Opening a journal on Google Drive, iCloud, or another cloud drive is now just as fast online as it is offline. Cozy used to quietly re-upload some bookkeeping on every launch and download each changed entry’s photos just to measure them. Both are gone.
- A gentle nudge when part of your journal hasn’t finished downloading. The sidebar points you at your cloud provider’s “available offline” setting, so you know how to bring the rest of your entries along.
- Cozy is lighter and quicker off the mark. The app now ships its code bundled up instead of as thousands of loose files: around 20 MB lighter on disk, and it starts in about half the time.
- Faster startup and smoother typing in long entries. The offline place-lookup dataset loads only when it’s actually needed, and math, table, and image formatting now update just the part of the entry that changed instead of rescanning the whole thing on every keystroke.
- Smoother sidebar and entry-rail resizing. Dragging no longer stutters, and typewriter and background-music sounds no longer pile up work the longer a session runs.
- Panels and menus settle more gently. We retuned the animation curves so things that slide into place feel calm instead of abrupt.
Bug Fixes
- Changing an entry’s date now updates its title to match. An entry still titled by its day used to keep the old day frozen as its title after a move; now the title follows the date, unless you’ve given it a title of your own.
- Entries that open with a photo gallery or a positioned image now show their text in the list, instead of a raw
:::galleryfence or a stray layout tag. - Fixed a crash on journals synced through Google Drive File Stream, where making a thumbnail could crash Cozy if a photo was still downloading. Cozy now reads the whole file first.
- Wrapping text around an image actually wraps now. A full-width image left no room beside it, so Cozy now shrinks it to make room — and fixes a related quirk on Windows.
- Entries on Filen and similar virtual drives no longer show as “not downloaded.” These drives report every file as offline, even ones already on disk; Cozy now checks whether a drive’s numbers can be trusted first.
- Cozy is more careful about not losing your work. A save now finishes safely before anything else touches that entry, quitting right after a save no longer cuts it short, and a failed background save is retried instead of vanishing.
- RAW photos show a clear “preview unavailable” placeholder on Windows and Linux instead of a broken image icon, and converting very large HEIC or TIFF photos no longer crashes.
- Journal folders no longer fail to create on Windows when named a reserved device name like CON or PRN, and renaming or moving a journal on Windows no longer breaks links to its photos and videos.
- Cozy now picks up changes to journals stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and similar cloud drives, even when they don’t notify the app directly.
- Copying in an attachment with a different-case filename no longer overwrites the original, and some shadows, borders, and the checkbox checkmark now adapt to dark mode.
- Imports are stricter about what they’ll touch. Day One, Bear, Notion, and Obsidian imports no longer trust attachment paths that could point outside your journal folder.