Continue a fresh chapter with one click, and phones get a real phone view
August 2026
A remediation round built from a tester walking the live app on their phone, plus a pass over loading speed for far-away readers.
Continue with one click. When a chapter finishes generating, its two choices become buttons right in the reading view: one click saves the chapter and carries you into the next chapter's page. A new Reading setting picks between confirming first (the default), continuing directly, or turning the buttons off.
Landscape phones get the phone view. A phone held sideways used to receive the desktop layout squeezed into 390 pixels of height. The app now recognizes any short touch screen as a phone, and tall dialogs scroll instead of hiding their buttons below the screen edge.
Guides behave on phones. The guide bubble can no longer sit on top of the very button it asks you to press, a guide interrupted mid-run rebuilds the state its next step needs, and finishing the creation wizard by hand while a guide is paused no longer reopens the wizard over your finished work. The story list also scrolls the actual link into view instead of centering the row past it.
The page stays yours during a guide. While a guide runs, scrolling and tapping work exactly as without one. The dark veil is purely visual, and only the bubble's X or the Escape key end a tour. The bubble waits until you stop scrolling before it glides to its new place. A step pointing into an open menu dims everything except the entry it means, and a guide you already finished restarts without asking about progress you no longer have.
A simpler start for new writers. The wizard's reading level is now Beginner, Advanced or Expert in the simple view, the guided tour offers five common genres and tones with a "Show all" option, and generated story ideas are cards with a clear Choose button that tuck away once you have picked one.
Faster page opens. The story overview no longer requests the same data twice on open, which far-away readers felt as a full extra round trip. The chapter-length note also lost its alarming red icon - it is information, no longer dressed as a warning.