Changelog

Site update — August 14, 2026 · Headlines in one color

Website only; no change to the app.

• The headline no longer fades from one color into another across the letters. A gradient poured through text is the house style of every generated landing page on the web, and it was on the hero here, on the small uppercase label above each section, and on the license label in the purchase panel. The words are one solid color now — the accent this page already used everywhere else — so the headline finally matches the page under it.
• The figures on the download-stats page were faded the same way and are plain white now. The color belongs to the bars beside them, not to the digits.
• Gradients are kept where they belong — the buttons, the app tile and the rule above the support panel are untouched. It is only text that stopped fading.
• No change to the app.

Download update — August 12, 2026 · Opens without an internet check

• The copy of Redlinr in the download now opens without needing the internet. macOS checks that an app has been approved by Apple before it runs for the first time. That approval can travel inside the app itself, and in the download it did not — so the first launch had to reach Apple to confirm it. Offline, behind a hotel or campus login page, or when Apple’s service was slow, that check could fail and macOS would report that Redlinr “cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.” The approval now travels with the app, so the first launch works with no connection at all.
• Automatic updates were never affected — the copy they install already carried its approval.
• The installer window opens at the right size. It was one title bar too short, so the artwork behind the drag-to-Applications arrow was cut off along the bottom and the window opened already scrolled. It now fits exactly.
• The app itself is unchanged: same version, same signature. Only the download was repackaged, so there is nothing to do if you already have Redlinr installed.

Site update — August 12, 2026 · How updating really works

• The update instructions were out of date. They described downloading a new copy and dragging it over the old one. Redlinr updates itself — it checks about once a week and offers to install the new version in place, refusing any download that isn't signed by us. You can still replace it by hand, and you can turn the automatic check off.
• Nothing else changed. What this page already said about your files — that they are never uploaded, and that there is no account and no telemetry — was accurate and is unchanged.
• No change to the app.

Site update — August 12, 2026 · Readable buttons and small print

• The buttons in the header say what they say. The Tip and Download pills were drawing their label at 55% opacity over a colored fill, which measured as low as 1.6:1 against it — well under the 4.5:1 the accessibility guidelines ask for. Their labels are now solid, and the fill behind them is set a shade deeper so the text genuinely clears that bar.
• The Subscribe and Support buttons too. Their labels were colored for one end of a two-color gradient and disappeared into the other end. Both now use a single fill that the label is legible on all the way across.
• The newsletter note, the “More apps” caption and the version line under the download button were all set too faint to read comfortably; each is now above the AA threshold.
• Keyboard shortcut chips are legible against their own background.
• The screenshot viewer no longer makes every visit quietly re-download this page as if it were an image — a wasted request on each load.
• No change to the app.

Site update — August 11, 2026 · Clearer search results

• The description under this site in Google is no longer cut off. It ran past the length Google shows and broke mid-word; it now reads as a complete sentence.
• Sharing a link to the privacy, terms or changelog page now shows a proper preview card instead of a bare URL.
• The sitemap now reports when each page actually changed, so search engines re-check pages that have been updated instead of assuming they are stale.
• No change to the app.

August 11, 2026 · A new look

• Changed: Redlinr has a new app icon. Every twoplus11 app moved to one generated palette, so the color in your Dock, on this site and on the download page is now the same color — they had drifted apart.
• Changed: refreshed the site to match, including the tab icon and the link preview image.

1.2.1 — August 9, 2026 · Automatic updates

• New: Redlinr updates itself. When a new version is out you get a prompt with the release notes and can install it in place — no more visiting the site and dragging a new copy over the old one. This is the last update you have to install by hand.
• New: refreshed appearance — Redlinr now uses the shared twoplus11 palette and a regenerated app icon, so it matches the rest of the family.
• Fixed: contrast and keyboard-navigation problems (WCAG 2.1 AA) — faint text is now readable, and every control can be reached and used from the keyboard.
• Fixed: the Check for Updates button spins while it checks, instead of flashing an empty window.

1.2.0 — July 18, 2026 · Editable Split view

• New: the compared text is editable. Click any paragraph in Split view and type — the redline, the word counts and the change list all update as you go, so you can fix a typo, try alternative wording, or settle a clause without leaving Redlinr and re-comparing. Return starts a new paragraph, Esc finishes, and ↩ opens the change you're sitting on from the keyboard.
• The Original column is locked by default — it's the baseline you're comparing against, and a stray keystroke in it would quietly change what “changed” means. Click the lock in the Original header to open it for editing, and click again to protect it. It re-locks whenever you load a different original.
• New: keep what you typed. Once a side has edits, its column header offers “Save edited text…” and “Copy edited text.” Saving always writes a new file (defaulting to a “— edited” name) — the document you loaded is never overwritten. Redlinr only ever reads the words out of a Word or PDF file, never its layout, so it says plainly that the saved copy will be plain text before the save dialog opens.
• Your edits stay inside Redlinr otherwise: an edited side is marked “Edited,” and reloading from disk asks before discarding your changes.

1.1.6 — July 17, 2026 · 13 languages

• New: 13-language localization with an in-app flag picker (auto-detects your Mac's language, override anytime).

1.1.5 — July 16, 2026 · Softer dark icon

• Softened the dark-appearance app icon's red/green diff lines — muted rose and sage instead of full-brightness color, so the tile sits as quietly on a dark Dock as the rest of the twoplus11 apps.

1.1.4 — July 16, 2026 · Appearance override fix

• Fixed: pinning the appearance to Light or Dark (instead of following the system) now restyles the whole window — previously the translucent header and footer kept the system's appearance, leaving hard-to-read text when the override and the system disagreed.

1.1.3 — July 15, 2026 · “Tip”

• Renamed the “Donate” link to “Tip.”

1.1.2 — July 15, 2026 · Dark icon refinement

• Refined the dark-mode Dock icon: now a true near-black, monochrome-style background with just a hint of rose, instead of a deeper tint of the same color.

1.1.1 — July 15, 2026 · Dock icon appearance

• New: the Dock icon now follows your Mac's light/dark appearance automatically — or pin it to Light or Dark from the new appearance toggle.
• Fixed: the app icon could show the wrong light/dark variant in Finder, Spotlight, Launchpad, and the Dock while Redlinr wasn't running. It now updates everywhere immediately, not just the Dock tile of an already-open app.

1.1.0 — July 14, 2026

• License, Help, Review, and a new Donate button now live together bottom-right in a footer bar, matching the rest of the twoplus11 apps — the header toolbar is decluttered to just Reload and Keyboard shortcuts.
• Donate. A low-pressure prompt appears once after a good number of compares, and never again if dismissed. Support twoplus11 anytime from the new footer button.
• Corrected Dock icon sizing so it reads at the same visual size as other Mac apps.

1.0.0 — July 13, 2026 · Initial public release

The first release. Drop an Original and a Revised document, and Redlinr turns them into a redline you can actually read.

• Compare two documents. Word (.docx and the legacy .doc), PDF, RTF, ODT, HTML, Markdown, or plain text — in any combination — into a visual redline. Everything runs locally; nothing is ever uploaded.
• Text extraction via macOS's built-in textutil for Word, RTF, ODT and HTML, and PDFKit for a PDF's text layer. There's no OCR: a scanned, image-only PDF is reported as such rather than silently shown as blank.
• A two-level diff. Paragraphs are aligned first, then a word-level diff runs only inside the paragraphs that actually changed — so even large documents stay fast, and a single very long changed line falls back to a clean delete-and-insert instead of freezing the compare.
• Inline redline — deletions struck through in rose, insertions underlined in green — and an aligned split view of Original vs Revised.
• Change navigation. A floating "Change N of M" pager, with keyboard shortcuts, steps through every change, with a persistent highlight in the redline, split view, and sidebar.
• Moved blocks. A paragraph that was relocated — not re-worded — is shown once with a "Moved" badge, instead of reading as an unrelated deletion and insertion.
• Plain-English headline summarizing the most significant changes, with paired before→after value chips for numbers, money, dates, and percentages.
• Ignore case and ignore whitespace toggles re-run the compare with relaxed matching, while the rendered text always shows the original.
• Automatic reload. Redlinr notices when an open document changes on disk — say, a lease you just re-exported — and offers a one-click reload, via a banner, a header button, or ⌘R.
• Change summary sidebar — words added and removed, and a clickable list that jumps straight to each change.
• Export the redline as a single, self-contained HTML file.
• Two labeled drop zones (Original / Revised) that collapse to a compact header once both are loaded, with side-swap, identical-files, and unsupported-file states.
• Light and dark mode, keyboard shortcuts, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility throughout — zero serious or critical axe-core violations in either scheme.
• Clearer Help and Review buttons in the header, and an automatic, silent, once-a-week check for app updates (never a pop-up; can be turned off).
• Free for personal use forever (including updates); one-time $5 business license per computer.