What’s New at Chimbori ✨

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🆕 Tags! Organize your Lite Apps better with tags. Many ready-made Lite Apps are already tagged, and you can also define and use your own tags. This is an Early Access feature in Hermit 14. Send us your feedback!
🆕 Grid View is now default for everyone, out of Early Access. Drag Lite Apps to re-order them in the grid. The list layout is now gone. To delete Lite Apps, open the Lite App, go to Settings, and pick Remove from the toolbar menu.
⚡ Keep Lite Apps in RAM longer: We heard from many of you that you would like to see Hermit Lite Apps stay in memory longer, so although a low limit helps Hermit work well on low-RAM devices, we’ve increased the size of saved state from 300KB to 800KB. Also, Lite Apps won’t be closed on pressing the Back button.
⚡ Open Native Apps: new privacy setting — Hermit can now open native apps with your permission if a Lite App asks for it.
⚡ Install Native Apps: new privacy setting — Hermit can now open Play Store with your permission if a Lite App asks for it.
⚡ Search Icon is now back in the toolbar! We heard from many of you that you preferred the one-click access to custom site search.
⚡ Renamed Customization to Settings everywhere to reduce confusion between the two.

🎉 Unlimited Lite Apps without paying for Premium! We heard your feedback; now only certain features are Premium-only.
🎨 New Material Design 2 Theming!
🎁 Introducing the Early Access Program: Experience new features before everyone else.
📜 Scriptlets: Like bookmarklets, but better. Exclusively available via the Early Access Program
📖 Reader App: Read articles from any browser/app using Hermit’s article extraction technology. Exclusively available via the Early Access Program

🆕 New app icon! So many of you told us you loved the Hermit Crab, so it’s back!
🆕 Use any External Download Manager for files, and change the filename before starting the download.
🆕 Site Search is now accessible from the Quick Settings sidebar even in Frameless mode.
🆕 Enable/disable Bookmarks without deleting them.

Free Forever Mode Improvements: You can reorder your Lite Apps any time, as often as you want, to change which 3 are your Free Forever Lite Apps.
Night Mode: When switching for the first time to Night Mode, the default page style is automatically set to Dark. Previously, this required an extra step of changing the style manually.
Estimated Reading Time in Reader View: When reading any article on the Web, Hermit automatically computes Estimated Reading Time and offers a quick shortcut to clean up the page and view it in Reader View, including fonts, formatting, and images.
Instant Reader View: Hermit reuses the same HTML that was downloaded for the page in your browser: this makes it instant, saves network costs, and includes JavaScript-generated content automatically.

🆕 Android O: The version has no name, but new features are coming. Hermit is ready for Android O!
🆕 Notification Channels: Control every aspect of Lite App notifications through Android O’s centralized notification manager.
🆕 New Shortcuts API: Sadly, on Android O, shortcut icons are no longer as pretty as they used to be, so read this first.
🆕 Phishing and Malware Protection: If any malware sites manage to get through Hermit’s Ad & Malware Blocker (which is already very restrictive), then they will be automatically flagged by Google’s Malware Blocker (the same as what is used in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). Read more about Privacy-Focused Blocking.