Changelog
What we shipped, what we fixed
Dated receipts. No marketing fluff. Things break and get fixed openly.
Newest first. We update this when something meaningful changes, not on a schedule.
2026-07-20
- We were claiming GPU acceleration we do not do. The FAQ said Chrome and Edge run the AI tools faster because of WebGPU, and that Safari and Firefox fall back to something slower. None of that is true. Every tool runs the same WebAssembly code on your CPU in every browser. There is no fast browser, no slow browser, and no fallback tier. We also said processing uses "your CPU and GPU"; it is CPU only. We did try the GPU path, and it crashed on real machines, so we chose the slower option that always works.
- Upscale Image is not AI, and we stopped implying it was. It was listed as one of our AI tools. It is not: it uses high-quality bicubic resampling. We shipped a neural upscaler, but it ran out of memory on real devices, so we removed it in May and kept the method that finishes. The tool page and FAQ now say this outright.
- PixVoice: karaoke captions are word-exact on desktop, approximate on phones. The caption page promised Whisper word-level alignment without mentioning that phones do not get it. They do not: the aligner is a 400MB model that exhausts memory on most phones, so mobile falls back to timing estimated from the speech itself. Close, but not word-exact. Since that page is aimed at people making TikToks, and most of them are on a phone, saying nothing was the wrong call. There is now a question about it near the top rather than a footnote at the bottom.
- PixVoice video export: MP4 on Chrome and Edge, WebM on Firefox. We said MP4, full stop. Firefox cannot record MP4, so it gets WebM, which some platforms want converted before upload. Said plainly now.
- PixVoice: hear the voices before you download anything. The landing page now plays real samples of five of the 28 voices, each saying something different so you can tell them apart. They are genuine Kokoro recordings made with the same engine that runs in your browser, pre-rendered so that listening costs you nothing: no model download, no server, and the audio only loads when you press play. We also corrected the download size on that page. It said 700MB flat; text to speech alone is about 300MB, and 700MB is only if you add karaoke captions.
- The same "offline" correction, now across every tool page. Fifteen tool pages still described themselves as working offline, and the FAQ still promised full offline support was coming. Neither was true, so both are gone. What those pages say now is what actually happens: the work runs locally in your browser and your files are never uploaded. Loading the site still needs a connection, and we say so rather than implying otherwise.
- We removed an "offline" claim we hadn't earned. The download page and the homepage said PixThisApp works offline after you install it. It doesn't yet: there is no service worker, so loading the site still needs a connection. What IS true, and what we now say instead: your files are never uploaded and the processing runs on your device. The site and the code each tool needs still load from the web, and AI tools download their model the first time you use them. Installing still gets you a real app icon and its own window. We'd rather correct ourselves than let a promise sit there unearned.
2026-07-13
- Unlock PDF is back, for real this time. It now removes a PDF's password using a genuine decrypt engine (QPDF, compiled to WebAssembly). You enter the password you know, it unlocks on your device, nothing is uploaded. This replaces the paused version, which relied on a library that couldn't actually decrypt.
- Protect PDF shipped. Add an AES-256 password to any PDF so it needs that password to open. Same QPDF engine, same rule: the file and password never leave your browser. This clears the last "coming back" PDF promise.
- Unlock PDF tells the truth when a file isn't locked. Drop a PDF that has no password and it now says so plainly instead of claiming it "unlocked" something. Owner-restricted PDFs (open fine but block printing/copying) still unlock with an empty password.
- Share your result in one tap. After a tool finishes, the Share button now hands off your file to WhatsApp, email, or anywhere your device shares, with a short note that it was made free and private on pixthisapp.com and never uploaded. We never watermark or alter your file, and the note is text you can delete before sending.
2026-07-10
- Site-wide honesty pass. Went through the tool copy and removed claims we couldn't stand behind — quality-loss wording on compression, "AI upscale" where it isn't AI, bookmark/hyperlink preservation the PDF library doesn't actually keep, a phantom PDF-to-Word on the comparison page, and WebGPU/voice-count claims on PixVoice. If it's on the page, the tool does it.
- Privacy Blur — real redaction. Black-out mode now permanently destroys the covered pixels (irreversible, verified), with honest labels: blur/pixelate are marked as reversible style effects, not privacy.
- Correctness pass across the tools. Filenames and format badges now match the file you actually get; Compress Image + Compress PDF keep your original when "compressing" would make it bigger (no fake savings); PDF to Text spaces words correctly; PDF to CSV column detection improved with an honest "verify amounts" note; Crop straighten and Sign PDF now line up on rotated pages; Strip Metadata verifies its own output. Still no uploads.
- Unlock PDF paused. Our PDF library can't actually decrypt a protected PDF, so we removed the tool rather than fake it. It's on the "coming back when fixed" list and returns with a real decrypt path (QPDF-WASM).
2026-05-10
- Remove Background — new AI engine (Desktop only). Replaced RMBG-1.4 with BiRefNet_lite on capable desktop devices. Same architecture family as the state-of-the-art RMBG-2.0, but publicly accessible. Edge accuracy jumps from ~74% to 90%+. Inference is noticeably faster — most images complete in 5–10 seconds. Mobile devices will continue to use the lighter legacy engine for stability. Also fixes the intermittent "washed out mask" issue caused by an upstream ONNX Runtime bug we were silently hitting.
- PixVoice — Neon Pulse caption style redesigned. Active word now has a bright white core with intense neon glow and a subtle scale-bounce animation. Past words are solid orange, future words are crisp white. Much more legible on busy backgrounds.
- PixVoice — premium background presets. Flat 2-color gradients replaced with a new volumetric mesh gradient system — layered radial light orbs over dark bases. All 6 presets (Carbon, Obsidian, Hermès, Ocean, Sunset, Aurora) now look studio-grade.
- PixVoice — video background uploads. You can now upload MP4/WebM video files as custom backgrounds for video export. Live-looping preview swatch in the UI.
- PixVoice — generation stability. Fixed a race condition where starting a new session while the WASM engine was still running could deadlock the UI. Controls are now disabled during active generation.
- Mobile download compliance. Replaced a fragile programmatic download script that was causing mobile browsers (iOS/Android Safari & Chrome) to silently block downloads across all 23 tools. All tools now require a manual, explicit click on the orange "Download" button to save files, strictly adhering to browser security models.
2026-05-03
- Comparison pages live — `/compare/pixthisapp-vs-ilovepdf`, `/compare/pixthisapp-vs-iloveimg`, `/compare/pixthisapp-vs-camscanner`. Honest side-by-side, including where the competitor wins.
- Hero copy refreshed on the homepage — leans on what's verifiable in DevTools, not adjectives.
- CLS fix — homepage hero text no longer pushes the tools grid down during load.
- Tier-aware performance notice on landing — mid/low-end mobile users get an honest heads-up that AI tools may be slow.
- "New" badges removed from 8 tools (Photo to PDF, Sign PDF, Delete Pages, Compress PDF, PDF to Text, Image to Text, Unlock PDF, QR Generator). They weren't new anymore. Going forward: "New" only on tools shipped in the last ~30 days.
2026-05-02
- Image build corruption resolved. Some AI image tools were failing for a stretch of about two weeks. Workers + WASM bundles rebuilt; AI tools (Remove Background, Upscale) verified working end-to-end. If you visited during the broken window, sorry — it's fixed.
2026-04-13
- Tools parked to legacy: Bento Collage, Asset Engine, Rename, Color Palette. Low usage; revival pending if real demand returns. We don't quietly delete tools — they live in legacy with a path back.
Earlier
- Coming back when fixed: Object Remover (LaMa model upstream removal, pending replacement) and Remove Watermark (DeepFillV2 ONNX WASM error). We don't pretend they exist while they don't. (Unlock PDF and Protect PDF are no longer on this list - both shipped 2026-07-13 on the QPDF engine.)
- Beta capability: PDF to CSV is labeled "Beta" because table extraction quality varies by document. Honest disclosure on the tool itself.
How we work
PixThisApp is built and improved by a small team. Updates ship when they're ready, not on a marketing calendar. Sometimes things break — when they do, we fix them openly and document it here.
If a tool you rely on stops working, refresh the next day or check this page. Most issues are resolved within 48 hours.
We document changes here because "trust us, we improve" is a claim. A dated changelog is evidence.