Flyleaf Blog
A note on the use of “AI” tools in the creation of Flyleaf
I started building Flyleaf in the summer of 2023. Back then, the world of software development looked quite different from what it looks like now, although changes were already looming on the horizon. Flyleaf is a labor of love for me. I wanted to build the read-later app that matches…
Designing assets for Apple’s new App Store display options
With the release of iOS 27, App Store Connect introduced new options for displaying custom assets at the top of your app’s App Store page, and in place of the first three screenshots in the search results page. I think this is an underrated opportunity to stand out right now,…Lex On Tech: “Max Melzer’s Flyleaf is a fresh take on reading later”
Lex Friedman has been kind enough to put his “Indie developer spotlight” on my little read-later app. He wrote a pretty thorough summary of what Flyleaf is all about: Max believes vertical scrolling isn’t great for focused reading. He’s believed that a long time. His first iOS device was a…
Flyleaf 2.7 – All the little things
Flyleaf 2.7 brings some pretty noticeable design tweaks to Flyleaf, with a new sidebar on iPad and Mac (and the upcoming iPhone Duo). The new article actions view on iOS puts tagging, article info, and reading settings just a few swipes away. Plus, the new “Stack” pagination style makes turning…
What’s new in Flyleaf 2.6 (and what’s coming next)
This update took me a little longer than usual, but for good reason: Flyleaf 2.6 is packed with new features, improvements, and fixes (oh and also the update got held up for three weeks in App Review). One of the biggest additions is proper table support. Flyleaf can now display…
Flyleaf 2.5 – Finally adding Widgets, and better ways to fix content issues
Today, version 2.5 of Flyleaf, my independently-created read-later app for iPhone, iPad and macOS, became available on the iOS and macOS App Store. Free Download for iPhone, iPad and Mac In this post, I want to talk a little more in-depth about what’s new in this release. It was about…
Flyleaf Update 2.4 – The one with Liquid Glass
Over the last few months, I have been heavy at work to adapt Flyleaf to match the complete redesigns of both macOS and iOS in their 26 versions. This was a significant undertaking, especially since I will not stop supporting any older iOS versions.1 “Liquid Glass” – what Apple calls…
Flyleaf Update 2.3.3 – Wish Fulfillment ahead of iOS 26
Like many app developers, I have been living the last couple of weeks in the iOS and iPadOS 26 betas, to get a feel for the new “Liquid Glass” design. But in terms of Flyleaf development, I have been living in current-OS land and working on an update which I…
Flyleaf 2.3 Feature Overview
Flyleaf 2.3 is a big update, it probably includes the most new features since the 2.0 update from last year. In this post, I want to showcase some of the new features. If you’re coming from Pocket, the most important news first: This update includes a Pocket archive import option,…One year of Flyleaf
Exactly one year ago, I launched the first version of Flyleaf on the iOS and Mac App Store. I built Flyleaf because I wanted a read-later app that offers book-like pagination that isn’t just an afterthought and that also works great on macOS. Back then, I wrote a short blog…
Flyleaf Update 2.2
Free Download for iPhone, iPad and Mac While preparing the just-released 2.2.2 update for Flyleaf, my read-later app for iOS and macOS, I was reminded that I didn’t write anything here about any of the 2.2 patches. So let’s do that now. Flyleaf 2.2.0 The main reason I pushed out… Flyleaf Update 2.1
Hot off the presses, today I pushed the button to release Flyleaf 2.1. This release gave me a lot of headaches, mostly caused by haphazard changes and bugs introduced by Apple with iOS 18 and macOS 15. With 2.1, I think I am at a point where Flyleaf is as… Flyleaf Update 2.0
Today I finally published the big Flyleaf 2.0 update! Pretty much every part of the app has been touched in some way, so there is lots of new stuff. Flyleaf is my “read-later” app that displays saved articles from the web in a meticulously designed reading view, without popups, ads…Apptisan #015: Flyleaf
I was graciously invited to write about my read-it-later app Flyleaf on Apptisan, a chinese newsletter about indie software: I originally studied theology at university in Germany. But I shifted to software development when I figured out that this is a more reliable way to feed a family. By day,… Flyleaf Update 1.1
The 1.1 update of my read-later app Flyleaf is now live on the iOS and macOS AppStore. It includes some nice quality-of-life improvements, so make sure to grab it! New Stuff Add PDFs to parse the contents and show them in the Flyleaf reading view An “unread article count” badge…Creativerly: Read articles like books – with Flyleaf
Thanks to Philipp Temmel at creativerly for writing up this thorough deep-dive on my new app Flyleaf. It’s a very generous summary of the feature set of the initial version of Flyleaf: Flyleaf is a fully native read-it-later app for iPhone, iPad, and macOS, that gives you the possibility to…