Kagi Search
Kagi Search Android app
We’ve made meaningful improvements to the Kagi Search app — faster performance, smoother overall experience. If you’re on Android, give the update a try.
We also hope this makes it even easier to share Kagi with the people you care about. Let us know what you think!
- Improved app startup time
- Updated search home screen with native text editing
- Updated home screen widgets with faster access to Translate, Summarize and Assistant
- Add settings to Kagi Search app to autofocus the search bar on launch and to move the search bar to the bottom #9042 @conradsrc
- Improvements/fixes to the Android app screenshots #5019 @Niraj
- Android app: Pressing Enter on a physical keyboard should search #8838 @ItsHarper
- Android app: image, news... etc don't stay selected in the first screen #7207 @Ronzino
- Android Share Menu: "Assistant" option appears twice, first instance should be labeled "Search" #8773 @artemp84
- Image Search With Camera #5032 @Wes
- Add voice search #3270 @Browsing6853
- Launching translate from the Android widget is very slow #8453 @zslayton
- Fixed login for Github connected accounts
Other fixes and improvements
- !word bang now directs to Kagi Translate Dictionary
- Toggle to Disable SlopStop #9105 @______nick (also adds settings around it though)
- While authenticating via privacy pass, you are unable to use any non-default lens #9510 @Sludge
- Trying to change rank status of a domain from Kagi's leaderboard isn't working as expected #9392 @Puddle
- Personalized Results page has Incorrect Link #9517 @catgirlinspace
- The
kagi.com/bot page is hard ro read #9511 @thekarel
- Maintain 'annual' choice on pricing page when switching between Individual, Family, Team #9378 @keunes
- Translations spill over container in pricing page #9377 @keunes
- Link doesn't resolve to anything #9413 @onlineversioncontrolsystem
- Reverse image search not working correctly with text copied from Excel #8598 @bxd41
- Embed Google Maps Reviews alongside Yelp Reviews #4204 @mackid1993
Kagi Assistant
- We upgraded to GLM 4.7 (with thinking variant)
- Case-agnostic alphabetical sorting for tags #8967 @lolroger
- Make searching on/off more clear
- Special characters like German Umlaut (ä, ö, ü etc.) are broken when customizing Assistant #9501 @Felensis
- The first letter(s) of Grok 4 responses are cut #9484 @4fzx6
- Problem with unicode characters in assistant's output #9345 @chbug
- Kagi Assistant Thread Search Performance degradation (WebKit?) #9462 @tockrock
- Diacritics in filenames prevent document analysis #9361 @noquierouser
- Allow immediate typing when you load the Assistant #9401 @Thibaultmol-kagi
- Research (Experimental) can now generate and edit images
- Model selection window breaks into two lines in CJK languages #9032 @Hanbyeol
- Kagi Assistant: Renaming a thread does not allow you to select single words or characters in the thread name #8909 @__
- Assistant lens dropdown sometimes lights purple with no lens selected #9169 @howie
- Message info now includes timestamp of when the prompt was submitted
Kagi News
- Time Travel mode to access past daily summaries - available to all during beta, subscriber-only after
- Paywall indicator for paywalled domains
- Keyboart shortcuts for navigation do not work as expected @mr-f00
- Wide screen mode @xatier
- Added Estonian as UI language @Tarpsvo
- Heat index graph does not update when refreshing news from notification #9547 @ashemedai
- Allow user to set a universal reading level for category #9531 @cakeboss
- Ordering Sources List in Kagi News #9450 @catfriend
- Links to source articles should be actual links #9273 @r5x
Kagi News Apps (iOS and Android)
- Faster app launch and improved offline support
- Pull-to-refresh added to the feed
- Category settings now include search for easier discovery
- Sources section in story view now shows the number of publishers and articles
- Support for selecting multiple content languages, stories are automatically translated to your primary language when needed #8822 @LordDuckingling
- Exception messages are now localized for better clarity
- Improved image caching to reduce local storage usage
- Enhanced layout responsiveness on wide screens, including iPads and tablets
- General UI improvements across the app
Kagi Translate
- Help documentation redone (including detailed information about what you can do with URL paramters with Translate)
- Pinned languages and language history are now synced across devices if settings syncing is enabled
- Improved speech-to-text
- Background processing for document translations - start a job, switch tabs or close the browser, and download later
- Chinese localization tweaks @CTAO
- Alternatives button does not animate when only two characters are selected @CTAO
- No minimum text box size causes mobile view to become unusable below certain height #9499 @BenMacphail
- Japanese Input Issues on Mobile #9496 #9495 @TusedayGhost
- Clicking 'Show More' long romanicized text hides the box #9394 @theDoctor
- Alternative translation descriptions appear in target language #9431 @theDoctor
- Dictionary view pulls in other language tags and categories #9419 @ashemedai
- Duplicate language suggestions for "Detect Language" #9416 @dreifach
- Make buttons in Dictionary actual hyperlinks instead of js links #9408 @Thibaultmol
- Improve 'Dictionary sections' in Kagi Translate #9407 @Thibaultmol
- Document Wikitionary usage within Kagi Translate Dictionary #9405 @Thibaultmol
- Backdrop blur doesn't work in Safari on the translate pop-up controls @Carl
Kagi Maps
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