Ruxpin, as it grows

• Rux's wardrobe: six new looks, and October's days are on his calendar.
• Update reminders: Ruxpin tells you when a new version is ready.
  • In-app alerts to update.
  • Notifications, if enabled, when you aren't on the latest version.

Daily Spin. Once a day, spin for a number of pages or minutes to read, then tap the ring to mark it done.

A few small things:

• Rux wears a reading look on days you mark your Daily Spin read.
• A tidier Profile, with Preferences and Rux in one card each.
• Small fixes and improvements for sign-in emails and empty recordings.

Daily Spin is a small, but mighty new feature on Home that hopefully will push and motivate you to keep your daily streak going. Once a day, you can spin the wheel to get a number of pages, or minutes you want to read for the day. Read that much, then tap the ring to mark it done. Days you mark get an extra ring on your streak, and the streak still counts the days you record an entry.

We added it because some days we find the hardest part is picking up the book and we need a bit of a nudge to motivate and keep us on track. Reminders are optional, and we have added more widgets to show the daily spin number too. Learn more about Daily Spin in our support documents. Happy reading!

Ruxpin now uses your display name. There's an optional field when you create an account, and one in Preferences to add or change it later. We are looking to continue making this a more personalized experience, and this is just one more added layer to Ruxpin feeling more yours.

Signing in got steadier. A sign-in link tapped while Ruxpin was still in the background could show an error; now it waits a moment and tries again. The sign-in screen checks that an address looks right before sending, and if no email arrives, it tells you what to do next.

Two smaller things: updates to the subscription screen at the end of your free month, and the widgets now show the Ruxpin icon.

A pass across everything that happens when your signal drops. Opening the app offline used to take twenty-five seconds and could land you on sign in anyway; it now takes under two, and you stay signed in. A load that can't reach the network says so at once instead of spinning first. A thought recorded before losing signal now sends itself the moment you're back, with every screen agreeing it's sending.

A few smaller fixes ride along: a recorder that can't start tells you instead of doing nothing, a deleted thought stops leaving its card behind, and the Lock Screen widget's tap survives landing you on sign in first.

Any thought, or everything you have said about a book, can now become a Rux Note: a printable sheet organized from your own words, with a diagram where your thoughts have the shape.

It starts as just your words. A slider lets Rux add background, examples or review questions, and anything he adds sits in a dashed panel in its own typeface, so it reads as his even in black and white. Every line in your voice points to the thought it came from.

Tap Make under a thought or a book, or ask Rux. Read it, share it as a PDF, save it to Photos, or share a card. Rux Notes has the rest.

Your reader portrait used to wait for eight thoughts. It now takes three, across more than one sitting.

That was not a small wait. Most readers never reached it, so the Reader tab spent its time telling them how far short they were. Three is where the writing actually holds up. We read back what a portrait says at one thought, at three and at eight: three reads like eight, and one reads like a confident description of somebody who isn't there.

The marks on that tab are a door now, too. Tap them to open your Library and read the thoughts you have so far.

Tap Make, in the box under a thought or a book's page, and Rux builds a study note from what you've said: your own words organized and printable. A slider sets how much Rux adds, from none at all up to review questions, and everything he adds is marked as his. Read it in the app, save it as a PDF or as images sized for your phone, or share a card carrying one line of your own writing.

You can also just ask, in the Rux box. Rux Notes has the rest.

Create, in the tab bar, now opens a page: pick Entry, Source, or Artifact and go straight to it.

Your streak survives a day offline, the Lock Screen widget walkthrough has a permanent home in your profile, the filing target stays on screen while you record, and the app tells you when a new version is ready.

A thought captured with no signal now keeps the time you spoke it rather than the time it finally uploaded. The widget walkthrough used to sit only at the end of the opening tour, so skipping the tour closed that door for good. And you can see where a thought is filing while you record it, without saying the title out loud.

You can post your record now. Open the Reader tab, scroll to the bottom, and tap Share your record. Ruxpin draws a card with your counts on it, and if your portrait has been written you can put a line from it on the card too.

Three smaller things. The Lock Screen widget walkthrough now has a permanent home on your Profile, so you can go back to it. The control showing where a thought will be filed stays on screen while you record, instead of vanishing when you start. And a thought captured with no signal keeps the day you actually spoke it, so a flight no longer breaks your streak.

Ruxpin is out. After a few months of building it quietly, you can download it today on any iPhone running iOS 16.4 or later.

Your first 30 days are open, and nothing is charged until you decide to stay. If you have been testing through TestFlight, nothing changes for you and your record comes with you either way. If you have been waiting for this, the app is the easy part: open it, press record, and say something about whatever you're reading.

Before your first thought, Ruxpin now shows a screen headed Ruxpin uses AI. It says what leaves your phone when you speak or type: the words go to Google's Gemini AI service to be turned into text, tidied up, filed under a source, and reflected back to you later. It also says what never goes, which is your name, email, Apple ID, device and payment details.

Nothing is sent until you tap Allow and continue, and our servers won't process a thought without it. You can read the whole thing again whenever you like under AI processing on your Profile.

Ask Rux something, and it used to work only from entries already put in front of it. Now, when your answer probably lives further back, it goes and looks: searches your record for a word, opens everything filed under one book, or pulls up a single old thought in full. Every citation it hands back is still real and tappable, wherever it found it.

Your account page on the web also got tidied up, install leads, your plan and sign-in methods follow. And the accent color reads a little darker now, clearer as text, not just as a highlight.

Nothing to do. Just ask.

The line at the top of your Reader tab used to come from your sixty most recent thoughts. That worked well enough early on, but if you'd been capturing for a while it meant your portrait only really knew your last couple of months.

Now it draws on everything you've captured, so a thought from a book you finished last year can turn up in it again. Range and Synthesis look at your whole record too, so a month spent deep in one book won't read as a narrow reader.

Nothing to do. Your next impression is set on Sunday.

• Rux now dresses for the date: ice cream in July, reading glasses in September, a scarf in December. Two looks are about you instead, a rosette when your streak hits seven, thirty or a hundred, and a book for a day or two after a new reading. Meet Rux.
• "What Rux remembers" in Profile is now Reader file. Same page, same Forget everything.
• Fixed: asking Rux something out loud could hang on "Transcribing what you said…" and never finish.
• Fixed: tapping a citation, or the first step of a trail, could bump you to the Home tab. Both keep you put now.

The last few weeks were spent on a hundred small things rather than one big one. The Library sorts and stars; every drawer opens at the same height and closes the same way; a source page maps where in the book your thoughts land; and Rux, the small sitting dog, now keeps you company while you speak. If something reads better than it did, that was the point.

• The two typefaces Ruxpin sets your thoughts in were made by people who gave them away. They have a page now: Acknowledgements, linked from the foot of your Profile beside Privacy and Terms.
• While counting them we found Ruxpin was carrying 32 font files and using eight. It carries eight now, so updates are a little lighter.
• Underneath, everything Ruxpin is built on moved up to its current version. You shouldn't be able to tell, which is the whole ambition.

• Muse is now Rux, and he has a look: a small dog who turns up wherever you'd ask him something. More on Rux.
• Your streak stopped nagging. It speaks up at real milestones now and stays quiet otherwise.
• One star per thought, not one per line inside it. How starring works.
• Opening a thought shows how you got there: a trail back to its book, up at the top.
• Fixed: a capture made offline could be uploaded and analyzed twice. Now it happens once.
• Fixed: a recording that failed to save could sit on "Saving…" forever. It now tells you and lets you retry.

• Sign in is the button now, so tap it if you're back. New here? Create account sits right below. More on signing in.
• Tap your sign-in link on your phone and Ruxpin opens itself. No more hunting for the right button in the email.
• Long thoughts don't get cut off by your phone's auto-lock anymore. The screen stays awake for as long as you're recording.
• Our emails come from support@ruxpin.app now.
• Fixed: Muse occasionally said a reflection "drew on 1 of your entry." It says entries now, like a normal sentence.

• Every pull-up drawer now opens at the same height: capture, Muse, feedback, the source picker, and the subscribe screen were all slightly different, and the subscribe screen most of all.
• The screen after your free month ends says less and says it clearer.
• Typing in a drawer keeps your button above the keyboard. It didn't always, in the ones that open on top of other drawers.

Dogear is now Ruxpin, named for Ted's dog. The folded corner in the icon has always been an ear; now it belongs to someone.

Nothing about your record changes. Same entries, same sources, same reflections, same reading vitals. Sign in the way you always have and everything is exactly where you left it.

Two practical notes:

• If you're on TestFlight, the app now appears as Ruxpin, starting over at build 1. That's not a rollback. The new name gets its own listing, and its build count starts fresh.
• The web home is now ruxpin.app. Old links and anything you've bookmarked keep working, so nothing breaks.

Older entries in this feed still say Dogear. That's deliberate. They're a record of what shipped and when.

• Guides open in a sheet, right over your page, with no detour through Safari.
• What's new lives here now, on the web and in the app.
• Dogear allows itself one quiet suggestion at a time, a line under the streak band you can dismiss for good.

• Show & Order pills arrange the Library by kind, stars, recency, thought count, or title.
• Sources wear their kind at a glance: book, article, other.
• One Muse box everywhere: Home, source, entry.
• Chrome that holds still, a wordmark that goes Home, sign out in the menu.
• The Reader epigraph in its own bookplate, with an honest colophon.

Every line above started as a shake-the-phone note. Keep them coming.

• Threads. Conversations pick up where you left them; a thread rests after two weeks of quiet.
• Memory. A small, readable memory of you as a reader. See every word in Profile → What Muse remembers, erase it any time.
• Citations stay strictly yours: memory shapes the voice, never the evidence. More in the Muse guide.

Speak a thought mid-read and it lands in your record: transcribed, cleaned, filed to the book. The Library keeps your sources, Muse reflects on what you've been thinking, and widgets open capture in one touch. Everything's free for your first 30 days, then $5.99 a month.