Changelog

v1.13.0

unreleased

Twenty-one new tools for colour, type, translation, accessibility, forms and design assets.

• + Fourteen new tools, from Palette and Tap targets to Shadows , Shapes , an Image lab and Type scale .
• + Seven design generators in Tools, from Mesh gradient and Favicon kit to Device mockup and Code image . Needs Pro.
• + After an update the panel says so once, and What’s new marks everything that arrived since.

v1.12.0

2026-09-21

Hand-off documents, two more accessibility standards, and comparisons that weigh both pages.

• + Save the edits you made on a page as a hand-off document carrying the patch. Needs Pro.
• + Issue the conformance statement against EN 301 549 or Section 508, not only WCAG.
• + Copy the palette as a shadcn theme, CSS or Sass variables, or for MUI, Android, SwiftUI and Flutter.
• + Pro: a palette contrast matrix, a capture history, and ship-check budgets, custom rules and bulk audits.
• + Environments compares what each page cost and how long it took, and exports the comparison.
• − Dragging the panel by its grip no longer jumps back and forth or leaves it away from the pointer.

v1.11.0

2026-09-03

A sixth audit category, twenty-eight new Stack sections, and every duplicate technology row gone.

• + Twenty-eight Stack sections, from Charts and Payments to Reviews, Community, Voice & Video and 3D.
• + More than 2,500 technologies: AI providers, regional commerce, server frameworks and their languages.
• + Flags a dev server, a mock worker or a tunnel hostname left in a page that is live.
• + A sixth audit category for page weight : unsized images , blocking stylesheets, oversized files.
• + Thirty-four more audit checks, and the audit now reads the page's head and what it fetched.
• ~ Audit weights shifted to make room for the sixth category, so scores move slightly against earlier ones.
• − A page on Google Analytics 4 no longer also reports Universal Analytics, which shut down in 2023.
• − Twenty-three technologies listed under two names - Foundation, PixiJS, KaTeX among them - appear once.

v1.10.0

2026-08-31

Six new Stack sections, a technology list that reads cookies, and a Firefox capture fix.

• + Six Stack sections: Lifecycle, Licences, Integrity, Bundle, Conflicts and Weight.
• + Bundle reads the scripts this page serves itself and names the libraries a bundler hid inside them.
• + The technology list reads cookies now, and finds what a bundler hid: consent managers, bot management, Bootstrap 4.
• − Firefox: a panel that opened itself on page load can photograph the tab again - the loupe and both screenshot passes.
• − Dragging the panel by its grip follows the hand at speed instead of stalling and jumping to catch up.
• + Copy report now carries every Stack section, and the caret copies just the open one.

v1.9.1

2026-08-28

Firefox fixes: the panel hears the page again and the grip moves the window.

• − On Firefox the panel hears the page again - element picks, palette picks, and the drag grip.

v1.9.0

2026-08-28

Six new tools, a schema repair, a cascade reader, and a technology list that sees requests.

• + Six tools: Site sweep, Ship check , Handoff pack , Breakpoints , Patches and Selector health . Pro on the sweep, the archive and the exports.
• + SEO → Schema repairs structured data; a field the page cannot answer is written TODO, never guessed. Pro copies it out.
• + UI → Cascade lists every declaration on the page that matches something and wins nothing.
• + The technology list reads requests now, and Third parties names what each vendor left on the device.
• ~ A published evidence pack stops opening while the account behind it is off Pro. Nothing is deleted.
• + Screenshot redaction adds an oval pixelate and a blackout, and the annotator takes any colour.
• + Settings gains a Permissions screen, Send an idea, and the palette chord as a shortcut you can rebind.
• − Screenshots no longer contain the panel, copy no longer refuses a large picture, and Mux, Miva and the Facebook SDK were misreported.

v1.8.0

2026-08-24

Seven new diagnostics, kept page baselines with drift, and a dated evidence pack.

• + Seven diagnostics on the Tools tab: Requests (every request on one time axis, with cURL and HAR export), Interactions (how long each press took and which script blocked it), Errors (a running count of what broke), Top layer (dialogs, popovers and fullscreen, with anchor pairs), Storage (sizes, biggest keys and quota, never a value), Hints (preloads judged against what actually loaded) and Console (what the page says, warnings included).
• + Pro keeps baselines per page - requests , detected stack, design tokens and load timings under a hashed key, never the address - and the next visit names the drift.
• + Pro publishes an evidence pack: the accessibility readout frozen as a dated document at a link, alive for up to a year - what procurement asks an audit for.

v1.7.2

2026-08-20

Visual changes and code optimizations.

• ~ Minor visual adjustments and internal code optimizations.

v1.7.1

2026-08-20

Code optimization and visual polish.

• ~ General code optimizations and visual improvements for enhanced performance and stability.

v1.7.0

2026-08-20

Your settings can be kept against your account rather than only in a file, published links can be withdrawn from your account page, and that page is now five tabs rather than one scroll.

• + Backups (Settings) - a browser can keep a copy of its settings against your account, one copy per browser, and a browser you no longer have can be restored onto a new one. Off until you switch it on, Pro, and never your provider key, your token or this browser’s id. Saving to a file is unchanged and still free.
• + A published link can be withdrawn from loupekit.com/app - one link, or every link at once. The link stops working immediately and the report behind it is deleted.
• ~ Your account page is five tabs - where you stand, what you own, what you published, what was charged, and what leaves with you - instead of one scroll with a rail beside it.
• ~ Activating a browser with a licence key needs you to be signed in to a LoupeKit account. The key still decides which licence, so a key you were given still works - you sign in as yourself first. A licence that has activated ten different browsers inside a month will not take another until the month is out.
• − A browser you used every day could quietly lose Pro. A licence counted a browser as idle after thirty days whatever it had been doing, so activating a fourth browser took the slot of one that was in use.
• − Buying Pro left the browser you bought it in on the free plan. The licence was there and the Licence screen listed the browser, but the footer went on counting free audits until you unlinked the browser and activated it again. It turns Pro on by itself now, as soon as you come back from the card page.
• − Choosing an accent other than cyan changed the panel's fills and washes and left its text, its filled buttons and the selected section on the rail cyan. The whole panel takes the accent now, in both themes.

v1.6.0

2026-08-19

A screenshot tool with somewhere to annotate it, a page theme kept per site, a reading of how a site is reached, and an account you can make with an address and a password.

• + Capture - the viewport , a rectangle you drag or the whole page scrolled and stitched, then an editor for arrows, boxes, a highlighter and a redaction that destroys the pixels rather than covering them.
• + The page theme - brightness, contrast and colour, remembered for the sites you want it on. Photographs, video and embedded frames keep their own colours.
• + Transport (Server tab) - whether HTTP/3 and Encrypted Client Hello are on offer, and which authority may sign for the name. What a server cannot see is listed as unread rather than guessed at.
• + Signing out (Settings, Account) - this browser can end the session it is signed in with. A licence it is activated with keeps working.
• + An account can be made on loupekit.com with an address and a password, not only with Google. The account page keeps a year of sign-ins, activations and plan changes, and everything held against you can be downloaded as JSON .
• + Pulse reads four more vital signs - time to first byte, the load event, cumulative layout shift and the JavaScript heap - and page weight can be ordered by what went out first.
• + A Vibe audit says what it checked, not only what it found: every rule is marked with what happened to it, and each finding carries the points fixing it would return.
• + A Vibe finding says where it was seen - the first few elements by name, as you would search for them - and carries two prompts to fix it, one for a coding agent with your repository open and one for a chat. A published report at a link carries both as well.
• + The client report carries how the page performed: the navigation broken into phases with each one graded, the paint milestones against the Core Web Vitals thresholds, and what the page weighs by kind and by resource. Its summary now opens with every reading's headline figure.
• ~ The Stack tab reports what a match implies, marked as implied. React under a Next.js app was simply absent, because a production bundle leaves nothing of it to find.
• + Checkout can be made out to a business: tick it and give the registered name and EU VAT number, and the invoice is raised under the reverse charge with no VAT. The number is checked against the EU register, and what is on file is shown on your account page.

v1.5.0

2026-08-17

Six new tools, the selected element can be swapped or deleted, the Scraper writes a real spreadsheet, and a page can be held to thresholds of your own.

• + Six new tools - seventy-seven encoders , CSS background patterns built out of gradients, the service workers registered against a site, a selector that outlines everything it matches, the page tipped over one plate per level of nesting, and two elements compared value by value.
• + Checks - twelve thresholds you hold a page to, in the Server tab, graded against whatever the panel has already measured. Checking is free; Pro is what remembers the line.
• + The Scraper writes a real spreadsheet - XLSX with declared types, a frozen header row and columns wide enough to read - and reads a table as a table, each column named by its own header.
• + The selected element can be deleted, and an image swapped for another address or a file from your device. Both undo like every other live edit, and nothing is written to the site.
• + Your panel settings follow you to another browser through its own profile sync - the accent and theme, the scale, your shortcuts and the tools you pinned. Nothing reaches us and no account is involved.

v1.4.0

2026-08-13

Pro stops being a property of one install: a licence key that covers three browsers, and teams to share a space with.

• + Teams - invitations accepted or declined by the invitee, a policy the owner sets once and every member is checked against, and a seat anyone can leave on their own. Signing in happens on loupekit.com in a real browser tab, by emailed code, password or Google, and hands the session back to the panel.
• + A licence key with every Pro purchase - it arrives by email, turns Pro on for up to three browsers, and can be handed to somebody else. Settings → Licence shows it, activates the browser you are in and lists the others; loupekit.com/app is where a device is removed or the key replaced if it ever gets out.

v1.3.0

2026-08-06

Readings this browser cannot take for itself, a report you can hand to a client, and your own AI key.

• + The Server tab (Pro) - six readings taken from our server and only when asked: the page as five crawlers see it, what is set before any consent banner runs, five languages, a cold fetch, every external host checked, and the card each social network would draw.
• + The client report (Pro) - eighteen sections under your own name and colour, from the cover and executive summary to the findings, exported as a document you can hand over.
• + Bring your own AI key - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or a local model, called straight from the browser. The key is stored on this device, never reaches our server, and is never written to a log.

v1.2.0

2026-07-31

Getting at what is already on the page: the Scraper, real windows for the readers that needed one, ⌘K over all of it, and a stylesheet kept per site.

• + The Scraper - point at one card, row or search result and every other one on the page comes back as a table, with the columns worked out from what repeats inside them. Copy it as CSV, TSV or JSON , or save the file. It reads the page you already have open and asks the network for nothing.
• + The command palette - ⌘K anywhere on a page LoupeKit is open on brings up one search over every tab, section, tool, simulation, setting and window, full width and over the page rather than inside the panel. Picking something from a tool window brings the panel forward on it.
• + Tool windows - the page source , a JSON viewer, the QR generator, the column grid and the release notes each open in a real window. The source window also holds any file a detection matched on, fetched by the page rather than opened in a tab.
• + Site styles - a stylesheet you write for one site, kept against its origin and put back whenever LoupeKit is running there. It makes no request of its own: an @import or a url() pointing off the site is removed before it is saved, and the editor says which.

v1.1.0

2026-07-27

How the page reads to somebody who cannot see it, to a search crawler, and to a generative engine.

• + The Accessibility tab - contrast measured on the colour as painted, the accessibility tree with each name’s source, keyboard order, focus path , and twenty-three vision simulations.
• + The SEO tab - the head, the heading outline , repeated phrases, the served HTML against the rendered document, hreflang read as a cluster, robots.txt per crawler, and, on Pro, the sitemaps and twenty-eight days of real-visitor field data.
• + AI answers - whether a generative engine can fetch this page, read it without running its JavaScript, and cite it. The robots.txt verdict for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest, the share of the page’s text that actually arrives in the HTML, the author, date and structured data a quote needs, and the site’s llms.txt if it publishes one.

v1.0.0

2026-07-23

The first release: stack detection, the Vibe audit, the inspector, the toolbox and the page bar.

• + Stack detection - the frameworks, build tools, analytics, CMS, hosting and form backends a page is built on, read in the tab from about two hundred fingerprints, with the evidence for each match and a version where one can be proved.
• + The Vibe-Code Audit - a score out of a hundred across markup, CSS, runtime, copy and accessibility, with every finding named and its fix stated. A result can be published at an expiring link: the score travels and the page never does.
• + The Inspect view - computed styles, the box model, element states with any of them held open on the page, the CSS rules that won, and live edits that undo. Nothing it writes survives a reload. A readout square on the page bar names the type and colour under the pointer with nothing open and every link still working, and a marquee square drags a rectangle to select everything inside it, so one change reaches every card at once.
• + Design signals and extraction - nineteen visual patterns named on the page, and the palette , typefaces, assets and measured design system taken off it as tokens , CSS variables or a Tailwind theme , and a gradient built from the colours it paints most.
• + The Tools tab - a toolbox of about forty readers and transformers: page weight , load timing , layout shifts , overflow , unused CSS, scrolling , third parties , source maps , fonts , forms , media , animation , print , mutations , tables , Markdown , QR codes, component export, units , campaign links, pseudo-localisation and the rest.
• + The Developer tab - about sixty page toggles and actions, each reversible or saying it is not, plus cookies and site data with a row you can edit, copy or delete.
• + The page bar - a toolbar over the page whose controls and order are yours, foldable to its grip, with each square’s own settings on the square itself. It can outlive the panel, so looking at the page does not cost the toolbar. Its camera takes the viewport or the whole page, scrolled and stitched here with the fixed header photographed once, and guides pinned from its rulers come back on that site after a reload.
• + Settings - keyboard shortcuts on both the panel and the page, six accent colours, a light, dark and automatic theme, panel scale, and a backup file that carries everything except keys and tokens .