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Every release, newest first. Version numbers and dates are placeholders until release.

ChangedSaturday, 31 October 2026

46 clock faces, each with a real light version

  • Every face now has a true light version: porcelain flip cards, frosted Nixie tubes, a white departure board, a white-washed neon wall, a clear Liquid sphere, a pale HUD, a dawn Constellation sky, a bright Eclipse sky, a daytime Moon sky and a pastel Aurora. E-ink turns into night paper in dark and OLED.
  • Dark dials move to a graphite material with a soft glow of the light colour at the bottom edge; OLED dials are pure black with a thin outline.
  • LED, Pulse and Terminal are retired. If you used one, AwakeTab now shows LCD (for LED and Terminal) or Waveform (for Pulse).
  • The gallery groups the faces as Featured 18, Digital, Analog, Ambient and All 46, and Ring is the default face.
  • Clock of clocks reads one hour as "1:00", and Diver's time left sits in a raised pill that the hands never cover.
ChangedSaturday, 31 October 2026

The timer in eight languages, and easier to use by keyboard

  • The timer, its panels and the home page now read in German, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese, with the time written the way each language writes it.
  • Keyboard focus goes where you expect: the status, the length, Keep awake, then Vibe, Faces, Recents, Settings and Search. "Skip to the timer" takes you straight there.
  • One-key shortcuts work only while the timer has focus, so the space bar scrolls the page below it as usual.
  • Every focus ring sits a little away from its button, sliders are easier to grab, and the timer reflows on a 320 px screen or at 200% zoom.
  • New favicons and app icons with the progress-ring logo.
ChangedSaturday, 31 October 2026

The extension, mini clock, widgets and wall mode in the Glance design

  • The Chrome extension's popup shows your clock face, four lengths and one button: keep this tab awake, pause, resume or stop. It works in any tab and while you use other apps.
  • The toolbar icon counts down the minutes on green, shows II in amber when paused and ! in red when something blocks it.
  • Everything in the extension is free, including keeping chosen sites awake automatically. Add a site straight from the page you are on.
  • A new option releases the screen while the tab is hidden and picks up again when you come back, and a gentle chime can play when the time is up.
  • The extension no longer asks to show notifications, and asks for a site only when you add it.
  • The floating mini clock is smaller, shows your face and closes by itself when the session ends.
  • Home-screen widgets come in large, small and a one-tap quick start.
  • Wall mode puts the face full screen on pure black, shifts it every few minutes to protect the screen and dims to 40% after 10 PM.
ChangedSaturday, 31 October 2026

The website in the Glance design

  • Below the clock, the home page now shows a moving gallery of faces, six living backgrounds, what makes AwakeTab different, three illustrated steps, use cases, straight answers and one big button to start.
  • Every page has a floating glass menu, follows your system's light or dark setting, and ends on a new footer with a feedback card, a live status pill and a theme switch.
  • The question about counting visits is a small card in the corner instead of a block in the page, and both answers look the same.
  • Questions open and close properly, one at a time, with a plus or minus that shows which.
  • There is no support email any more: ask from Settings → Send feedback inside the timer.
  • Each page has its own share image, and the changelog has an RSS feed.
NewSaturday, 31 October 2026

49 clock faces, sixteen of them new

  • Sixteen new faces, among them Aurora, Liquid, Eclipse, Skeleton, Neon and Halo — each moves only while the screen is awake.
  • Every face redrawn like a premium watch or OS widget, and a picker grouped into New, Signature, Digital, Analog and Ambient.
  • A new volt-green accent, Archivo display type and the Geist UI family.
NewSaturday, 31 October 2026

Face studio and sound mixer for Pro

  • Pick your own accent colour; status colours stay fixed.
  • Mix rain, café, fire and brown noise that stop when the session ends.
FixedSaturday, 31 October 2026

Smarter wake-lock recovery

  • When a hidden tab loses the lock, AwakeTab asks once and resumes when you return.
ChangedSaturday, 31 October 2026

The home page opens on the timer

  • AwakeTab.com now opens straight on the live clock with a one-hour session ready: one tap on Keep awake starts it.
  • The faces gallery, use cases, how it works and the questions sit below the clock, and every "Open the timer" link goes to the home page.
  • Site pages follow four layouts: phone, tablet portrait, tablet landscape and desktop.
ChangedSaturday, 31 October 2026

The Chrome extension in the new look

  • The popup, welcome page and settings use the new colours and Archivo headings: violet Keep awake, a volt-green lamp while the screen is held, and a calm grey when time is up.
  • The toolbar icon lights its lamp only while AwakeTab is keeping the device awake, and shows it hollow otherwise; the minutes-left badge is unchanged.
  • The popup's main button reads "Keep awake · 45 min", as on the website, and the time's up notification shows the mark with its ended lamp.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

Calmer controls on the tool

  • The tool page asks one question at a time. Before a session there is one row of lengths (15 min to 4 h and "Until I stop") and a ⋯ at its end for "Until a time…" and "Custom…", then the one "Keep awake" button. Once the screen is awake, the row folds into one line, such as "Ends 1:31 AM · Change", and "+15 min", "+30 min" and a quieter Stop take its place. Nothing moves when a session starts or stops.
  • The header is quieter too. It shows the time with seconds and the date, a Customize button for faces, colours and sounds, and a labelled More menu with Share, Floating window, Your stats, Keyboard shortcuts, Settings and the guides, each with its key. The sound icon appears only while a sound plays. The theme moved to Customize, and D still switches it. The header stays at the top when you scroll and turns solid so the page reads under it.
  • The face name and arrows now sit right under the clock, with a small lamp dot that opens the colours. "How do we know?" is a small info button beside the status. Notes and Intention are quiet buttons whose keys show when you point at them.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

Notes that feel like a page, not a form

  • Notes are now a calm writing page. The first line is the title, headings, lists and quotes have room to breathe, and ticking a checklist item draws the tick and settles the line.
  • The toolbar is gone. Select text to bold, italicise, strike, make a heading or a list. Type / for blocks: heading, checklist, bullet list, numbered list, quote or divider. Markdown typing and the keyboard shortcuts still work, and Alt+F10 reaches the selection menu from the keyboard.
  • A small head row shows the note's name, a "Saved" dot and a ⋯ menu with Copy, Export as Markdown or plain text, Pin and Clear. Clearing or deleting asks first, then offers Undo for ten seconds.
  • An empty note offers three starters: To-do for this session, Meeting notes and Ideas.
  • Dictate sits at the bottom, where a thumb reaches it. While it listens, the button fills with your lamp colour and a small waveform moves with your voice, and the words appear softly at the cursor before they are typed in. The first time, a short card explains who turns speech into text. Browsers without speech recognition say so when you press it.
  • With Pro, your notes sit in a slim list beside the page on a desktop, and a swipe away on phones, with search, pins and dates such as "Today · 12:03 AM". Free users keep one note, with a quiet "More notes with Pro" in the ⋯ menu and a five-minute preview.
NewTuesday, 29 September 2026

Buttons and corners match everywhere

  • Every button now has the same rounded corners, from the small header buttons to Keep awake and Stop, in the web app and the Chrome extension. Chips, switches and the status pill stay round, so a round shape always means a choice or a status.
  • Chosen chips, tabs, menu rows and tiles now carry a solid lamp-coloured outline that is easy to see in every theme, including the theme switch and the settings bars.
  • Buttons come in three sizes. The buttons on the home page, Pro and the extension page are one size smaller than before, and the Chrome and Edge buttons are now the same height. Cards, panels and dialogs follow one corner scale, and page sections are spaced the same way on every page.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

One Customize sheet for face, look and sound

  • The clock faces, the colour themes and the sounds now live together in one Customize sheet with three tabs: Face, Look and Sound. On a computer it opens at the side and the clock stays in view, so every pick shows on it at once; on a phone it rises from the bottom with a grab handle. Arrow keys move between the tabs, and the sheet opens on the tab you used last in this visit. Tapping the face name opens Face, and S opens Sound.
  • Look starts with the one-tap presets, then the theme (Auto, Light, Dark or OLED), colour theme, lamp colour and background. Sound has the end sound with its volume and a Play button, the focus sounds, the mixer and library, vibration and the tick-tock. Picking a face no longer closes the sheet, so you can compare faces in place. Pro items carry a small star and a "Try 5 min" button instead of a lock.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

Every guide reads the same way, with real browser logos

  • Every guide, device page, comparison and doc now follows one layout: what it is, the answer, when the facts were checked and how long it takes to read, the steps, what it can't do, then questions and related pages. Use case and device pages put the tool right under the introduction; comparisons, fixes and docs put it after the steps. On a phone, "On this page" opens from the top. Wherever a browser or system is named, its logo now sits beside the name, and the device cards show the logos of the system and browser they cover.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

Settings fold into four groups that show what is set

  • Settings is no longer one long scroll. It opens on four groups, Timer, Clock, Focus, and Device and privacy, and each one shows its current values in a line under its name ("Ask to extend · Chime · No notification"), so you can see how AwakeTab behaves without opening anything. One group opens at a time. Every control and every stored choice is the same as before. Reset to defaults now asks inside the sheet and says which things stay (your notes, stats and Pro). New: a Reduce motion switch stills the animations on this device even when your system setting allows them. Face, colours and sounds have moved to Customize; a row at the top of Settings takes you there.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

Calmer sheets and dialogs, a stats dashboard and a grouped shortcuts list

  • Every sheet and dialog now shares one header (title, optional line of help, one Close), one padding scale and one footer: actions sit at the end of the row on wider screens and stack full width at the bottom of the sheet on phones. Sheets open onto themselves instead of lighting up the Close button, and focus goes back to where you were when they close.
  • Share shows what the link opens before you send it: the session length and whether it waits for a tap or starts at once, then the link with Copy beside it.
  • Your stats leads with this week's time in large numbers, then today, your streak and the total; switch between a bar per day for the last week and the 12-week heatmap.
  • Keyboard shortcuts are grouped into Session, Screen and Tools; the desktop overlay no longer squeezes its labels into one word per line.
  • AwakeTab Pro is a short value card with the price and what Pro adds.
  • Until a time and Custom length now say when the session ends ("ends at 5:30 PM", with "tomorrow" past midnight) right under the picker.
  • The rating prompt starts as a small card with just the stars; the note and Send appear once you pick a star.
ChangedTuesday, 29 September 2026

A new footer

  • Every page ends with a new footer. A slightly tilted band lists what AwakeTab does, and it slides along as you scroll to it. A large outlined "AWAKETAB" sits faintly behind the links, and a line of light passes over it as you arrive. On the tool page its dot lights up in the lamp colour while the screen is awake, amber when paused and red when blocked, like the logo. Nothing moves once you stop scrolling, and nothing moves at all when your device asks for reduced motion.
  • Each link now has a small icon, and the device links show the Apple, Android, Windows and Chrome logos. On phones the five groups open one at a time in a single rounded list.
  • The bottom row shows "© 2026 AwakeTab · MIT", the version, a "Made with care · Open source on GitHub" link, the language switcher and a Back to top button. Back to top returns to the top of the page and puts keyboard focus back at the start of the content.
FixedTuesday, 29 September 2026

Every colour on the tool reads clearly in every theme and lamp

  • A finished cook timer and success toasts now use the success green instead of the lamp colour, Night mode keeps every link and filled button in its red palette, and the Focus break colour, the ambient background and the theme-coloured browser bar follow your colour theme. Input borders in the dark theme are a little stronger, the Solarized light input fill is a touch lighter, and the preview chip sits on the card colour so "Keep it with Pro" stays readable with any lamp. Every text and control colour in the tool is now checked for WCAG 2.2 AA contrast in all nine colour themes, twelve lamps and custom lamps, light, dark and OLED.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

Colour themes, twelve lamps, backgrounds and presets

  • Settings → Appearance now has colour themes, more lamp colours, backgrounds and one-tap presets, each shown as a small live preview. Clear Night, Paper and Nord are free, and so are the Aqua, Violet, Amber and Teal lamps, the Grain, Dots and Grid backgrounds and the Classic, Library and Fjord presets. Pro adds Solarized, Midnight, Forest, Sunset, Mono and High contrast, eight more lamps, a custom lamp colour, the Contours, Waves, Aurora, Stars and Drift backgrounds, and presets such as Night desk and Northern lights. Every theme has a light and a dark version, stays readable (WCAG AA) with every lamp, and appears on the first frame with no flash.
  • Any Pro look, and a shared Message-mode link, can be tried for five minutes as often as you like. A small bar counts down, a notice comes at one minute, and then the page fades back to your last free choice. A preview is never saved and never touches the wake lock or the timer, and while a session runs it never shows a Pro link.
  • Fixed: choosing Message mode in Settings without Pro no longer saves it as your mode.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

The compare and fix-it hubs are now card galleries

  • /vs shows each tool as a card with its platform, when to pick it and when AwakeTab is the better fit. /guides leads with the problem each guide fixes, the device it applies to and a one-line preview of the fix. Both hubs list their pages in their structured data.
FixedMonday, 28 September 2026

Settings, stats, share and the language picker open and close more calmly

  • Every sheet and dialog now works the same way. On phones they rise from the bottom within reach of your thumb, stay above the on-screen keyboard and the home bar, and a tap outside closes them. The page behind no longer scrolls while one is open, closing one returns you to the button that opened it, and opening Stats or Pro from Settings swaps one sheet for the other instead of stacking them. Sheets slide out as gently as they slide in, and never show before their styles have loaded on a slow connection. The language picker at the bottom of every page is a proper dialog on phones, so screen readers and the keyboard stay inside it.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

Learn is now Docs

  • The /learn page is now the AwakeTab docs. It opens with a "Start here" row (how AwakeTab works, its honest limits and the FAQ), then groups the other articles into Reference, Behaviour and Trust, each with a short description and its reading time. Two tiles at the end lead to the step-by-step fixes and the comparisons with other tools.
FixedMonday, 28 September 2026

The Chrome extension popup says when it gets no answer, and keeps keyboard focus in view

  • If the extension's background doesn't answer, the popup now says so under the status pill and tells you how to fix it, instead of quietly showing Ready. Keyboard focus no longer gets lost when the Until panel or the Time's up card closes, and Escape on the Pro panel returns you to the row that opened it. The ring starts its slow sweep as soon as you press Start. Buttons, chips and settings rows now respond when you point at them, and the focus ring on the Settings icon and the schedule steppers is no longer cut off.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

A clearer page for the Chrome extension

  • The extension page now says what the extension does in one line, with the install button right below it. It shows what happens when you switch tabs with the web app and with the extension, walks you through setup in three steps (install, pin it, press Alt+Shift+A), explains each permission in plain words and answers the common questions. A second install button waits at the end of the page. In Firefox and Safari, where the extension cannot run, the page offers the web app instead.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

A clock face gallery, swipe to switch, and redesigned Ring, Bold, Horizon and Tide

  • Choosing a clock face is now a gallery. The face switch above the clock names the face in use; its arrows step to the previous or next face, and tapping the name opens a sheet with all twelve faces as live miniatures, grouped as Classic, Retro and Modern and shown in your current state, lamp colour and theme. A miniature plays when you point at it or move to it with the arrow keys, and the Analog tile has its Minimal and Luxe styles right there. On a phone or a trackpad you can also swipe sideways on the clock itself, and C on a keyboard moves to the next face (Shift+C goes back). A switch never leaves the box empty: the old face stays until the new one is ready.
  • The four original faces were redrawn. Ring has finer minute ticks with hour marks, a soft glow inside the dial and a sweep that circles once a minute, holding still while paused. Bold has much larger numerals with the seconds set small beside them, a slimmer progress bar that shows paused and blocked like the ring, and a clearer "until" line. Horizon has richer skies for dawn, day, dusk and night, a dotted path showing where the sun or moon will set when your session ends, layered hills and reflections on the water. Tide has deeper water, a bright surface line and slower, gentler waves.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

A Pomodoro that repeats, an intention, a breathing guide and a second time zone

  • Focus mode now has Pause and Skip. Pause stops only the timer: the screen stays awake and the status pill says so. Set the focus, break, number of cycles and long break in Settings → Focus tools. Each change of phase plays your chosen end sound. With Pro, blocks can repeat on their own after the long break until you stop, and every finished block counts in your stats. You can try this for 5 minutes without Pro.
  • Breathe is a new ambient mode (press B). The ring grows as you breathe in and settles as you breathe out, using 4-7-8 or box breathing. With reduced motion it shows the words and a simple bar instead.
  • Type what you're working on, from the Intention button beside the dock, from Settings, or with I. It shows quietly under the clock and in the status pill's tooltip. Clear it any time.
  • Add a second time zone under the clock, such as "London 3:15 PM · −4:30", by searching your browser's own list of zones. It says "tomorrow" when that zone is already on the next day.
  • New shortcuts: T Focus mode, B Breathe, I intention.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

The footer is now a site map

  • Every page now ends with a footer that lists the whole site in five columns: Product, Use it for, Devices, Resources and About, next to the AwakeTab promise and the open source licence. On phones the columns fold into tap-to-open sections. Keyboard shortcuts in the footer opens the tool's shortcut list, the GitHub repository is linked, and the language switcher and the "No ads on the awake screen, now or later." promise stay where they were.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

Header menus for what you use AwakeTab for, your device and further reading

  • The site header now has three menus: Use it for (six common jobs, each with its suggested length drawn as a small ring, and a shortcut to start a 30-minute session), Devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows 11 and Chromebook) and Resources (guides, docs, comparisons and the changelog). They open and close with the keyboard, Esc or a click outside, with no script. On phones and on the tool page the same menus sit behind one Menu button, as a sheet at the bottom of the screen on phones. The header's add button says Add to Chrome, Add to Edge on Edge, and Add to Home Screen on iPhone and iPad. Header, page content and footer now line up on one edge at every width.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

The home page shows what AwakeTab is for, and the explanations move to the docs

  • Below the tool, the home page now starts with six common uses (cooking, reading, presentations, dashboards, video calls and downloads), each with a Start link that opens the tool at the right length, then the extension, the levels and a closing band that takes you back to the tool. It uses the full page width on large screens instead of a narrow column. How AwakeTab works, its limits and the questions people ask are in the docs, one link away.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

Cards and icons that answer your pointer

  • With a mouse, the cards on the homepage, the use case and device hubs, Guides, Compare and Docs now lean slightly toward the pointer, and a soft glow in your lamp colour follows it. Each use case and device icon acts out its job once when you point at or tab to its card or menu row: the pot steams, the page turns, the download arrow drops into the tray, the phone screen wakes. In the header menus, the ring around each use case fills to its suggested length. With the keyboard, a focused card lifts slightly instead of tilting, and on touch screens a card dips briefly when pressed. Nothing moves while you are not pointing at it, and nothing moves at all when your system asks for reduced motion.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

How AwakeTab works, its honest limits and the FAQ now have their own pages

  • The explanation that used to sit below the tool on the home page now lives in Docs. How AwakeTab works covers what it does, how a session runs and all seven pill states. Honest limits lists what a web page cannot keep awake and what to use instead. The FAQ answers the questions people ask most. The browser support matrix gains a list of device pages, and the comparisons and fixes hubs open with when another tool or a system setting is the better answer.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

Eight new clock faces, all free

  • The tool now has twelve clock faces. Next to Ring, Bold, Horizon and Tide you can pick Flip (split-flap cards that really turn), Rolling (odometer digits), Analog (a dial with a sweeping second hand and your time left on the bezel, in a Minimal or Luxe style), Rings (three activity-style rings), Words (a letter grid that spells the time), Nixie (glowing tubes), LCD (a seven-segment display) and LED (a dot-matrix panel). Open them from the face gallery (the face switch above the clock) or from Settings → Clock face. Each one shows your session's time and follows the lamp colour, the light, dark and OLED themes and the paused and blocked states like the others. They load only when you choose them, and with reduced motion they update without flipping, rolling or sweeping.
FixedMonday, 28 September 2026

N opens your notes again, and the tool header fits a 320 px phone

  • Pressing N (or the Notes button) opens the notes drawer again; the editor failed to start in the built site. Whatever you type straight after N now lands in the note in the order you typed it, instead of triggering other shortcuts, and Undo after Clear brings back the text you just typed. On 320 px phones the tool header no longer scrolls sideways now that it has a Sounds button, and on narrow screens the AwakeTab wordmark steps aside instead of running under the header buttons.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

A notepad with checklists and voice typing

  • The tool now has a notepad in a side sheet (a bottom drawer on phones), next to the clock, while the session keeps running. Open it with the Notes button under the actions on desktop, from Settings, or by pressing N. It has headings, bold, italic, lists and checklists, a small toolbar with keyboard shortcuts, and Markdown-style typing (# for a heading, - for a list, [ ] for a checklist). It saves as you type, counts words, copies to the clipboard and exports as .md or .txt.
  • Notes stay in this browser on this device. They are never uploaded and work offline.
  • In Chrome, Edge and Safari a mic button types what you say at the cursor, shows the words it is still hearing, and understands "new line", "new checklist item" and "stop listening". Before the first use it tells you that the browser sends your voice to its speech service (Google, Microsoft or Apple) to be transcribed; AwakeTab sends nothing. Esc or closing the notes stops listening.
  • One note is free. Pro keeps as many as you like, with titles, search and pins, and can be tried for five minutes. Notes you add in a preview are never deleted: afterwards you can still read, copy and export them, and editing them needs Pro.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

The Pro page says what Pro adds, what it costs and how to get it

  • The Pro page now opens with one line on what Pro adds and its price, then shows the free web tab, the free extension and Pro side by side, the six things Pro adds, both plans with the dated launch price, how checkout and activation work, and how payment, refunds and privacy are handled. The plan quiz and the evening story are gone; the lamp colour preview stays at the top.
Newv1.1 · Monday, 28 September 2026

AwakeTab 1.1: make it yours

  • Twelve clock faces, colour themes, focus sounds, a notepad and focus tools, all around the same honest wake lock. Keeping the screen awake stays free, and so does every new face and focus sound. Each feature loads only the first time you use it, so the tool is as quick to open as before.
  • Twelve clock faces: Flip, Rolling, Analog, Rings, Words, Nixie, LCD and LED join a redrawn Ring, Bold, Horizon and Tide. Tap the face name above the clock for a gallery of live miniatures, swipe sideways on the clock, or press C (Shift+C goes back). All twelve are free and follow your lamp colour.
  • Colours and backgrounds: Clear Night, Paper and Nord, the Aqua, Violet, Amber and Teal lamps, three backgrounds and three presets are free. Pro adds six themes, eight lamps, a colour of your own, five backgrounds such as Aurora and Stars, and five presets. Every theme has a light and a dark version.
  • Sounds for focus: brown, pink and white noise, rain, a café, a fireplace and a lo-fi loop, made live in your browser. Five end sounds, vibration and a quiet tick-tock are free too. Open Sounds with the sound button or S. Pro adds a mixer and a lo-fi library. Sound never keeps the screen awake; the pill still does the telling.
  • A notepad beside the clock: checklists, headings, export and voice typing, a keypress away with N. Notes stay in this browser and work offline. One note is free, and Pro keeps as many as you like.
  • Focus tools: Focus mode has Pause and Skip, and with Pro the Pomodoro repeats on its own. Write an intention with I, breathe along with B, and show a second time zone under the clock.
  • Try Pro for 5 minutes: any Pro look, the mixer, more notes, the repeating Pomodoro and a shared Message link can each be tried for five minutes, as often as you like. A small bar counts down, and nothing is saved.
  • Updates you can see: the footer and Settings show which version you have, with a link to what's new. When a new version is ready, AwakeTab says so and offers Reload, but never in the middle of a session.
  • Every change is listed in full below.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

Focus sounds, more end sounds and a tick-tock

  • A new Sounds panel opens from the sound button in the tool header, with the S key, or from Settings. It plays seven focus sounds made live in your browser: brown, pink and white noise, rain, a café, a fireplace and a slow lo-fi loop. Each one fades in and out gently and, unless you turn it off, fades out when your session ends. In most browsers, media keys and headphone buttons can play and pause it. Pro adds a mixer, so you can layer several sounds at their own levels, and a lo-fi library that will hold recorded tracks as we add them.
  • Settings → End sound now offers Chime, Bell, Soft, Digital and Birds, all free, with a volume and a Play button. You can also have your phone vibrate at the end, and turn on a quiet tick-tock that runs while a session does and stops when the tab is hidden.
  • Sound never keeps the screen awake: the status pill is still the only sign that it is. Nothing plays or downloads until you ask for it, and if your browser needs a tap first, the panel says "Tap to start sound".
FixedMonday, 28 September 2026

Notices you can read, even over a sheet

  • The small notices on the tool no longer flicker or restart every second while a session runs, and they stay on screen as long as the text needs. They wait while you point at them, focus them or look at another tab, so none vanish unseen. A notice now shows above an open sheet or menu instead of hiding behind it, each kind has its own icon shape, and the "Something went wrong" notice offers Retry. Screen readers hear each notice once.
FixedMonday, 28 September 2026

The tool opens exactly as it settles, with no flicker on reload

  • The first frame of the tool is now the finished one. The length the page starts with is already selected, the date and time line, the status pill and the Keep awake button are there from the start, and nothing fades or slides into place on load. When the browser declines to keep the screen awake before you have tapped anything, the tool stays calmly on Ready instead of showing a red "Blocked" pill. Switching themes no longer sets off a wave of transitions, and the resume card and notices only appear once their styles have loaded.
FixedMonday, 28 September 2026

The tool fits small phones and landscape screens, and says when Pro lapses

  • On short phones (375 × 667, 360 × 740) and small tablets the clock face now shrinks so Stop and the time's-up buttons stay on screen, and landscape phones under 800 px wide no longer scroll sideways or squeeze the header. The other lengths below a preset page switch a running session in place instead of reloading the page, and the last-minute glow no longer scrolls the page sideways. The tool now shows a notice when a yearly Pro renewal fails or Pro has ended on this device, and the language suggestion is written in the language it suggests.
ChangedMonday, 28 September 2026

Use case and device pages show a card for each choice

  • The use case and device pages now show a card for each use case and device, each with its own small drawing. A use case card starts the tool at a suitable length straight away or opens its guide. A device card lists the browser versions that keep the screen on, taken from the support table.
NewMonday, 28 September 2026

The version on show, calm update notices and a mixer you can try

  • The footer and the bottom of Settings now show which version of AwakeTab you are using, such as "Version 2026.09.28 · 1a2b3c4", and Settings links to this page.
  • When a new version is ready, the tool says "A new version of AwakeTab is ready." with a Reload button. During a session it never reloads: it says "Reload when you're done" once, and offers Reload again when the session ends. Other pages show a small banner at the bottom with Reload and a close button.
  • The sound mixer can now be tried for five minutes without Pro, like the other Pro items. The mix you make in the preview is never saved, and when it ends the sound goes back to the one you picked.
  • The homepage has a new "Make it yours" section with the twelve faces, the colours and the sounds, and the Pro page, the docs and the credits on the about page list everything that came with this release.
ChangedSunday, 27 September 2026

Guides you can follow step by step

  • Articles now open with a short answer under the heading. Set-up steps are numbered cards, device guides show the menu path for each step, and fix-it guides let you tick off each step as you go. Each page also has what its topic needs: a table of what the status pill means, a checklist before you start, a side-by-side comparison, or code you can copy. Nothing you tick is saved.
ChangedSunday, 27 September 2026

A new look, Clear Night

  • AwakeTab has a new look. The header, footer, guides, site pages, Pro pages, embed widget, extension and awake-screen modes are redesigned, with Light, Dark and OLED themes that follow your system unless you pick one. The site now uses the Geist and Space Grotesk typefaces, served by AwakeTab itself, so no font request leaves the site.
  • The awake-screen modes (Clock, Focus, Minimal, Night, Message and Cook) and the floating window have a calmer layout; in Cook mode the whole timer card is the pause button. The embed widget's compact size is now 320 × 104, and its credit link sits below the widget instead of inside it.
  • /pro now shows a lamp picker that recolours the page, a three-question plan helper that often answers "free", and live previews of Message mode, 12 weeks of stats and extension schedules. Features that are not built yet are gone from the copy, and Embed licences say "open soon". After checkout, /pro/activate says "Pro is active" with next steps instead of jumping to the tool, and has its own pages for a closed checkout, a failed payment and a missing key. Manage devices shows how many of your five devices are in use, marks this device, asks before removing one, says so when it cannot reach the server, and explains a renewal that did not go through or a plan that ended. Devices get readable names such as "Chrome · macOS", and the Pro pages respect the telemetry switch.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

Clearer times and tidier pages in the Chrome extension

  • The extension now writes every time the same way, such as 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and the week chart in Settings marks Noon. When auto-start keeps your device awake with no end time, the popup shows how long it has been running and since when, and a scheduled session names its days. Adding a new schedule with the same hours as a saved one no longer hides the saved one's label. The Privacy policy and What's new links are underlined again, the Settings page has the spacing it was designed with, and Settings and the welcome page fit better in medium-width windows. In the store screenshots, the toolbar badge now matches the time left in the popup.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

The Chrome extension popup fits without scrolling

  • The popup now keeps one steady size and fits Chrome's popup limit in every state, so it no longer scrolls or jumps when you start or stop, including in a private window. While Chrome confirms a start, the popup already shows Stop, the length you picked and its time. The Pro panel lists the price, device count and refund terms, the update chip names the release, such as "New in 1.1", and the Until summary reads "Tomorrow at 12:15 AM, in 1 h 15 min". In Settings, the language row lines up with the rest, the schedule steppers are full size, the From and To times stay together in narrow windows, and your licence reads "AwakeTab Pro · Chrome on macOS". The welcome page's buttons fit small screens, and its shortcut reads with "+" between the keys. The store screenshots are now saved without transparency, as the Chrome Web Store asks.
ChangedSunday, 27 September 2026

New Chrome Web Store images for the extension

  • The extension's store listing has five new screenshots and a new promotional tile in the Clear Night look of the app. They show the popup keeping a screen awake, the difference between Screen and System, what the toolbar badge means, the lengths and end times you can pick, and Pro auto-start. Every screen in them is the real extension design, with the same wording you see in the popup and the settings page.
ChangedSunday, 27 September 2026

The extension is now called "AwakeTab: Keep Screen Awake"

  • The browser extension has a new name: "AwakeTab: Keep Screen Awake". You will see it in Chrome's extensions menu, on the Chrome Web Store and Edge Add-ons listings, and on the welcome page that opens after you install it. The name is the same in every language. Nothing else changes: your settings stay as they are, and a Pro key you already activated in the extension keeps working and still shows up as the extension on your Manage page.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

No more "Update ready" on a first visit

  • The tool no longer offers to reload for an update the first time you open it. The notice now appears only when a newer version is ready to replace the one you already have.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

Floating window fallback and legal page highlights work again

  • The site's security policy was blocking two small page scripts. The /pip window, the small popup browsers without picture-in-picture open for the floating timer, follows your session again in every language, and the "On this page" list on the Privacy and Terms pages highlights the section you are reading again.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

The floating timer popup behaves the same offline in every language

  • When your browser has no built-in floating window, AwakeTab opens a small popup that mirrors your timer, and it is saved for offline use in your language when you first visit. If you are offline and the popup is asked for in a language that is not saved yet, AwakeTab now opens the saved popup in a language you have visited. Before, the English popup showed an error in that case and the other languages opened the full AwakeTab page inside the small window.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

Pro pages and the site header hold together on small screens

  • On Manage devices, a loading state now holds the page's shape while your devices are checked, the offline message matches the one on the activation page, and keyboard focus stays on the page after you remove a device or activate a key. The licence key shown after checkout now wraps instead of being cut off on phones. The Pro page's schedule days stay easy to tap at 320 px. The header keeps the full AwakeTab name at every width. The small-screen theme button has its own tile. Translated pages now say which header links lead to English pages. The footer on the tool pages no longer sits twice as far below the content.
FixedSunday, 27 September 2026

Site and Pro pages line up with the design

  • The About, Changelog, Privacy, Terms, Kiosk, Library, Embed and Pro pages now follow the Clear Night design more closely. Prices use even-width digits, the device table on Manage devices keeps each date on one line, the history preview on the Pro page says in plain view that its numbers are sample stats, and changelog filters no longer cut off their labels.
NewSunday, 27 September 2026

The browser tab shows whether the screen is awake

  • While the tool runs, its tab title shows the time left ("● 24:18 left"), "Paused" when the browser lets the screen sleep, or "Blocked" when it refuses, and the favicon changes shape to match. Other tabs can now tell you the state without switching back.
Newv1.0 · Saturday, 26 September 2026

1.0 launch

  • AwakeTab 1.0 keeps your screen on from a browser tab, and the status pill only says "Screen awake" when the browser has actually granted the lock. Nothing to install, no account, no cookies. It is free, and there are no ads on the awake screen.
  • On the awake screen: press M for Clock, Focus (25/5-minute blocks, with today's count), Minimal, Night, Message (Pro) or Cook.
  • In your language: the tool is available in eight languages.
  • Steadier and faster: the page no longer moves when a session starts, and the first screen appears sooner on phones.
  • Beyond the tab: AwakeTab for Chrome keeps the display, or only the computer, awake while the tab is hidden, using Chrome's own power API.
  • Pro and licences: cancelling a yearly plan keeps Pro until the end of the period you paid for.
  • Still honest: a web page cannot keep the screen on while its tab is hidden, cannot keep Teams or Slack "Available", and cannot stop sleep when you close a laptop lid.
  • On the awake screen, Cook mode has tap-to-pause and three named kitchen timers. A session can end with a soft chime, an optional notification and a flashing tab title, then offers +15, +30 or +60 minutes. Stats shows today (minutes and sessions), this week, your streak, a 12-week heatmap and a CSV export. The floating window has Stop and +15, and with Pro it also shows the clock or your focus block. The pop-up version opens in your language. The installed app works offline and offers updates only when no session is running.
  • In your language, the ten most-read guides are now also in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Hindi, marked "native review pending" until a native speaker has checked them. Pages in other languages keep their address when the tool starts.
  • Keyboard focus is visible everywhere, every journey works with the keyboard alone, and D steps through every theme.
  • The extension has a badge, Alt+Shift+A, and, with Pro, schedules and auto-start. Store links appear on the /extension page once the listing is approved. Sites can add a "keep my screen on" widget with one line of code (see /embed). Lobby screens can use kiosk start links (see /kiosk). The open-source lock library behind AwakeTab is ready for npm (see /library).
  • With Pro, removing a device on /pro/manage takes effect on that device. Moving your key into the extension uses one activation, not two. Lifetime licences no longer ask for the key again after 90 days.
  • AwakeTab says what a web page cannot do, and it never fakes mouse or keyboard input. The real-device results on How we tested are pending until the manual run is recorded.
FixedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Pro activates by itself right after checkout

  • After you buy Pro, the page Polar sends you back to now finds your licence key and activates this browser on its own, and the hand-off from AwakeTab for Chrome shows the key ready to copy. Before, it could not find the key and asked you to paste it from the receipt email.
  • Polar needs a few seconds to create the key after a payment, so the page may say "Your purchase is still syncing" briefly and then try again by itself. It only ever shows the key of the purchase you just made. Pasting the key from the email still works as before.
ChangedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Japanese, Chinese and Hindi pages use English addresses

  • The Japanese, Chinese and Hindi versions of our guides now use the same address as the English page with the language in front, for example awaketab.com/ja/for/cooking rather than a romanised spelling. These links are easier to read and share. Spanish, Portuguese, German and French pages keep their translated addresses.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

Guides rewritten and corrected

  • Twenty-five guides were rewritten from scratch, including a new page for teachers at /for/classroom. The other guides stay online but out of search results until they are rewritten.
  • Corrected: earlier versions of many guides said that battery saver, Energy saver or Low Power Mode makes the browser refuse to keep the screen on. Chrome's and Safari's source code has no such check. What really stops it: a hidden tab, a site setting that blocks it, Safari before your first tap, or Firefox at 5 % battery or less. We also removed lines that described device tests we have not recorded yet.
  • Some pages moved: the Windows 10 page is now part of "Windows 11 and 10", the second-monitor page is now the guide "Second monitor keeps turning off: how to fix it", the Modern Standby page is part of "Lock screen versus display sleep", and "NoSleep.js vs wake lock" is part of the NoSleep.js comparison. The navigation, live-stream, online-exam and baby-monitor pages were removed.
FixedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Extension key hand-off uses one activation; faster embed widget loads

  • Opening "Find your key on awaketab.com" from AwakeTab for Chrome no longer activates Pro in that browser as well. The page checks the key and shows it to copy, and only the extension activates it. Moving your key into the extension now uses one of your five activations instead of two. If you arrive there straight from checkout, the page fills in your key without activating anything.
  • The embed widget's script now has a new file name for every release, so browsers can cache it for good. Pages that embed the widget no longer re-check that script on every load. The one-line https://awaketab.com/embed.js snippet is unchanged.
FixedSaturday, 26 September 2026

The extension says "System awake" at System level

  • At System level, AwakeTab for Chrome keeps your computer awake, but your screen can still dim, turn off or lock. The popup used to say "Screen awake" there as well. It now says "System awake", with "Screen may dim or lock" underneath, in all eight languages. The toolbar badge still shows SYS. At Screen level nothing changes.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

Top guides in seven more languages

  • The ten most-read guides are now available in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Hindi: cooking, downloads, presentations, iPhone Safari, Android Chrome, Windows 11, macOS, the greyed-out iPhone Auto-Lock fix, AwakeTab vs Caffeine and the browser support matrix. Each one is written for how people search in that language, embeds the tool with the same preset, and keeps every honest limit. They're marked "native review pending" and stay out of search results until a native speaker has checked them.
  • The language menu at the bottom of a guide now opens the same guide in the other language when there is one. Link previews for these pages show their title in the page's own script, including Japanese, Chinese and Hindi.
  • Long translated link labels and code snippets no longer run off the screen on narrow phones.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

Encrypted weekly backups of licence records

  • Licence records are now backed up every week. Each backup is encrypted before it is stored and kept for twelve weeks, and restoring one follows a tested procedure. The key that protects stored licence keys can now be rotated safely. What AwakeTab stores has not changed: licence keys are still kept only in encrypted form.
FixedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Steadier layout, clearer focus and pages that stay in your language

  • The tool no longer shifts when a session starts. The status pill, the timer caption and the Stop button keep their places, so the page does not move under your finger. The "Read this in…" language suggestion now appears at the bottom of the screen instead of pushing the tool down.
  • Pages in other languages keep their address when the tool starts. Reloading /es/ or a translated guide now keeps you on that page; before, it could switch you to English or to a page that does not exist.
  • Keyboard focus is now visible everywhere. That includes each part of the "Until…" time field and the drop-down menus in Settings in Safari. Pressing D several times in a row now steps through every theme; quick presses used to skip ahead by only one.
  • When the wake lock is blocked, the help link now says "Why this happens and how to fix it" instead of "Learn more".
FixedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Pro licence fixes

  • If you cancel a yearly Pro subscription, Pro keeps working until the end of the period you paid for. Before this fix it stopped as soon as you cancelled. A device you remove on /pro/manage now actually loses Pro, and devices you use regularly are no longer removed as "unused for 90 days" when you add a new one. Lifetime licences no longer need their key entered again after 90 days.
  • When you hit the rate limit, the API response now says how many seconds to wait before retrying.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

Ambient modes, stats and an offline app

  • Press M to switch the awake screen into Clock, Focus, Minimal, Night, Message or Cook. Focus runs 25/5-minute Pomodoro cycles. Night shows red digits on true black. Cook keeps the screen on while you pause its timer and adds up to three named kitchen timers that survive a reload. Message shows one line of your own text (Pro).
  • Sessions can now end with a soft chime, a notification (if you turn notifications on) and a flashing tab title, then offer to extend. A new Stats panel shows today, this week, your streak and a 12-week heatmap. Settings adds Indigo, Teal and Rose accents (Teal and Rose come with Pro). After a few sessions, AwakeTab asks once how it's doing.
  • The floating window gains Stop and +15 buttons, and P closes it again. In browsers without Document Picture-in-Picture, the pop-up now mirrors the live timer and its Stop button works. The installed app now works offline, says when you're offline, and offers updates only when no session is running.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

Sessions per day, focus blocks and a floating timer in your language

  • Stats now counts sessions per day. "Today" reads, for example, "42 min · 2 sessions", and the CSV export fills its sessions column. Days recorded before this update show no count rather than a guess. Focus mode now shows how many focus blocks you have finished today. A block only counts when it runs to the end.
  • The pop-up floating timer, used in browsers without Document Picture-in-Picture, now opens in the same language as the page you opened it from.
  • With Pro, the floating window shows your ambient mode: the clock in Clock and Night, or the current focus interval and phase in Focus. The "Screen awake" status is always there.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

AwakeTab for Chrome, the browser extension

  • A web page can only keep the screen awake while its tab is visible. AwakeTab for Chrome asks Chrome itself to keep the display — or just the computer — awake, so it keeps working when the tab is hidden or the window is minimised, for as long as Chrome is running. It still can't stop sleep when you close a laptop lid, and it never fakes keyboard or mouse input.
  • Pick Screen or System, then a preset from 15 minutes to 4 hours, a time, or until you stop. The popup shows the same ring and status as the web app and only says "Screen awake" once Chrome has accepted the request. The toolbar badge shows ON, SYS or the minutes left, and Alt+Shift+A toggles it from any tab. When a timer ends you can get a notification with +30 min and Stop buttons.
  • With Pro, the extension adds weekly schedules and auto-start when Chrome opens or when you visit a site you choose; your Pro key activates it as one of your five devices. It needs only the power, storage and alarms permissions; notifications and site access are optional and asked for one at a time. Anonymous usage statistics are off by default. There's a new page at /extension, and the privacy policy has an extension section.
NewSaturday, 26 September 2026

Embed widget, kiosk links, and the wake lock library

  • Sites can now add a "keep my screen on" button with one line: <script async src="https://awaketab.com/embed.js" data-mode="cook"></script>. The widget is the real AwakeTab in a small frame — the same honest status in eight languages, Start/Stop, tap the timer to pause while the screen stays on, and up to three kitchen timers in the full-width size. If a site pastes the frame without permission to keep the screen on, the widget says "Ask the site owner" instead of pretending. The new /embed page has a snippet generator and live demos; a free widget carries a small credit link, and the Embed licence removes it and applies your brand colour.
  • The new /kiosk page builds start URLs for lobby screens and signage — autostart, message, theme — and, with a Kiosk licence, your own logo and no AwakeTab branding or prompts. Licence links carry the token after #lic=, which is checked on the device and removed from the address bar.
  • @awaketab/wake, the open-source lock library behind AwakeTab, is ready for its 1.0 release on npm. /library has a live state-machine demo running the published build, and How we tested now shows the device matrix — its results are pending until the manual run is recorded.
FixedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Pro cancellations and refunds reach every device

  • When you cancel a Pro subscription, turn a cancellation back off, or get a refund through Polar, your Pro devices now pick up the change the next time they check in, the same way on the website and in the extension. A cancelled yearly plan still keeps Pro until the end of the period you paid for. A full refund ends Pro on every device.
  • To make this work, the licence record now also keeps Polar's reference numbers for your purchase (order, subscription and licence key IDs), so a notice from Polar finds the right licence. No name, email or payment detail is stored.
ChangedSaturday, 26 September 2026

One way to reach us, a fuller privacy policy and a readable changelog

  • The About page now says how to reach us for support, refunds, bug reports and data requests: Settings → Send feedback inside the timer.
  • The privacy policy now says what AwakeTab keeps on its servers and for how long. Anonymous usage events are deleted after 90 days. Ratings carry no identity and are kept for up to 2 years. A licence record is kept until the licence expires plus one year. It also explains how to have your licence data deleted, and describes the article ads before they start (none are shown yet).
  • This changelog now shows formatting and links properly and lists entries newest first.
ChangedSaturday, 26 September 2026

Page addresses without redirects

  • Every page now opens directly at the address used in links, search results and shared URLs, for example awaketab.com/30m or awaketab.com/for/cooking, with no redirect first. The language homes keep their trailing slash, for example awaketab.com/es/.
NewSaturday, 12 September 2026

Site analytics and Pro plumbing

  • First-party /api/e beacon (opt-in telemetry), donation link in the footer, Pro pricing and activation pages, and licence endpoints. Ads remain disabled (PUBLIC_ADS_ENABLED=0). /pro/activate lists activation errors and supports ?ext=1 copy-paste for the extension. /pro/manage can remove a device.
ChangedFriday, 11 September 2026

Consistent component styling

  • Buttons, badges, cards, tables, alerts, breadcrumbs and form fields now share one component library (shadcn/ui) across the tool, content and Pro pages, so the same control looks the same everywhere and in every theme. Everything is rendered at build time: no new JavaScript, no change to what the tool does, to the performance budgets, or to third-party requests (still none on tool pages).
NewWednesday, 9 September 2026

Fifty-one English scenario pages

  • Fifty-one English articles across /for, /on, /vs, /guides and /learn. Each page embeds the tool with autostart off, states an honest limit, and links related routes. Ads remain off.
NewWednesday, 9 September 2026

Foundation

  • Published the initial AwakeTab holding page and repository foundation.
NewWednesday, 9 September 2026

Site, SEO and eight locales

  • The home page now carries the full tool, a support matrix, honest limits and eight FAQs. Hub and trust pages are live. UI strings exist in eight languages; unreviewed locale homes stay out of the sitemap until a native speaker signs them off.