What's New

Tracking the journey of Stickify Tales, one update at a time.

[1.5.0] - 2026-05-10

Official Billing Dashboard: You can now view your full payment history and download official PDF invoices directly from your account.
Premium User Card: Your profile section in the sidebar has been redesigned for better clarity, showing your name and email in a beautiful, compact card.
One-Tap Top Up: Managing your sticker credits is now easier with a high-visibility, single-row status bar.
Smoother Navigation: We've made the entire user card clickable, so you can access your profile settings and billing information faster than ever.

Branding Refresh: We've increased our logo presence across the app to make the experience feel more premium and consistent.
Reliability Fixes: Significant backend improvements to ensure your credit purchases are processed instantly and securely.

Fixed a critical issue where the AI was incorrectly blocking safe and creative prompts (like "angry robot"). The AI's safety filters have been carefully recalibrated to be more permissive while still ensuring a safe environment.
Resolved an error that prevented image generation due to incorrect AI model configurations.

Improved the application's internal structure by centralizing key configuration settings. This makes the app more stable and easier to maintain.

Added a new "Stick Figure Style" dropdown, allowing users to choose from a variety of unique artistic styles for their creations.
Introduced a debug card (hidden by default) to provide better transparency into the AI generation process for troubleshooting.

Resolved a critical bug where the AI would not follow the selected artistic style by making the prompt instructions more direct and ensuring the correct style information was used.
Fixed a layout issue on desktop where the creation canvas would resize with the window, which caused inconsistent downloads. The canvas is now a fixed size.
Improved the appearance of the loading indicator by centering it and increasing the font size.
Corrected the Google Sign-In flow to reliably redirect users to the main application page after a successful login.

Added new sections to the homepage explaining the app’s features and data privacy policy in detail.
Added "Privacy" and "Terms of Service" links to the main homepage header for transparency.

Separated the main creative application to its own `/app` page to provide a distinct marketing homepage for all users.
Updated navigation to correctly direct logged-in users to the new `/app` page from the logo and login buttons.

Fixed a visual bug where the background animation would not render correctly, ensuring a consistent and smooth user experience.

Refactored the main sidebar to create a consistent, cleaner user experience.
Moved the sign-in button and user avatar/credits to a dedicated section at the bottom of the sidebar.
Personalized the placeholder greeting to welcome logged-in users by their first name.
Added emphasis to the placeholder text to improve visual engagement.
Updated copyright year in the footer.

Added comprehensive JSDoc comments to the Sidebar component to improve code clarity and maintainability.

Initial release of Stickify Tales.
Core functionality: Generate stick figure drawings from user-provided stories.
AI-powered text summarization for kid-friendly (5-8) language.
AI-powered grammar and spell-checking for generated text.
Feature to download the final image and text as a single PNG file using `html2canvas`.
Modern and responsive UI built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and ShadCN UI.
Modular and component-based architecture following SOLID and DRY principles.
Docker configurations for both development (Dockerfile.dev) and production (Dockerfile.prod).
Comprehensive `README.md` for project setup and usage.
This `CHANGELOG.md` file to track project history.
Basic CI workflow using GitHub Actions to run checks on push/pull requests.