Changelog

Track the evolution of Avior.

v1.44.0 2026-06-02
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.
v1.43.1 2026-06-02
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.
v1.43.0 2026-06-02
  • Layout detection in every release — Avior can now analyze a document's structure (titles, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, and more) directly in the shipping app.
  • A lighter download — the layout-detection model (about 246 MB) is no longer bundled inside Avior. Download it on demand from Settings ▸ Model Files, with live progress, automatic resume on dropped connections, and integrity verification before install.
  • Make Avior your default PDF app — Avior now registers as a PDF viewer, so it appears in Finder's Open With menu and can be set as your system-wide default.
  • Zoom further — the maximum zoom now reaches 6400%, for both keyboard zoom and zoom-to-selection.
v1.38.0 2026-05-26
  • Automatic updates — choose Check for Updates… and Avior downloads, cryptographically verifies, and installs the new version in place. No more manual re-downloads.
  • Open PDFs from the terminal — install the avior command and run avior report.pdf (or just avior to launch the app) from any shell.
  • Zoom that remembers — Avior reopens each document at the zoom you left it, and you can choose a default zoom — including Fit Page — in Settings.
  • Optional anonymous diagnostics to help guide development — off by default, and never including file names, paths, or document contents.
  • Now distributed as a notarized, Developer ID-signed build, so it installs without Gatekeeper warnings.
v1.37.0 2026-05-12
  • Baseline release — native macOS PDF viewing built on PDFKit, with multi-window / multi-document support.
  • Non-destructive annotation overlay — annotations are stored in JSON sidecars and never modify the original PDF.
  • Vim-inspired keyboard navigation and a command palette for fully keyboard-driven control.