Release notes and writing
What is new in Boundless, and the occasional note about how a piece of it was built.
3.3, art behind the Mac sidebar, Continue Reading cards, and Mihon backups
3.3 puts art behind the Mac sidebar, turns Continue Reading into a card shelf, and imports Mihon, Tachiyomi and Paperback backups.
3.2, Cover Panorama, a bigger Library, and notes for novels
3.2 adds Cover Panorama backdrops, Library filters and layouts, novel notes and highlights, custom tap zones, an optional proxy and Source Safety.
3.1, iCloud Sync on its own, Handoff, and blurred spoilers
iCloud Sync runs in the background on iPhone and iPad, Handoff arrives, comments from chapters you have not read are blurred, and MangaBaka adds volumes and Discover.
Boundless 3 is out, rebuilt with real liquid glass
Boundless 3 is a ground-up rebuild with a new liquid glass design, your Boundless 2 library carried over, and new reading, sync and Mac features.
A practical guide to adding sources
How to add the official repository, install a source, add a repository from elsewhere, and fix one that stops working.
Making the app yours
How the accent theme, background style, and ambient effect combine, what each one changes, and what appearance settings leave alone.
Building your first Boundless source
A walkthrough for writing a Boundless source in JavaScript, from the required methods to testing it and publishing it in a repository.
Getting your library ready for a flight
How to add titles, batch chapters, and download enough of your library to get through a flight or a dead zone with no signal at all.
The Boundless PIN, and the control that matters more
How the parental PIN works, how it is stored, and why picking sources matters more than the PIN itself.
Getting the most out of the reader
Tap zones, auto-scroll, precise resume, and how sources connect to what shows up on the page.
Why Boundless ships empty
Why Boundless ships with nothing in it, how the account and storage choices work, and what it deliberately leaves out.
Tracker accounts, and five failures that never said anything
MyAnimeList, Bangumi, and Shikimori connect for real now, alongside a Mac audit pass and a run of bugs that were all failing without telling anyone.
Boundless now runs on Android, in beta
The v2.15 rewrite puts every platform on one React Native codebase, which is what brought Boundless to Android, as a direct APK while it works toward the Play Store.
Hello, boundless.moe
Boundless is a client-side reader for manga, manhwa, and light novels on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android, and this site is its new home for docs and release notes.
Boundless now runs on iPad and Mac
Boundless runs natively on iPad, and on Apple Silicon Macs as the iPad app, with layout that adapts to a wide window instead of stretching to fill it.
Rebuilding the reader around the tap
Tap zones, hold-to-stop auto-scroll, continuous cross-chapter scrolling, precise resume, and the gesture bug that made the close button unreachable.
Nine themes, six washes, and a little weather
Nine accent themes with matching app icons, six animated background washes, and ambient particle effects, plus the fixes that keep them smooth and legible.