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New Liquid Glass & OS 26 Update
Cubox is now compatible with the new iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26 systems, with a comprehensive experience overhaul. For more details, please check out iOS 26 is Here. What's New with Cubox?
- We've redesigned the visual and interactive elements of the article-reading player.
- The reader's open/close interaction has been rebuilt and optimized with a smoother, continuous zoom animation.
- Multiple interface components have been redesigned to match the new visual guidelines.
- We've optimized system animations and interaction mechanisms to enhance overall smoothness and responsiveness.
- Widgets and Lock Screen widgets have been optimized to support the "Liquid Glass" effect and display more content.
- Fixed several compatibility issues to improve the daily user experience.
- We've prepared for the support of more new system features.
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Cubox Browser Extension 7.5.16 Update
- Optimized the display of highlighted text on web pages with different themes, now using a semi-transparent color to be compatible with various page themes and system modes.
- Added an option to disable the collection shortcut in the settings, to avoid conflicts with other shortcuts used by some users.
- Enabled one-click archiving for content that has already been collected.
- Compatible with the new macOS 26 icons.
- Fixed other minor bugs.
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Cubox for iPhone/iPad/Mac 6.1.2
- All-new English TTS engine with more natural voices and options.
- Improved reading flow for links, bold text, and paragraph breaks.
- Better duration estimation.
- Fixed issues with sliding in the audio player progress bar.
- Fixed UI glitches in the playback interface.
- Slightly adjusted font size in the lock screen widget.
- Fixed an issue where the search bar on Mac appeared unexpectedly and could not be clicked.
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Cubox for iPhone/iPad 6.1.1
- Fixed an issue where AI playback didn’t pause correctly between titles and content.
- Fixed incorrect pauses or misread punctuation marks in some cases.
- Other performance improvements and bug fixes.
We are upgrading our English AI Playback to a new engine powered by Unreal Speech, bringing better rhythm, clarity, and overall listening experience.
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AI Library Insight for Android
Cubox Android 8.0 on Google Play now supports AI Library Insight.
Cubox AI Library Insight is designed for efficient “read-it-later” users. It deeply analyzes everything you’ve saved across devices, transforming your reading list into a searchable, insightful, and ever-inspiring idea library:
- Ask any question on the Explore page to find answers across all your saved content
- Rediscover long-forgotten articles
- Dive deeper into content to support your writing and thinking
- View related content recommendations on the article insight page to build your personal reading map
To learn how to make the most of Library Insight, check out our previous iOS guide: 6 Ways AI Can Revolutionize Your "Read It Later" Experience
Currently, Android does not yet support auto-insight generation or push notifications, but you can always ask a question manually or browse your recent search history.
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🎧 AI Voice Playback: Listen to Your Readings
Version 8.1 brings AI-powered voice playback to iPhone and iPad. Now you can listen to any article with a single tap, anytime, anywhere.
- Tap the “Play” button in the bottom menu of the reader to start playback instantly.
- Multiple natural-sounding voices available in English.
- Supports background playback, free your eyes.
- Adjustable playback speed and progress control.
- AI usage has been upgraded to a credit-based system. See App Settings for details.
- Minor bug fixes related to Library Insight.
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Notion Sync, Substack Covers, and More
Notion Sync
- Fixed potential “Invalid Request” errors during sync by updating to the latest Notion API.
- Fixed issue where failed card updates could cause sync failures.
Cover Image
- Improved cover extraction for posts on X (x.com): now uses the first image or video thumbnail.
- Enhanced webpage cover detection by prioritizing inline styles and considering image dimensions. Tiny/blank images (e.g., 1px covers) are now filtered out. This issue often occurred in some Substack (substack.com) newsletter subscriptions.
Highlights
- Fixed issues where highlights couldn’t be created or highlight menus didn’t appear.
- Resolved conflicts with deprecated “Ghost Highlight” content.
- Updated highlight logic to support the upcoming AI text-to-speech feature.
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✨ Cubox 8.0 with AI Library Insight
🎉 We’re happy to introduce Cubox AI 3.0 — Library Insight.
“I’ll read it later.” We’ve all said it. But over time, saved articles often become like books on a shelf — unopened, unread, and eventually forgotten. Cubox AI scans everything you’ve saved across all your devices, and turns your reading archive into something searchable, insightful, and ready to inspire.
🔍 Find what you need in 3 seconds
Ask a question, and Cubox AI will surface relevant content from your entire library. Get instant answers, even from 5 years ago.
🧹 Clear 100 unread articles with swipes
Swipe, review, clear. Focus on reading what truly matters.
☀️ Turn 30 saved links into a 5-min brief
Personalized AI summaries, delivered on your schedule. One tap to read, learn, stay up to date.
Here‘s what you can do with Cubox AI 3.0 Library Insight:
- 🔍 Ask any question and get answers from everything you’ve saved.
- 🧠 Rediscover forgotten articles.
- 📄 Summarize any content and quickly catch up on what matters.
- 🔔 Get custom summary reports delivered to you automatically.
- ✍️ Dive deep into your readings to support writing and thinking.
- 🧩 Connect related content and follow your own trail of insights.
- 🧹 Filter noisy topics and see clearer summaries of current events.
- ⚙️ Set up prompts for recurring, automated answers
Cubox AI is not a chatbot. It’s a quiet layer of intelligence built into your library, designed to help you read better, remember more, and understand deeper. Save from anywhere, Cubox will processes everything in the background.
👉 Try Cubox AI Library Insight now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Support for the Android and all-new Web versions is coming soon.
Grateful to be part of your reading journey. Until next time — keep saving, keep reading!
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Import Your Pocket Collections to Cubox
The read-it-later app Pocket has officially announced its shutdown.
If you’re a current or former Pocket user, you can now import your saved items into Cubox and continue your reading journey.
Visit the Cubox web app on desktop 👉 https://cubox.cc/my/settings/import-export Upload the .csv file exported from Pocket to begin the import.
If the Pocket CSV file can’t be selected, try refreshing the page a few times and try again. Your imported items will be placed in a separate Cubox folder, reflecting their read or archived status in Pocket, and content parsing will begin automatically.
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Parsing Improvements
- Improved formatting support for some websites, including proper paragraph spacing for specially formatted content.
- Optimized AI Insight timeout handling and fixed potential API errors.
- Enhanced performance for concurrent AI and content parsing tasks.
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