Release notes

What's new in Quick Topo — features, improvements and fixes, newest first.

25 July 2026

Mobile viewer rework — the climbs panel is now a draggable bottom sheet with peek, half and full heights; a climb's details expand in place under its row, selections scroll into view, and Approach & access can no longer push the list off-screen.
Enhance action in the Image panel — clean up a low-resolution or noisy crag photo in place, right from the editor.
Drag & drop photos — drop a photo onto the home page to start a new topo, or onto an open topo to add it as another photo.

Shareable addresses as you browse — the viewer keeps the selected climb in the URL, and the editor's address bar reflects the open topo once it's backed up, so copying the address bar always captures what you're looking at.
Filmstrip photo cards in the viewer get a clearer outline for the selected photo.

Developer ZIP export — download a topo as a bundle of its photos, a per-photo SVG overlay, and a topo.json data file, for use in guidebooks or your own tools.
Light/Dark appearance toggle for the whole app.
Star ratings, rounded out — an optional hollow/black star style, stars shown in the climbs list, and stars that follow the app theme.
Topo cards load with a soft blur-up preview instead of a blank flash on hard refresh.
Under the hood: faster test suites, a tidier sync engine, single-sourced database migrations, and stricter serving of uploaded images.

Export upgrades — copy an image straight to the clipboard, WebP output, a print option, and a social-preview image.
Readable, stable links — topo pages get canonical slugged URLs, and each climb has a stable link of the form ?climb=name-id.
Meters or feet — a per-user length-unit preference; each climb remembers the unit it was entered in.
Star scale per topo — choose 0–3, 0–4 or 0–5 stars, with an account-wide default.
Better variations — variation badges show a labelled dot ('3a') with the grade at the branch point, and badges are offset clear of the lines. Selecting a climb that joins another highlights its full climbing line to the top.
Paste coordinates into notes or descriptions and they auto-link as map pins.
Crag info modal accepts more location formats and got a roomier layout.
Cross-device sync is more robust, and My Topos was rebuilt in the public-directory style.
Mixed-resolution topos handle per-photo sizes correctly.
New user guide, privacy policy and terms of use pages.
Deleting a hosted topo is now a soft delete, so accidental deletions can be recovered.
All user-facing text now says "climbs" rather than "routes".
Fixes: filmstrip thumbnails respond to clicks again; better button-text contrast; long topo names no longer overflow.

Faster pan and zoom, especially on large topos — smoother transforms and fewer repaints while navigating.
Big photos load a ~2K version first and fetch full resolution only when you zoom in far enough to need it.
Fixes: solo editors no longer see false "someone else updated this" conflicts; following a line to its end after a merge goes the right way.

User accounts — optional magic-link sign-in (no passwords). Accounts tie your topos together across devices, record ownership and attribution, and sync your work.
Complete-in-place sign-in — open the emailed link on any device and the tab you started from signs itself in.
Revision history — hosted topos keep snapshots you can browse and restore.
Ownership model — only the owner can manage a shared topo; other contributors are recorded as editors.
Light mode, plus embed options for theme and pre-selected climb, and account-level topo defaults.
Optional per-photo crag coordinates in the Crag info modal.
Clearer storage status: sync and download badges, a backup nudge, and a QR code for the edit link.
Signing in on a fresh device shows your account topos on the home page straight away.
Draft durability: safer saves when closing a tab, protection against one tab clobbering another, and photo recovery.

Multi-photo topos — a topo can span several photos of the crag, with smooth line joins and placeholder climb annotation.

Tags — controlled tags on topos (automatic and manual), shown as compact pills on cards, with multi-select filter dropdowns in the directory.

Offline support — Quick Topo is an installable app: the app itself and any shared topo you've visited keep working without signal, with offline badges on cards and an "Available offline" chip in the viewer.
GPX download for crag waypoints, a share button in the viewer, and an iframe embed mode for putting topos on your own site.
Climbing and approach lines get a dark halo so they stay readable on busy rock.
My Topos gains a search bar and a cleaner card layout with description lines.
A per-topo setting for whether selecting a climb zooms to it (applies in the viewer too).
Fixes: cancelling mid-draw is reliable in every state; image rotate/flip/save operations no longer race each other; smoother dragging on complex topos.
Under the hood: one shared renderer for crag info across viewer, side panel and dialog, plus proper favicons everywhere (including exports).

Mobile editing — bottom-sheet panels, a burger menu, bigger touch targets, and a segmented View/Edit toolbar that fits a phone.
Photo editing — rotate, flip, crop, brightness, contrast and saturation on the base image.
New climbs inherit the previous climb's discipline, grade and line-end style, so drawing a row of similar climbs is quick.
Crag location prefills from the photo's GPS data, and form focus survives panel rebuilds.

Public topo directory at /topos — browse published topos, with external crag links and proper search-engine listings.
The home page gains My Topos, Public Topos and Map sections.
Deep water solo joins the discipline list.
Location fields accept coordinates in most common formats, validated as you type; crag links show the site name as the link text.

The editor — draw climbs on a crag photo with branching, merging and variations; grade pickers; annotations and text styling.
The interactive viewer — tap a climb on the photo or in the list to highlight it, with keyboard navigation and a shortcuts overlay.
Sharing — host a topo and share view or edit links, with conflict detection when two people edit at once.
Exports — PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF and a self-contained HTML file, with a details panel and an Export button in the viewer.
Crag info with a map picker, grade labels on lines, inline title rename, first-ascent details, and a collapsible approach section with readable share URLs.