4.7.1
2020-12-04
- Fixed interruptive service caused by unexpected server configuration.
4.7.0
2020-10-01
SoftenStorm's LiveBook is now free from 3rd-party advertisements.
4.6.0
2020-09-17
Recompiled for iOS 14 using the latest updates.
4.5.4
2020-08-09
- Removed phrases from a dataset which will be used to generate questions and answers in Take A Quiz, so that it won't generate the quizzes in wrong senses.
- The payment of college student subscriptions will be occurring every 6 months so that the purchasing can covering any college semester in a discount price.
4.5.3
2020-07-20
- Adding more meanings to the top of results, making it more covering most of the meanings in different contexts.
4.5.2
2020-07-12
- Improving a number of antonyms, which uses recursion through related words to retrieve more of them
- Filtering synonyms and antonyms in according to the part of speech of the current definition
4.5.1
2020-05-20
- Making small groups of words in definition results, which are capable of standing together, into lookup-able phrases. So that, while you are reading the definitions, you may lookup for any curious phrases by tapping on them.
4.5.0
2020-05-19
- Introducing search for synonyms, antonyms, and particular words under categories.
- Removed freezing while fetching results from the dictionary.
4.4.6
2020-05-13
- Fixed the navigation buttons of a paragraph scanner, which is a feature of the sentence structure analyzer, disappearing in dark mode.
4.4.5
2020-05-13
- Fixed wrong number of translation quota. For those who had been affected, we compensate this by increasing your quota up to 1,500 times for free.
4.4.4
2020-05-12
- LiveBook is now supported dark mode.
- Make subscription purchasing more obviously visible.
4.4.3
2020-01-22
- Changed enthusiast subscription pricing from $4.99 per month to $1.99 per month.
- Auto translation option for college student and enthusiast subscription will automatically translate the simple meaning of the word in every lookup results.
- Only displaying relevance images when having at least one definition in noun.
- Making relevance images more wider and reducing the font of their caption to make them more easier to understand.
- Remove duplicates from the relevance images.
- Fixed the rear camera mode detects the phrasal verb before instead of the current focusing word.
- Fixed pronunciation practicing keeps asking even after it has been disappearing.
- Fixed a multiple of user experience bugs, especially after update the settings.
4.4.2
2020-01-16
- Fixed user interface bug after subscribing college student or enthusiast subscription.
4.4.0
2020-01-14
- Adding capable-in-representing images, or relevance, images for college students and enthusiasts subscription.
- Adding an emoticon next to each phonetic symbols to convey that they're tappable.
- The purchase option will be shown right after the translation quota did deplete.
- Fixed HTML entities from translation results by converting them to the proper characters.
- Fixed the unstable of user experience after tapping on the blue hamburger button.
4.3.5
2020-01-11
- Increased the limitation of storing personalized data, from 1MB and 1024 entities to maximum.
- The increasing will prevent app from data loss in case that you have reached the limitation.
- While there is no one reporting back, repeatedly crashes may be fixed by this update.
- It will ask you to re-migrate and merge the history from the previous major version if applicable.
4.3.4
2020-01-08
- Improved the analyzer and readability of the Sentence Structure.
- The dictionary is now support V2 and V3 phase lookups.
- The Using Rear Camera mode is now support phase captures and lookups.
4.3.3
2019-12-23
- Making links in Sentence Structure look easier for the English reader.
- Fixed non-matching half-character-full-character line width found in Sentence Structure.
- Fixed crash bug found after navigating from Take a Quiz.
4.0.0
2019-12-07
- Revamped capabilities, speed, features and stabilities.
- All have been redesigned and engineered.
- Practicing pronunciation is more intuitive.
- Taking a quiz is more challenging and more educating.
- Introduce sentence structure analyzer and word look up by definition.
- With an innovative translation experience, other offline dictionaries were removed.
- Part-of-speech and capable-in-representing image will come in later builds.
3.1.2
2016-10-11
This update fixes bugs after we have launched the new 3.1 version, including user interface and text-to-speech.
3.1.1
2016-10-01
We have improved overall recognition speed, alternative definitions, and user interface. We also add a video guide for using LiveBook app at the very beginning with a lot of bug fixes.
3.0.1
2016-06-06
Ads have been removed from the application. Please enjoy the app.
● Adding an intelligent word locking when you focus on a word more than 3 seconds
● Intelligent word locking also detects when you touch the reading screen
● Touch on camera scene to start focusing a word on your favorite books
● Word history can be reset from settings
● Minor bug fixes
3.0
2016-06-05
Ads have been removed from the application. Please enjoy the app.
● Adding an intelligent word locking when you focus on a word more than 3 seconds
● Intelligent word locking also detects when you touch the reading screen
● Touch on camera scene to start focusing a word on your favorite books
● Word history can be reset from settings
2.1.1
2015-06-03
- Improve user experience
- Fix settings and navigation bugs
2.1.0
2015-05-23
[NEW] Provides example pictures related to the word
[NEW] Review what you have discovered by taking a quiz
[NEW] Practice your accent with pronunciation feature
[NEW] 64 Languages when translates meaning from primary dictionary
We're really excited to have you upgrade to this new version. In this new version, we redesigned LiveBook to focus on camera translation with more intuitive user interface. You can lookup for type-based definition more faster by just tapping on a word type. It also has word into pictures translation that you can glance them for its meaning. Moreover, we also improve text recognition engine to work on more complicated picture.
2.0.0
2015-04-28
We're really excited to have you upgrade to this new version. In this new version, we redesigned LiveBook to focus on camera translation with more intuitive user interface. You can lookup for type-based definition more faster by just tapping on a word type. It also has word into pictures translation that you can glance them for its meaning. Moreover, we also improve text recognition engine to work on more complicated picture.
1.2.3
2014-06-13
Slightly or dramatically increase dictionary searching speed base on iPhone model. Fixed LiveBook crashes after using for a long time.
1.2.2
2014-05-23
Fixed performance in iPhone5S, iPhone5C, iPhone5 and iPhone4S.
1.2.1
2014-05-16
We fixed always "holding still" bug and simplifying user interface by removing photo recognition mode. Video ads running is becoming less frequent. Thanks for supporting our LiveBook. It's time to update your app.
1.2.0
2014-05-05
- Adding Japanese and Chinese language
- Fixing auto focus for scan mode
- Adding flag button to switch destination languages
1.1.5
2014-04-24
- Fixing iOS 7.1 performance problem
- Now still mode can zoom in and out captured image
- Optimize recognition speed
1.1.4
2014-04-03
Optimize Scan Mode
1.1.3
2014-02-19
- Show apple dictionary button when word aren't existing in the application
- Update still modes' photo algorithm for much better character filtering
1.1.2
2014-02-11
◆ Adding translation in Thai language
◆ Adding definition narrator
◆ Fix photo mode algorithm
◆ Adding purchasing option for removing the video ads
◆ Fix adjective not showing bug
◆ Fix overall scaning performance
◆ More intelligence torch
1.1.0
2014-01-24
◆ Adding voice dictation feature
◆ Adding text and photo toggle to optimize text recognition for complex images
◆ Fixing UI glitch