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Stay up to date with the latest changes in our product.

1 day ago
  • Older bookmarks that missed their readable copy are now retried automatically, with bounded retries when a page cannot be read.
  • When a bookmark has no readable copy, the bookmark page and reader now say why in plain words: the original page is gone, the site blocked us, it isn’t a web page, or we’ll try again.
3 days ago
  • The feature status page's 30-day strip now keeps a day red if any test run failed that day, even when a later run passed.
4 days ago
  • Account settings show which Google and GitHub sign-in accounts are connected.
  • Admin Health lists the latest result for every monitored E2E suite (status, last run, errors) without opening E2E coverage.
  • Admin Health shows a rescue step and link on top error signatures, not only on job failures.
  • Admin Health shows this week’s weekly digest send-ledger counts (claimed, sent, pending) for duplicate-send verification.
  • Admin Health nudges you around Sunday’s 18:00 UTC digest if ledger rows are still missing.
  • Admin Health shows a green-light line when this week’s digest ledger is fully sent (#695 evidence).
  • Admin Health breaks down email sends by provider (today and rolling 7 days) on the main dashboard.
  • Reader: copy one highlight as a Markdown snippet (blockquote + note) for Obsidian or Notion.
  • Reader shows related saves under the article so you can keep reading without going back to the list.
  • Account settings show when your email is unverified and let you resend the code — same recovery on the website and the desktop apps.
  • The status page records the last successful check for desktop downloads, the Chrome and Firefox listings, and payments.
  • The iPhone and Android reader can share one highlight as Markdown, and shows related saves under the article.
5 days ago
  • Changing your account email now requires a security code from your current inbox before sending confirmation to the new address.
  • After you confirm an email change, Stripe billing and your newsletter subscription follow the new address when they matched your old one.
  • Automatic archiving after a save also preserves newer archives and skips results for changed bookmarks.
  • Background page archiving skips outdated results when a bookmark changes or finishes archiving while a fetch is in flight.
  • Admin Health hides structured credentials in job failure details and error names.
  • Smart Search background indexing skips outdated results when a saved bookmark changes.
  • Admin Health keeps the last recorded job failure visible after recovery, alongside the current job status.
  • Admin Health shows a rescue step and link for overdue jobs and retained failures.
  • Change your account email safely from Settings: your current address keeps working until the new inbox confirms the change, and you can cancel from the old inbox.
  • Confirming an email change retires other pending change links and signs out existing sessions together.
  • Email-change confirmation and cancellation links stay on Cowpin’s verification page.
  • Retrying an email change keeps your confirmation links valid and sends each inbox one message per request.
11 days ago
  • Cowpin for Mac 1.3 — save from any app with ⌥⌘B or the menu-bar icon, and the app now updates itself.
  • Cowpin for Windows and Linux (Beta) — installers and an AppImage/.deb that keep themselves up to date.
  • Selection notes — highlight text on any page and save it with the bookmark, straight from the extension.
  • Any Cowpin account can now connect Claude, Cursor and other AI agents over MCP using its API token.
12 days ago
  • Zapier integration — connect Cowpin to thousands of other apps.
  • An affiliate program — share your link and earn a share of first-year revenue.
  • Nightly database backups, now verified and with a rehearsed restore, so your library is recoverable.
13 days ago
  • Paid plans: Cowpin at $22/year, or Cowpin + AI at $51/year — with a 14-day free trial and no card to start. Everyone who signed up before paid plans launched keeps full access, free.
  • If a trial or subscription ends, your library stays readable, searchable and exportable — nothing is ever deleted.
18 days ago
  • Import from Readwise Reader, Karakeep, wallabag and your Reddit saved posts.
  • Find and merge duplicate bookmarks in one pass.
  • The browser extension suggests AI tags and shows related bookmarks as you save.
  • Cowpin for Mac — a native app for your library.
about 1 month ago
  • Save every open tab to Cowpin at once from the browser extension.
about 1 month ago
  • Archived pages keep their original styling, so a saved page looks like the page you saved.
  • Accessibility improvements across the site and the app.
about 1 month ago
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) — connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, and autonomous agents via HTTP MCP and the install-mcp.sh bridge (npm @cowpin/mcp-server).
  • 1536-dimensional pgvector semantic hybrid search — recall past research across sessions with sub-50ms latency.
  • Autonomous Crypto Wallet Authentication & Micro-Billing — EIP-191 & Solana Ed25519 signature challenge-response with on-chain USDC deposit rails (Base, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Bitcoin, Tron).
  • Automated Database Backup Engine — continuous gzip compression and rolling 30-day retention.
about 1 month ago
  • Dual-Species Shared Vault — AI agents store research snapshots that humans can read cleanly in Reader View, and vice versa.
  • Token-optimized machine discovery endpoint at /llms.txt.
3 months ago
  • Import from Instapaper — drop in the CSV export and your saves, folders and read-later state come across.
3 months ago
  • Pocket exports import properly, and there are now step-by-step switching guides for Pinboard and Pocket.
  • Big libraries import cleanly — a full-size Pinboard export (13,000+ bookmarks) no longer hits an upload ceiling.
  • Lost your verification email? You can send yourself a new code from the login screen instead of being locked out.
3 months ago
  • Save by email — forward or BCC a link to your private Cowpin address and it lands in your library.
  • The Chrome extension connects in one click; no more copying an API token by hand.
  • Save from an iPhone with a ready-made Shortcut, straight from the share sheet.
3 months ago
  • Reader view — read any archived page distraction-free, without leaving Cowpin.
  • Highlights and annotations on saved pages, exportable to Markdown or Obsidian.
  • The browser extension now works on Firefox and Edge as well as Chrome.
  • A terminal client, for saving links without leaving the shell.
  • A feedback form, in the app and on the site — a real person reads every one.
3 months ago
  • Insights — see what your library is actually made of: topics, momentum, what you revisit and what you never open again.
  • Two-way Pinboard sync: saves made in Cowpin can mirror back to your Pinboard account.
3 months ago
  • Rediscover — resurfaces good links from deep in your library that you saved and forgot.
3 months ago
  • Every saved page's text is archived automatically, so a link that dies later still has its content.
  • Dead-link detection flags bookmarks whose targets have gone away.
  • Install Cowpin as an app on Android and iOS, and share straight to it.
  • An optional weekly digest email of what you saved and haven't read.
3 months ago
  • Cowpin opens in beta: one-click Pinboard import that keeps every tag, full-text search, tags, read-later, public profiles, and a Pinboard-compatible API.