Changelog

🚀 Folders inside Folders, Attachment Files in Replies & Navigation Improvements

This update introduces a powerful way to organize projects with nested folders, improves how comments and versions are reviewed, and fixes several navigation and integration issues. We’ve also made backend improvements to AI reviews and system reliability.

🆕 Folders inside Folders 🔥🔥

You can now create folders inside other folders.

This makes workspace organization much more powerful:

✅ Structure projects with multi-level folders
✅ Organize work by client, projects, teams, collaborator access, etc!
✅ Manage large workspaces more easily

A cleaner hierarchy for growing teams.

📎 NEW: Attaching files while replying to comments

Replies to comments can now include attachments.

This allows reviewers to:

✅ Add supporting files directly in replies
✅ Share references or screenshots in discussions
✅ Keep all context within the same feedback thread

🔄 NEW: Toggle Comment Markers in Version Comparison

Version comparison for PDFs and Image projects now includes marker controls.

You can now:

✅ Toggle comment markers on or off while comparing versions
✅ View comments overlayed on top of the versions to quickly compare what was addressed and what was missed - quickly! No need to go through previous versions and comments manually.

This makes visual comparisons much easier to review. 1 more step closer to frictionless feedback

📱 NEW: Responsive View Indicator in Comments

Comments now show which responsive view they were created in.

This helps teams quickly understand context:

✅ Identify Desktop / Mobile / Tablet feedback
✅ Avoid confusion when reviewing responsive issues
✅ Improve clarity during design reviews

🔗 NEW: Page URL / Name in Comment Details

Comment details now include page information.

You can now see:

✅ The page URL where the comment was created
✅ The page name for better context
✅ Clear reference for website feedback

📨 NEW: Resend Invite for Members

Workspace admins can now resend member invitations.

This allows you to:

✅ Quickly resend pending invites
✅ Avoid creating duplicate invitations
✅ Onboard teammates faster

📄 NEW: Project Name on Details Page

Project details now clearly display the project name.

This provides:

✅ Better context while reviewing details
✅ Clearer navigation across projects
✅ Improved usability on project pages

🤖 Improvement: Updated AI Review Model

AI Reviews now run on Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

This brings:

✅ Improved feedback analysis
✅ Better issue detection
✅ More accurate review insights

👤 Improvement: Remember Guest Name

Guest users now have their name saved during the session.

This means:

✅ Returning guests don’t need to re-enter their name
✅ Faster commenting experience
✅ Less friction for external reviewers

🔐 Improvement: Expanded IP Whitelist for Access Issues

New IPs have been added to the whitelist to help users facing network blocks from Cloudflare or other providers.

Added IPs:

178.156.178.124
5.161.29.18

🛠️ Fix: Responsive Mode Navigation Issue

We fixed an issue where switching to responsive view on a subpage redirected users back to the homepage.

Now:

✅ Responsive mode keeps you on the current page

🛠️ Fix: Improved Back Navigation

The Home button has been replaced with a Back button.

This ensures:

✅ Users always return to the parent page
✅ Clearer navigation flow
✅ Less confusion during project browsing

🛠️ Fix: Comment Navigation (Prev / Next)

Resolved an issue affecting comment navigation.

Now:

✅ Prev / Next buttons work correctly after taking action on feedback
✅ Smooth navigation between comments

🛠️ Fix: Automated Screenshots in Integrations

Fixed an issue where automated screenshots were not being sent in integrations and webhooks.

Now:

✅ Screenshots are correctly included in integrations
✅ Webhooks receive the expected data

🚀 Browse Mode Enhancements, Better Website DOM Highlighting & More UX Updates

This update improves how users interact with image and website projects, refines DOM highlighting for clearer commenting, and enhances project thumbnail interactions for better collaboration visibility.

🆕 NEW: Rebuilt Automated Screenshots for Website Projects

Automated screenshots for website projects have been completely rebuilt from the ground up.

Now:
✅ Every comment records a near-perfect automated screenshot
✅ More accurate visual capture of the exact state
✅ Better reliability across dynamic pages

🖼️ NEW: Preview Mode for Image Projects

Image projects now support a Preview mode.

This allows users to:
✅ Zoom in and out freely
✅ Navigate without triggering the comment box

Perfect for reviewing details without accidentally entering comment mode.

👤 NEW: Update Email & Change Password (Profile Settings)

Users can now manage key account settings directly from their profile.

You can now:
✅ Update your email ID
✅ Change your password
✅ Manage account security in one place

🌐 Improvement: Better DOM Selector Highlighting (Website Projects)

Website commenting UX has been improved with clearer DOM selection highlighting.

What’s improved:
✅ More visible selector overlays
✅ Clearer indication of selected elements
✅ Better precision while adding feedback

🔘 NEW: Toggle Markers in Website Browse Mode

Website projects now allow marker toggling in Browse mode. Previously markers were by default hidden in Browse mode and shown in Comment mode.

Now, you can:
✅ Show or hide comment markers in Browse mode

👥 Improvement: Project Thumbnail Hover Details

Project thumbnails now provide more contextual visibility.

When hovering over the +3 (or more) user indicators, you’ll now see:
✅ Names of all members added to the project
✅ Clear pop-over visibility
✅ Better team awareness at a glance

Small UX refinement, better collaboration clarity.

🚀 Option to set Interface Language for your Guests, Auto-Pause on Approval & Project Control Updates

This update gives you better control over how clients and guests experience your projects, introduces smarter approval behavior, and refines project settings for a faster, cleaner workflow overall.

🆕 Language Selection for Client/Guest View

You can now choose the interface language for your Client/Guest view directly from Project Settings.

This allows you to:
✅ Select the preferred language for external viewers
✅ Create a more localized review experience
✅ Make feedback easier for international clients

Language settings can be configured from the Project Settings → Language dropdown.

⏸️ NEW: Auto-Pause Comments on Approval

You can now enable automatic comment pausing once a project is approved.

This helps you:
✅ Prevent new comments after final approval
✅ Avoid scope creep post sign-off
✅ Keep project closure clean and controlled

Fully configurable from Project Settings.

🔒 NEW: Hide Share Button for Guests

You now have the option to hide the Share button from guests.

This ensures:
✅ Better control over link distribution
✅ Reduced accidental re-sharing
✅ More privacy in controlled review flows

Also available within Project Settings.

⚙️ Improvement: Revamped Project Settings & Share UI

Project Settings and the Share interface have been redesigned.

What’s improved:
✅ Cleaner layout
✅ Better grouping of controls
✅ More intuitive configuration flow

⚡ Improvement: Success Toast Repositioned

We’ve moved the success toast message that previously appeared in the top-right corner.

Now:
✅ It no longer interrupts workflows
✅ Reduced visual distraction
✅ Smoother user experience during repeated actions

Small UI tweak, big flow improvement.

🚀 Asana Integration, Faster Comment Navigation & Improved Collaboration Flows

This update introduces a refreshed Asana integration experience, adds smoother comment navigation, improves collaboration flows across folders and projects, and polishes multiple UI/UX touchpoints. We’ve also shipped important fixes to improve stability and usability.

🆕 NEW: Asana Integration & UX Improvements

The Asana integration experience has been refined to make syncing feedback and tasks smoother and more intuitive.

Expect:
✅ Improved overall integration flow
✅ Clearer syncing behavior
✅ Better experience while connecting and working with Asana

🆕 NEW: Next / Previous Buttons in Comment Sidebar

Navigating comments just got easier.

When you click on a comment, you can now:
✅ Jump to the next comment instantly
✅ Go back to the previous comment
✅ Review feedback faster without losing context

Perfect for projects with lots of comments.

📁 Improvement: Folder-Level Collaboration Sync

Folder collaboration is now smarter.

What’s improved:
✅ Collaborators added to a folder can view newly created projects automatically
✅ No need to invite them again for each new project
✅ Seamless access management at scale

📨 Improvement: Faster Acceptance for Collaborators & Guests

Inviting existing collaborators or guests is now frictionless.

Now:
✅ Existing collaborators/guests are added automatically when you invite them.
✅ No need for them to click Accept again
✅ Faster access, fewer steps

📄 Improvement: Persistent Zoom Settings for PDFs

PDF reviews are now more consistent.

What’s changed:
✅ Zoom level settings persist across pages
✅ No need to re-adjust zoom while navigating
✅ Smoother document review experience

🎨 Improvement: Custom Branding Improvement for Emails

For Custom branding enabled users - emails are now primarily labelled with your Brand name.

Now:
✅ Prominent BugSmash name is now replaced with your brand name
✅ Applies to email subject lines
✅ Also reflected in the main body title

A more cohesive, branded client experience.

🌐 Improvement: Hidden Website Link Behavior

Website privacy controls have been improved.

When Hide website link is enabled:
✅ The base URL is now hidden
✅ Applies to the comment sidebar as well
✅ Cleaner and more private client views

🖱️ Improvement: Tooltips for Review Modes

Understanding review modes is now easier.

You’ll now see tooltips on hover for:
✅ Desktop mode
✅ Mobile mode
✅ Tablet mode
✅ Screenshot mode

Quick clarity without guessing.

👥 Improvement: Clearer Role Descriptions in Workspace Settings

Workspace roles are now easier to understand.

We’ve added:
✅ More descriptive explanations for Members
✅ Clearer descriptions for Collaborators
✅ Better clarity while managing access

🛠️ Fix: Cursor Behavior in Browse Mode

We fixed an issue in Browse mode.
✅ Cursor icon no longer switches incorrectly to comment mode

🛠️ Fix: Thumbnail Generation Issues

Thumbnail generation has been stabilized.
✅ Fixed issues affecting thumbnails for certain projects
✅ More reliable previews across the workspace

🚀 Powerful Annotations, Better Integrations & Clearer Workspace Control!

This update introduces a major upgrade to how feedback is captured across media types, improves ClickUp integration with user-level mapping, and refines navigation and workspace management for a smoother overall experience.

🆕 NEW: Annotation Tools for Images, PDFs & Videos

You can now add annotations directly across images, PDFs, and videos.

This enables richer, more precise feedback:
✅ Pen tool for free-hand annotations
✅ Shape tools (rectangles, outlines) to highlight areas
✅ Multiple color options for clearer visual context
✅ Precise point-and-mark feedback directly on content

Everything you need to communicate visually — in one place.

🔗 NEW: User Mapping for ClickUp Integration

ClickUp integrations just got smarter.

You can now map a BugSmash user to a ClickUp user.

This means:
✅ Assigning a comment in BugSmash automatically assigns it to the mapped user in ClickUp
✅ Assigning a task or comment in ClickUp syncs back to the mapped user in BugSmash
✅ No manual reassignment or duplicate work across tools

📊 Improvement: Plan Details Page with Usage & Limits

We’ve added a dedicated Plan Details page.

You can now:
✅ View all plan limits clearly
✅ Track usage at a glance
✅ Understand exactly what’s included in your plan

More transparency, fewer surprises.

🔙 Improvement: Smarter Back Navigation from Folders

Navigation has been improved when opening projects from folders.

What’s fixed:
✅ Back/Home now returns you to the folder you came from
✅ No forced jump back to the dashboard
✅ More intuitive project navigation

🚪 Improvement: Option to Leave Workspace or Project (Guests)

Guests now have more control over their access.

You can now:
✅ Leave a workspace you were added to as a guest
✅ Exit individual projects when no longer needed
✅ Keep your workspace list clean and relevant

Better control, less clutter.

🚀 Compare Image & PDF project versions visually along with comments, get better image ordering & allows guests to edit/delete their comments even without logging in.

This update introduces a powerful new way to compare versions, improves how image projects behave, unlocks editing/deleting self comments for even non-logged in guests, and more. Overall, it makes reviews more visual, flexible, and reliable.

🆕 NEW: Diff View for Images & PDFs

You can now visually compare versions using Diff View in image and PDF projects.

This helps you:
✅ See changes side-by-side across versions
✅ Compare comments given in previous version to how it translated in the latest version - All visually!
✅ Quickly spot visual differences
✅ Review design iterations with more clarity

Perfect for design reviews and version tracking.

✏️ NEW: Rename Images in Image Projects

You can now rename images directly inside image projects.

This makes managing large image sets much easier:
✅ Rename images from the left-side thumbnail list
✅ Keep image names clear and meaningful
✅ Improve navigation while reviewing multiple images

🖼️ Improvement: Image Project Ordering

Image project behavior has been refined based on user feedback. (Thanks to Jessica who suggested this)

What’s improved:
✅ Newly added images now appear at the bottom
✅ Existing image order remains unchanged
✅ More predictable review flow for large image sets

💬 Improvement: Guest Comment Editing (No Login Required)

We’ve improved the guest commenting experience.

For not-logged-in clients/guests:
✅ Comments can now be edited or deleted
✅ Available for up to 24 hours after posting
✅ No login required

More flexibility without adding friction.

👤 Improvement: Assign Comments Without Pre-Invites

Assigning feedback is now easier. (Thanks to a few users who suggested this)

You can now:
✅ Assign comments to workspace members or guests
✅ No need to invite them to the project beforehand
✅ Speed up collaboration and accountability

🎨 Improvement: Workspace Branding

Workspace branding just got easier.

You can now:
✅ Add a custom subdomain right from the Workspace settings
✅ Create a more branded client experience
✅ Keep reviews aligned with your identity

Kindly visit the Pricing page in your workspace settings for availability within plans

📘 Improvement: Learn Links for Integrations

Every integration now includes a Learn link.

This makes it easier to:
✅ Understand how each integration works
✅ Access help docs quickly
✅ Get more value from connected tools

🛠️ Fix: Private Mode Access Issue

We fixed an issue related to Private mode.

✅ Existing logged-in project guests will no longer see Access Denied when a project is switched to Private

More reliable access control without interruptions.

🚀Folder Sharing, Notification Controls & Faster Performance

This update introduces a major sharing upgrade for folders, gives users more control over notifications, improves performance across the app, and unlocks powerful new add-ons at the workspace level.

🆕 NEW: Folder Sharing

You can now share entire folders instead of individual projects.

This makes collaboration much easier at scale:
✅ Share multiple projects in one go
✅ Control access at the folder level
✅ Ideal for client folders, teams, and large workspaces

One link, multiple projects — fully organized.

🔔 NEW: Email Notifications Configuration

You now have full control over your email notifications.
You can find this option in your Profile menu.

This allows you to:
✅ Customize which emails you receive
✅ Reduce unnecessary notifications
✅ Stay informed without inbox overload

🧩 NEW: BugSmash Add-Ons in Workspace Settings

BugSmash Add-Ons are now available directly in workspace settings.

This lets you:
✅ Explore available add-ons
✅ Enable features at the workspace level
✅ Customize BugSmash to fit your team’s needs

More flexibility, more power — all in one place.

⚡ Improvement: Added CDN Caching for Faster Load Times

Performance just got a boost.

We’ve added CDN-level caching to improve speed across the app:
✅ Faster page loads
✅ Reduced latency
✅ Smoother experience across the app

Embed BugSmash Anywhere, No-Signup Approvals & Smarter Workspace Experience

This update introduces powerful new ways to share and collect feedback, simplifies client approvals, and refines workspace behavior for a smoother day-to-day experience. We’ve also rolled out multiple usability improvements and important fixes across projects and sharing.

🆕 NEW: Embed Review Mode

You can now embed BugSmash reviews directly anywhere.

Share embeddable review links for images, PDFs, videos, and audio files that load BugSmash instantly inside your tools.

You can now:
✅ Embed reviews inside client portals, Notion pages, dashboards, and more
✅ Let clients drop comments without navigating to BugSmash
✅ Collect feedback without creating guest accounts

Feedback, right where your clients already are.

Example: Embedding Demo

✔️ NEW: Improved Approval Flow for External Reviewers

Approvals just became frictionless for clients and guests.

What’s improved:
✅ Guests/clients can approve projects via direct links
✅ Approval works using just their email — no signup required
✅ When invited via email, users don’t even need to re-enter their email to approve

Faster approvals, fewer steps, zero friction.

👤 NEW: Profile Page

Users now have a dedicated profile page.

You can:
✅ View and update your name
✅ Set and manage your timezone
✅ Keep personal preferences in one place

Better personalization, better experience.

🌍 NEW: Timezone-Aware Emails

All email timestamps now respect your saved timezone.

This means:
✅ Accurate time references across regions
✅ Less confusion for global teams
✅ Clearer communication in notifications and updates

✨ Improvement: Members Can Manage Projects

Members now get more control over project organization.

They can:
✅ Rename projects
✅ Move projects across folders
✅ Organize work without owner dependency

🏷️ Improvement: Clear Project Status Pills

Project status visibility has been enhanced.

What’s new:
✅ Status now shown as clear pills/chips
✅ Improved readability at a glance
✅ Less reliance on subtle indicators

🔗 Improvement: Version-Aware Sharing

Shared links now respect the selected version.

This ensures:
✅ Links open the correct version
✅ No forced redirection to the latest version
✅ More predictable review experiences

🛠️ Fix: Folder Creation Issue

A folder-related issue has been resolved.

✅ Projects created inside folders will no longer appear incorrectly on the homepage