Changelog

All the latest updates, improvements and fixes.

v1.16.6 July 29, 2026
  • Edit the outline before the article is written. If your project pauses for outline approval, that screen is now an editor: rewrite headings, adjust what each section covers, set word targets, reorder sections by dragging, add or delete them. The writer follows your version exactly, and editing costs nothing. Not happy with the plan at all? "New outline" replans the article — optionally with an instruction like "start with the costs, drop the history section" — for a fraction of a full generation.
  • A new "Short" article length, around 900–1300 words regardless of article type. And the length setting now genuinely steers the result: articles used to overshoot their target because the underlying blueprint ignored it. Every part of an article — intro, sections, FAQ, sources — is now sized from the length you pick.
v1.16.5 July 28, 2026
  • Post X threads straight from rankello. The X channel now publishes natively, the way LinkedIn already does — send it right away or schedule it. You connect it with your own X app and the setup walks you through it step by step; that way the posting quota is yours alone instead of shared.
  • A quiet week is no longer an error. Trend watches that simply found nothing new reported a failed scan. They now stay quiet and keep their rhythm.
  • Performance work throughout. Dashboards, article lists and analytics views load faster, most noticeably in workspaces with a lot of content. Read notifications older than 90 days are now cleared out automatically.
v1.16.4 July 25, 2026
  • A stronger writing engine behind the "High" quality setting. Articles generated at High quality now run on the newest generation of our text model — better at long, structured pieces and at holding a brief together from the first heading to the last. Nothing to switch on, and the credit rate for the tier is unchanged.
  • Turn every finished article into ready-to-post channel content. Each article now has a Distribution tab with one tile per channel: LinkedIn post, X thread, email newsletter, Facebook post, Google Business post, YouTube script and Instagram carousel. Open a channel to see it the way the platform shows it — a thread as numbered posts with their character counts, a newsletter with its subject line — edit it part by part, copy it, or post it to a connected target.
  • Your posts finally link back to the article, with per-channel tracking so the visits show up as LinkedIn or newsletter traffic in your analytics instead of "direct". LinkedIn posts now go out with the article's cover image, and every channel is written in your brand's voice and your project's language.
  • Schedule it or take it with you. Pick a date and time per channel (cancel or move it until it goes out), or download all channels as a ZIP — including a ready-to-paste HTML newsletter for Brevo, Mailchimp, CleverReach and the rest.
  • Or let it run by itself. Per project, choose which channels a newly published article should produce on its own — and, as a separate opt-in, whether they're posted automatically too. Everything is also available through the API and MCP.
v1.16.3 July 25, 2026
  • Edit articles visually. Blocks now open in a rich-text editor instead of markdown source: bold, italic, links, lists, headings, tables as a real grid, and callout boxes that keep their style and title. The toolbar shows only what applies to the block you're in — and a "Markdown source" toggle is still there per block if you prefer it.
  • Citation sources that fit your market. The external sources cited in your articles are now found from your business profile instead of generic searches — and national authorities finally count: German, Austrian, Swiss and French domains like destatis.de, admin.ch or insee.fr were previously rejected outright. The tile is now honestly named "Citation Sources".
  • Cleaner competitor analysis. Company registers, directories, marketplaces and job boards no longer turn up as competitors.
  • Keyword trends that match your business. Rising and top queries are seeded and filtered against your business profile instead of whatever old pages happen to rank for.
  • AI citation questions are clickable — open any of them straight in ChatGPT or Google to see who gets cited today.
  • Polish: SVG logos can be uploaded again, clearer plan cards on the subscribe screens, and the knowledge base now explains what it's for.
v1.16.2 July 24, 2026
  • Resolved a number of many smaller bugs and issues.
  • Optimized article generation (speedup, better internal AI error handling and quality gates)
  • Started Beta v2
v1.16.1 July 22, 2026
  • Two new publishing destinations: Wix and Blogger — connect them on the Integrations page and publish articles just like WordPress, with a connection test, draft-by-default safety, and in-place updates on re-publish so refreshes never pile up duplicates.
  • Wix: connect with an API key and your site ID. Articles are converted to Wix's native editor format (headings, tables, code blocks and embeds included), and your cover and inline images are imported into your site's own Media Manager instead of linking back to rankello.
  • Blogger: connect in two clicks with your Google account — no keys to copy. Pick which of your blogs to publish to, and your article keywords come along as post labels.
v1.16.0 July 21, 2026
  • Cleaner navigation: related pages are now bundled into clear hubs — a Planning hub (ideas, trends, briefs, calendar), Performance and Site health for analytics, a Billing hub for plans, credits and invoices, and Team Management for people and access. A new global search finds any article from anywhere.
  • Credits you can predict: every screen that starts a generation now shows what it will cost up front, a usage breakdown shows where your credits actually go, and the low-balance warning lets you top up right where it appears.
  • More transparent publishing: broken publishing connections are flagged on the Integrations page, publishing to several targets shows per-target status with individual retry, and webhook deliveries get their own log.
  • SERP clusters, easier to use: each cluster now explains its value in plain language (with the competitor URLs your keywords share), keywords already covered by one of your articles are flagged before you generate a duplicate, a topic seed can be expanded into keyword suggestions, and you can jump from your Search-query data straight into a cluster run. Cluster runs are now searchable and deletable.
  • Smoother planning: one consistent "generate article" dialog across ideas, trends, briefs and clusters, dismissed ideas and trends can be undone, and the brief list gained search and delete.
  • Better first steps: the onboarding tour now explains credits, the setup checklist matches the tour, and contextual "learn more" links plus a global help entry are available throughout the app.
  • Polish: the article page splits Meta and FAQ into their own tabs and adds quick actions on the cover image, and several dark-mode display issues were fixed.
  • Security hardening (pre-launch audit).
v1.15.3 July 17, 2026
  • rankello now has a public API. Drive the content engine from your own tools and automations (Zapier, n8n, your own scripts): list and create articles, kick off generation, edit titles and content, manage your ideas, projects and writing personas, and publish finished articles to your connected CMS — the same things you do in the dashboard, now programmatically (see /docs/api).
  • Create and manage tokens in the dashboard (user menu → API Tokens): each token belongs to a single workspace and carries only the permissions you grant it, and its secret is shown once on creation. Revoke any token at any time.
  • Available on the Scale and Agency plans, with a fair per-token rate limit. Article generation runs in the background, so you create an article and check back until it's ready.
  • Prefer working inside an AI assistant? rankello now also ships an MCP server — plug it into Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP-compatible agent with one URL and your API token, and your assistant can list, create, edit and publish articles and ideas for you directly. Copy-paste config is on the API Tokens screen.
v1.15.2 July 16, 2026
  • Site audit now covers your whole site, not just the homepage and your articles: it crawls your pages (following your sitemap and internal links) and adds site-wide checks no single page can reveal — duplicate titles and content, broken internal links, orphaned and too-deep pages, and sitemap or security-header issues.
  • New optional deep audit mode: it spends credits (estimate shown up front) to add an E-E-A-T assessment of your key pages and an AI summary with your top issues, quick wins and a step-by-step action plan — shown on the audit page and in the PDF.
  • Trend scans can now run on a cheaper AI tier independently of your article quality, and show their real cost before you start — so daily scans stay affordable.
  • Trend scans no longer fail and waste research when they hit their time limit mid-run — rankello keeps the trends it already found.
v1.15.1 July 16, 2026
  • Two new publishing destinations: Ghost and Webflow. Connect your Ghost publication or a Webflow CMS collection and publish articles just like WordPress — with a connection test, draft-by-default safety, and in-place updates on re-publish so refreshes never pile up duplicates.
  • Both handle your media properly: cover and inline images are rehosted into the destination's own storage (Ghost) or asset manager (Webflow) instead of linking back to rankello, and your SEO title and description are mapped across — Ghost also ships your structured data with the post.
  • Webflow's flexible CMS made easy: the connection form loads your sites, collections and fields live from your account, so you map which fields hold the body, summary, cover and SEO meta by name — no guessing field slugs.
  • New analytics option: connect Matomo as a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics 4. Add your instance URL and a read-only API token, pick the site to track (and optionally a goal to count as a conversion), and your published articles' traffic feeds the same dashboards and performance reports as GA4. GA4 and Matomo are mutually exclusive — one web-analytics source per project.
  • Choose a cheaper image tier: a new "image quality" setting (set once per project, overridable per article) lets you generate AI images with a faster, lower-cost model at roughly half the credit price — with the exact per-image price shown for each tier before you commit.
v1.15.0 July 15, 2026
  • New "Trends" — your trend radar: create up to five watches per project (e.g. "AI & automation"), each with its own scan rhythm from daily to monthly, and an AI researcher sweeps the live web for what's new in that field. Every find becomes a trend card with a summary, verified sources, a relevance score for your project (with reasoning) and a suggested article angle.
  • One click from trend to article: generate an article straight from a trend card, pre-filled with the suggested keyword, angle and content type.
  • Autopilot per watch: automatically turn trends above your relevance threshold into articles — capped per scan as a cost brake — and, if you explicitly enable it, publish them through your publishing integration. Articles that miss a quality gate always wait for your review instead of going live.
  • Stay in the loop your way: choose per watch whether new trends notify you in-app, by e-mail (with the top finds and a direct link to the pre-filtered feed), or not at all for quiet observing.
  • Built for actual freshness: scans know today's date and a hard reporting window, web searches are restricted to recent results, and anything whose sources predate the window is discarded — so a "trend" is never last year's news resurfacing.
  • Manual scans behave properly: "Scan now" shows live progress that survives reloads, never starts the same scan twice, and a scan that can't deliver reports an error on the watch instead of pretending the field was quiet.
  • Trends on your dashboard: a new widget next to the idea backlog shows your six freshest open trends with relevance scores and one-click article generation — so the radar's finds meet you right where you plan your day.
  • Live updates across the app were repaired along the way: freshly generated ideas, knowledge-base build progress and regenerated article images now appear automatically instead of only after a page reload.
  • Article research got a sharper sense of time too: recency requirements for statistics are now judged against the actual current date.
  • New research source (opt-in per project or article): community discourse research. Before writing, rankello can now check what real people discussed about your keyword in the last 30 days on Reddit, Hacker News, X, dev.to and Medium — scored by freshness and engagement, clustered into cross-platform consensus themes, and handed to the writer as a voice-of-customer lens for angles the ranking pages don't cover.
  • The decay radar got smarter about what declining articles actually need: it now tracks organic-click drops (28-day windows) with a severity rating, and recommends the right move per article — refresh the content, fix the title (impressions held but clicks fell — with a shortcut to SEO analytics), consolidate into a stronger sibling, or retire a page that never had demand. Recommendations only; nothing changes without you.
  • Writing personas can now learn your actual writing style: feed them 5-10 of your own texts — finished articles, URLs from your existing blog, or pasted samples — and they distill a voice profile (sentence rhythm, active/passive voice, first-person usage, signature phrases and more) that every generated article then matches. Free and instant, no AI call involved; the learned style shows as chips on the persona card and can be discarded or relearned anytime.
  • New on every finished article: an "AI citation" score — how likely Google AI Overview, Perplexity and ChatGPT are to cite it (0-100 per engine, computed instantly and free), with an expandable factor breakdown per engine and the three highest-impact levers to improve it. Where your knowledge base has already measured real AI citations, the card shows whether your domain is cited there today. The score recomputes automatically after every article edit.
  • Structured-data guidance caught up with Google's May 2026 retirement of FAQ rich results: page audits now rate FAQPage markup as a harmless info note (it still helps AI answer engines read your Q&A) instead of a warning, while fully dead HowTo markup keeps its warning.
  • Audio narration now uses Google's current Gemini 3.1 TTS model by default (the 2.5 generation is legacy) — same voices, same quality tier, kept configurable.
  • Guidance texts caught up with mid-2026 reality: the llms.txt hint now notes that Google itself doesn't use the file, the JavaScript-rendering warning names the AI crawlers that can't see JS-injected content (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot), the page-check's E-E-A-T judge weighs trust first per Google's rater guidance, and the refresh radar explains why fresh updates pay off for AI citations.
  • Under the hood: the JSON-LD schema attached to WordPress publishes is now encoded so that no article content can prematurely terminate the script tag. The SSRF guard protecting all outbound fetches now also checks IPv6 addresses, re-validates every redirect hop, and caps oversized downloads.
v1.14.2 July 15, 2026
  • Pick one visual style for all AI-generated images — photo, illustration, minimal, 3D render, low poly, isometric, watercolor or line art — set once per project and inherited by every article (overridable per piece). The chosen style wins over any photographic phrasing from briefs or your brand profile.
  • New per-article media limits: cap the number of charts, inline images and videos below the defaults, per project or per article — and the credit estimate adapts to a lowered image limit before you start.
  • Fairer plan changes mid-cycle: upgrading now immediately grants the credit difference, prorated over the remaining billing days — no more waiting for the next renewal. Downgrades keep your current balance and simply reset smaller at the next cycle.
  • Inline images and videos are now checked for relevance: stock photos and YouTube videos that don't match their section are skipped instead of inserted, with an AI judge deciding the borderline cases.
  • More accurate performance data: search metrics now treat http/https, www and trailing-slash variants as one page, and content-decay detection compares full 28-day windows instead of single snapshots — so fresh articles are no longer flagged prematurely.
  • Bulk actions for the article list: publish, refresh or translate many articles at once — with one upfront credit check for the whole selection and a clear summary of anything skipped.
  • Choose which e-mails you get: new per-category notification preferences in your profile (article updates, warnings, autopilot, site monitoring). In-app notifications always stay on.
  • The SEO overview gained a comparison-range switcher: measure your KPI changes against 7, 28 or 90 days ago — remembered per project.
  • Articles whose research stayed below the quality floor are now routed to review instead of quietly shipping — you decide whether the sources are good enough.
  • Signing up outside a checkout flow no longer dead-ends on the landing page: you're taken straight into the product, and a new plan-selection page appears when no workspace exists yet.
  • Under the hood: billing webhooks verify signatures more strictly (replay protection), integration credentials can never leak into serialized output, external web content is fenced against prompt injection, and lab performance reports no longer mislabel Time to Interactive as INP.
v1.14.1 July 14, 2026
  • The page check now follows redirects within your own site (like www or language redirects) and analyses the destination page, instead of stopping at the redirect.
  • Page-check and site-audit findings now appear in your own language (English, German or French), and results are grouped into collapsible sections by severity — errors and warnings open, passed checks tucked away.
  • Polished plan selection: monthly billing is the default tab, the yearly tab shows its savings badge, dark mode is readable again, and German/French wording was corrected.
v1.14.0 July 13, 2026
  • New "Page check": analyse any page — yours or a competitor's — on demand and get a 0–100 health score with grade and findings across on-page, technical, structured-data and image checks, plus AI-search (GEO) readiness: AI-crawler access, llms.txt, passage citability and question-style headings.
  • Optional deep analysis on the page check: an AI-writing scan and an E-E-A-T assessment of all four dimensions, each weak spot paired with a concrete fix — plus free signals like named authors, dates and citations. An opt-in JavaScript-render comparison flags content that search engines may never see.
  • New "Site audit": one SEO health score for your whole site — the homepage and all published articles are analysed in the background with live progress, per-category scores and a page-by-page results list. Export the result as a branded, print-ready PDF report.
  • For your own pages, audits are enriched with Google data: real-user Core Web Vitals, whether Google actually indexes the page, and its Search Console and Analytics performance.
  • New "Content brief": for a target keyword, rankello gathers the live search landscape and synthesises an actionable brief — must-cover subtopics, information-gain gaps, a recommended outline, title and meta suggestions and the questions to answer — with one-click article generation from the brief.
  • New "SERP clusters" (opt-in): group your keywords by how much their real Google top-10 results overlap — keywords that share an intent become one cluster, and each cluster can generate a pillar page plus supporting articles in one click.
  • New "Site monitoring": rankello checks your homepage and published articles weekly for SEO-critical changes (title, meta description, canonical, robots, headings, structured data and more) and notifies you of important ones — every change is listed on the new Site monitoring page with before/after values.
  • Recurring e-mail performance reports: a weekly or monthly digest per workspace with KPI trends (clicks, impressions, position, sessions, key events), your biggest ranking winners and losers and your top articles. Choose your cadence — or opt out — in your profile.
  • Audio narration: turn any finished article into a podcast-style audio version. Pick a project-wide narration voice with instant voice previews; the article page gets a player and MP3 download.
  • Social distribution for repurposed content: connect LinkedIn to post the LinkedIn version natively, and send every other format (X thread, newsletter, video script, Instagram carousel) to your own automation tool via a signed webhook — with per-channel status on the article.
  • Ground your articles in your own material: upload PDFs, Word files, text, Markdown, HTML or CSV per project, and the content engine treats them as preferred, name-cited sources during research.
  • Re-publishing an article now updates the existing CMS post in place instead of creating a duplicate — and your manual CMS changes to slug, publish status and categories are preserved. Article slugs stay stable across refreshes.
  • Stronger WordPress publishing: inline images are uploaded to your site's media library, SEO title and description are filled into Yoast/Rank Math, and structured data ships with the post.
  • Title optimizer for underperformers: where real search data shows a low click-through rate, AI proposes three title/description variants — applying one pushes a metadata-only update to the live post.
  • Revision history grew teeth: view a colour-coded before/after diff of any revision and restore it with one click (the current version is saved first, so it's reversible).
  • Optional outline approval: have generation pause after the outline so you can review it, add an instruction and approve — the writer then continues with your note in hand.
  • New accounts now receive a one-time grant of free credits after e-mail verification — enough to build a knowledge base and generate a first article before choosing a plan.
  • Article-list bulk actions (delete or export several articles as one ZIP), a publication-history section on the article page, readable error explanations instead of technical output, a proactive low-credit warning, and the onboarding tour is replayable from the user menu.
  • Article quality got tougher and smarter: the quality gate now sends the writer concrete repair instructions instead of a verdict, German and French get language-calibrated readability and style checks, fact-checking is stricter about unverifiable sources, and drafts are explicitly differentiated against the live top-10 results.
  • Reliability: you're now e-mailed when an autopilot schedule fails or ends or a Google connection is lost, and articles stuck in generation are automatically cancelled with a full credit refund.
v1.13.0 July 12, 2026
  • Full knowledge base: six new areas round out each project — a backlink profile, competitor intelligence with keyword gaps, top-performing pages (from Search Console), a design system (brand colours, fonts and logo), a brand profile with reference photos, and AI-citation sources (Google AI Overview and ChatGPT). Business intelligence now captures 17+ fields, and a new detail modal breaks down your E-E-A-T signals.
  • Your brand now shapes the output: the extracted colours, fonts and reference photos drive generated charts and AI images, guided by an editable, AI-generated brand style guide. You can edit the palette, fonts, logo and brand images by hand at any time.
  • Richer keyword data — seasonal interest curves plus more reliable trend and competitor-gap data — and internal-link crawling is now language-aware with a higher page limit.
  • New Analytics section: an SEO overview page plus a search-queries explorer and content-type performance patterns, once Search Console and Analytics are connected. Google now connects from a single tile on the Integrations page.
  • The performance loop is closed end to end: articles are measured against their published URLs, and real Search Console queries and GA4 engagement/key events feed back into refresh briefs and new topic ideas. A key-event picker lets you choose which GA4 conversion to track.
  • Customer-facing subscription plans and credit top-up packages are live, and annual subscribers now get their credits refilled every month.
  • First-run onboarding: a guided spotlight tour walks new accounts through the app.
  • Dashboard widgets now reflect the project you've selected, and admins can delete articles from the backend.
  • Charts are built from AI-curated datasets for cleaner data, and you can regenerate any chart directly from the article block editor.
  • Polished premium pickers for article settings, content type and persona across the article, schedule and ideas flows — and the article type can now be detected automatically.
  • Topic ideas and suggestions are generated in your project's language, and AI-image alt text and in-image text are localized too (with a cropping fix).
  • Publishing goes further: it posts media metadata and maps taxonomies/categories, and can fan out to multiple targets at once. The article view now reflects its current publish state.
  • Clearer AI-detection scoring with a new "Slight" band, plus landing-page polish (GDPR and AI-labeling FAQ entries, a sticky header and a footer credit).
v1.12.0 July 7, 2026
  • Labeling of AI-generated content (new, on by default): AI-generated images get an "AI" watermark in the bottom-right corner, in line with the EU Code of Practice on AI-generated content. Pick from eight label styles — compact badge or full "AI generated" pill, black or white, opaque or semi-transparent — with a live preview of each variant.
  • New article settings studio per project: set the generation defaults once (AI quality, article length, image sources, structure elements like TOC/tables/charts/FAQ, videos and internal linking) and every new article inherits them; individual articles can still override the ones that make sense per piece. You'll find it under Settings → Articles.
  • Article creation, refresh, regenerate and schedules all honour these settings, and the credit estimate adapts to your choices before you start a run.
  • Staleness detection can now be switched on or off per project.
  • Edit finished articles block by block: rewrite, shorten, expand, simplify or change the tone of any block with AI, regenerate an inline image from an adjusted prompt, and reorder blocks with drag & drop.
  • The full rankello home page is now live, replacing the coming-soon placeholder, with an interactive pipeline demo and accessibility polish.
v1.11.0 July 2, 2026
  • New workspace credits system: AI content generation and keyword research now draw from a shared, cost-based credit balance shown live in the sidebar. Plans refresh your credits each billing cycle, and top-ups are available anytime.
  • Low-balance prompts link straight to plans or top-ups, and credits are automatically refunded if a generation fails.
  • Guided onboarding for workspaces without a plan: a welcome hero on the dashboard plus a dismissable, app-wide banner.
  • Redesigned the dashboard into a workspace cockpit with actionable widgets (review queue, retry center, refresh priorities, autopilot and pipeline monitors) and animated stats.
  • Referrals and rewards moved into the user menu for quicker access.
  • Optional Markdown-driven changelog page (the one you're reading).
v1.10.1 June 30, 2026
  • Research now reuses cached context across its multi-step process, cutting research cost — up to roughly half on research-heavy runs — and cost tracking now reflects the savings.
  • While an article is generating, the article list shows a live completion percentage that updates automatically.
v1.10.0 June 29, 2026
  • Use rankello in English, German or French: switch from the header or the login screen, and your choice is remembered.
  • Article previews and PDF exports now render in the article's own language, including reading time, dates and labels.
  • The article list now shows a cover-image thumbnail for each piece, with a neutral placeholder when none is set.
v1.9.0 June 28, 2026
  • Rebuilt the article page: a live generation-progress view while the article is written, then a premium two-column reading layout with one-click Publish and Retry.
  • New quality panels: an AI-detection score, a quality breakdown with animated gauges, a fact-check card, and a compact generation-log timeline.
  • Edit the SEO title, slug and meta description inline, and open a styled preview of the finished article in a new tab.
  • Writing personas: a card-based studio to create reusable author personas, each with an auto-generated avatar.
  • Recurring "generate" schedules now act as a topic autopilot — each run covers a new angle of your keyword, and the series stops and notifies you once every angle is used.
  • Bell notifications link straight to the relevant article.
v1.8.0 June 26, 2026
  • New Ideas studio: generate content ideas grounded in your project's knowledge base — start from a keyword or let AI suggest, narrow by angle, and choose how many.
  • Curate before you commit: keep the ideas you like or add your own, then pin, edit or dismiss them.
  • Act on a saved idea in one click: generate a full article, open it pre-filled in the editor, or expand it into a whole topic cluster.
  • Bulk-select ideas to generate or schedule them all at once.
v1.7.0 June 25, 2026
  • New dashboard widgets: monthly content output, a content overview (status mix, publishing reach, average quality and refresh needs) and an organic-search performance panel (once Search Console is connected).
  • New Project Data page: a knowledge-base overview with status tiles and a live build progress bar, plus detail views for keywords (difficulty, CPC and seasonal trends), internal links and business intelligence.
  • Manage the knowledge base from one place: build or rebuild it, or refresh a single area; internal links are searchable, editable and exportable, and brand and author details (used in article bylines) are editable inline.
  • Content scheduling now unlocks once the knowledge base is ready.
v1.6.0 June 24, 2026
  • Refresh or rewrite existing articles with up-to-date research, or import content from any URL as a new draft — every refresh keeps a saved revision history.
  • Repurpose a finished article into ready-to-post formats: social posts (LinkedIn, X thread, Instagram carousel), an email newsletter and a video script.
  • Translate an article into other languages in one action, with automatic hreflang linking between the versions.
  • Build hub-and-spoke topic clusters with automatic internal linking, plus a guard that stops two of your own articles competing for the same keyword.
  • Plan your editorial calendar on a month grid with drag-and-drop rescheduling and a searchable table view.
  • Connect Google Search Console and Google Analytics per project to track performance (page speed and Core Web Vitals) and get content-decay alerts when a piece needs refreshing.
v1.5.0 June 23, 2026
  • Generated articles now automatically include relevant inline images (stock photos, with an AI-generated fallback) and quality-ranked YouTube videos.
  • Publish finished articles directly to WordPress, Shopify, Joomla or a custom webhook — in the background with live progress, and always as an unpublished draft first so nothing goes live by accident.
  • A pre-publish integrity check holds an article for review if an embedded image is missing and flags broken external links.
  • In-app bell notifications for article events (ready, needs review, failed).
v1.4.2 June 22, 2026
  • Redesigned and rebranded the rankello landing page with fresh copy and new visuals.
  • New animated hero: gradient headline, glowing product image, a soft animated background and an outlined "Rank #1" badge.
  • Reorganized into themed sections with brand-coloured icons and platform logos; a darker palette across the navigation and footer; and the newsletter block replaced with a "Get started free" call-to-action.
v1.4.1 June 20, 2026
  • Export any finished article as a print-ready PDF — view it inline in a new tab or download it — with charts, cover image and tables rendered faithfully. The PDF is also added to the export ZIP.
  • Charts now stay within their frame: long labels and large numbers are automatically sized to fit, with a safety check that removes any chart that would still overflow.
v1.4.0 June 19, 2026
  • New Publishing Integrations page: connect WordPress, Shopify, Joomla or a custom webhook, add multiple connections, choose a publish target, and test each connection to confirm the credentials work.
  • Reworked article list: filter by status, content type and language, show or hide columns, and see quality at a glance with a colour-coded score badge.
  • Live status icons in the article list (generating, ready, error).
  • Dictate your topic by voice when creating an article, using your browser's built-in speech recognition (no setup required).
  • More reliable article generation, with fixed timeouts on long-running steps.
v1.3.1 June 17, 2026
  • Article generation now runs on a background queue, so creating an article returns immediately instead of hanging on a loading page or timing out.
  • Live per-step progress while an article is generated.
v1.3.0 June 16, 2026
  • Navigation reorganized: workspace-level settings are grouped under a single Settings section, while personal items (orders, subscriptions, payments, account and 2FA) live in the account menu.
  • New Project page to view, edit and delete a project's details, with a project type chosen when you create it.
  • Website projects automatically fetch and display their favicon as the project icon.
  • Delete your account and all associated data yourself, with password confirmation and automatic subscription cancellation.
  • Your workspace credit balance now shows in the sidebar, with a one-click top-up.
v1.2.1 June 15, 2026
  • Deeper article generation: richer outline and writing prompts with a full E-E-A-T structure, and drafts that cite your project's verified authority sources.
  • Tougher quality gate: a fact-checker that opens every cited source to confirm the figures, broader AI-content detection, and stronger scoring — borderline drafts are held for your review instead of shipped.
  • Smarter topic ideas generated from your business profile across multiple angles, enriched with real search-volume and difficulty data.
  • Reworked review screen: a full quality-score breakdown with a fact-check summary, plus one-click regeneration where you tell the writer exactly what to change.
  • Email notifications when an article is ready, needs your review, or fails.
v1.2.0 June 14, 2026
  • Generate complete, SEO- and AI-search-optimized articles from a single keyword: the engine researches the topic, writes the draft and assembles metadata automatically in the background.
  • Grounds every article in your own website: build a per-project knowledge base that crawls your pages for internal links, tracks your ranking keywords, extracts a business profile and collects verified authority sources.
  • Built-in quality gate scores each draft out of 100 (content, SEO, E-E-A-T, technical and AI-citation readiness) with fact-checking and AI-slop detection, and automatically rewrites drafts that fall short or flags them for review.
  • Auto-generated data charts and JSON-LD structured data, with clean, sanitized HTML.
  • Manage everything from a content dashboard with live status and quality-score updates and monthly usage tracking; export finished articles as a self-contained HTML file or a ZIP bundle.
  • Hardened for production with protection against malicious URLs, a dedicated background job queue and automatic retries for transient errors.
v1.1.0 June 13, 2026
  • Multi-project support: create a project for each website — with its own language and country — switch between projects and workspaces from the redesigned sidebar, and set a default. All projects are manageable from the admin backend.
  • Personalize your account: upload and crop your own profile photo, or fall back to a clean initials avatar generated locally with no external service.
  • Redesigned error pages and refreshed logos across the backend.
v1.0.0 June 12, 2026
  • 🎉 First alpha release.