Black Ink 2.3.2 for Mac is now available on the Black Ink site and on the Mac App Store. Black Ink 2.1.2 for iOS is now available on the iOS App Store.

These updates include a number of usability fixes and add two new puzzle sources: Lex’s Puzzles, and Lex’s Minis. These are the puzzles of Lex Friedman, who publishes crossword puzzles as well as a number of other games at Lex.games. Lex’s Minis are free for anybody to download and solve, while Lex’s Puzzles (full-sized 15×15) require a Lex.games subscription.

Here are the changes that apply to both iOS and Mac updates:

• New puzzle sources: Lex’s Minis and Lex’s Crosswords
• Improved the accuracy of overlay image drawing over puzzle grid
• Attempting to check or reveal answers on puzzles with no answers now displays an explanatory alert

• Now supports entering a hyphen or a period as a special entry answer

These changes are specific to the Mac update:

• Fixed the drawing of overlay image drawing in printed puzzles
• Improve performance when opening the puzzle chooser when it has to search many years for an unsolved puzzle
• Now adapts the window size more precisely when screen resolution changes
• Fix a glitch that caused the Puzzle Notes text to no longer fit in the popover when detached from window
• Puzzle chooser now ensures the selected source name is visible

• Fix an issue that caused excessive memory when opening and closing many puzzles

And these are specific to the iOS and Vision Pro update:

• Fix a crash that could occur when using a mouse on iPad and selecting the “Enter Special Answer” button
• Fix a bug that caused Restore Purchases to erroneously show “Lifetime Unlock” as purchased
• When a very long clue is displayed, make sure the corresponding space in the puzzle is scrolled into view
• Added a close button to NYT authentication panel

If you enjoy Black Ink, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, and spreading the word on Facebook or other social networks.

MarsEdit 5.1.4 is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted to the Mac App Store.

This update addresses a few issues introduced in the 5.1.3 release, and adds a couple more enhancements:

• Restore functionality of Safari App Extension toolbar button
• Restore pretty-printing of XMLRPC Network Log events
• Large binary upload data such as images are now abbreviated in the Network Log
• Several fixes to the appearance and behavior of the “+” and gear buttons in the main window
• Hyphens, dashes and underscores are now considered as word separators when inferring alt text from filenames

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook, other social networks, or of course, by writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

MarsEdit 5.1.3 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store.

This update contains a small number of relatively minor, yet important improvements:

• Avoid a flicker that could occur when switching between blogs in the main window with dark mode enabled
• Fix a bug that caused the MarsEdit icon to bounce in the dock when setting ALT text in Micropost panel
• Fix the background color when scrolling the plain text editor beyond the top or bottom of the post
• No longer display an error when refreshing a WordPress blog and only one post type is not permitted to download
• Rich text editor now cleans up invalid characters that are pasted into it
• Fix a crash that could occur when a blog post has a

If you enjoy MarsEdit, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the Mac App Store, spreading the word on Facebook, other social networks, or of course, by writing about the app on your own blog! Thanks for your support.

Updates to Black Ink for Mac an iOS are now available. Download for iOS from the App Store, and for Mac from the Black Ink site or the Mac App Store.

Black Ink 2.1 for iOS introduces all-new native support for Apple Vision Pro, featuring a streamlined interface tuned to the “glass” look and feel of the platform:

The iOS version, as well as Black Ink 2.3 for Mac, now support the graphical overlays that are included in certain New York Times puzzles. Sometimes these images drive home a theme or are useful hints for solving the puzzle. And sometimes they’re just pretty:

Both updates come with a variety of other improvements. Here is the list of changes shared by both releases:

• Support for puzzles that specify graphical overlays on the puzzle
• Support for puzzles that specify multiple correct answers for a given square
• Blank answers that are correct are now treated as such

iOS-Specific Changes:

• Native Apple Vision Pro support
• Keyboard shortcuts are now shown as expected when holding the Command key down on keyboard
• Improvements to the appearance and behavior of the in-app purchase interface
• Now supports keyboard shortcuts for Enter Special Answer (Cmd-Opt-M) and Clear Word (Cmd-Delete)

Mac-Specific Changes:

• Now requires macOS 10.15.4 or later
• Small adjustments to size and layout of puzzle title and copyright
• Fix a bug that caused puzzles to close without being saved in some cases

If you enjoy Black Ink, please consider writing a review or rating the app on the App Store, the Mac App Store, and spreading the word on Facebook or Twitter! Thanks for your support.