With this update, we bring you some long overdue tweaks to Tact's visual styling and smaller features to make the app more convenient and comfortable to use.

The biggest adjustment you'll see, is a slightly refined and fine-tuned chat layout. We have cleaned it of inconsistencies and made sure each chat message type is now nicely displaying on all devices.

A new little tweak we've added is a Likes popover. When a message has likes, tap on the small text below the message to see who reacted to it, and add or remove your own like.

Among some of the other fixes, you can now long-press on the margins before or below the web link previews in chats to Like or do other actions with them. We also adjusted the haptic feedback when liking a message and added one when you post a message to chat.

If you had a link and text in the same paragraph, there was an extra space towards the link, which are now gone. Some links were corrupted when sharing them in Tact, e.g if they contained percent marks or fragment characters, like Google Docs links. Link sharing now works better and links are no longer corrupted.

When images or files were being downloaded, the UI didn't update correctly after the download was completed. You needed to scroll away and back or switched chats, to "fix" this. Now, the image and file state is correctly updated as soon as the download completes.

Finally, we also reviewed message context menus in chat — they now have icons and are better grouped and ordered.

While these little tweaks might not look like a big thing at first, we are confident they will make your everyday Tact experience easier to follow and more pleasant to look at. Enjoy!

Oh, and on one more important note — Tact now requires macOS Sonoma and iOS 17.