Changelog & Release Notes

Toolrip grows in small, frequent steps — a new tool here, a content refresh there, a bug fix the next day. This page is a running record of everything we ship, from the September 2025 launch to today. Entries are newest-first.

🚀 Launch ✨ Feature 🐛 Fix 📝 Content 🔧 Update
2026-05-15 v1.9.5 📝 Content

New strength-training guide, refreshed running & BMI tools

  • Published "Strength Training for Runners: Why It Matters More Than You Think" by Sarah Williams — drawing on her Villanova-era femoral-neck stress reaction and a decade of coaching recreational runners through their first real lifting programs.
  • Added the article to Sarah's author page and cross-linked it from the running-pace, heart-rate, calorie, and BMI tool pages.
  • Added a "Last reviewed by Sarah Williams on May 15, 2026" line to the running-pace and BMI calculator tool pages to signal active editorial maintenance.
2026-05-08 v1.9.2 📝 Content

Two new guides, evergreen content review

  • Published "Understanding APR vs APY: Why the Numbers Are Different" by David Park — covers the formula, the credit-card disclosure gap, and real client mistakes.
  • Published "Why Your JSON Parser Is Slower Than It Should Be" by Marcus Chen — drawing on a 2019 webhook-service postmortem and the specific patterns that move the needle in production.
  • Reviewed and refreshed three evergreen pieces (compound interest, regex, BMI) for accuracy and updated their lastmod dates.
2026-04-27 v1.8.5 📝 Content

New guide: reading a loan amortization schedule

  • Published "When to Use a Loan Amortization Schedule (And How to Read One)" by David Park, with concrete month-by-month examples and a refinance case study.
  • Cross-linked the article from the mortgage, APR, loan comparison, and debt payoff tools.
2026-04-18 v1.8.0 📝 Content

Fifteen educational blog posts and cross-linked tool pages

  • Published fifteen long-form guides covering JSON best practices, mortgage amortization math, password entropy, and CSS gradient theory.
  • Added contextual cross-links from every tool page to the relevant blog post, and vice versa, to help readers go deeper without hunting through the catalog.
  • Submitted the updated sitemap to Google Search Console.
2026-04-05 v1.7.2 🔧 Update

Diversified page structure across all 100 tools

  • Rewrote the supporting sections on every tool page so no two pages share the same structural template — addressing reader feedback and AdSense content-quality guidance.
  • Introduced category-specific "use cases" and "common mistakes" blocks tailored to finance, developer, health, and design tools.
2026-03-22 v1.7.0 📝 Content

E-E-A-T signals, expert tips, and external citations

  • Added byline-level author attribution, expert commentary, and real-world use-case boxes to every tool page.
  • Linked every factual claim in health and finance tools to a primary source (WHO, CDC, CFPB, IRS, NIST).
  • Published a new Editorial Policy page documenting review standards.
2026-03-08 v1.6.0 ✨ Feature

Methodology page and calculation transparency

  • Launched the Methodology page explaining the formula and reference source behind every calculator.
  • Added a "How this calculator works" expandable section to the top twenty finance and health tools.
2026-02-19 v1.5.3 🐛 Fix

Mortgage calculator rounding and timezone converter DST

  • Fixed a rounding error in the mortgage amortization schedule that produced a one-cent discrepancy on the final payment for loans with non-integer interest rates. Reported by a reader; thank you.
  • Corrected the timezone converter's handling of March and November DST transitions for the US Eastern zone.
2026-02-01 v1.5.0 ✨ Feature

Ten new SEO tools

  • Added meta tag generator, Open Graph previewer, sitemap generator, robots.txt tester, structured data validator, and five more to the SEO category.
  • All SEO tools run client-side and respect the same no-data-stored guarantee as the rest of the catalog.
2026-01-24 v1.4.1 🐛 Fix

JSON formatter large-file performance

  • Replaced the recursive pretty-printer in the JSON formatter with an iterative implementation, cutting parse time on 10 MB inputs from roughly 4 seconds to under 600 ms.
  • Added a file-size warning banner for inputs over 25 MB.
2026-01-10 v1.4.0 📝 Content

Design category launched with color theory guide

  • Opened the Design category with ten tools: color picker, gradient generator, box shadow creator, font pair previewer, contrast checker, and more.
  • Published a long-form color theory guide covering hue, saturation, lightness, accessibility contrast ratios, and practical palette construction.
2025-12-29 v1.3.2 🔧 Update

Privacy policy and cookie consent refresh

  • Rewrote the Privacy Policy in plain language and aligned it with the latest IAB Transparency and Consent Framework.
  • Deployed a region-aware cookie consent banner for EU, UK, and Brazil visitors.
2025-12-18 v1.3.0 ✨ Feature

Fifteen finance calculators added

  • Shipped mortgage calculator, compound interest, loan amortization, auto loan, credit card payoff, retirement savings, ROI, inflation adjuster, tip calculator, and six more.
  • All finance formulas verified against CFPB and Federal Reserve published examples.
2025-12-02 v1.2.1 🐛 Fix

Regex tester Safari flag handling

  • Fixed a bug where the regex tester silently ignored the d (hasIndices) flag on Safari versions below 16.4.
  • Added a graceful fallback that disables the flag and shows a version-notice message instead of failing silently.
2025-11-20 v1.2.0 ✨ Feature

Health & fitness category — twelve new tools

  • Added BMI calculator, calorie counter, body fat estimator, macro calculator, ideal weight, water intake, pace calculator, and five more.
  • All health tools reviewed against WHO, CDC, and ACSM published guidelines.
2025-11-02 v1.1.5 📝 Content

JWT guide by Marcus Chen

  • Published a 3,000-word guide on JSON Web Tokens — structure, signing, verification, common pitfalls — by guest contributor Marcus Chen.
  • Linked the guide from the JWT decoder tool for reader context.
2025-10-05 v1.1.0 ✨ Feature

Blog launched with first developer guide

  • Opened the Toolrip blog with an opening article on "Ten Browser Utilities Every Developer Wishes They'd Known Sooner."
  • Established RSS feed and article archive at /blog.
2025-09-28 v1.0.2 🐛 Fix

Mobile layout and clipboard polyfill

  • Fixed a viewport overflow issue that caused tool inputs to extend off-screen on iPhone SE and other narrow devices.
  • Added a clipboard polyfill for browsers that do not yet support navigator.clipboard.writeText.
2025-09-22 v1.0.1 🔧 Update

Legal pages and ads.txt

2025-09-15 v1.0.0 🚀 Launch

Initial release with 20 free tools

  • Toolrip launched publicly with an initial catalog of twenty tools across developer, text, conversion, math, datetime, and security categories.
  • Deployed to Cloudflare Pages behind a wildcard *.toolrip.com DNS, with every tool served as a standalone single-file HTML subdomain.
  • Shipped the shared dark-mode CSS theme, category accent colors, and baseline SEO metadata across all pages.