Changelog
What's new at NovaScope.io
Every update since we started building, in one place — grouped by week, written for the people using it rather than the people shipping it.
v1.1.0
Sep 13
Quality of life improvements
- Improved
More detailed 30-day plans. The 30-day plan in every report now breaks the work into day-by-day steps sized to what was actually found on your site, each with a clear way to check that it's done.
- New
Autofill for new audits. Starting a new audit now fills in your business details automatically from your website, so you don't have to type them all in by hand.
- Improved
Free visibility check. Your free check results can now be emailed to you, and you can rerun the check straight from that email, including from your phone.
- New
Cookie preferences. Added a page where you can review and change your cookie and privacy choices at any time, linked from the footer.
- Improved
More relevant audit questions. The questions used to test AI visibility are now tailored to your specific type of business instead of generic wording.
- Improved
Booking a demo. Booking a demo now opens straight into a calendar instead of a separate scheduling step.
- Fixed
Fixed an issue where some emails, including free check results, weren't always being delivered.
- Fixed
Cleaned up spacing and sizing across the header and mobile menu.
v1.0.0
Aug 31
NovaScope V1 is here
- New
Prioritized action plans. Every audit now turns critical gaps into a focused list of evidence-backed next steps, ordered by severity and impact on site access.
- New
Accountable remediation. Assign an owner and due date to each task, track progress, and clearly distinguish manual confirmation from a fresh audit.
- Improved
Client-ready reporting. Reports and PDF or Word exports now lead with the executive summary and highest-priority actions before the detailed findings.
- New
Editorial visual redesign. A new visual system — typography, color, and interface styling — now runs across the marketing site, dashboard, and admin tools.
- Improved
Pricing page. Reworked the pricing card layout for clearer plan and feature comparison.
- Improved
Header and navigation. Refined header actions, made the theme toggle and language switcher available on mobile, and removed a redundant homepage demo button.
- Improved
Page load performance. Faster initial loads across marketing and app pages, with loading states added and third-party scripts deferred until after the page is interactive.
v0.9.1
Aug 29
A community feedback board
- New
Public feedback board. The Feedback page is now a shared board where anyone can post feature ideas, share what they like, flag rough edges, and vote on the suggestions that matter most.
- New
Open discussion. Every feedback post supports comments so customers and visitors can add context, compare use cases, and build on an idea together.
- Improved
Your choice of identity. Visitors can post anonymously, while signed-in customers can choose whether to use their account identity or stay anonymous for each post and comment.
v0.9.0
Aug 24
Smarter Answer Engine audits
- Improved
Better discovery scenarios. Answer Engine questions now follow the customer journey across brand trust, market recommendations, problem and solution fit, service use cases, cost and alternatives, and decision intent.
- Improved
More relevant question generation. Suggestions preserve specific services, recognize online and worldwide markets correctly, adapt to hire, buy, or visit behavior, and avoid generic keyword variations and invented claims.
- Improved
Actionable optimization guidance. Each intent cluster now explains what it measures and how to turn repeated citation misses into stronger, evidence-backed content that can be retested against the same scenarios.
- Improved
Clearer audit workspace. Overview keeps a compact visibility snapshot, while the full Citation Index, intent-cluster analysis, and engine breakdown now live in Answer Engine.
v0.8.0
Aug 24
Growth intelligence and remediation
- New
Native site crawl. Audits can now inspect sitemap pages for broken responses, redirects, orphan candidates, noindex directives, missing canonicals, and crawl depth without requiring a Screaming Frog upload.
- New
Growth Insights. A new audit workspace brings together AI sentiment drivers, topic-level citation rates, competitor conversation share, featured-snippet and People Also Ask readiness, crawler governance, schema opportunities, and form QA.
- New
Remediation workflow. Turn findings into persistent tasks and move them through Open, In progress, Ready to verify, and Verified states.
- Improved
Richer reports and scoring. The new crawl, answer-feature, crawler-policy, schema, and conversion findings now feed technical scores and white-label report exports.
v0.7.0
Aug 24
First-party search performance data
- New
Performance integrations. Connect Google Search Console, GA4, Google Business Profile, Chrome UX Report, Common Crawl, Wikidata, and IndexNow from an encrypted workspace configuration.
- New
Data freshness and connection health. The dashboard now shows source status, last successful sync, records collected, setup errors, and honest limited-access states instead of placeholder metrics.
- Improved
Search opportunities. Search Console syncs now identify meaningful queries ranking in positions 4–20 and surface them as quick wins on the dashboard.
v0.6.0
Aug 24
A clearer command center
- Improved
Dashboard redesign. Rebuilt the workspace dashboard around visibility coverage, category scores, trends, top opportunities, recent audits, AI visibility, competitor context, and delivery health.
- Fixed
Answer-engine batch resilience. Rate limits and exhausted provider quotas now stop affected work cleanly and show concise provider-specific notices instead of flooding the audit with repeated failure text.
- Fixed
Light and dark readability. Corrected theme-aware navigation, headings, contact copy, feature cards, workflow steps, and pricing text across the public site.
v0.5.0
Aug 23
Delete your own account
- New
Self-service account deletion. You can now permanently delete your own account from Settings — type your email, type DELETE, and confirm your password. We cancel any active Care renewal in Stripe first so you're never billed again, then remove your workspace, audits, reports, and API keys.
v0.4.0
Aug 23
Accessibility, referral rules, and a billing fix
- New
Accessibility toolbar. Added an on-page accessibility widget site-wide, letting visitors adjust contrast, text size, and other display settings to fit their needs.
- Fixed
Letting NovaScope Care lapse no longer blocks you from running audits or re-scans — that was a bug. Lapsed Care now only means you stop getting product updates and priority support, exactly as the Terms of Service describe.
- Improved
Referral eligibility. Referrers must now be a paying, active customer who has gone live and run at least one audit before a commission is approved, and commissions hold for 90 days after the referred purchase before payout.
- Improved
Clarified our support response times: priority support (included with active Care) targets 24 hours, standard support targets 48–72 hours.
v0.3.0
Aug 22
Easier ways to reach us
- New
Contact Us menu. The header now has a single Contact Us dropdown with General Inquiry, Feedback, and Help Center, replacing the separate Feedback and Support links.
- Improved
The footer now links straight to this Changelog in place of FAQ, Features, and How it Works, which stayed on the main nav.
v0.2.0
Aug 22
Refer a friend
- New
Referral program. Share your personal link — anyone who buys a license through it gets 10% off, and you earn a 10% commission once their purchase goes through.
- New
Referral dashboard. Track who you've referred and what you've earned right from Settings.
v0.1.0
Aug 22
Multi-language support
- New
NovaScope.io is now available in Spanish and French.
- New
A language switcher now lives in the header on every page, and at the top of the mobile menu.
v0.0.4
Aug 20–21
Support, onboarding, and content
- Improved
Contact, Support, and Feedback messages now reach our team directly by email.
- New
Team and Agency plans can book an onboarding call with us directly from setup.
- Improved
Expanded FAQ, now on the main navigation and previewed on the homepage.
- Improved
Refreshed homepage messaging for agencies, local businesses, and in-house teams.
- New
Import a Screaming Frog crawl CSV straight into an audit.
v0.0.3
Aug 19
Stay in the loop
- New
Added a newsletter signup for product updates and local SEO tips.
v0.0.2
Aug 17–18
Live chat, accessibility, and findability
- New
Added live chat, so you can reach support without leaving the page you're on.
- Fixed
Accessibility issues on the homepage header and feature checklist.
v0.0.1
Aug 16
Pricing page polish
- Improved
Each license tier's Care support plan is now paired directly beside it on Pricing, instead of separated out.
- Improved
Checkout confirmation now includes a direct line to support.
v0.0.0
Aug 12–15
Building NovaScope.io
- New
Hosted workspace. NovaScope.io launched as a hosted, multi-tenant workspace with Stripe-powered checkout for Solo, Team, and Agency licenses.
- New
Answer Engine Audits. Added audits for how a business is cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, alongside the existing site, local, and NAP checks.
- New
Team workspaces. Buyer workspaces are fully isolated, and Team and Agency plans can invite teammates into one shared workspace.
- New
Sample audit. Added a watermarked sample report on How it Works so buyers can see the report shape before they buy.
Questions about anything here? Contact support or find us on the FAQ page.