Gemster: Culture & Discovery

About Gemster: Culture & Discovery

WHAT'S NEW Share a work with anyone Recommending no longer stops at your Gemster friends. Every work can now be shared through a link that opens a real page, readable without an account and without installing the app, and opening straight into Gemster if you already have it. You choose what goes with it: your rating, your progress and your note, or nothing at all. Your links stay yours: from "My shared links", strip your details, permanently if you want, from every link already created for that work. They still open the work, without you; to recommend it under your name again, you create a new link. Discussions come alive A new "Discussions" space gathers all your conversations in one place. You can see when your friend is in the thread, when they're typing, and when they've read your message. Answer with a reaction (gem, hamster, heart, sparkles, laugh or anger) copy a message in one tap, and open a shared work's page right from the conversation. Import any library A new CSV import takes your data, wherever it comes from. Start from the simple six-column template, or the detailed one to carry over episodes watched, volumes read, pages, dates, time spent and lists. A step-by-step guide and downloadable examples walk you through it, and you can even have an AI convert an existing spreadsheet using the prompt we provide. A preview shows you every match before you confirm: nothing changes until you say so, and no work is ever picked at random. Progress, down to the essentials Series and reading controls have been redesigned. "I've seen it all" or "I've read it all" catches up every aired episode or published volume in one go, with an exact undo if you got it wrong. Pause a work you've given up on (it leaves your in-progress list and release alerts stop) then pick it back up whenever you feel like it. And if you've ticked "Discovered upon release", each episode or volume joins your history on its own release date, instead of all piling up on today. For games: who can play, and how Game pages now list the available modes: single player, multiplayer, co-op, split screen, MMO, battle royale, and the maximum number of offline players. On the recommendations side, a new "Same screen" filter keeps only games you can play together on one screen, just the thing for an evening with friends. FIXES AND PRIVACY • Clearer profile privacy: private, friends only, or visible to signed-in members, with an explanation of what each level means for your lists • The names of your private friends and their activity are no longer visible • Manga and comics: completion now follows the volumes you've actually read • Session dates and completion dates are saved together • Lists: a first-use tutorial, range selection with Shift + click, and smoother edge scrolling • Sign-up: imports and selection made clearer, and your imported works come pre-ticked at the next step • Light novels are temporarily kept out of recommendations, expeditions included, while we refine how they rank. Only an Echo started from a light novel can still surface them. Nothing else changes: they stay in the catalog, in search and in your library

App privacy

The developer, GEMSTER, reported these privacy practices to Apple.