Changelog

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Support for Instagram version 445.0.0
• Active status and typing updates work again on 445, which renamed the realtime presence callback
• The reels viewer comment bar is back to its proper size on 445
• Sideloaded installs: downloading, converting and trimming media work again. AltStore and SideStore only re-sign frameworks directly inside the app bundle, so the FFmpeg frameworks moved into Sparkle.bundle in v1.3.0 kept an ad-hoc signature and failed to load
• FFmpeg frameworks now carry Sparkle's own spk.* names, so they can never replace the libavutil and libavcodec frameworks Instagram ships
• About shows the app's real bundle identifier instead of Instagram's

✨ What's new?

• Support for Instagram version 444.0.0

Languages

• Sparkle is now translated into 16 more languages, downloaded from the release page and imported in Settings as language packs
• Import several packs at once from the Files picker, see each one's coverage in the list, and remove one with a swipe
• A pack overrides a shipped catalog of the same language, so a translator can preview their corrections on device
• New Help Translate entry and a contributor guide for anyone who wants to improve a language

Interface

• Tab Editor: the launch tab, icon order, swipe behavior, per-tab hiding and messages-only mode collapse into one screen that stages the whole bar with a live preview and applies it in a single action
• Saved is its own tab entry now rather than a Reels replacement, borrowing a hidden tab's slot in the custom layout
• Hiding the tab bar generalizes from messages-only to any single-tab configuration, and is refused where it would leave no way into Sparkle settings
• App Font: import an .otf, .ttf or .ttc and set both Instagram and Sparkle in it, previewed face by face with alphabet and figure lines before you pick

Stories

• Hide Recent Highlights: resurfaced highlights are dropped from the tray, from tapping forward, and from swiping sideways, since all three read a different list
• Filter your viewer list (Don't Follow You / You Follow / You Don't Follow / Starred) and star the people you look for
• Mention Count Badge: how many unique accounts a story mentions, redacted along with the glyph by Hide UI on Capture
• Story Audio Button: mute or unmute a story from the viewer, restoring the previous audio state on close so Feed and Reels stay isolated

Messages

• Activity notifications: online, offline, typing and read events from tracked users, with per-account lists, group-aware context and their own settings page
• Audio and upload rows expand as native submenus instead of opening an action sheet over the thread
• Look up a GIF's real name and channel from the comment and Direct menus (off by default, since each uncached lookup tells giphy.com which GIF is on screen)

Instants

• Confirm a recorded video before Instagram sends it, with the camera feed preserved if you cancel. Photo instants remain unsupported
• Toggle instant auto-save for an account straight from the action menu, which also saves the instant already on screen

Media

• Select Text in Photos: Sparkle's own select-text button and Copy All capsule replace VisionKit's, with real Liquid Glass on iOS 26 and the info overlay stepping aside while text is highlighted

Reels

• Hide Viewer Comment Bar: removes the bottom comment field from the reels viewer

Settings

• Contextual information sheets opened from section headers, in place of long footers, and included in settings search
• Sparkle's own lists use Instagram's follow control, gaining the Requested and Follow back states the previous two-state button could not express

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Rootful packages install to /Library again. A makefile variable overrode the build environment, so both build paths produced rootless packages and the "rootful" debs in v1.1.0 and v1.2.0 unpacked to /var/jb
• Inbox seen menu and message preview unlock work again on Instagram 442, which ships a second inbox controller behind a server experiment
• The reels header hides again on the navigation bar the viewer actually uses, and comes back when the preference is turned off instead of staying gone until relaunch
• Explore and recent-search hiding repaired
• Reels opened from a profile scroll freely instead of hitting the doom-scroll cap, which now applies only to the Reels home and tab feeds
• Stories get marked as seen again
• A story no longer lists the same account several times over on a reshare, and follow state is no longer read off a localized button title
• Fixed a crash around message reactions
• Gallery backups that need a schema migration import again, including pre-rename stores. The backup file itself is never modified
• Gallery import rows update when a thumbnail finishes off screen, and retry after a render that came back empty
• Clearing finished download history is scoped to the current account
• Unfollowing asks for confirmation again now that the follow controller moved to Swift, and every prompt is worded from the account's actual state instead of announcing an unfollow as a follow
• Instants act on the media actually on screen, and keep their expanded order across sessions
• Notifications reach the right account on sideloaded multi-account installs instead of arriving generic or claiming the account is logged out
• Uploaded audio shows its real waveform instead of a static pattern
• Copied links no longer carry the igsi tracking parameter
• FFmpeg frameworks are signed correctly for each output path, and bundle resources resolve per file so encoding still works on development installs
• Bundled resources stay readable when the package is installed as root

✨ What's new?

• Support for Instagram version 441.0.0

Gallery

• Import media into the Gallery from Files or a Regram Media Vault, with editable metadata and paste-link autofill
• Show Files From Subfolders: browse the whole Gallery in one grid/list without opening a folder
• Saved posts and reels open on their own page over the Gallery, instead of resolving into the feed and costing you your place
• Sort, filter and scoped search (This Folder / All Folders) in the Gallery picker, plus proper empty states
• Pinch to zoom into videos in the full-screen preview

Editors

• Crop, pan/zoom, rotate and flip a video's framing, applied in the same pass as the trim rather than a second encode
• Drag inside the trim selection to slide it along the timeline, and drag away from the track to scrub at 1/2, 1/4 or 1/10 speed

Instants

• Upload a photo or video as an instant, from Photos, Files or the Gallery
• Browse the instants you've saved, grouped by person, from a new camera view button

Downloads

• Auto-save stories, view-once DM media and instants to the Gallery or Photos as you view them, with per-surface allow lists
• Refined photo quality tiers (Max / High / Medium / Low) with 4K web fetching
• Save Photos-destination downloads into a custom album

Messages

• Refined messages-only mode: hide the other tabs, prevent the camera swipe, and reach Settings from the inbox header
• See message previews by long-pressing a chat (Instagram Plus)
• Hide the flag button in messages

Stories

• Use videos as story stickers, picked from Photos or the Sparkle Gallery
• Story action buttons match the native header's EDR tint on HDR content

Feed & Profile

• Profiles open as a real Instagram push, with Instagram's own spring animation and swipe-back from anywhere
• Profile Analyzer: swipe to delete a single logged change
• Profile Analyzer: changes group as Latest / Previous by scan boundary, so they stop moving the moment you look at them
• Reels action button uses HDR when needed

Interface & General

• See a post's date in the action button menu
• Reels doom-scroll and limits options are now available in global settings

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed a long-standing freeze that made the whole app crawl after navigating a few screens deep
• Much faster Gallery: opening an item is instant, picker scrolling is smooth, and photos are no longer retained for the session
• Notifications on sideloaded installs arrive right away instead of up to a minute late and no longer duplicate
• Story preview and inbox refresh work again on the latest Instagram
• Instants download and auto-save at full resolution instead of a screen-sized re-encode
• Poll vote counts are now redacted by Hide UI on Capture
• Safe Mode now explains why it turned on, and offers to turn itself off
• Injected nav buttons now adopt the live effect from Instagram's own glass bubble instead of approximating it with a guessed tint, so they blend in far better
• Failed encodes report the actual reason instead of dumping the log into the pill
• Duplicate detection now applies to video thumbnails
• Expanding a story opens the item that is actually on screen
• The Seen button stays pinned above the composer when a GIF or sticker tray opens
• DM thread names resolve outside the thread view controller, so lists no longer show "Unknown Chat"
• Missing header button in messages-only mode on 410.1.0
• Keychain access groups and bundle identity normalized for duplicate app sideloading
• The in-app browser no longer crashes when copying text
• Settings import parses ZIP64 archives, so exports rezipped by macOS or Files work
• Various UI polish: glass button tinting, notification pill handling & more

✨ What's new?

• Support for Instagram version 438.0.0

Messages

• Action button for media shared in chats (download/save from the DM media viewer)
• Last-active timestamps in chats, with device-aware time/date formatting
• Auto-mark seen when you start typing
• Choose where the Seen button sits, and nudge it aside to peek

Stories

• Search your story viewer list
• Peek stories without appearing on the viewer list (Instagram Plus)
• Hide Instagram Plus button in story viewer list

Feed & Profile

• Feed header shortcut to Gallery, Profile Analyzer & more
• Subtle following indicator on profiles (icon, text or both)
• Clear visited profiles in Profile Analyzer, plus a polished dashboard & empty states

Interface & General

• Metadata overlay on expanded photos
• Pill-shaped tab bar on iOS 18 and earlier
• Optional haptics when opening settings
• Reset any configurable settings group back to its defaults
• New multi-step first-run onboarding and What's New sheet

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

• Sharper video downloads on the default encoding preset
• Cleaned-up links no longer escape special characters
• No more duplicate comment-like confirmations
• Clearing download history now reclaims its storage
• Action buttons & enhanced media resolution are on by default
• TestFlight popup hidden by default (toggle hidden on jailbroken installs)
• Reset All Settings is now scoped per account
• Nav buttons now appear correctly on iOS 15
• Menu icons render correctly on iOS 16
• Various UI polish: notification pill spacing, profile title clamping & more

Initial release.