News & updates released in 2025
New: “edge-to-edge” support for Android 15. This means that all screens will now use the entire vertical space. This gives you more screen real estate to (for instance) view more of your comic list in your main screen!
Fixed:
- Photo / image picker wasn’t able to access all images on the device
- Statistics: changed the color for the value to make it in line with the rest of the app
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for comics without a cover
These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!
New: “edge-to-edge” support for Android 15. This means that all screens will now use the entire vertical space. This gives you more screen real estate to (for instance) view more of your album list in your main screen!
Fixed:
- Photo / image picker wasn’t able to access all images on the device
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for albums without a cover
New: “edge-to-edge” support for Android 15. This means that all screens will now use the entire vertical space. This gives you more screen real estate to (for instance) view more of your game list in your main screen!
Fixed:
- Photo / image picker wasn’t able to access all images on the device
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for games without a cover
New: “edge-to-edge” support for Android 15. This means that all screens will now use the entire vertical space. This gives you more screen real estate to (for instance) view more of your book list in your main screen!
Fixed:
- Photo / image picker wasn’t able to access all images on the device
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for books without a cover
New: “edge-to-edge” support for Android 15. This means that all screens will now use the entire vertical space. This gives you more screen real estate to (for instance) view more of your movie list in your main screen!
Fixed:
- Photo / image picker wasn’t able to access all images on the device
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for movies without a cover
This is CLZ Alwin, writing this January 2025 newsletter from home!
The entire CLZ team has been working fully remote since Jan 1 now and we’re doing great. We’re chatting over Slack and doing lots of Slack huddles and Google Meets when needed. And we have met for lunch with the whole team twice now!
Looking back at the releases for this month and the progress on long running projects, we’re just as productive as we were at the office, while enjoying more freedom and free time. So far so good!
The topics for today’s newsletter:
- CLZ mobile apps:
- CLZ Scanner 2.0: Better barcode scanning / OCR reader for ISBNs
- CLZ Music / Movies / Games: Better barcode scanning
- CLZ Web cloud-based software:
- CLZ Comics Web: Re-design of Pull List feature (and now called “NCBD”)
- CLZ Music Web: Add by Barcode: combine discs into multi-disc album
- Coming up: more “compact” look for CLZ Web
We are currently working on a re-design of the CLZ Web cloud-based software, with a more modern and more “compact” look.
The main goal is to make the user interface (toolbars, etc..) more compact, so that more screen estate is freed up for your actual collection data. More collection items on screen, more folders on screen.
Also, this will make the CLZ Web software more usable on smaller laptop screens.
Today I can show you a sneak preview of the first area we tackled: the Edit screens.
Welcome to this weeks edition of New Comic Book Day.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 6 #6 we follow the reunited brothers while they’re fighting each other, their enemy persuers ánd the hostile environment of their former hometown. The bond between brothers is unbreakable, as the saying goes, however for these four turtles things aren’t looking rosy AT ALL!
Ever wanted to see a collaboration between Spider-Boy and Daredevil, facing off against the combined forces of Spider-Girl and Bullseye? If so then be sure not to miss Spider-Boy, Vol. 1 #15!
Following the success of ThunderCats, Silverhawks is Dynamite Entertainment’s latest reboot. In this first issue, Veteran space policeman Commander Stargazer gets offered the difficult task to create a team of special crime-fighters. As the so-called SilverHawks they try to take on the evil forces of Mon*Star!
Happy Reading!
Fixed:
- Switching between folders would not always refresh the list correctly
- Updated Values screen: when filtering on a Collection Status and then tapping a comic it would show details of a different comic
- Statistics: changed the color for the value to make it in line with the rest of the app
- Adding comics by barcode: on some devices the barcode queue didn’t appear
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for items without a cover
Fixed:
- Adding games by barcode: Multiple results for a barcode: the confirm button wasn’t working
- Tablet: Barcode scanning didn’t work while in landscape orientation
- Switching between folders would not always refresh the list correctly
- Adding games by barcode: on some devices the barcode queue didn’t appear
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for items without a cover
Fixed:
- Tablet: Barcode scanning didn’t work while in landscape orientation
- Switching between folders would not always refresh the list correctly
- Adding albums by barcode: on some devices the barcode queue didn’t appear
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for items without a cover
Fixed:
- Viewing Dates for episodes would sometimes fill with a wrong date
- Tablet: Barcode scanning didn’t work while in landscape orientation
- Switching between folders would not always refresh the list correctly
- Adding movies by barcode: on some devices the barcode queue didn’t appear
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for items without a cover
Fixed:
- Tablet: Barcode scanning didn’t work while in landscape orientation
- Switching between folders would not always refresh the list correctly
- Adding books by ISBN: on some devices the barcode queue didn’t appear
- Side menu: Refreshed background colors at the top
- Details panel: Updated placeholder cover for items without a cover
These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!
Today we bring you a nice improvement for Adding Albums by Barcode.
Sometimes, when you scan the barcode of a multi-disc album, you only find the discs listed separately in the results. Annoying, because you of course want one album entry, with multiple discs. And now you can!
You can now checkbox the found discs to combine them int a multi-disc album! You can do so by clicking on the little < dropdown icon to "show all the found discs", and checkbox the discs you wish to include in your multi-disc album: Read more
Welcome to this weeks edition of New Comic Book Day.
In Catwoman, Vol. 5 #72 we see Selina dealing with her multiple identities ánd a ruthless oligarch on Eastern European soil at the same time. These things combined make for a very exciting wrap of the current arc.
With Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1 Marvel Comics gives us the duo you never knew you needed. Leave it up to the legendary J. Michael Straczynski to create an exciting, emotional ánd funny one-shot story.
In TVA #2 we follow Gwen, Peggy and alternate versions of Gambit and Wolverine to find out what is going on with the panic attacks and hallucinations reported by people all around the Multiverse. We find out this leads them to the Son of Satan himself. Be ready for one Hell-of-a-good issue!
Happy Reading!
These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!
Our CLZ Scanner app was launched in Feb 2023. Since then, there have been several improvement to the built-in barcode scanners in the actual CLZ cataloging apps, so we figured it was time to bring all those enhancements to CLZ Scanner. Resulting in this big 2.0 update!
Reminder: What is CLZ Scanner?
CLZ Scanner is our free barcode scanner app, for use with the CLZ Web web-based software. You can use the CLZ Scanner app on your phone, to scan barcodes with your phone and send the scanned barcodes to the Barcode queue in the Add screen of the CLZ Web software on your computer.
The scanned barcodes can either be sent to the CLZ Web software instantly while you scan, OR you can opt to scan barcodes into CLZ Scanner’s own queue while offline, and then later sync the entire queue to the CLZ Web software.
In other words, CLZ Scanner is a barcode scanner app, nothing more, nothing less, it is not a cataloging app like our other five CLZ apps. All it does is scan barcodes into a queue and then sync that queue to the CLZ Web software. The actual adding to your database is done there, in the CLZ Web software on your computer.
What’s new in CLZ Scanner 2.0?
For scanning to the Add screen of CLZ Music Web, CLZ Movies Web, CLZ Games Web and CLZ Books Web we made the following improvements:
- Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
- New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
- For books: Scan screen now also “reads” actual ISBN numbers using OCR
- For comics: Better scanning of barcode extensions: no more AUTO/EXT toggle!
Welcome to New Comic Book Day!
This week sees the release of a brand new comic series starring Anna Marie LeBeau aka Rogue. In #1 of Rogue: The Savage Land Rogue has to rely on her most basic skills to endure the threats of the Savage Land and all its inhabitants, ranging from dangerous dinosaurs to the malicious Magneto himself.
Batman / Superman: World’s Finest, Vol. 2 #35 sees Batman, Superman and Robin starring in an intriguing new story arc. They team up with Aquaman in order to keep peace to the Atlantean kingdom. But things aren’t what they seem underwater and The King of Atlantis seems to struggle with a mysterious secret. If you are longing to experience a solid spy thriller this week, look no further than G.I. Joe, Vol. 1 (Image) #3. Tensions rise between Duke and brand new member Risk and cooperation is key in order to stand against the evil forces of Cobra.
Happy Reading!
Today is New Comic Book Day, so the perfect day to release the new NCBD feature for your trusted Add Comics screen! We bring you a completely redesign of the Pull List tab, you know, the rightmost tab of Add Comics. At the same time, we are renaming the tab to “NCBD” as we figured that this was a better fit of what the feature does, especially after today’s complete redesign.
Here’s what’s new:
- In the Add Comics screen, the fourth tab is now called “NCDB” (previously “Pull List”)
- Navigate over weeks with next/previous arrows, or click on the week/date for a dropdown
- Release list now directly shows the issues, as a Card View with big images
- Click on an issue to see all its variants
- New: filter by “#1’s” to show all #1 issues (so all new series)
- Sort issue list by Popularity or Alphabetically
To try the new NCDB tool for yourself, open the Add Comics screen, then choose the 4th tab called “NBCD”!
These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!
Fixed:
- Add Games by barcode: the add button could show the wrong number of games that were about to be added
Adding games by scanning barcodes is THE most important feature of the app, so we will never stop trying to make the barcode scanner better and better 🙂
In today’s 9.5 update, we bring three improvements to the barcode scanner:
- Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
- New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
- New Type Barcode tab for manual barcode entry and support for external USB/BT scanners
Adding movies by scanning barcodes is THE most important feature of the app, so we will never stop trying to make the barcode scanner better and better 🙂
In today’s 9.6 update, we bring three improvements to the barcode scanner:
- Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
- New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
- New Type Barcode tab for manual barcode entry and support for external USB/BT scanners