Version 2.2.1 adds a Seasonal theme that follows your system appearance and brings Halloween styling throughout October. On October 31, Nolo has a small surprise for you. You can also hide compatible site suggestions and restore them from Settings.

Nowly 2.2.0 brings an enriched presence library, detailed presence pages, improved language controls, new diagnostics, and a refreshed onboarding experience.

Highlights:

• Enriched Library with search, categories, trending presences, Popular/New/A-Z sorting, release dates, New badges, and management actions for installed presences.
• Detailed presence pages with stats, likes, settings, temporary snoozing, schedules, release/update dates, author GitHub links, and issue reporting.
• Drag-and-drop priority ordering when multiple tabs are active, with sharing controls for each tab.
• 11 interface languages with flags, plus per-presence Discord language selection based on the languages supported by all installed presences.
• Option to suggest available presences based on the current tab.
• New controls to export or delete app data.
• New connection diagnostics, developer logs, and an improved onboarding experience.
• Added a one-time review prompt and a direct link to rate Nowly.

Full changelog: https://nowly.me/changelog/2.2.0

Bug fixes:
- Fixed active-user tracking: the extension could keep reporting 0 active users on a presence's page even while it was genuinely active, because the background service worker's in-memory state was lost every time Chrome/Firefox evicted it (a routine MV3 behavior). Active-presence tracking now survives service worker restarts.
- Fixed the periodic heartbeat alarm being perpetually delayed under continuous activity, sometimes preventing it from ever firing.
- Closing a tab now correctly stops reporting its presence as active (previously it could stay "active" server-side indefinitely).
- Fixed a race where a fresh browser start or extension install/update could run background initialization twice concurrently.
- Minor reliability improvements to presence enable/disable/uninstall and update checks.

extension's active-user heartbeat, which could silently stop reporting a presence as active after the background service worker restarted.

2.1.0.1 is a critical hotfix: the 2.1.0 build's API endpoint was accidentally baked in as a local development address instead of the production API, breaking the connection to Nowly's servers. This release corrects the build so the extension talks to the real API again. No functional or UI changes beyond that.

Nowly 2.1.0 is a full redesign of the extension: a rebuilt side panel with dedicated Activity, Store, Settings, onboarding, and diagnostics views, reorganized settings with light/dark/system appearance, and clearer feedback throughout (connection status, install errors, guided onboarding).

Highlights:
- New Activity and Store flows for browsing, installing, scheduling, and snoozing presences, plus bulk enable/disable/uninstall.
- Guided onboarding and clearer desktop-app connection diagnostics.
- Contributors shown on presence detail pages; right-click context menu on presence tiles.
- 8 new languages: German, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Malay, and Greek.
- Anonymous usage analytics remain off by default and stay manageable from Settings.

Full changelog: https://nowly.me/changelog/2.1.0