Changelog

What changed, in plain words.

1.6

November 2026

  • Picture-in-picture. A Play here video keeps playing in a small window when you leave Sconce or tap the new button, and the window has Pause and Play.
  • Play here gains Pause and Play, and pauses for a call or when another app starts playing.
  • Every link in Settings has its own icon, with more room between rows.
  • Settings opens with More from Zone7 Studios, which gains links to the studio website, the shop and our social pages.

1.5

September 2026

  • About lives in Settings. It is the last section of Settings now, with links to the privacy, terms and support pages, this website and the open-source licences.
  • More from Zone7 Studios in Settings is a page of our other apps, and Share this app sends a Sconce link to anyone you like.
  • The rows in Settings are easier to tap.

1.4

September 2026

  • We receive anonymous usage stats. The privacy page says what they are.
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

1.1

August 2026

  • Background sound. A collection can play a sound under its pictures: one of five that come with the app, or an audio file of your own, set per collection, with the loudness yours to move. A video takes the sound over while it plays, and it picks up where the video left off. Part of Sconce Pro.
  • Fill the screen is free. It zooms a photo to cover the whole panel, it starts off, and the switch says it is a zoom.
  • Live previews on the Looks screen. Every look carries a preview drawn from your own photos, so you can see the choice before the television does.
  • Sconce notices a VPN. A VPN on the phone can stand between your TV and your pictures. Sconce checks for one and says so, with what to do about it, at the moment it matters.
  • Play here caught up. Playing a collection on the phone or tablet now honours the look, the fill switch and the background sound, exactly as the television would.
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

1.0

August 2026

  • Collections. Pick photos and videos with your phone's own picker and save them as a collection. Set how long a photo stays up, the move from one to the next, and whether the collection loops or shuffles.
  • Casting, honestly. Photos are handed to the TV up front, so the television holds them: lock the phone, pocket it, and the pictures keep turning. A video streams from the phone while it plays, and Sconce says which is which the first time you cast.
  • The looks. A photo is fitted whole inside the screen, nothing cropped by default, over a blurred, dimmed copy of itself. Five more surrounds come with Sconce Pro.
  • Play here. No Chromecast to hand? The same collection runs on the phone or tablet in front of you.
  • A video your TV cannot play can be converted on the phone, with the phone's own video chip, and the copy is kept so it is only done once.
  • When nothing is playing the television holds a quiet Sconce page, then hands itself back a few minutes later.
  • Sconce Pro. One purchase, once. As many collections as you like, the other five looks, the order and timing yours, and a whole collection converted in one go. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel.