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Every NeatKiosk release, newest first. NeatKiosk is free and every fix below is free — there is no paid tier to upgrade to.

1.0.4 Coming soon

Links that open in a new tab now work. NeatKiosk locks the device to a single window with no tabs, and links set to open in a new tab were being discarded instead of opened — so tapping them did nothing at all, with no message to explain why. If your home page links out to other sites, those links were affected even when the sites were on your allow list. They now open in the same window, and they are still checked against your allow and deny lists exactly like every other link. Nothing about your configuration needs to change.

1.0.2 22 August 2026

A bug-fix release for kiosks that run unattended, and for anyone who changes their settings after the first setup.

• Settings apply the moment you save them. Editing your kiosk used to have no effect until the app was closed and reopened. Changing the website is the clearest case: the kiosk carried on showing the old site, and after the next idle reset it could end up stuck there entirely. The idle reset time, “Warn before reset”, your allow and deny lists, the lockdown switches and “Keep screen awake” were all affected the same way.
• Your screen comes back in the morning. If you use the night blackout schedule without “Force full brightness”, the screen went dark at the start of the blackout and stayed dark, and the only way to get it back was to raise the brightness by hand on the device. NeatKiosk now remembers how bright your screen was, puts it back when the blackout window ends, and returns to full brightness if the app restarted overnight.
• Nothing carries over between visitors. Idle reset now clears browsing history along with cookies and site data, so nobody can reach the previous visitor's pages with the Back button. “Reset kiosk” clears the previous site's cookies and storage too, instead of leaving them on the device for the next kiosk you set up.
• The app no longer closes when a page asks for the microphone. NeatKiosk now refuses microphone requests outright — a kiosk stands unattended in public, and a live microphone is not something it should hand out silently. Camera requests, for scanning QR codes, still work.
• Allow and deny rules with capital letters in the path now match. Previously a rule like example.com/Admin quietly matched nothing at all.
• New MDM key: settingsPIN. A device set up from MDM never runs the setup wizard, so until now it had no Settings PIN and the hidden admin exit opened straight into Settings. Push settingsPIN and the PIN is hashed on arrival. See the deployment guide.
• Out-of-range blackout times are ignored instead of silently switching the schedule off.

1.0.1 7 July 2026

First public release on the App Store. Full-screen website lock, URL allow and deny lists, idle auto-reset that clears cookies and site data between visitors, PIN-protected settings with a hidden admin exit, brightness control and a nightly blackout schedule, Guided Access and MDM Single App Mode support, and Managed App Configuration for fleets. Free, with no accounts, no backend, no analytics and no tracking.

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