Kindle for Mac Changelog

What's new in Kindle for Mac 1.40.1

Mar 29, 2023
  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.40.0 (Mar 3, 2023)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.39.0 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.38.0 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.37.0 (Aug 9, 2022)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.36 (Jun 23, 2022)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.35 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

New in Kindle for Mac 1.34 (Mar 25, 2022)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.33 (Sep 10, 2021)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.32 (Jul 28, 2021)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.31 (Apr 25, 2021)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.30 (Oct 23, 2020)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.29 (Jul 15, 2020)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.28 (Mar 4, 2020)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.27 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.26.1 (May 15, 2019)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.25.2 (Jan 9, 2019)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.23.2 (May 25, 2018)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.23 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • New Fonts - We’ve added six new fonts (Caecilia, Palatino, Baskerville, Helvetica, Helvetica Light, and Lucida) in the Aa (Fonts) menu.
  • New Column Reading Options - You can now choose to read with one-column view, two-column view, or multi-column view.
  • Split Screen Support - You can now split your screen to read while using other applications on your Mac running Mac OS X 10.11 or above.
  • Improved support for Magic Mouse gestures.
  • General performance improvements.
  • We’ve added a viewer for images, math equations, and footnotes – You can now enlarge and view images, mathml (mathematical markup language), and footnotes. Double-click images and math equations to open them in the viewer. To view and enlarge a footnote, tap the desired footnote. To close the viewer, use the exit icon in the upper right corner of the viewer window.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.21.1 (Nov 16, 2017)

  • Text alignment and line spacing — Click the image of font icon button to set a text alignment for your books and determine their line spacing.
  • Indic support — The latest version of the app will support Indic language books.
  • Other performance improvements.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.20.3 (Sep 6, 2017)

  • Stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.20.2 (Jun 27, 2017)

  • Includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.20 (Mar 23, 2017)

  • Two new fonts — We have added Amazon Ember Bold, a heavier font, and OpenDyslexic, a font that readers with dyslexia may prefer. You can select these fonts from the menu.
  • Improved ability to search for content in Japanese.
  • Improved reading experience for Manga.
  • Other performance improvements.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.19.1 (Jan 30, 2017)

  • Improvements to the search feature — We have increased the search results limit.
  • Text-to-Speech — This update includes support for Text-to-Speech on eligible Kindle content. For more details about Text-to-Speech, visit Kindle for Mac Keyboard Shortcuts.
  • Other performance improvements.
  • Enhanced Typesetting on eligible content for better reading:
  • Hyphenation plus smoother word spacing result in faster reading with less eye strain. Improved character placement increases word recognition speed with any font size.
  • Enhanced Page Layout: Drop caps, text, images, and Print-like layout that automatically adapt to your screen or font size.
  • You can enjoy reading with larger font sizes without compromising your reading experience. Page layout and margins automatically adapt to look great with even the largest font sizes.
  • Auto-column Text: This improvement will add or delete columns based on the page width and font size in order to ensure comfortable reading for text lines.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.17.1 (Dec 19, 2016)

  • General updates and performance improvements.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.16.0 (May 13, 2016)

  • General Bug Fixes.
  • Flashcards — This feature will now be available on select content. Visit Read with Flashcards to learn more about this feature.
  • Notebook Export — You will now be able to export your highlights and notes.
  • Note: These features were previously available on Textbooks only.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.15.0 (Mar 14, 2016)

  • General improvements and performance enhancements, as well as the following:
  • Visible Samples – A sample you have purchased will now automatically become visible under the All tab.
  • Scalable Covers – You will be able to choose a cover size in your Library and Collections.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.14.0 (Jan 6, 2016)

  • Includes general improvements and performance enhancements, as well as the following:
  • The issue for sorting content in Cloud view has been fixed.
  • First Time User Experience – Kindle for Mac customers will now see a tutorial that follows the general overview screen when opening a Textbook for the first time and also reminders about the educational features available with Kindle applications.
  • Bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.13.0 (Nov 5, 2015)

  • New look and feel – lighter theme in the Reader view, flatter theme throughout.
  • Touch Optimization – Customers will be able to zoom through pinching and turn pages by swiping on their touch screen.
  • Better support of higher OS display scaling factors and higher resolution displays.
  • Notebook Export – For eTextBooks, customers will now be able to export the content of their annotation notebook into an html file and save it on disk.
  • Ability to open PDFs from within the app – PDF files can now be opened directly from the app.
  • Enhanced two finger scrolling on trackpads – Touch support for finger scrolling is now more seamless and avoids turning more pages than desired.
  • Bookerly font is now available for selected content.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.12.4 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.12.3 (Sep 8, 2015)

  • Support OS X El Capitan

New in Kindle for Mac 1.10.6 Build 40499 (Feb 16, 2015)

  • Support for China marketplace.
  • Support for Retina display.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.10.4 Build 40313 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • It includes the panoramic function and it's compatible with Kindle books with KF8 format.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.10.3 Build 40286 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Support for Lion gestures (panning and swiping).
  • Support for Kindle Format 8 books, providing richer formatting.
  • Improved support for larger libraries; Bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • Improved performance for books that have a large number of notes and highlights.
  • Support for Japanese.
  • Miscellanous bug fixes.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.8.3 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • Localized app language in French, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Support for collections allows you to take control of your Kindle library and organize your books with ease.
  • Book Extras by Shelfari. Access character descriptions, important places, popular quotations, themes, and book-specific glossaries from Shelfari, the community-powered encyclopedia for book-lovers.
  • Support for Kindle Print Replica content, which look like the corresponding print book with words and images in the position corresponding to the print edition. See more detail on Print Replica content here.
  • Support for reading most PDF files within the Kindle application, including functionality such as zoom and pan, highlighting, note taking, dictionary lookup, and bookmarks.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.81 (Oct 29, 2011)

  • Support for Lion, including Lion's full-screen mode.
  • Support for collections allows you to take control of your Kindle library and organize your books with ease.
  • Book Extras by Shelfari. Access character descriptions, important places, popular quotations, themes, and book-specific glossaries from Shelfari, the community-powered encyclopedia for book-lovers.
  • Support for Kindle Print Replica content, which look like the corresponding print book with words and images in the position corresponding to the print edition.
  • Support for reading most PDF files within the Kindle application, including functionality such as zoom and pan, highlighting, note taking, dictionary lookup, and bookmarks.
  • Support for additional languages.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.7 Build 32987 (Aug 29, 2011)

  • Support for collections allows you to take control of your Kindle library and organize your books with ease.
  • Book Extras by Shelfari. Access character descriptions, important places, popular quotations, themes, and book-specific glossaries from Shelfari, the community-powered encyclopedia for book-lovers.

New in Kindle for Mac 1.2.0 Build 30689 (Oct 21, 2010)

  • Adds several new features to the application, including search function, notes and marks, night and sepia reading modes, and multi-column view.