What's new

• The "Now on Discord" card now looks like an activity on Discord: a larger image with the small image on its corner, the details next to it, the progress bar on one line between the elapsed and total time, and filled buttons side by side.
• The service name and "Hide this tab" no longer appear under the card: hide a tab with the switch in "This tab", just below.
• Notifications now stack instead of covering the panel, for example after "Update all": the newest one stays in front, and hovering the stack spreads them out and pauses them.

Fixes

• Fixed the extension sometimes staying stuck on "Unable to save your confirmation, or the documents have changed" after being reopened: "Review documents" now checks the documents again right away instead of waiting up to 5 minutes, and a failed background check no longer blocks the extension when the documents are already known.
• Added a "Close" button next to "Review documents" on that screen.
• Removed the grey line that could appear under the "Now on Discord" card when other activities were detected.

Fixes

• Fixed the Firefox sidebar toolbar button so it continues to toggle the sidebar reliably (previously released as 2.5.0.1).
• When "Live preview" is turned off, the "Now on Discord" section is now hidden entirely instead of showing "Nothing shared right now". Discord connection alerts still appear when needed.
• Fixed Rich Presence staying stuck after a reboot until Discord was restarted: the desktop app no longer waits forever for a Discord that has not finished starting, and gives up after 5 seconds to retry.
• On Windows, the desktop app now looks for Discord on all ten IPC pipes (discord-ipc-0 to discord-ipc-9) instead of only the first one.
• The desktop app now checks every 6 hours whether a newer version is available and reports it to the extension. Development builds never report an update.

Fixed the Firefox sidebar toolbar button so it continues to toggle the sidebar reliably.

What’s new in Nowly 2.5.0

• Automatically detect custom activities based on the active browser tab.
• Match domains, subdomains, and wildcard paths.
• Share custom activities with a public link.
• Add public HTTPS links to presence details and state text.
• Choose what Discord displays in compact status: the activity name, state, or details.

Improvements and fixes

• Show custom activities in the Activity tab by default, with an option to keep them in their dedicated tab.
• Duplicate existing custom activities.
• Find import and create actions beside the activity list, with shared and active activities clearly marked.
• See update badges in grid view.
• Enjoy clearer Activity and Settings headers, empty states, presence actions, and custom activity deletion.
• Update multiple installed presences in one action.
• Hide Library, Custom, or News from the navigation bar and restore the default layout anytime.
• Follow video progress more accurately while custom activity countdowns continue to show the remaining time.

Fixed an issue where the sidebar could close immediately after clicking the Nowly toolbar icon.

Create your own Discord activities, share them with friends, and make Nowly’s navigation your own.

What’s new:

• A new Custom tab to create activities without installing a website presence
• Customize your activity’s name, type, two text lines, large and small images with hover text, and up to two link buttons
• Show elapsed time or set a countdown from 5 minutes to 24 hours, with a progress bar that drains as time runs out
• Get started with 9 templates, including studying, coding, gaming, music, and more
• Upload your own images, use HTTPS image links, or choose from 24 icons and 10 colours
• Export and import activities as JSON files, with uploaded images included when their local copy is available
• Import multiple activities at once, or drag and drop files into the Custom tab
• Rearrange navigation tabs, create separate groups, and reset your layout from Settings
• Enable Keep elapsed time per site in Settings to keep the same timer when switching between tabs of the same site. It’s off by default, lasts until you close the browser, and doesn’t affect media playback progress

Improvements and fixes:

• Save up to 50 custom activities and activate one to replace your current tab activity
• Preview your activity while editing, with a preview that stays visible as you scroll and cards that follow Discord’s layout
• The toolbar badge now shows an emoji for your activity type, with a colour based on the presence or custom icon
• Uploaded images keep a local copy for previews and automatic re-upload if the hosted version expires
• Imported activities stay off until you activate them and never overwrite existing activities
• Import batches respect the activity limit, and a failed file won’t stop the remaining imports
• Faster panel startup by loading secondary screens only when you open them
• The active tab label is no longer cut off
• Updated Terms and Privacy confirmation, without enabling optional analytics
• Custom activities stay on your device and are not synchronized with your account

Nowly 2.3.0 is here.

Sync your presences and settings across browsers with an optional Discord account. Your activity and browsing history are never synced.

This release improves the reliability and readability of Nowly on Firefox.

• Repeated native heartbeat messages no longer flood the runtime logs.
• Invalid or overly short Discord asset tooltips are filtered before activities are sent.
• The light theme now uses the dark Nowly wordmark for better contrast.
• Improved stability when communicating with the Nowly desktop host.

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