What’s New in Opener 1.8

Tim Johnsen
2 min readSep 19, 2019

Opener 1.8 is made for iOS 13! First and foremost, that means full support for dark mode throughout the app.

The darkness

iOS 13 also introduces a nice new visual table view style that Opener’s adopted on the iPad, and it looks great

New inset & rounded table view style looks great on iPad

Opener’s fully migrated from 3D touch shortcuts to iOS 13’s new context menus. This means that you can now use Opener’s content previews and home screen actions on the iPad and other devices that don’t have 3D touch support.

iOS 13 context menus

Speaking of Opener’s content previews, iOS 13 also introduces a new built-in animated GIF playback API and Opener uses it to render GIFs for content previews from Imgur, Gfycat, and GIPHY.

Animated GIF content previews

And of course, as always, there’s lots of polish all throughout this update. You can Opener 1.8 on the App Store right here, hope you enjoy using it!

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Tim Johnsen

iOS developer at Retro.app. Previously Patreon, Instagram, Pinterest, Flipboard. Creator of Opener, Close-up, and other apps.