Flume versions

Manage your Instagram account directly from your desktop.
2.8
May 4, 2022
Editorial review
rating
2.7
Jul 27, 2017
Editorial review
rating
2.6
Apr 17, 2017
Editorial review
rating
2.4
Dec 25, 2016
Editorial review
rating
2.3
Sep 15, 2016
Editorial review
rating
1.2
Dec 3, 2015
Review

What's new

v2.8 [Nov 2, 2017]
- Sharing to Facebook Pages when you are an admin of multiple Pages could result in sharing to the wrong Facebook Page.
- When scrolling through the feed, the order of items could rearrange as more content was loaded.
- The "Logout all accounts" menu item in the Profile menu triggered performed the wrong action.
- The overlay when liking items with Post Details set to "All" was slightly incorrect.
- The version label in the About window was clipped when using larger font sizes.
- Double notifications when Push Notifications were enabled and new messages were received should no longer occur.
- The typing indicator could appear for the wrong conversation.

v2.7 [Jul 27, 2017]
- NEW: Carousel (multi-post) uploads! Additions to the Touch Bar, drafts, as well as opening multiple files/folders to support carousel posts.
- NEW: Saved collections! You can long-click the save button to quickly save posts to a new or existing saved collection, as well as via the Touch Bar.
- NEW: Two-factor authentication settings. Enable/disable two-factor authentication and retrieve backup codes.
- NEW: Archived posts.
- NEW: A new "PRO" macOS Menu Bar item with quick access to Flume Pro licence features.
- NEW: Login via email and phone number is now supported.
- NEW: New comment activity now includes an actions menu, for quick access to reply/delete/report new comments.
- NEW: The top likers on posts are displayed when using "All" for the "Media Details" preference setting.
- NEW: A "Copy to Clipboard" option added to the Share menus.
- NEW: Added a subscribe to mailing-list option.
- FIXED: In-progress video exporting, video compressing, and uploads, can now be cancelled.
- FIXED: Video upload reliability improved.
- FIXED: Multiple edit and share windows can be opened at the same time.
- FIXED: Reliability improvements to automatic background refreshes.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur during mouse swipe gestures.
- FIXED: An issue that could cause profiles to hide or quickly refresh content.
- FIXED: Improved the speed of opening and closing Large Preview windows.
- FIXED: The search indicator and icon didn't always reflect the search status when searching for locations to tag.
- FIXED: The image cropping window would not fit on low resolution displays.
- FIXED: The Flume Pro preferences panel now displays the license code button outside of the actions menu.
- FIXED: An issue with an incorrect user tagging window size on uploads.
- FIXED: The photo cropping tool can now crop freely and not just 1:1 (holding shift while resizing will a force 1:1 aspect ratio cropping region).
- FIXED: The upload window title will display draft filenames if opened.
- FIXED: Cmd+S and File > Save Draft… support for uploads.
- FIXED: An issue with dimmed feed items when using Page Up/Down keys.
- FIXED: Support for carousel items that have multiple captions (ads).
- FIXED: Movie playback issue when moving quickly between feed and detail views.
- FIXED: Don't show the follow button for posts when all media details are display.
- FIXED: "Media" is now referred to as "Post/s".
- FIXED: User tags on carousel posts correctly updated.
- FIXED: Slide animations when navigating carousel posts improved.
- FIXED: An issue that could make the "Username" text-field not clickable.
- FIXED: The typing speed in the upload / edit windows is improved.
- FIXED: Messages that contain newlines no longer display "\n".
- FIXED: Messages that contain links correctly include and display link previews.
- FIXED: An issue with cropping videos.
- FIXED: An issue that could cause video previews in upload windows to continue playing with no ability to stop/pause.
- FIXED: Multiple issues related to reliability of non-realtime messaging in Instagram Direct.
- FIXED: Updated placeholders and empty content styles.
- FIXED: Empty upload windows are re-used, when dragging files onto Flume's Dock icon or using the Open command.
- FIXED: A memory-leak related to pop-up "sheets".
- FIXED: Carousel posts now indicate the current "page" briefly.
- FIXED: An issue with detecting certain email addresses as clickable links.
- FIXED: Corrupt/invalid Flume draft files will now display errors.
- FIXED: Improved filter chooser for Touch Bar.
- FIXED: Improvements to location searching display when no results are found.
- FIXED: Display and handle errors when temporary blocked by Instagram for performing too many actions too quickly.
- FIXED: Upload caches are removed on launch/quit.
- FIXED: The App Store License Migrator Tool will no longer create a backup of Flume on the desktop.
- FIXED: Purchasing a Flume Pro license will now open the default browser instead of the in-app window.
- FIXED: A potential fix for rare crashes related to text input.
- FIXED: Reduced the scrolling threshold to trigger a "pull-down-to-refresh".
- FIXED: New version notifications won't appear the next launch after you reset Flume.

v2.6 [Apr 17, 2017]
- NEW: Flume is no longer distributed via the Mac App Store.
- NEW: Added a new Flume Pro section, with licence verification, activation/deactivation, and a Mac App Store Licence Migrator (direct version only)
- NEW: An improved help documentation viewer, and all new extensive help documentation. Also available at https://help.flumeapp.com
- NEW: Edited captions will indicate they've been edited.
- NEW: Added support for opening directories (with photos and videos inside). Max limit of 10 files within.
- NEW: You can resize to fit any non-square photo, not just those that were beyond the aspect ratio requirements.
- FIXED: Improved the translation support and right-click behaviour for captions, comments and messages.
- FIXED: Added a 20 character group name limit.
- FIXED: An issue that could cause invalid user tags to be added to uploads, causing upload errors.
- FIXED: Improved hashtag/user/location search popover behaviour.
- FIXED: Appearance of buttons and dropdown buttons in popovers was greyed-out.
- FIXED: Clipped text on the two-factor authorisation explanation label when using the largest font size.
- FIXED: Contextual-menu issues when right-clicking bookmarked conversations.

v2.4 [Dec 25, 2016]
- NEW: Respond to comments directly from notifications.
- NEW: Directly jump to comments from the notifications in the Activity tab.
- NEW: Save sharing options for Linked Accounts.
- NEW: You can now switch Facebook sharing options easily and more directly on the Upload window as opposed to the Profile > Settings > Linked Accounts > Facebook menu.
- NEW: Disable commenting on uploads.
- NEW: Progress is displayed when compressing videos and uploading photos and videos.
- NEW: The titlebar now animates leaving more space for buttons on the Detail View.
- NEW: Export your Insights data.
- Hundreds of fixes and improvements.

v2.3 [Sep 15, 2016]
- NEW: Videos can now be uploaded in 1:1 square format, and also cropped in original format should they be too wide or tall.
- NEW: “Hover shortcuts”. Quickly like, comment, or zoom media using the L, C or Spacebar keys while hovering the mouse over items.
- NEW: “Show Media Details” now displays captions and likes/comment counts in Column-View mode.
- NEW: Added support for Ukrainian.
- NEW: Long-press support. Hold down the left-mouse on Media to toggle the Large Preview window.
- NEW: You can now browse items directly from the Detail View.
- FIXED: Sharing to a Facebook page from the Upload window now correctly shares to the correct page, rather than the Timeline.
- FIXED: High resolution images in portrait orientation did not upload correctly.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur randomly in the future, after viewing the location tagged posts of a user.
- FIXED: A crash that would occur when typing the # character in the Upload caption.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur after pasting text in the caption text area.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur when using multiple accounts and pressing the “Post” button.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur when trying to deselect a selection.
- FIXED: Video duration labels were clipped and not always center-aligned.
- FIXED: Older conversations did not always load.
- FIXED: A rare but potential crash that could occur when popping a view.
- FIXED: A fix for a potential crash, after trying to download the same avatar twice.
- FIXED: Some some rare crashes related to viewing the followers/following/requested followers on the Profile tab.
- FIXED: A potential crash that could occur when clicking on the tagged profile posts of a user.
- FIXED: A potential crash that could occur when trying to switch quickly between tabs.
- FIXED: A crash when trying to request content and the session had timed-out (potentially from a previous crash).
- FIXED: A potential crash when pressing the “Clear Caches” button and new content was being downloaded/updated.
- FIXED: An issue that could result in duplicated items in Profiles.
- FIXED: A crash related to emoji-hashtags you had composed as a comment or caption
- FIXED: Compatibility with an upcoming OS release.

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