We can barely contain our excitement as we announce the availability of version 2.3 of picTrove 2 pro. From the moment that they got their fingers on to picTrove 2 our customers have been demanding support for more services. This has always been something we’ve traditionally excelled at with picTrove, and today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve added direct search results from six new services in version 2.3! We didn’t just stop there, there’s a whole lot of new features and improvements, read through for the details, or better yet, get the latest picTrove 2 pro from the App Store, now!

Major new features

• Native search support for Instagram and deviantART. Web search support for Tumblr.com, Blogger.com, WordPress.com and Pinterest.com. Read more about this on our Multiple Services page.
• New vertical layout option for browsing thumbnails from all services. It’s great (and is the default) on iPhone devices. iPad users can turn on the Vertical Layout option in the picTrove settings screen.
• New square thumbnail option for those who don’t like the mosaic / masonry grid view of thumbnails. Turn on this option in the picTrove settings screen and all thumbnails show up in an equally sized, square grid.
• Reworked slideshow mode with new OpenGL hardware accelerated transitions for the best effects possible.
• Reworked AirPlay mode for better performance.
• Reworked bulk export from picTrove saved photos to device photo library, now shows progress during the export.
• The thumbnail browser now tracks your navigation in the full photo view; when you come back from viewing a lot of photos, the last photo you were on is shown centered in thumbnail mode.

Improvements & fixes

• Faster startup for users with a lot of saved photos in picTrove.
• Faster photo selection and drag-and-drop arranging in saved photos. Drag-and-drop arranging now also works even out of “Select” mode.
• Fixed multi-word search which was not working from URL share extension
• Improved smoothness of swiping between photos in full photo view
• Stability and performance improvements

We’re excited to announce availability of picTrove 2 pro version 2.2 for iOS 8 today! We’ve added major new features and the update is available for iOS 8 only.

Major new features

• URL share extension: The new URL share extension lets you search a website while you’re browsing it in Safari or any other supporting app on iOS 8. You can search for photos on the website and even on the exact page you’re browsing. Read more about the search in website extension on the feature page.
• Photo library integration: We love the new Photos app on iOS 8 and we just had to show some love for it in picTrove 2 pro. The new photos library integration adds a direct button in full photo view to save to a dedicated album in your Photo library. There’s also a bulk export option within picTrove 2 pro’s Saved Photos area to save photos to the device’s photo library. Read more about it here.
• Open URL API: Finally, we’ve added support for openURL API in picTrove 2 pro. You can now launch picTrove 2 pro with URL actions to search photos from your favorite 3rd party launchers. The technical details are here.

Improvements

• Completely redone internal networking gives picTrove 2 pro even more performance and stability benefits.
• Faster internal web browser to see a photo’s web page supports automatic navigation bar hiding.
• Navigation bars automatically hide when you scroll through photo thumbnails in the side-by-side browsing interface
• The action bar in the side-by-side thumbnails view is reduced in height to show the maximum possible thumbnails
• Simplified, speedened the transitions between photos in the full photo view
• More visible, bluish tint color for quick visibility of buttons, actions
• Fixed cases where captions would show some invalid characters in Google Images

The new 2.2 version is available from the App Store, here. Please update as soon as you can and as always, tweet us or send us an email to let us know what you think, thanks!