Product changes

Changelog

Every entry below is a real change that shipped to the product. If a fix is listed, it actually shipped. That is the whole point of keeping a changelog.

September 2026

Box Shadow Generator

·Upgraded into CSS Shadow Studio: switch between box-shadow and text-shadow with independent layer stacks.
·Added nine text-shadow presets, preview-only typography controls, randomize, and share links encoded in the URL fragment.
·Added copy actions for CSS, CSS variable, Tailwind, and bare value output, plus a .css download.
·Added ready-to-use examples, recipes, a box-shadow reference, box vs text comparison, and troubleshooting below the tool.

September 2026

Background Remover

·Complete product redesign with three-phase workflow: upload, color sampling, result comparison.
·Added before/after comparison slider.
·Added PNG and JPG download options with real processing-time and file-size stats.
·Removed the Beta badge.
·Fixed inaccurate SEO claims — no longer references AI or nonexistent capabilities.
·Added crawlable landing content: how-to, privacy explanation, use cases, and FAQ.
·Added three supporting blog articles as a topical content cluster.

Contact

·Replaced the contact form with a real submission path — your message opens in your own mail app, pre-filled. No more 'thanks, we got it' that went nowhere.
·Removed the made-up 'average response time' claim.

About

·Rewrote the page to tell the actual story of the product instead of a generic mission statement.

New

·Added this public changelog so every change is traceable.
·Tool pages now show a real 'Last updated' date from actual change history.
·Added a blog RSS feed at /feed.xml.

Site architecture

·Removed the retired 'services' section; its URLs now redirect to the tools hub.

September 2026 (early)

LinkedIn Carousel Maker

·Fixed layout and preview behavior inside the tool workspace.

Install

·Added the optional 'Install GainUtility' action for browsers that support it.

SEO

·Regenerated the sitemap so every genuinely localized route is listed.

September 2026

Media tools

·Added the video and media tools section.

Developer hub

·Added a dedicated developer tools hub page.

September 2026

Image tools

·Fixes to the image section layout and thumbnails across devices.

September 2026

LinkedIn Carousel Maker

·Initial release of the LinkedIn carousel tool.

Design

·Design polish across tool workspaces and page headers.

Internationalization

Languages

·Broader localized coverage for home, about, and blog content across supported languages.

September 2026

Navigation

·Fixed the hamburger menu and active-state behavior across devices.

Tool state

·Fixed the page refresh behavior so a tool restores its working state from its URL.

Analytics

·Added privacy-respecting analytics.

September 2026

Home

·New homepage hero and browse experience.

Hosting

·Moved to Cloudflare Pages with prerendered HTML for every route.

August 2026

Blog

·Launched the blog with practical, problem-first guides.

August 2026

Launch

·First public version of GainUtility and its initial set of browser-based tools.

What belongs here

Only real work is listed: fixes, launches, and meaningful product changes. The date on a tool page's Last updated line always matches an entry on this page. If you ever see a date here that does not check out, that is a bug — and you can report it on the contact page.

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