Changelog

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2.6.0

Latest
  • Introduce permissions to restrict what team members can do
  • Make team management available through Megahit Viewer app (requires admin permissions)
  • Add ability to grant and revoke team member permissions
  • Add ability to change team members’ names
  • Improve design of team member list
  • Improve usability of subscriber filters popup
  • Improve positioning of subscriber filters popup
  • Make info popups in subscriber list show faster
  • Fix tag editor sometimes not being fully visible
  • Fix blue border appearing around subscriber list sometimes
  • Make the app easier to navigate with the keyboard
  • Fix graphical bugs when using keyboard navigation

2.5.4

  • Make subscriber statistics load faster

2.5.3

  • Adjust to a recent Windows update that caused Megahit to not restart after a reboot
  • Make “Launch on startup” configuration dialog more robust
  • Fix a few edge cases where configuring “Launch on startup” would fail

2.5.2

  • Fix Megahit not restarting after a reboot

2.5.1

  • Add support for Windows Server 2025

2.5.0

  • Add ability to view audience statistics for segments of your audience
    • This allows you to answer questions such as the following:
      • Who are your unsubscribed contacts?
      • Where do the CEOs on your list live?
      • Who signed up for your newsletter through which ad?
      • Who clicked on a given sponsored link?
  • Add ability to filter subscribers by gender
  • Include gender in subscriber exports
  • Make gender classification more accurate
  • Improve usability and design of subscriber filters popup
  • Make it easier to clear location filter

2.4.0

  • Add support for ActiveCampaign newsletters
  • Add ability to migrate to another ESP (email Niklas if you need it)

2.3.4

  • Update SendGrid setup instructions
  • Update OpenAI setup instructions
  • Make changes for one specific newsletter

2.3.3

  • Make enrichment slightly faster
  • Update window design for macOS 26
  • Increase minimum required macOS version to 12

2.3.2

  • Fix rare macOS 26 performance issue

2.3.1

  • Add ability to tag subscribers in bulk by email addresses
  • Fix rare macOS 26 performance issue

2.3.0

  • Add job function filter to subscriber list
  • Rebuild job function classification logic from scratch
    • Refine list of available job functions
    • Make job function classification more accurate
    • Make it work on all data providers
  • Make job function statistics more accurate
  • Extend support for job function statistics to all data providers
  • Merge job function and department statistics
  • Include job functions in subscriber exports
  • Fix discrepancies between subscriber list filters and counts in statistics
  • Adjust Substack CSV import to work with the new Substack export format
  • Show new “Links clicked” and “Revenue” columns for Substack newsletters
  • Add “Links clicked” to CSV exports for Substack newsletters
  • Make it less likely that future Substack export format changes break the CSV import
  • Make it easier and quicker to adjust to future Substack export format changes
  • Improve app performance for Substack newsletters

2.2.2

  • Add ability to filter subscribers by company employee count
  • Adjust subscription duration filter to support flexible min and max values

2.2.1

  • Make Beehiiv subscriber sync faster
  • Adjust to Beehiiv API changes
  • Fix configuring “Launch on startup”

2.2.0

  • Redesign the subscriber statistics
  • Revamp navigation in subscriber statistics section
  • Add statistical report showing which states your subscribers live in

2.1.3

  • Fix disconnects on macOS after Megahit has been running for a few days

2.1.2

  • Make “Marketing” tab load faster
  • Make “Marketing” filter more accurate

2.1.1

  • Make “Founders & CEOs” and “C-Suite” filters more accurate
  • Use modern scrollbar design on Windows
  • Fix rare crash during app updates on macOS

2.1.0

  • Add popup to subscriber list that shows subscribers’ locations and social media headlines
  • Improve logic for calculating subscribers’ seniority levels
    • Refine list of available seniority levels
    • Make seniority classification more accurate
    • Make it work on all data providers
  • Extend support for seniority statistics to all data providers
  • Extend support for filtering by seniority to all data providers
  • Include seniority in subscriber exports
  • Fix rare login issue when user was already logged in on another device

2.0.0

  • Out of beta: Implement new server login experience through Megahit Viewer app
    • Faster, more convenient login
    • Smoother user experience once logged in
  • Out of beta: Add proper team support
    • New interface to manage team members (and revoke their access one by one)
    • Support for multiple team members logging in at the same time
  • Add ability to change tag names and tag colors in the Megahit Viewer app
  • Enable tag deletion in the Megahit Viewer app
  • Update OpenAI setup instructions
  • Improve UI in various places

1.18.3

  • Add ability to copy and paste via the context menu
  • Private beta: Make it even more intuitive to set up Megahit Viewer app access for oneself

1.18.2

  • Private beta: Make it more intuitive to set up Megahit Viewer app access for oneself
  • Update app description

1.18.1

  • Add support for importing and enriching unsubscribed contacts from Kit
  • Update UI for ConvertKit’s rebranding to Kit
  • Add support for Kit API version 4

1.18.0

  • Private beta: Enable subscriber exports in the Megahit Viewer app
  • Show progress while exporting

1.17.3

  • Private beta: Add ability to create tags through the Megahit Viewer app

1.17.2

  • Private beta: Add ability to assign tags to subscribers through the Megahit Viewer app
  • Private beta: Add ability to remove tags from subscribers through the Megahit Viewer app

1.17.1

  • Improve design of organization info popup
  • Improve subscriber list scroll performance
  • Fix bug where table cells would be too wide if they contained very long words

1.17.0

  • Private beta: Make subscriber list available through the new Megahit Viewer app
  • Private beta: Prevent Windows Firewall popup when Megahit Viewer app logs in
  • Private beta: Fix Megahit Viewer app login not working on certain internet connections

1.16.0

  • Add support for Ghost newsletters
  • Fix capitalization of Beehiiv subscription tiers in CSV exports

1.15.10

  • Adjust to external API changes
  • Fix mouse cursor turning into loading spinner during background tasks on Windows
  • Increase minimum required macOS version to 11

1.15.9

  • Private beta: Make more reports available through the new Megahit Viewer app:
    • Enrichment progress
    • Match rates
  • Fix remaining statistics pages that might freeze for large newsletters
  • Improve data integrity checks during subscriber import

1.15.8

  • Update underlying software used by Megahit

1.15.7

  • Reduce amount of Megahit’s own internal product analytics

1.15.6

  • Make changes as preparation for future updates

1.15.5

  • Improve enrichment progress report for customers who signed up before Megahit 1.10.1

1.15.4

  • Update various error messages

1.15.3

  • Fix handling of erroneous Mailchimp API data

1.15.2

  • Add continent statistical report
  • Include subscriber continents in CSV exports
  • Fix some countries appearing in different spelling variations
  • Sort items in statistical reports alphabetically if they have the same subscriber counts

1.15.1

  • Make changes as preparation for future updates

1.15.0

  • Private beta: Implement new server login experience through Megahit Viewer app
    • Faster, more convenient login
    • Smoother user experience once logged in
  • Private beta: Add proper team support
    • New interface to manage team members (and revoke their access one by one)
    • Support for multiple team members logging in at the same time
  • Reduce resource consumption when running in the background
  • Remove SmartScreen popup during installation on Windows
  • Fix statistics pages freezing for large newsletters

1.14.5

  • Improve API error handling

1.14.4

  • Improve API error handling

1.14.3

  • Recheck subscribers affected by a data provider outage (only 2 newsletters affected)

1.14.2

  • Fix bug that could make network requests fail

1.14.1

  • Adjust to external API changes
  • Recheck subscribers affected by a data provider outage (only 2 newsletters affected)

1.14.0

  • Add generic CSV import to support ESPs that don’t have a full API integration in Megahit yet

1.13.6

  • Improve API error handling
  • Improve error handling in some edge cases
  • Make changes as preparation for future updates

1.13.5

  • Make Megahit remember your “extrapolate” setting in the statistics section
  • Fix tag order not being preserved after reloading subscriber list

1.13.4

  • Make large subscriber lists load significantly faster
  • Fix Windows display bug when showing large subscriber lists
  • Fix industry reports not working with all data providers
  • Make some copy easier to understand
  • Make minor design improvements
  • Increase minimum required macOS version to 10.15

1.13.3

  • Provide more detailed match rate statistics

1.13.2

  • Improve subscriber list scrolling performance
  • Add reload button to subscriber list view
  • Fix visual bug in tag editor that was introduced in a previous update
  • Show success animation when CSV export is complete
  • Fix rare scrolling bug in subscriber list

1.13.1

  • Improve error reporting for Beehiiv Internal Server Errors

1.13.0

  • Add support for SendGrid newsletters
  • Improve design of ESP selection page during onboarding

1.12.6

  • Improve sorting speed for large subscriber lists
  • Make CSV exports follow the chosen sort order
  • Preserve subscriber sort order when switching between filter tabs
  • Include industries and subscriber locations in CSV exports
  • Change sorting logic to sort empty field values to the bottom
  • Remove “Recent updates” tab (sort by “Found new data” column instead)
  • Fix ugly line breaks in “Paid for” subscriber list column for Substack newsletters

1.12.5

  • Improve API error handling

1.12.4

  • Provide more detailed enrichment progress statistics

1.12.3

  • Make changes for one specific newsletter

1.12.2

  • Improve error reporting

1.12.1

  • Add statistical report showing split between personal and corporate emails
  • Add ability to filter subscribers by email type (personal/corporate)
  • Improve handling of temporary API errors

1.12.0

  • Add support for EmailOctopus newsletters

1.11.2

  • Improve error reporting for Campaign Monitor errors
  • Improve handling of temporary ESP API errors

1.11.1

  • Add option for Campaign Monitor newsletters to import only a specific segment
  • Improve data fetching speed for large subscriber lists

1.11.0

  • Add support for a second data provider (in beta)
  • Improve accuracy of the following filters and add support for them on the new data provider:
    • Marketing
    • Founders & CEOs
    • C-Suite

1.10.8

  • Add option for Beehiiv newsletters to import and enrich non-active subscribers

1.10.7

  • Make changes for one specific newsletter

1.10.6

  • Improve performance of loading subscriber data all across the app
  • Fix performance regression from the previous update

1.10.5

  • Include organization website URLs in fields searched by the search bar
  • Revamp how Megahit merges data from different data sources
  • Revamp how Megahit stores data internally
  • Create occasional local data backups to safeguard against data loss

1.10.4

  • Add custom filter for one specific newsletter

1.10.3

  • Extend subscriber location filter to allow filtering by city, state, and country
  • Adjust to HubSpot API changes

1.10.2

  • Include subscription status in CSV exports
  • Fix filtering and sorting by subscription duration for unsubscribed contacts
  • Turn “Paid subs” tab for Beehiiv newsletters into more flexible subscription tier filter

1.10.1

  • People who unsubscribe no longer get deleted, just hidden by default
  • Add ability to show unsubscribed contacts via the new “subscription status” filter
  • Add ability to filter subscribers by country
  • Add country statistical report
  • Make subscriber list load faster

1.10.0

  • Add support for HubSpot newsletters
  • Protect better against accidental deletion of subscriber data

1.9.4

  • Make subscriber import work with 1M+ subs
  • Make subscriber list load faster
  • Make statistics load faster

1.9.3

  • Add gender statistical report

1.9.2

  • Add configuration step on Windows Server to launch Megahit on boot

1.9.1

  • Add seniority filter

1.9.0

  • Add tagging system for subscribers (replaces bookmarks)
  • Add ability to filter subscribers by tags
  • Include subscriber tags in CSV exports
  • Improve company info popup design

1.8.3

  • Make scrolling smoother for subscriber list

1.8.2

  • Add ability to filter subscribers by industry
  • Make subscriber search faster for large newsletters
  • Filter subscriber exports by the search bar value

1.8.1

  • Include engagement metrics in CSV exports for Beehiiv, Mailchimp and Substack
  • Make sure days and months in CSV file names always have two digits
  • Add enrichment match rates report

1.8.0

  • Improve subscriber list design
  • Add logic to try more data providers (contact me to be part of the trial)
  • Fix typo in “Product Management” label in statistics section
  • Update copyright year
  • Improve product analytics

1.7.0

  • Add Mailchimp support

1.6.10

  • Fix subscriber list scrolling to top when bookmarking subscribers
  • Fix subscriber list not scrolling all the way to the top sometimes (when scrolling is desired)

1.6.9

  • Add ability to pause subscriber sync

1.6.8

  • Move “Founders & CEOs” filter further to the left

1.6.7

  • Add ability to filter subscriber lists by subscription duration
  • Adjust Substack CSV import to work with the new Substack export format
  • Speed up subscriber import for Substack
  • Keep filters when switching between subscriber list tabs
  • Fix UI flickers when switching between subscriber list tabs
  • Scroll subscriber list to top when changing filters
  • Show loading spinner when subscriber lists take longer to load

1.6.6

  • Release subscriber sync speed improvements to everyone

1.6.5

  • Speed up subscriber sync

1.6.4

  • Prepare for speeding up subscriber sync

1.6.3

  • Prepare for speeding up subscriber sync

1.6.2

  • Improve error reporting

1.6.1

  • Improve error reporting

1.6.0

  • Add Campaign Monitor support

1.5.2

  • Add instructions for preventing computer from sleeping

1.5.1

  • Add the ability to filter Beehiiv subscribers by UTM parameters

1.5.0

  • Add ability to export subscriber lists

1.4.0

  • Finalize support for newsletters with 100k+ subscribers (incl. faster data fetching!)

1.3.4

  • Make subscriber list load much faster
  • Improve subscriber list scroll performance further
  • Make the UI more responsive
  • Make Beehiiv and ConvertKit subscriber sync more robust in handling temporary API errors

1.3.3

  • Start adding error reporting

1.3.2

  • Load statistics pages faster
  • Improve the subscriber list scroll performance
  • Make it possible to adjust the subscriber import frequency

1.3.1

  • Make data fetching faster if the computer isn’t on 24/7
  • Add support for Intel Macs

1.3.0

  • Add Beehiiv support
  • Fix horizontal scroll position resetting when sorting subscriber list
  • Enable “Paid Users” filter for all Substack and Beehiiv newsletters

1.2.3

  • Remove analytics added in version 1.2.2

1.2.2

  • Add analytics for troubleshooting a data fetching issue

1.2.1

  • Randomize subscriber data fetching order
  • Fix data fetching not starting after a reboot

1.2.0

  • Add “publicly traded companies” statistical report
  • Make the following subscriber filters available to all users: “Founders & CEOs” and “C-Suite”
  • Show proper error message when an OpenAI account runs out of prepaid credits
  • On future updates, you won’t see a Megahit window open while working on something else

1.1.0

  • Add extrapolation feature to statistical reports
  • Redesign statistical reports
  • Enable newsletter platform selection via the UI during onboarding

1.0.4

  • Report subscriber counts to the Megahit developer for billing
  • Reorder industry reports
  • Update texts on the data import page
  • Update developer email address

1.0.3

  • Switch to the new app icon

1.0.2

  • No changes — used to test the update mechanism after the name change

1.0.1

  • Rebrand to Megahit
  • Hide dock icon on system startup on macOS

1.0.0

  • Revamp industry reports feature
  • Redesign data import page
  • Add ability to enter OpenAI and data provider API keys through the UI

0.4.1

  • No changes — used to test a potential fix for macOS update problems

0.4.0

  • Implement new main navigation
  • Improve design of search field in subscriber lists
  • Fix subscriber insights for newsletters with no or little data (this is typically the case during the onboarding)
  • Fix ConvertKit link not opening in external browser

0.3.0

  • Enable ConvertKit subscriber import via API
  • Make data fetching start immediately after importing subscribers, not within 30 minutes
  • Make the “All” tab the first tab
  • Remove the “Big companies report” (the “All” tab covers the same data)
  • Fix subscriber insights page crashes when no data has been found yet

0.2.0

  • First public release