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Changelog

2026.11.5 — beta, 2026-11-10

A fix. TorBox’s Usenet server now also has an IPv6 address that does not answer. On a phone with IPv6, on Wi-Fi or mobile data, Android tries that address first, and ondalet tried no other: Test said “Your provider could not be reached” and nothing played from Usenet. ondalet now tries every address of the server, the two kinds in turn, and starts from the one that worked last. Tried against TorBox’s server from a computer set to prefer IPv6 as a phone does, not yet from a phone.

2026.11.4 — beta, 2026-11-10

The fourth beta. Everything below was tried on emulators against test engines, not yet against NZBFinder from the phone.

Sort

Sort has six orders: Best match, Newest first and Oldest first (by the date the engine gives), Largest first and Smallest first, and Most seeders. Results with no date or no size go last. The row with Sort and Save stays at the top while the results scroll, and a new search starts in the order you last chose.

Saved searches keep everything

A saved search keeps its words, every filter (the engines and the categories too) and the order, and opening it brings them all back. When you change a filter or the order of a saved search on screen, Save offers Update, which keeps its name, pin and “new since last run”, or Save as new. Recent searches keep the order as well. A backup carries it.

Categories

An engine’s settings have Categories: the engine’s own list (Movies › HD, UHD, TV › SD, HD and so on), to check the ones it should search. With none checked it searches as before. Filters has Category (Movies, TV, Audio, Books and the others found in the results), checked on the phone; a result whose engine states no category is hidden while one is chosen.

Covers

Indexers such as NZBFinder send covers only from their film search. An Any search now also asks it, with the same words, so films among the results get their cover. That is one more request to the indexer per search, which counts towards its daily limit: Covers in Any searches turns it off in the engine’s settings. Series still have no cover when the indexer sends none.

The Usenet cache

Cache on this phone is a number of GB you set, 1 to 100, 5 by default. Past it the parts read longest ago go first, and also when the phone has under 2 GB free, always keeping the last 256 MB for what is playing.

What did not make it yet

2026.11.3 — beta, 2026-11-10

The third beta. The lock and the layouts were tried on emulators: a phone, a tablet and a simulated fold, not yet on a real foldable, and the fingerprint only in tests, not yet on a real sensor.

App lock

Settings has a Security group. Lock ondalet asks for a new PIN twice, 4 to 8 digits; from then on ondalet asks for it when it opens, and when it comes back after Lock after (when you leave, 1, 5 or 30 minutes). Where the phone has a fingerprint enrolled, Unlock with fingerprint opens the prompt by itself. Five wrong PINs start a wait of 30 seconds that doubles with each further wrong one, up to an hour, and a restart does not cancel it. Forgot the PIN? erases everything ondalet keeps on the phone and opens it as new: a backup you made can be restored afterwards. While the lock is on, the recent-apps preview is blank (Android 13 and later). Playback in the background keeps going. The lock keeps off someone holding your unlocked phone; it does not encrypt what the app keeps.

Tablets and foldables

On a wide window the list and the open item sit side by side: the results and a result, the Library and an item, Settings and its form. On a foldable open like a book the split sits on the hinge, and on a fold standing like a laptop the video plays in the top half and its controls in the bottom one.

What did not make it yet

2026.11.2 — beta, 2026-11-10

The second beta. It plays from Usenet. It was tried on an emulator, with test servers, and on one real Usenet provider with Creative Commons films, not yet on many providers and many kinds of releases.

Usenet direct

An NZB result’s page has a Usenet direct way above TorBox. It first checks a sample of the release’s articles on your providers and says whether it is complete, how much is missing, or whether it has expired. Then Play starts it in seconds, without downloading it first: seek anywhere, resume where you stopped, find it in Continue watching, or open it in another player. A pack of episodes shows its files and plays the next episode.

Archives

Most releases are packed in RAR or 7z archives split into many parts. When the archive is stored (not compressed), ondalet reads only its headers and plays the video inside the same way, even when the poster scrambled the file names. A compressed archive says so and leaves the way through TorBox, which can play it.

Providers

A provider set to fill missing articles is asked for what the first one lacks. The provider form has Test, which signs in and says what it proved, and Use my TorBox Usenet account, which fills in the form from your TorBox key; TorBox does not hand out the password, so you copy it from its dashboard. Settings has the size of the cache on the phone and Clear cache.

What did not make it yet

2026.11.1 — beta, 9 November 2026

The first version. It is a beta: tried on an emulator and on one real TorBox account, not yet on many phones and many kinds of files. On the F-Droid repository it is not the suggested version, so F-Droid installs it only when you pick it.

Ask the Newznab, Torznab and Prowlarr engines you add, and six public torrent sites (Knaben, The Pirate Bay, EZTV, YTS, Nyaa and Torrents-CSV, which start switched off). Filter and sort the results, keep a search to run again and see what is new since the last time, and go back to your recent searches. Preview images show next to results when an engine gives one; a switch in Settings turns them off.

TorBox

Sign in with a code or paste a key. Results TorBox already has carry a Cached badge, and a filter shows only those. A result’s page lists its files and has Add to TorBox. The Library shows what is in your TorBox with its progress, each item’s files by season, and Remove from TorBox.

Playing

Play a file from your TorBox in the app: video in landscape with picture in picture, audio and subtitle tracks (including the subtitle files of a torrent), speed, resume where you stopped, Continue watching in the Library and the next episode. Audio keeps playing in the background, with its notification. Or open the file in another player you choose.

Backup

Back up your settings to a file, encrypted with a passphrase or plain, and restore it by merging into what you have or replacing it. Passwords and keys are kept encrypted on the phone.

What did not make it yet