Hello dear community,
Our latest releases mark the completion of a long-awaited feature: the ability to edit media directly in Tella. Now, users no longer need to export sensitive files from Tella’s encrypted container to edit photos, audio, or videos—making media management both safer and easier.
When you edit a file, Tella saves the edited version as a copy. Your original remains unchanged (including the original metadata, if available). We've made this behavior more transparent in the app, so you always know exactly what’s happening when you make changes.
In our documentation you can see all the beautiful ✔️. If there’s a feature marked as “Not yet” that you need, we’d love to hear from you, so we can explore ways to include it in Tella’s roadmap. As you know, Tella's future is uncertain and fragile, so the possibility to sustain and justify feature development based on community needs is especially important right now.
Making Tella a little bit more accessible
Tella Android 2.16.0 and Tella iOS 1.15.0 also include many small fixes and visual improvements that make Tella more consistent and predictable to use.
On Android, we fixed bugs related to password input and the audio player, expanded the image editing canvas to full screen, and made sure the “+” button stays visible—even when you have a long list of files. On iOS, we cleaned up some layout issues and ensured the play button works as expected when previewing a clip. We also made improvements to the Uwazi and ODK connections. Our Android team focused on investigating and reducing Tella’s crash rate, and we hope you can feel the difference while using the app.
On the accessibility front, thanks to our friends at Localization Lab, Tella now supports its 21st language: Ndau. Localization Lab is also going through a challenging time, so if you can spare a few minutes to fill out this survey they are running, that would be amazing ❤️.
Coming soon: offline file sharing for internet shutdown resilience
Our team is hard at work on a new feature: Nearby Sharing. This will make it easier to transfer files between devices in areas where the internet is unavailable—or intentionally blocked—using peer-to-peer connections.
We’re testing a prototype now, and we’d love your feedback. Let us know what works, what doesn’t, or what you'd need from it.
That’s all from me for today. I hope you’re all staying safe, and I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
Abrazo,
Caro
