We are pleased to announce that Mignori has reached Release Candidate status.
This means that every build we release from this point forward is potentially the build that will ship to the App Store. There may still be additional bug fixes, compatibility improvements, and booru support adjustments before release, but the app is no longer in a phase where we are planning new major features before launch.
Mignori started a brand new life in late 2025, and the journey to get here has been tremendous. It has also been very rewarding.
What Mignori Has Become
Mignori has grown into a powerful booru browser for iOS, with broad support for common booru software and many of the behaviors users expect from these sites.
At this point, we know of more sites that work with Mignori than sites that do not. That does not mean every booru on the internet is guaranteed to work perfectly, but support is in a strong place, and reports from testers have helped us improve compatibility across a wide range of real websites.
Mignori also has a flexible local storage system. You can build an in-app library without saving every post to your phone’s camera roll or scattering files around the Files app. Mignori can keep your saved posts, metadata, tags, thumbnails, videos, and collections together.
With Mignori Libraries, you can also decide where those libraries live. You can keep a library on your device, place it somewhere in Files, or create remote libraries in cloud storage providers such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or Backblaze B2.
Remote libraries are designed to be storage efficient. Mignori does not need to keep every full-size asset on your phone. It can keep local databases, thumbnails, samples, and recently used assets nearby while leaving the larger library content in remote storage.
Your Own Local Booru
One of the best parts of Mignori is that your saved library is not just a pile of files.
You can search your own local library with familiar booru-style queries. In practice, Mignori turns your device into your own personal booru. You can search by standard tags, combine terms, exclude tags, and use property filters to refine searches beyond what regular booru tags alone can express.
You can also organize your posts and tags directly.
By default, Mignori imports tags from the posts themselves. From there, you can create new tags, assign categories, add tags to posts, remove tags, and keep your local library organized in a way that makes sense to you.
The feature set has been built for people who use booru sites regularly. If that is you, we are confident Mignori will feel natural, powerful, and enjoyable to use.
The Release Date
Release Candidate builds of Mignori are now focused on polish. We do not plan to add new major features before the first App Store release. The work from here is bug fixing, performance work, final compatibility improvements, and booru support fixes if testers report sites that do not work correctly.
We want to give ourselves a little time to do that carefully. The plan is to use the rest of July to improve the app and make sure the first public release feels stable.
Right now, we are looking at a tentative release window between mid August and early September.
What’s Next
Please continue reporting bugs through e-mail, Discord, or directly through TestFlight.
Tester feedback has been extremely useful throughout development, and we have actively addressed issues reported to us. That will continue during the Release Candidate period. If you find a broken booru, a confusing flow, a performance problem, or anything else that feels off, please let us know.
A Big Thank You
Getting this far into Mignori’s development is not something that happens in isolation.
There has been a tremendous amount of user feedback that helped shape the direction of the app, fix important bugs, and improve booru support. The current shape of Mignori would not be possible without testers who took time out of their day to report issues, test fixes, and share honest opinions about the app.
Thank you very much to everyone who has actively tested Mignori and helped it become what it is today.
A Note on Developer Ownership
For transparency, Mignori is expected to launch on the App Store under my personal Apple Developer account, Andy Ibanez K.
As was the case with Silvianna, the plan is for the app to later be transferred to Fairese, my company. Fairese LLC is owned solely by me. Development of the app will remain in the hands of the same people, but it will be formalized under an LLC structure instead of a personal Apple Developer account.
The reason Mignori is not launching under the company account from the beginning is simple: Mignori has had TestFlight approval for almost 10 years, and we did not want to waste the opportunity to build on that existing approval.
When the transfer happens, TestFlight users may need to rejoin the TestFlight program. The timeline for that transfer has not been decided yet. As we did with Silvianna, notice will be posted on my personal website, the main Fairese website, and here on the Mignori website.