Excited to announce eSteem v1.1.6 updates, that is published today. After iOS v1.0.0 release, I have pushed next batch of updates for iOS Appstore Review. Worked on AppStore screenshots as well so it is more attractive to new users.

New Features

🔥 New Push notifications
You can now, not only publish/read/comment/transfer/vote but You can receive notifications when someone votes your content, comments on your posts, follow you.

🔥 New Bookmarks
With users request, Bookmarking feature has been added, where you can save post for later read. It is super easy, you just open any post you want and bookmark it from top right corner. Remove bookmarking can be done from same page or menu has Bookmarks page where you can open post or swipe left to remove it from Bookmarks.

🔥 New added sort trend Promoted

Improvements

🔥 Login page refinement

🔥 Profile picture, better formatting on blockchain, with consensus of some Steem devs!
🔥 Markdown improvements
🔥 Layout updates

iOS (v1.1.8)

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=1141397898&mt=8
Version 1.1.5 was submitted for AppStore review on 🕐27th Aug 2016, should be available soon after review is done.

Google Play (1.1.6)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netsolutions.esteem

Future plans

Moving forward, focus will be to increase user base of the Steem platform as a whole. Enabling users to signup through app. Improvement on customized/personalized view and feel. Ability to make quick posts, promote content, give ability to cashout earned funds through Hive account@blocktrades or similar services, multiple language support, private messaging, support for WindowsPhone users, many more ideas.

Suggestions and Contributions

Please leave a comment and feedback. Project is Opensource, and you are invited to contribute anyway you can.
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UPDATE

iOS AppStore new version is available. This version doesn't have bookmarking and notifications yet, though all other major functionalities are in this version... How exciting to get approval for new version and you can be sure that iOS updates will now be consistent. Please give your feedback as much as you can, as it helps development to keep implementing updates.