Subtext - Phone Diaries [Ongoing] - Version: 0.11.2

What's New in Subtext - Phone Diaries Version - 0.11.2?

v0.11.2 – What a good wife

A new Original Story starts today. The first two chapters of What a Good Wife are up, right at the top of the Story list.

Shun’s boss offers to help him and Reina out of a financial mess. You can probably guess there’s a catch. Reina is about to find out how much of one.

I’m trying something a little different with this story. The art leans more manga, and I’m drawing more illustrations per chapter to get a bit more immersive.

This one is inspired on a Netorare hentai, can you guess which one?

Quick changelog

What a Good Wife, chapters 1 and 2

Whispers and inner thoughts in Live Moments

Studio fixes for avatar cropping and small screens

If you give it a read, tell me what you think of the new art style.

v0.10.4 – Secret Garden, Malfoid and Phone Themes
– New Original Story: Secret Garden, with five playable chapters and sequential illustrations for more immersive scenes. More chapters are coming soon.
– New short Community Story: Malfoid. Community Stories automatically link to their author’s itch.io page in game.
– New phone themes in Studio: customize fonts, colors, message bubbles, wallpapers, and app icons. Import and export themes to share your designs.
– Improved Unlocks gallery, with locked collectibles and collection progress, plus New badges in the Story catalog.
– Improved Community Story browsing, importing, menus, and mobile layouts.
– New OverFaunt story triggers and fixes for video playback, SMS Moments, and chapter progression.
– Patreon membership refreshes when reopening the app. Updated Discord invite and added an X / Twitter shortcut.
– Standard edition: two free Original Stories, plus one extra by connecting a Patreon membership, including free members. Previously selected Stories stay unlocked.
– No new save reset.

v0.8.0 – Unlocks and Replay
– New Unlocks gallery: revisit unlocked photos and videos, and replay SMS and Live Moments.
– Smoother SMS Moments, clearer Live Moment choices, and improved playback controls.
– New Skip unseen content option in Settings.
– Custom phone wallpapers, lock screens, and skill icons in Studio.
– New portrait Story covers and fixes for Studio previews, restarts, and duplication.
– Patreon integration with an offline backup code for supporters. The standard edition offers two free Original Story selections; the tutorial and Community Stories remain free.

v0.7.0 – Only Goth
– New completed Original Story: Only Goth. Six chapters about your roommate Nora and the secret account you were never supposed to find.
– OverFaunt reworked with character profiles, comments, and player replies.
– Redesigned Story browser with search, filters, and sorting.
– Reorganized Studio with a central Content Library and optional phone apps.
– Authors can place OverFaunt posts, GPS locations, and Nozamart items directly into chapter timelines.
– Improved mobile navigation and Android Story importing.

v0.6.0: The Choice Is Real

Your choices finally matter. They can open and close routes, change relationships, unlock scenes, affect later chapters, and lead to completely different endings.

Two Original Stories, completely reworked
– Movie Night is now complete with a seventh chapter, Front Row, and several endings shaped by your decisions.
– My Beautiful Neighbor gets a fourth chapter centered on the seminar and hotel, with major new routes for Maya and Jade.
– More than 1,800 additional messages and choice replies across both Stories.
– Earlier chapters, routes, scenes, and choices have been extensively rewritten.

Restart from anywhere
– Rewind the Story from any message.
– Right-click on desktop or press and hold on mobile.
– Restart any chapter you have already started from the Journal.
– Keep compatible progress from everything that happened before that chapter.

Experiment. Go back. Make it worse.

SMS Moments and Live Moments
– SMS Moments stay inside the conversation with the real Messages interface and history.
– Live Moments step outside the phone into full-screen visual novel scenes.
– Live Moments support dialogue, choices, branching, photos, videos, effects, and automatic playback.
– They can launch from Messages, GPS, chapter events, or the new Camera app.

Also new
– Skills that evolve and unlock choices.
– Relationship scores such as affection, trust, and complicity.
– New Contacts app with character profiles and relationship progress.
– New Bank app, money transfers, and priced Nozamart gifts.
– Visible requirements for locked choices.
– Completely rebuilt six-chapter Meet Ai-chan tutorial.
– Smoother long conversations.
– Extensive mobile and browser improvements.
– Story graphs and richer branching tools in Studio.
– Safer Story publishing, migration, and update systems.

Important save notice

The progression system was completely rebuilt for version 0.6.

Updating from an earlier version resets existing Story progress once. Settings and installed Story packages are kept.

Old JSON save exports are no longer compatible. New saves use the .subtext-save format.

v0.3.0 – Time Slices
– New Original story: My Beautiful Neighbor.
– Reworked the time skip system. Days are now split into time slices for finer pacing control and cleaner story structure.
– Story authors can now trigger events per slice instead of per day.

v0.2.0 – Moments
– Added Moments, an immersive mode for scenes that matter.
– When a Moment triggers, the phone frame drops away and the artwork fills the screen. The conversation stays overlaid on top, semi-transparent, so you keep reading and replying without breaking out of the image.
– Story authors can trigger Moments from the editor like any other event.

v0.1.0
– Initial release: first Original story (Movie Night) and the community story editor.