Release notes
What changed in every version of the InboxBinder extension, newest first.
Dates are the day each version reached the Chrome Web Store. A version that never reached it is folded into the one that did.
1.7.0
Files from earlier messages in a reply chain are now listed, and you can save a message’s files as a zip instead of one PDF. Get it from the Chrome Web Store.
- Files from earlier messages in the thread. Gmail’s Reply does not carry attachments forward. If a client sent a PDF in the first message and photos in a later reply, InboxBinder used to see only the newest message. Now each earlier message gets its own group in the popup, listing its files. They start deselected, so nothing from an old message lands in your PDF by surprise. The “Add all” button selects every file from one message, or you can pick row by row.
- Save as separate files. A link under the Save button, “Save as separate files (.zip)”, saves your selection as one zip instead of one combined PDF. The files are numbered in the order they appear in the email, and any turns you made with Rotate are kept, with no loss of quality.
- Two similar messages no longer get mixed up. Two messages from the same sender, with the same subject, sent in the same minute used to share one saved result in the popup. Each message now has its own.
- The “Trial over” notice shows once. It appears in the month your 5 free saves run out. After that the popup shows your monthly count. If your trial ended before this version, the popup opens on the monthly count.
- Clearer wording. The toolbar tooltip and the “open a message” panels now mention the zip.
- A short survey after you uninstall. Removing the extension opens inboxbinder.com/goodbye, which asks what you expected. It is optional, and the address carries nothing about you.
- A support address. Questions go to support@inboxbinder.com.
Still true: your documents never leave your browser, and file names read the date from an English-language Gmail.
1.6.0
This version includes everything prepared for 1.5.0, which was never released. Changes that existing users will notice:
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You can subscribe, or restore a license you already have, without using up your free saves first. Two quiet links, “Subscribe: $49 per year” and “Restore license”, sit under the privacy line while you still have free saves. Before, the only way to buy was to run out first, and there was no way to claim a license you already held, for example after moving to a new computer. The popup now checks your license each time it opens, so one granted or restored elsewhere shows up straight away. If the check is slow or you are offline, the popup carries on with what it last knew.
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You now choose what goes in the PDF with a checkbox on each row. The two switches at the bottom of the popup, “include attachments” and the zip toggle, are gone, and so is the saved preference behind the first one. Every image, attached file and zip is its own row, selected by default (small images and repeats start deselected, see below). A section with six or more rows has a Select all button, which turns into Select none once everything is selected. If you relied on never including attachments, deselect them once per message with Select none.
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Images in the collapsed part of a message are now listed and selected. Before, an image hidden behind Gmail’s “…” button was left out, and a message could save fewer pages than you could see. Now each one is a row marked “In the collapsed part of the email”. One consequence: a newsletter that hides mobile-only copies of its images can add extra pages. Deselect the copies you do not want.
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Quoted reply trails are no longer excluded. The images in them are listed and selected like any others, so a long reply chain can list more rows than it used to. Select or deselect per row.
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Nothing is dropped without telling you. Every image Gmail serves for the message is a numbered row with a thumbnail. Notes sit under the name where they apply: “Same as image 3” for a repeat of an earlier image, “Small image, may be a logo” for one too small to be a page (deselected). Gmail’s own decorative icons are counted in the section heading and named in one sentence, and an image that lives on another website is explained in the popup, with how to save it by hand, because the extension cannot fetch it.
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Fixed from the unreleased 1.4.1: an image sitting inside a forwarded or quoted block could be silently left out, so a message with six images could save two with no warning. Those images are now always listed.
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File names read the date in English only. If your Gmail is set to another language, the date at the top of the message cannot be read and the file starts with “undated_” instead of the date. The PDF itself is unaffected, and a fix is planned.
Also new:
- Rotate now sits on every image row and every attached file. An image’s thumbnail turns as you press it, so you see the page before you save; an attached file shows the angle on its button. A PDF still turns as a whole.
- Pages follow the list from top to bottom, and the popup says so.
- Your ticks and rotations are remembered for the message while the popup is closed, and the finished result comes back when you reopen the popup: the file name, the page count, Show in folder, and anything that was not saved. They are held in memory only and clear when you quit Chrome.
- Not saved files are reported honestly. The result reads, for example, “Saved 6 pages. Not saved: 2 files.”, names each file with its reason (password protected, too large, damaged, a zip inside a zip, and so on), and has a button that jumps to the first one. A zip that holds nothing usable says so.
- Closing the Save As window without saving does not use up a free save.
- Saves on two messages can run at the same time. Start one, switch to another message, and the second popup is not locked and shows nothing from the first.
- The popup follows the system dark mode, and is wider (384 pixels) so file names wrap instead of being cut off.
- Accessibility: every control can be reached and used from the keyboard, a “Skip to Save” link is the first stop, and screen readers announce what matters: the number of images and files found when the popup opens, the saved result when you reopen it after a save, progress while saving, and “Reloading Gmail” when you reload the tab. Row numbers are read as “Number 2”. The popup holds up at 200 and 400 percent browser zoom.
- Your license status is a small label beside the title, and “Already paid? Restore license” opens the sign-in window once, even on a double click.
- Requires Chrome 123 or newer. Older versions stay on the previous release.
1.4.0
Submitted to the Chrome Web Store on October 1, 2026, and superseded by 1.6.0 eight days later. It also carries two changes that were never released on their own, 1.2.1 and 1.3.0.
- Zip attachments are unpacked, and the documents inside them go into the combined PDF, instead of being listed and skipped.
- Turn a sideways scan upright before saving. A document scanned at 90 degrees carries a technically correct orientation tag and still needs turning, and no tag can express that: only a reader looking at it can. Rotation is set in clockwise degrees on top of whatever the orientation tag already corrected, so “rotate 90” means what you see on screen, not what the file claims.
- Rotation is lossless for the common cases. A rotated photo keeps its original JPEG data and the PDF page is turned instead, so nothing is re-encoded and no quality is lost. PDFs rotate through the format’s own page rotation attribute, composing with any rotation the document already declares.
- Your rotation choices survive the popup closing. They are stored per message, so a stray click no longer discards them and produces the same wrong PDF.
- Two limits, stated in the popup rather than left to surprise you: files inside a zip cannot be rotated, because nothing can see inside the archive before the save, and a PDF turns as one document because there is no page by page rotation.
- Fixed: a message whose body was fully collapsed behind Gmail’s “…” button made the scan report that it could not read the open message, and that discarded the attachments too. A forwarded email with attachments now works whether or not you expand it first. Expanding still matters for embedded images, which are not on the page until you do.
1.2.0
- Free tier: a one time 5 save trial, then 2 more free saves every calendar month, resetting on the 1st. No account and no card for any of it.
- The popup shows a privacy line the first time it opens, links to the help page, and announces its results to screen readers.
- A button in the popup for anyone who needs more than the monthly free saves.
1.1.0
- Pricing published: 5 free saves, then $49 a year for unlimited saves.
- The privacy policy gained a licensing and payments section. The promise that documents never leave your browser stays, now with the one carve out stated plainly: an anonymous license check goes to the payment provider, carrying neither your email nor your documents.
- Store and extension copy changed to “Your documents never leave your browser”.
1.0.1
The first version, listed privately in the Chrome Web Store in September 2026 for one law office to try. The public listing began with 1.1.0.
- Save the open Gmail message’s embedded images and attachments as one combined PDF, either straight to Downloads or to a location you pick.
- Photos taken sideways or upside down are rotated upright automatically.
- Pages run in the order the documents appear in the email: embedded images first, then attachments.
- The popup reports the filename Chrome actually wrote, including the
(2)style suffix Chrome adds when that name is already taken, rather than the name that was requested. - Known at the time, and fixed in 1.4.0: a trimmed forward counted 0 embedded images.