November 5, 2025

We're excited to announce Rowboat Desktop! Faster exploration with larger files, right on your desktop. Get the app or read our blog post to learn more.

As always, if you run into any issues with Rowboat, whether it's in your browser or in the app, feel free to let us know at sos@rowboat.net.

New

• A new home page for opening files and accessing your library files (if available)

Improved

• Enable switching between numeric and categorical inline representations when possible
• Prompt to remove any filters applied to a column when changing data type
• Use theme-specific colors for loading bar and Excel sheet picker
• Reduce overhead of fetching column names upon toggling headers
• Use better cross-platform keyboard shortcuts for features such as search

Fixed

• Fix issue where datetime formats that included a comma did not work
• Fix issue where scrollbars can sometimes be captured in header snapshots
• Fix issue where clicking away from a dropdown will not dismiss it in Safari
• When editing a range filter, don't collapse the two values into a single value
• Fix newly geocoded columns reporting 100% empty
• Fix distinct and empty readouts not updating after hiding rows
• Fix issue where removing a filter on a stacked histogram would not restore the stacked histogram chart type