What's new oncat?

A couple of nice additions this time, plus a fix.

• A little help with the words. Writing up a logbook entry and not sure how it reads? Tap Give it a polish and we'll gently tidy your own words into something you'd be happy to show — your facts left exactly as they were. Have a read, then keep it or undo it. It's only ever a suggestion.
• Reuse a photo you've already added. When you're adding photos to a logbook entry, you can now choose from the photos already on the car instead of uploading them again.

A small but handy one for writing up your entries.

• Reuse photos you've already added. When you're writing a logbook entry, you can now pull in photos that are already on your Jaguar — from its gallery or an earlier entry — instead of uploading them again. Look for "…or choose from photos you've already added" (or the From your photos button), pick as many as you like, and they drop straight into your entry. It's the same picker you already use for your cover photo, and each one's copied — so your original stays exactly where it is.

A new one for the car page — and it's a good one.

• See how rare your Jaguar is. Your car page can now show how many of your exact Jaguar are still on the road in the UK, straight from DVLA's own licensing figures. Open one of your cars, pick your exact variant, and it reads the real number — "One of 358 still on the road."
• The story over the years. A simple graph charts how the numbers have changed over time — still on the road vs tucked away (SORN) — and marks the year you got yours, so you can see how many were around when you took it on.
• It keeps itself current. The figures refresh automatically every week, so they're never far out of date.
• A few tidy-ups too — small bits of polish around the garage and car pages.

A big batch of polish this time, mostly around telling your car's story and keeping its paperwork in order.

• Writing a logbook entry just got nicer. The editor is calmer and content-first, with proper formatting — headings, bold, italic, bullet lists and pull-quotes — so your write-ups read like a proper story. New entries start on a clean page, and you can now choose how each photo gallery is laid out.
• Service and MOT history are now clean tables. Dates, what was done, mileage and cost line up in tidy columns you can scan at a glance — with MOT advisories tucked away until you want to see them.
• One home for "is it for sale?" and "what's it worth". The car page now leads with a single Status section: set whether you're open to offers, and — privately, just for you — keep a note of what you paid and what it's worth now.
• Sharing is simpler and warmer. Every car, garage and story page now has one clear Share panel at the foot, including a window-card teaser so you can pop a scan-to-story card in the windscreen at a show.
• A peek at the paddock on the homepage. The latest entries from around the community now show on the front page.
• Your car's story gained a "how you use it now" chapter — daily driver, weekend blasts, the odd show, or tucked away for winter.
• A grid view for a car's timeline, if you'd rather browse the photos as a gallery.

We've spent a good while making Oncat nicer to live with, and most of it shows on a phone. Here's the round-up:

Getting around on a phone

• The main sections — Paddock, Events and Clubs — now tuck into the menu in the top-right, always within reach.
• The About, Help and Contact pages keep their menu with you as you scroll.

Events & your season

• The events page got a proper mobile tidy-up — no more sideways scroll, the season timeline lines up neatly, and each event shows its date up top.
• A little bar lets you flip between The season (everything that's on) and Your season (what you and your friends are heading to) in one tap.
• Event pages read better too, with the "what else is on" list moved to the bottom.

Your logbook

• Opening an entry on a phone now leads with the story — the car, the title and your write-up — and your photos run right to the edges of the screen. Kudos and share sit at the end, once you've read it.

Editing your photos

• Framing a photo now works properly on touch: pinch to zoom (or use the new + / − buttons) and drag to reposition, with the frame staying put.
• Blurring a number plate is much nicer too — pinch to zoom right in, and the corner handles are far easier to grab, even on a small or angled plate.

Little touches

• Edit your photo, location and bio straight from your garage page — no digging through Settings.
• "Add a Jaguar" now sits in the Manage menu on your garage.
• A friendly "Share your garage" prompt, so your whole collection is one link away.

Nothing changed on a laptop — this is all about making Oncat a pleasure to use on the phone in your pocket.

It's been a busy few weeks behind the scenes — here's what you'll notice.

Your MOT history, kept for you

• Add your registration and we'll pull your Jaguar's full MOT history straight from the DVSA — every test, the mileage, the advisories — right onto its page.
• It stays up to date on its own, and we'll email you about three weeks before your MOT is due, so it never catches you out.

A lovelier way to add a Jaguar

• Adding a car is now a calm, one-thing-at-a-time flow that starts where it should: with a photo.
• Pop in your reg and we'll fill in the year, colour and model for you from the DVSA — less typing, more showing off.

Edit anything right from your car's page

• Every key fact now has its own little edit button — tap it for a focused pop-up to change just that one thing. Any blanks gently nudge you to fill them in.
• And a new "Preview public page" lets you see your car exactly as visitors do.

Your garage, tidied up

• Your garage is now a single page — the very one you share — with a warmer welcome when you first join.
• Your cars carry handy at-a-glance chips for MOT, service and insurance dates, and a clear Public / Private marker.

We spent some time making Oncat feel just right on a phone — lots of small polish, plus a couple of touches you might notice:

• Your car's photos hold still now. The big hero image used to shift and re-crop as you scrolled on mobile — now it stays put.
• A gentle nudge to share. If you've been quietly perfecting a car in private, you'll see a friendly "this is looking great — ready to let people see it?" It's an invitation, never a nag, and you can always switch back to private.
• Your service & MOT history keeps its head. We show your most recent entries with a See full history button for the rest, so a long, lovingly-kept log doesn't bury the rest of the page.
• Cleaner all round on a phone. The photo viewer tucks each caption neatly under the image, sharing opens straight into your phone's own share sheet, and the menus and top bars no longer feel cramped.

Everything you've documented is exactly where you left it — this was all about making Oncat a pleasure to use, especially from your pocket.

A handful of updates have landed — the big one being private messaging.

Messages have arrived. You can now have a private chat with your friends, right here on Oncat.

• Message a friend — from their garage, or open the new envelope icon at the top of any page and hit New message to pick someone. No phone numbers to swap; just say hello.
• You won't miss one — when a message arrives, a gentle pop-up lets you know, and the envelope shows how many are waiting, wherever you are on the site.
• A warm, familiar chat — drop in an emoji, links become clickable, and your conversations are tidied by day so they're easy to follow.
• Private, and in your hands — you can only message friends (people you've both agreed to connect with), and you can delete your own messages or block anyone at any time.

Fairer event pages. When several clubs turn out to the same event — think the big shows like the NEC Classic Motor Show — the page now reads even-handedly:

• The write-up describes the event itself, not one club's turn-out — every club gets a fair mention.
• Every club sits side by side with the same simple link — equal billing, no favourites, landing you on each club's own event or calendar page.

Your name, front and centre. Where your name belongs, it now shows your name — not your @handle (kept to first name and last initial, as your privacy setting intends). The keeper card at the foot of a car page got a nicer, bigger photo of who looks after the car, too.

A smoother Paddock. Browsing Latest entries just keeps loading as you scroll — no more Show more button to reach for.

It has been a busy little while — here is everything new, gathered in one place.

Your emails, your way

• We can now bundle your activity emails — kudos, new followers, new logbook entries, friends heading to events — into a single daily or weekly round-up, instead of a separate email each time. Choose how often under Email settings; a gentle daily round-up is the default.

Photos and your logbook

• Add as many photos to an entry as you like — you just add them up to 50 at a time, so a whole restoration goes on in a few batches. Pick more than 50 and it tells you straight away, rather than trying, failing and leaving you with nothing.
• New Sold tag for the logbook — a gentle bookend to Purchase, so you can mark the day a car moved on to its next keeper.

Covers made easier

• Changing a car or garage cover now lets you pick from photos you already have, not just upload a new one — in a tidier dialog with everything laid out on tabs.

Landing in the action

• The Paddock now opens on the action. Sign in and the home button drops you straight into Latest entries — a running feed of what the whole paddock has been up to, newest first. The Cars view is still there, one tab across.
• A nudge to share your own. Woven into that feed you will spot a gentle prompt to post what you have been tinkering with — a couple of taps to add an entry to your Jaguar.

Finding your way, and looking after your privacy

• Every page now has a quiet back arrow, top-left, that steps you up a level: an entry back to the car, a car back to its garage, a garage back to the Paddock.
• If you show your name on your public pages, we now show your first name and last initial only — e.g. David B. — never your full surname. Kinder to your privacy, given the cars we all look after.

A few more thoughtful touches

• Cars you no longer own now show Last known mileage rather than Current mileage — a little more honest.
• On the plate-blur page you can now delete a flagged photo outright, alongside Ignore and Blur.
• The Events page has been tidied into one calmer section up top.
• And some polish: your garage menu now reads Manage with clear icons; the season page reads Our season throughout; the account menu closes when you click away; and menus near the bottom of the screen open upward so they are never cut off.

• Stuck for words? Let us help. Your car's story now has a Give it a polish button. Jot down a few rough points and it'll tidy them into something readable — in your own voice, and never inventing anything. It only ever suggests: you decide whether to use it, and you can undo any time.
• One place to edit your car. The details, who can see it, your insurance reminder — everything about your Jaguar now lives on a single, clearer Edit screen, reached from the new Manage menu on the car's page.
• A tidier model list. We gave the Jaguar model picker a proper going-over — cleaner names from the XK120 right through to the F-PACE, with a few special ones (like the F-Type Project 7) in their own right. We also ask for the year now, so every car reads just as it should: "1968 E-Type".
• A few small polishes. The story editor jumps straight to the headline when you open it, the per-section edit links say exactly what they do ("Edit summary"), and a name with an apostrophe no longer looks odd in a heading.

We've given the whole Events section a proper going-over — it's now the easiest place to see what's on across the Jaguar world and plan your year.

• The whole season as a timeline — every club's calendar gathered in one place and laid out as a clear run through the year, with a "This weekend / Coming up" strip so the next few events are always in view.
• Filter to what you fancy — narrow the season by type (shows, track days, drives and more) and by club, in any combination you like.
• See who's going — a new "Friends going" filter shows just the events your friends have said they're attending.
• Share your season — there's now a public page of the events you're heading to that you can hand to anyone, at oncat.app/yourhandle/season.
• A nudge before the off — mark yourself going and we'll email you the week before, so there's time to give the Jaguar a wash and a polish.
• Tidier event pages — each event now has a one-tap link to the club's own page, add-to-calendar buttons, and a "what's on next" glimpse of the season from that date.

A few more corners of the Jaguar world have joined us.

• Two clubs added to the Clubs page — the Jaguar XK Club and the Daimler & Lanchester Owners' Club now sit alongside the JEC, the Drivers' Club, the Breakfast Club and the E-Type Club. If you're a member, they're a click away.
• More in the events calendar — the XK Club's and E-Type Club's season is now listed too, each event with its own little write-up. Tours, club weekends, dinners and the big national shows — plenty to browse.

• Sharing that behaves on private cars. If a car — or a single entry — is private, we no longer show a "Share" button that wouldn't actually open for anyone. Instead we explain it and point you to making the car public. Same for your garage: the share only shows once you've something public to show.
• A kinder message for an empty file. If a document you drop into Add from photos comes through empty (it happens — a browser hiccup, not your fault), we now say so plainly — "that file appears to be empty, double-check it and try again" — instead of a vague error.

We keep an eye on your number plate now. If you keep your registration private, Oncat quietly checks your public photos for a number plate — and if one's on show, it hides that photo from your public page until you blur it. When that happens we'll drop you an email, and there's a one-tap flow to fix it: we've even drawn the blur box over the plate for you, so you just nudge it to fit and save. Blur it and it's back on show straight away.

Sold a Jaguar? Its plate stays private. A car you've marked as previously owned can no longer show its registration — the car belongs to whoever owns it today, so we keep it off your page for you.

A clearer car page. Tidier key facts — First registered, First registered by, Current mileage and Invested in upkeep — plus a new Miles with owner. And your service history now marks each year as you scroll, with a gentle note of the point a car came into your care.

Add from photos now leaves number plates out of the details it reads off your documents.

Now works with PDFs, too. Have your invoices, MOT certificates or receipts as PDFs — emailed from the garage, or downloaded from gov.uk? Add those straight in, no need to print or screenshot them first. We read a PDF the same way, and it's often even more accurate than a photo.

Spotted a false alarm? If we ever flag a photo that doesn't actually show a number plate, you can now tap Ignore to keep it on your public page — no need to blur something that isn't there.

Add from photos is here — the big one this time. Building up your Jaguar's service history used to mean typing in every record by hand. Now you can just photograph the document — an MOT certificate, a service invoice, an old receipt — and we read it and fill in the record for you. Got a whole folder? Photograph the lot and work through them one at a time.

Your photo is never stored. We read the details off it, then it's gone — and personal bits like names and addresses, along with any prices, are kept out. You check every field before anything is saved.

Who looked after it. Service records now have a Garage / supplier field, so you can note who did the work — a documented specialist history is part of what makes a classic worth its price.

A small wording change. In your logbook you now Add an entry (rather than an "update"), and the paddock tab reads Latest entries — clearer, thanks to a bit of feedback from an early member.

What you've spent, if you want to show it. You can now record the cost against any service record, and Oncat totals it up as Invested in your car's key facts. It's private by default — a one-tap pill flips it public when you're ready, and asks you to confirm first so nothing's revealed by accident. Handy come selling time: a documented spend tells its own story.

Show or hide your number plate. The registration in your key facts has the same one-tap Public / Private switch, so it's your call whether your plate is on show.

"For sale" where people will see it. If your Jaguar's on the market, that now sits right up with the key facts, just under your car's story — not tucked away down the page. Your own status buttons (Not for sale · Might sell · For sale) live there too, as simple coloured pills.

Tidier service records. The longer detail on a record now sits behind a Read detail link, so your history stays easy to skim.

A service history that's easier to skim. Your timeline now marks each year as it goes, so a long history is quick to scan — you can see at a glance where one year ends and the next begins.

Mostly quiet tidying this time — the kind that makes the whole place feel more finished. A few things you might notice:

• Getting around your garage is easier. Your public garage page now has a slim navigation bar to jump straight to a section — your Jaguars, the ones you owned before, your honours, your updates. And your owner tools (change the cover, settings, copy the link) are tucked into one neat "Edit" menu instead of scattered about.
• Saving is simpler. On the settings, car-details and story pages, the Save button now sits at the top and rides along as you scroll — no more hunting for it at the bottom of a long form.
• One name for one thing. Your logbook posts are called "updates" everywhere now — you post an update, you edit an update. A small thing, but it stops the app calling the same thing two different names.
• The info pages are joined up. About, What's new, Get involved, Contact and Help now share a little tab bar, so you can move between them without scrolling down to the footer — and the Help page reads more cleanly.
• A few fixes — some buttons and menus that weren't quite behaving, and a stray scrollbar, all put right.

We've spent a while going over Oncat screen by screen, smoothing off the rough edges. Most of it is quiet, behind-the-scenes consistency — but a few things you'll actually notice:

• It should feel more finished. Buttons, switches, filters and labels now look and behave the same wherever you are on the site. Small things on their own; together, a good deal tidier.
• A few fixes. The on/off switches in your settings now slide properly, the View button on an attached PDF opens it as it should, and jumping to your car's latest timeline entry now works whichever way you're viewing it.
• Stuck PDFs have a way out. If a document won't open inside Oncat, you can now open it in a new browser tab instead — so you're never left staring at an error.
• Honours cover a little more. They're now about the recognition your Jaguar has earned, not only outright wins.
• A tidier menu. "Your public page" now sits right under "Your garage," where you'd look for it.

A few tidy-ups to attaching PDFs to a post — with thanks to a keen early tester for spotting them.

• If a file's too big, you'll be told straight away — with its size and the limit — instead of it quietly failing.
• Uploads now show clearer progress, and say so if something goes wrong rather than looking stuck.
• You can remove an attached PDF straight from the post now, without going back into edit mode.

The size limit is 20 MB per file — plenty for a scanned manual or a set of instructions.

A couple of new bits this time.

Where your Jaguar came from

• Key Facts now has a Supplying dealer field — that lovely bit of provenance, like "supplied new by Williams Jaguar, Manchester". As you type, it suggests dealers other owners have already added, so the spelling stays nice and consistent.

This very page

• Oncat now has a What's new page (you're on it) — a simple, honest note whenever something changes. No feed, no noise; just what's new, when it's worth telling you about.

Been a busy stretch on Oncat — here's what's new.

Your timeline

• A new List view — flip the car timeline between the big "Story" layout and a compact, line-by-line list, so a long history is easy to scan.
• Post titles now tidy themselves into a consistent Title Case, however you type them.

Editing feels nicer everywhere

• The little editing pop-ups — Key Facts, service records, covers, your profile photo — have all been rebuilt to be roomier and more consistent, and they go full-screen on a phone instead of a cramped box.

Photos & covers

• Reframing and blurring now use the same big full-screen editor everywhere, and your garage banner can be reframed as often as you like without ever losing quality.

Service & MOT history

• A new optional Cost field on each record — private, only you can see it.

Documents on posts

• You can now attach a PDF to a logbook post — a set of instructions or wiring diagrams, say. People view it right in the browser, and you choose per file whether they can download it.