Updates

Your recording is a file, from the first second

• A voice note can no longer be lost. Press record and the audio starts landing on disk immediately, next to the note, under a name you can read — not held in memory until the end. If the speech model times out, is still loading, or hears nothing at all, the recording is still there and the note says where. Transcribing is a separate step you can run again whenever you like.
• Record the call, not just yourself. Switch on Call and a meeting is captured as two tracks: your microphone, and what the other people are saying. They stay separate on purpose — a mixdown could never be pulled apart again — and the two transcripts are merged by time into a labelled conversation, you and them. It cannot tell the people on the call apart from each other; that is a different problem and it is on the list.
• Long recordings actually finish. A forty-minute note used to go to the speech model in one piece and give up. It is transcribed in chunks now, the way screen-recording captions already were.
• Notch widget on other Macs. The island now follows the notch it is actually hanging from — its centre is re-read when you plug in a monitor or change scaling, and the strip that clears the camera is measured rather than assumed. On a Mac without a notch there is no longer a gap where the camera would be.

Flow & NotesNotch & Clipboard

The notch holds the whole app now

• Five sections, no detour. The buttons across the top of the island used to throw you into the app. They are the tabs now: everything you copied, your notes, your screen recordings, everything you dictated, and your recent files — each with its own list, and pressing one goes nowhere.
• Pick a row and it does the obvious thing. A clipboard entry goes back on your clipboard, a note opens, a recording opens Studio already on that take, a file opens in the viewer with its thumbnail. Making something new lives on the + beside the search, and follows whichever section you are in.
• It expands now, instead of dropping down. The island starts at the camera housing’s own size and opens outward with the small overshoot the platform gives this gesture. The text no longer rides that scale, so nothing squashes on the way out.
• Smaller things you would have noticed. The scrollbar came through white on a black island — it is dark now; and the pale hairline across the top is gone, which was the window’s own rim showing against black.

Notch & Clipboard

Point at the notch

• The notch is the button now. The menu-bar icon gets lost among a dozen others — so point at the camera housing instead, and the app grows out of it as a black island: everything you copied, everything you dictated, and your notes, over a row of the four things worth starting from the top of the screen.
• Your notes, wherever they live. A new tab — newest first, with the first line or two of each, and picking one opens it. It is in the menu-bar panel too, not only in the island.
• It stays out of your way. The hot spot is the notch and not a pixel more, it waits a moment before opening so passing through does nothing, and hovering never takes your keyboard — it only does that once you click into it.
• No notch, no problem. On a Mac without one the same spot works at the top centre. Nothing is drawn until you point at it, so nothing ever covers your menu-bar icons.

Notch & Clipboard

Your clipboard in the menu bar — and a teleprompter that never gets recorded

• Clipboard, from any app. The history moves out of the title bar and into the menu bar, where a clipboard manager belongs: click the OY.Surf icon or press ⇧⌘V from whatever you are in, pick an entry, it is back on your clipboard. ⌥↵ pastes it straight into the field you came from. ⌘1–9 grab the first nine, Space is Quick Look on the highlighted one, ⌥P pins it above the line.
• Dictations in the same panel. Everything you have said through Flow is the second tab — it has been kept all along, with nowhere to show it. Tab switches.
• A teleprompter. Read a note or your clipboard to the camera from a window that floats over everything and never appears in a recording — not Studio’s, not anyone’s. Two presets: a strip under the built-in camera so your eyes stay where the viewer’s are, and a big mirrored one for a beam-splitter rig (⇧M if yours flips both ways). It counts you in — 3, 2, 1 — and holds the text until then; ⌃⌥Space plays and pauses from any app.
• Where to find them. The Prompter button in a note, in Studio’s setup, on a board note’s menu, in ⌘K and in the tray. Both are in the ⌘/ cheatsheet and the welcome tour. The panel’s shortcut is a setting, for anyone already running Paste or Maccy.
• One change to know. The menu-bar icon’s plain click now opens the panel; the command menu is on right-click, with the panel as its first item.

Notch & ClipboardStudioFlow & Notes

Everything you copied, one click away

• Clipboard history. What you copy while OY.Surf is open is kept on this Mac — click the clipboard in the title bar, click a past copy, and it is back on your pasteboard. Copied images show as themselves, because for a screenshot the picture is the label.
• Reach into it. The menu opens on a search field with the caret already in it: type to narrow, arrows to move, Enter to copy. ⌘⇧V from anywhere in the app. Pin the ones you keep going back to.
• Not your passwords. Anything a password manager marks as a secret is never recorded, and the whole thing has a switch and a Clear in Settings.
• Mockups. The “Import .glb” button had no styling at all and rendered as a plain system button on a black panel — it looks like the rest of the rail now.

Notch & ClipboardMotion & Mockups

Dictation that stops failing — and light that lands

• Dictation. “the system was briefly out of resources” was never the system: the app had run out of file descriptors and could no longer start its audio converter. The file watcher was holding an open handle for every file it watched — 18,856 of them on a single folder, against a ceiling of 10,240. It now costs one.
• Mockups light. The rigs finally change the render. The key is a real softbox panel — which is what metal actually reflects — and its size is what “shadow soft” means. Products sit on a lit surface with a contact shadow instead of floating; worn and hung goods stay floating, as they should.
• Ask. The Ask box in Flow and in the library was overlapping its own send button and clipping the placeholder. All three panels now use the same dock, and Flow gets the quick actions too.
• Motion. The Card row no longer breaks “Face cam” and “No repeat” across two lines.
• Clipper. A real app icon instead of a blank one.

Flow & NotesMotion & MockupsAsk & AgentsLibrary & Lenses

OY.Surf on iPhone — and a canvas that snaps

• iPhone. The app now runs on the phone, not just the iPad: a canvas sized for the hand, one finger to move and resize, swipe from the edge to leave, and double tap to see the whole board.
• Faster boards. Photos are decoded for the size they are drawn instead of the size they were shot — a 12 MP photo went from 46 MB in memory to 3 MB, which is the difference between a board that scrolls and one that stalls.
• Snapping. Drag a picture near its neighbour and it lands flush on the edge or centre line, with the guide drawn and a tap of haptics — the same magnet at any zoom.
• Mockups lighting. Key, fill and rim instead of a single lamp, with shadow softness and five named rigs — Studio, Soft box, Dramatic, Top down, Backlit.
• Home. Motion and Mockups start from the home screen, and every tool in the sidebar now has a keyboard shortcut.

Not public yet: iPhone app: private testing

iPad & iPhoneCanvas & CreateMotion & Mockups

The assistant, on every surface

• Ask anywhere. The library assistant now answers from your notes, a single folder, your selection, the canvas, or your voice notes — scoped to whatever you're looking at.
• A deep robustness pass. A full code review across the app fixed a migration that had quietly skipped audio, fonts and documents, hardened every local service, and tightened dictation.

Ask & AgentsFlow & Notes

36 backgrounds and a camera you can shape in Studio

New

• 36 backgrounds, sorted. The 18 old presets are gone. In their place are 36 backgrounds in six categories: Aurora, Nocturne, Sunset, Iridescent, Ocean and Mono. Their colours are kept soft so your screen stands out, and every one is a gradient, a mesh or a solid colour, so they stay sharp at any export size. Takes and presets you saved earlier switch to the closest new background, so a light edit stays light.
• Place and shape the camera. Snap the camera to a 3×3 grid, or drag it anywhere as before. Set roundness from 0 to 100% and pick a Square, Horizontal, Vertical or Original shape. Circle and rounded cameras in saved projects look the same as before.
• Cursor and motion blur, finer. You can hide the cursor once it stops moving, after a delay you set between 0.5 and 5 seconds, or hide it completely while click effects stay visible. Under the main motion blur slider, cursor-trail blur and zoom blur now have separate sliders.

Better

• The inspector follows the canvas. Select an image on a board and the right panel shows that image. Before, it showed the last file you picked in the gallery. Lens tabs also match the kind of file in focus now, so an image no longer shows PDF or video controls.

Fixed

• Image-to-image keeps your reference. In Create, a low variation setting gave you near-pure grain instead of your picture, because the setting was applied backwards. Low variation now keeps you close to the reference, and a close-to-reference run gets about six real steps instead of one or two.
• Takes open with a picture. Opening a take in Studio could give you black video with sound until you switched between GPU and CPU rendering. The first frame now shows when the take opens.

StudioCanvas & CreateLibrary & Lenses

Recording keeps going when you leave Studio

New

• Recording survives leaving Studio. Go to the library, a note or anywhere else mid-take and the capture keeps running, with a small always-on-top pill showing the red dot, the elapsed time and Stop. The pill never appears in the footage, and reopening Studio picks up the live take with the true elapsed time.
• The webcam asks first. Turning on Camera in Studio now requests access, and if access was denied the toggle says so instead of silently recording nothing. The permissions panel in Settings has a Camera row as well.

Better

• Media controls that match the app. Video and audio in the viewer get their own play/pause, scrubber, time, mute and speed, and the floating toolbar no longer covers the timeline. PDFs fill the full width without the dark toolbar on top, and a fullscreen button sits next to the close button.
• Quieter scrollbars. They are 9px, tinted to the theme and hidden until your pointer is over the list, replacing the chunky white bars in the sidebar, the library and notes. Folder chips are now pills with a round cover.

Fixed

• Back to the canvas, not the folder. A file opened from a board now opens on top of it, the arrows browse the board's items, and closing returns you to the board. Escape closes the viewer, not the canvas.
• Chats stay apart. Switching chats mid-answer no longer shows the other chat's typing or tool line, and a finished reply always lands in the chat that asked for it. On-device, asking for your latest notes now returns the actual most recent ones with excerpts, and the model no longer claims it cannot open local files.

StudioNotch & ClipboardLibrary & LensesCanvas & CreateAsk & Agents

A library you can just ask

• Chat over your whole library. An on-device agent that searches, reads and answers about your files — with retrieval over your notes, OCR text and transcripts.
• Views that remember. Per-folder filter and layout settings that stick.
• A permanent Home. A start page that greets you with what you were working on.
• Native scrollbars. Dark macOS overlay scrollbars that appear only while you scroll.

Ask & AgentsLibrary & Lenses

AI that respects your memory

• Models that step aside. On-device models unload when idle and reload on demand, so AI never pins gigabytes in the background.
• Dictation always ready. Flow keeps its own always-on engine warm — your first word is never clipped.
• See what's loaded. A memory panel showing exactly what's in RAM.

Flow & Notes

Studio setup in one card, and a menu for every canvas

• Studio setup, in one card. The floating pill buttons you saw before recording are now one grouped settings card. Each row has its label on the left, its control on the right and a hairline between rows. Hide desktop, Camera and Microphone are now on/off switches instead of full-width buttons.
• A real menu for every canvas. Right-click a canvas in the sidebar or its card in the grid to get Open, Rename, Duplicate and Delete. Before, you only got a delete confirmation. Rename happens in place, and Escape backs out of the menu or the rename without closing the canvas you have open.
• Duplicate a whole canvas. Duplicate copies everything on a canvas into a new one: items, connections, notes and ink. Connections attached to notes come across too.
• Drop files onto a canvas without opening it. Drag files from your Mac onto a canvas in the left sidebar and they are added to that canvas.

StudioCanvas & Create

Right-click any image to cut it out or upscale it

• Photo tools, library-wide. Right-click any single image in your library and the photo tools that used to work only on the canvas are there: Remove Background, Remove Background (HQ), 4x upscale, Portrait Blur and Beautify.
• Runs as a task. Each edit goes to the tasks centre, which shows a spinner while it works and a thumbnail of the result when it is done. Click the thumbnail to open the result.
• Saved like a generation. The result is saved as a new image in your Create folder, next to your generations.

Library & Lenses

Depth-aware portrait blur, on your Mac

• Portrait Blur. A new image action works out how far away each part of the picture is, keeps the near subject sharp and blurs the background behind it. It runs on your Mac. The first time you use it, it downloads a model of about 50 MB. In testing, the blur itself took about 11 seconds.
• Slow edits show they are working. HQ background removal, AI upscaling and Portrait Blur take 10 to 16 seconds or more, and the canvas used to look frozen while they ran. Now every image edit on the canvas shows a banner with a spinner until it finishes or fails.
• A heads-up before the first download. For HQ background removal and AI upscaling, the banner names the action and tells you the first run downloads a model, so a long first wait does not look like a hang.

Canvas & Create

An on-device AI studio

• Cut out and upscale, locally. High-quality background removal and Real-ESRGAN upscaling, entirely on your Mac.
• Image actions, queued. Run edits from the right-click menu through a generation queue that never blocks you.
• A richer Create & canvas. Custom canvas backgrounds and a recorder that paints its first frame on the GPU.

Canvas & CreateStudio

Background removal that keeps the hair

• Cutouts that keep the hair. A new high-quality background removal, built on the open BiRefNet model, handles hair and complex edges better than the instant cutout. You get a transparent image at the original size.
• It runs on your Mac. The model is about 1 GB. It downloads the first time you use it and is listed in Settings under AI. In a test run, one cutout took about 16 seconds.
• Two ways in. Pick it from the Tools menu, or type /remove-bg-hq. The instant cutout is still there for when speed matters more than edges.

Canvas & Create

Fifteen fixes, two of them for work that went missing

• Canvas resizes stay resized. If you resized an image or a note on a Canvas board, it went back to its old size when the board reloaded, because the saved width lagged behind the one on screen. Your resizes now survive a reload.
• A failed note save tells you. If a note could not be written because its folder had moved, the disk was full or the volume was read-only, your edits were dropped without any warning. Now a banner tells you the save failed, and the note keeps your changes so the save can run again.
• A stuck model no longer stalls generation. A hung local model process used to freeze the generation queue. Status checks now time out and the process restarts on its own, and an old process can no longer knock over the one that replaced it. If a result can't be placed on a board, it is no longer reported as a failed generation.
• The library keeps up. Shift-selecting in the gallery could crash it, and that no longer happens. New thumbnails and changes on disk now reach every library view, not just one. A removed file no longer lingers in the Create fullscreen viewer.
• No phantom connections. When you removed something from a board, its connections could stay behind and come back later as phantom links. Now they are deleted along with it.
• Studio takes stop overwriting each other. A late stop or error from an earlier recording could overwrite a newer take, and two takes started in the same second could collide. Studio no longer records the wrong window or one that has already closed, and reloading a take no longer leaks a video decoder each time.

Canvas & CreateLibrary & LensesStudio

Pick the window you want to record by seeing it

• A picker you can see. In Studio, choosing a window to record used to mean picking its name from a plain list. Now every window is a tile in a grid, showing a thumbnail of what is in it, the app name and the window title. Click a tile to select it.
• The app icon on every tile. Each thumbnail has its app's icon in the corner, so you can see which app a window belongs to at a glance.
• A tile even without a preview. If macOS won't draw a thumbnail for a window, its tile shows just the app icon. Recording itself works exactly as before.

Studio

Studio checks permission before you press Record

• Permission before you press Record. If Screen Recording access is off, a banner at the top of the record screen tells you. The Record button stays disabled and reads "Permission required" until access is granted. The duplicate grant button at the bottom is gone.
• More detail in the source picker. The window option shows how many windows you can choose from, and a selected area shows which display it is on and its coordinates. The camera and microphone toggles name the device in use.
• A transport bar that uses its width. The playback controls sit in two groups with a divider between them, spread across the bar instead of bunched on the left. A thin line underneath shows how far you have scrubbed, and the time readout is larger.
• An inspector that holds its width. The inspector keeps a minimum width, so sliders and segmented controls no longer get squeezed in a narrow window. The timeline ruler has finer tick marks and cleaner labels.

Studio

Zoom and scroll the Studio timeline

• Zoom the timeline. Use the − / Fit / + control, ⌘-scroll, or a trackpad pinch. Zoom is anchored to your cursor, so the moment you were looking at stays under it, and it never zooms out past the full take.
• Reach any point of a long take. A long recording is no longer squeezed into an unreadable sliver. Scroll sideways to get anywhere in it, and a plain vertical scroll pans the timeline too.
• The playhead stays in view. On a zoomed timeline it follows playback on its own, and holds off for about 1.2 seconds after you scroll or zoom by hand.
• Easier to read at a glance. The timeline now shows filmstrip frames, and its lanes are taller, 28 px instead of 24, with more space between them.

Studio

Cut out, convert and compress, right on the board

• Four image actions, on your Mac. Remove a background, convert between PNG, JPG and WebP, compress, or set an image in a matte with a rounded frame and a soft shadow. All four run on your machine. Start them as skills or from the Canvas Tools menu, and the result drops onto the board.
• A Canvas background you choose. Use plain, dots, grid or crosses, and set your own color and spacing from a panel in the top-right corner. Until you pick a color, the background follows the app's light or dark theme.
• Start as many generations as you like. Firing off several at once used to stop at "a generation is already running". Now they queue without a limit, and a strip along the top shows how far along they are. Create runs through the same queue.
• Failures say so. When Generate in Create or an edit from the Tools menu fails, you now see the error.

Canvas & Create

Documents get real cards, and the pen gets colour

• A pen with a palette. While the Pen tool is active, a row of colour swatches and three sizes (S, M and L) appear. Each new stroke keeps its colour and width.
• An eraser for whole strokes. Scrub over a stroke and it is deleted.
• Documents show up as documents. .docx, .doc, .rtf, .odt, .pages, .key, .numbers, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt and .pptx files now get a labelled DOC, SHEET or SLIDES card in the library and on the canvas. They no longer show as broken tiles.
• Text files you can read. Plain .txt and .csv files now show as text cards.
• Info for fonts and audio. The Info lens now shows duration, format and bitrate for audio files, and the format for fonts. Neither one offers image-only lenses any more.

Canvas & CreateLibrary & Lenses

Record one window, or just the area you drag

New

• Record a window or an area. The recorder now has a source picker: Screen, Window or Area. Pick Window to capture that one window on its own. Pick Area to drag a rectangle over the part of the screen you want. You can also hide desktop icons while you record.
• Permissions in one place. Onboarding now has a step for Screen Recording, Microphone and Accessibility, and it shows the status of each one as you grant it. The same panel is under Settings → Permissions.

Fixed

• Rating hotkeys work in every view. This release fixes 29 defects found in a review of the whole app. Rating and flag hotkeys in the grid did nothing in the Library, Quick and Smart views. They now act on the files you see there. Each image you paste or import now gets its own filename.
• Voice notes stay with their file. If you change the selection while a note is being transcribed, the text still goes to the file you recorded it on.
• Studio edits do what you asked. The clip context menu acts on the clip you clicked. Restoring one manual cut no longer brings back the cuts merged with it. Cancelling an export stops it at any stage.

StudioLibrary & Lenses

A recorder that rivals the paid ones

• A real clip timeline. Draggable zoom blocks, editing presets (Blank / Dark / …), and settings you set before you record.
• Export how you need it. GIF export and pitch-preserving speed changes.
• Review in full screen. Open any generation from the Create grid in the fullscreen viewer.

StudioCanvas & Create

Set up your camera, mic and countdown before you record

• Pick your camera and mic. The idle Studio screen now has a setup panel where you turn the camera and microphone on or off and choose the device for each. The recording uses the device you picked. Device names appear after you first grant access, and the list updates when you plug in or unplug a device.
• A countdown before capture. Choose Off, 3s or 5s. A full-screen 3-2-1 plays before recording starts, and your choice is remembered for the next take.
• System audio, stated plainly. Studio already records the sound from your Mac, and the setup panel now says so. To drop it from a single take, mute it in the editor.

Studio

Save the look of a recording and reuse it

• The whole look in one click. A Presets menu in the Studio editor applies background, padding, corner radius, shadow, background blur, motion blur, cursor size and aspect ratio to the current take at once. Audio, webcam, captions, crop and zooms stay as they were.
• Four to start from. Blank, Clean, Dark and Social 9:16. The last one also switches the frame to vertical.
• Presets of your own. Name the look you have now and save it. Your own presets can be renamed, updated to match your current settings or removed. A preset changes only when you update it.
• A default for new recordings. Mark any preset as the default, built-in or your own, and a new take you have not edited yet opens with that look already applied.

Studio

Studio gets a clip timeline

• Clips, not a filmstrip. The video lane in Studio is now a row of clips you can select. Each one shows its length and speed, like 11s · 1×, and a right-click gives you Set speed, Split at playhead, Merge with next or previous, and Remove.
• Split where you want. Press C to split at the playhead, or turn on the scissors in the transport and click the timeline where you want the cut. A dashed line follows your cursor to show where it will land.
• Retime one clip at a time. Set speed changes only the clip you picked, so you can speed up the slow part and leave the rest at 1×.
• Removing is reversible. Backspace or X removes the selected clip and leaves a seam marker where it was. Click the marker to bring the clip back. Splits are saved with the project, and undo and redo cover them.

Studio

Dictation cuts ahead of image generation

• Dictation goes first. If you dictate while Create is generating an image on your Mac, the generation pauses between steps until your words are transcribed, then carries on.
• Reference images from Documents or Desktop. Dragging in an image from Documents, Desktop or Downloads as a reference used to fail with "Operation not permitted", even though the app could open the file. The image is now copied somewhere the generator can read before generation starts.
• Timeline shortcuts in Studio. Delete, Backspace or X now removes the selected zoom or speed block instead of only the marked range; Z adds a zoom, S splits at the playhead, and every button's tooltip shows its shortcut. The buttons are quieter too, with the accent colour kept for toggles that are on.
• Controls on full-screen pages. The note page covers the title bar, so it now has its own Back, sidebar and inspector buttons, and its MD, Focus and Typewriter tabs no longer overlap. Studio's bar gets a sidebar toggle too.
• Your tasks, where you are. The tasks menu now sits in the title bar of Create, Flow and Canvas, so a generation you started stays visible without leaving the mode you are in.

Flow & NotesStudioCanvas & Create

Faster, steadier, more shareable

• GPU compositor. Studio composites on the GPU with a smoother synthetic cursor.
• Streaming export. WebCodecs export without seeking, plus a GIF pipeline.
• No more hangs. Sidecar timeouts and self-healing dictation keep the app snappy.

StudioFlow & Notes

Folder titles, list columns, a viewer that stays open

New

• Where you are, and how much. The folder you are in now sits above the grid as a title with its item count. It does not show in file tabs or chats.
• Columns in list view. The list view has a header that stays put as you scroll: Name, Kind, Size, Dimensions, Modified, lined up with the rows beneath it.

Better

• The AI chip goes somewhere. Click the AI status in the sidebar and Settings opens on the AI models tab.
• One pass for duplicate checks. When the Duplicates lens and an agent look for duplicates at the same time, they share one pass over your images instead of each reading every image.

Fixed

• The viewer stays open. Removing files elsewhere in the library, for example an agent cleaning up a folder, used to close the fullscreen viewer. It now closes only if the file you are looking at is the one removed.
• No ghost tiles on boards. When a file is removed, an open board drops it and its connections right away instead of leaving a tile behind for a file that is gone.

Library & LensesCanvas & Create

Sped-up clips keep their pitch on export

• Sped-up audio keeps its pitch. Speed up part of a Studio recording and the exported file now sounds like the preview: voices and music keep their pitch instead of rising with the speed. If pitch correction fails to load once, the next export tries again instead of leaving it off for the rest of the session.
• Clean starts on sped-up segments. Each sped-up segment starts at full volume, with no soft fade-in where the speed changes. Segments at normal speed export exactly as before.
• Cancel stops every export. Cancel now also works on the backup exporter, where it did nothing, and during warm-up it responds right away instead of after several seconds. When you cancel, the Export button comes back and no file is written.
• Fewer exports sent to the backup exporter. Some recordings were moved off the main exporter because their first frame seemed to be missing. They now export on the main path.

Studio

Agentic MCP + polished exports

• Your library, as tools. Four agent tools over MCP and a .mcpb desktop extension that can open boards live.
• Cleaner Studio export. Export with pitch preserved and a cancel button that actually cancels.

Ask & AgentsStudio

Studio exports ten times faster

• Export reads your take once. Studio now reads the recording straight through, start to finish, with no seeking and no warm-up. A 534-frame take exports in 3.9 seconds, down from about 40.
• The preview stays yours. Export renders separately from the editor, so the preview is left untouched while it runs.
• Trims and cuts keep the speed. Trimmed and cut takes export the fast way too: a trimmed 241-frame export takes 2.1 seconds. A file that can't be read straight through still exports the slower way.

Studio

One way of moving, and a calmer Studio

Better

• One way of moving. Popovers, sheets and pages each get one consistent entrance, toggles take 220 ms, and every transition in the app runs on shared timing. If you have Reduce Motion switched on in macOS, the app follows it.
• A quieter Studio editor. Flat chrome with hairline splits, a tinted rail, styled sliders and one 16px rhythm through the editor. Play, Export and the rest follow your system accent colour instead of a fixed blue of their own.
• Canvas gets out of the way. Handles show only when you hover, and a selection sits flush against the item instead of floating around it.
• Tidier library and inspector. Tiles get a clean selection ring, Info reads in two columns, the inspector opens with a 4:3 preview and 30px lens tabs. Home, Flow and Settings sit on card surfaces, and the empty status bar row is gone.

Fixed

• Esc closes the command palette. Wherever focus happens to be.

StudioCanvas & CreateLibrary & Lenses

Studio exports MP4 on the hardware encoder

• Hardware MP4 export. Studio now renders your edit frame by frame, encodes H.264 on the Mac's hardware video encoder and writes AAC audio into the same MP4. If that path is unavailable, it falls back to the previous exporter instead of failing.
• Sound follows your edit. Audio is mixed through your cuts and speed changes before it is encoded, so a voice-over stays in sync from the first cut to the last.
• Export in the background. Switch to another app while an export runs and it keeps going. The Studio window does not need to stay in front.
• Large recordings keep their sound. Audio is read from the recording separately, so a recording over 2 GiB exports with its sound.
• The editor holds still while it works. Keys, playback and scrubbing are locked during export so they cannot disturb the render, and the preview goes back to where you left it. If an export fails, the message tells you whether encoding or saving the file went wrong.

Studio

Paste-anywhere notes, GPU-first

• Paste images into notes. Drop a screenshot straight into a note and it's saved and linked.
• Smoother motion. Catmull-Rom cursor smoothing and the GPU compositor on by default.

Flow & NotesStudio

Studio moves to the GPU, and learns to cut

• Cut by hand. Mark a range with I and O, then cut it out, keep only that range, or restore it. The preview and the export both follow the cut.
• The GPU is the default renderer. Studio now composites on the GPU, and a GPU/CPU switch in the header remembers your choice. It draws everything the CPU path does, including background images, spotlight, image cursors, text annotations and source crop.
• GPU output matches the frame. Zoom stays inside the padded frame, the shadow and plate sit on the frame, and gradients, vignette and spotlight render properly. Webcam and captions stack in the right order, graphics memory is released instead of leaking, and if the GPU cannot start, Studio falls back to the CPU.
• Missing images stay out of the way. When an image in Compare, Lenses, Create or Studio can no longer load, for example because the file moved, it is hidden instead of showing a broken-image icon.
• Keyboard and screen reader access. Compare panes and Studio takes now respond to Enter and Space, and screen readers announce them as buttons.

StudioLibrary & Lenses

Focus and typewriter modes in notes, diagrams in Ask

• Focus mode. Switch on Focus in a note and every paragraph except the one your cursor is in dims. The paragraph you are writing stays lit and the rest of the note fades back.
• Typewriter scrolling. Switch on Typewriter and the line you are typing stays centered in the editor instead of creeping toward the bottom edge. Both switches sit in the note's header, next to MD, and you can use either one or both.
• Diagrams render as diagrams. A Mermaid code block in an Ask reply or in a file's notes now shows as a drawn diagram, not raw text. If the diagram has an error, you see its source instead of an empty space. The diagram engine loads only when the first diagram appears.

Ask & Agents

Notes export to Markdown, HTML and PDF

New

• Export a note. The Export button next to Recipes saves the note as Markdown, HTML or PDF. HTML and PDF come out as a plain, readable page with styled headings, tables, code blocks and images.
• Math renders. LaTeX between single dollar signs shows inline, and between double dollar signs as a block, in the notes preview and in chat replies.

Fixed

• No more broken tiles. If a thumbnail fails to load, the tile shows its file-type badge instead of a broken image.
• Long names stay contained. File names are clipped to three lines in the inspector and to one line in the folder tree, so they no longer push the layout around.

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The Dock icon is there every time you launch

• No more invisible launches. Starting from a login item, or opening the app again while it was already running, could leave it with only its menu bar icon and nothing in the Dock. The Dock icon now comes up first, before the window and the menu bar icon, so it is there in those cases too.

Markdown in chat replies and a full file grid in Create

New

• Replies render as Markdown. Headings, lists, code blocks, tables and links in a chat answer now show formatted, not as plain text.
• Copy or pin a message. Hover any message for two buttons: copy its text, or pin it. A pinned message keeps an accent edge and is still pinned when you come back to the chat.
• Create gets the Library's file manager. Every image you generated or edited in Create now shows in a grid that works like the Library's, not just the last 12, with marquee selection, the same right-click menu and rename in place. Rate with 1–5, favorite with F, pin with P, reject with X, and double-click an image to use it as the reference.

Fixed

• Finished generations show up at once. The tasks menu shows the actual image the moment a generation completes, instead of a broken thumbnail while its preview is still being made.
• Search and note titles fit. The search field and long note titles no longer get cut off.

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Post-Chat polish

• Select like a pro. Rubber-band multi-select and a floating action bar across the grid.
• No more keychain nag. Removed the password prompt that appeared on every update.
• Create gets the full manager. The same Gallery file manager you use in the Library, right inside Create.

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