OY.Surf updates

OY.Surf 0.75.0 — Studio, Motion and Mockups are one workspace

2026-09-27T23:05:26Z

One frame for everything that plays in time. Studio now opens the way Motion and Mockups do: the whole window, ‹ Library at the top left, the same column widths, and Export at the right end of the timeline. It stays dark like the other two, and its accents are white instead of blue.
Mockups lines up with Motion. The left rail is the same width and scrolls on its own, so the thumbnails no longer run over the play button. The right panel is Canvas, Background and Device, each one collapsible, and the five export formats fit on one row.
Record and dictate straight from the notch. The Record tab starts with Screen, Window and Area. Screen starts recording at once with your Studio camera and microphone settings, and Area starts as soon as you have drawn one; OY.Surf steps out of the way so the take shows what you were looking at, and comes back with it when you press Stop. Window opens Studio with Window chosen, so you pick which one. The Dictate tab is one button: click to start, click again to stop, no key to hold. Clicking the notch brings OY.Surf forward, so that text is copied and saved to the list rather than pasted.
Dictation keeps what you said. Pressing again right after you stop no longer throws the second dictation away, and a result that arrives late can no longer end the one you are in the middle of. A microphone that drops out mid-sentence (AirPods switching away, a dock unplugged) used to leave dictation stuck until a restart; what it heard is transcribed now, and the next press works. Close the window mid-dictation and you are told, instead of watching Transcribing… forever.
The Dock brings the window back. After closing the window with ⌘W, clicking OY.Surf in the Dock opened nothing, because the clipboard panel counted as a window. It opens the window again.
A recording that ends on its own no longer looks like it is still going. If the capture stopped underneath Studio, it kept showing a take in progress with a Stop that could never finish. Now the take ends, you are told why, and the app comes back.
Videos always fit the viewer. A tall video could fill the screen with the controls laid over it, and there was no way to fit it. Every video now fits by its limiting side, with the controls in their own row underneath. Space plays and pauses, as the button’s tooltip always said.

OY.Surf 0.74.0 — Your AI has never heard you. Now it has.

2026-09-22T20:20:47Z

Own Your Voice. Every note you have ever dictated, distilled on this Mac into one file: the words you actually use, how you build a sentence, the positions you hold, what you are building right now. Open Flow › Voiceprint and press Build. Hand the file to Claude Code — or install the skill and switch the MCP server on, and it reads your voiceprint before it writes a word in your voice. It is made from your own recordings, by a model on your own machine, and it is never uploaded.
A recording that cannot be transcribed is no longer thrown away. This was already true for note recordings; now it is true everywhere. Push-to-talk and voice-to-prompt used to hand the audio over and delete it whether or not anything came back — a cold model or a timeout took the clip with it. The audio is kept instead, you are told so, and Settings › Dictation shows you where. Clips clear themselves after two weeks.
Silence stops inventing subtitles. The speech model answers a silent stretch with whatever end-card it saw most in training — “Thanks for watching”, and its Russian equivalents. Dictation has always filtered that out; recorded conversations, which have far more silence in them, never did, so invented credits could land in the middle of a real transcript. Fixed — and repeated-word loops are now caught in Russian too, which they never were.
The notch island is the size of what is in it. It opened as a strip: tabs, a search field, and nothing underneath however much was in the list. It was measuring itself mid-animation and believing the answer. It opens at a proper size now, and grows with the list until it scrolls.

OY.Surf 0.73.0 — Your recording is a file, from the first second

2026-09-14T21:23:57Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.72.1 — The island closes the way it opened

2026-09-12T20:33:25Z

It folds, it does not vanish. The notch widget grew out of the camera and then disappeared the instant your cursor crossed the edge — arriving and leaving by different paths, which reads as a glitch rather than a dismissal. It shrinks back into the housing now.
Change your mind and it waits. Move back onto it while it is folding and it stays — with whatever you had already typed into the search still there.

OY.Surf 0.72.0 — The notch holds the whole app now

2026-09-12T07:19:42Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.71.0 — Point at the notch

2026-09-11T08:08:39Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.70.0 — Your clipboard in the menu bar — and a teleprompter that never gets recorded

2026-09-09T11:20:25Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.69.1 — The mockup skill stops waiting for itself

2026-09-01T14:42:49Z

Screen mockup. The /screen-mock skill answered “coming soon” while Mockups had been doing exactly that for months. Run it on a screenshot now and Mockups opens with your picture already on the device screen, instead of an empty frame you then have to fill.
Under the hood. The checks a build has to pass before it can ship now open the surfaces one level down — Settings and every tab in it, the command palette, the shortcuts sheet, the clipboard menu — and each one has to prove it actually appeared. A surface that silently fails to open reports no errors and proves nothing, which is the trap the previous version of this check fell into.

OY.Surf 0.69.0 — Everything you copied, one click away

2026-08-30T15:25:51Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.68.2 — Studio stops fighting its own graphics check

2026-08-25T15:57:25Z

Studio. Opening the editor was failing a check Pixi runs to find out how your GPU handles video — the app was blocking its own test clip, so the graphics path took a guess instead of the measured answer every single time.
Clipper. The Safari app has its own icon at last, instead of the placeholder Apple’s converter leaves behind, and opening it now explains what the Clipper does, whether it is on, and where clips land.
Under the hood. The release checks were quietly testing the wrong thing — they ran against a real profile and waited for a signal that is off by default. Both fixed, so a build has to prove itself on a clean install before it can ship.

OY.Surf 0.68.1 — Mockups models get their textures back

2026-08-24T21:42:23Z

Mockups. The bundled models have been rendering untextured — the app was refusing to load their own textures, and their own maths fonts in notes, because its content rules did not allow resources it creates for itself. Both are allowed now.
How it was found. A new check walks every section of the built app before it can be published and fails on anything the app logs as an error. This was its first run.

OY.Surf 0.68.0 — Dictation that stops failing — and light that lands

2026-08-24T21:07:12Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.67.1 — The build that could not open

2026-08-17T23:41:42Z

Fixed. V0.67.0 could not launch at all — two native components never made it into the package. One of them had been failing quietly for longer than that, leaving vector search switched off.
Never again. A release now refuses to publish if the built app cannot start.

OY.Surf 0.67.0 — OY.Surf on iPhone — and a canvas that snaps

2026-08-16T22:15:57Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.66.0 — Stepped motion, curved rings, mug & can — and share links

2026-08-13T21:04:56Z

Motion. Stepped “ratchet” playback that snaps card to card, accelerating flicker cuts, and curved cards on the 3D ring.
Mockups. A mug and a soda can with real cylindrical printing — the art wraps the body — plus a framed poster and a business card; the camera reframes to suit each product.
Web version. Share links — one URL shows a client exactly one canvas, read-only — and a Docker deploy for self-hosting.
iPad. Share to OY.Surf from any app and pick the canvas right in the share sheet.

OY.Surf 0.65.0 — Motion & Mockups — two new root tools

2026-08-12T12:06:57Z

Motion. 200+ parametric templates that animate images from your library — carousels, orbits, wheels with hero images, a page-flipping magazine, vortexes and bento walls.
Preview = export. Bezier easing editor, text/logo/audio rendered into the file; 1080p or 4K H.264 — plus WebM/ProRes with alpha, GIF and transparent background.
Mockups. 3D device & apparel mockups — a MacBook that opens, a draped t-shirt and cap with your art on the fabric, studio light rig, waypoint timeline.
Everywhere. Live code-drawn hover previews, Projects that keep the whole look, Reset/Shuffle.

OY.Surf 0.64.0 — Your tags — including the ones you built in Eagle

2026-07-30T08:51:15Z

Tags, properly. Tag any file or a whole selection, filter the library by tag from the sidebar, and find things by tag in ordinary search — a partial tag on a selection shows as 3/8 and one click applies it to everything.
Import your Eagle library. Tags, folders, ratings, source links and item notes come across in one step from Settings → Library — your Eagle library is only read, never written, moved or copied, so Eagle keeps working exactly as before.
Imported notes are searchable immediately. Notes you wrote on items in Eagle land in the text index, so they turn up in search from the first minute.

OY.Surf 0.63.10 — Thumbnails that heal themselves

2026-07-29T14:30:23Z

Missing previews come back. A preview that failed once used to stay blank forever — the library now retries, and files that arrived as cloud placeholders are picked up as soon as they download.
Huge renders finally preview. Multi-hundred-megapixel exports were silently refused; they now go through a low-memory path and get thumbnails like everything else.
A button that fit. The Export control in a note header no longer clips its own label.

OY.Surf 0.63.9 — Recordings export at their real resolution

2026-07-29T11:01:03Z

5K in, 5K out. The Studio editor composited every take at 720p, so a Retina recording exported soft — it now works at the recording's own resolution, up to 4K, and the "Best" preset keeps it.
Hardware encoding at 4K. The exporter asked for a codec profile that tops out at 1080p, quietly falling back to a slow software path — 4K60 now encodes on the GPU.
Sharper answers. Search results are re-ranked by a model that reads your question and each passage together, and descriptions and text-in-image are properly indexed instead of scanned.
Notes stay put. The note tab strip no longer slides under the window buttons, the last lines scroll clear of the AI dock, and the header stops spilling into the inspector.

OY.Surf 0.63.8 — A chat that streams, cites, edits — and knows your canvases

2026-07-23T21:54:42Z

Answers as they're written. The on-device assistant now streams its reply word by word instead of making you wait for the whole thing.
Sources you can open. Every answer shows the files it actually drew on, as chips you click to open — check the claim, don't just trust it.
Ask about your canvases and past chats. Retrieval now covers your moodboards (their notes, captions and the images on them) and earlier conversations, not only files.
Edit from the chat. Type a slash on an attached image — /upscale, /remove-background, /beautify — and the on-device edit runs right there, result inline.
Dictation that never fights the GPU. A local generation in progress now steps aside for your voice, so push-to-talk stays instant even mid-render.

OY.Surf 0.63.7 — Ask streams its answers and names its sources

2026-07-21T16:16:14Z

Answers as they are written. Ask shows the reply while the on-device model is still writing it, instead of making you wait for the whole answer. Before you type, the composer tells you if the engine is starting, switched off or has failed, rather than leaving you with an empty reply after you send.
Sources you can open. Answers show the files they name as chips you click to open, even when a file sits outside the folder you are browsing. A file is not credited just because its name matches part of a word, and when two files share a name, the chip shows which folder each one is in.
Fewer silent failures. A rename that cannot go through, or a move to Trash the system refuses, now shows an alert instead of quietly leaving things as they were. Deleting a dictation asks first, as deleting a chat or a board already did, and a batch edit on a canvas keeps your selection when it finishes.

OY.Surf 0.63.6 — Fluid, physical, Apple-native motion

2026-07-20T20:37:16Z

Momentum where it belongs. The image viewer pans with real inertia and rubber-bands at the edges; menus and sheets now leave the way they arrived instead of blinking out.
Press feedback everywhere. Buttons respond to touch, popovers grow from what you clicked, and materials read as one four-step depth scale.
Respects your settings. Full support for Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast.

OY.Surf 0.63.5 — Edit any image without leaving the viewer

2026-07-19T14:19:14Z

Crop, flip, rotate, adjust. The on-device edits from the canvas — plus upscale, remove-background and beautify — now live in the fullscreen viewer and the grid's right-click menu, non-destructive, saved to Create.
Read only what you need. A scan-scope switch to index just a folder's top level instead of every subfolder, so opening a huge tree stays instant.

OY.Surf 0.63.4 — Close a file and the grid is where you left it

2026-07-19T08:40:02Z

Esc keeps your place. Closing a file takes you back to the grid you opened it from, with your selection and search query still there. The folder is no longer scanned again every time you close the viewer.
Batch edits reload the board once. Running Smart resize or another tool on several images on a Canvas board used to reload the whole board after every image and every preset: 40 times for 10 images at 4 presets. Now it reloads once, after the last edit.
Collections stay put while you browse. A background update to a collection no longer closes the file you have open or clears your selection.

OY.Surf 0.63.3 — What you see in Studio is what you export

2026-07-18T22:53:11Z

Preview matches export. Cursor, clicks, spotlight and annotations now stay inside the rounded frame instead of spilling into the padding, and captions wrap and draw line by line the way the export does. The zoom motion-blur slider now changes the preview too, and backgrounds, shadows and the ring cursor were matched as well.
Captions no longer block dictation. Generating captions used to send the whole take to the speech model at once, and push-to-talk in Flow had to wait until the whole take was done. Takes are now transcribed in 30-second pieces, so dictation waits for one piece at most: seconds, not the length of the recording.
Background work recovers by itself. When the on-device model stopped responding, library indexing and document reading for Ask stalled for up to five minutes per request, then stayed stuck until you restarted the app. Requests now time out and the model is restarted automatically, and the first image description waits for the 2.9 GB vision model to load instead of timing out.

OY.Surf 0.63.2 — Library opens without checking every file first

2026-07-18T19:39:33Z

Library opens without the wait. Home and Library no longer check every file on disk before they appear, which cost hundreds of milliseconds per open on a Dropbox or iCloud folder. A 5,000-file view now loads in about 70 ms, and files you delete while the app is open are still cleared out in the background.
Less work in the background. The app used to re-score every file in your library every 60 seconds to track what you are working on. It now does that when new files arrive, and otherwise at most every 10 minutes.
One-letter searches stay fast. A single character no longer scans every description and piece of recognized text, since it matched almost everything anyway. File names still match as before.

OY.Surf 0.63.1 — One audio file no longer stops a folder from indexing

2026-07-18T11:00:35Z

Audio, fonts and documents get indexed. One mp3, font or document in a folder used to stop the scan of that whole folder, and none of these files ever showed up in your library. They are indexed now, and your existing library and board placements carry over.
Web pages cannot reach your files. A page open in your browser could talk to the app's local helpers, read files from your disk or drop images into your library. Those helpers now turn web pages away, import links accept https addresses only, and connecting your image-generation account checks that the sign-in started in the app.
Fewer things that needed a restart. If the speech model failed to load once, for example when you were offline on first launch, dictation stayed off until you quit the app. It now retries. Leaving Studio mid-recording turns the camera light off and saves your webcam and voice tracks instead of losing them.

OY.Surf 0.63.0 — The assistant, on every surface

2026-07-18T09:30:17Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.62.3 — Screen-Studio-class recording — and a Mac that stays responsive

2026-07-13T13:59:02Z

Studio, rebuilt. 36 curated backgrounds in six categories, a 3×3 camera grid with roundness and aspect shapes, cursor idle controls, advanced motion blur, and captions you can edit and retime on a timeline track.
Webcam in your recordings. Turn on the camera bubble with a single click — proper macOS permission, done right.
Your canvas is safe. Fixed two bugs that could blank a board: one dropped placements when a folder was briefly offline, one opened boards empty.
Calmer, clearer everywhere. An in-app confirm sheet instead of system alerts, note tabs to keep several notes open at once, a tidier five-tab inspector with a real visual-similarity finder, and a clearer reference picker in Create.
Generation that frees its memory. On-device image models now unload and drop their cache after a render, so a busy session no longer eats your RAM.

OY.Surf 0.62.2 — Note tabs, and an inspector cut from nine tabs to five

2026-07-13T11:58:28Z

Notes open in tabs. Opening a note now adds a tab above the page instead of replacing the one you had, and + opens a searchable picker for another. Close the active tab and you land on its neighbour; close the last one and you are back at the grid.
Nine inspector tabs became five. Info now carries the colour palette, a new AI tab stacks Prompt, OCR and Design in one scroll, and Similar works on the file in front of you: 18 visually similar images from your library, one click to select. For an image the tabs are Info, AI, Similar, Ask and Notes.
Two failures fixed. A Canvas board could open as an empty grey pane with its images just out of view; it now frames them once they load, and later refreshes leave your pan and zoom alone. When the Mac is briefly short of resources, dictation now retries once and then asks you in plain words to try again, instead of showing a raw system error.

OY.Surf 0.62.1 — An offline folder no longer takes your canvas with it

2026-07-10T11:00:07Z

Canvas images stop vanishing. If a library folder was unreachable at launch, for example Dropbox or iCloud not yet mounted after login or an external drive unplugged, the clean-up of missing files removed those images from your boards for good, and just browsing a folder could do the same. Files placed on a canvas are no longer removed automatically, files whose whole folder is gone wait until it comes back, and if more than 10% of your library and more than 25 files look missing at launch, nothing is removed at all.
Deleting asks first, inside the app. Moving files to the Trash and deleting a collection, a board or a chat now ask in a sheet that matches the app instead of a system alert; a chat used to go on a single click of the ×. Cancel in the viewer keeps you on the file you were on, and focus returns to the grid, so you can keep culling with Delete, Enter and the arrow keys.
Camera and captions in Studio. Turning on the webcam, or pressing Enable in Settings → Permissions, used to be refused without a prompt, and OY.Surf never appeared under Privacy & Security → Camera; macOS now asks. Captions fade in and out the same way in preview and export, sit on their own timeline lane where you drag one to move it or drag its edges to retime it, can be edited, added at the playhead or deleted from the list, and known phrases the transcriber invents over silence are now filtered in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese too.

OY.Surf 0.62.0 — 36 backgrounds and a camera you can shape in Studio

2026-07-09T20:05:53Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.61.0 — Recording keeps going when you leave Studio

2026-07-09T17:51:47Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.60.0 — A library you can just ask

2026-07-09T11:18:14Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.59.0 — Every folder opens the way you left it

2026-07-08T10:45:39Z

View settings per folder. Display mode, sort order and thumbnail size used to be shared by every folder. Now each location keeps its own: a folder, a quick folder, a smart folder, a collection, Home, and each project.
The type filter stays put. Your choice of Everything, Images, Videos, PDFs or Notes is also remembered for each location. It used to reset every time you switched folders.
Still there after a restart. Quit and relaunch, and each location comes back with its own view and filter.

OY.Surf 0.58.0 — One toolbar for every image you select on the canvas

2026-07-08T10:23:14Z

No more stacked toolbars. When you select several images on the canvas, each one no longer shows its own floating toolbar. One shared bar appears for the whole selection.
Every action applies to the whole selection. Align, Distribute, Smart resize, Tools, Send to Figma and remove all act on every selected image at once.
Same bar for one image or many. With one image selected, Caption, Vary, Open and Reveal are still there. Align and Distribute appear once you select more than one.

OY.Surf 0.57.0 — AI that respects your memory

2026-07-07T12:27:48Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.56.0 — Studio setup in one card, and a menu for every canvas

2026-07-07T10:37:18Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.55.0 — Right-click any image to cut it out or upscale it

2026-07-06T06:38:35Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.54.0 — Depth-aware portrait blur, on your Mac

2026-07-05T23:11:53Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.53.0 — An on-device AI studio

2026-07-05T22:50:53Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.52.0 — Background removal that keeps the hair

2026-07-05T22:38:18Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.51.0 — Fifteen fixes, two of them for work that went missing

2026-07-05T22:10:00Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.50.0 — Pick the window you want to record by seeing it

2026-07-05T21:13:02Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.49.0 — Studio checks permission before you press Record

2026-07-05T18:38:36Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.48.0 — Zoom and scroll the Studio timeline

2026-07-05T18:21:30Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.47.0 — Cut out, convert and compress, right on the board

2026-07-05T18:00:03Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.46.0 — Documents get real cards, and the pen gets colour

2026-07-05T13:59:24Z

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.

OY.Surf 0.45.9 — A pen for the canvas

2026-07-05T13:07:19Z

Draw on the board. A new Pen tool, on the dock or under P, draws freehand strokes on the canvas. With a stylus, your strokes pick up pen pressure.
Strokes stay put. They stay pinned to the board when you pan and zoom. They save with the board, come back when you reopen it and appear in the PNG export.
Take back a line. In pen mode, Backspace, Delete or ⌘Z removes the last stroke, and Clear drawing removes all of them. The Select and Hand tools work as before.

OY.Surf 0.45.8 — Canvas opens on all your boards

2026-07-05T12:40:59Z

Every board in one grid. Canvas (⌘5) now opens on an overview of all your canvases, with each one's name and item count and a card for starting a new one. It no longer drops you straight into your first board or an auto-created one.
A way back. When a board is open, the title bar shows "Boards / name". Click Boards to return to the overview.