Bearly 6: a faster engine under every chat
We rebuilt the engine that runs Bearly's chats. Answers start sooner, you can steer one while it runs, and a running chat follows you to your other devices.
Bearly 6 is live on the web and in the desktop app, running on a new engine we built from scratch. The engine is the part that takes your message, calls the model and its tools, and keeps the conversation in sync. The new one is faster, it lets you change an answer while it's running, and it keeps a running chat in step across all your devices. It runs your chats and routines today, and it's the foundation every Bearly app builds on from here.
Your existing chats move to it the first time you open them. Nothing needs to be turned on.
Faster from the first message
Most of the speed comes from waiting less. A new chat now sends your first message the moment you press Send, instead of setting up the conversation with the server first. A chat you've opened before appears right away from the copy on your device, even before it has synced, and stays readable if you go offline. A long answer streams in as it's written on every device that has the chat open.
Change an answer while it runs
Until now, a correction had to wait. If you asked for a comparison of three companies' quarterly filings and remembered halfway through that you only cared about the US segment, you could stop and start again, or let it finish and ask for a second pass.
Now, while Bearly is working, the composer shows Stop, Queue, and Send:
- Send adds your message to the answer in progress. Bearly reads it at its next step and adjusts, keeping the searches and reading it has already done.
- Queue holds your message and sends it once the current answer finishes, for a follow-up that shouldn't change the work underway.
- Stop ends the answer where it is.
With nothing typed, you see only Stop. This works in most chats; routine results and some older, very long chats keep the previous behavior.
Follow a chat from another device
A chat's answer now appears on all your signed-in devices while it's being written. Start a long research question on your laptop, then open the same chat on your phone and watch it finish. You can stop it from either one, and when Bearly asks for approval, such as before it opens a new site or runs a command on your computer, you can answer on whichever device is in front of you.
The work runs on the device you sent it from, so keep that tab or app open until the answer finishes. If that device goes to sleep or loses its connection, your other devices say "Running on another device" after two minutes without an update, and you can stop the answer from there.
A redesigned app
Every screen changed with the engine:
- Running answers show one line underneath with what Bearly is doing right now, such as searching the web, reading a file, or waiting for your approval. A finished answer gets a receipt, such as "Worked 28s · 4 steps · 3 sources", that opens its steps in the side panel, including any message you added while it ran.
- The sidebar is redesigned, and Settings opens over the page you're on, with its sections grouped under Account, Chats, Preferences, Privacy, and Connections.
- The chat title floats over the conversation. Click it to rename the chat, move it to a project, open its files, and reach the rest of the chat's commands. Share sits on its own in the top-right corner.
- Projects open to Chats, Files, Sharing, and Settings tabs, and Ask in this project starts a chat inside the project from its page.
- The Files panel collects every file in a chat in one place, grouped by day, with a button that jumps to the message the file came from.
- New template drafts a reusable prompt from a description. On Pro and higher plans, New routine does the same for routines: write "a news brief on our competitors every weekday at 8 a.m." and Bearly drafts it. Each routine has its own page with its next run and past runs.
Uploads got bigger too: you can attach files up to 1,000 MB, such as a long meeting recording, or up to 100 MB in an end-to-end encrypted chat.
Where to start
Open bearly.ai or the desktop app and your chats are where you left them. The workspace tour in the Bearly Manual walks through the new layout, and What's New in the app lists everything else in 6.0, including new models and fixes.