Changelog

Every Bearly release since June 2024, newest first. These notes also appear in the app under What’s New.

4.41 — September 2, 2026

Highlights

• 🎙️ Dictate instead of typing — Hold a key or use the message-box control to turn speech into editable text, with optional cleanup. Blog · Docs
• 🌐 Bearly works in your own Chrome — Use the extension beside a page, or let a desktop chat work in Chrome tabs where you’re already signed in. Blog · Docs

Also new

• 📐 Visualize — Turn an idea, layout, process, or dataset into a focused visual, interactive planner, or simulation.
• 📋 Lead enrichment — Enrich up to ten known leads at once from profile links, email addresses, names and employers, or roles and companies.
• 🏢 Microsoft Entra provisioning — Managed-team admins can sync assigned users and groups from Microsoft Entra.

Fixes & improvements

• Claude Fable 5.1 is available.
• Deep Research now uses actual cost against your allowance, with a per-run cap and one run at a time.
• Background refreshes now wait when answers, unsent drafts, pending files, or meeting recordings are active.
• New Chat and standard Browser shortcuts work reliably, and deleted draft chats recover into a fresh chat.

4.40 — August 26, 2026

Highlights

• 🔎 Find a name, then check the domain — Ask Bearly for domain ideas, then check whether an exact domain is available to register. Blog · Docs
• 💳 Team billing and seats — Buy and manage Pro, Analyst, Research, or Max seats from one team account. Blog · Docs

Also new

• ⏰ Models for Routines — Choose which model runs each schedule.
• 🏢 Automatic team joining — Add anyone with your managed email domain automatically, or require an administrator to add each person.

Fixes & improvements

• Routines create a new chat and keep running if their original chat is deleted.
• Longer multi-step work can keep going, with a compact live status and expandable details.
• Chat lists refresh more reliably across devices.
• Project sharing finds individual teammates more reliably.
• Custom prompts, input references, and desktop notifications are more reliable.

4.39 — August 19, 2026

Highlights

• 🛡️ Limit chats to zero-retention models — Turn on ZDR models only in Privacy settings to use just the models whose providers keep nothing after answering. Blog · Docs

Also new

• 🏷️ Retention badges — Every model in the picker shows whether its provider keeps your prompts and responses.

4.38 — August 17, 2026

Also new

• 📊 Charts for every account — Turn prepared spreadsheet data into an interactive KPI, bar, or line chart.
• 📱 Phone & SMS — Add a US or Canadian number, then ask Bearly to text you from chats and Routines.

4.37 — August 16, 2026

Highlights

• 📊 Chart a spreadsheet in Bearly — Attach a spreadsheet and get an interactive KPI, bar, or line chart with the source data ready to inspect and download. Blog · Docs

Also new

• 🧭 Chat timeline — Jump between prompts and chapters in longer conversations.
• 🔎 Search chats and files — Find conversations by message text or the names of uploaded and generated files, with dates for matched messages.
• 🌐 Better Browser control — Bearly can hover, drag, scroll nested pages, and use screenshots to work with harder page layouts.
• 👥 Team directories — Managed-team admins can choose whether members can find coworkers by name or work email.

Fixes & improvements

• Gemini 3.7 Flash and Grok 4.6 are available.
• Grok text, image, and voice requests now run with zero data retention.
• Charts, research, images, and other visible results remain available as Bearly continues multi-step work.
• Long conversations preserve active instructions and important context more reliably as they grow.
• Large team roster imports are faster and flag duplicate or wrong-domain rows more clearly.
• Tool failures explain more clearly what to retry or change.
• Notifications are more consistent and take up less space.
• Math stays within the chat on narrow screens, and text fields no longer trigger unwanted zoom on iPhone or iPad.
• Deep Research email delivery, desktop Skills, and Windows Computer Use setup are more reliable.
• New Chat, project folder sync, and expanded Browser controls recover more reliably.

4.36 — August 10, 2026

Also new

• 📊 Editable tables — Edit CSV, TSV, and other delimited files in a full-size grid, with every save kept as a version.

Fixes & improvements

• Generated file cards and full previews now share the same version history, including newer versions created later.
• Every inline file preview has a download control, with richer previews for more file types.
• Long chats stay steady instead of flashing or jumping when you send a message.
• Local meeting recordings finish transcribing more reliably.
• Chat titles appear sooner and recover more reliably when generation fails.
• The desktop Browser and chat sidebar no longer compete for space.
• Document uploads and model responses recover from more temporary failures.
• People Search no longer shows broken text when it doesn’t find published work.
• Login codes, scheduled results, and other Bearly emails have a more consistent design.

4.35 — August 6, 2026

Also new

• 📬 Message queueing — Send follow-ups while Bearly is answering; they wait in the composer and send one at a time.

Fixes & improvements

• ⌘Enter sends a message immediately, interrupting the current answer.
• ↑ in an empty composer recalls your most recent queued message.

4.34 — August 5, 2026

Highlights

• 🔌 Connect your own MCP servers — Add an HTTPS MCP server on the web or desktop, or run an npm MCP package in the desktop app, and use its tools in chats and Routines. Docs

Fixes & improvements

• Team policies can provide MCP servers to members and decide whether members can add their own.
• Connectors now show why a server failed, and a local server that stopped restarts the next time a chat needs it.
• Servers and keys you add stay in the browser or desktop profile where you set them up.

4.33 — August 4, 2026

Highlights

• 🔎 People Search — Meeting someone new? Bearly makes sure it has the right person, then writes up their public work with a source and a date on every claim. Blog · Docs
• 🌐 Bearly Browser — Open a browser you and Bearly share in the desktop app, and let it read and act on pages with you. Blog · Docs

Also new

• 🖼️ Image search — Ask for images and get a gallery you can open, copy, or download.
• 📨 Email & text from chat — Ask Bearly to email or text you results from any conversation.
• 🔌 Connectors on desktop — Use your connected apps in the desktop app, not just on the web.
• 📁 Meeting transcripts in Projects — Send a meeting transcript to a project so chats there can use it.

Fixes & improvements

• Claude Opus 5 is available.
• Voice conversations, transcription, and text-to-speech use upgraded audio models.
• Web search cites sources as compact numbered links.
• Chats sync more safely through connection problems, and long chats render faster.
• The desktop app shows a clearer screen when it can’t connect and recovers on its own.
• Scanned documents, connector sign-ins, sidebar menus, and iOS input are more reliable.

4.32 — July 26, 2026

Highlights

• 🎙️ Record meetings with live transcripts — Record a meeting, call, or voice note and watch the speaker-aware transcript arrive live. Blog · Docs

Also new

• 🗺️ Maps — Ask for places, reviews, or directions by car, foot, bike, or transit.
• 🌤️ Weather — Ask for forecasts, severe-weather alerts, air quality, or pollen anywhere.
• 💬 Chat management — Find, read, rename, and organize chats with confirmation for sensitive actions.

Fixes & improvements

• Math renders without stray dollar signs.
• Routines has a clearer schedule builder and week view.
• The new-chat box opens at its full height.

4.31 — July 22, 2026

Also new

• ⏰ Routines — Deliver scheduled prompts to their own chat, email, or text.
• 🔎 SEO Data — Ask for current demand, search results, rankings, competitors, backlinks, or page audits.
• 🧭 Faster references — Type / or @ to add files, skills, prompts, research, and tools to a message.
• 🎥 Video understanding — Inspect uploaded videos by scene, audio, and time range.
• 📸 Better X research — Bring post images and attached videos into the analysis.
• 🔐 Password-protected PDFs — Unlock protected files during upload.

Fixes & improvements

• New chats recover from connection failures without losing drafts or creating duplicates.
• Research sources, partial answers, file errors, iOS voice mode, desktop startup, and chat titles are more reliable.

4.30 — July 21, 2026

Highlights

• ⏰ Routines — Put a prompt on a schedule and receive each result in chat, by email, or by text. Blog · Docs

4.29 — July 3, 2026

Also new

• 📝 Transcripts as files — Save audio and video transcripts as reusable, searchable text files in chat.

Fixes & improvements

• Re-transcribing the same recording reuses its existing file.

4.28 — June 30, 2026

Highlights

• Bearly Pro, Claude Sonnet 5, and Nano Banana Lite — New language and image options balance frontier quality, speed, and price.

Also new

• ✨ Needs Attention — Gather unread chats and pending approvals in one sidebar filter.
• 📄 Better OCR — Preserve tables and retry low-confidence scans automatically with Mistral OCR 4.
• 💻 Local approval controls — Grant or revoke command auto-approval directly from chat.

Fixes & improvements

• Text files skip OCR for faster, more reliable uploads.
• Chat forks, iOS input, local folder identity, and new-chat tips are more reliable.

4.27 — June 17, 2026

Also new

• 🎙️ Better text-to-speech — Choose a natural voice and steer its tone, pace, or accent.

4.26 — June 17, 2026

Also new

• 🗂️ Safer archives — Filter clearly marked archived chats and restore one before deleting it.

Fixes & improvements

• The Archive control disappears correctly when no archived chats remain.

4.25 — June 9, 2026

Highlights

• Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic’s flagship model supports long context, images, tools, and adaptive reasoning.

4.24 — June 4, 2026

Highlights

• 🎬 Generate and edit video — Create video from text or images, add native audio, or transform an existing clip by describing the change.

Also new

• 🎚️ Video controls — Choose length, resolution, aspect ratio, and optional start or end frames.

Fixes & improvements

• Video replies no longer expose internal control tags.

4.23 — May 28, 2026

Highlights

• Claude Opus 4.8 — Anthropic’s latest flagship model replaces earlier Opus versions in Bearly.

4.22 — May 20, 2026

Highlights

• 🔬 Deep Research — Review a research plan, then receive a thorough source-backed report.
• Gemini 3.5 Flash — Google’s fast, affordable everyday model is available.

Fixes & improvements

• Apple-billed customers can buy credit boosts on the web.
• Copied answers preserve formatting in Word, Outlook, and other rich-text apps.
• Voice mode works better in noisy rooms.
• Desktop navigation, spelling suggestions, and app stability are improved.
• Projects replace legacy document collections for organized file workflows.

4.21 — May 13, 2026

Highlights

• 🎙️ Voice mode — Talk with Bearly in real time, then continue from the transcript saved in chat.

4.20 — May 10, 2026

Also new

• 🖼️ Cleaner media workflows — Review image galleries and inline media without leaving chat.
• 🎨 Themed Pages — Generated Pages inherit your Bearly colors.
• ⬇️ Office downloads — Save either a PDF preview or the original file.
• 🧩 Local skill scripts — Run approved preset scripts without exposing a general shell.

Fixes & improvements

• Cowork approvals, local skills, desktop downloads, and runtime settings are clearer.
• Sidebar attention states, encrypted-project sync, mobile input, and desktop startup are more reliable.

4.19 — May 5, 2026

Highlights

• 💻 Cowork — Let Bearly read, write, and run approved commands inside a folder you choose. Docs
• 🧩 Skills — Install reusable abilities from Git, GitHub, or Bearly’s built-in collection.
• GPT-5.5 and Grok 4.3 — New frontier reasoning models are available.

Fixes & improvements

• Tool calls and thinking steps use a compact, inspectable row.
• Tool arguments appear while Bearly is preparing them.
• Desktop menus, international text input, and document rendering are more reliable.

4.18 — April 29, 2026

Highlights

• 🏛️ Council of Experts — Ask several leading models at once and receive one bias-reduced synthesis.
• 🐦 X research — Search public X posts and profiles for current discussion, sentiment, and expert commentary.

Also new

• 🎯 Tidier agentic view — Inspect thinking and tool steps from one compact row.

4.17 — April 21, 2026

Highlights

• Kimi 2.6 and GPT Image 2 — New agentic and image-generation models are available.

4.16 — April 20, 2026

Highlights

• 🚀 A faster new-chat page — Bearly opens to a dedicated home base that starts a conversation without a spinner.

Also new

• 🎞️ Grounded media answers — Questions about audio and video start from a transcript.

Fixes & improvements

• Billing, syncing, and app stability are smoother.

4.15 — April 16, 2026

Highlights

• Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic’s latest flagship model is available.

Also new

• ⏭️ Interrupt & Send — Send a new message to stop and redirect an answer in progress.
• 📸 Mobile camera — Open the camera from chat with one tap.
• 🖼️ Upload previews — See image thumbnails and clearer processing progress before sending.

Fixes & improvements

• PDFs, downloads, file actions, video, and Markdown math work more reliably on mobile.

4.14 — April 14, 2026

Highlights

• 🧠 Conversation history modes — Choose dynamic trimming for chat or compaction for long, agentic work.

Also new

• 💅 Cleaner chat design — Use flatter messages and smaller citation markers.
• 🔎 Smarter web fetch — Search several queries at once and save large sources as attachments.
• 📄 Better document handling — Read documents directly and turn large text pastes into files.
• 💰 Usage summary — See spend, daily rate, boost balance, and credit reset date together.

Fixes & improvements

• Streaming, Markdown, code blocks, navigation, and long chats are more reliable.

4.13 — April 8, 2026

Also new

• 📌 Chat pinning — Keep important conversations at the top of the sidebar.
• 🧠 Smarter conversation memory — Preserve long chats through background compaction and better caching.
• 📸 Better image uploads — Reliably upload large photos, HEIC files, and WebP images.

Fixes & improvements

• The sidebar sorts chats by recent use.
• OpenAI responses stream faster and cached follow-ups cost less.
• Chat titles, image galleries, metadata handling, and model menus are more reliable.

4.12 — April 5, 2026

Also new

• 🔎 Smarter web research — Follow evidence beyond snippets and verify it through clearer sources.
• ✉️ Send email from chat — Email a summary, notes, or attachments from the current conversation.
• 🖼️ Image understanding — Inspect images found during a workflow and keep working with them.
• 🧠 Longer workflows — Continue complex, multi-step tasks through more work before stopping.

4.11 — April 2, 2026

Highlights

• 🧠 Memory recall — Bearly can bring relevant details from past conversations into the current answer.

Also new

• 📄 Deeper document understanding — Search inside uploads and walk through them section by section.

4.10 — March 31, 2026

Highlights

• 🪪 Personalization — Tell Bearly about your role and preferences so responses fit your work.

Also new

• 💰 Credit boosts — Add one-time credits from Billing when you need more before reset.
• ✍️ Canvas preview — Edit raw Markdown beside a live rendered preview.
• 📊 Model usage — See exactly where your credits go by model.
• 🖼️ Better image viewer — Zoom, pan, pinch, and quickly reset an image.

Fixes & improvements

• Answers are shorter and Markdown spacing is tighter by default.

4.8 — March 4, 2026

Highlights

• 🎨 Themes — Choose from 11 themes that restyle chat, navigation, code, and every page.

Also new

• ✨ Fresh new look — A consistent design system now runs across every page and component.
• 💬 Smoother chat — Media keeps playing while answers stream and switching chats is flicker-free.

Fixes & improvements

• Chat scrolling is smoother.
• Markdown and code rendering are clearer and more accurate.

4.7.2 — February 26, 2026

Highlights

• Gemini 3.1 Pro and Nano Banana 2 — Google’s latest language and image models are available.

Also new

• 📁 Chat file browser — Browse and download uploaded, generated, and project files from chat.
• ✍️ More response styles — Use Classic or No Style and set project-level defaults.

Fixes & improvements

• Desktop folder picking and multi-monitor window placement are more reliable.

4.7.1 — February 17, 2026

Highlights

• 🎨 Response styles — Choose how Bearly writes in each chat, from concise to explanatory or formal.
• Claude Sonnet 4.6 — Anthropic’s latest Sonnet model is the new featured model.

Also new

• ⚙️ Redesigned Settings — Change this chat or future chat defaults from a faster modal.
• 🧭 Better navigation — Use project breadcrumbs, global search, and one app menu for common controls.

Fixes & improvements

• Recommended automatically chooses the best available model for new chats.
• Images, desktop popovers, and the model picker render more reliably.

4.7 — January 6, 2026

Highlights

• 🏞️ Image editing gallery — Generate, edit, and combine images in one focused workspace. Docs
• 💅 Grammar corrections — Review and apply sentence-level writing corrections inside Bearly. Docs

Fixes & improvements

• Image generation adds SeedDream 4, Qwen, Imagine 4, and Flux 2.
• The app loads faster and syncs chats more reliably.

4.6.3 — November 24, 2025

Highlights

• Claude Opus 4.5 — Anthropic’s latest Opus model is available.

Fixes & improvements

• Gemini 3.1 Flash Image is the new default image-editing model.

4.6.2 — November 18, 2025

Highlights

• Gemini 3 — Google’s latest general-purpose model is available.

4.6.1 — November 14, 2025

Highlights

• GPT-5.1 and GPT-5 Pro — OpenAI’s latest models are available in Bearly.

4.6.0 — October 23, 2025

Also new

• 🗂️ Prompt Templates — Reusable prompts now have their own page.

Fixes & improvements

• The sidebar and several pages have a clearer, more streamlined design.
• Answers stream more smoothly.
• Cross-device sync is faster and more reliable.

4.5.2 — September 15, 2025

Highlights

• 🔐 Project encryption — Protect an entire project with a password only you know. Docs

Fixes & improvements

• Copied answers paste more reliably into Google Docs and other rich-text editors.
• The mobile sidebar and Artifact experience are more stable.

4.5.1 — September 3, 2025

Highlights

• Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — Google’s Nano Banana model is available for image editing. Docs

Fixes & improvements

• Audio, video, scrolling, media rendering, and cross-device sync are more reliable.

4.5 — August 25, 2025

Highlights

• 📚 Project documents — Build a shared knowledge base that every chat in a project can use automatically. Docs

Also new

• 📄 Richer document processing — Preserve more information from images, tables, charts, and page layout.

Fixes & improvements

• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other office files process faster and more reliably.
• GPT-5 formats code more reliably.

4.4.1 — August 15, 2025

Highlights

• GPT-5 — OpenAI’s adaptive reasoning model is the new Bearly default.

Fixes & improvements

• Claude Opus was upgraded to 4.1.
• Chat scrolling and performance are smoother.

4.4 — August 1, 2025

Highlights

• 📁 Projects — Group related chats and give each project its own settings and workflow. Docs

4.3.2 — July 20, 2025

Highlights

• Grok 4 — xAI’s reasoning model can work with images, code, and complex questions.

4.3.1 — July 10, 2025

Highlights

• 🎥 Video generation — Turn an image and prompt into a five-second video with Kling AI 2.1. Docs

Also new

• 🎨 More image editing — Compare Flux Kontext and GPT Image results.

Fixes & improvements

• OpenAI GPT-4.5 was retired.

4.3 — June 25, 2025

Highlights

• 🧠 Memory and chat search — Search encrypted conversations and let Bearly recall useful context from them. Docs

Also new

• ⬇️ Artifact downloads — Export an Artifact to run or deploy outside Bearly.
• 🧭 Chat navigation — Move through chats from a dedicated top bar.

Fixes & improvements

• Chat scrolling is more reliable.
• Model pricing reflects recent provider price reductions.
• Canvas and Artifact windows behave more reliably.

4.2.1 — June 15, 2025

Highlights

• Claude 4 models — Claude Sonnet 4, Sonnet 4 Reasoning, and Opus 4 are available.

4.2 — June 1, 2025

Highlights

• 🎨 Edit, combine, and inpaint images — Restyle an image, merge several images, or paint over the exact area you want to change. Docs

Also new

• 🗑️ Bulk delete — Select and remove several chats at once.

Fixes & improvements

• Gemini 2.5 Flash is available.

4.1.1 — April 17, 2025

Highlights

• 🧱 Artifacts — Create web apps, reports, games, and other interactive work directly in chat. Docs
• 🐍 Code Interpreter — Run Python for analysis, calculations, and file or image transformations. Docs

Also new

• 🔊 Read Aloud — Listen to any message directly from chat.

Fixes & improvements

• Images expand when clicked.
• Chats preserve drafts, running queries, and scroll position more reliably when you switch away.
• Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI 4.1, OpenAI o3, OpenAI o4-mini, and Grok 3 are available.

4.0.14 — March 8, 2025

Highlights

• 📝 Canvas — Edit long-form writing directly inside Bearly. Docs

Also new

• 🖼️ All image engines — Generate with every engine at once using /all engines.

4.0.13 — March 2, 2025

Highlights

• 🎙️ Speaker-aware transcripts — Name speakers, follow the current sentence during playback, and let Bearly detect names automatically.

Also new

• ⬇️ Media downloads — Use /download to save supported media from the current conversation.
• 🧠 Reasoning steps — See reasoning-model thoughts in the agent steps view.

Fixes & improvements

• GPT-4.5 is available.

4.0.12 — February 27, 2025

Also new

• 🔁 Rerun — Generate another answer from a dedicated button.

Fixes & improvements

• Claude 3.7 and Claude 3.7 Reasoning are available.
• The input bar has a clearer design.

4.0.11 — February 19, 2025

Fixes & improvements

• DeepSeek R1 moved to a new hosting provider.
• Google Imagen and Recraft are available for image generation.

4.0.10 — January 31, 2025

Also new

• 🎞️ Batch transcripts — Transcribe several recordings together with inline video playback.

Fixes & improvements

• OpenAI o3-mini is available with reasoning, tools, and streaming.
• The duplicate code-copy button is fixed.

4.0.9 — January 23, 2025

Also new

• 🎛️ Model controls — Set model temperature from Settings.

Fixes & improvements

• DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2, and the vision-capable Grok model are available.
• The web-search toggle is back.
• The app loads faster.

4.0.8-Beta — December 17, 2024

Also new

• ⏹️ Stop responses — End an answer while it is still generating.

Fixes & improvements

• Claude Haiku was upgraded to 3.5.
• Custom prompts can run without fields.
• PDF text is easier to select and highlight.
• Pasted text from Word and other rich documents is handled more reliably.

4.0.7-Beta — October 30, 2024

Highlights

• 🎤 Turn answers into audio — Ask Bearly to read something aloud or use /tts on a text snippet.

Also new

• 📁 Collection search — Search a specific document collection by typing / followed by its name.
• 📸 PDF source previews — Jump directly from an answer to the cited place in a PDF.
• 🪄 Grammar correction — Open the writing corrector with /grammar.

Fixes & improvements

• Document and attachment search includes clearer inline sources.
• xAI Grok is available.

4.0.6-Beta — October 22, 2024

Highlights

• 🔎 Web search with sources — Bearly can search the web and show where its answer came from.
• 🫙 Custom prompts — Create reusable prompts and run them from Focus with /.

Fixes & improvements

• Claude Sonnet 3.5 was upgraded to its latest release.

4.0.5-Beta — October 7, 2024

Highlights

• 🎙️ Fast audio transcripts — Type /transcript to turn audio into text.

Also new

• ⌨️ Slash commands — Run tools and shortcuts from Focus with /.
• 🔁 Answer versions — Rerun a question with another model and switch between its answers.

Fixes & improvements

• Flux 1.1 image models are available through /flux.

4.0.4-Beta — September 16, 2024

Highlights

• 📋 Switch chats from the sidebar — Move between conversations directly or through the command menu.

Fixes & improvements

• Documents are detected more reliably.

4.0.3-Beta — September 12, 2024

Also new

• ⬇️ Chat export — Download a conversation as Markdown.

Fixes & improvements

• OpenAI o1 and o1-mini are available.

4.0.2-Beta — July 19, 2024

Fixes & improvements

• The model picker now includes GPT-4o Mini, GPT-4o, Claude Haiku, and Claude Sonnet 3.5.
• Web search returns better results.
• The global shortcut opens Focus or your most recent notebook mode.
• Answers are less chatty by default.
• Chat titles, the usage meter, and several interface details work more reliably.

4.0.1-Beta — June 4, 2024

Fixes & improvements

• Code-copy controls now stay out of the way until you need them.
• Chats keep more useful conversation history.
• Chat-switching shortcuts no longer conflict with common system shortcuts.
• Longer pasted text stays in the composer before becoming an attachment.
• Mobile layout, line breaks, and cross-device sync are more reliable.