ClaudeView 1.7.3

Fixes

• No more recurring "Dll was not found" error dialogs. WPF's legacy stylus/touch (WISP) subsystem tried to load a native pen-input DLL on every device-change event, which isn't loadable in the single-file build — so plugging in hardware or a Bluetooth device popped stacking "ClaudeView error" dialogs. That subsystem (unneeded for a chat UI) is now disabled outright.
• AskUserQuestion cards wait as long as you need. They were bounded by a 60-second tool timeout, so taking longer than a minute to answer let the turn continue unanswered while the card was still on screen. Interactive prompts now stay parked indefinitely for your answer.
• Plan label no longer regresses to a stale "Max 5×". A failed or absent live-plan fetch (e.g. an expired token after an idle night in the tray) no longer drops the plan tier back to the stale local-file value — the last live tier is remembered until a successful refresh.

ClaudeView 1.7.2

ClaudeView 1.7.2 — leaner while it sits

A performance-focused release. No feature changes — ClaudeView just uses less of your machine when it's out of the way.

• Lower idle CPU / battery — when the window is hidden to the tray or minimized, ClaudeView now pauses the work you can't see: the 5-second git-status / RAM / reset-label polling and the once-a-minute session-list rebuild stop, and usage polling backs off to a slower cadence. A backgrounded instance no longer spawns git.exe every few seconds. Everything refreshes instantly the moment you bring the window back.
• Lower steady-state RAM — hiding to the tray now reaps idle background sessions' Node/CLI processes right away instead of waiting up to a minute, the built-in code viewer releases its browser processes the moment you close it, and idle sessions suspend a little sooner (after 10 minutes instead of 15). All transparent — suspended conversations resume on your next message.

Auto-updates as usual: download → SHA-256 verify → swap on next launch.

ClaudeView 1.7.1

ClaudeView 1.7.1

Critical fix for a startup crash introduced in 1.7.0.

• Fixed: "The Claude process exited unexpectedly" on every message. The 1.7.0 build shipped an incomplete Node sidecar — index.mjs imported a sibling module that wasn't included in the package, so the sidecar crashed on launch and rejected every message (including slash commands). The packaging step now bundles all runtime sidecar modules, and can't silently drop one again.
• Reverted an experimental prompt tweak around clarifying questions; plan-mode question cards and approvals behave exactly as before.

Existing installs auto-update on next launch (download · verify SHA-256 · swap).

ClaudeView 1.7.0

ClaudeView 1.7.0 — in-app code viewer & editor

Double-click any file in the Explorer to open it in a fast, themed code viewer — no more launching an external app just to glance at a file.

New

• Syntax-highlighted viewer for ~40 common languages, matching the app's warm dark/light themes.
• Brand language badge — a colored logo (Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, C#, …) and label for the open file.
• Full editor (opt-in): click Edit to turn the viewer into a real editor powered by CodeMirror 6 — line-number gutter, undo/redo, find/replace (Ctrl+F), multi-cursor, auto-indent, and bracket matching. Save with Ctrl+S.
• Safe alongside a live session: the editor is read-only by default, silently reloads when a file changes on disk while you're just viewing, warns before overwriting a file the agent changed, and preserves original line endings. Diffs stay reachable via right-click and the Git panel.

Auto-updates from previous versions.

ClaudeView 1.6.1

ClaudeView 1.6.1

Reliability and polish on top of 1.6.0's multi-session Remote Control.

• Remote Control survives updates & restarts — a bridged session is now automatically re-established after an app update, restart, or mid-session crash. Previously the bridge died silently with the process (your phone still showed "connected" but messages went nowhere); now ClaudeView reconnects it on its own and hands you the fresh link.
• Idle remote sessions read correctly — a bridged session's violet dot is now steady and dimmed when idle, and only pulses while it's actually working (a pulsing dot no longer implies activity that isn't happening).
• Responsive layout remembers your sizes — each side panel's width persists across collapse/reveal cycles, double-click a splitter to reset to default, and the compact (phone-width) view keeps its own chat font size, separate from your desktop size.
• AskUserQuestion — the Submit button now stays disabled until every question has a selection, so nothing gets silently defaulted.
• Status bar — the "RAM" label is now a clean monochrome RAM-chip icon.

Auto-updates from a previous install; or download ClaudeView.exe below.

ClaudeView 1.6.0

ClaudeView 1.6.0

Remote Control: connect multiple sessions at once

Remote Control is no longer one-session-at-a-time. You can now bridge as many sessions to your phone (claude.ai) as you like, and manage them all remotely.

• Multi-connect on the desktop — click the violet Remote Control button on several sessions; each stays bridged. Enabling one no longer disconnects another.
• /remote is now a connection dashboard — type /remote on your phone to list every session on that computer, marked with which are already connected.
• Connect from your phone — bring another session online without dropping the ones you already have.
• Disconnect from your phone — new disconnect and disconnect all commands let you tear down bridges remotely (previously only possible at the desktop).
• Closing the ClaudeView window still drops every active bridge, so nothing is left drivable when the app looks closed.

ClaudeView 1.5.9

ClaudeView 1.5.9

Polish

• The in-progress to-do marker is now the Claude mark (optically centered) instead of a small dot, and it gently "breathes" to signal the item is actively being worked on.

Auto-updates from any prior version.

ClaudeView 1.5.8

ClaudeView 1.5.8

Configurable tray meter

• The tray icon's third bar is now yours to pick — right-click → Tray bar (3rd row) and choose Disk (default), RAM, CPU, or App RAM (ClaudeView's own footprint). The choice repaints instantly and sticks across restarts.

CPU in the usage popup

• The left-click usage popup gains a live CPU row, showing current load plus your machine's core count.

Cleaner tray tooltip

• The hover tooltip was getting long and clipping, so the Disk/RAM rows moved into the popup and the tooltip now ends with the app version. Account, 5-hour, and weekly usage stay front and center.

Auto-updates from previous versions: download → verify SHA-256 → swap on next launch.

ClaudeView 1.5.7

ClaudeView 1.5.7

Per-session model & effort

• The composer's model and effort dropdowns now follow the selected session. Each session remembers its own model and reasoning effort (persisted across restarts), so switching sessions repaints the dropdowns to match, and every session launches and live-switches with its own settings. New sessions inherit your current default.

Crash recovery

• When the underlying Claude Code CLI hard-crashes (e.g. a Windows 0xC0000409 fatal exit), ClaudeView now shows a plain explanation instead of a raw stack trace, and the session recovers cleanly: your next message resumes the conversation where it left off instead of silently hanging.

Quality of life

• Copy-to-clipboard button under your own messages, matching the one under Claude's replies.
• Deleting a session now frees its memory immediately (working set trimmed on every delete path).

Also includes the unreleased 1.5.6 work

• "Start fresh" resets an entire session group and opens one clean session.
• The Assistant workspace is now a permanent home base that can't be deleted away.
• To-Do panel polish and Task-tool mirroring.

ClaudeView 1.5.5

ClaudeView 1.5.5

A big batch of polish and reliability work.

Composer

• Zed-style numbered lists: type 1. at the start of a line and the marker renders in fixed-width mono + accent so every item lines up; the text stays regular. Shift+Enter auto-continues the list (1.→2.→…) and ends it on an empty item, leaving the caret on a fresh line.
• Draft persistence: unsent composer text and pasted images survive session switches, restarts, and crashes.

Explorer / Git panel

• The Explorer/Git split now remembers its position across session switches and restarts. Double-click the divider to reset it to the default.

Quality of life

• Notification sounds, idle-session RAM cleanup, refreshed Anthropic Sans/Serif/Mono typography, and softer corner-radius throughout.

Auto-update: existing installs update themselves on next launch.