ENGRAM 0.2 — Cobalt Identity Preview

ENGRAM adopts the approved cobalt lightning character, warm paper and charcoal ink. The desktop is now the Trace desk, with an angular Trace map and the slogan Find what remains. The README banner, native icons, navigation, filters and evidence views share the new identity.

This release changes the visual identity and branding text. The Rust analysis engine, supported readers, case schema, evidence rules, IPC permissions and source-preserving operations retain their behavior. Existing schema-1 cases remain compatible. The application version stays 0.2.0; this release is preview.2.

Downloads

• Windows x64: portable ZIP with engram-desktop.exe and the CLI. Requires Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime.
• macOS Apple Silicon: tar archive with ENGRAM.app and the CLI.
• Linux x64: native desktop and CLI archive. Requires GTK 3, WebKitGTK 4.1 and a compatible system runtime.
• SHA256SUMS.txt verifies the archives; BUILD-INFO.txt records their exact source and checks.

The packages are unsigned Developer Preview builds. The macOS app is not notarized. The app starts with clearly marked synthetic data; select a local source through the native dialog to inspect real files.

Verification

• Cross-platform Rust checks, frontend tests and actual Tauri/IPC captures.
• Native package build for Windows, macOS and Linux.
• Verified build source.

The release tag also includes fresh native screenshots and documentation. Runtime files and dependency lockfiles match the verified package source. Earlier release artifacts retain their original appearance.

Reader coverage remains unchanged: supported iPhone backup and SQLite activity readers are experimental; protected Keychain recovery, deleted-record carving, OCR and application-access attribution remain planned.