ClawPal v0.13.0

Download ClawPal-Setup.exe to get started. Everything needed is included.

The other assets support automatic firmware updates and source/license availability.

ClawPal 0.13.0

• Shortcuts, a new app on every board: a grid of tiles on your display that
  run things on your PC.
  • Tiles can mute your microphone or sound, turn the volume down or up (hold
    to keep going), play, pause or skip, lock the PC, turn the screens off,
    show the desktop, take a screenshot or open Task Manager.
  • They can also open an app, a website or a folder, or press any key
    combination, such as a Discord or OBS hotkey.
  • Mute tiles light up while you're muted, play/pause shows what will happen,
    and app tiles show the app's own icon.
  • Every tile says when it worked, or why it didn't.
  • Build the deck in the new Shortcuts page of the PC app: pick a 6, 8, 12
    or 16-tile grid, drag tiles into place, and choose each one's action, label,
    icon and colour. Try it runs a tile on the PC straight away.
  • Everyone starts with an 8-tile grid: mute mic, mute sound, volume down and
    up, play/pause, next, lock and screenshot. Home stays as it was.
  • What a tile runs stays on your PC. The display only knows how the tile
    looks, and while the PC is locked only sound, media, lock and screens-off
    tiles work.
• The Apps menu now shows five apps across on 800 × 480 displays, so all nine
  fit on one screen.
• A tidier PC app:
  • Settings are grouped under Display (Home, Apps, Shortcuts, Clock &
    weather, Screen, Look & language) and This PC (PC app, Connection,
    Updates), with each page split into titled sections.
  • Options for a single app sit with that app on the Apps page: game FPS
    under PC Monitor, the Claude Code connection and live limits under Claude
    Code.
  • Add apps to Home by clicking them, instead of picking from a list.
  • Lists scroll with the mouse wheel, jump to an entry as you type, and close
    when you click them again.
  • Setup and Wi-Fi changes list nearby networks: pick yours and type only the
    password. Networks the display can't join (5 GHz only) are marked.
  • Setup has a new look: numbered steps, labelled fields and clearer sections.
    The crab no longer covers the step list when Windows scales text above
    100 %.
• A Join our Discord button sits at the bottom of the PC app's sidebar.
• Fixed: displays with FT6336 or FT5x06 touch (the ES3C28P and the M5Stack
  CoreS3) no longer restart in a loop at boot, and keep running without touch if
  the touch chip doesn't answer. Thanks to Skinner2002 for finding and fixing it.
• Fixed: if Windows hadn't finished removing an uninstalled copy of ClawPal,
  the installer stopped with "file not found". It now installs a fresh copy.
• The PC app now refuses to install firmware that isn't signed over USB, since a
  display can't start it.
• The PC app and the display need each other's update for Shortcuts; install
  both.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.12.0

Download ClawPal-Setup.exe to get started. Everything needed is included.

The other assets support automatic firmware updates and source/license availability.

ClawPal 0.12.0

• New experimental board: the LCDWIKI 2.8-inch ESP32-S3 Display (ES3C28P)
  with capacitive touch. Choose it in setup's model list. It hasn't run on real
  hardware yet, so keep the backup turned on when you install. If the picture
  is upside down or mirrored, or taps land in the wrong place, please report
  it. The touchless ES3N28P is a different board and isn't supported.
• Every screen on 320 × 240 displays (the ES3C28P and the M5Stack CoreS3) is
  redesigned to fit above the footer. Nothing overlaps or is cut off, and
  scrolling moves one whole view at a time.
  • Home shows only the clock: the date, large numerals and the week, centred.
    Swipe up for the shortcuts.
  • The Clock app is a single centred column with large numerals. On this size
    the crab no longer appears on Home or Clock in either look.
  • The Apps menu fits all eight apps on one screen.
  • Media fits on one screen, Timer puts Start and Reset beside the ring, and
    PC Monitor, Claude Code, Codex and Weather give each card its own view.
  • The footer keeps only hints that fit, and the running-timer shortcut shows
    its full time.
• Displays with other screen sizes look exactly as before.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.11.0

Download ClawPal-Setup.exe to get started. Everything needed is included.

The other assets support automatic firmware updates and source/license availability.

ClawPal 0.11.0

• Two looks for the display and the PC app. Crab is the playful, animated
  ClawPal you know. Studio is calm and refined: graphite surfaces, hairline
  rules, quiet wording, thin Montserrat Light numerals and no mascot. It comes
  with eight accents: Champagne, Sage, Ice, Silver, Rose, Lavender, Copper and
  Teal.
• Setup now starts with your language and look, so the rest of setup already
  wears it. Change it any time under Appearance in settings. The display
  restarts for a few seconds to apply a new look, and a running timer starts
  over.
• In Studio, Home's left side is a desk clock: the date, large light numerals
  and the week with today marked. The shortcuts beside it already show what
  each app is doing, so nothing is repeated. Weather shows the condition's own
  mark, and prompts, installs and every app keep their layouts on all three
  screen sizes.
• In both looks, the Apps menu is a grid of large tiles with each app's icon,
  name and what it shows right now. The open app is outlined, and a swipe
  across the grid no longer counts as a tap.
• Music is now Media: it follows any player in Windows' media controls and
  has its own play icon. Spotify still gets its logo while it's the one
  playing.
• The Apps icon in the footer now lines up with its label.
• The PC app follows the look, including its accent and wording, and hides the
  crab in Studio.
• Fixed the firmware install screen showing its progress line at the very top
  of the display.
• Display settings moved to schema 7. Update the PC app before the display;
  older PC apps cannot read the new settings.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.10.1

Download ClawPal-Setup.exe to get started. Everything needed is included.

The other assets support automatic firmware updates and source/license availability.

ClawPal 0.10.1

• Fixed the weather showing "unavailable". The redesigned display apps used up
  the display's fast internal memory, leaving none for Wi-Fi and the secure
  connection to the forecast service. The interface now moves to the larger
  external memory once internal memory runs low.
• A display update no longer asks you to update the PC app first when the
  installed one already works with it.
• Redesigned approval prompts on the display. A firmware update shows the
  installed and new version and which PC asked; a Wi-Fi change shows the new
  network. A bar counts down the time left to answer.
• The Claude Code and Codex alert now leads with the waiting task, shows its
  project and how long ago it asked, and uses the app's own colour.
• While an update installs, the crab carries it along a progress bar, then
  shows the signature check and the restart. If an update fails, the display
  says so and keeps the current version.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.10.0

Download ClawPal-Setup.exe to get started. Everything needed is included.

The other assets support automatic firmware updates and source/license availability.

ClawPal 0.10.0

• Redesigned display apps. Music shows an album-tinted cover with the dancing
  crab, a draggable seek bar, shuffle, repeat, and Spotify volume and mute.
  Codex and Claude Code share one page with usage gauges, reset countdowns, a
  pace forecast and task cards. PC Monitor, Timer and Weather use the same card
  style, with dedicated layouts for 480 × 480 and 320 × 240 screens.
• The time zone now follows the location you choose, for about 590 places
  worldwide. A few regions whose rules the display can't follow exactly keep
  the manual list.
• Safer local network: every request from the PC to the display is signed, so
  the pairing token no longer crosses the network and recorded requests can't be
  replayed. Traffic is still unencrypted; keep the display on a trusted network.
• Wi-Fi firmware updates must now be signed by the ClawPal release key.
  Installing over USB, including your own builds, works as before.
• Music works with any player in Windows' media controls, including Apple
  Music, TIDAL and browsers, and shows the album cover on the display.
• When Claude Code or Codex waits for your answer, the display shows a
  full-screen alert on any app. Show on PC brings that window forward.
• Locking or sleeping the PC makes the crab nap instead of showing "PC offline".
• CPU temperature appears when LibreHardwareMonitor, or HWiNFO with shared
  memory, is running. ClawPal still installs no driver.
• ClawPal now appears in Windows' installed apps and can be uninstalled from
  there, or with --uninstall. It also disconnects Claude Code.
• A damaged settings file no longer stops the companion from starting. It is
  set aside and setup starts again.
• The display reports its reset reason, uptime and memory low-water marks, and
  keeps a crash report after a USB install writes the new partition table.
• Fixed "Limits unavailable" after Claude Desktop moved its data to the new
  Claude-Data folder.
• Preserved settings, pairing, and on-device approval for remote changes.

Update the PC app first. This display firmware only talks to companion
0.10.0 or newer, so ClawPal offers the PC update before the display update.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.9.1

Download ClawPal-Setup.exe to get started. Everything needed is included.

The other assets support automatic firmware updates and source/license availability.

ClawPal 0.9.1

• Added opt-in Live Claude limits in Companion settings. Reads the signed-in
  Desktop or native CLI account's current usage and reset times from Anthropic.
• Fresh limits refresh every minute during active sessions. Failed requests keep
  an honestly aged cached reading; rate-limit responses respect retry delays.
• Account changes discard the previous live reading. Credentials remain on the
  PC except for the authenticated request to Anthropic and never enter logs or
  device telemetry. No chat messages are sent.
• Fixed stale Desktop usage history overwriting newer status-line limits.
• Replaced the Claude integration logo on the display and in the companion.
• Preserved 0.9.0's settings, pairing, and on-device approval for remote changes.

After updating: enable Companion > Live Claude limits and save to use
current account readings. The switch remains off until you choose it.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.9.0

ClawPal 0.9.0

• Firmware updates and Wi-Fi changes sent from the PC now wait until you tap
  Allow on the display. Nobody on your network can replace the firmware or
  move the display to another network without someone at the screen.
• Wi-Fi updates no longer install older firmware. Use USB to go back a version.
• Open Wi-Fi networks without a password now work, including from the
  display's own setup page.
• Fixed a long location name stopping every later settings change from
  reaching the display.
• Firmware updates no longer fail on a brief Wi-Fi stall.
• ClawPal changes Claude Code's settings only when you click
  Connect / repair Claude Code. The new Disconnect Claude Code button
  puts your original status line back. Existing connections keep working.
• Restoring a backup on another PC or Windows account asks you to set the
  display up again instead of stopping the companion from starting.
• Very long CPU or GPU names no longer stop PC stats from showing.
• Update the PC companion first. A display on 0.9.0 does not accept updates
  or Wi-Fi changes from older companions. Pairing and settings are kept.

Created by MinimalPulse.

ClawPal v0.8.1

ClawPal 0.8.1

• Bug fixes lol

Created by MinimalPulse.