Switchbard 0.6.0 for Mac

Switchbard for Mac: your tasks, the AI working on them, and the questions it asks you, in one window.

To install: download the .dmg, open it, and drag Switchbard to Applications. If you already have 0.5.0, you don't need to download anything: it fetches this version in the background and installs it when you quit, or when you click Update ready.

What you need

• A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), on macOS 13 or later. It has been tested on macOS 26 and 27.
• Apple's command line tools. If they're missing, Switchbard offers to add them when you first open it.
• An account with an AI provider, such as Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, to connect when you first open it.

What's new since 0.5.0

This is still an early version, so expect rough edges.

• If you open Switchbard straight from the disk image, it now tells you to move it to Applications. It can't update itself from the disk image, and 0.5.0 only said it would try again later.
• Chat: the AI's replies appear as grey bubbles, you can zoom into a picture, and you can shrink a conversation you're watching into the title bar.
• Inbox: answer the AI's questions on the card itself, and look back through earlier questions and answers.
• Tasks: rename and archive a project in place, drag tasks onto a project to move them, Shift-click to select a range, and pin saved views in the sidebar and drag them into order.
• Sharing: send a task list to someone as a .switchbard file. They see a preview before they import it.
• Connections: each connection has its own page in Settings. You can now connect Slack workspaces, signing in through your browser, and Postgres, Snowflake or BigQuery, whose data you can explore on the new Analysis page.
• Scheduled jobs show their schedule, their next runs and their recent runs with logs.
• Settings opens over the sidebar. Each workspace can say how careful the AI should be in it. Appearance offers five Dock icons, and the app has a new icon.
• Quitting during first-time setup no longer hangs.

The first time 0.6.0 opens your tasks, it upgrades how they're stored. It saves a copy of the old database beside it first.

Switchbard 0.5.0 for Mac

Switchbard for Mac: your tasks, the AI working on them, and the questions it asks you, in one window.

To install: download the .dmg, open it, and drag Switchbard to Applications.

What you need

• A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), on macOS 13 or later. It has been tested on macOS 26 and 27.
• Apple's command line tools. If they're missing, Switchbard offers to add them when you first open it.
• An account with an AI provider, such as Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, to connect when you first open it.

What's in this release

This is the first downloadable version, and it's an early one, so expect rough edges.

• It comes with everything else it needs. The AI helper, Pi, is included.
• It updates itself. New versions download in the background and install when you quit, or when you click Update ready.
• It includes a check that shows what one of your Git repositories would expose if you made it public. Ask Pi to run /skill:open-source-check.

Update feed for Switchbard for Mac

Installed copies of Switchbard read this to find new versions. To download Switchbard, use the latest release.