ThinkWatch Lite 2026.10.23

Upgrade notes:

• The bundled core stays at 0.75.0 and the control-plane protocol at 48. Nothing is cleared; the request history, stored payloads and settings carry over.

Menu bar (macOS):

• The second line under today's tokens now shows the generation speed of the last minute ("42 t/s") instead of today's cost. It shows a dash in place of the number when no request finished in the last minute. The cost is still in the opened menu and in the tooltip, which now also gives the speed.
• While requests are running, a band of light sweeps across the mark instead of the small dot; in the numbers-only style it sweeps across the numbers. It stops while the menu is open and stands still when Reduce Motion is on.

Downloads

Platform	File
macOS, Apple silicon	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-darwin-arm64.dmg
Windows, x64, installer	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-windows-x64-setup.exe
Windows, x64, portable	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-windows-x64-portable.zip
Windows, ARM64, installer	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-windows-arm64-setup.exe
Windows, ARM64, portable	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-windows-arm64-portable.zip
Linux, x86_64	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Linux, aarch64	ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-linux-aarch64.AppImage

Each file is published with a .sha256 file beside it. latest.json is the manifest for in-app updates, and install.sh is the Linux install script.

On Windows, the portable ZIP runs without installation or administrator rights: extract it to any writable folder and start ThinkWatch Lite.exe. Its settings stay in the data folder beside it, separate from an installed copy, and it updates itself in place.

On macOS, Homebrew installs the same disk image:

brew install --cask thinkwatchproject/tap/thinkwatch-lite

On Linux, the install script downloads the AppImage for the machine's architecture, checks its SHA-256 and installs it as ~/Applications/ThinkWatch-Lite.AppImage:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/ThinkWatchProject/ThinkWatch-Lite/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Both commands install the latest release. First-launch steps for each platform, such as removing the quarantine attribute from a copy downloaded on macOS, are described in the README.

The ThinkWatch Lite page describes each feature, and the documentation covers installing, connecting clients and routing.

Verifying a download

A .sha256 file holds the SHA-256 of the file followed by its name. With both files in the current directory, on macOS:

shasum -a 256 -c ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-darwin-arm64.dmg.sha256

On Linux:

sha256sum -c ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-linux-x86_64.AppImage.sha256

On Windows, in PowerShell, the following prints True when the installer matches:

(Get-FileHash .\ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-windows-x64-setup.exe).Hash -eq (Get-Content .\ThinkWatch-Lite-2026.10.23-windows-x64-setup.exe.sha256).Split()[0]

The Homebrew cask and the Linux install script check the SHA-256 themselves.

What's Changed

• Menu bar: generation speed instead of cost on the second line by @fylorn in #339
• Menu bar: sweeping glow on the mark instead of the in-flight dot by @fylorn in #340
• chore: 2026.10.23 by @fylorn in #341

Full Changelog: v2026.10.22...v2026.10.23