Anvira Notes 1.2.12

New in Messages

• Photos and files. Attach them with the paperclip, paste a screenshot, or drag files onto a chat. Photos show in the conversation and open full-size (← → between them); files download with one click. Up to 10 at a time, 25 MB each. They are private to the chat: only its members can see them.
• Formatting. **bold**, *italic*, strike, `code` and code blocks, with Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I.
• @mentions in groups. Type @ to pick someone. Mentions of you are highlighted. A muted chat stays muted, mentions included.
• Search a chat with Ctrl+F or the search button, including older messages. Enter jumps through the matches.
• "New messages" line where you left off.
• "Active now" when the other person has the chat open (members only, never stored).
• Drafts are kept per chat and shown in the chat list, so switching chats never loses what you were typing.
• Chat list tabs (All, Unread, Groups) and pinned chats at the top.
• Small touches. Double-click a message for a quick ❤️, forward a message to another chat, see who has read it in groups ("Seen by 3"), and hear a soft chime for new messages (Settings → Messages → Sound).

Profiles

• Profile photos set on localhousellm.com show everywhere: chats, the pop-up chats, member lists and your own button in the sidebar.
• Profile changes arrive at once, for you and everyone you chat with.
• A direct chat's info panel shows the other person's bio, school and website.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.12.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: fa951639990ba9f1a96145d92b5c2f65896f04536475a597e65f4e77964e1dc4

Anvira Notes 1.2.11

Better

• One look across the app. Messages, Settings, dialogs, the chat pop-ups and Study's dark mode now share the same graphite as Notes, with one blue accent, so moving between sections feels like one app. Study keeps its light look by default.
• A new start-up screen: the LocalHouseLLM mark draws itself, with Anvira Notes beneath it.
• Messages are more private and more robust. Each person's updates now travel on their own private channel, and typing goes over a channel only the chat's members can join, so nobody receives anything that isn't theirs. Long chat histories page back without skipping or repeating a message, a message that fails to send says why, and a chat catches up on reactions and read receipts after the connection drops.
• Manage your profile on the web. Settings → Account, the account menu and the Messages profile window have Manage profile, which opens your profile on localhousellm.com. Changes appear in the app when you come back to it.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.11.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: bd04622ec15b02d164e4f35df891b79d17815d024c42411210870b4be8e8bb61

Anvira Notes 1.2.10

Fixed

• Remember me works. Anvira Notes asked you to sign in every time it started, even with Remember me ticked: your sign-in was saved, but read back too early at startup, before Windows' secure storage was ready, so it looked like there was none. It is now read once that storage is ready, and the app waits for it before deciding whether to ask you to sign in. Sign in once with Remember me and the app opens straight to your notes from then on, offline too. If you signed in on 1.2.9 with Remember me, you will most likely be signed in already after this update.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.10.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: 154e6fd72dee808457bb718f9f8217edb4006e58ae3822c867aa85561b501861

Anvira Notes 1.2.9

New

• Messages (in the sidebar, or Ctrl 3). Talk to classmates and run group projects without leaving Anvira.
  • Direct chats and groups. Find someone by their @username or their exact email address, or share a group's invite code so people can join with it. Free groups hold up to 15 people.
  • A real messenger. Replies (click a reply to jump to the original), emoji reactions, edit and delete your own messages, links you can click, a typing bubble, Seen in direct chats, big emoji, and the full history as you scroll up. Enter sends, Shift+Enter adds a line, ↑ edits your last message, Esc cancels, and the 👍 button sends a quick thumbs up.
  • Chats pop up while you work. Like Messenger on Facebook: a message that arrives while you are writing notes or studying opens a small chat at the bottom right, so you can read it and answer without switching. Your typing is never interrupted. Click its title to shrink it to a round bubble, open it in Messages, or close it. Up to three chats sit side by side, and the rest wait as bubbles with an unread count and a short preview. During a timed mock exam, chats only wait as bubbles. Prefer a bubble over an open chat, or no pop-ups at all? Choose in Settings → Messages, or pick Turn off chat pop-ups from a chat's ⋯ menu.
  • Share your work into a chat. From a page's menu in Notes (Share to a chat) or a lesson in Study (the chat button on its card), a classmate gets a card with its title and contents.
  • Stays out of your way. An unread count on the sidebar, desktop notifications only while Anvira is in the background (they can be turned off), mute per chat, block someone from the chat's info panel, and report a message with the flag beside it.
  • Your profile: a name, an @username, a colour, and whether people can find you by @username (if you turn that off, only people who know your exact email or share a group with you can reach you).
  • Messages are stored on Anvira's server so they reach the other person. Your notes and files still stay on this PC.
• Anvira Pro is on its way. Settings now shows your plan, and See Pro explains what Pro will add (cloud AI for exams and marking, weak-spot re-tests and exam packs, bigger groups, encrypted sync). Get early access puts you on the list. Nothing is charged, and everything that runs on your PC stays free.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.9.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: bf4e93e6db7ecff2d900bbb86783829b3ba4092ff47d0058dd866cc8ffce7ec7

Anvira Notes 1.2.8

Changed

• Sign in to use Anvira Notes. The app now opens with a sign-in screen (or Create an account, free). Your notes and files still stay on this PC. With Remember me (on by default) you sign in once: the app opens straight away after that, offline too, and your session renews itself in the background, after sleep and when the internet comes back. You are only asked again if you sign out, turn Remember me off, or the session is ended from your account. If a confirmation email does not arrive, Send it again is right there.

Better

• Updates say what they bring. Clicking Update available now shows what is new and how big the download is before anything downloads, then the progress in megabytes and speed. A failed download stays visible on the button with Try again, instead of only in a tooltip. After restarting, the app tells you it was updated.
• Runtime updates are clearer. The size shown now includes the GPU pack when your runtime has it (it used to say about 49 MB when about 700 MB would download), the button shows which part is downloading, and an error stays on the button instead of disappearing.
• Smoother everywhere. Dialogs in Study and across the app now fade and rise into place like those in Notes; flashcards slide in and flip when you turn them over; each new quiz, practice and mock exam question settles in; answers give a small response when picked; study screens slide up into view. All of it is light (nothing re-lays out the page) and switches off with Windows' "Show animations" setting.
• The title bar shows just Anvira Notes.

Fixed

• The X (and other buttons near the top) did nothing in flashcards, quizzes and other study screens opened from a notebook's Guide: the window-drag strip underneath swallowed the click.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.8.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: a0e203a0733231532de8c11f454b20e7b1594dff7011dab0e4f3f7d34380d591

Anvira Notes 1.2.7

New

• Turn on GPU acceleration from Settings. If your PC has an NVIDIA graphics card but Anvira Runtime was installed without its GPU pack, Settings → AI & Models now says so and offers Turn on GPU (a one-time download of about 650 MB; your models and settings are kept). Before, the GPU pack could only be chosen when the runtime was first installed, so many PCs ran every AI feature on the processor without knowing. On our test laptop (RTX 3050, Qwen2.5 3B) a Quick mock exam from six research papers took about 30 seconds.

Better

• Every new mock exam really asks new questions. A later exam used to tell the AI which questions had been asked before and ask for "other points". In our tests a 3B model often copied that list instead of writing new questions, and the copies were thrown away: time lost, and sometimes a shorter exam. Now the AI reads only the parts of your notes no earlier question covered, so it cannot repeat them, and it has less to read. In our test, two Quick exams in a row from the same papers both came out complete (10 of 10), each in one pass.
• Fairer multiple-choice questions. A wrong option that is really another true fact from your notes (for example "detoxifies drugs" and "makes lipids" both offered for the smooth ER), or the right answer said another way, is taken out, leaving a clean question with one right answer. Questions that talk about "the passage", give the answer away by making it the one long detailed option, just repeat the question as the answer, or whose explanation points at a different option than the one marked, are left out. Quizzes in lessons get the same checks.
• Cleaner reading of PDFs. Citation markers (like 【8†L25-L33】 or [12]) and web addresses are removed before the AI reads your material: less to read, and they no longer end up inside questions.
• Study guide, cheat sheet and grade extraction start sooner when you use more than one of them on the same notebook: the notebook now goes to the model first, so it reuses what it has already read instead of reading it all again.

Anvira Runtime 1.0.2

Get the most out of this update with Anvira Runtime 1.0.2 (click Runtime update at the top right): the AI can now work on more than one request at a time, so chat, Ask AI and ghost text no longer wait behind an exam or lesson being written. Anvira Notes 1.2.7 also works with Runtime 1.0.1.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.7.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: 00bb77c97b06297afb6f11fea29d4d79eecdd097d6e001003b8086979f4ed229

Anvira Notes 1.2.6

New

• Deleted notebooks can be brought back. Deleting a notebook used to remove it for good. It now shows Undo right away, and stays in Settings → Data → Deleted notebooks for 30 days, with its pages, files, history and exams.
• Undo for Ask AI page edits. A change Ask AI makes to a page is now one step, with Undo this change right under the answer.

Faster

• Mock exams are made much faster. The AI stops writing as soon as the exam has enough questions, never runs on past a sensible length, and checks its answers without re-reading the same notes for every question. In our test (a Quick exam from biology notes, Qwen2.5 3B on a laptop processor) an exam took 4 min 23 s instead of 6 min, with 16 AI calls instead of 27, and came out complete (10 of 10 questions instead of 9).
• No more freezes with big notebooks. Preparing a long PDF or textbook for an exam, a lesson or exam results took up to 10 seconds with the window frozen, several times per exam. It now takes a fraction of a second, done once.
• Explanations of your mistakes appear as they are written, instead of after the whole answer.
• Typing stays smooth in big notebooks. Saving a large notebook used to freeze the app (and your keyboard) for up to 3 seconds at a time. Saves now happen in the background, and the app is busy for only about a tenth of a second.
• Search and Ctrl+P no longer load every notebook in full to look through page titles.
• Pages linked to Google Docs or Notion no longer rewrite the whole notebook every few seconds while nothing changes.

Better

• Ask AI with 3B models: answers written as "[1] (paragraph) …" instead of the expected format are now understood and applied (before, nothing changed); a heading repeated at the top of a rewrite is taken out.
• Ask AI with very small models (about 0.5B): an edit that would overwrite other parts of the page is refused, and you are told to select the passage and use Improve writing instead. In our tests Qwen2.5 0.5B damaged other blocks in 6 of 72 edits before, none now.
• Flashcard and daily sessions you leave early still count. Before, closing a session before the last card threw away every review in it: the cards stayed due as if never studied. Reviews are now saved as you go, and earn XP and streak.
• Closing the window waits for unsaved typing (a second or so) instead of risking the last words.
• Damaged files repair themselves. A damaged notebook list is rebuilt from the notebooks, and a damaged notebook opens from a backup made each session (you are told when that happens).

Fixed

• Characters typed while a save finished could disappear, and the loss was saved.
• With no AI engine installed, the "Anvira Runtime is needed" window popped up every time you paused typing, even after Not now.
• Restoring a page version now always shows the restored text, and keeps what you had just typed in the history.
• Moving a page to another notebook can no longer lose it if saving fails half way.
• Security: web research can no longer be redirected to your own PC or local network; spreadsheets exported as CSV can no longer contain cells that run as formulas in Excel; chart values are escaped in exported pages.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.6.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: 96922e4dd687068059a8f2561e47a6e57cb92a4bfb9ce55c0ffa2b86fe565585

Anvira Notes 1.2.5

New

• Mock exams. A new Mock exam card at the top of Study. Pick a subject (a notebook), a length (Quick 10, Standard 20 or Full 30 questions), timed or not, and whether to include written answers. Questions come from all over the subject's notes and files, and every new exam asks different questions from the ones before.
• Sit it like a real exam. No answers are shown until you hand it in. Move between questions with the question grid, flag questions to come back to, and change answers until you hand in. Answers are saved as you go: leave and continue later, and the clock stops while you are away. Before you hand in, it lists anything unanswered or flagged.
• Results that teach. Your score and letter grade, how each topic went, and every mistake explained from your own notes: why your answer was wrong and why the right one is right. Written answers are marked by the AI against a model answer, and you can change a mark you disagree with. One click turns your mistakes into flashcards.
• Grades per subject. All your mock exams in a subject add up to one grade, with newer and longer exams counting more. A range ("likely 74–88%") shows how sure it is, and narrows as you sit more exams. See every subject's grade, trend and weakest topics in Grades.
• Keep studying while it's written. On a laptop a small AI model takes a few minutes to write an exam. Choose "Keep studying meanwhile" and the Mock exam card tells you when it is ready.

Better

• Fair questions. The AI answers each of its own multiple-choice questions before it goes in, and a question whose answer it cannot confirm is replaced. Questions that give their own answer away, or are not really questions, are left out. If a question still looks wrong, use Bad question? Leave it out in the results and it stops counting towards your score and grade.
• Quizzes with very small models (about 0.5B). Tiny models used to copy the instructions ("option A", "the question") instead of writing questions. They now get a worked example and write real questions. Quizzes made with bigger models are unchanged. With a very small model, mock exams are multiple choice only, and Study says plainly that a model of 1.5B or more writes better exams.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.5.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: 3e716ff02c280bd0f6391983b9864fd7872189bb000c2bfdf90d9cae6fad59cd

Anvira Notes 1.2.4

New

• Pictures you can place anywhere. Click a picture and drag a corner to resize it (its shape is kept). A small bar over the picture sets where it sits: left, center or right, picture on the left or right with text flowing beside it, or fit to the page width. Drag the picture itself to move it anywhere on the page.
• Pictures reach Google Docs and Notion. Google Docs gets the size and alignment (it has no wrapped pictures, so a picture with text beside it goes there aligned to the same side). Pictures from your PC now reach Notion too — before, they stayed in Anvira only. Notion has no picture sizes or alignment, so those stay in Anvira, and nothing you set is lost when a page syncs back.
• Study plans that cover the whole book. Pick your exam date: Anvira reads every PDF and source in the notebook and lays out a daily path to the exam. Click a day to get that day's flashcards, quiz and practice problems, made only when you open it (faster, lighter). Finished days come off the checklist, so tomorrow continues with new material instead of repeating.
• Live cursors. See where others are typing (a caret with their name) and where their mouse is on the page, like in Figma.
• "Create notebooks automatically" setting. Settings now lets you turn automatic notebook creation on or off.

Better

• Mind maps. Bigger, more useful maps when the material needs it, with labels that fit their boxes.
• Ask Pochi keeps the context of the conversation in follow-up questions.

Fixed

• Who's here. The presence bar no longer shows wrong or duplicate names.
• Whiteboard: the corner buttons no longer overlap.
• Google Docs: a picture added above a paragraph no longer ends up inside that paragraph; deleting the last paragraph no longer leaves an empty line; pictures already in the document are no longer uploaded again on every sync; one picture failing to upload no longer stops the rest of the page from syncing.
• Notion: pages with a table now settle after a sync instead of always looking changed.
• The AI writing bar no longer pops up over a selected picture.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.4.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: 35fccd1d41a7f51710d9cc76d55f461e0f9acb6241818f1256ce497d9b243134

Anvira Notes 1.2.3

New

• Tiny AI models (about 0.5B) now work properly. Qwen2.5 0.5B, Qwen3 0.6B and other models under 1.5B get their own way of being asked: the task and your text are clearly separated, a worked example shows what a good answer looks like, edits are written as checked JSON, and every answer is checked before it touches your note. In our tests across every Notes AI feature, Qwen2.5 0.5B went from 33 to 62 of 63 checks and Qwen3 0.6B from 42 to 63 of 63 (and 29→55 and 41→54 of 57 on a second set of new texts).
• Thinking switched off for tiny Qwen3 models. Qwen3 0.6B spent about three quarters of every answer thinking privately; it now answers directly (about 0.7 s instead of 3 s), and only thinks for questions that need it, like "which month cost the most?".

Better

• Writing tools with small models. Improve writing no longer answers a selected question instead of rewriting it. Shorten actually shortens. Continue writing no longer repeats your paragraph before continuing. If a small model still gets it wrong, your text is left exactly as it was and you are told.
• Ask AI with small models. Answers come from your notes and sources; when they don't cover a question it says "Your notes don't cover this." instead of guessing. Lines that match your question are pointed out to the model, so facts tucked inside a source are found.
• Editing pages and sheets with small models. Sheet edits use cell names (B4) and work out the right row and column; a new row always goes below the last one, never over it. Page edits never delete a block you didn't ask to remove, renamed headings stay headings, and "add a paragraph" writes a real paragraph. Questions about the page or sheet are answered instead of turned into edits, with totals, highest and lowest worked out exactly.
• No more runaway answers. Small models can no longer loop on one line until the answer fills the page: answers have a sensible length and repeated lines are removed.
• Ghost text arrives faster on Qwen3 models (it no longer waits for a thinking phase).
• Lecture notes and meeting notes with small models. Lectures are read in shorter parts and answered as checked JSON, so the notes always come out.
• Models of 1.7B and up (Qwen3 1.7B/4B, Llama 3.2 3B, Qwen2.5 7B…) are asked exactly as before.

Fixed

• Summarize page, web research and meeting notes on PCs without an NVIDIA GPU. Anvira Runtime gives those models a 4,096-token memory; a long page (up to 18,000 characters) or web research with your notebook (up to ~25,000) did not fit, and the request failed or was cut off. Everything sent to the model is now sized to the model's real context.
• Summarize page tells you when something goes wrong instead of silently stopping.

Anvira Runtime 1.0.1

Get the most out of this update with Anvira Runtime 1.0.1 (click Runtime update at the top right): it passes the anti-repetition and thinking settings through to the model. Anvira Notes 1.2.3 also works with Runtime 1.0.0.

Update

If you have an earlier Anvira Notes, it offers this update by itself: click Update available at the top right, then Restart to update. Or download Anvira-Notes-Setup-1.2.3.exe below. Your notes, lessons and settings are kept.

Checksum

SHA-256: 4d1ab99e8a640d6ef9438a47c0e3077a800d0a22c1a750f9d151601bc5698f1a