Zera v2.0.0

Download: Zera-2.0.0.dmg — open it and drag Zera to Applications.
Requires macOS 13 or newer (Apple silicon and Intel).

This build is not notarized yet. Try opening Zera from Applications, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, authenticate if asked, and confirm Open.

Install, update and uninstall guide

Verify: shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt

Zera v2.0.0

Android originals, straight to your Mac

Androp is now Zera’s Android companion. Send an original photo, video, document or text over your local Wi-Fi or a phone hotspot; no internet connection or cloud relay is required. The Mac receiver runs inside Zera. Photos and videos arrive as their own picture and open after verification; ordinary files are caught by Zera’s notch, with themed progress and a verified save on Shelf. Download Androp.apk from the repository root.

Androp now opens on a photo/video grid, supports lifting and gliding a tile, and includes a Files tab. The optional four-edge background overlay supports source-exported global drags; a caught image can be pushed across or retracted. Share → Androp remains available. Source-app/OEM support varies. Traffic is paired but unencrypted; trusted LANs only.

One native redesign

A continuous Obsidian notch, the living companion, consistent navigation and controls, Claude/Codex activity together, new Home, Clipboard, Tasks/Focus, PRs, Alerts, Reminders, Teleprompter and optional window arrangements. Murmur offers on-device Whisper dictation after a model download. Managed agent sessions and observed desktop activity retain distinct capabilities.

Fresh presentation

A new sharing-first film shows actual Android and Mac UI with restrained device depth. A complete native walkthrough and refreshed screenshots replace the old presentation in README and site/. The Android source and receiver package are included for reproducible builds.

See README.md, docs/ANDROID_SHARING.md, docs/ANDROID_PROTOCOL.md and docs/MEDIA.md for setup, boundaries and recording evidence. Versioned validation is recorded in docs/releases/v2.0.0-verification.md.

The standalone sharing film has kinetic captions, Android-left/MacBook-right labels, a flowing hex backdrop and a continuous native animated wallpaper. Download the clean 5K wallpaper from the site. The separate 80-second full walkthrough now adds 27 kinetic caption chapters, smooth focus moves and a verified native window-layout demonstration. README/site include a dedicated window-manager feature and fresh native screenshots.

Post-release hardening — review branch

Direct Settings access in every hover style; remembered notch destinations and view context; Timesheet export inside the island with Yesterday and Back to Tasks; centralized optional permission/speech setup and repair. Native window placement uses real usable display bounds and retains identity through resize/minimize/restore. Running-app activation respects native Spaces policy without applying a launch-time Zera group. Dictation binds to the original editable field, rejects secure input, preserves the clipboard during paste and prevents cancelled model jobs from publishing stale results.

Also fixes an AppKit crash during rapid Clipboard grid/list switches, compact Settings clipping, automatic loss of older completed tasks and pending teleprompter edits on shutdown. Branding and numeric version remain Zera v2 / 2.0.0. These changes are prepared for review; physical multi-monitor/native Spaces acceptance, live microphone testing and macOS-version coverage remain separate from automated fixture results.

Window arrangements are now labeled Beta in the app, README and site. Follow-up repairs make Visual transitions, automatic arrangements and distribution controls clickable; their labels previously intercepted pointer input. The selected notch border/glow style now applies to the live island as well as its preview, with motion paused when closed and Reduce Motion preserved.

Optional Extras and speech insertion follow-up

Settings → Extras groups Window Manager (Beta) and Android sharing. Fresh installs start with both off. A disabled receiver owns no listener or Bonjour advertisement; disabling disconnects peers, cancels timeouts, drains partial cleanup and rejects stale UI callbacks. Disabled window management does not scan windows or run previews. Existing explicit enable choices, pairing and previously saved files are preserved.

External speech insertion now uses one checked native paste after release, preserving the clipboard. Some custom editors acknowledge AX text setters without updating their document; that response no longer causes Zera to skip insertion. Secure-field, original-app, field and cursor checks remain in force.

Teams speech follow-up: prepare Chromium/Electron accessibility when the foreground app changes, including embedded webview helpers owned by that app. This makes focused editable controls available before hold-to-speak in lazy web hosts such as Teams. Preparation stays off the main thread, is bounded and cancelled on replacement/disable; native apps and unrelated helper processes are excluded. No VoiceOver, global privacy or app-launch settings are changed.