Takes 2026.10.24

Welcome

• A new four-page welcome shows what Takes does and how it looks

Help

• Help > Takes Help opens a short guide and the list of shortcuts

Sound FX

• The page opens on the sounds, one group at a time
• Rows are slimmer, and sounds are made ahead so they play at once

Chat

• Commands the agent leaves running show under the chat, each with a Stop button
• Servers and watchers the agent starts run in the background

Menus

• A right-click in a list opens the menu for the row under the pointer

Updates

• Update no longer waits for chats that are only waiting for your message

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg, sets up Claude Code, Codex or pi, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.18

Chat

• Draw tables, headings, numbered lists, code and quotes
• An open process keeps its run while background tasks run

FileWatch

• A queue per watch

Takes

• Launch watch off the main thread, one day formatter, a dSYM per install

Export for Resolve

• A picture-only take has no sound, so the voice is not doubled

Edits

• Export for Resolve / Premiere (FCPXML 1.10, Premiere XML, EDL) from an edit's recipe

Rough cut

• Korean ums (음, 어, 으음...) are fillers too

MCP

• Initialize names the real Takes version, not a fixed 0.5

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg, sets up Claude Code, Codex or pi, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.15

Welcome

• Skip and Write my script always free the window

Site funnel

• Search cells count only from their start, and show – before data
• Dates under numbers read like the week labels
• Honest Pages and search spans

Chat button

• Drag it off what it covers

Roadmap

• Phone parity entry (the chat on the phone)
• Admin board and roadmap MCP tool for gettakes.app/roadmap

Record

• Tidy takes list in a narrow column, chat button below the takes

Site board

• Read only new D1 rows, refresh every 5 minutes
• Test that a refused Gemini CLI keeps its API
• Gemini keeps its API until its CLI answers once
• Schedule line wraps on a narrow board, room for the API mark, "just now"
• List SiteAskCLI.swift in the feature map and the admin-only agent guard
• Full comparison week, API stops for a failing CLI, keep failed-try windows
• Keep failed runs out of the history, end the comparison week at the Sunday check
• Harden the CLI asks (timeouts, Codex events, Gemini sources)
• Ask the assistants weekly through their subscription CLIs

Plan

• Show the last plan at once, load at user priority

Chat

• A failed turn ends its open process
• Claude Code keeps one process open per chat between messages
• Claude Code loads only the user's own MCP servers, about 1 s faster per message
• @ opens a list of styles, skills and files
• A video card waits for a file still being written, so it never stays grey

Screen pill

• Pick a window or the screen, menus that open, over full screen
• Takes no longer quits when the pill hides its window
• A small record bar over every app

Takes

• Screen pill is the screen option
• List SiteUsage.swift in the private feature map

Storyboard

• A missing clip is a calm placeholder, not a warning
• A shot whose clip is gone shows a warning, not a spinner for good

Test

• The prepare-lock test waits for the wait line, not a fixed second

Site usage

• Give the week labels a type, so the build does not time out under load

MCP tests

• Put takes_mcp back after each parallel chunk

Video

• Cuts and the render's cut.mov encode on VideoToolbox

GTM

• Launch-day AI check (6 of 15), next steps, AlternativeTo and PH listings

GTM feedback

• Launch day numbers, PH comments, next actions

Usage

• Count the chat's tokens per day (all and written), only while counts are on
• Count the last 7 days (chats, takes, minutes, edits, crashes), the agent and the Mac's age

First launch

• A window at the minimum size grows to fill the screen, once

Review

• Gemini 4 Argon watches each edit

New style

• A dropped file pops in as a card on the stage, never a path in the field

Design

• New-user journey canvas, its generator and render test

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg, sets up Claude Code, Codex or pi, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.13

Skills

• Public, with the HyperFrames pack

Right-click

• A layer kept under another one takes no right-click

First launch

• Full screen

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.12.3

Small fixes.

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.12.2

Chat

• The empty chat names its own agent, not always Claude Code

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.12

Launch review fixes

• Setup follows the chat's agent, no silent turns

Takes

• Finish setup and install.sh take any signed-in agent

Chat on pi

• A third chat agent through PiAdapter

Chat on the agent layer

• One ChatAdapter per agent, Chat.swift names none

Script tab

• The script fills the page

Chat

• Steps as a timeline with an orbiting arc and shimmer

Agents layer

• One way for every feature to ask Claude Code, Codex or pi

test_jobs

• Rename once the job runs, not after a fixed 0.4 s

Smaller downloads

• Lzma DMG, stripped binary, Voice gets only the files it loads

Phone renew

• Skip while the screen is locked, so Xcode keeps the Apple ID

Tester account

• Try the public Takes as a new user beside the admin one

Consistency headline

• Today and tomorrow are measured from now, not the clock

About

• A note from the user asks for a star or a coffee, in place of What Takes does

iPhone Ideas

• The button says Ideas chat

Plan

• A dragged card leaves no label on its post's day

Assets

• A click on a PDF opens it on the stage, not in Preview
• PDFs open in a PDF viewer on the stage, not the video player

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.11.2

Feedback

• A repeat only when the edit broke the rule

iPhone

• Ideas reads as markdown (tap to type)

Sidebar

• ⌘B slides a clipped drawer and the page follows its edge

What's new

• Every change starts open, not only with six or fewer

Plan

• A card follows its session when the session moves
• The mascot flame sits beside the page's headline

Ideas

• The body reads as markdown

Jobs

• Open lock files with O_CLOEXEC so a started process never keeps a job's lock
• The chat row shows only running jobs and ends the chat never hears about

Agents

• The real marks (Claude, OpenAI for Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Antigravity, opencode, pi) in place of letter tiles

Notch

• The panel fits the lines it shows, up to 8

Rail

• Tidy the badge comment
• Drop the Connections and Site stats numbers

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.11

Sidebar

• The Takes logo is back beside the name

Agents

• The card, model menu and model switch use the Takes menu kit

Assets

• Declare app before the section uses it (merge left it after)

Menu kit

• Header names the confirm card as it is used
• One key handler for floating and in-panel menus
• Post, schedule, chat, Comments board and settings use the Takes menus
• One Takes menu, panel, right-click, switch and confirm card

Plan

• Change days shows the next two weeks and a mascot flame
• The streak lives in the chart (gold chain, rest-week moon, crown on the best week)
• Week rings, a week streak with rest weeks, Almost there, wins and a Sunday recap

Menus A

• Sessions, takes, record panel, ⌘K, Performance on the Takes menu kit

Public export

• Leave out scripts/agent-checkin

Menus

• Assets, b-roll, sounds, styles, storyboard, cover, voice on the Takes menu kit

Chat

• Pick the agent and model (Claude Code or Codex), Settings › Agents

Plugins

• Takes menu kit for plan, launch posts, reactions, site boards

Feedback

• Pressure-test picks and their commits

AGENTS

• The menu kit is the only way to draw a menu

Phone

• Takes menu holds only pages and Settings
• Idea bar at the foot of the video list

Codex frame

• One top row, board rail, session list, page panel

Ideas

• Simpler board and a sweep while a thumbnail draws
• A 16:9 thumbnail of the user for each idea, drawn by GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
• Say an idea from the app icon, no empty New idea files, four filters
• The phone's plugin list has Ideas
• One markdown file per idea, an index, a board on the Mac and the phone

Session switch

• Less work per switch, and perf.txt shows where the time goes

Agent check-in

• Full write-up in the README
• Measure.py, baseline and README for the 2026-10-11 upgrades

Takes

• Back and forward in line with the traffic lights
• Agent texts say "The user", a smaller chat preload, job and recipe copy
• Old v2 words files get the onset pass once, without Whisper
• Rough_cut keeps boundary words, word starts at the voice onset, cut rules are defaults
• Back and forward beside the traffic lights
• Search helper lets the model go after a minute idle
• Plan and Feedback boards rescan only when a file they read changes
• A trashed session's chat searches the library once, not on every open
• Camera and mic meter stop under the Assets and Sound tabs
• Tests never start the comment scout, resume chats or run the real claude

check_edit

• Catch aecho, reframed/vertical blur and a cut that comes back
• Pressure-test fixes
• Built-in checks compare each edit with its take

MCP

• Session and project paths stay inside the library

Phone gate

• No trust in the login header while the login is unknown, symlinks stay in the library

Post calendar

• Dates parsed once per post, scans off main

Idle app wakes less

• One freeze watcher, updater and storyboard stop polling

render_edit/publish_edit

• Pressure-test fixes

Edits

• Recipe beside each version, render_edit and publish_edit

Edit-ready takes

• Pressure-test fixes
• Video-clock voice, prepared word times, session id, cut_take and rough_cut

Jobs

• Run_job needs a real session, sibling paths stay, honest notes and a bar that moves on
• Run_job / get_job / stop_job and a Jobs row, so renders outlive the chat

Agents, first install

• Cursor short tool list, Antigravity, Apple developer tools step

Takes MCP for any agent

• Setup adds the server to Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, opencode, pi and Claude Desktop

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.

Takes 2026.10.10

Sidebar

• Drag a session into another project

Usage card

• Short and friendly, details behind What's shared?
• Green shield instead of a crossed-out chat

Plan board

• Cards show Posted or Scheduled, a videos-per-week chart replaces the four tiles
• Add a video yourself with a day's + (search your sessions, click to plan)
• Video cards on the calendar, drag to reorder, more weeks

GTM

• Glama submitted, pending review
• Listings.md, every directory Takes is in and how it updates

Plan

• A planned video covers its slot, so the buffer counts it

Storyboard

• Record opens the shot

Storyboard record

• Camera comes on before the count

React to a video

• Download H.264 so the Mac player shows the clip

Usage

• Opt-in anonymous counts with a clear no-chats promise

AEO log

• Smithery listing and score
• Takes is in the MCP registry

Takes

• Releases publish to Smithery too, with the full tool list
• Chats go on after a quit

MCP server

• Describe every parameter, add tool hints, list the tools in the bundle

Phone

• Download in the file viewer's More panel, then the share sheet (Photos, Files, AirDrop)
• Queued chat messages show above the box with an x

Phone install

• Build for any iPhone when this one is out of reach, so an update still stages

Demo pack

• Build from Takes Launch / Demo source

Consistency

• A public plugin to pick your posting days, with slots, buffer and streak

Demo session

• A new library gets "Start here / Your first video"

gtm

• Consistency items 2 and 11 done

Posts

• Posting plan with slots, and live posts never stay draft or ready

Add consistency plan

• What Takes is for and the action items

Install

The easy way, in Terminal (it also gets ffmpeg and Claude Code, and updates Takes when you run it again):

curl -fsSL https://gettakes.app/install | bash

Or download Takes.dmg and drag Takes to Applications. Apple has not notarized Takes yet, so macOS stops the first open: click Done, then open System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Pictures of each step: gettakes.app/download. Then click Finish setup in the sidebar.