v0.2.3 - one Grayson, not four

Fixes

• Only one instance runs at a time. Launching Grayson again (Start menu, desktop shortcut, or autostart after login) no longer adds another tray icon: the new launch hands over to the one already running and pops its drop zone back up.
• Quit now hides the tray icon immediately and stops the hotkey listener, so no ghost icons are left sitting in the tray.

Notes

• Unsigned, as before: Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run.
• Built and tested through CI only; still not tried on a real Windows machine. If anything acts up, say so and it gets fixed.

Grayson v0.2.2 - it has a logo now (and no console flashes)

Same converter, better dressed, quieter. v0.2.2 puts the real Grayson mark everywhere and stops the flashing console windows.

What changed

• No more console flashes: every background task (ffmpeg, LibreOffice, PowerShell) now runs with the window hidden on Windows
• New logo across the app: window icon, tray icon, exe icon, installer and Start-menu icon
• README and the download page carry the new mark (light and dark themes), plus a favicon and social share image
• Word/PowerPoint/Excel to PDF without LibreOffice: the Microsoft Office fallback is more reliable (opens files read-only, no hidden prompts) and its error now names the file and what to do
• Everything else is exactly v0.2.1: 68 conversions, 50 file types, fully offline, no account, no upload

Still true

• Untested on real Windows hardware (built and tested in CI only). If a console still flashes or Office conversion misbehaves, open an issue
• Unsigned installer: SmartScreen will warn on first run

Install: download Grayson-Setup.exe below (no admin needed), or grab the portable Grayson-windows.zip.

v0.2.1 - Windows installer

Grayson-Setup.exe - a proper Windows installer, built in CI with Inno Setup:

• Start menu entry, optional desktop shortcut, optional "start Grayson when Windows starts"
• uninstalls cleanly from Settings > Apps
• per-user install, no admin needed
• reminds you to install LibreOffice if you want Word/PowerPoint/Excel conversions

Grayson-windows.zip - the portable build, unchanged.

Both assets are unsigned, so SmartScreen will warn. The installer is compiled and verified in CI but has not been run on a real Windows machine yet.

Grayson v0.2.0

Grayson v0.2.0

New: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF and CSV conversion (needs free LibreOffice: winget install TheDocumentFoundation.LibreOffice). Text, Markdown and HTML to PDF/HTML/text built in. HEIC, AVIF, ICO, BMP, TIFF, GIF image targets; crop and rotate; FLAC, M4A, AAC, Opus, MKV, MOV, AVI, 720p, audio merge; PDF to text, Word and JPG. Ring menu now pages (More slice) and labels no longer collide. 68 actions, 54 tests.

Download Grayson-windows.zip, unzip, run Grayson.exe. Not yet tested on a real Windows machine (SmartScreen warning expected).

Grayson v0.1.0

First release of Grayson - the zero-click, fully offline file converter for Windows.

Copy a file, tap Ctrl+Shift+Space, and a ring menu opens at your cursor with everything you can do to that file: convert, compress, trim, merge for images, video, audio and PDF. No uploads, no accounts, no watermarks.

Download: grab Grayson-windows.zip below (attached by CI shortly after the release publishes), unzip anywhere, run Grayson.exe. ffmpeg is bundled.

• 22 actions across images, video, audio and PDF
• Ring menu, drop zone, tray app and a scriptable CLI (grayson --list)
• 30 tests, all green in CI; the Windows bundle is built by GitHub Actions

Source install: pip install . then grayson --gui (Python 3.10+).