0.12.5-beta.3

Sign in with a code from your email, faces and voices confirmed once, Relight, Harmonize and Select Subject in the image editor, many more video effects, team invitations, and fixes so signing out never loses a password and a paused team says why.

New

• Sign in with a code from your email — Ask for a sign-in code and you get an email with a six-digit code and a link: type the code in the phone app, or open the link on the web.
• Faces and voices: confirm once — The first time you use something that puts a real person's face or voice into what you make, you confirm once for your account, in the app or in Settings → Account → Faces and voices, instead of at every step.
• The image editor's AI keeps your layers — Every AI result arrives as a new layer, with nothing flattened; Upscale ×2 and ×4 make the whole picture bigger on your computer, free, with every layer kept; and a fill inside a selection keeps the photo's detail. Generative Fill now waits for your words before anything is paid for.
• Select Subject takes hair and soft edges, and the Object Finder picks what you point at — In the image editor, Select › Subject now cuts the subject out on your computer, hair and soft edges included, and the Object Selection tool lights up the object under the pointer so one click selects it.
• Relight a photo by dragging lights onto it — The image editor reads the photo's depth on your computer and lets you place up to three lights with their colour and strength, with shadows, as a new layer. Free, and the photo never leaves your computer.
• Harmonize a layer into its picture — Layer › Harmonize takes an added object's light toward the photo around it and puts a soft shadow under it, so it looks like it belongs. Free, on your computer.
• Text weights from Thin to Black in the image editor — A text layer's weight is chosen in Properties, drawn in the font's own face, and kept when the picture is saved and reopened, and through Photoshop files. A font's own ligatures, figure styles, fractions and stylistic sets, and a variable font's width and other axes, can be set too.
• Many more video effects — The effects now number 392 one-tap effects, about 130 more than before, each priced on its card before you press it.
• Adding someone to your team sends them an invitation — They join only when they answer Join in the app, and seats are billed once they accept.

Fixes

• Signing out never loses passwords you have not backed up — A password saved offline, or while the password manager was off, was gone after signing out or after another account signed in on the same computer. Now it is kept for its account and comes back at that account's next sign-in, and before signing out you are told how many are not backed up yet.
• A paused team run says so in each member's conversation — When its budget is used up, a cost isn't known or there is no budget yet, a member's message says so in plain words with Raise budget, Go on anyway and End team, instead of an error that blamed the model. Once the run is over a member gets New conversation. The phone shows the same.
• Running out of credit is no longer shown as a failure — The answer waits with your message kept and says how to go on: top up, switch to Tesseract's models or another framework, then send it again.
• A silent answer tells you so — After a minute with no reply, the answer says nothing has come back yet and offers "Stop waiting", instead of only a clock that counts up. An answer that arrives after you stopped waiting no longer shows up inside your next reply.
• Your first message asks one thing at a time — While it waits for you to sign in, only the sign-in card shows, in plainer words, and signing in another way brings you back to the conversation.
• Pressing Enter no longer answers a question you didn't look at — A confirmation is answered only by the button you chose, so typing Enter elsewhere can't join a team or delete something by accident.
• Updates arrive when the first check fails — A failed update check, on a computer that woke before its network or a feed that hiccupped, waited three hours for the next try; now it tries again within minutes.
• Pictures keep their colours in the image editor — A photo in a wide colour space such as Display P3 opens in its own colours instead of being clipped, keeps its profile when saved as PSD or TIFF, and other formats and Save for Web are converted so they look as they did in the editor.
• More PDFs open, change and save — Archival PDFs take changes again, forms with free-reader rights can lose pages and shrink, signed files stay valid when validation data is added, and long documents open and save much faster.
• Scanned PDFs read straight, and edited paragraphs keep their shape — A slightly crooked scan becomes editable text without garbled lines, editing a sentence no longer breaks its paragraph's justification, and asking the assistant to redact a PDF takes out only what you asked, leaving the page's text searchable.
• Big Word documents open much faster — The first pages show at once and the rest fills in behind them, with a progress bar and Cancel, so the window no longer freezes on a long document.
• Documents from other writers open and save right — In the Word editor a deeply nested table no longer stops a file opening, saving such a document no longer makes it unreadable, and tables built a little differently keep their columns on the page.
• Big spreadsheets save faster, and keep what other programs wrote — Large workbooks save two to three times faster, and table references, names from another workbook, special conditional formats, a theme's pictures and number formats come back on save as the file had them; a workbook whose formulas kept the app busy for minutes after opening settles in seconds. A big workbook opens without freezing the window, with a progress bar and Cancel.
• Comic speech balloons point at whoever is speaking — They are sized to their words, never cover a face, and balloons you placed yourself stay where you put them.
• Talking photos and ads look more finished — A talking photo's captions sit under the chin on a close headshot instead of over the mouth, and an ad's closing card sets the brand's name in its serif face, also for names with letters such as ă, ș or ł.
• Hermes works on Windows — Its first conversation no longer hangs, and the app sees it start.
• Windows computers can carry the network's traffic — A Windows computer missing the feature it needs to carry the others' traffic on your private network offers to turn it on in Settings → Private network.
• More fixes — The six logos show while they are drawn, instead of a blank canvas; and memory no longer slows every answer when its service is down.

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Updating from inside the app: Settings → About → Check for updates. See the full list in the app under What's New.

tesseract-agent v0.12.5-beta.3

Headless tesseract agent CLI v0.12.5-beta.3 — npm i -g tesseract-agent "--allow-scripts=tesseract-agent,ffmpeg-static,node-datachannel,@homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch" (or this tarball).

tesseract-agent v0.12.5

Headless tesseract agent CLI v0.12.5 — npm i -g tesseract-agent "--allow-scripts=tesseract-agent,ffmpeg-static,node-datachannel,@homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch" (or this tarball).

mesh-core v0.12.5-beta.3

Native mesh data plane and privileged network helper for tesseract-agent / desktop. Fetched by packages/mesh-core/scripts/fetch-prebuilt.mjs.

mesh-core v0.12.5

Native mesh data plane and privileged network helper for tesseract-agent / desktop. Fetched by packages/mesh-core/scripts/fetch-prebuilt.mjs.

0.12.5-beta.2

Star in a video, music videos from your own clips, song stems, ads made for the feed, team chat in its own window, Atrium, Remote Desktop and Private Network with Tesseract, and fixes so a quiet answer ends with Try again and every price matches the bill.

New

• Star in a video — Put yourself (or a consenting adult) into any video from a few photos, always marked as AI-made.
• Music videos from your own clips — Your dance or singing clips are cut to your song's beat, with flashes on its big moments, the lyrics on screen as they are sung, sparkles, butterflies and hearts, and a sticker of you. One tap makes a teaser from a single clip, or ask the assistant for a full one; anything paid is priced first.
• Stems of a song — A kept song can be split into its parts (up to 12, with MIDI of the notes) or into voice and backing, each saved in a folder beside the song.
• Ads look made for the feed — An ad or a short cuts every couple of seconds, each shot a different picture, opens on a line that stops the scroll, and ends on a designed end card with your brand, what to do and where. Asking for another scene draws it anew.
• The team chat opens in its own window — Team chat now opens in the Atrium app beside Tesseract, at the channel or thread you asked for. While you are signed in it runs in the background, so calls and messages reach you before you open it, and they ring only once.
• Atrium, Remote Desktop and Private Network come with Tesseract — On Windows and Linux each has its own Start-menu or app-menu entry and opens as an app of its own, with no separate download.
• A new window starts in Documents › Tesseract — A window you open without a folder works in your Tesseract folder in Documents: its files are in the sidebar, and new conversations and terminals start there. It never shows up among your recent folders.
• A waiting team run tells you why — A team run that is waiting for you says what it waits on at the top of each of its conversations and in the crew view, with buttons to raise the budget, approve its plan or end the team.

Fixes

• An answer that goes quiet ends with Try again — A running answer nothing more came back from used to sit on "Waiting for the model's reply" for good. After a few minutes of silence it now ends on a card that says so, with Try again, on Codex, OpenCode and the other frameworks too. A message waiting behind another is never ended by that one's failure, and never answered twice.
• The price you see is what you are charged — With a funded balance, clips, effects and lip-syncs were quoted at the provider's price, below what was then charged; now the quote is the bill.
• Signing out stops your account being charged at once — After a sign-out or a switch of account, the previous account's AI key was still used for a while; now only the key of whoever is signed in is ever used.
• Your plan follows your subscriptions — A plan changed in the billing portal now changes in the app, and when an organization has two subscriptions, one ending no longer drops it to Free while the other still bills.
• Links, headings and text boxes follow your theme — A heading on a card no longer shows as a bright blue link, text boxes are no longer white on the dark theme, and links stay readable in any accent colour you pick.
• Frameworks on Windows — OpenCode on a busy Windows computer waits for a slow start, tries again when another program held a file for a moment, and says why when it keeps stopping. Removing or updating a framework while a conversation uses it works.
• More fixes — The files panel no longer shows git's and the system's own files; a video maker's video exports from the editor with its own captions, and an ad's export no longer runs out of time; a guided maker's question and main button stay in view; songs saved as WAV keep their AI label; and importing passwords no longer skips one that differs only in capital letters or a space.

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Updating from inside the app: Settings → About → Check for updates. See the full list in the app under What's New.

0.12.5-beta.1

Reflections on your account, characters with their own voice and look, the assistant signs up for websites, free first pictures, rate an answer, a series on Autopilot, finished songs, a new default video model, single sign-on, and fixes so every message is answered, Stop always stops and long answers arrive.

New

• Your reflections follow your account — The people, products, places and looks you call by @name can be kept on your account, so they reach your other computers, the web app and the phone, or kept on this computer only. Nothing goes up until you say so, and photos lose their location and camera details first. Share a card with one of your teams to use, or to use and change; a team's card is called @team/name.
• Your characters keep their voice and their look — A character on the Reflections screen holds a voice: pick one of your ElevenLabs voices, hear it first, or clone one from your recordings. Give a card 8 to 40 photos and it learns that one face or product (about $0.85 and 12 minutes, said before it starts), so every picture and clip of it looks the same.
• The assistant can sign up for a website for you — It makes a strong password, saves the sign-in in your password manager first, fills the form and asks you before it makes the account. It can also turn on a site's authenticator codes, change a saved password, sign in with a passkey, and fill a card, your details or an ID from your password manager. When the password manager is locked, it asks you once to unlock it.
• Rate an answer — A thumbs up or down sits under every finished answer, with a reason to pick if it missed. Once in a while it asks how likely you are to recommend the app.
• A series that makes and posts its own episodes — Turn on Autopilot for a series and it makes the next episode on its schedule, within the monthly limit you set. You watch each one and approve what goes out, and the app posts it to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram or X.
• Songs, from first draft to release — Lines that won't sit on the beat are flagged before you pay, with a fix for each. A "Best quality" draft on Mureka 9.5 sits beside "Make two drafts". A kept song can be made longer or given new words, made into a free vertical clip of its chorus, mastered for streaming for free on your computer, and packed with its lyrics, cover and credits for a distributor.
• Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes your clips, and edits them in words — It is the new default video model: 3 to 15 second clips, up to six reference pictures, and a lower price. Ask for a change ("make it a snowy evening") and it keeps the rest of the shot.
• Finished videos look finished — An ad's call to action is a rounded button in your brand's colour, a long video fades in and out, talking photos come out tall with the spoken word lit up, and a new media board starts with a flow already joined that costs nothing until you fill it in.
• Makers ask fewer questions — The presentation, website, app, picture, video, logo and research makers decide what they can from your first sentence and say what they picked. They work when you ask from your phone or the web too, even with no window open.
• Cleaner pictures — A transparent background comes out clean from any model, cut out for you where the model can't draw one. Pictures made without your own key use GPT Image 2.6, your own Google key draws with Nano Banana 2.1, and when a model can't be used the next one of its kind draws instead.
• Your first pictures and a short clip are free — A new account gets a few free pictures and a short clip in the makers, before any credit. The maker says so in the chat, and tells you when they are used up.
• Single sign-on for organizations — An organization's owner can connect Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace or any OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 provider in Settings → Team → Single sign-on, and require it. Its people then sign in with their work account on the desktop, the web and the phones. The web app also offers Sign in with Apple now.
• Pick how each computer reaches the internet — On your private network, each computer can choose another one to go out to the internet through. If that one can't carry its traffic, it stays on its own connection and says why.

Fixes

• Full access stops asking at every step — A conversation started in one of the older modes asked for approval at every step. It now runs in Full access like the rest, and in the browser it asks only before it pays, books, orders or sends a message.
• A message never goes unanswered — If something goes wrong before the AI starts to answer, you are told what happened instead of being left waiting, and if it still has not started after a few minutes the app stops waiting, says so and offers Try again. Messages waiting behind one that failed are told so too, with Try again. Changing the effort level, or turning internet access on or off for a conversation, no longer leaves the next message hanging.
• Stop always stops — Stop works while the AI is still starting up, and on an answer that nothing is running any more, so moving the conversation to another framework right after Stop works again.
• Answers cut off by the network are tried again — With OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen and the other frameworks that reach models through Tesseract, an answer cut off by the network is retried instead of hanging or ending half-way.
• Team runs say why they paused — In a team run that is blocked or finished, your own messages in the conversation that leads it always go through, and the team's other conversations tell you plainly why they are paused and what to do.
• Long answers arrive — An answer the AI thinks about for more than two minutes, or a very large conversation still uploading, no longer ends in an error page.
• Light or dark stays your choice on each device — Switching it on one computer or in the web app no longer flips your other apps; the accent colour, theme and fonts still follow you.
• Editing your last message replaces it — An edited message that had already been answered is no longer sent as one more message, so the AI sees only the new one.
• Big workbooks — Workbooks with huge PivotTables or thousands of slicers open in seconds, and a formula built to run forever answers at once with an error instead of freezing the app.
• More fixes — About shows the app's real version, importing the same passwords twice no longer adds them again, imported payment cards keep their cardholder's name, and two computers restored from one each keep their own Remote Desktop number.

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Updating from inside the app: Settings → About → Check for updates. See the full list in the app under What's New.

0.12.4

Make a 3D model and presenter shorts, direct a video by clicking, a quicker first day, plainer answers, Dictate in documents, Check Macros, face swap, the newest video and picture models, and fixes for file icons, Remote Desktop, Photoshop files and Windows.

New

• Make a short with a presenter — Home → Short with a presenter makes a vertical talking-to-camera video from one request, with cutaways, captions and music. The script and one price come first, and nothing is paid for before you say yes.
• Make a 3D model — Home → Make a 3D model turns a picture of one object, or a few words, into a 3D model, filmed turning as a looping clip and put in a page where you turn and zoom it.
• Direct a video by clicking — In the video maker, Direction picks the genre, era, camera style, light and colour look, and each shot's camera moves, lens and emotion. Every move shows a small preview of what it does.
• The newest video and picture models — Kling 4.0, Wan 3.0, Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Luma Ray 3.2 and the open Wan 2.2 for video; Ideogram Vector and Hunyuan Image 3 for pictures. Your own OpenAI key now draws with GPT Image 2.6.
• AI on a clip in the video editor — The clip inspector can edit a clip from a typed instruction, relight it, or split its sound into voice, music and the rest. Each button shows the price first, and one undo puts it all back.
• Office templates and add-ins open — Text templates (.ott) open in the Word editor, and Excel add-ins (.xlam) and older templates (.xlt) in the spreadsheet, so you can look at an add-in's macros before you install it.
• Share a tab to watch only, or to control — The share pop-up asks "Can watch" or "Can control". Someone who can watch sees the page; someone with control uses the tab as you do.
• A quicker first day — Home offers one-click first jobs, "Try it" in the tour sends one straight away, and you can sign in from the message that asks you to. After your first answer, Tesseract offers to do something like it every day.
• Back where you left off — The app opens on your last conversation, with the cursor already in the message box.
• Plainer answers — Every answer comes from Tesseract, the model is "Recommended" or "Fast", and the usage gauge appears from 70%. The framework, the model's code name and the thinking level are in Expert mode.
• When an answer fails, the fix is one button — A failed answer says why in plain words and offers its fix as a single button.
• You approve bookings, payments and messages — A step that books, pays or sends something is put to you first, on every framework.
• Dictate in documents — Speak and your words go into the document where you are typing, with nothing lost on the way.
• Check Macros — A spreadsheet's macros can be read, and Check Macros gives you hints about what they could do before you run them.
• Face swap — Swap a face in a picture or in a video clip.

Fixes

• Other programs' files keep their own icons — Files Tesseract was not chosen for look as they did before, and the File types dialog ticks nothing for you.
• Photoshop files — CMYK, Lab and 16-bit PSDs open whole and in their true colours in the image editor and the picture viewer, transparency is kept, big files show in the viewer at any size, and a PSD too damaged to open is refused instead of freezing the window.
• Remote Desktop — Joining with a one-time code shows the screen again and no longer adds that computer to My Computers, a person is named by their account, a file you ask for while another is being sent arrives, and copying in a shared tab gives your guest what they selected, never what is on your clipboard.
• Windows — Uninstalling removes everything, the frameworks check works where PowerShell is blocked, and the app runs at normal processor, disk and memory priority when it starts with Windows or restarts on its own.
• Your folders and sessions — A drive or your whole home folder is never versioned, a Claude Code conversation that belongs to another app is never run by Tesseract unless you ask, a crashed Claude Code session no longer keeps its conversation waiting, and the crew finds your Claude Code sessions where you keep them.
• The song maker and HEIC photos — A part sung again is never paid for twice, even after a restart, and HEIC photos open in the app you used before 0.12.3 again.
• More fixes — The Mac app is about 55 MB smaller, a busy computer no longer gets the app restarted for being stuck, two computers restored from one no longer take turns in your list, a maker's own steps never show as your messages, saving a workbook that would lose its macros says so first, the conversation keeps its room in a mid-size window, All models opens inside the model panel, the comic maker is back among the assistant's makers, team chat shows typing and away again, a language picked at sign-in is used at once, and your work folder stays where you chose it.

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Updating from inside the app: Settings → About → Check for updates. See the full list in the app under What's New.

0.12.4-beta.2

Make a 3D model, a short with a presenter, direct a video by clicking, the newest video and picture models, AI on a clip, and fixes for file icons, Remote Desktop, Photoshop files and Windows.

New

• Make a short with a presenter — Home → Short with a presenter makes a vertical talking-to-camera video from one request, with cutaways, captions and music. The script and one price come first, and nothing is paid for before you say yes.
• Make a 3D model — Home → Make a 3D model turns a picture of one object, or a few words, into a 3D model, filmed turning as a looping clip and put in a page where you turn and zoom it.
• Direct a video by clicking — In the video maker, Direction picks the genre, era, camera style, light and colour look, and each shot's camera moves, lens and emotion. Every move shows a small preview of what it does.
• The newest video and picture models — Kling 4.0, Wan 3.0, Grok Imagine Video 1.5, Luma Ray 3.2 and the open Wan 2.2 for video; Ideogram Vector and Hunyuan Image 3 for pictures. Your own OpenAI key now draws with GPT Image 2.6.
• AI on a clip in the video editor — The clip inspector can edit a clip from a typed instruction, relight it, or split its sound into voice, music and the rest. Each button shows the price first, and one undo puts it all back.
• Office templates and add-ins open — Text templates (.ott) open in the Word editor, and Excel add-ins (.xlam) and older templates (.xlt) in the spreadsheet, so you can look at an add-in's macros before you install it.
• Share a tab to watch only, or to control — The share pop-up asks "Can watch" or "Can control". Someone who can watch sees the page; someone with control uses the tab as you do.

Fixes

• Other programs' files keep their own icons — Files Tesseract was not chosen for look as they did before, and the File types dialog ticks nothing for you.
• Photoshop files — CMYK and Lab Photoshop files open in the image editor and the picture viewer, 16-bit grey ones open whole, and big files show in the viewer at any size.
• Remote Desktop — It asks you about a person by their account name, a file you ask for while another is being sent arrives, and copying in a shared tab gives your guest what they selected, never what is on your clipboard.
• Windows — Uninstalling removes everything, the frameworks check works where PowerShell is blocked, and the app runs at normal processor, disk and memory priority after it restarts on its own.
• Your folders and sessions — A drive or your whole home folder is never versioned, a Claude Code session that crashed no longer keeps its conversation waiting, the crew finds your Claude Code sessions where you keep them, and a message to every session of a project never runs a Claude Code conversation that belongs to another app.
• More fixes — The Mac app is about 55 MB smaller, a busy computer no longer gets the app restarted for being stuck, two computers restored from one no longer take turns in your list, a maker's own steps never show as your messages, saving a workbook that would lose its macros says so first, the conversation keeps its room in a mid-size window, and All models opens inside the model panel.

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Updating from inside the app: Settings → About → Check for updates. See the full list in the app under What's New.

0.12.4-beta.1

A quicker first day, plainer answers, Dictate in documents, Check Macros for spreadsheets, face swap, and Remote Desktop one-time codes that work again.

New

• A quicker first day — Home offers one-click first jobs, "Try it" in the tour sends one straight away, and you can sign in from the message that asks you to. After your first answer, Tesseract offers to do something like it every day.
• Back where you left off — The app opens on your last conversation, with the cursor already in the message box.
• Plainer answers — Every answer comes from Tesseract, the model is "Recommended" or "Fast", and the usage gauge appears from 70%. The framework, the model's code name and the thinking level are in Expert mode.
• When an answer fails, the fix is one button — A failed answer says why in plain words and offers its fix as a single button.
• You approve bookings, payments and messages — A step that books, pays or sends something is put to you first, on every framework.
• Dictate in documents — Speak and your words go into the document where you are typing, with nothing lost on the way.
• Check Macros — A spreadsheet's macros can be read, and Check Macros gives you hints about what they could do before you run them.
• Face swap — Swap a face in a picture or in a video clip.

Fixes

• Remote Desktop one-time codes — Joining a computer with a one-time code shows its screen again, and a computer you visited with a code is no longer added to My Computers.
• Your other apps' conversations — A Claude Code conversation started by another app on your computer is never run by Tesseract unless you ask; messages for it wait in its inbox.
• Photoshop files — 16-bit PSDs open whole and in their true colours, transparency is kept, and a PSD too large or damaged to open is refused instead of freezing the window.
• The song maker — A part sung again is never paid for twice, even after a restart, and the tempo is given only as surely as the song shows it.
• HEIC photos — HEIC photos open in the app you used before 0.12.3 again; Tesseract no longer offers to open them.
• More fixes — The comic maker is back among the assistant's makers, team chat shows typing and away again, a language picked at sign-in is used at once, your work folder stays where you chose it, Tesseract started at sign-in on Windows runs at normal speed, and a very busy computer no longer gets it closed as stuck.

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Updating from inside the app: Settings → About → Check for updates. See the full list in the app under What's New.