Changelog

Shipped changes have reached our studio, where Crew runs every day. Confirmation follows everyday use. Previews are labelled separately.

0.2.25 · 29 September 2026 Link

• The download carries today's Crew on this Mac, the version every founder gets
• The Chief's setup line comes with Undo: go back to how it was, or keep going

0.2.24 · 29 September 2026 Link

• A key never does more than you meant: Esc never denies a request while you type, ⌘W closes a pane, ⌘N starts a new conversation
• A stale or unknown widget reads calm and readable, the same everywhere
• Nothing on screen is cut off, see-through or unreadable
• One way to read times and replies from Crew on this Mac, and one rule when a save fails
• Crew saved you: shown in tokens, never as made-up dollars
• Account pace is a fresh forecast or says "Pace not known", never a guess
• Move-in numbers are true: milestones named as they are, no dead buttons
• The road shows unplanned work and what is really running
• Your Chief's post never uses a studio X handle: no account of your own means a connect card
• "Shipped today" says exactly what was counted

0.2.23 · 29 September 2026 Link

• Menus stay put while live numbers update
• Pair your iPhone from Settings › Devices: a QR and a code, approved on this Mac

0.2.22 · 29 September 2026 Link

• Your pinned sites in Crew: X beside the chat with one button, your session kept, post from the widget
• Every failed, empty and offline state says what is true, in plain words
• One name everywhere: Crew on this Mac

0.2.21 · 29 September 2026 Link

• No spinner in Crew spins forever: each ends in an answer or a Try Again
• Errors in plain words: every code reads through one table, never raw
• Crew says thread, account and agent everywhere you read
• The terminal panel shows your Chief's tabs and runs live
• Switching rooms is smoother: cards don't redraw on every frame
• Cards keep their full outline on the left edge
• Feature lines follow Crew's own words
• Your Chief knows about Crew updates and installs one only with your tap
• Reduce Motion stills every spring and slide in Crew

0.2.20 · 29 September 2026 Link

• Crew fills a wide screen: the chat keeps Claude's gaps and widgets stay inside their cards
• The canvas rails sit centred in their own gap at every window width
• Pictures in Talk as neat thumbnails, opened in a full-window viewer
• Ask for a feature from the chat and follow it as a card
• The Chief's table: metric meters show their age, their target and who set it
• Help covers every part of Crew
• Help says only what is true, and opens bundled pages offline
• One app: Crew starts everything it needs by itself
• The move-in glance shows your work stages as Crew on this Mac reads them
• Each room keeps its layout, with undo
• Settings › Machines: turn a Mac's build role on or off and see its builds
• The iPhone never claims a reply was sent or a push will come when it isn't so
• A clean install starts clean: no stray CEO note, your own accounts listed
• One honest working and needs-you count on every card and glance
• The ⋮ menu's Colour submenu stays open while Crew updates
• Security calls show as Needs-you cards, in plain words
• The App test run finishes again, with its dead tests cleaned up
• VoiceOver reads every founder screen
• VoiceOver says each change that needs you, once
• Crew promises only what is true: real prices and refunds, no refill promise
• Machine care card: disk per machine and the services Crew looks after
• Raise: the investor's view of your company
• Add a machine: pair another Mac or a Linux box to take on work, from Settings › Machines
• Crew checks for changes less often: only what changed, and refused routes rarely

0.2.19 · 29 September 2026 Link

• One Crew mark everywhere: the carved feather on the app icon, menu bar and phone
• A calmer dark chat: softer ink and ground, looser rhythm, the transcript fades under the edges
• When Crew on this Mac can't start, Crew says why in plain words
• Your window and rail sizes are kept
• Widgets move only while you edit the canvas
• Clips to X (App half: wire and fixtures)
• Settings shaped like System Settings: a sidebar, one page at a time
• The main chat keeps its width: no manual resize handle
• Widgets reflow while you drag one
• Every status dot, ring and pill uses one order and one ink
• One quiet line under the last message while Crew works

0.2.18 · 29 September 2026 Link

• The window never breaks at any size: a real minimum like Claude Code, rails that fold into a slide-over, rails centred in their columns, extra columns only when you ask, and Claude Code's exact composer row
• Your stream keeps going through a Crew update
• Widgets stay quiet: one calm refresh line, agent names instead of ids
• Your Chief drafts posts for you to approve
• Attachments feel right: one lightbox, never two
• A calmer top bar, with what needs you said once
• Honest feel fixes: the switches say what they do

0.2.17 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Every panel, sheet and drawer redesigned: a floating inset box with glass, like Claude Code's side panes · moved from 0.2.12
• The loved pinned-agent avatar rings return · moved from 0.2.9
• App cleanup: one view, no old layout behind 'All projects', no stray menus · moved from 0.2.9
• A widget can be pinned to every space (saved now, so Spaces needs no migration) · moved from 0.2.5
• The sidebar is removed, in the same release as Spaces
• Updates arrive as one moment: the pill slides in, peek the notes, Update now or Tonight
• What's New opens this version's notes and stays open
• Your Chief makes widgets for you: a proposal card you accept, one Undo
• Your projects as a dock of rings: hover to see them all, the title bar never jumps
• Your Chief can speak in your own voice (opt-in, your ElevenLabs key)
• What Crew saves you, on its own face
• Every thread on one wall
• The chat never goes black: the last message is always there, no scrolling
• Project threads keep a dictation mic: click to dictate, hold to talk

0.2.16 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Crew checks for updates every 10 minutes and whenever you come back to it

0.2.15 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Talk to your Chief by voice: the composer's mic or a talk key you choose, hands-free with a visible beat, on this Mac only · moved from 0.2.12
• Ask your Chief to set up your widgets: each room's layout lives in Crew, one Undo brings yours back
• Checkpoints in every chat and Rewind to one
• Your roadmap page inside Crew
• See what Crew knows about your company
• Every answer shows where it came from

0.2.14 · 28 September 2026 Link

• A way back from Agents mode: the top bar stays, ‹ Dashboard, Esc and View › Back to Dashboard (⌥⌘A); Crew never opens stuck in Agents
• One app for every founder: machines, Add Machine and the X composer follow your data, not per-Mac settings

0.2.13 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Finished features are on from the start: no switches to find in Settings
• Memory score on by default: how well your Chief knows the company, in words
• Going back a version is checked as tightly as updating
• Manage your subscription from Crew: opens your own billing portal

0.2.12 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Week focus and shared targets: set this week's target or milestone and see how close you are · moved from 0.2.11
• Threads v2 in the App: the thread page, the split card and result cards
• Fewer, clearer widgets: about 35 become about 15, one question per widget
• Updates are signed end to end: Crew only accepts an update list signed with our own key, and never installs an older version by mistake

0.2.11 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Wider chat you can set, widgets that follow the window, steadier project switching, easier clicks, a clearer Update button
• Chat: click any attachment to see it large, real file names, a round send button and a dictation mic
• A calm Account card with all your AI accounts, and a new Settings window with a sidebar (⌘,)
• Going back to the previous version now lives quietly in Settings › Updates, with no warning in the top bar
• A menu bar glance: the update pill, what needs you, working threads, and each account's 5 h and week left
• Widget buttons work: every Act button and row chip does what it says
• Edit your plan in place: rename, reorder, drag between versions and assign with a confirm, with undo

0.2.10 · 28 September 2026 Link

• A founder's download carries only the public plan and notes, runs on Apple silicon, and can always go back
• Updates come only from the pinned Crew feed; nothing installs silently
• Talk's picker lists every permission mode; with device approvals on, every raise asks for Touch ID or your password
• Every cut runs the security gate: the ledger, secrets, internal data, signing and feeds
• The update tools a cut uses are pinned by sha256
• Feature switches in Settings: turn each new feature on or off
• Risks and disk space lead the Crew set
• A terminal panel with a tab per thread
• Lean setup in the App: the confirm card for a project's detected stack
• The morning brief card: what needs you, what shipped, the top risk
• Needs you shows every tap as one card: the inbox widget, the sheet and the bell
• Accounts plus: add and confirm accounts per provider, in provider colours
• A receipt for every brain dump: each item you said, where it went
• A native Versions page + widget from your plan
• Presenting Mode cancels the Public on Stream chooser safely; resizing a widget keeps your saved size
• Long pastes, drops and recalled messages become one chip, so the message box stays fast
• Updates reopen right where you left off, and nothing you type during the switch is lost
• Focus dials on the Crew focus card: split your crew's effort across companies and see your full-force number
• See in Settings whether this laptop is linked to drive your home Mac
• Fleet and Crew map widgets: see which machine runs each thread, and choose where a thread runs from its dot
• Project rooms show their stage (Idea to Run), a page summary, and Competitors and CEO weekly widgets
• Conversation menu: rename, new conversation here, rewind, move to background, files and terminals, archive
• A Notes panel and a quick where-are-we status card in your main conversation
• See what Crew saved you each month, with a monthly receipt and a spend ledger for each project
• Ship a version in one click: see exactly what ships, then tag and deploy it
• Choose your launch stack: hosting, payments and costs for each need, plus a one-tap test page
• Chat with any agent in a canvas window, and edit a thread's file with a diff preview before saving
• Edit your name, company, city and photo in Settings, and see and revoke your paired devices
• Money runway and burn at a glance, a memory score, a 7-day balance outlook and a menu-bar balance mark
• Explore: see founders and companies building with Crew, and choose what of yours they can see
• Let the Chief use your Mac while you watch, with a visible driving bar and Esc to stop
• Post to X directly from Crew, with a live preview, alt text and scheduled posts
• Go live with OBS from Crew: one-click start, a Back-in-a-moment slate, stream music and a Presenting lock
• Settings shows your skills and connected accounts, with tokens kept only in your Mac's Keychain
• Point at any part of a page in the Crew browser to send its HTML, CSS and a snapshot to your agent
• Mirror a window like the iOS Simulator beside your chat and send a frame to your agent
• Your Chief can use the Crew browser while you watch, asking before risky clicks; take over anytime
• A second ⌃⌘P closes the 'Public on stream' chooser; it's always clear whether Presenting is on
• A 1 MB paste never freezes the App (~3.1 s today)

0.2.9 · 28 September 2026 Link

• Updates arrive as often as we ship: the check runs through the day, and the canvas always has a place for the Update card · moved from 0.2.9
• Widgets feel high end: grid, snap, drag, resize and springs; nothing scrolls but the chat · moved from 0.2.9
• The new widget set, wired to real data · moved from 0.2.9
• One version of the App: the old layout is gone after a restart · moved from 0.2.9
• One clean, light install: the DMG carries everything and nothing extra · moved from 0.2.9

0.2.8 · 27 September 2026 Link

• The new canvas: your Chief in the middle, calm widgets around it, pages you switch between
• One accent, calm everything else: cherry only where something needs you, quiet ivory states, dimmer text and hairlines
• The canvas is the only layout: the old column view and its toggle are gone
• Pick your colour: five steps from Vivid to Calm, Balanced by default, with a live preview
• Agents mode: every agent side by side, its chat or its live terminal, with an explicit Take over
• Every account in one calm table: week and 5-hour use, Fable, resets, what runs on it, and which runs out first
• Needs you is one decision inbox: grouped by project, never the same ask twice, one-tap answers, the CEO's asks included
• Widgets you can trust: every number shows where it comes from and how fresh it is; unknown is never zero
• Attachments the way the Claude app draws them: one large picture, slim file chips, edited files as one quiet row
• A fresh install gets today's Crew on this Mac: token control, the idle refresh, thread ops and live usage inside the download
• First run is motion, not screens: the feather ignites, your Chief is named, the dashboard assembles around the centre · moved from 0.2.7
• Payments ready to go live, off until launch · moved from 0.2.7
• Crew membership on the Mac: pay, unlock and read-only states, dark until launch · moved from 0.2.7

0.2.7 · 27 September 2026 Link

• Your Chief refreshes itself: past ~200k context it writes its handover and starts fresh at a turn boundary, one quiet row in Talk
• The composer ring shows this conversation's tokens per reply + its context size; the refreshed row has Undo
• Efficiency widget: how much of your AI spend became shipped work, and the 3 costliest agents
• You never type /clear: Crew starts a fresh session by itself and keeps the thread
• A Token spend widget: how much of the week is used, and on what
• The download opens like a real Mac app: Crew, an arrow, Applications
• Running tasks: live footer with elapsed, tokens and running tasks, with View live output · moved from 0.2.3

0.2.6 · 27 September 2026 Link

• Crew on this Mac comes inside the download (a clean Mac works from the DMG)
• Reopened again: Talk ⇄ Terminal opens the terminal on the installed build
• One-click update: download, verify, quit, install, relaunch, your drafts kept
• An update button: Crew updates itself (Sparkle 2, sandboxed: its own downloader + installer; the App stays network-free; EdDSA + Developer ID verified)
• Crew's update feed on fiftcrew.com, with notes for every release
• Live: every thread in one list, read-only rows (name · account/machine · working/idle/waiting/limited · the item it's on · last activity) · moved from 0.2.5
• Today card: next version, threads working, waiting on you, last shipped · moved from 0.2.5
• The chat is a widget too: big in the middle by default, moved and resized like any other (never removed)
• Updates wait while you're live: "installs when you end the stream", then install when Presenting turns off
• Select text like Claude: one selection across messages
• An App update no longer restarts Crew's background service
• Balance as a card · moved from 0.2.5

0.2.5 · builds 1900 · 27 September 2026 Link

• Drift alarm: see at a glance if the threads are going the wrong direction
• Attachments like Claude Code: thumbnail cards in the composer, the image as its own card above your message, file cards, no layout jump
• The usage line never overlaps a message
• Model + reasoning you can trust (3): Session and Usage (limits) in the card column
• Pulse: live counters of real movement (merges, reviews passed, items moved, threads working) at the top of Today · moved from 0.2.5
• Milestones: 3–5 per company, one line each: name · % (derived from versions) · target date
• Papercut sweep for the 0.2.4 cut: this cut fixes the small daily bugs
• The View menu's sidebar item always names what it does (it reads the window's own sidebar state)
• The profile menu, done properly: avatar + your name + email + membership badge; Account · Settings; Keyboard shortcuts · What's new · Help ↗; Sign out
• Brief replies: the important part first (an extractive Brief view; replies over 25 lines collapse at turn end; protected lines never collapse)
• Progress rings on sidebar projects
• Plan in the window: versions + ideas per project in the card column, with priority by telling your Chief or by drag
• Live data everywhere: Team, Inbox, companies and inspectors read the real engine · moved from 0.2.2
• Runs on macOS 26.1 and newer · moved from 0.2.2
• Balance: one number for all your AI plans (1 = break-even; below = burning faster than they refill; above = room for more agents), the weakest engine flagged, and last hour's pace (faster or slower), counting refills and banked resets · moved from 0.2.2
• Create your own Chief of Staff at first run: pick a name and a look · moved from 0.2.2
• Agents map: every account, which machine it's on, which agents use it, with a sign-in check · moved from 0.2.2
• Easier pairing: same Mac = no code; a clear Reconnect card with Touch ID
• Papercut sweep for the 0.2.3 cut: this cut fixes the small daily bugs
• Sidebar company rows show their stage (e.g. Growlings · Parked) · moved from 0.2.2
• The preview never shows unfinished parts: Edit widgets, the gallery, scope and presets are hidden in Release · moved from 0.2.5
• Try the new dashboard: View ▸ "Try the new dashboard" shows the sidebar-free layout (off by default, flips back any time) · moved from 0.2.6
• Team rows tell the truth: what each account is doing and on which machine comes from your live threads · moved from 0.2.6
• Account reset countdowns tick live (every 30 s, from the accounts' own reset times)
• Attachment thumbnails are never blank
• The side column resizes smoothly (p90 33 → ~15 ms)
• Post to X from Crew: write the post (or a thread) in Crew, then Post on X opens X's composer filled in · moved from 0.2.6
• Opening the Chief is instant from anywhere (< 150 ms): finished turns frozen, rows windowed and cached · moved from 0.2.4
• The window resizes smoothly: 60 fps live resize even with 5,000+ rows · moved from 0.2.4
• The Drift widget answers one question: "Are we on plan?"
• On the new dashboard, cards fill their grid cells: no holes
• A refused message can be retried
• No babysitting: a restart of Crew on this Mac re-arms the CEO with no message from you
• A turn the Chief runs without your message is its own segment: "From Crew CEO ›", "Background task finished ›", "Check-in ›"
• The dossier: the right card column + its toggle + the folded strip + the bell (approved design D)
• Jump to latest glides smoothly; sending from anywhere brings you to the latest
• Changing text size in a background Crew window never leaves the chat empty
• The notice before Crew restarts for an update is Crew's own, with a countdown that never sticks
• Pulse widget: shipped today · merges · commits · reviews passed · threads working + the 3 h sparkline; M/L add the last 15 min
• Widgets arrive: a fixed set of cards around your chat
• Signed by our Developer ID and checked by Apple (notarized)
• Notifications say who replied and what: the first line, Reply inline, Open; nothing on stream
• Pull requests as a widget: Crew's own heads first, then a company's GitHub PRs, each as Claude Code's compact PR card
• The new dashboard's grid: widgets snap around the centred chat, never over it
• The new dashboard's space pill at the top centre (Studio only for now)
• The new dashboard's floating Chief card, top left
• Try the new dashboard from the View menu: off by default, remembered
• Handoff relaunch: Crew's own Relaunch banner reopens exactly where you were (window, conversation, scroll, draft)
• Reopened: One quiet status at most under the toolbar, none when healthy · moved from 0.2.6
• Reopened: Paste and Enter just work: the paste/Enter fixes (the first-Enter fix 01b2268 already rides 0.2.1) · moved from 0.2.6
• The widget column is a plain column, so resizing the window stays smooth
• Versions as a card: the full plan per project · moved from 0.2.5
• Studio milestones: 5 rings at Studio scope beside each project's · moved from 0.2.5
• Transcript text never scrolls under the pinned session strip (the strip gets a background)

0.2.3 · builds 977 · 27 September 2026 Link

• Switching between Live and your Chief no longer triggers the layout crash.
• Background windows open with the conversation visible. · moved from 0.2.2
• Your saved name appears correctly and can be edited in Settings.
• Links in your messages are clickable.
• Talk uses plain words.
• Fixes the layout crash in build 920.
• Crash details are saved to a local log.
• A quiet status dot opens the Reconnect card.
• The pointer shows what's clickable on hover
• Attaching a file is fast (no wait before you can type or send)
• Return sends right after a paste
• The caret stays where you type
• Typing after attaching a file goes into your message
• Return is never swallowed while a file attaches; a queued send goes as you left it and says why
• The number pad's Enter works like Return everywhere
• Reopened: Drag the window from any empty pixel of the full-height top strip (like Claude Code)
• Claude's air in Talk: ~50 pt between turns and above the composer (measured from Claude)
• Reading comfort + air: 14 pt + air measured from Claude (Default · Large)

0.2.2 · 26 September 2026 Link

• Presenting mode: one switch hides everything private (for streams and stages) · moved from 0.2.1
• Behind the scenes: our capture build compiles again
• Select text like Claude: one continuous selection per reply
• Full-height chrome
• Softer Talk text: Claude-style warm grey instead of hard white
• Text size you control: ⌘−/⌘+ with smaller steps, Claude-match default
• Quiet composer: one calm field + a quiet row (+, mic, mode · model, effort, context ring)
• Model + reasoning you can trust: an engine-reported model/effort chip + a "Now: …" confirmation
• The Chief brings the update: the update card
• One-click copy: every code block in Talk gets a copy button, and anything you need to paste comes as its own block
• Attach you can feel: drop highlight + thumbnail of what you attached
• Crew mark always a look

0.2.1 · 26 September 2026 Link

• Apple-style motion, part 1: sliding selection, rings, rolling numbers · moved from 0.2.0
• Speed: every click answers on the next frame (cause found: the window re-measured everything) · moved from 0.2.0
• Founder skills, first shelf: launch guides (payments, domain, site), name + domain check, competitor teardown · moved from 0.3.0
• Talk, calm: one collapsed work line per turn, and no name in a one-to-one chat
• Typing you can trust: Enter sends the first time; pasted WhatsApp/Arabic/emoji text keeps its marks

0.2.0 · 26 September 2026 Link

• Slim top bar with a Talk | Terminal switch, like Claude's chat | code · moved from 0.1.6
• Resizable sidebar: slim bar ↔ avatar grid, one button to hide it · moved from 0.1.6
• New Project asks where it lives: ~/Crew/<name> or choose a folder, with Git · moved from 0.1.6
• Approvals count only from a real click on your Mac; test copies of Crew can never approve · moved from 0.1.6
• Claude Code parity for daily use: mid-turn steer and the effort switch next to the model · moved from 0.1.5
• Signed approvals live on your Mac
• Each agent shows what it is doing right now and which machine it runs on
• Used-up limits turn into a refill countdown instead of a full bar; refill times are never guessed
• Live view: every agent on every machine, what it is doing right now, and who needs your answer (red, on top)