Changelog

asambl updates often. This page tracks what shipped in each build so you can see what changed since the version you are running. Activation keys stay valid across updates; download the latest build from asambl.app/download whenever a new one lands.

The current build is v1.0.7 for macOS and Windows.

v1.0.7 (current)

Setup you can walk away from.

• Quit partway through setup and come back to where you were. Reopening returns you to the question you stopped on. It used to land on Home with a "Setup Progress 0 of 3" card, and the only way back started the questions again from the first screen.
• Skipped questions stay skipped. Passing over a question no longer sends you back to it when you return; Back still reaches it if you want it.
• Faint text is readable. The setup steps, the data-handling lines, the bootstrap list and the closing act's caption and day labels were set too light to meet the contrast standard in most themes. Those, the rejected-key message on the front door and the week-ahead line on Home now meet it in all ten themes.
• Feedback says it is anonymous, and can carry a reply address. Send Feedback and the in-plan "Not quite right" note say the note is anonymous, and take an optional address if you want an answer.

v1.0.6

The first week pays off.

• Onboarding ends on the shape of your week. The closing act shows the week your answers imply: focus areas, work hours, energy peak.
• The first plan shows up in the session that made it. When today is empty, the Today card looks up to seven days ahead and shows the first planned day.
• A quiet trial cadence. One subscribe prompt after the first week is planned on a live trial, once per install, and a notice on day 17 and day 20 before the trial wall.
• The plan says your declared energy back on the review line, the week strip and the Home card.
• Help > Send Feedback, plus an opt-in "also send to asambl" under Not quite right, which posts the line you typed.
• The Inbox offers phone pairing where a phone capture would land.
• Fixes. An event you delete in Google Calendar stays deleted instead of being re-marked; a trial key entered by hand keeps its expiry; Essentials setup keeps your answers if you quit partway. Factory reset now clears only the activation on this machine.

v1.0.5

The front door repaired.

• Keyboard focus ring on every button. Every button recipe shows a visible focus ring again, in every theme.
• Activation errors name the fault. A rejected key gets a message that says what went wrong and where to get help, instead of "Unknown beta key" for everyone.
• Onboarding is complete when setup finishes, not when the closing screen is dismissed, so quitting on "Your space is ready" no longer strands an empty Overview.
• A person on the day-22 wall. The trial-expired screen names [email protected].
• A one-tap weekly return. Committing a plan offers a Sunday-evening reminder to plan next week, opt-in and only while no such reminder exists.
• Windows installers are signed, so Windows names the publisher instead of warning about an unknown one.

v1.0.4

Subscription self-service arrives in Settings, and the app stops talking about the beta.

• Manage your subscription from Settings. Subscribers get a Manage subscription row in the account panel: change your plan, update payment details, or cancel, in Stripe's secure portal in your browser. Cancelling keeps your access until the end of the billing period, exactly as the pricing page promises.
• A beta-free voice. The last beta-era wording is gone. Consent copy now speaks of usage signals tied to your activation key, matching the privacy policy word for word, and the account panel names what you actually have: a subscription, a trial, or a beta key.

v1.0.3

The Settings account panel speaks the credential's language. A subscription shows "Subscription" and who it is licensed to, a trial shows its countdown, and a beta key still says beta. One panel, no guessing.

v1.0.2

Licence keys fit through the Settings door. The Replace-key field truncated subscription keys at 30 characters and accepted only the beta format, so a fresh subscriber could not activate. Both are fixed.

v1.0.1

The 21-day free trial arrives in the app, and Google Calendar opens to everyone.

• Start your trial from the welcome screen. A fresh install now offers "Start your 21-day free trial" up front; no key needed. Beta members and subscribers still activate with their key from the same screen, and licence keys from a subscription work there too.
• When a trial ends, your data does not. The app moves to a calm subscribe screen with your data folder and a full backup export one click away. Everything you captured stays on your computer as plain files.
• Google Calendar connects for everyone. The allow list is gone: sign in with Google once and two-way sync starts from there.

v1.0.0

asambl leaves beta. The invite-only programme has closed: anyone can now download asambl and try the whole product free for 21 days, no card required, with one plan after. Nothing changes for beta members: your key keeps working, and it stays free for as long as asambl exists (this replaced the earlier founder-rate promise on 2026-09-07). This build rolls up the improvements from the builds since v0.2.38-beta.

v0.2.38-beta

This build changes how your phone connects to asambl, puts your week on it, and adds an optional asambl account.

• Pair your phone with a code instead of a Google sign-in. The Companion no longer asks you to sign in with Google. Open Settings under Integrations on your desktop, generate a one-time pairing code, and enter it on your phone within ten minutes. A phone that is already connected keeps working and moves across on its own, with nothing for you to do. Unpairing from the desktop drops every paired phone at once.
• Your calendar reaches the Companion. Your confirmed events for the fortnight ahead now show on your phone, encrypted so only your own devices can read them, with repeating events expanded so each occurrence lands on the right day. Anything you have not accepted yet stays on your desktop. See Calendar.
• An optional asambl account. Settings gains an account you can sign in to from your desktop. It stays optional: asambl works exactly the same signed out, and signing out leaves your paired phones and everything you have saved untouched.
• Fixes and polish. Marking an event done, missed or moved from your phone now registers for events that live only in asambl rather than on your Google Calendar, where those check-ins used to be dropped without a word. Filing a capture into a life area and filling in a book or film's details are both quicker.

v0.2.37-beta

This build narrows the calendar permission asambl asks you for.

• asambl asks for less access to your Google Calendar. Connecting Google Calendar used to ask for permission to manage all of your calendars. It now asks only to see and edit events, which is the only thing asambl has ever done with your calendar. If you are already connected, nothing changes until you disconnect and connect again in Settings under Integrations. See Calendar.

v0.2.36-beta

This build is about trust on Windows: the app is now signed.

• Windows installers are signed. The installer, the app, and the updater binaries now carry a signature from ASAMBL TECHNOLOGIES LTD, so Windows can show you who published what you are about to run instead of warning about an unknown publisher, and every future update is checked against that signature before it installs. Nothing changes on your side: update as usual, or download this build from our GitHub releases. Windows may still show a SmartScreen prompt for a few weeks while the new signature earns its reputation; choosing "More info" now names the publisher and lets you continue.

v0.2.35-beta

This build sorts out the keyboard shortcuts and cleans up what the app reports about itself.

• Each keyboard shortcut opens one thing. Pressing ⌘⇧A used to open the admin panel and the quick capture box at the same time. It now opens admin only, and quick capture moves to ⌘⇧C. Starting a new conversation with ⌘⇧N also works for the first time: the app had reserved that combination across your whole machine, so the key press never reached the window. See Ask asambl.
• Settings shows the build you are actually running. The footer reported the runtime version underneath the app rather than the asambl version, so it read v41.2.0 for everyone. Life areas are now named the same way in Settings as in the sidebar, instead of one window calling the same area two things. See Settings.
• Screen readers announce every dialog by name. Nine dialogs, among them the habit manager, the recurring event editor and the bulk paste box, announced only as "dialog" with nothing to say which one had opened. Each now announces what it is, and the project panel exposes the form it holds rather than an empty shell.

v0.2.33-beta

This build fixes two issues beta testers ran into: updating on Windows, and adding a single planner's events to your calendar.

• Windows updates install again. On Windows, an update would download and then stop without offering to restart, so it never installed. It now downloads and installs the way it should. One-time step if you are already on an older Windows build: install this version by hand from our GitHub releases once, and updates are automatic from there.
• Adding a planner's events to your calendar sticks. When you plan a single life area, like Fitness or Finance, and add its events to your calendar, they now reliably land there. Before, the button to add them could time out or save only the written plan, so nothing showed up. See Calendar.

v0.2.32-beta

This build hardens how your beta key and logs are kept on your machine, and smooths setup and accessibility. It rolls up the builds since v0.2.30-beta.

• Your beta key is better protected on your machine. Your activation key is now encrypted where it is stored rather than kept in plain text, and any copy earlier builds had written into the app's diagnostic logs is cleared automatically the first time you open this version. None of this changes how you activate or sign in.
• Smoother, more reachable setup. Onboarding keeps keyboard focus inside each step, keeps the consent screen fully in view at any window size, and hands you a first draft even when you skip the guided setup. Chip and tag text across the dark themes now meets contrast standards.
• Planning keeps your answers when something goes wrong. If a weekly or quarterly plan cannot be built, asambl now tells you up front and lets you retry from where you were instead of losing the answers you just gave.

v0.2.30-beta

This build sharpens what your weekly plan draws on and clears up calendar setup during the beta.

• Your plan remembers what is on your calendar. When asambl drafts your week, it now surfaces notes you saved that relate to what is actually on your calendar that week, not just your top priorities. Put a trip on the calendar and the notes you kept about it come up while you plan, without you going to find them. See Weekly planning.
• Clearer calendar connect during the beta. Onboarding now tells you Google Calendar connects only for accounts on the beta allow list, and points you to Settings under Integrations to request access if it does not connect the first time.

v0.2.29-beta

This build reworks how you start with asambl and adds a quiet second opinion on every plan.

• Setup that hands you a plan. Onboarding now goes one question at a time, learns what a good week feels like and what keeps slipping, optionally connects your calendar, and drafts your first weekly plan before you finish, so you leave setup already holding a plan instead of an empty screen.
• asambl notices your week. When you commit a weekly plan, asambl points out one thing about its shape, an area with no time or a priority with nowhere to happen, as an observation and a question rather than a verdict. Tell it that's intentional or push back, and it takes that into next week.
• This week's actions on Home. Your committed plan shows up as a checklist you tick off through the week. See Calendar.
• Fixes and polish. The setup read-back is faster and easier to read, the connection question covers everyone who matters rather than just a partner, and a first-run planning error on fresh setups is gone.

v0.2.28-beta

This build makes asambl yours to look at and easier to run day to day: choose how the whole app looks, group the small recurring things into a routine, and carry your tasks, journal, and reminders on your phone. It rolls up the builds since v0.2.25-beta.

• Themes and skins. Choose how asambl looks from a swatch grid in Settings: a matched Dawn and Dusk pair for light and dark, or four fuller skins (Terminal, Typewriter, Poster, and Cloud), each with its own type, corners, and texture.
• Routines. Group the small things that always go together (pack supplements, change towels, meal prep) into a single routine. Set how long each step takes and when it repeats, and it lands on your calendar as one block you tick off step by step. You manage routines from the Tasks panel. See Calendar.
• Tasks, Journal, and Reminders on the Companion. The Companion gains three sections beside Today. See your tasks grouped by life area and tick or add them, write a dated journal entry with a mood, and clear upcoming reminders with done or snooze. Everything you do syncs back to your desktop over the encrypted relay when your laptop is next awake.
• Spending and fixed costs at a glance. Finance's Your numbers view adds two breakdowns: where your money went this month by category, and what makes up your fixed costs, each as a labelled donut. See Finance.
• Travel planning in Joy. Joy gained a travel planner for trips (a packing capsule, a booking checklist, and a Schengen day counter) alongside the leisure and creative planning already there.
• Journal a book or film. Click a title asambl recommends and it opens a note just for that book or film, so your thoughts on each live in their own place instead of one growing list.
• Fixes. The media-title menu reopens reliably after you click away, saving a planner draft after a reload works, and dragging an item from your inbox onto the calendar creates the event again.

v0.2.25-beta

This build tightened the day-to-day surfaces: one screen per life area, deeper numbers in Finance and Health, and reminders you can act on straight from the calendar.

• One screen per life area. Each life area now leads with what you are working on now. Reference material and past weeks fold into a single summary row you expand only when you want them, so nothing buries the current week.
• Your numbers in Finance. Finance gained a Your numbers view: monthly cashflow, budget against your targets, a net-worth projection, savings growth, and a debt-payoff timeline. Cash savings and investments are tracked separately, and a short calculator turns your income and goals into starting budget and savings targets. See Finance.
• Nutrition targets and a guided kitchen. Health can work out your daily calorie and protein targets from your details, and a guided setup captures your staple foods and go-to meals so your first weekly menu and shopping list have something real to build from.
• Reminders on the calendar. Reminders show as chips on the calendar grid. Click one to mark it done, snooze it, or open it to edit, without leaving the calendar. See Calendar.
• A cleaner library. Films and the rest of the library gained a shelves view grouped by status, status badges, quick actions on each cover, and tidier genres.

v0.2.20-beta

v0.2.20-beta rounded out the six life areas and brought logging to the Companion. The builds between it and v0.2.25-beta were calendar and planning fixes.

• Work and Career joins the drafted week. Work and Career is now a full life area you can turn on alongside the others. Your job is already on the calendar, so asambl plans around it: it protects focus time next to your meetings and schedules the career moves you keep deferring, sized to the week you actually have. See Life areas for how it fits with the rest.
• Meals and nutrition in Health. The Health and Wellness area now holds meals, macro estimates, a daily tally, and weight check-ins, so nutrition sits next to training and recovery in the same area.
• Companion logging shipped. The Companion gained its Log view. Log a meal by scanning a product barcode or adding it by hand, record a weight check-in, and log each workout set with reps, load, and effort. Everything you capture syncs back to your desktop over the encrypted relay.
• Two-way Google Calendar sync. Confirmed asambl events now sync back to Google Calendar, and your external events show up inside asambl, so you work against a single picture of your time. See Calendar for how to connect.
• Time by area insights. The calendar can total your planned hours per life area, so you can see at a glance whether the week leans too hard on one area and leaves nothing for the rest.

Earlier beta builds

Before v0.2.20-beta, the beta established the core of asambl:

• The weekly ritual that turns a few honest answers into a sequenced week and then into real calendar events. See How planning works and Weekly planning.
• The first life areas (Health, Finance, Relationships, Joy, and Growth), each holding your real context as plain Markdown on your machine.
• The desktop calendar with month, week, and day views, colour-coded by life area, and proposed plans you accept before anything is committed.
• The Companion agenda and capture flow for your week on the go, with captures end-to-end encrypted and queued when you are offline.
• Ask asambl, capture and knowledge, and the journal, tasks, and reminders rail.

How updates reach you

asambl checks for new builds and installs them for you; you can also download the latest build from asambl.app/download and install it over your current version. Your files stay on your machine throughout, and your activation key carries across updates, so you keep everything you have already captured and planned.