What's new in Input

Every version, newest first. Input updates itself, and Input > Check for Updates looks right away.

0.9.41

Hand off to Claude. When someone is waiting on you in an input, Hand off gives it to one of your Claude Code sessions. You choose which files to share. The session drafts the answer with you, and Claude Code asks before each send. Meanwhile, the card waits in Drafts, where Discard takes it back.
Claude sessions can ask people too. Once Input's tools are added to Claude Code, a session can send an input to someone you're paired with. When they answer, click Hand off to give their reply back to that session. A session sees only the inputs it sent or you handed it, unless you allow more. A ✻ marks a message an AI agent prepared.
Integrations. Set up Claude in the new Integrations tab in Settings. Your Slack workspaces move there from Accounts automatically. Images is now called Trust.
New Message. Only the ways you've set up in Input appear. A few show first, with More… for the rest, and long lists wrap so every label stays readable. In a group email, you can check and choose each person's address.
Getting started. Input asks for Contacts or Calendar only once an account needs them. Apple's model appears only when it's ready to use. The Welcome card counts Input as an account, and checks AI only when it works.
Journal. Warnings now show in gray. Errors such as a failed send stay red.

0.9.40

Invitations. Input is invite-only for now. Your pairing link is also your invitation: someone new opens it, joins in one step, and arrives paired with you. You have 5 invitations; Settings shows how many are left. Pairing with someone who already has Input never uses one.
Slack stays up to date. When Slack asks Input to slow down, Input keeps reading your messages instead of stopping for hours.
Smaller things. New Link is now Reset Link, which says what it does: your old link stops working.

0.9.39

Decide. An input can ask someone to pick between a few choices, answered in one click. AI finds choices in your message and adds Yes and No options to yes-or-no questions. It works in replies too.
Files and pictures in inputs. Drag or paste them into an input, up to 20 MB per message. Pictures show in the conversation; other files open in Quick Look. They're encrypted on your Mac, so only the two of you can open them.
Reactions on inputs. Right-click a message and pick an emoji, as in Slack.
Quiet during meetings. While you're in a meeting, nothing makes a sound, and what arrives waits under After this meeting.
Nothing lost. Ask Input finds your inputs, closed ones too, and Restore brings one back. A message after an input was closed brings it back by itself.
Smaller things. Inputs send on Return, like a chat. Arrival sounds play on the device you chose for alerts. A pairing link clicked in Input opens right there.

0.9.38

Inputs. Pair with someone else who uses Input, then send them an input: a Question that waits for an answer, or an FYI. Choose File > Copy Pairing Link to start. Inputs are sealed on your Mac, so only the two of you can read them.
Replies in inputs. Open an input to answer it. Under your last message, Sent turns into Delivered once it reaches their Mac. New inputs and replies arrive within a second.
Waiting covers more. Conversations you started, in Gmail, Messages and Slack, now wait for an answer too. A forward with no note of yours never waits.
One word to finish: Done. It archives an email, as Archive did. Hover over it to see what it does.
Smaller things. Mark All as Read is much faster on Gmail. Appearance has colors for Input itself. An email found in Gmail no longer spins forever when its original can't load. Help has a new section on inputs.

0.9.37

Attach files to emails. Drag files onto a new email or a reply sent through Gmail, or paste them. They show under the box, up to 20 MB in all.
Preview attachments. Click a file's name under an email to see it in Quick Look, without downloading it.
New Message knows you better. It suggests names as soon as you type, and picks the address you last wrote to that person from.
Smaller things. Help has a new section on adding a Slack account.

0.9.36

Ask about your calendar. Ask Input answers questions like "when am I free next Wednesday?" or "when is my next dentist appointment?", and shows that day with the right events highlighted.
Help, built in. Help > Input Help opens a full guide, starting with how to use Input day to day. Ask Input answers questions about Input itself, with a link to the right section.
Report a Problem. In the Help menu, Input prepares an email to support with details about your Mac, never your messages, for you to read and send.
Smaller things. Every address your Gmail mail arrives at can now get its own color in Settings > Appearance.

0.9.35

Nothing missed in Slack threads. Replies and mentions inside threads of direct and group messages now show in Input. Before, they never did.
Input checks itself. If Gmail or Slack can't be reached for 10 minutes, a small line near the tabs says so. Every few minutes, Input also takes a second look for messages it might have missed, and shows any it finds.
Slack looks like Slack. Bold, italics and code in Slack messages now show as such, and people and channels stand out in the card's color.
Calendars follow you. Calendars you switch off in Settings stay off on your other Macs too.

0.9.34

Your calendars, your choice. Settings, Accounts, Calendar lists every calendar, each with a switch: one switched off stays out of Input. Calendars you hid in Apple Calendar start off.
Format with AI on Slack. The wand works in Slack messages too, and bold, italics and code in Slack messages show as such instead of their marks.
iMessages you can trust. After sending, Input checks that Messages recorded the message, and tells you if it may not have gone out.
More sounds. Arrival sounds now include the Mac's alert sounds, and your own from ~/Library/Sounds.
Smaller things. Format with AI turns "1/ 2/ 3/" into a list and never changes a number.

0.9.33

Format with AI. Hold Shift-Command and the ✦ button turns into a wand: it lays out the email you wrote, with lists and bold, and fixes its spelling, without changing your words. The box then shows the email as it will arrive. Shift-Command-Return does it from the keyboard, and Command-Z undoes it, or a draft written with ✦.
Formatted emails. Emails you send from a Gmail account with lists or bold arrive formatted, in Gmail and in Mail.
Unsubscribe. A newsletter that offers it gets an Unsubscribe button next to Archive. It unsubscribes the way the sender asks, then archives the email.
Original, steadier. An unread email you switch to Original stays that way, and emails without a font of their own show in the system font.
Smaller things. Keyboard Shortcuts is now on Command-/, hints in empty fields are a quiet gray, and the list no longer redraws the whole window as you scroll, which may help with rare freezes on some Macs.

0.9.32

Designed emails, complete. Some designed emails lost their footer in Original behind a black band. They now show in full, laid out as in Gmail and Mail.

0.9.31

Markdown emails, drawn. Plain-text emails written in Markdown, like AI summaries, show their headings, lists and tables in Original. "Always for this sender" opens them that way from then on.
Calmer email cards. Emoji in email subjects and previews show in gray until you open the email, and previews no longer show bits of page code.
Faster start. Gmail and Slack cards show at once when Input opens, and Command-R checks Slack too, with a small spinner while it works.
Gmail in your open tab. With Chrome, Open in Gmail and Command-O use the Gmail tab you already have open instead of a new one.
Smaller things. Forwards go out from your default address. Reduce Motion is respected throughout, and snoozes reach your other Macs sooner.

0.9.30

Links you can click. Web addresses in an open conversation open in your browser, and so do Slack links shown by a name. They keep the look of the text around them, underlined when the mouse is over them.
Calmer emails. The quoted history at the end of a reply waits behind "Show quoted text", since the conversation above already shows it.
Search results you can act on. A result says when you finished it in Input (Done) or it left the inbox (Archived). Archive it from the results, or Restore it to its tab, back in Gmail's inbox if it was archived. Opening a result marks it read, Escape closes one thing at a time, and search also finds the older emails of conversations you opened.
Slack. Emoji show as emoji, skin tones included, and people from other companies show by name.
Faster Gmail conversations. They open fully in about 3 seconds instead of up to 20, and an email you switch to Original stays that way.

0.9.29

Very large inboxes. Gmail accounts with tens of thousands of unread emails now work. Before, every check failed and nothing from them showed in Input.

0.9.28

Your email accounts on every Mac. Accounts added with Reading (IMAP) and Sending (SMTP) now appear on your other Macs, aliases included. App passwords stay in each Mac's Keychain: type each one once, on the account's page in Settings, Accounts.
Search goes back 30 days. Emails from your Gmail accounts stay searchable for 30 days, also once archived or out of the inbox, and so do the emails you sent. Nothing more is downloaded: Input keeps what is already on your Mac.
Smoother keyboard. Holding an arrow no longer stutters when the selection goes past the edge of the window. Page Up and Page Down move a screen of cards, Home and End go to the first and last card.
Smaller things. Command-F opens Ask Input again.

0.9.27

Gmail, without Apple Mail. Add a Gmail account in Settings, Accounts, with Reading (IMAP) and Sending (SMTP): Input reads and answers it directly. New emails arrive on their own, and you get your replies in each conversation, Waiting, instant search and Open in Gmail. Apple Mail keeps working for the accounts you leave there.
Easier to read emails. Open emails keep their line breaks, the hidden preview line no longer shows at the top, designed emails stay readable in dark mode, and words in tables no longer run together.
Calmer open cards. The sender, subject and addresses form one header, Original sits on the right, and "You" takes the card's color. Cards open in place without the list jumping, and the reply box takes the cursor when you press R or click it.
Calendar. Invitations you have not answered show quieter, without a countdown or a Join button.
Shortcuts. Command-R checks for new messages, and Command-F searches, like Command-K. R and A reply; Command-R no longer does. In Ask Input, the arrows go through your recent searches, and with nothing selected they start from the first card on screen.
Smaller things. Input always opens its main window at launch, a suggestion cut short is no longer shown as an error in the Journal, and Ask Input keeps the focus only when you give it.

0.9.26

Slack is complete again. New messages in busy conversations, and in quieter ones, now always show up. Some could be missed before.
Pictures in emails. Pictures embedded in an email now show in it, and attachments open straight from Mail's copy.
Easier to read emails. An email's designed version shows on a white page, and email boxes are nearly square, like a page.
Snooze and search. A card back from a snooze can be marked read again, the dot works in search results, and results take the color of the way they reached you.
Smaller things. Input checks for updates when your Mac wakes, the scroll bar no longer covers the cards, and the setting now reads "Undo send for email".

0.9.25

Undo send. Turn it on in Settings > General: emails wait 5 seconds before they go, with Undo at the bottom of the window (or Command-Z). Undo brings the email back in Drafts, as you wrote it.
Save drafts. Save, or Command-S, keeps a new message, a reply or a forward in Drafts, to finish later or on your other Mac.

0.9.24

Send email through SMTP (early). Settings > Accounts > Add Account > Sending (SMTP): add an address with its server and an app password. New emails, replies and forwards from that address are then sent by Input itself, with pictures and the original's attachments.
Aliases. An SMTP account can also send as other addresses you add on its page.
From follows Mail. New messages offer exactly the addresses your Mail accounts list, aliases included, instead of addresses found in past emails.
Shift-Command-D sends, in emails, Messages and Slack.

0.9.23

Snooze. Set a conversation aside for 30 minutes, a few hours, or until tomorrow morning: open it and click Snooze next to Archive, or right-click it. It waits among the read cards with a moon icon, then comes back unread at the top. A new message brings it back at once. Snoozes follow you on all your Macs.
Unread only. View > Unread Only (Command-T) hides read cards in Important and Everything else. A card you read stays until you switch tabs.
Faster tabs. Switching between Important and Everything else is much quicker, especially with long lists.
Room to write. A long reply or email grows with the window, then scrolls, so the text and cursor always stay in the box.
Hide Waiting when empty. A new option in Settings > General. Off unless you turn it on.
Adding Slack now opens on a page of its own in Settings > Accounts.
Escape in Ask Input clears the text, then closes the recent searches, then leaves the box.
Fixes. Settings no longer appears twice in the Input menu, connecting Slack no longer opens the Journal, and emails from addresses like workspace-noreply no longer offer a reply box.

0.9.22

Open at login. Settings > General can open Input when your Mac starts. Off unless you turn it on.
Cleaner outlines. Boxes and buttons have an even outline, corners included.

0.9.21

A simpler welcome. The first-launch card now starts with your accounts, and only asks macOS for what the accounts you added need.
Mac menus. File, View and Message menus with every action and its shortcut.
Release notes. Help > Release Notes lists what changed in each version.
A quiet update card. A new version now shows as a small card at the bottom of the left column, instead of a window.

0.9.20

Your accounts stay put. After updating, a Mac that already used Input keeps all its accounts added. Only a new Mac starts with an empty list to fill from Add Account.

0.9.19

Settings, redone. Accounts is a list, each account with its own page. You add the accounts Input should read, one by one, from Add Account, and can remove any. Signatures have their own tab.
Saved keys show as "Saved, ends in …" with Change, for your AI key and for Slack's live updates.

0.9.18

Tag people in Slack. Type @ in a reply or a new Slack message, in a channel, a thread or a group, and pick someone from the list: they get a real Slack mention. @here and @channel work in channels.
Safer saved data. If Input ever cannot read part of what it keeps on your Mac, it now loses only that part, and keeps a copy of the rest.

0.9.17

Messages groups. Command-O opens any Messages conversation, groups included, with your reply already in the box.
Drafts tidy up. A draft you finish in Mail, Messages or Slack leaves Drafts once your reply shows up.
Quick reactions learn. The emoji you use most join the quick ones, now five side by side at the top of the menu.
Slack mentions open on the exact message, in the Slack app.

0.9.16

Drafts tab. What you type in a reply is kept, even when you close the card or quit Input. Unfinished replies wait in a Drafts tab after Waiting (Command-4), on all your Macs.
Open in the real app. Command-O opens the conversation in Mail, Messages or Slack with your reply copied, ready to paste. An email opens as a reply in Mail.
Mail. Many ordinary emails were mistaken for automated ones and had no reply box. Fixed, and their senders show up again when you write a new message.
Slack search only shows your conversations and the channels you are in.
React to a photo with a right-click, select and copy an email's subject, and a clearer Important counter in Dark Mode.
Journal (formerly Activity) opens with Command-J. Command-J, Command-? and Command-, close their window when pressed again.

0.9.15

Drafts. What you type in a reply is kept when you close the card, with its pictures, and the text follows you between your Macs. Command-Z brings back a draft you just discarded.
A picture dragged out of a conversation and dropped back on it by accident is no longer added to your reply.