Changelog

Every update, improvement, and fix to Rithere — in one place.

v1.0.73
November 6, 2026 Latest

Rithere is easier to read and looks more consistent, in both dark and light themes.

Bug Fixes 4
  • Fixed an issue where the Light theme button was hard to read
  • Fixed an issue where the button on the sync warning touched the edge of the window
  • Fixed cramped dates in History
  • Clear History is now greyed out when there is nothing to clear
Style 7
  • All buttons and the Settings sidebar now use Rithere's own font instead of Arial
  • Small and faint text is easier to read across Settings, menus and AI Chat
  • In the light theme, cards are now white and stand out from the page
  • Add Prompt now looks like the main button, and prompt names no longer look greyed out
  • Rows and switches line up, and page titles stay in place when you change tabs
  • Selected text has a clearer highlight
  • Feedback now has its own icon
v1.0.72
November 2, 2026

Shortcuts feel faster, and the Action Dot shows up for every text selection.

New Features 1
  • The "?" next to each feature in Settings opens its demo in a pop-up with Play, Pause, Start over and Close. A dot marks the ones you haven't opened yet
Bug Fixes 2
  • Fixed an issue where the Action Dot didn't appear when you selected text by dragging upward or starting in the margin
  • The Action Dot now also appears after a double or triple click on text, and for short selections
Performance 1
  • The status bubble appears the instant you press a shortcut, and your text goes to the AI right away instead of waiting behind other work
v1.0.71
October 27, 2026

Updates install in one click, and the animated orb is back on the install and update screen.

New Features 1
  • The update banner and Check for Updates now show a single Install button. If the update is still downloading, it installs as soon as it finishes
Bug Fixes 2
  • Fixed an issue where the install and update screen showed a still logo instead of the animated orb
  • Fixed blurry, cramped text on the install and update screen
v1.0.70
October 27, 2026

Pressing Esc while Rithere types an answer can no longer paste what you had copied, a shortcut you record is saved again, and AI answers and sign-in links are locked down.

Bug Fixes 17
  • Pressing Esc while an answer was being typed into your document could paste what you had copied in its place. Rithere now lets the last piece finish before it puts your clipboard back
  • An answer that failed part-way left a piece of it on your clipboard instead of what you had copied
  • Rithere no longer rewrites a clipboard it never touched. An Ask that read your selection without copying it could still drop a chart or table you had copied, and then say it couldn't be restored
  • A shortcut recorded in Settings is saved again. The save ran while the recorder still counted as recording, so the old key went on working until something else changed
  • A new prompt left without instructions no longer stops every other change in Settings from saving, and closing Settings straight after a change no longer loses it
  • Prompt names and instructions with quote marks or angle brackets now show and save exactly as typed
  • Esc cancels and Enter keeps a shortcut while recording, so it works from the keyboard alone. A bare letter now needs Ctrl, Alt or Win, or it would take that key over in every app, and Undo's shortcut counts as taken
  • In AI Chat, a message that fails shows its error instead of "Thinking…" forever. Retry and Edit after Stop use the question on screen, and Esc while editing a message cancels the edit instead of closing the chat
  • A follow-up after Stop continues the answer you can see, and one that fails keeps Copy and puts your question back in the box
  • Alt+F4 on the prompt bar or a preview no longer leaves Esc, or Enter, caught in every other app
  • A hotkey held with the right-hand Shift, Ctrl or Alt no longer turns the copy into another shortcut, such as Ctrl+Shift+C, which opens a browser's developer tools
  • AI answers can no longer restyle the window or draw buttons and links of their own. HTML in an answer is shown as text, and every link opens in your browser
  • A sign-in link is only taken after you click Sign in with Google, so a web page can't switch you into another account, and the app's pages only ever see your name, email and picture
  • Updates are checked more strictly, and a download that stalls is dropped instead of holding the "Updating Rithere" screen up
  • Settings are written to disk so that a power cut can't leave them empty, and a settings file that can't be read is kept aside rather than replaced. Two changes made close together reach your account in order
  • Windows moved to a screen with different scaling come out the right size, and the prompt bar stays above the taskbar as it grows
  • Updating no longer takes Rithere out of the Start menu when an old copy was still installed, two setups can no longer run over each other, and a setup that fails says so
Performance 2
  • The tray menu no longer redraws all its icons each time it opens, the log stays at 5 MB however long Rithere runs, and the log writer wakes every 3 seconds instead of twice a second
  • Selecting the whole of a huge document no longer pulls all of it in just to say it is too long
Style 1
  • The prompt bar scrolls once it is full instead of cutting long text off, and long links and wide tables fit the Ask card
Chore 1
  • 103 unit tests, 567 checks against a running app
v1.0.69
October 26, 2026

Rithere is rebuilt from the ground up: a 4 MB installer instead of 72 MB, a fraction of the memory while it waits in the tray, and no helper programs. Your settings, history and sign-in move over by themselves.

New Features 2
  • The new Rithere arrives through the update you already have, at its next check. Your prompts, settings, history, last chat and sign-in come across, and the taskbar pin, Start menu and desktop shortcuts open the new app
  • If an old Rithere installed for all users (1.0.62 or earlier) is still on the PC, Settings > System offers to remove it, after one administrator prompt
Bug Fixes 3
  • Your clipboard comes back with everything the app you copied from put on it, Excel's and Figma's own formats included, not only text, HTML, RTF and images
  • When an app running as administrator refuses the copy, your clipboard is put back instead of being left empty
  • The Action Dot tells Rithere's own keystrokes apart from yours exactly, instead of guessing by timing
Performance 2
  • The installer is about 4 MB instead of 72 MB, and Rithere waiting in the tray uses about 44 MB of memory, plus the WebView2 runtime Windows shares between apps, instead of several hundred
  • No helper programs and no PowerShell: reading your selection, writing the clipboard, watching which app you're in and the completion chime all run inside Rithere
Chore 1
  • 103 unit tests, 563 checks against a running app
v1.0.67
October 15, 2026

AI Chat opens at its full size again, instead of as a small box with a message field too narrow to type in.

Bug Fixes 1
  • AI Chat no longer reopens as a small box with a message field too narrow to type in. It comes back at the size it was last left at, and anything down to 380 by 320 was kept, but the chat's edges can almost never be grabbed to resize it, so a smaller size was an accident rather than a choice. It now always opens at least as big as its usual 650 by 800, and a bigger size is still kept
Chore 1
  • 725 unit tests, 487 checks against a running app
v1.0.66
October 14, 2026

The tray menu can now copy the last answer Rithere gave you, and the thinking orb by your cursor is sharp again at its smallest size and at any text size.

New Features 2
  • Copy Last Output appears in the tray menu once Rithere has given you an answer this session, and puts the latest one on your clipboard in full: a replaced selection, a preview (Try again included), an Ask or follow-up, or a chat reply. History keeps only the first 4,000 characters and the first answer, so this is the way to get the rest back. Clearing History forgets it too
  • The custom prompt and custom ask bars now show a Send button once you have typed something, for when your hand is already on the mouse. Enter still sends
Bug Fixes 2
  • The thinking orb in the status bubble by your cursor no longer looks out of focus. At that size most of its dots are one to three pixels wide, and each was drawn between pixels, smearing into a grey smudge; they now sit on whole pixels and keep the weight they were designed with
  • The orb also stays sharp at any Text size other than 100%, after moving to a display with different scaling, and on displays scaled above 200%. It used to keep the resolution it started at and stretch it
Style 1
  • Settings draws a hairline under its title bar, the same one that runs down the sidebar's edge, so the bar reads as its own strip instead of blending into the page below it
Chore 1
  • 723 unit tests, 487 checks against a running app
v1.0.65
September 24, 2026

A 277 KB setup now installs the latest Rithere in one window, the History tab opens in under a tenth of a second instead of six, and text that had gone thin and grey is sharp again.

New Features 5
  • rithere.com now hands out RithereSetup.exe, 277 KB instead of the full 72 MB installer. It downloads the latest release, checks it against the SHA-512 published beside it and installs it, all in one small window, then hands the foreground to Rithere, which would otherwise have opened behind the browser you downloaded it from
  • A setup that fails no longer closes its window and asks with a Windows Retry/Cancel box. The card stays, its dots fall into a heap under the reason, and Try again starts over on the same card. Enter, Space, Tab, the arrow keys and Esc work as they did in the box
  • The first-run tour is shorter and hands-on. Every step is down to a line or two, and step 2 has you select a sentence, click the Action Dot and pick from its menu, with the result streaming in. Step 3 is Prompt or Ask, step 4 that any prompt or ask can have its own key
  • Clicking a History entry now opens it in a pop-up that grows out of the row: the full input and output with their Copy buttons, and Run again. Escape, the close button or a click outside closes it, and the text in it can be selected
  • The sign-in wall now has rithere.com's dot wave along its bottom edge, with its logo, text and button directly on the page instead of on a card. The browser tab left open after Google sign-in now looks like rithere.com too
Bug Fixes 6
  • Text is drawn with ClearType again where it had come out thin and grayscale: in AI Chat, the Ask and preview cards, the sign-in card, all of Settings while a tooltip was showing, and the setup card. The setup card also uses Rithere's own font now; it had been falling back to Segoe UI
  • In VS Code, an Alt hotkey such as Alt+1 now captures your selection on the first press — it could take three, ending in "Select text first". VS Code reports an empty selection to Windows, and letting go of Alt before the other key opened its menu, which could swallow the copy
  • Installing Rithere over a profile that has already been through onboarding now opens its window, instead of starting silently in the tray with no sign the install worked
  • The sign-in confirmation was the one success state still in green. It is now a neutral tick with "You're signed in" and your email under it, and it stays up while the wall fades instead of flashing the "Sign in with Google" card back for a quarter of a second
  • The thinking orb's bigger dots no longer look blurred: they sit on whole pixels, so their edges come out even, in the app and on the install and update splash
  • Setup moves from its downloading orb to its installing orb without either one stopping. The hand-over used to hold two pauses and a stall inside a second
Performance 1
  • The History tab opens in about 80 ms instead of 6 seconds on a 427-entry history, and in about 40 ms instead of 0.7 s after that. It draws 30 rows at a time and more as you scroll, while search, the filter and the sort still cover the whole history
Style 2
  • The Settings tab is grouped under System, Prompts, Appearance, Where Rithere Runs and Reset, with theme and text size laid out like the toggles beside them
  • The logo's dark tile no longer disappears into a dark title bar or the dark setup card; both now trace a hairline round it
Chore 1
  • 713 unit tests, 480 checks against a running app
v1.0.64
September 21, 2026

Rithere stops emptying your clipboard when it starts, your mouse no longer waits on it, and its background helpers need a fifth of the memory they did.

Bug Fixes 7
  • Rithere no longer empties your clipboard when it starts. A helper warming itself up put blank text on the clipboard at every launch and every time it restarted, so whatever you had copied was gone
  • Your mouse no longer waits on Rithere. AI Chat, kept ready from launch even while hidden, held a system-wide mouse hook for the whole session, so every mouse move on the desktop — in games too — queued behind the thread that runs Rithere, and the cursor could stall whenever that thread was busy. The chat window is now cut to the shape of its panel, and the mouse passes straight through everything around it
  • Clearing the status bubble — a cancelled run, say — no longer leaves an invisible window stretched across your whole screen until the next bubble, often hours later. Windows had to draw it over everything beneath it, games included
  • Task Manager, regedit and apps running as administrator now actually say Rithere can't read the selection there, as v1.0.58 announced. The check behind that message was never built, so they kept getting "No text selected"
  • Saving settings twice in quick succession no longer leaves a second copy of Rithere's app watcher running, about 56 MB, or lets the hotkeys and the Action Dot back into your off-limits apps
  • A helper that keeps crashing — killed by antivirus, say — is no longer restarted on every request, which for the Action Dot meant every mouse press. After five exits in ten minutes it stays down until the feature next starts. A selection helper stuck on a frozen app is now replaced after three unanswered requests, instead of holding up every request after it for good, and a typing helper that fails to load is let go instead of sitting idle on 23 MB
  • With display scaling above 100%, the status bubble now steps out of the Start menu's way instead of avoiding a patch of screen the menu isn't in
Performance 9
  • Rithere's three always-on helpers — one watches which app you're in, one writes to the clipboard, one reads your selection — now run as small programs of their own instead of inside PowerShell. Together they held about 190 MB, more than the rest of the app; they now hold about 40 MB, are ready in under a tenth of a second instead of half a second, and no longer spend 1.5 to 2.5 seconds of CPU compiling themselves at every launch
  • With the Action Dot on, mouse movement no longer reaches Rithere at all. Every move was handed to the app with nothing listening for it — about 8% of a CPU core with a 1000 Hz mouse. Clicks, the scroll wheel and keys still arrive
  • A long code block streaming into AI Chat or an Ask answer no longer slows down as it grows. Every frame re-coloured the whole block from the top: a 22 KB block used to cost 12 seconds of CPU, and now costs under one. Starting a follow-up in the Ask card no longer re-renders the answer above it from scratch either
  • The completion chime no longer starts a PowerShell of its own each time — about 52 MB and a third of a second of CPU — and no longer arrives about 400 ms after the success bubble
  • Finding out which app is in front now takes a twentieth of a millisecond instead of about 25, paid on every Action Dot drag and twice on every hotkey run
  • While you're signed out, the Action Dot's input hook and its 75 MB selection helper no longer run — nothing they saw could be acted on until you sign in
  • With the Action Dot off, switching apps no longer restarts the selection helper — a PowerShell start and a compile each time, finished too late for a hotkey pressed right after the switch, which fell back to copying your text with Ctrl+C
  • A custom prompt or custom ask now shows its thinking bubble without first saving your instruction to the recent list — about 15 ms, far longer on a busy disk. It is still saved, just afterwards
  • Rithere is ready about 130 ms sooner at launch, now that the updater loads with the first update check three seconds in, and no longer wakes five times a second to write out a log that is almost always empty
Chore 1
  • 712 unit tests, 457 checks against a running app
v1.0.63
September 17, 2026

Updates now install themselves the next time Rithere starts, the Ask card wears the chat window's title bar, and an off-limits app stays off-limits after the machine wakes.

New Features 5
  • Updates now actually get installed. A downloaded update used to wait for someone to click "Restart & install" in a window a tray app is built never to need, so most copies stayed on the version they started with. The next launch now installs it before anything else starts, and one found by the first check of a launch goes in as soon as it has downloaded. Started at logon, Rithere comes back to the tray; started by hand, it comes back with its window open. Updates found later in the day wait for the next launch
  • Rithere now installs for your Windows account only, so an update never needs an administrator prompt — which would otherwise have put a UAC box on screen at every logon that had one waiting
  • Installing and updating each get a small splash window: setup plays the logo, the name, then the dotted mark assembling over "Installing", and an update shows "Updating Rithere" over one of the marks the app itself draws while it waits
  • The Ask answer and preview cards now open with the app icon and "Rithere - ", sized and spaced like the AI Chat header, with icon-only buttons that name themselves in a tooltip. Copy moves to a small button under the answer, shown on hover or when you tab to it, the way chat messages keep theirs. Insert is gone; in the preview card, Accept still replaces your selection
  • The Prompts and sign-in windows now show the Rithere logo in front of their title, top left, instead of a line of text on its own
Bug Fixes 3
  • The library search on the Prompts and Ask tabs now sits at the top of the list, above the custom entry, and is there from the first launch. It used to sit under the custom entry card and appear only once a library held six entries — and with four asks out of the box, the Ask tab never showed it at all
  • Choosing from the Action Dot menu no longer sends your app to the back and buries the answer card under other windows. Rithere hands focus back with Alt+Esc, the menu read that as you pressing Escape, and answered with a second Alt+Esc aimed at your own app
  • An app you have put off-limits stays off-limits after the machine wakes from sleep or is unlocked. Waking inside one within a few seconds of switching to it turned the Action Dot back on there
Performance 1
  • A selection helper that keeps failing is no longer restarted on every app switch — a PowerShell start and a compile each time. It is now started once, when the feature turns on
Style 1
  • The feature demos in Settings no longer carry three numbered steps underneath, which said in words what the animation above them was already showing
Chore 1
  • 694 unit tests, 456 checks against a running app
v1.0.62
September 12, 2026

The tray menu is down to what you actually reach for, the installed app can no longer be used to run someone else's code, and the feature demos show up on a PC with animations turned off.

New Features 2
  • The tray menu is cut from fifteen entries to the short list the tray is the only place for — pausing, undoing the last replacement, and AI Chat. The eight entries that only opened Settings on a different tab are now a single Settings entry, one click from all of them
  • The tray menu's header now shows the version you are running, and a waiting update takes the Check for Updates slot as "Update to vX" instead of adding an entry of its own — the badge on the tray icon is what tells you one is there
Bug Fixes 4
  • The installed Rithere.exe can no longer be used to run code that isn't Rithere. With the right environment variable or command-line flag it would run any script handed to it, accept a debugger — which could read your signed-in session — or load a folder placed next to the app in place of the app itself. All four doors are now closed in the binary
  • The feature demos in Settings now show on a PC with Windows' "Animation effects" turned off. Each tab used to open onto an empty gap above its steps, which looked exactly like a demo that had failed to load; it now shows a still frame of the moment the demo builds to, all at once rather than filling itself in over several seconds
  • The installer now clears Windows' icon cache when it runs, as it was always meant to — it never had, so a new logo could keep showing the old one on shortcuts, the taskbar and Search until the next restart
  • Rithere's invisible status window no longer turns up as a blank button on the taskbar after Windows rebuilds the taskbar, which happens whenever Explorer restarts — sometimes on its own
Performance 1
  • The tray menu loads half as many icons the first time you right-click it
Chore 1
  • 635 unit tests, 458 checks against a running app
v1.0.61
September 4, 2026

AI Chat now takes your typing the moment the hotkey opens it, and nothing in Rithere spins any more — every wait draws one of forty-two dotted marks instead.

New Features 2
  • Nothing in Rithere spins any more. Every wait — on the model, on the network, on the disk — now draws one of forty-two dotted marks, picked at random and never the same one twice running. A spinner you have seen ten thousand times stops registering as "the app is busy" at all
  • Four waits that were a line of text with nothing beside them now have a mark, and two that showed nothing at all — the update download and the settings-sync conflict — have one at last. The download keeps its progress bar: it knows a real percentage, and a mark that only moves would tell you less
Bug Fixes 3
  • AI Chat now takes your typing from the moment the hotkey opens it. The window was built on the first press and shown a few hundred milliseconds later, by which point Windows had handed the keyboard back to the app you were already in — so the chat appeared on cue and your first words went into the document behind it. The window is now built at launch, and shown and focused inside the hotkey itself
  • Pressing the AI Chat hotkey again — the obvious thing to do when your typing isn't landing — no longer closes the window. The toggle believed a focus that Windows had actually refused, read the second press as "you are already in the chat", and ended the session
  • Coming back to an existing conversation now puts the caret in the message box. It only ever landed there when a new chat was started; reopening one left focus wherever it had been parked, on a Copy button or on nothing
Performance 1
  • The marks cost about a sixteenth of the memory the old animation did — some 380 KB of scratch buffers sitting in a window that can idle for hours — and the loop that draws them now stops the moment nothing is both on screen and running
Chore 1
  • 635 unit tests, 458 checks against a running app
v1.0.60
September 2, 2026

The Ask card stops spending its bottom bar telling you how to close it.

Chore 2
  • "Esc or ✕ to close" no longer sits under every answer in the Ask card, and "Esc to close" no longer sits under every failure — Esc and the ✕ in the header are the two things you reach for anyway. The bar now speaks only while the answer is still coming, "Esc to cancel" while it thinks and "Streaming…" while it types, and takes itself away once there is nothing left to say
  • 615 unit tests, 451 checks against a running app
v1.0.59
August 30, 2026

The Action Dot stops appearing after drags that selected nothing, an answer the model cut short no longer arrives under a green tick, and "Finished!" now lands the moment your text does.

Bug Fixes 8
  • The Action Dot no longer appears after a drag that selected no text — a scrollbar, a slider, a splitter, a tab or a file. Chrome, Electron apps and terminals can't say what you selected, so those drags got the benefit of the doubt; Rithere now reads the pointer's shape too, and a drag that runs under the arrow, hand or crosshair at both ends is left alone
  • An answer the model cut short no longer looks finished in the preview card. It used to render exactly like a complete one, so Enter put half a paragraph into your document under a green tick and the success chime. The card now says the answer was cut off, with "Try again" beside Accept — half may still be what you wanted
  • Pressing Stop part-way through an Ask now counts as cut off too — inserting what had arrived used to land it under a "Finished!" and a chime. The message points at the tray's undo only when there is something to undo: an Ask you typed with nothing selected has no original text to put back
  • Inserting an Ask answer over selected text now checks that it landed. The check was being handed an empty copy of your selection and passing instantly, so an Insert into a read-only page or a PDF ended in a green tick with nothing inserted. A swallowed insert now says "Couldn't paste here" and leaves the answer on your clipboard
  • "Undo Last Change" in the tray is now armed after an Ask insert, which it never was
  • The Ctrl+C Rithere uses to check a paste landed is no longer fired into a terminal, where it stops whatever is running — only the copy at the start of a run was protected from that before
  • A prompt hotkey pressed in the instant after you accept a previewed answer can no longer start a second run over the top of the first, which could leave Rithere's working copy on your clipboard instead of what you had copied
  • The five reset-to-default buttons in Settings — on Prompts, Ask, AI Chat, Right Click Menu and Action Dot — have their arrow back. Since v1.0.58 the icon had been squeezed to nothing and each one drew as an empty box; the reset still ran, but only the tooltip said what the button did
Performance 2
  • "Finished!" now appears as soon as the last character lands in your document, instead of waiting for Rithere to check its own work, move your cursor to the end of the paste and put your clipboard back — nearly two seconds on a 50-character proofread. That tidying now runs behind the tick, and if the check finds the paste never landed, the tick is taken back
  • In an app that can say where your cursor is, the arrow key sent after every replacement is now skipped when the app has already put the cursor after the new text — about half a second of clean-up, and one fewer key press arriving in your document
Style 1
  • The feature filter on the History screen was the last dropdown in the app still drawn by Windows — grey, square-cornered, in its own font, and a few pixels taller than the search box beside it. It now uses the app's own dropdown, in your theme and level with the search box
Chore 2
  • The History screen now opens straight onto the search box and the table. The privacy note, the three usage figures and the Export button above them are gone — there is no longer a way to save your history out to a JSON file. Your history itself is unchanged: still only on this PC, still the most recent 500 actions, and Clear History still removes it
  • 615 unit tests, 451 checks against a running app
v1.0.58
August 19, 2026

Rithere now retries the paste itself instead of asking you to press Ctrl+V, says what the model actually did instead of "AI Error", and keeps the status bubble out from under the Start menu — alongside a wide accessibility, non-Latin text and speed pass.

New Features 1
  • Support logs now carry four timings that were never measured before: how long the app takes to start, how long until it can answer a hotkey, how long each start-up task takes, and how long from your hotkey press to the first character landing in your document
Bug Fixes 22
  • A paste that doesn't land is now retried with Ctrl+V before Rithere gives up and asks you to press it by hand — apps that ignore Shift+Insert (some Qt and Java apps, RDP and Citrix sessions) used to make that a manual step on every single run. The spelling that works is remembered for that app for the rest of the session
  • "AI Error" is replaced by what actually happened — the model declined and you can rephrase, the answer was cut off and a smaller selection will fit, or nothing came back and it's worth another try
  • An answer that was cut off part-way through replacing your text no longer arrives under a success chime and a "Finished!" — the bubble now says the paste is only part of an answer, and that you can undo it from the tray
  • Rithere no longer fires Ctrl+C at a terminal, where it is the interrupt signal — a hotkey pressed over a running build used to kill it. Terminals now get a message pointing at AI Chat instead, and an app that can say outright that nothing is selected stops the run immediately rather than clearing your clipboard and copying twice to look for text that isn't there
  • Task Manager, regedit and elevated apps now say Rithere can't read the selection there, and why. Windows blocks the read, and the old message — "No text selected, select text first" — asked you to do the one thing that could never work
  • The custom prompt bar now comes back with your instruction still in it, and a line saying what's missing, when there was no selection to run it on. Your words are no longer lost to a "No text selected" that arrives seconds later
  • Rithere now tells you when your clipboard came back with less than it went in with. Copy a range in Excel, a shape in Figma or a Photoshop layer and only the text and HTML can be put back — Recent Problems now names the format that couldn't be restored and suggests a re-copy, instead of you finding out at your next paste
  • A selected table is now refused rather than flattened — a table from Word, Outlook or a web page used to come back as a stack of paragraphs with the columns gone
  • The status bubble now steps aside instead of vanishing under an open Start menu
  • The run bubble no longer says the same thing twice — one line for the whole run, with the prompt's name beside the mark, and the orb turning into a tick when it's done
  • Text size now scales the popup's window and not just its content. At 150% the Right Click Menu was cut off at the bottom with no way to scroll, the prompt bar was clipped, and every answer card was a third shorter than its content — and the status bubble now appears next to your cursor at any text size
  • Unplugging a monitor or changing your resolution no longer strands an open Settings or chat window at coordinates that no longer exist, and no longer leaves the status bubble misplaced on the display it was already on
  • A transient failure talking to a background helper no longer leaves every capture from then on waiting out a one-second timeout
  • Rithere now shortens the wait before a capture only when it has really seen your modifier keys come up, and re-arms its key watch after your machine sleeps or your session locks — the Action Dot used to go quietly dead until the next restart
  • Cyrillic, Greek, CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari and Thai now have a font. Those scripts used to fall through to whatever Chromium picked — a different typeface from the window around it, at different metrics, and not the same choice on every machine
  • Right-to-left answers now lay out in the right order. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu came back with their punctuation, brackets and embedded Latin words subtly scrambled
  • The error and success colours are now legible as body text in both themes — dark-mode error text on the popup's card was the worst of them, and it carries the messages that matter most
  • The popup, the status bubble and the Action Dot now have names, so a screen reader announces what they are instead of reading out a URL or nothing at all
  • A screen reader now follows the Right Click Menu's highlight — arrowing through it used to move a highlight on screen and announce nothing, with the shortcut badges read out as stray letters
  • Code in an answer is now the same size and typeface in the Ask popup and in AI Chat — the same answer used to look different depending on which window it landed in
  • Uninstalling now removes the Windows startup entry, the rithere:// link handler and the app's data folder, instead of leaving Windows trying to launch a deleted app at every logon
  • Tray menu icons are now drawn at your display's scale — on a 150% or 200% display they were 16px art stretched to fit
Performance 9
  • Opening one History entry no longer rebuilds the other 499
  • Long answers stream more cheaply — the scan that decides how much of an answer has settled now resumes where it left off instead of re-reading the whole answer every frame. A 71 KB answer went from 83 ms of that work to 8 ms
  • AI Chat no longer rebuilds the entire answer twenty times a second while it streams in
  • The Action Dot's key watch is ready about 1.4 seconds after launch instead of 4.7 — the calm-machine check in front of each start-up task was being paid in full six times over
  • The wait after a popup closes now ends as soon as Windows hands focus back, instead of always sleeping 120 ms — the Right Click Menu paid that twice per run
  • A run now snapshots your clipboard once instead of twice. With a screenshot on it, that was two full copies of the same image per run, both on the thread the status bubble follows your cursor on
  • Signed out, a left click no longer costs a background window probe
  • Apps that have never been able to say where your selection is — Chrome, Electron apps, terminals — are no longer asked on every run. After three refusals Rithere skips straight to the fallback, re-checking occasionally in case accessibility gets turned on
  • Pasting a very large formatted selection is faster: a 394 KB Word selection now parses in 12–21 ms, down from 20–25
Style 1
  • Six buttons in Settings had their icon sitting flush against its label; they now have the spacing every other button has
Chore 4
  • Groundwork for other languages — the tray menu, every status message and the popup's chrome now read from a string table instead of being written into the code. The app is still English-only; adding a language is now a table rather than a hunt through several hundred lines
  • npm test now also runs the foreground-watcher and app-icon suites, which were written and never wired in, and fails if a dependency update moves a file the popup or AI Chat loads by path
  • The lint rules now cover the stylesheets and the server-side function too, which turned up a dead duplicate rule, two !important declarations CSS was ignoring outright, and twenty-odd hard-coded colours that now resolve through the palette
  • 590 unit tests, 455 checks against a running app
v1.0.57
August 16, 2026

Every Copy button now actually copies, and the bubble beside your cursor leads with what's happening — behind a thinking orb that changes from run to run.

New Features 2
  • The thinking orb beside your cursor is now drawn from a set of nine and picked fresh each run, never the same one twice running, and drawn larger so it reads out of the corner of your eye
  • The status bubble now leads with what's happening — Thinking, Finished — with the prompt that's running underneath it, small and quiet
Bug Fixes 3
  • Fixed Copy doing nothing at all in AI Chat — on a reply, on a code block, and on a whole conversation — and on a history entry in Settings. All four silently left your clipboard untouched
  • A Copy button now only turns green once the text is really on your clipboard
  • The tick, error and clock marks in the status bubble no longer sit slightly above the message beside them, and the tick now takes the bubble's own colour instead of a green that ignored your theme
Chore 2
  • "Press Esc to stop thinking" no longer sits under every thinking bubble — the shortcut is written down once, in Settings › General, and the toggle that hid it is gone
  • 519 unit tests, 433 checks against a running app
v1.0.56
August 14, 2026

Fixed a settings-sync bug, a hang on AI requests that never respond, and an invisible sign-in button — plus faster AI requests and feedback on every button press.

New Features 3
  • The feature demo now sits directly under each tab's description instead of repeating it, and opens/closes as one smooth slide
  • The update installer is now deleted from disk once the version it installs is running
  • Every real button press now gives visible feedback — buttons compress slightly when clicked
Bug Fixes 10
  • Fixed an older client on your account silently deleting a newer machine's settings on sync
  • Selection capture now confirms the clipboard is really empty before trusting what it reads back
  • Stopped a false "Couldn't paste here" error when the AI's answer matches your original selection
  • An AI request that never gets a response now times out instead of hanging forever
  • Fixed a hotkey rebuild silently disarming the preview card's global Enter key
  • A sign-in link that arrives while Rithere isn't running is now picked up on the next launch
  • Rithere now opens a window on the very first launch after install, instead of starting silently
  • Fixed the Google logo on the sign-in button rendering nearly invisible — white on the button's light grey background in the default theme
  • The popup and AI Chat windows now show a visible focus ring for keyboard navigation
  • The confirm dialog and the app picker in Settings are now proper accessible dialogs — focus-trapped, labeled, closable with Escape
Performance 4
  • Faster AI requests — fetching your auth token no longer re-reads and re-validates the whole settings file
  • Cut the delay between a paste landing and the "Finished!" confirmation
  • The connection to the AI proxy now opens at the hotkey press instead of at request time, for a faster first response
  • Stopped the popup window from resizing up to 20 times a second while an answer streams in
Chore 1
  • 519 unit tests, 429 checks against a running app
v1.0.55
August 12, 2026

A 133-prompt gallery filed by profession, a search option for AI Chat, and one thinking animation across the app.

New Features 3
  • The prompt gallery is now a page of 133 prompts, filed by profession; Ask has its own gallery of 71
  • AI Chat can now send what you type to a search engine instead of the AI — pick a fixed engine in Settings or choose per-message from the input bar
  • Every "thinking" indicator across the app — chat, Ask, the status bubble — is now the same animated orb instead of three different loading marks
Bug Fixes 3
  • Gallery cards now show "Added" based on the prompt's instruction, not its name, so a renamed or rewritten prompt is tracked correctly
  • The AI-rename sparkle on a prompt/ask card now only shows while the title is unlocked for editing
  • "Ask before closing the chat" is now hidden when the chat is set to search instead of the AI
Chore 1
  • 474 unit tests, 416 checks against a running app
v1.0.54
August 10, 2026

AI Chat now opens centered on your screen, popups close on click-away, and a new default Translate ask.

New Features 1
  • "Translate to English" added as a default ask, on Alt+4, alongside Explain Simply, Fact Check and Give Examples
Bug Fixes 3
  • The Right Click Menu and the one-off prompt/ask bar now close when you click away, matching every other popup
  • AI Chat now opens centered on the display your cursor is on, instead of wherever it was last left
  • The feature demos now have the pointer driving the animation instead of trailing behind it
Chore 2
  • Removed Export/Import of settings — signing in already does the same job, better
  • 462 unit tests, 361 checks against a running app
v1.0.53
August 7, 2026

Formatted text now survives a rewrite, a Duplicate button on every card, and a keyboard-navigable settings sidebar.

New Features 6
  • Replacing formatted text now keeps that formatting (bold, and more) instead of flattening it to plain text — new "Keep the formatting of the text you replace" toggle, on by default
  • About now says when another app has silently taken one of your shortcuts
  • "Run again" now works on a one-off prompt or ask from History, not just saved library entries
  • Added a Duplicate button to every prompt and ask card
  • Copy a whole AI Chat conversation with Ctrl+Shift+C or a header button
  • The settings sidebar is now keyboard-navigable — arrow keys, Home/End, and Ctrl+1–9 to jump to a tab
Bug Fixes 1
  • "Clear History" no longer reports success before an in-flight save has actually finished clearing it
Chore 1
  • 444 unit tests, 370 checks against a running app
v1.0.52
August 1, 2026

Every feature tab now opens with a short demo, updates are checked every 6 hours instead of only at launch, and the installer is 9 MB smaller.

New Features 2
  • Each feature tab now opens with a short demo of what that feature does
  • Demos read your actual settings, so they can't teach a shortcut the app isn't listening for
Bug Fixes 7
  • Rithere now checks for updates every 6 hours instead of only when you open the app
  • Saving settings without touching "Launch on system startup" no longer turns it off
  • An invalid settings value no longer fails the whole save — just that one setting
  • Settings synced from your account are now validated the same way as settings typed in the window
  • A confirmation dialog can no longer run an old dialog's leftover action
  • A prompt's name/instruction now reaches the delete confirmation as plain text, not markup
  • The log file no longer fills up with routine chatter that rotated away real errors
Performance 4
  • Installer down from 81 MB to 72 MB, install size from 272 MB to 228 MB
  • The first hotkey press after install/update is no longer slow
  • Sending a message in a long chat no longer slows down as it grows
  • Typing in the history search box no longer lags on a full history
Chore 2
  • Every setting now lives in one table instead of four separate lists that had to agree
  • 380 unit tests, 327 checks against a running app
v1.0.51
August 1, 2026

Undo Last Change, pausing from the tray, and a searchable History tab — plus screen reader support and a security pass over sessions and links.

New Features 17
  • Undo Last Change (Alt+Z, or from the tray) — brings back the text a prompt just replaced, via your clipboard
  • Pause Rithere from the tray, for 15 minutes, an hour, or until you resume
  • History is now searchable, readable and exportable — search, filters, click-to-expand rows, and JSON export
  • A usage strip above the history table — what you've run this month, your most-used feature, and how much history is stored
  • "Run again" on a history entry re-runs it as an ask, with the answer shown read-only
  • Export and Import your settings, in General — for backups, moving libraries, or sharing a prompt set
  • A search box on both libraries, matching name and instruction text
  • "Your Shortcuts" in About lists every key you have, live from your settings
  • "Recent Problems" in About keeps the last 20 errors instead of letting them flash past
  • Fifteen worked prompts in the gallery to start from instead of a blank box
  • An Insert button on the ask card, to put an answer straight into your document
  • The one-off prompt bar can now save and run an instruction at once, with Ctrl+Enter
  • Press Up/Down in the prompt or ask bar to walk through your last 20 instructions in each
  • AI Chat now offers back the conversation you closed
  • With no network, Rithere now says so immediately instead of trying and failing after two seconds
  • Copy and Retry now stay reachable on a long reply instead of sitting off-screen at the end
  • Rithere is now usable with a screen reader, honors "reduce motion", and has new Text Size and High Contrast settings
Bug Fixes 14
  • Signing in no longer discards local edits — Rithere now reconciles instead of letting the last save win
  • Rithere comes back as a window after an update, instead of only a tray icon
  • Action Dot no longer loses a saved ask it was bound to
  • Selecting a whole long document and pressing a prompt hotkey now tells you it's too much, instead of failing generically
  • Your signed-in session is now encrypted on disk and tied to your Windows account
  • Links in an AI answer are now checked before Windows opens them — web and email only
  • A preview card left unattended no longer holds the Enter key for the whole desktop — released after 2 minutes
  • Cancelling a running replacement no longer intercepts Ctrl+Esc or Alt+Esc
  • A long chat is now trimmed by size with a message that explains why, instead of an unexplained error from the AI
  • After two unexpected internal errors, Rithere now releases its input hook and disables Action Dot rather than risk wedging it
  • An old Gemini API key left in the config by older installs is now deleted
  • A busy or misbehaving AI service now answers with a message you can act on, not a raw error
  • Every window now runs under a strict content policy, and every internal message is validated
  • The one-off prompt bar now opens at exactly one line instead of with dead space
Performance 3
  • Faster response to every shortcut that acts on a selection — no more flat 120ms wait
  • Long answers no longer slow down as they grow
  • History writes are now coalesced instead of re-saving the whole file on every action
Chore 2
  • Added a linter and CI, fixed the 27 issues they found, and added tests covering history storage, settings migration, streaming and app boot
  • Split the 4,650-line settings window script into nine files
v1.0.50
July 29, 2026

Rithere can now be limited to only the apps you pick, the tray menu reaches every feature, and a rewritten welcome tour teaches the shortcuts your install actually uses.

New Features 7
  • New "Where Rithere Runs" setting in General — keep Rithere everywhere except the apps you exclude, as before, or switch to "Only in selected apps" and have it run in just the ones you pick. Both lists are kept, so trying the other mode loses nothing
  • The tray menu now reaches every feature — Ask, Right Click Menu, Action Dot, AI Chat, History, Account and Feedback each open their own settings tab, and AI Chat can be opened straight from the menu. Its icons are also readable in light mode now, instead of near-white on white
  • A rewritten welcome tour, now five steps: what Rithere is, a demo you actually try, the two libraries, the one shortcut that reaches them, and the tray. Every key it shows is read from your own settings, so it can no longer teach a shortcut that isn't registered — a switched-off feature's key is struck through, and a cleared one reads "no shortcut set"
  • Added "Replay the Tour" under About, since the tour is the only place several features are explained
  • "No text selected" now tells you what to do next — a second line names the shortcut that just fired, like "Select text first, then press Alt+P", and the message stays on screen a little longer so there's time to read it
  • Number keys now work as shortcuts. A numpad key is recorded as the key you actually pressed — it used to be stored as the number-row digit on the other side of the keyboard, or as End with Num Lock off — and shows as "Num 1" so it can't be mistaken for a plain 1
  • A sparkle button next to the pencil asks the AI to name a prompt or ask for you, so you don't have to summarise your own paragraph in two words
Bug Fixes 5
  • Turning off "Launch on system startup" now really removes the startup entry — it used to look like it had worked while Rithere kept launching at every login
  • Action Dot no longer pops up when you drag a window around — a window move looks like a long drag, so the dot appeared at wherever you dropped it. Rithere now checks whether the window itself moved and stays out of the way
  • "Reset Everything" now warns you properly — it names what it destroys, says it can't be undone, and lists everything it covers, including asks and the Action Dot, which it used to leave out
  • A key your system can never register is now reported as unsupported instead of "In use by another app", so you're no longer sent hunting for a conflict that doesn't exist
  • The welcome tour no longer opens invisible when Rithere starts hidden at login
Performance 2
  • Smoother app switching — Rithere used to install and remove system-wide keyboard and mouse hooks every time you moved into or out of an excluded app, twice for a single Alt+Tab through one. Ten window switches now touch them zero times
  • Faster startup — tray menu artwork is now loaded at the size it's actually drawn rather than at full logo resolution
Chore 1
  • Added tests covering app scope, the settings window's reset buttons and prompt cards, and first-launch defaults
v1.0.49
July 29, 2026

Closing the AI Chat now asks before it throws the conversation away, a busy AI service is ridden out quietly instead of surfacing a raw error, and Rithere no longer fills your Windows clipboard history with its own scratch copies.

New Features 1
  • Closing the AI Chat now asks first, so a stray click or an Esc no longer discards the conversation. Prefer it to close straight away? Turn off "Ask before closing the chat" in the AI Chat tab. A chat you haven't sent anything in yet still closes without asking
Bug Fixes 6
  • A busy AI service no longer reaches you as a raw "Proxy error 503" that reads like a bug in Rithere. Brief failures are retried quietly first, so a blip passes unnoticed, and a real outage is described in plain words — that the AI is overloaded, that you're being rate limited, or that the connection is down
  • Cancelling now really cancels — the answer used to keep downloading in the background after you pressed Esc, and only the display stopped. Closing the chat window stops a streaming answer too, instead of leaving it running into a session you can no longer see
  • Cancelling an Ask no longer leaves a red error card behind reporting your own cancellation as a failure
  • Rithere's own clipboard use no longer piles up in Windows Clipboard History — a single streamed answer used to leave one Win+V entry per pasted batch, plus a duplicate of whatever you already had. Text you explicitly copy is still recorded, as is the "couldn't paste, it's on your clipboard" fallback, so Win+V stays a safety net where it matters
  • Prompts on an Alt shortcut now read your selection in Chrome and other browsers instead of reporting "No text selected" — the Alt from your own hotkey was still counted as held down while Rithere copied. The same stale Alt could turn a cursor move into a browser Back after pasting
  • The "Press Esc to stop thinking" hint in AI Chat now follows its setting, instead of appearing whether the toggle was on or off
Performance 1
  • Selection capture now waits only as long as the app it's reading from actually needs, rather than a fixed pause — quicker in fast apps, more reliable in slow ones
Chore 1
  • Added tests covering the retry and cancellation paths, and the clipboard-history behavior
v1.0.48
July 29, 2026

Prompts and Ask are now two clear features instead of four, closing a popup no longer shuffles the window you're working in, and the whole app runs lighter with far less background work.

New Features 2
  • Prompts and Ask are now one library each instead of four separate features — the one you type at run time is simply the first row of the same list your saved entries live in, so settings drops from four sidebar tabs to two
  • Each of the two tabs now has a single reset that covers both its custom entry and all your saved ones
Bug Fixes 6
  • Closing a popup no longer shuffles your windows around — Rithere now checks whether the card genuinely held focus before handing it back. Most noticeable with the preview card, which could reshuffle the very window it was about to paste into
  • Action Dot now really does keep appearing while a popup is open — the change in v1.0.46 didn't fully take, and the dot could still go quiet after its first appearance until the card was closed. Selecting text inside Settings, the chat window, or a card is still ignored, as intended
  • The thinking tooltip toggle now stays off once you turn it off, instead of switching itself back on the next time you open Settings
  • Anything you type while a save is still in flight is now saved too, rather than being quietly dropped
  • Update notices now appear only in the settings window instead of also reaching the AI Chat window
  • Prompt text is no longer written to the debug console in released builds, keeping to the promise that your text never reaches the logs
Performance 4
  • Snappier Settings, Right Click Menu, and Action Dot — each used to re-read the config file from disk several times over before it could open, and now reads it once
  • Smoother streaming on long answers — updates to the answer card are now batched instead of sent on every incoming chunk
  • Stopped a background timer that kept ticking for the rest of the session after a cancelled prompt
  • Faster checks against your excluded-apps list every time you switch apps
Chore 1
  • Added tests covering app startup, the settings window, and answer streaming
v1.0.47
July 28, 2026

Launching Rithere no longer slows your mouse down — the pointer stays smooth during startup, and the app gets out of the way faster.

Bug Fixes 1
  • Fixed the whole desktop's mouse pointer crawling for several seconds while Rithere started up — at login, on a cold launch, or after an update. Rithere now only watches the pointer while a status bubble is actually on screen, instead of around the clock
Performance 1
  • Faster, calmer startup — background warm-up work now waits for the app to have room to breathe and runs one step at a time, so it never competes with the window you're trying to use
v1.0.46
July 28, 2026

Popups now stay put until you close them, the Action Dot keeps working while a card is on screen, and Quick Ask reads your selection reliably from the Right Click Menu.

New Features 3
  • Popups no longer vanish when you click away — an answer card stays on screen while you keep working, and an Ask that's still streaming isn't cut short. Close it with the × button or Escape whenever you're done
  • The Right Click Menu and the Quick Prompt / Ask input bar now have a close button too, so every popup has a visible way out
  • Action Dot now keeps working while a popup is open — it used to appear once and then stay hidden until the card was dismissed. Only a selection made inside the card itself suppresses it now
Bug Fixes 1
  • Quick Ask items launched from the Right Click Menu (like Explain Simply) now read your selected text instead of coming back empty — focus is handed back to your document before the answer card opens
v1.0.45
July 17, 2026

The window and taskbar title now reflect the settings tab you're on, Quick Ask captures cleanly after returning focus, and updates install without stalling on a close-app prompt.

New Features 1
  • Window and taskbar title now reflect the settings tab you're viewing, so you can tell them apart at a glance
Bug Fixes 3
  • Custom title-bar text now updates with the selected tab too, not just the taskbar entry
  • Quick Ask now returns focus to the app you were in before capturing the hotkey, so the selection is read reliably
  • Updates now auto-retry closing the app instead of stalling on a prompt, so installs finish on their own
v1.0.44
July 17, 2026

Action Dot now reads your selection more reliably without sending keystrokes, and streamed AI answers no longer drop text or run words together.

New Features 1
  • Action Dot now reads your selected text via Windows UI Automation instead of a simulated Ctrl+C — more reliable detection with no stray keystrokes sent into the app you're working in
Bug Fixes 1
  • Fixed streamed AI responses occasionally dropping text or merging two words together as they came in
v1.0.43
July 16, 2026

Action Dot no longer sends keystrokes to detect your selection, Windows shuts down without waiting on Rithere, and the update banner shows exactly which version you're moving to.

New Features 2
  • Action Dot now detects your selection passively — no more simulated Ctrl+C being sent into the app you're working in, so terminals never catch a stray interrupt
  • Update banner now shows both versions of the jump (v1.0.42 → v1.0.43) across the available, downloading, and ready-to-install states
Bug Fixes 2
  • Windows now shuts down cleanly instead of stalling on a "This app is preventing you from shutting down" screen naming Rithere
  • Tray icon no longer draws a spinner over itself while a prompt runs — progress is already shown in the status window, and an update badge now appears immediately even mid-prompt
Chore 1
  • Added tests covering hotkey conflict detection and popup placement across multi-monitor setups
v1.0.42
July 15, 2026

Improved paste fallback, Action Dot reliability, and UI tweaks.

New Features 1
  • Show "no shortcut" note on prompt and Quick Ask cards
Bug Fixes 2
  • Honest fallback when a paste is blocked instead of silent data loss
  • Only show Action Dot when a mouse drag actually selected text
Chore 1
  • Fix Linux Docker build issues
v1.0.41
July 14, 2026

Prompt and Quick Ask hotkeys are now optional, so you can save menu-only prompts.

Bug Fixes 1
  • Prompt and Quick Ask hotkeys are now optional — you can save a prompt for the Right Click Menu without assigning it a shortcut
v1.0.40
July 5, 2026

Hotkey conflict warnings and reliable tray menus over fullscreen apps.

New Features 1
  • Warn when a hotkey is already claimed by the OS or another tool
Bug Fixes 2
  • Tray context menu now reliably appears over fullscreen apps
  • App now stays properly hidden in the tray when a duplicate instance launches at startup
v1.0.39
June 25, 2026

A more customizable Action Dot with separate left- and right-click actions, more reliable updates, and a round of UI polish.

New Features 3
  • Action Dot now supports separate actions for left- and right-click, so you can assign two different prompts to a single dot
  • Added an Action Dot Settings shortcut to the Right Click Menu for quick access
  • Update banner now animates in, sliding its content down smoothly instead of popping into place
Bug Fixes 6
  • All features now require signing in, keeping behavior consistent across the app
  • New updates now reliably appear when you open the app
  • App icon now refreshes correctly after an update instead of showing the old one
  • AI Chat window now shows the Rithere icon
  • Fixed the edit-message UI collapsing into vertical text
  • Popup close button now brightens to white on hover for clearer feedback
Style 1
  • Unified the error and close-button red to a single shade, with a cleaner close-button hover
v1.0.38
June 21, 2026

A lighter, snappier release — faster responses from in-memory settings, a leaner Action Dot, and a more reliable completion sound.

New Features 1
  • Completion chime now plays through your system's audio player for more reliable sound
Performance 3
  • Faster responses across the app — settings are now cached in memory, removing disk reads from the hot paths
  • Lighter Action Dot — its renderer is skipped entirely when the feature is turned off
  • Lower memory use — excluded-app icons are now stored by path instead of embedded inline
v1.0.37
June 21, 2026

A new History tab to revisit past prompts, asks, and chats, a fresh app logo, and draggable result popups.

New Features 3
  • New History tab — revisit your past prompts, asks, and chats, all stored locally on your device
  • Drag the Ask Result and Preview popups anywhere on screen by their header
  • Fresh new app logo across Windows, macOS, and Linux
Bug Fixes 2
  • Tray menu now appears over fullscreen apps instead of being hidden behind them
  • Rithere now always starts quietly in the system tray on a cold launch
Style 3
  • Tightened settings navigation spacing and aligned tab titles to the top
  • Moved the AI Chat tab directly after Action Dot in the settings sidebar
  • Refined the Action Dot icon — rounded-square look with the drop shadow removed
v1.0.36
June 19, 2026

A redesigned monochrome dark look, plus smoother, steadier settings interactions throughout.

New Features 3
  • Refreshed the interface with a monochrome black and graphite dark aesthetic for a cleaner, calmer look
  • Feature cards now toggle by clicking anywhere on the card, not just the switch
  • Replaced the native system dropdowns in Action Dot settings with a custom dropdown that matches the app's theme
Bug Fixes 4
  • Settings content no longer wiggles when scrollbars appear and disappear — the gutter is now reserved
  • Smoother reordering in the Right Click Menu, with a stable grabbing cursor while you drag
  • Quieter status bar — success and info messages no longer pop up, while errors stay visible
  • Fixed clipped hover corners on the Action Dot toggle rows
v1.0.35
June 18, 2026

Ask and Quick Ask open cleanly now — no more brief flash of an extra window before the answer appears.

Bug Fixes 1
  • Fixed a quick flash of a second popup before the Ask / Quick Ask answer showed up — pressing the shortcut now opens only the answer card, moving smoothly from 'Thinking…' to the response
v1.0.34
June 18, 2026

A much calmer Action Dot — it no longer touches your clipboard or the Control key to detect selections, and only appears when you deliberately select text.

Bug Fixes 2
  • Action Dot no longer copies your selection just to detect it, so it stops cluttering your clipboard history with leftover markers and no longer leaves the Control key feeling stuck — the cause of the browser zooming in and out while you scrolled
  • Action Dot now appears only when you deliberately select text — a drag-select, Shift+arrows, or Ctrl+A — instead of popping up on stray clicks and double-clicks
v1.0.33
June 17, 2026

Action Dot no longer disturbs your clipboard or Control key, update checks now run every time you open the app, and a refined color scheme reserves blue for primary actions.

New Features 1
  • Rithere now checks for updates every time you open it, not just at launch — a long-running instance notices new releases without needing a restart
Bug Fixes 2
  • Fixed Action Dot overwriting your clipboard when you pressed Ctrl+C right after selecting text — your copy is now preserved
  • Fixed Action Dot leaving the Control key feeling stuck 'pressed' across other apps after a text selection
Style 1
  • Refined the color scheme — blue is now reserved for each window's primary button while everything else reads in calmer neutral tones, and success feedback is now green
v1.0.32
June 15, 2026

Action Dot for text selection, follow-up inputs for Ask, and improved settings animations.

New Features 3
  • Add Action Dot — floating icon on text selection
  • Add follow-up input to Ask/Quick Ask result popup
  • Smooth expand/collapse animation for settings toggles
Bug Fixes 3
  • Fully collapse settings body, remove residual padding/border
  • Compute startedHidden at module load to win race with SIGNED_IN
  • Clean up update banner layout and button states
v1.0.31
June 14, 2026

AI Chat is fixed — it now reliably opens on top of other apps and no longer blocks clicks to whatever's behind it.

Bug Fixes 2
  • Fixed the AI Chat window blinking and vanishing behind other apps — it now reliably appears on top when you press the hotkey
  • AI Chat's transparent area no longer captures clicks — you can interact with the app behind it, while the chat box itself still works
Chore 1
  • Excluded apps now sync to your account as a growing, deduplicated list
v1.0.30
June 13, 2026

A cleaner, denser UI — less wasted space throughout settings, and a preview of AI output before it replaces your text.

New Features 1
  • Preview AI result before it replaces your selection — opt in per-prompt
Bug Fixes 2
  • Fixed chat window getting buried behind other windows, and minimize/topmost behavior
  • Fixed text alignment for settings toggle buttons
Style 5
  • Compact settings layout — reduced padding and margins throughout for a denser, less empty feel
  • Updated accent color to a deeper blue (#224a8a) for better contrast
  • Prompt template cards are now tighter with less space between entries
  • Removed color changes on hover for record, edit, and delete buttons — flatter, calmer interactions
  • Added description text to the Quick Prompt menu for better onboarding context
v1.0.29
June 11, 2026

A significantly lighter, faster app — less memory, instant font rendering, and snappier AI text delivery.

Bug Fixes 2
  • Fixed a bug where saving settings would unregister all global hotkeys twice
  • Fixed a hidden process leak that could occur when a hotkey fired before pre-warm completed
Performance 6
  • Reduced idle memory by ~75 MB by merging four separate popup windows into one
  • AI text now pastes faster — chunks are batched and the download is never throttled by the OS input queue
  • Fonts load instantly and work offline — no more Google Fonts network requests on every window
  • Excluded-apps shortcut suppression is now instant — replaced the 1-second polling loop with a Windows event hook
  • Shared settings store and session cache eliminate redundant disk reads during AI processing
  • Logger writes are buffered and flushed asynchronously — no more I/O blocking on each log line
Chore 2
  • Removed unused dependencies (dotenv, watch, duplicate highlight.js) from the installer
  • Added a 16-test suite covering SSE parsing, clipboard, hotkeys, logger, and the full paste pipeline
v1.0.28
June 10, 2026

A satisfying completion sound and a more compact, tidier settings layout.

New Features 1
  • Play a completion sound when a Prompt or Quick Prompt finishes
Style 1
  • General tab toggles are now compact with clickable rows
Chore 1
  • Align Ask and Quick Ask internal naming with their UI labels
v1.0.27
June 9, 2026

Visual polish for light mode and updated shortcut key recommendations.

New Features 1
  • Update shortcut keys tip in settings
Bug Fixes 1
  • Fix nav bar button colors in light mode
Style 1
  • Soften light mode colors to reduce eye strain
v1.0.26
June 9, 2026

Ask and Quick Ask — get AI answers inline beside your cursor, with renamed menus for clarity.

New Features 2
  • Ask — open a floating AI answer panel right beside your cursor from any app
  • Quick Ask — instant inline AI answer triggered by hotkey, no window needed
Bug Fixes 2
  • Prompts and Ask inputs now open below the cursor so they no longer cover the selected text
  • Cross-entry hotkey conflict detection across Prompts and Ask templates
Chore 1
  • Renamed 'Quick Prompt' to 'Prompts' and 'Quick Ask' to 'Ask' across UI and docs for clarity
v1.0.25
June 8, 2026

Complete feedback system, automatic update downloads, and several UI refinements.

New Features 2
  • Complete feedback system with Supabase backend and modern UI
  • Enable automatic downloading of verified updates
Bug Fixes 1
  • Align title on left panel with right side
Style 2
  • Update settings UI layout, show user profile in sidebar, and standardize on 'Log Out'
  • Move Add Application button next to description in Excluded Apps
Chore 4
  • Update default Quick Prompt hotkey to Alt+Q
  • Update tagline to 'Don't Switch Apps. Use AI Right There.'
  • Remove redundant Reset System Preferences option from UI
  • Add AutoHotkey script to toggle npm start process in PowerShell terminal
v1.0.24
June 8, 2026

Settings improvements, faster right-click menu, and updated default shortcuts.

New Features 3
  • Update default AI Chat window shortcut to Alt+A for all platforms
  • Enable launch on system startup by default
  • Add per-menu and full-app reset to defaults in settings
Bug Fixes 2
  • Remove delay when opening Right Click Menu for a snappier experience
  • Refine settings UI and improve the Discard Settings functionality
v1.0.23
June 7, 2026

Exclude specific apps from Rithere's shortcuts, and pick prompts from a right-click popup right at your cursor.

New Features 2
  • Excluded Apps — turn off Rithere's shortcuts in apps you choose, on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Right-click menu to pick a prompt from a popup at your cursor
Bug Fixes 1
  • 'Clear data' now also clears the updater cache and auto-launch entry
v1.0.22
June 6, 2026

Faster launches and snappier settings saves.

Performance 2
  • Launch update check now runs in the background for a faster start
  • Saving settings no longer blocks — side effects run in the background
v1.0.21
June 5, 2026

Removed 24-hour update checking rate limit.

New Features 1
  • Check for available updates immediately whenever Rithere is launched
v1.0.20
June 5, 2026

Optimized Quick Prompt UI, improved AI text processing, added reliable stream cancellation, and documented architecture.

New Features 2
  • Optimize Quick Prompt and Update UI
  • Update system prompt for text processing
Bug Fixes 1
  • Reliably cancel AI streaming via hotkey and escape key
Chore 1
  • Add system architecture documentation
v1.0.19
June 4, 2026

A lighter, smoother launch with noticeably less startup resource usage.

Performance 2
  • Reduced the CPU/GPU spike at launch for a faster, smoother startup
  • App no longer rebuilds its GPU cache on every start
v1.0.18
June 4, 2026

A more reliable sign-in flow and smarter update checks.

New Features 1
  • Sign-in now finishes on a branded 'signed in' page instead of getting stuck on a loading screen
Bug Fixes 1
  • Update check now verifies the installer is fully uploaded before offering an update, avoiding broken downloads
Style 1
  • Sign-in dialog now clearly reads 'Open Rithere'
v1.0.17
June 4, 2026

Login reliability fixes and stronger clipboard privacy.

New Features 1
  • AI model selection is now managed securely on the server
Bug Fixes 3
  • Fixed a login freeze caused by duplicate app instances during startup
  • Sign-in button stays clickable, with a clear 'Rithere logged in' confirmation on success
  • Your clipboard is now fully restored after each action, leaving no trace
v1.0.16
June 4, 2026

AI Chat and Selection Prompt get their own dedicated settings menus.

New Features 1
  • AI Chat and Selection Prompt moved from System tab to dedicated sidebar menus
v1.0.15
June 3, 2026

Performance improvements for synthetic typing and instant feedback on hotkey press.

New Features 1
  • Show thinking status instantly on hotkey press
Performance 2
  • Run synthetic typing in a separate process to keep cursor smooth
  • Tighten main-process flow and trim redundant work
v1.0.14
June 2, 2026

Live-stream AI output and transition to edge function architecture.

New Features 3
  • Live-stream AI output — text is pasted as it streams for real-time reveals
  • Route AI calls through a secure edge function, replacing direct dependencies
  • Add sign in and sign out history tracking to Supabase
Bug Fixes 1
  • Fix EPIPE infinite loop in logging
Style 1
  • Removed lift-on-hover effect from all buttons for a flatter design
v1.0.13
May 28, 2026

Under-the-hood engine upgrades, cloud settings restoration, and enhanced privacy features.

New Features 2
  • Cloud settings automatically restore when you log in
  • Added privacy disclaimers to the first-launch experience
Bug Fixes 2
  • Upgraded core app engine for improved performance and stability
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash during startup
v1.0.12
May 26, 2026

A massive update featuring a brand new login experience, smarter default AI models, and better generation control.

New Features 4
  • Brand new seamless login experience integrated directly in the app
  • Upgraded default AI model to Gemini 3.5 Flash for faster, smarter results
  • Switched default hotkeys to use 'Alt' instead of 'Shift' to prevent conflicts
  • Hit the 'Escape' key to instantly stop AI generation
Bug Fixes 1
  • General reliability improvements and system tray fixes
v1.0.11
April 5, 2026

Silent startup and a refreshed chat UI — a cleaner, more polished experience from first launch.

New Features 1
  • Silent startup — app launches without taking focus
Style 1
  • Updated chat UI aesthetics for a cleaner look
v1.0.10
April 3, 2026

Hotfix for the update checker incorrectly flagging up-to-date installs as outdated.

Bug Fixes 1
  • Update check no longer incorrectly shows 'New version available'
v1.0.9
April 3, 2026

A stability and polish pass — installer reliability, tray fixes, startup behavior, and prompt layout improvements.

New Features 2
  • Auto-update configured for Cloudflare hosting
  • App opens minimized when launched at startup
Bug Fixes 5
  • Resolved GPU cache errors and updated active menu item style
  • Fixed card separation in the prompts list
  • Installer now uses tasklist for more reliable process detection
  • Installer asks for confirmation before closing a running Rithere instance
  • Tray context menu now correctly appears on right-click with updated tooltips
Style 1
  • Increased spacing between prompt cards for better readability
v1.0.8
March 30, 2026

Syntax highlighting lands in chat, Quick Prompt gets smarter positioning, and the chat window now expands smoothly.

New Features 3
  • Syntax highlighting in chat via highlight.js
  • Smooth chat window expansion and multi-line input animation fixes
  • Quick Prompt enhanced with mouse position tracking and draggable handle
Bug Fixes 1
  • Fixed status window visibility and positioning near the mouse pointer
Performance 1
  • Memory caching for theme and model settings reduces I/O during text processing
v1.0.7
March 28, 2026

First-run onboarding, an empty-state UI for Prompts, and a model upgrade to Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite.

New Features 3
  • Empty state UI for Prompts when no prompts are saved
  • Onboarding screens for first-time users
  • Updated AI model to gemini-2.0-flash-lite
Bug Fixes 1
  • Replaced auto-launch library with Electron's built-in login item settings
v1.0.6
March 27, 2026

Real-time streaming feedback as AI rewrites your text, with a live tray icon animation and a structured logger under the hood.

New Features 3
  • Tray icon animates with a spinning arc while processing
  • Streaming text replacement with real-time feedback UI
  • Structured logger added for better diagnostics
Bug Fixes 2
  • Sentinel-based clipboard detection prevents accidental full-text capture on hotkey
  • Forced reflow before tooltip positioning fixes invisible tooltip on hotkey press
v1.0.5
February 22, 2026

Quick Prompt arrives — run AI on any selected text in any app with a hotkey, plus a new one-click installer.

New Features 3
  • Quick Prompt — run AI on selected text in any application via hotkey
  • Modern one-click installer with auto-launch on first run
  • Status tooltip now shows icons and an animated thinking spinner
Performance 1
  • Status window follows mouse with hardware-accelerated rendering
v1.0.4
February 21, 2026

AI Chat Window — open a persistent AI conversation from anywhere with a global hotkey.

New Features 1
  • AI Chat Window with global hotkey support
v1.0.3
January 12, 2026

A fully featured tray menu with icons, in-app updates, and quick access to all key settings.

New Features 4
  • Rich tray menu with icons for Prompts, Settings, About, and Check for Update
  • App name displayed in tray menu
  • In-app update installer — no more downloading .exe from the browser
  • Reset to default option added
Bug Fixes 1
  • Prompts menu now correctly opens on tray icon click and double-click
v1.0.2
January 12, 2026

Self-updating — Rithere can now check for and install new versions without opening a browser.

New Features 1
  • In-app update check with automatic download
Bug Fixes 2
  • Mouse tooltip no longer always shows on launch
  • Added close (X) button to About window
v1.0.1
January 3, 2026

Appearance settings and an About screen — choose your theme and see what you're running.

New Features 3
  • Appearance toggle — switch between light and dark mode
  • About menu with app version, website, and social links
  • Linux build support added
v1.0.0
December 30, 2025

The very first release. AI-powered text rewriting triggered by a hotkey, from anywhere on your desktop.

New Features 5
  • Initial release — AI-powered text replacement via global hotkey
  • Prompt template manager — add, edit, delete, and reorder prompts
  • Expandable input field with per-prompt toggle
  • System tray icon with status indicator
  • Settings window with hotkey recording and startup toggle