Start chatting with Apple Intelligence on supported devices without downloading a separate model. Ask Iris recommends the built-in Apple model when it is available, and it remains free after your trial. Improved local chat, image understanding, workspace tools, and structured notes with Foundation Models support. Turn on reasoning for supported text models using the brain button beside the microphone. Open cited workspace notes, images, and documents directly from chat responses, including numbered citations and image labels. Improved workspace source handling and reliability.

Workspaces now bring search, sources, summaries, outputs, and chats into one focused view. Create reusable summaries, comparisons, timelines, action plans, evidence reports, and custom outputs from selected sources. Export a workspace as an importable OKF bundle, PDF, standalone webpage, or Markdown, with control over included sections. Private search now finds generated outputs alongside chats, notes, documents, and images.

Capture webpages as clean offline workspace documents, or paste a link into chat to ask about it with citations. Supported models can now inspect pages returned by an explicitly enabled web search. Try every local model free for 100 days, then keep using FastVLM free with no subscription. Clearer trial reminders and Pro controls explain when the full model library and custom models are available.

Start faster with workspace templates for meetings, receipts, research, planning, personal records, or a blank canvas. Each template provides editable guidance and useful questions tailored to the content you add. Try the new lightweight Qwen3-VL 2B model, with experimental models available through Show All. Enjoy denser model cards, smoother iPhone and iPad navigation, collapsible workspace chats, and a polished launch experience.

This update refreshes Ask Iris's App Store presentation and makes its private, on-device workflow easier to discover. Work across files, images, audio, PDFs, and Office documents in one local AI workspace. Search every workspace, follow source citations, and choose models suited to your device.

Import audio and transcribe it on-device with timestamped playback, search, and citations. Build richer workspaces from PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets, images, recordings, and folders. Read answers in a cleaner, calmer conversation layout with smarter local-model tool support. Includes OKF 0.2 workspace migration, expanded models, and reliability improvements.

Search privately across conversations, documents, images, and workspace knowledge. Connect Tavily securely with OAuth for explicit MCP web searches with clickable sources. Choose which local, system, and network tools Ask Iris may use in Settings. Find controls faster with reorganized Settings and cleaner storage actions.

Share files, images, links, and text from other apps directly into a workspace Inbox. Try the new Qwen3.5 2B and 4B local vision models, selected to suit a wider range of Apple devices. The unlimited trial now lasts 100 days, giving you more time to build and explore your private workspace.

Turn workspace knowledge into PDF, Markdown, text, Rich Text, or CSV files, then preview, share, open, or reveal them. Draft reminders and calendar events from your private workspace, with a review step before anything is saved. New Shortcuts actions let you ask a workspace, export a summary, or prepare a reminder or event. Linked folders now surface new and changed files, with better visual grounding and protection from repetitive responses.

Ask Iris now has a clearer workspace-first identity centered on private, on-device AI for your own files. This update refreshes the App Store experience and includes minor release and reliability maintenance.

Import entire folders and work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, CSV, text, and Markdown files alongside PDFs and images. Workspace Intelligence now builds incrementally in the background, pauses while you chat, and resumes automatically. Workspace summaries, Inbox, archived workspaces, and the Wiki Index make growing knowledge collections easier to navigate. Source progress and recovery are clearer, with named failures you can open, retry, or dismiss.

Ask Iris now handles useful workspace actions automatically, privately on your device. Long conversations stay faster with context compaction and adaptive memory optimization, while your full chat history remains intact. Workspace search and retrieval are quicker, especially with larger document collections. This update also refreshes the local model runtime and improves the default Mac window and sidebar layout.

Introducing private AI workspaces: organize related chats, documents, PDFs, and images in one place. Ask across workspace content and build an editable, source-linked overview that grows as you add material. Search privately across every workspace to rediscover chats, files, and knowledge. Also includes image-aware workspace intelligence, broader local-model support, smarter device recommendations, and reliability improvements.

Ask Iris is now organized around private AI workspaces for your chats, documents, and images. Build searchable workspace overviews and source notes entirely on-device. Ask questions across workspace content with grounded citations and suggested prompts. Import or export portable OKF workspaces, with simpler navigation and workspace management.

* Introducing Projects: organize chats, PDFs, documents, and images, then ask questions across your private workspace with local citations. * A unified Library now brings Projects, Documents, and Saved Images together with list and grid views. * Plus cleaner chat organization, project navigation, download progress, and citation handling.

Added support for projects with a lightweight, fully local RAG pipeline. Projects support: * Grouping Documents, Visual Clips, and chats. * Optional project-specific instructions. * Dedicated project chats and sidebar grouping. * Moving existing chats into or out of Projects. * Retrieval restricted to the Project’s selected sources. * Bounded fallback context for broad prompts such as “summarize this project.” * Source citations that open the referenced document or clip. * Native access through macOS menus/toolbars, iOS actions, and App Shortcuts.

Ask Iris is now a private AI workspace for the things on your device. This update adds support for asking questions across your local library of screenshots, photos, PDFs, documents, and visual clips. Save useful context, keep it organized, and ask Iris to help you find, summarize, compare, or explain what you have collected. New in this version: • Ask your private workspace: Ask questions across saved documents and visual clips, with answers grounded in your local library. • PDF and document support: Import documents, attach them to chats, and ask Iris to summarize, explain, extract, or compare their contents. • Visual Clips library: Save screenshots, captures, and other useful visual context so you can reuse them later. • Better model discovery: Browse local AI models with clearer resource tags and device-aware recommendations. • Quick Start improvements: Start downloading a recommended model more easily, with clearer progress and cancel/retry controls. • Chat organization: Archive chats, pin important conversations, and organize chats into custom sections. • Improved library views: Switch between list and grid layouts for documents and visual clips. • More polished iPhone, iPad, and Mac experience: Cleaner dialogs, better toolbar behavior, and many small fixes across the app. Ask Iris continues to keep your chats, files, library, and model inference on your device. Network access is only used for actions you choose, such as downloading a model or opening a model card.

- Added support for documents - Tag models with their resource intensiveness and suggest model based on user's hardware - Better data organization - Added more layout views to visual clips and document libraries

* Price change: made the app free to download with a 14-day unlimited trial. * Change unlimited trial from 7 to 14 days * Added much better screenshots and poster images for better store look