NEW IN 1.7.18 • On first launch the app asks once whether it may send a technical report to schubec after a crash – never document contents, changeable any time under Settings › Advanced • Fixed: on macOS 27 the app crashed when opening Settings while the “How the Chat Works” panel was expanded • Header fields of a stored form appear in the document's info area; the folder watcher waits until importing has finished

NEW IN 1.7.16 • Writing documents: quotes, invoices, payment reminders, letters or blog posts from your own documents – with templates, changes to a single marked passage, and a checklist at the end • A knowledge store is a folder on your Mac, subfolders included: drop files in, changes are read again • Questions with sources now in every plan – Free from the 500 quota, Subscription 500 per month, Pro without limit • The path of every answer: which sections were found, what the model received, how long it took – explained step by step • Five embedding models to choose from, plus your own from Hugging Face; a search hint per store for instruction models • Templates for recurring questions instead of typing; a classic chat view without the machinery if you prefer • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, emails with attachments, photos with image description and whole websites in the knowledge store • Contracts, statutes and manuals are split at their headings – citations name the section • REST API: OpenAI-compatible endpoints, chats with history, administration, request log per store • Settings reorganized: language model and embedding model separated, an explanation on every page • Export with or without documents, import with folder choice • Several windows, restored on the next launch • Three sample stores on first launch if you like • New plans: Free with 500 operations, Subscription monthly or yearly, Pro without limits – with Family Sharing • Interface in 22 languages, optional crash reports, many fixes

NEW IN VERSION 1.6 – FOLDER WATCHING • Scan folder: pick a watched folder – newly arriving files are renamed and tagged automatically, ideal as the target folder of your document scanner • Optional target folder: processed files (including their sidecar file) are moved there automatically – the scan folder stays an empty inbox • Processing waits until a file has been fully written; files already present and subfolders are left untouched • Files that arrive while the app is closed are picked up the next time it launches • Launch DocUnderstand at login (optional) • New menu bar icon with status and quick actions; optionally the app keeps running in the menu bar after the window is closed – no Dock icon at all • The main window shows when a folder is being watched (click opens it in Finder) • Clearly visible banner and log entry while the local AI model is loaded on first use • More improvements and bug fixes

NEW IN VERSION 1.5 – KNOWLEDGE BASE & AI CHAT • Knowledge base: Drop documents or entire folders into a project – DocUnderstand chunks and indexes them entirely on your Mac • AI chat: Ask questions about your documents – every answer cites its sources (file and page) and is generated exclusively from your own material • Photos in chat: Attach an image and ask questions about it (with a vision-capable AI model) • Hybrid retrieval combining semantic and keyword search for far more precise results • Answers stream in live, word by word – with status indicators for search, model start-up, and answering • New /ask REST endpoint: query the knowledge base from FileMaker, scripts, and your own tools; admin API to fill and manage it over HTTP • New Pro subscriptions (monthly or yearly) with knowledge base, AI chat, and support API • Free allowance raised from 250 to 500 documents • Many more improvements and bug fixes