New in this version Big files - Send videos and other files of up to 256 MB to your agent. bighelp sends them in pieces in the background and continues after a lost connection. The file shows its progress, then a line that opens it in Files. This needs bighelp's plugin version 3.41.0 or later on your computer. Themes and text - Settings > Appearance has a grid of themes, each with a light and a dark version. Pick one theme for light mode and one for dark mode. Bots mode uses them too. - You can show agent messages on the page, without a bubble. Your own messages keep their bubble. - Text is one step smaller by default. A text size that you picked does not change. Settings and other sheets now follow your text size. Avatar designer - See how a face moves in each state. Use shape controls with Undo, named palettes and ready-made face sets. Full Duplex voice - Live voice is now Full Duplex. You can talk over the agent, and it keeps talking while it works. It speaks as itself, with its own name, and it knows your name. - Choose a provider and a voice for each agent in its profile, under Default Voice. - The agent speaks the language of your phone. It changes the language only when you ask. - When work that you started on a call finishes, the agent tells you when nobody speaks. Credential Vault - In a bot's profile, tap Info, then Credential Vault. Your saved cards and addresses show in a wallet, with each website below. Add a website, its login, card or address in one step, and use a saved card again. Usage widgets - New styles for each widget size, Usage on the Lock Screen, and the plans that you select, as meters or rings. A plan turns amber at 80% and red at 100%. You can rename a plan. Chat - Send and the message box stay on while the chat connects. bighelp sends your messages in order when it connects. - When your message has 3 or more lines, Expand shows above the message box. - After you send a photo or a file, you can steer the agent while it works. - Typing while the agent answers is smoother. Fixed - Pictures and files load when you reopen a chat after bighelp was in the background or closed. - Long agent instructions scroll and type smoothly. The line that you type stays above the keyboard. - Pictures from agents show, or the message tells you why they did not come, with Try again. - Live voice plays every reply from the start to the end. - One tap on Return to latest goes to the newest message. - Bots mode uses the dark background that you pick. - The Usage widget shows your numbers when bighelp is closed. - When bighelp cannot confirm that a message with a file was delivered, the chat tells you and does not send it again.

New in this version Skills and plugins - The Skills Hub and Plugins open as storefronts: an official pick, shelves of official and verified plugins and of each topic, and pages that show what an item adds and the result of the safety check before you install it. Import a skill - In an agent's Skills & Tools, tap +, then Import SKILL.md or ZIP. Choose a SKILL.md file, or a skill folder in a .zip file. A skill folder needs bighelp's plugin version 3.35.0 or later on your computer. Show me where - Ask your agent where a page or setting is, for example "How do I see what my Feed can do?". The agent opens that place in bighelp and points at it. Your chat stays at the bottom of the screen. Tap Return to chat to go back. - The agent never changes a setting. To stop it, go to Settings > Permissions. This needs plugin version 3.34.0 or later. Bots - Each agent's Bot Chat now stays the same when another agent sends it a message. This needs plugin version 3.33.0 or later. - In a bot's profile, choose its Default Voice, and set its approvals in plain words in Advanced Options. - Every profile tab has the same header. Character is in Info. Touch and hold a tab to set the default tab or to rearrange the tabs. Voice - Choose voices and models from lists in Settings > Voice. In team calls, each bot speaks with its own voice. Fixed - Bot profile tabs show each name whole, also with larger text. - Pictures from agents show when the reply arrives while bighelp is in the background. - With more than one computer, Show me where opens the place on the computer that you use. - A new Bot Chat opens again when you return to the app. - A chat that cannot open tries again, and one incorrect saved chat no longer stops the other chats.

Voice - Voices on your iPhone: an agent can speak with Phonon, a voice that runs on your iPhone or iPad. It needs no account, no key and no internet connection. To use it, open Settings > Voice, select an agent and select Provider. Then select Phonon and tap Download voice. The download is approximately 137 MB. Phonon needs iOS 18 or later. - Hear the voices: Phonon has a default voice and 37 other voices. 12 of them are character voices. Tap Play next to a voice to hear it before you choose it. Then tap Save. - Auto TTS: turn on Use TTS on every response in Settings > Voice to hear each reply when it arrives. You can also turn it on or off from + in a chat with Auto TTS. A new message, voice mode or a different screen stops the speech. - Hold music: turn off Hold music in Settings > Voice for a silent wait while your agent works on a reply.

Fixed - Bot profile tabs: the tabs in a bot's profile fit on one line. Before, a tab could be cut off at the edge of the screen.

Highlights - Bot dashboard: in Bots mode, a bot's profile opens on Dashboard. It shows the bot's Feed, Ideas and Goals as piles of cards. Swipe a card right to act on it: ask about a post, do an idea or mark a goal done. Swipe a card left to put it away. Undo shows after each swipe. Touch and hold a card to see all its actions. The first time, a short tutorial shows how to swipe. - Templates: on Dashboard, select Templates to swipe through starter prompts for Feed, Ideas and Goals. Swipe right to put a prompt in the bot's message box. Nothing runs until you tap Send. Chat - Faster answers: bighelp sends your message to your computer at once. Before, it waited to tell the computer who was sending. - Smoother typing: the message box does less work for each key that you type. - Smoother chats in Chat mode: a chat in Chat mode does not draw itself again when other parts of the app change. - A compact header: Chat mode uses the same glass pill for the agent's name and picture as Bots mode. Text also blurs at the top and bottom edges in the same way. - Open saved chats at once: select a chat that bighelp has saved on your device to open it at once. The loading screen shows only when the chat has no saved copy. - More room to read: the smaller Return to latest button sits on the right side of the chat. - A new chat transition: when you start a new chat, the old messages fade away line by line, from the bottom up. If Reduce Motion is on, the messages clear without the effect. Fixed - Alerts for the chat on screen: in Chat mode, bighelp no longer shows alerts for the chat that you are reading. - Find scheduled tasks: search scheduled tasks across all your computers. Search stays available when there are no matches. You can also reach Tasks from Kanban when Kanban is in the bottom bar. - Sign in again: if a computer rejects your saved sign-in, Sign in again replaces Reconnect. Tap it to start the sign-in for that computer.

Highlights - A new look: Chat mode has the clean look of Bots mode. The page is white by day and black at night. Your bubbles and buttons are ink. To use a color, go to Settings > Appearance and select one. Your bubbles, New chat and the other buttons then use that color. - New chat in the bottom bar: New chat is the round button in the middle of the bottom bar. Tap it to start a chat with your agent. Touch and hold it to select an agent or a group. - Feed, Ideas and Goals: posts, ideas and goals show as color blocks. New posts show in a green block at the top. The goal that your agent changed last shows in its own block, with Mark done. Tap an item to open it. Touch and hold an item to see its actions. - Menu and Settings: the rows have round icons in your color. Changed - Files: Files moved from the bottom bar to the menu. To put it back in the bar, go to Settings > Appearance > App layout. - Lavender: if you selected Lavender before, bighelp now shows Ink. To use Lavender again, go to Settings > Appearance and select Lavender. Fixed - Signed out every day: bighelp no longer signs you out of a computer that uses browser sign-in. Before, a renewal that was cut off (for example, when the screen locked or the network changed) could end the sign-in. bighelp also renews the sign-in in the background. - Workspace after time away: bighelp opens your computer's workspace when you come back to it. Before, after some time in the background, it could show "Saved native workspace data could not be opened", and Reconnect did nothing.

Highlights - One Live Activity: one Live Activity holds all your active chats. The chats that need you are first. A tap on it opens the chat, also a Bot Chat. - Faster chats: Send stays on while a chat opens. Bot Chats open from the copy that your iPhone saved. Scrolling up right after you return to bighelp is smooth. - Voice: live voice keeps talking while earlier work runs. With bighelp plugin 3.32.0 or later, GPT Live says a short line before it starts work. In CarPlay, Talk and a tap on an agent open the voice call. - Photo drafts: send your agent a photo of a business card or an event poster. Your agent makes a draft contact or a draft event. You check the draft, then you save it. This needs bighelp plugin 3.31.0 or later on your computer. Privacy - Share usage and diagnostics: a new switch in Settings > Permissions > Device access. It is on by default. It sends counts of the features that you use, and launch and reply times. It also sends crash and hang reports, and the time that an alert takes to arrive. bighelp ties these to a random ID. It never sends your messages, files or names. - When you turn the switch off, bighelp stops at once and deletes the random ID. Computers with bighelp plugin 3.31.0 or later also stop their own sharing. Live Activities and widgets - Active Chats and Recent Chats widgets show your working chats first. When updates pause, the widgets say so. Notifications - Alerts arrive the same way as before. bighelp now gives its notification service the push address of your iPhone, for faster alerts. Fixes - Chat: you can scroll up while your agent writes its answer. The chat no longer moves up and down while you read an earlier part. - Cloudflare Access: bighelp connects when you open it after a long time in the background. Before, it could show an Access error until you closed bighelp and opened it again. - Tapbacks: when you hold a message, one menu holds the tapbacks and the actions. More reactions opens the Apple emoji keyboard. - An Apple Music card no longer freezes bighelp when Apple Music cannot answer. The card shows without its picture, and Open in Music still works. - Live Activities show again and follow your chats after an error on the notification service. - New Chat starts in project folders on a Windows computer. - GPT Live: the thinking music no longer plays during a call, and live voice keeps answering after its first request. - Tapbacks show on their messages when you open a chat again. - A tap on a Live Activity or an alert for a chat on another computer opens that chat without an error.

Highlights - Smooth scrolling: long chats scroll smoothly. A message that you saw before shows again at once. When the chat is still, bighelp prepares the messages above the screen, so they are ready when you scroll up. - Your agent's work: go to Settings > Chat > Agent's work and choose Card, Minimal or Full. Card shows the newest steps in one card. Minimal shows one line. Full shows every step where it occurs. Tap the card or the line to see each step. - iPhone Duo: on the folded Duo, your places move into the column beside the cover screen. The faces of your top bots show beside each chat. On the open Duo, your chats show on one side of the fold and the chat that you open shows on the other side. - CarPlay: talk to your agent in the car. bighelp connects in CarPlay without you opening the app on your iPhone. Voice works when your iPhone is locked. CarPlay shows the face of your agent and each step while it works. To choose the computer and the agent, go to Settings > CarPlay. Cards - Music cards in your chats show the artwork of the song, album or playlist. - If bighelp can use your contacts, contact cards show the saved photo of the person. Fixes - If your computer does not answer, CarPlay tells you which step failed. - The app no longer stops when you tap Agents on the CarPlay voice screen. - When a new message from the same agent arrives, the message above it now moves closer to it.

New in this version: - Maps and Music open in their apps: if you picked a browser in Settings > Chat, links to Maps, Music and other Apple apps now open in those apps. Only web pages open in your browser. - Share a message: touch and hold a message, then tap Share. Choose Messages, Markdown, Plain text or PDF, then tap Copy or Share. Messages shows bold, italic and code with styled letters. - iPhone Duo, folded: the places from the bottom bar move into the column on the right side of the cover screen, so chats have more room. - iPhone Duo, chat switcher: in Bots mode, your top bots show beside each chat. In Code mode, your sessions show there. Tap one to go to its chat. You can turn it off in Settings > Experience > Chat switcher. - iPhone Duo, open: your bots, chats or Code sessions show on the left side of the fold, and the chat you open shows on the right side. Folded halfway like a small laptop, the messages stay above the fold. - iPad and Mac: to see your bots or sessions beside each chat in landscape, turn on Settings > Experience > Chat switcher.

New in this version: - Phone tools stay on: a switch in Settings > Device access now stays on until you turn it off, for all your agents and computers. If iOS takes access away, the switch stays on and shows how to allow it again. - Every agent can use your phone tools while you have its chat open, not only your main agent. - Fewer interruptions: phone tools keep working when you pull down a notification, open Control Center or answer a system question, and for a short time after you leave bighelp. - CarPlay: talk with your agents in CarPlay. - The Expand button is now inside the message box, so the text no longer moves when it appears. Some features need the bighelp plugin 3.30.0 or later. Update it from Settings.

New in this version: - Your agent can use more of your iPhone. Settings > Device access has new switches for Contacts, Photos, Arriving and leaving, Alarms and timers, Music, Focus and Shortcuts. Each switch is off until you turn it on, and iOS asks you first. - Reminders can ring when you arrive at or leave a place. - Chat cards can show a person, a place or music, with buttons to call, get directions or play. - Focus: add the bighelp filter to a Focus. Your agent reads your note, and agent replies can arrive quietly. - CarPlay: pick the agent that you talk to. Talk continues the same chat. - Sessions: the menu has a Sessions row that opens all your chats. You can also put Sessions in the bottom bar from Settings > Appearance > App layout. - Bots mode, Teamwork and their Settings pages are now in Simplified Chinese (draft). Fixes: - New Bot Chat, rename, archive, hide and delete work again with the latest Hermes. - You no longer get an alert for the chat that you are reading. - When you come back to bighelp, notifications, widgets and Shortcuts open sooner, mostly on a remote computer with many chats. Some features need the bighelp plugin 3.29.0 or later. Update it from Settings.

New in this version: - New mode names: Bots, Chat and Code. Simple Bot mode is now Bots mode. Bighelp IDE is now Code mode. - Unified Mode Toggle: turn it on in Settings, Experience, to switch between Bots, Chat and Code from the top of each home. - Edge swipes can switch modes. - Bots mode shows which bots are working and which need you. - Group chats: a Stop that bighelp cannot confirm no longer blocks Send. Group chats work on Hermes 0.22.4. - Notifications: pick the channels that send you notifications. - Agents keep working after you close bighelp when they ask each other for help. - New agents share the plugins of your default agent. - With more than one gateway, Settings, System can update and restart all of them at once. Fixes: - Chats open without a crash. - The chat box no longer shakes while you type a long message. - Form cards with limits on a field show correctly. - Files shows the files of the agent that you selected. - On iPhone and iPad, notification setup no longer stops when iOS asks for permission. Update the bighelp plugin in the app to get all of these features.

New in 2.6.6 - Chat folders: two new switches in Settings > Chat, Expand reasoning and Expand tool calls, keep folders open while the agent works. Each tool call stays closed until you open it. Turn on Nerd Mode to see them. - Simplified Chinese: setup, main navigation, chat controls and the top level of Settings have a first set of Chinese text. Some screens still use English. - Chat lists: large lists refresh with less repeated work. A refresh no longer restores a removed chat from an old saved copy. - Scheduled work: repeated updates share a refresh. Scheduled tasks can refresh while the chat list waits. - Long chats: less work when you type, read a streamed answer or display a long message. All message text stays available to read, select and copy. - Reactions: an agent's reaction appears in the open chat at once. This needs bighelp plugin 3.24.0 or later. - Answers: a reply stays visible when the agent continues to work after it. - Simple Bot mode: the loading animation shows when any agent's chat takes time to open. - Scheduled task alerts: a tap opens the chat where the agent made the task. If there is no linked chat, it opens the task. This needs plugin 3.23.0 or later. - Phone tools: the app reconnects them after it restarts. - Chat list and header: invisible characters no longer stop new chats from showing. Status changes no longer move the messages. - Privacy: if you have never agreed to share data with your Hermes computer and its AI providers, the app asks before you use them. - Avatars: Pocket Curios is available in the built-in catalog for offline use.

New in 2.6.2: - Templates by category: the template lists show the templates in groups by category. Search, or tap a category chip to show only that category. Your own templates show first. - Reasoning in one folder: in Simple Bot mode with Show reasoning on, the notes that a bot writes before its answer are in one folder. It is open while the bot works and closes when the bot answers. Tap it to open or close it. - Session title: you can show the title of the chat under the name of the agent. Turn it on in Settings > Chat > Session title. - Error codes for notification setup: if setup stops, the app shows a short code and a message that tells you what to do. Tap Copy Details and send them to us when you ask for help. Fixes: - Chat Info: you can open Chat Info from every chat again. Tap the ... button, then This chat, then Chat info. - Bots on other computers: in Simple Bot mode with Multi-gateway on, a bot on another computer opens with a loading animation. If that computer does not answer in 20 seconds, the app goes back to the computer that you used before. - New Bot Chats: a lost connection during the first Bot Chat of an agent no longer stops new chats with that agent. - Composio Apps: the app tests that your agent can reach Composio before it says that the agent can use your apps. Use your Composio apps in a new chat. - Phone tools: the app connects the phone tools only in chats with the agent that has the bighelp plugin.

New in 2.6.0: - An easier first setup. After you connect your computer, you can add the bighelp plugin with one tap, turn on notifications, and choose your mode: Bots, Sessions, or Code. You can change the mode later in Settings. - A new reaction bar. Touch and hold a message, then tap a reaction. It works like Messages. - Templates for new bots. In Simple Bot mode, select Templates when you make a bot. The template gives the bot its role, its vibe, and its instructions. - Save a bot as a template. On the profile of a bot, select Share, type a name, and select Save. The app saves the template on your computer. Your templates show at the top of the template list. - Files and Media for each bot. The profile of a bot shows its own work folder and the photos and videos from your chats. - The compaction bar above the message box shows only while Hermes compacts the chat. Update the bighelp plugin to version 3.20.0. The app shows the update. Templates and the files of each bot need it.

New in 2.5.1: Simple Bot mode - A calm home screen that shows only your bots. Turn it on in Settings > Experience. - Your primary bot and your pinned bots are at the top, all the same size. The top holds 6 bots in 2 rows. - Touch and hold a bot and select Rearrange to drag your bots into a new order. Select Save to keep it. - Make a bot with a name, a shape and a color. - The bot profile has More avatars, Instructions, Default Model and Routines. - Voice opens as a bar on top of the chat. The chat stays open. Teamwork - Your agents know each other and send work to the agent whose role is a match. Turn it on in Settings > Assistants. - Teamwork needs the bighelp plugin 3.16.0 or later on your computer. Bots widget - Show 1, 2 or 4 bots on your Home Screen. Select the gateway and the bots. - Tap a bot to open its chat. The widget keeps your bots when you close the app. Chats - When agents send messages to each other, the chat shows one line. Tap it to read what they said. - When an agent works for another agent, its chat shows the typing bubbles and the Stop button. - The voice mode button is in the message box. When you type, it changes to Send. - A Markdown file opens formatted, with a switch for the raw text. - The Stop button is black or white, not red. Fixes - A notification for a chat that is open returns you to that chat. It no longer opens a slow second copy. - Long chats with many tool calls are much faster. - Light and dark mode change at the same time on all screens. - The text in Simple Bot mode Settings is easy to read in dark mode.

New in bighelp 2.5.0: - Group chats with agents from more than one computer. When you make a group chat, you can pick agents from all your saved Hermes computers. The chat shows their own pictures and names, and they can talk in team calls. - Group chats show which agent types now. When more agents write at the same time, each one shows. - Composio Apps: sign in to your own Composio account and connect apps by category, for example email, calendar or code. Then your agent can use them. - A simpler AI providers page: see your providers, sign in again or remove one, and connect a new one. - Group chats keep messages from bots that you removed from the group, and open rooms from Hermes Desktop that did not open before. - AI providers shows all the accounts that your computer has a sign-in for. - Skills Hub and Plugins open again on all Hermes computers. Some of these need the newest version of Hermes and of the bighelp plugin on your computer.

New in bighelp 2.4.0: - Connect apps: when your agent needs an app or a tool, the chat shows a card. You connect it or skip it there, and you stay in the chat. Settings > Apps shows the apps that your agent can use. - Your agent's screen: on a Linux computer, the agent's profile has a Screen tab. You can watch what the agent does on its screen, and take control when you need to. - Helpers: you can stop a helper agent, or send it a message while it works. - Plan limits: the model picker shows how much of each plan is left. - Clear errors: when a reply fails, the chat tells you why and gives a fix, for example "Try again" or "Use another model". - Thought folders show what your agent thinks about. Some of these need the newest version of Hermes on your computer.