• Local Voice Cloning: Make a voice from a recording, or record your own sample. Available on iPhone 15 Pro and newer (8+ GB RAM required). Must agree to terms of service. • Local Voice: Set up your Kokoro and Ming voices with a free in-app download. Heart, a natural English voice, is ready. • Voice Languages: English, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and French with Kokoro; English and Chinese with Ming, including over 100 Chinese voices, with emotions. • Local Transcription: Speech-to-text in 90+ languages with free Whisper in-app download. Tiny (English) is ready. • Chat UI improvements.

• Tutorials: Explore every part of Character Agent with guided tours, a practice chat, and badges to earn. Find them in Settings > Tutorials. • Improved account and subscription management.

Create images for your characters and illustrate your chats as the story unfolds. Also in this release: • Connect an image service like OpenRouter, Google Gemini, OpenAI, NanoGPT, NovelAI or Pollinations (free to try), or your own Stable Diffusion server. • Illustrate This Moment, illustrate any reply, or have chats illustrated every few replies. Pictures keep your character's look on services that support it. • Set a style and what to avoid, and give each launcher or chat its own image settings and reference picture. • Your Image Library syncs across your devices, with sorting, sharing and saving to Photos. • Replaced character, persona and background pictures are kept in the Image Library. • NanoGPT joins as a chat provider, voice service and image service.

LoreBlendr is now Character Agent, with a new app icon. Memories: characters remember your story. A memory learns from your chats as you go and brings back the right details when they matter, and your summaries now live in Memories. Attach memories to launchers and chats, choose how often each one learns, and share memories as files. New Character Agent: chat with it to create and edit your characters, lorebooks, personas, launchers and chats, and give any character the same App Tools. Tools are free: MCP servers work without a subscription, and Exa web search is built in, off until you turn it on. Discover Characters: import characters and lorebooks from Chub, RisuRealm, Character Tavern, WyvernChat and more by pasting a link, browsing the sites in the app, or sharing from any browser, and see a card's greetings, description and lore entries before you add it. Search and sort your launchers, filter by tag from a menu, duplicate characters, and change a chat's character and greeting in Chat Settings. Each message shows the model that wrote it, and every delete asks first. Texts You First reaches all your chats, turning off Haptics stops every vibration, voice chat listens for interruptions only through headphones, and several crashes are fixed.

• Update name to Character Agent

• Characters can text you first: turn on check-ins, with quiet hours, Focus and a pause switch. • Message a character, continue the story or start a voice chat from Siri, Shortcuts, widgets and Control Center. • Branch a chat from any message: press and hold it, choose Branch from Here, and try a different direction while the original stays as it was. • Let characters know only what you allow, like the weather, your calendar or your steps, and have them set alarms and reminders. • Lock chats with Face ID, and see every alarm, message and check-in characters have set in Upcoming Events. • Long replies keep their pace to the very end, and several crashes are fixed.

• Talk to your characters: tap the mic, or start hands-free voice chat. • Hear replies read aloud with Apple voices, or your own OpenAI, ElevenLabs and other voice services. • Voice chat works from the Lock Screen and with AirPods presses. • Replies keep generating when you leave the app, and you'll get a notice when they're ready.

• Optimize lorebook defaults in non-sillytavern prompt engines • 30% more usage in all subscriptions • "What changed" box pops up for new version on launch, update box pops up for new updates

• Added FREE TRIAL AI Subscription options in-app. • Added Chat Launchers: Each card can have different settings. • Improved theme management: default to transparent themes, default to character card as background, prevent duplicate default themes.

• Agentic chat & character management: chat with AI to update chats and characters, or manage them (delete duplicates, summarize, etc.) • Improved cache preservation across the app • Fix some issues with tool use, normalize tool use across chats. • Add toggle for post-history message in system prompt (story settings): modern models can handle this, and preserve cache. Toggle to get default sillytavern post-history instruction location (breaks next message cache each round)

- Improve Settings & Subscription UX - Burst meter no longer shows > available weekly meter when weekly meter is low -

- Optimized HTML rendering - Chat import now complies with Character.AI and Tavo export formats - Optional "lazy load" toggle for long chat performance

- Add support for alternate greetings. Long press character card to use it. - Save partial generations: now you can stop, unfocus the app, lose signal, or kill the app and still see a partial generation. - Hide "think" xml blocks. For now this is hardcoded. General regex support is still in "planned". Use "Chat Debug Mode" to show them.

- Bugfixes: fix slowdown with long markdown messages, reduce repetitive renders of elements, remove extra message type detections, fix bad markdown element causing crash in new markdown renderer.

- fix: lorebooks are triggered by system message - fix: top chat bar properly accepts transparency - fix: swipe and immediate stop no longer results in a hidden message.

- Upload images in the chat. OpenRouter auto-detects image upload capable models, otherwise manually enable. - Correct swipe animation transparency to 100%, optimize swipe animation performance

• multiple chats can now receive replies at the same time • New llm model and provider features: • advanced model parameters • model profiles • custom model assignments for memories and titles • Fix: duplicate character if typewriter animation is enabled, during buffering • Fix: view jumping after long messages and some tool calls

- Filter CRLF to \n to bypass swift-markdown parser bug; likely mainly affects importing microsoft chat exports from certain platforms or windows systems.

- Improve chat scrolling smoothness and prevent jumping, especially around markdown and tool calling.

- Fix streaming content bug for iOS 26 and some iOS 18 cases. - Improve UI scroll performance and animations - Add more chat import compatibility - Upgrade markdown renderer: perf + ui - Improve tool prompt\ - Disable html by default for new users - Typewriter animation fixes

- message formatting bugfixes for deepseek-chat, deepseek-reasoning, and GLM 4.6 - fix: markdown detection for bold, italics, and some whitespace formatting cases - fix: show system prompt in sillytavern mode when chat is reloaded - fix: post history instruction system message was not showing up in the initial user message - fix: MCP preserves querystrings in url (e.g. for auth) - add small deadzone to swipe left/right on messages to avoid accidental swipes - remove animations from scrolling and simplify scrolling to improve reliability, includes improving scrolling when using deepseek models

- Added MCP Client for use with any MCP service.

- (internal) collect crash reports

- Chat import/export beta is now live. Import tested to & from SillyTavern. - Swipe animations were often not registering, this was a regression and now fixed. - Fixed: chat message word limit "off" value was not being persisted due to logic error.

- Improvements to navigating in the chat history - Add alert to "manually re-associate" any character card if a character is deleted and added back with another name. - Automatically re-associate characters when deleted and added again with the same name.