You can now use local AI with Ollama in Franz. Install Ollama, choose a local model and connect it in AI Settings. Ollama manages your models, so you can keep them up to date and use the same models in other apps on your Mac.

Franz 6.9 makes the services you use every day more dependable. Google sign-in works better in Gmail, Google Voice and other services. Todoist and browser services handle Cloudflare verification more smoothly, and unread indicators in Messenger and Discord keep up as you read. Italian and Brazilian Portuguese are now available. On a new setup, Franz starts in your computer's language when it's supported. We've also fixed bright backgrounds in Franz Mail's dark mode and updated the browser engine to Electron 44.4.5 with recent security and compatibility fixes.

Press ⌘J and Franz shows you what you have. Type a name and the mail, the WhatsApp message, the todo, the calendar event and the service all come back in one list. Enter opens it, and switches workspace if that's where it lives. Type from:, unread or has-attachment to narrow it down, or / for commands. Press Tab and the same bar asks Franz instead of searching. Ask for the whole job, not one step. Ask which customers are still waiting on you and to draft each of them a reply. The drafts come back together. If Franz doesn't know the date or the price, it says so instead of making one up. Nothing gets sent without your click. Save a reply once. Use it everywhere. Snippets live in the rail and drop into whichever message field you're in. On Max, a smart snippet fills in the person, the topic and the date from the conversation you have open. You check it before it goes in. Translate anything, in any service. Select text, right-click, Translate. The translation sits next to the original, so you can check it instead of trusting it. Part of Franz Pro and Franz Max. Also in this release - ⌘P prints what's in front of you. Franz Mail prints the whole conversation, laid out properly for paper. - Links from a service open in a browser inside Franz, with back, forward and an address bar. - Franz Mail got quieter. One chip per message instead of a badge and a row of tags, and a switch for each AI feature in Settings. - Downloads moved into the rail, next to your todos and calendar. Fixed - Franz no longer freezes while syncing a large mailbox. If you sync a big one, this is the version to get. - Emails that opened to a blank reading pane show their text. - With more than one Franz Mail account, the one you're looking at updates live. - Turning Franz AI on takes effect right away, no restart. - What you change on one Mac reaches your other devices: the order of your workspaces, the services you add yourself, the tabs from your first day.

Franz can take dictation now. Hold the shortcut, say what you want to send, and the words land in the message field you were already writing in, whatever service you're in. A small pill shows the transcript while you talk, and the text drops in the moment you let go. Included with Franz Pro, on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later. The rest of this release is repair, and quite a lot of it. NEW • Speak your message. Hold the dictation shortcut, talk, and Franz types for you. It works in every service, and a floating pill shows the transcript while you speak. • Better voice notes. Franz now uses Apple's own on-device speech recognition to transcribe WhatsApp voice notes. It's a lot more accurate than what we had before, German especially, and nothing leaves your Mac. • Reply to any message in a thread. Every message in a Franz Mail conversation has its own actions menu now: reply, reply all or forward from right there, and the composer opens directly beneath the message it answers. • Several drafts in one conversation. Answering one message while forwarding another is perfectly normal now. Each draft keeps its place in the thread, and every one you had open is restored when you come back. • Your signature, your call. Switch to a different signature, drop it for just this message, or bring it back. Changing your From address updates the signature to match. IMPROVED • Conversations read the way they happened. A reply now appears beneath the message it answers instead of at the bottom of the thread. • Priority changes show up right away. Marking a message urgent or changing its tags from an open conversation now applies instantly. • Mute all looks muted. Silence every service and the sidebar button shows it, so you can tell at a glance why things have gone quiet. • Settings is easier to scan. The list is grouped now, with your account and workspace items separated from the feature ones. FIXED • WhatsApp doesn't freeze on startup. A WhatsApp Web update sent Franz hunting through the whole page for things that had moved, and that search could block WhatsApp for close to forty seconds. It's back under a second, and if it ever happens again Franz says so instead of just sitting there. • WhatsApp messages, media and deleting work again. The same WhatsApp Web update broke loading older messages, downloading attachments and deleting a message. All three are back. • Voice notes transcribe by themselves again. They were the one kind of message the automatic transcription never picked up, because Franz was looking for the wrong type internally. • Element can be added again. The Element service pointed at an address Element has since left, and one harmless field in its definition was enough to make Franz reject the whole thing. Unread badges count properly again too. • Your hibernation setting sticks. Turning hibernation on or off for a service was saved on your Mac but dropped on the way to your other devices. • Workspaces keep their services. A sync bug could quietly drop services out of a workspace's list. • No more codes with nowhere to type them. Some screens sent you a verification email saying "enter this code in Franz" while having no code field anywhere. Those screens send a link again. • Escape closes the menu, not the conversation. Pressing Escape to dismiss an open menu in Franz Mail also backed you out of the whole conversation. • Replies from Franz Mail thread properly for the person receiving them. Franz was sending an internal id where the real message reference belonged, so your replies started a new conversation in the recipient's Gmail or Outlook instead of joining the existing one. That one had been there since the very first version of Franz Mail. Replies now carry the proper reference. UNDER THE HOOD Franz moved to a newer Electron release, which brings the usual Chromium security and performance updates.