Find your work faster, with more room to read. • A new navigation rail puts Chats, Workspaces, Documents, Media, and Models within easy reach. • Read PDFs and documents in a dedicated view. Open a discussion beside your document when you want to ask Iris about it. • Browse saved images, audio, and video together in Media, with filters and local search. • Switch workspaces from an explicit workspace list. Edit, export, archive, or delete a workspace from its row or its main view. • Choose a model per chat, use your app default for workspace summaries and wiki generation, or set a model for an individual workspace. • Search and Settings now open as dedicated views, with fewer duplicate search controls and improved iPad spacing.

Make your workspace knowledge easier to explore and remember. • Explore the Wiki by topic, with short thoughts, source links, related ideas, and full pages when you want more depth. • Curate your knowledge: add and edit thoughts, then use Keep for chats to carry selected context across your workspace’s chats. • Discuss a Wiki topic or thought with Iris from a ready-to-edit chat question. • Apple Intelligence supports multiple images in a chat and reuses eligible conversation context more efficiently. • Try two new experimental local models: Liquid LFM2.5-VL 3B and Qwen3.5 9B. • See response activity immediately while Iris prepares an answer, with larger chat avatars and clearer sidebar details on Mac. • Includes improved Wiki previews, updated dependencies, and reliability fixes.

Your wiki, where you want it. • Choose Wiki Storage: keep the wiki inside Iris, save it in a local folder, or use iCloud Drive on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. • Edit the same Markdown files in other apps, with optional Open in Obsidian shortcuts. No plugin or Obsidian Sync login is required. • Pick up external changes with refresh and reload controls. Iris checks for conflicting edits and retains pending drafts when files are unavailable or still downloading. • Move storage with a verified copy, or bring the wiki back into Iris. External files remain intact, and chats and model settings stay in Iris.

Create wiki pages with Iris: describe what you want to write, choose supporting sources, or turn a workspace conversation into a page. Export your workspace as a polished PDF report, with selected wiki pages, an overview, source references, and optional chat transcripts. Preview the report before exporting. Explore experimental Bonsai 1-bit models, including text models and an image-capable model. On Mac, connect Ask Iris to an OpenAI-compatible inference server running on the same Mac. Use its models for chat and wiki writing without a duplicate download. Compatible servers can also use workspace tools and save wiki notes with tool calling enabled on macOS 27 or later.

Keep your workspace wiki up to date with Ask Iris. Request changes to a page or selected passage, choose supporting sources, and review suggestions before applying them. Page history lets you revisit and restore earlier versions. A clearer wiki overview, connected topics, and adjustable zoom make your knowledge easier to browse and edit. Import scanned PDFs with on-device text recognition. This release also fixes workspace summary generation and source-backed wiki suggestions with Apple Intelligence, improves source link validation, and makes generation errors easier to recover from.

Turn your workspace into a living wiki. Write and edit pages directly with rich formatting, autosave, and undo. Select a passage and ask Iris to suggest a revision, then review it before applying. Keep knowledge connected with nested pages, source-linked notes, and highlights. Collapse the wiki sidebar when you want more room to write, or ask Iris to create a new page from selected sources. Explore more of your sources with integrated document and media readers. Improved workspace grounding and citation handling help keep answers tied to your material, including large documents. This release also improves chat streaming, text selection, error handling, and model management, with confirmation before removing a model.

Meet Iris, your friendly flower companion. Find Iris during setup, in your sidebar, and beside chat replies, with gentle blinking and waving that respect Reduce Motion. Ask Iris how to use the app in one familiar, inline conversation powered by your configured model. Get guidance on workspaces, sources, models, and more. Enjoy warmer colors, friendlier empty states, and a more welcoming interface across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Read PDFs beside your conversations in the main workspace. Navigate with search, page thumbnails, contents, and zoom. Select a passage or page and ask questions using the same chat interface, model selection, and reasoning controls. Click citations to return to the source page. Keep your reading position and unsent question when moving between the PDF and workspace. Compact chat controls give you more room to type in narrow panes. Faster, more reliable workspace summaries use saved source notes, filter repeated model text, and keep your previous summary when a refresh fails. Fixed disappearing summary cards and truncated error messages. Import failures appear on the affected source with a retry action, and saved outputs now have visible delete controls.

Ask more of your workspace: supported models can search sources and read additional evidence during chat, with citations that take you back to the original source. Create summaries and outputs from your conversations, even in workspaces with no added files. Each ordinary chat keeps its own conversation context. Get better coverage of long sources and automatically organized outputs such as action items, timelines, and comparisons. Explore MiniCPM5 1B and 2B as small experimental text models. The 2B model also supports reasoning and read-only web and workspace tools. See more workspace sources at a glance with compact rows and an expandable list. Model menus now clearly mark the model in use. Improved local model compatibility and workspace reliability.

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.