# Changelog

> What is new, improved and fixed in 1Helm, release by release.

## Lower cost for Bee conversation pick-up

Release 53, October 20, 2026

### Improved

- Bee conversations are now extracted into tasks, ideas and reminders only after the conversation has finished, or after 30 minutes with no new speech, and at most once every 30 minutes, which lowers the background cost. Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)
- Your Bee speech is still saved and searchable right away, so your helper can read what you just said before it has been extracted. Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)
- Bee recordings with no real words are skipped, and a finished recording is no longer extracted again when a later recording mentions similar words. Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)

## Live notes naming and transcripts, and smoother app connecting

Release 52, October 20, 2026

### Improved

- Live notes now keeps each meeting's raw transcript as a hidden file that your helper can read during and after the meeting. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- The Live notes file is now named with the meeting's date and time, and it follows the task's title when the title changes. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- A task still called Live notes now gets a real title when the meeting ends. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)

### Fixed

- The Live notes saved line in the task now names the notes file under the task's new title. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- Connecting several accounts quickly no longer lands on a Too many requests page, because the Connect button now waits quietly and then opens the sign-in page. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)

## Release 51, October 20, 2026

### New

- New chats are named as soon as you send the first message, using a title of 3 to 7 words, and your own renames always win. Task summaries now run for every finished task.

### Fixed

- Live notes run on their configured models again. Notes built during a meeting keep a short summary that grows with the meeting, and final notes have a section for each topic. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- A Bee speaker card in the Notebook now goes away once no possible match is left. The card leaves after Accept, after naming the speaker, and after Not them on the last match. Read more: [Bee](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/bee.md)

## Release 49, October 19, 2026

### Fixed

- Your helper no longer says it is the same in every channel with nothing else doing the work. It now explains that each channel keeps its own memory, and that background helpers do parts of bigger jobs. Read more: [Your helper and channels](https://1helm.com/docs/helpers.md)

## Release 47, October 18, 2026

### Improved

- The first time your helper writes a web page, it now gets a design brief with real site references, colors, fonts and layout rules. One design source follows your AI privacy level and has its own switch in Settings, then Advanced. Read more: [AI data privacy](https://1helm.com/docs/privacy/ai.md)

## Release 46, October 18, 2026

### Improved

- Pages, slide decks and designed PDFs your helper makes now start from design references and design systems. A website on your own domain goes live in a single step. Read more: [Skills](https://1helm.com/docs/skills.md)
- Your helper no longer opens or ends replies with your name, and it uses no emoji unless you do. It also stops using flattery and reassurance.

### Fixed

- When you ask for changes to something your helper made, even after you published it, it now updates the same file and its published page instead of making a new copy. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- The referral note no longer shows on every share and publish screen in the Library. It stays on the affiliate dashboard.

## Release 45, October 18, 2026

### Fixed

- When your helper replied with only a promise like "reading it now" and did nothing, the turn ended there. It is now told once to do the work and answer.
- The Activity button is back in the task header, and in the more menu on phones, so you can see what your helper did. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)

## Release 44, October 18, 2026

### Improved

- In tasks that use background helpers, you can watch the helper use the browser, take control and hand back to the same helper. A helper can use your saved logins after approval. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- The helper's live browser card and screenshots show in your chat, including after a reload. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- The Notebook pages and About you now refresh twice a day instead of after every conversation. Your facts, notes and memory search are unchanged. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)

### Fixed

- Adding a custom MCP server no longer fails with the message that the host name does not exist. Read more: [Custom MCP connections](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/custom-mcp.md)
- Opening the app twice during onboarding no longer causes a clash in the Get to know you interview.

## Release 43, October 18, 2026

### New

- Add credits asks you to confirm before charging, showing the amount and your saved card with Confirm and Cancel buttons. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)

### Fixed

- Credits you buy now count toward the month's usage. The usage bar changes right after Add credits, and the 50 and 80 percent warnings measure against them. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)
- A task waiting on you shows a still helper icon instead of a frozen orb. Phones set to reduce motion see the orb move slowly.
- A restart in the middle of a task no longer ends it with an error saying your update could not be confirmed. A background job also no longer stays on Reviewing result forever.

## Quieter progress and app fixes

Release 42, October 17, 2026

### Improved

- Each turn shows one progress row, a single orb with two lines of text, from send to answer. The N tasks working pill is gone, and each task keeps its own Stop button. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- When your helper hands a job to a background helper, it briefly acknowledges it with a line such as "On it." or "Let me take a look." A follow up you send while the job runs is answered "Got it."
- Apps can send a whole file's contents, such as a web page to GitHub, without your helper retyping it. App errors now name the field that was wrong. Read more: [Files and apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/files.md)
- Cloudflare is offered only through its MCP connection, so your helper never asks you for Cloudflare API keys. A request to put a website live on your own domain starts from the website setup guide. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- An open app tab now reloads itself when a newer version is released, at a moment when nothing is being typed, uploaded or recorded.

### Fixed

- Background helpers always stop at their time, step and cost limits, even with Pause to check spending off. A run that keeps repeating the same call is stopped, and it reports what it is stuck on. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- Your helper no longer starts replies with "Near" and your city. It uses your location quietly and names the area only in an answer that is actually local. Read more: [Location and microphone](https://1helm.com/docs/location.md)
- Files open again in the viewer. A file's text now reaches your message even when you send right after uploading. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- The time no longer pops up wherever the mouse rests in a chat after you send a message.

## Release 40, October 17, 2026

### Improved

- Location text no longer gives a distance. It now says what your location is used for and that only the latest one is kept. Read more: [Location and microphone](https://1helm.com/docs/location.md)
- Descriptions of pictures and videos can be much longer. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)

## Release 39, October 16, 2026

### Improved

- The activity orb under the current message replaces the history of progress notes, and the live steps and Activity controls are simpler. A finished task shows as complete without waiting for its label. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)

## Messages, voice and limits

Release 38, October 16, 2026

### New

- Settings, then Advanced, has account referral links and an optional affiliate program with US withdrawals. You can choose your own referral code, and the affiliate agreement shows before the dashboard.
- Your helper can send native Messages polls, and each vote is matched to the original question. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)

### Improved

- Voice recordings you send by text are now transcribed, and files in your helper's replies arrive as iMessage attachments. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Messages cards are easier to use, and replies stay attached to their original question and task. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Your helper can ask you questions during longer work, and your card answers stay attached across the chat and Messages.
- Higher limits now apply, including 100 channels, 6 tasks working at once in a channel, 20,000 contacts, 500 scheduled messages and 50 custom MCP servers. App workflows now tell you when events are skipped.
- An activity orb shows below the current message while your helper responds and background helpers work. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)

### Fixed

- When every computer is in use, your helper now says "All computers are busy right now. Try again in a minute." instead of hanging for a minute. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- The mobile chat stays visible when the keyboard opens.

## New Notebook and memory changes

Release 37, October 15, 2026

### New

- The Notebook is now a page for each topic, which are About you, People, Places, Routines and What's going on. Your helper writes the pages from its memory, and each page opens right away. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- A facts box shows your avatar, and your edits are saved as corrections. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- When a web page shows something your helper cannot read as text, such as a chart, a map or pictures, it can now look at the page, read the text on the screen and click where it needs to. The picture is described and thrown away, never saved. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- Videos you add get a short description of what they show and any text on screen, above the transcript. Audio inside uploaded files such as mp3, m4a and mp4 is now transcribed. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)

### Improved

- Everything in a channel now goes into its memory, including whole conversations, every Notebook note and edit, Library files, live notes, skills, checklists and contacts. Something you just told your helper can be used right away, and when you move, your new home replaces the old one. Read more: [How memory is saved](https://1helm.com/docs/memory/background.md)
- Your helper keeps a short profile of you in every chat and uses memory without announcing it. It can correct a wrong memory after you confirm. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- General asks "Inspect other channels?" before looking in your other channels, unless you choose to always allow it. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Saying "forget it" no longer deletes anything, and it is remembered like any other message. To remove something, delete it yourself in the Notebook, Contacts, the Library or the chat. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Dictation is quieter, with no status text under the box and a pulsing red cursor while recording. Text shows when you pause, and speech to text is more accurate. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- Things you say near your Bee are no longer lost when the transcript wording does not match exactly. Your helper can find them by meaning, and anything it cannot confirm word for word is shown as "possibly said". Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)
- Your helper now writes in plain, everyday words, with complete sentences and no jargon or dashes. The same style applies to task titles, live notes, file summaries and Notebook items.
- Scanned PDF pages are read faster and a little more accurately. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- Pause to check spending is now off by default, and Agent check ins is a switch that is off by default. The app asks for notification permission on its own. Read more: [Asking first and permissions](https://1helm.com/docs/approvals.md)
- Edits by your helper update the same file instead of making copies named "name (2)", and your uploaded original is always kept. Bee speakers also get a New speaker detected card. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- The app starts loading your data sooner and keeps its files cached between visits. Long conversations also load more smoothly.

### Fixed

- The unread dot in task lists now sits on the right of each row, clear of the checkbox.

## Background helpers and lower cost advice

Release 36, October 12, 2026

### New

- Your helper can hand independent parts of a request to background helpers and give them recent task context. It can also check on or steer them while they run. Read more: [Plans and brain dumps](https://1helm.com/docs/plans.md)

### Improved

- When you leave a choice to your helper, such as where to host a site or buy a domain, it recommends one low cost option with a monthly total and mentions Cloudflare once. When you name a vendor, it does what you asked and states the price including renewal.
- Quick browser jobs answer in the same reply. Longer jobs move to the background after about 45 seconds and report back as a new message. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- Cards you skip fold into a small Skipped line when you send your next message, including unanswered connect and share suggestions.
- A note General saves in another channel's Notebook is always in that channel's context on its next turn. Every channel also sees your shared address book, so a contact you added is known right away. Read more: [Contacts](https://1helm.com/docs/contacts.md), [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Saving a fact about a thing, such as a gate code, no longer creates a contact. Only people and organizations go into Contacts. Read more: [Contacts](https://1helm.com/docs/contacts.md)

### Fixed

- A reply that was stopped partway could be charged at a higher price than it cost, and it is now charged at the real price. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)
- A looping task is now caught sooner. Your helper also tells you plainly when a step tried to do too many things at once. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- Logging out fully ends your session before returning to the sign in page.
- The card that says your helper is using the browser now goes away by itself when the task finishes. A helper's raw report also no longer shows up in the chat.
- Hovering over a message to show its copy and reply buttons no longer makes the messages below it jump.
- A message you type into a handed off task's card shows again. A chat started with only a file keeps the file name as its title.
- A computer hold left behind by an update no longer blocks browser tasks for long. It now clears within minutes. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)

## Release 35, October 12, 2026

### New

- Settings, then Advanced, now has Share diagnostic data, which lets you give 1Helm support access, confirmed by email, when you ask for help. Read more: [Share diagnostic data](https://1helm.com/docs/privacy/diagnostics.md)

### Fixed

- Meeting notes keep explicit commitments along with nearby refusals and uncertainty. Refinements are based on the transcript. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- Tasks captured from Bee recordings keep spoken evidence that a task was completed. Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)

## Release 34, October 11, 2026

### Improved

- Connected accounts is now a compact list that opens each app's detail page. Ambient is now an overview, with Bee settings on their own page. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)
- New chats get short titles of 2 to 4 words, and names you choose yourself stay unchanged.
- The list of apps in the quiz was removed from Settings. Your helper still remembers which apps you use, and you can change them by telling your helper. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)

### Fixed

- Finished replies show only the answer, while progress and saved memory stay in the task card.
- The task tools menu fits its buttons without a large empty area.
- Your helper now checks calculations with money, percentages and splits using exact arithmetic.

## Bee recordings become searchable

Release 33, October 11, 2026

### New

- Your Bee recordings now become searchable tasks, ideas and memories. You can ask your helper to recall Bee tasks and places, and you can add your own phrases that make nearby thoughts easier to find. Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)
- Your helper in General can read and update tasks and to-do lists across your channels. It can also create channels and start tasks there with a to-do list. Read more: [Your helper and channels](https://1helm.com/docs/helpers.md)

### Improved

- Ambient recall tells real intentions from examples and keeps reminder corrections. It checks tasks against the speech around them before saving, and it avoids resolving the wrong request when names conflict. Read more: [Ambient recall](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/recall-preview.md)
- When General starts a task, it writes a clear handoff from the conversation and carries your choices forward instead of copying your last message. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)

## Release 32, October 10, 2026

### New

- The spending and workload check in pauses are now optional in Settings. Read more: [Asking first and permissions](https://1helm.com/docs/approvals.md)

### Improved

- Photo and file previews are now compact squares that open when you click them. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- Your helper shows one progress note at a time with smooth replacement. Earlier notes are kept in the history.

### Fixed

- Dictation starts capturing right away while the live connection starts, so early words are kept. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- Web links in your helper's messages open in a new tab and keep your chat.
- The task card stays on one line on desktop and phones.

## Release 31, October 10, 2026

### New

- You can rename a task from its title or the three dot menu.
- You can dictate at your text cursor and resize or hide the sidebar. Your helper's checklist updates now show automatically.

### Improved

- Dictation shows your words live and keeps your edits while you speak. It also stays connected through pauses. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)

## Custom MCP connections and a global timer

Release 29, October 10, 2026

### New

- Settings has a new Advanced page with Custom MCP connections, which is experimental and off by default. When you turn it on, you can connect your own remote MCP server, and your helper asks permission before using any of its tools. Read more: [Custom MCP connections](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/custom-mcp.md)
- Starting a focus timer inside a task now asks whether it is for this task or everything, and a global timer keeps running as you move between tasks and channels. New keyboard shortcuts start, pause and stop it. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- You can change keyboard shortcuts in Settings. New task is now Command or Ctrl plus Shift plus O, because browsers keep Command N for themselves. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- You can copy or reply to a single chat bubble.

### Improved

- Replies now show only the answer, and your helper's progress notes fold into a collapsed note above it. Texts carry only the answer too.

### Fixed

- Replies no longer repeat the same progress line, and a reply shows as one message bubble instead of one for each sentence.

## Swipe navigation on phones

Release 28, October 10, 2026

### New

- On a phone you can swipe to open and close panels, and swipe back from Settings pages and action rows. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- You can also swipe down to dismiss sheets and popups, and swipe right in Home or a task to open the task panel. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Your helper can open Settings directly from its advice. Wallet has links to download Link for iOS or Android.
- New sign ups confirm that they are 18 or older before entering an email or details.

### Fixed

- A task stops showing a working animation on a phone when its reply finishes. The header Stop button and computer activity also stay in sync.
- A task card recovers when a reply goes silent, and a stalled reply is stopped instead of hanging.
- Your helper's internal tool documentation no longer shows in task results. The touch Reply and Copy shortcuts also no longer cover the task card steps button.
- In Passwords and keys, long website names stay clear of the Edit and Remove buttons on narrow screens. The Appearance buttons also fit evenly. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)

## Secure connections and Live notes from Home

Release 27, October 10, 2026

### New

- You can start Live notes directly from Home without sending a chat message. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)

### Improved

- Sign in and saved logins are only sent over secure HTTPS connections. Your helper's computer also blocks outgoing form submissions over plain HTTP and credentials placed in web addresses. Read more: [Sentinel](https://1helm.com/docs/security/sentinel.md)
- Confirmation cards are now limited to payments and API keys. Your helper also keeps the relationship wording you used for a contact, such as "my boss", and large contact imports stay responsive. Read more: [Asking first and permissions](https://1helm.com/docs/approvals.md)

### Fixed

- Browser tasks now read your new messages at the next safe point instead of carrying on with old instructions. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- Onboarding remembers your location and microphone choices, and it no longer shows Soon for iPhone or repeats reply style questions. Get to know you now waits for you to tap Next.
- Connected accounts are identified consistently, and Zoom shows each account's email. Accounts that share a name or email are no longer merged into one. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- Adding a PayPal key now opens a secure account specific setup instead of failing. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- Watch it live is hidden when that computer is already open, and browser handoff instructions stay visible. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)

## Copy buttons and SSH connections

Release 26, October 9, 2026

### New

- You can copy inline code, keys and code blocks directly from the chat with small copy icons. Long keys and code stay inside chat bubbles on desktop and phones.
- Your helper's computer can connect to your own servers over SSH and join your Tailscale network, and each connection needs your approval. Server fingerprints are explained with copy icons and warnings if they change, and trusted servers are remembered. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)

### Improved

- You can set how many tool calls pass before your helper checks in, and paused tasks stay under Waiting on you. Read more: [Asking first and permissions](https://1helm.com/docs/approvals.md)
- Apps that are not available yet are hidden from the Apps catalog, and Terms, Privacy and open source pages open from Settings without a Soon label.
- Download Apps was removed from quick settings and from Help and support. You can still install 1Helm as an app from Settings. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)

### Fixed

- Apps that sign in with OAuth now show Connect and use their own sign in. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- Deleting a chat now shows progress right away and prevents duplicate requests. It also offers a retry if it fails.
- A small dot appears in the Notebook when there are new cards from Bee. Read more: [Bee](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/bee.md)
- Long web addresses in app connection instructions wrap inside the panel.

## Release 25, October 9, 2026

### New

- Files you add are read as soon as they arrive, including documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, scanned PDFs, pictures and recordings. Your helper can answer from them in one step without starting the computer. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- You can choose an AI data privacy level in onboarding and in Settings, either Unrestricted, No Training or Zero Data Retention. Every AI request is checked against your choice before it is sent, and existing accounts stay on Zero Data Retention. Read more: [AI data privacy](https://1helm.com/docs/privacy/ai.md)
- Live notes can listen to a meeting tab such as Meet, Zoom web or Teams web, so other people's voices are captured even with headphones on. A minute before a calendar meeting you also get a reminder offering to take notes. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- Get to know you asks which apps you use, so your helper knows which apps to offer. You can edit the list in Settings under Connected accounts. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)
- You can hover over a message, or press and hold on a phone, to copy it or reply to it. A reply pins a quote above the text box, and your helper knows which message you are replying to.
- Sentinel now checks everything the helper's computer sends out. Saved keys only reach the site they belong to, and anything that sends data to an outside site waits for your OK. Read more: [Sentinel](https://1helm.com/docs/security/sentinel.md)

### Improved

- Speech to text for Live notes, dictation and recordings is more accurate and faster. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- Live notes catches many more decisions and action items. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- Each step on a task card now shows a short readable result, such as top links for a search or "3 flights from $211", with details tucked away. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)

### Fixed

- The Merge button in Contacts works again, and the Possible duplicates banner is back. Read more: [Contacts](https://1helm.com/docs/contacts.md)

## Release 24, October 8, 2026

### New

- The sign in email now includes a 6 digit code next to the link, and you can type or paste it on the Check your email screen, including in the installed app or on another device. The code works once and expires in 15 minutes. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Live notes works for everyone now, using your device's microphone when no Bee is connected, with notes appearing about 15 seconds after speech. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- With your own AI key, you can choose Sign in with OpenRouter, approve it there, and then pick your model from a searchable list without pasting a key. Read more: [Use your own AI key](https://1helm.com/docs/billing/byok.md)
- Your helper can look up flights, hotels, restaurants, shopping, stocks, maps, news and papers with live search tools. It also has quick routes for weather, events, Yelp and similar services, so answers come from real data. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)

### Improved

- When your Bee finishes processing a meeting, you get an Update your meeting notes card that lists the exact changes with Apply and Don't apply buttons. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)

### Fixed

- An update to 1Helm no longer interrupts work that is running. Chats, scheduled workflows, background helpers and text replies pick up where they left off, and nothing that sends or acts is repeated.
- On tablets and medium width screens, the task header no longer runs under the computer button. Its actions fold into a menu in a set order.

## Release 23, October 7, 2026

### New

- Workflows that run when something happens in a connected app, such as a new email from a person, can now run for your account. Read more: [When something happens](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/events.md)

## Files, apps, memory, texting and Bee

Release 5, October 7, 2026

### New

- You can attach files to a message or a new task with the plus button, drag and drop, or paste. The Library now keeps every file you add or your helper makes, and you can open, download or delete them. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- Files open in a viewer inside 1Helm, including images, PDFs, Markdown, CSV, text, audio and video, and you can move between files with arrows or a swipe. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- Spreadsheets show columns, sheet tabs and formatted values, and slide decks and Word documents open page by page. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- You can share any Library file with a link that anyone can open without signing in. The link can last 7 days, 30 days or until you revoke it. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- You can publish a web page your helper made at your own address, then update or unpublish it later. Nothing goes public until you tap. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- Repeating schedules can follow a calendar rule such as weekdays at 7:00, Sundays at 8 PM or the last Friday of the month. The schedule uses your own time zone and is shown in plain words. Read more: [Routines and Scheduled](https://1helm.com/docs/routines.md)
- You can connect any app from the Apps popup, and your helper can then use it. Each app has its own page with a description, how it connects, the actions your helper can take and the events it can report. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- You can connect more than one account for the same app, such as two Gmail accounts. Each account shows its own label and a Default badge. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- Your helper can use the account you name, and a note under each account, for example "my work email", helps it pick the right one without asking. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- When you ask whether your helper can use an app, it searches the app list and shows a Connect card in the chat. It carries on with your request once you connect. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- If you ask to connect another account of an app, the card appears in the chat instead of sending you to Settings. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- You can choose Managed or Self-managed for your app connections, either in onboarding or later in Settings. Managed uses 1Helm's setup, and Self-managed signs you in to your own account with the connection service. Read more: [Managed or Self-managed](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/managed.md)
- Your helper can attach a Library file to an app action, such as an email attachment, and files that an app returns, such as a Gmail attachment, are saved to your Library. Sending still needs your OK. Read more: [Files and apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/files.md)
- Contacts is now one shared address book with name, relation, nicknames, phone and email, so your helper knows who you mean by "my boss" or "my sister". Read more: [Contacts](https://1helm.com/docs/contacts.md)
- You can import contacts from an iPhone, iCloud, Android or Google export or from a Google or Outlook CSV file. A preview shows what is new, what will merge and what will be skipped before anything is saved, and the file stays in your browser. Read more: [Contacts](https://1helm.com/docs/contacts.md)
- Get to know you is an optional task of about 3 minutes with 15 tappable questions that you can skip or finish later. Each answer becomes a Notebook note. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- You can also say "interview me" at any time, and your helper runs the same step by step interview in the chat. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Settings now has a Passwords and keys section where you can save, add by hand, edit and remove website logins and keys. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)
- Passwords are sealed and never shown again, even to your helper. Your helper can sign in with a saved login only on that login's own site. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)
- You can import saved logins from a Chrome password export. A preview shows what is new, what will update and what will be skipped, and the file is read in your browser and never uploaded. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)
- Your helper can reply with tappable cards for choices, forms, totals, email drafts and questions. When you text your helper, the cards open inside Messages and your taps come back as your reply.
- Before your helper sends an email, invites guests or changes something in a connected app, you get a card that shows exactly what will happen, with Confirm and Cancel buttons. Permission cards also have a clearer look, and Always allow asks "Are you sure?" first. Read more: [Asking first and permissions](https://1helm.com/docs/approvals.md)
- Texting now accepts photos, videos, PDFs and other files, up to 50 MB and 10 per message. They are saved to your Library, and iPhone photos are converted automatically. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- You can dictate a message by tapping the microphone in the message box. Your words appear in the box for you to check, and they are never sent automatically. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- After you sign in, one sheet asks for location and microphone access together. With location on, your helper knows roughly where you are and does not ask. Read more: [Location and microphone](https://1helm.com/docs/location.md)
- Settings has a Location and mic section where you can update or forget your location. Read more: [Location and microphone](https://1helm.com/docs/location.md)
- You can stop a working task with a Stop button in the task header or the message box, and a Stop all button appears when several tasks are working. Stop ends the work right away and keeps what was done. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- Tasks that run long now pause on their own with a short report and Keep going and Stop here buttons. A task that goes 10 minutes without a reply also pauses to check with you. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- A single computer command stops after 4 minutes unless you asked for a long job. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- When you send messages while your helper is working, they join the task it is on and it answers once. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- Each turn gets a card in an Activity feed beside the chat, with a plain English timeline of the steps your helper took. Read more: [While it works](https://1helm.com/docs/working.md)
- For multi step work your helper can keep a to-do list. A checklist button with progress appears in the task header, and you can tick items yourself. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- Your helper can react to your latest message with a heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laughing, exclamation or question mark. In the app it shows as a small badge, and when you texted it is a real iMessage reaction.
- A clock button in the message box lets you send a message later, such as in 1 hour, tonight at 7 PM, tomorrow at 9 AM or at a custom time. Scheduled messages show as pending bubbles that you can edit, send now or cancel. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- When you write several things in one message, or say "split this up", your helper proposes one plan card with a checkbox for each item. Approving starts every ticked task at once, and only you can approve. Read more: [Plans and brain dumps](https://1helm.com/docs/plans.md)
- A focus timer (Pomodoro) is available for each task from the tomato in the task header, with 25 and 5, 50 and 10, 15 and 3, or custom lengths. A ring counts down, and a break screen tells you when to rest. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- You can create a new channel with the plus button in the channel rail. Your same helper works there with its own memory and computer, and a workspace can have up to 25 channels. Read more: [Your helper and channels](https://1helm.com/docs/helpers.md)
- Deleting a chat, a channel or your whole account now removes everything connected to it, including messages, files, memory, schedules, connected apps and texting. Read more: [Privacy](https://1helm.com/docs/privacy.md), [Cancel or delete](https://1helm.com/docs/billing/cancel.md)
- Cancel plan keeps your plan until the end of the period you paid for, with reminder emails before everything is permanently deleted. Read more: [Privacy](https://1helm.com/docs/privacy.md), [Cancel or delete](https://1helm.com/docs/billing/cancel.md)
- Notifications now work for a task that needs you, a finished task and sounds, with push notifications on devices you turn on in Settings. Read more: [Notifications and help](https://1helm.com/docs/notifications.md)
- Settings has a Report an issue form with an optional screenshot, and a Contact us link. Read more: [Notifications and help](https://1helm.com/docs/notifications.md)
- Settings has Permissions with three levels, Standard, Careful and Locked down. Each ask appears as a card with Allow once, Always allow and Don't allow, and the things you always allowed are listed in Settings. Read more: [Asking first and permissions](https://1helm.com/docs/approvals.md)
- Every plan now includes storage, and Settings shows a storage meter with a breakdown. You can add storage in 100 GB blocks and remove it later. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)
- In Settings you can change your name and your sign in email, see your signed in devices, and sign out others. Logging out now ends that sign in. Read more: [Settings and your account](https://1helm.com/docs/settings.md)
- You can use your own AI key with any service that follows the OpenAI format, including self hosted servers that need no key. It can be a $10 per month plan, or a backup on a full plan that is used only when your 1Helm usage runs out. Read more: [Use your own AI key](https://1helm.com/docs/billing/byok.md)
- If a payment fails, your account becomes read only right away, so you can still read everything and download your files while you fix payment. Your data is kept until the end of the paid period plus 7 days, and paying any time before then restores everything. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)
- You can connect your Bee in Settings, then Ambient. Your finished Bee conversations are added to General's memory every 5 minutes. Read more: [Bee](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/bee.md)
- You can import past conversations after seeing an estimate, and facts your Bee confirmed show as From Bee notes in your Notebook. Read more: [Bee](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/bee.md)
- Live notes can fill in beside the chat while your Bee is recording, and Stop saves the notes to the Library under Meetings. Each session is added as its own section. Read more: [Live notes](https://1helm.com/docs/ambient/live-notes.md)
- Settings and the account menu now have an Install 1Helm app button, which opens your browser's install prompt, or shows the Add to Home Screen steps on iPhone, iPad and Mac Safari. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Your helper has a library of skills that it reads before tasks they cover, such as making files, planning travel, booking, shopping, researching many items, and saving your own procedures as skills. Read more: [Skills](https://1helm.com/docs/skills.md)
- Your helper can search the web using DuckDuckGo and read pages as clean text. Many questions now take fewer steps. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)

### Improved

- Uploads in the Library show their progress with a Cancel button, and a small tray follows you to other pages while files upload. Read more: [Library](https://1helm.com/docs/library.md)
- The combined Google connection was replaced by the individual Google apps, which are Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Tasks, Meet and Photos. A combined connection you already had keeps working. Read more: [Google](https://1helm.com/docs/apps/google.md)
- Dozens of apps that showed Connect but could do nothing now work. Some apps that said Soon now work without a sign in, and popular apps offer many more actions. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- Contacts handles large address books, with A to Z sections, a letter rail and instant search. Each contact can have several labelled numbers and emails, and Merge also suggests possible duplicates. Read more: [Contacts](https://1helm.com/docs/contacts.md)
- Memory is kept separately for each channel, so a fact you tell one channel stays there. Only your helper in General can read and write across every channel. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Your helper understands dates like "yesterday", "last week" and "in September" in your time zone, and it says plainly when a name or number was never mentioned. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Things your helper remembers now appear as Notebook rows right away. The Notebook has a new overview with a card for each section, tabs with counts, and a way to dismiss the How this works note. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Your text conversation with your helper has its own Texts section and is titled "Text with" and your helper's name. It stays open like a thread in Messages. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Texting works with US numbers, and Android phones work through plain text messages on the same number. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- Your helper can mark a task done only when you explicitly ask. For to-do lists it marks items as doing, and finished items show Ready to tick for you. Read more: [Tasks](https://1helm.com/docs/tasks.md)
- A single Scheduled view replaces the two similar buttons. It lists Repeats, which you can pause, resume or stop, one time follow ups, and messages set to send later, across all channels. Read more: [Routines and Scheduled](https://1helm.com/docs/routines.md)
- Passwords, API keys, card numbers, ID numbers and one time codes typed in chat are removed before anything is saved to memory or notes, and your helper offers Passwords and keys instead. Read more: [Privacy](https://1helm.com/docs/privacy.md)
- Cost estimates are now off by default. You can turn on Show estimated costs in Settings to see about what each task has cost, and your balance and plan meter still show. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)
- Your helper builds Word documents, PDFs, slide decks and spreadsheets by following a playbook that checks each file before you see it, and editing a file in the same task saves a new version of the same Library file. Read more: [Skills](https://1helm.com/docs/skills.md)
- If an app is connected, your helper uses it instead of opening that service's website or sign in page, unless you asked for the website. Read more: [Connecting apps](https://1helm.com/docs/apps.md)
- The computer panel was redesigned, with a dark full screen on phones, clipboard, Take control and I'm done buttons, a trackpad mode and a progress bar while it starts. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- The side panel, phone menu and Home organize tasks into Waiting on you, Working, Ready for you, Watching and Done, and each section folds. On a phone the menu shows more tasks, and the channel name at the top switches channels. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)
- You can swipe a channel sheet down to close it on a phone.
- Confirmations in the app, such as deleting a file or disconnecting an app, use 1Helm's own dialog instead of the browser's pop up. Leaving a form with unsaved changes asks whether to save them.
- App logos appear on saved logins, permission cards and app lists, with a letter tile shown first until the logo loads.

### Fixed

- Long tasks no longer end with an empty reply.
- App pages are no longer blank when an ad blocker is running, and they can always be closed.
- In Settings, the Texting page now shows that texting is on, with both numbers and a Turn off button. Read more: [The app and texting](https://1helm.com/docs/reaching.md)

## Release 4, October 1, 2026

### New

- A computer icon now sits in the top right of every screen, or in the top bar on a phone. It opens the live browser with a Take control button, and an amber dot shows when your helper is using the computer. Read more: [Its computer and the web](https://1helm.com/docs/computer.md)
- Add credits now works, with $10, $25 and $50 choices on the card for your plan. Read more: [Plans and usage](https://1helm.com/docs/billing.md)

### Improved

- The Notebook always shows its five sections with a button to add a note. Notes you add, edit or delete are saved, and your helper reads them on its next task. Read more: [Memory](https://1helm.com/docs/memory.md)
- Settings no longer lists Language, WhatsApp or the More apps adverts in Connected accounts.

### Fixed

- The Notebook and Contacts pages no longer crash in the background.

## Release 2, October 1, 2026

### Improved

- On a phone, 1Helm now opens inside General instead of the channel list. The back arrow still takes you to the list.
- Your helper's pictures now use the updated artwork.


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