What's New

Release notes for Inline apps, developer tools, and integrations.

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August 15, 2026

🏠 iOS has an all-new Home with Open, All Chats, and Search, plus faster navigation and more control over how chats are shown.
🧵 The macOS sidebar now shows reply threads under their parent. You can pin or collapse them together, rename a reply thread, or open one beside the main conversation.
🎧 Added Grid on macOS: lightweight voice rooms for spaces, with presence, screen sharing, and controls for microphones, room names, and access.
🎨 Added themes on macOS, with new color presets across the sidebar, chats, composer, Grid, and settings.
🤖 Added one-click agent setup on macOS and in Inline CLI 0.7.3. Connect OpenClaw, Hermes, Codex, Claude, OpenCode, or Amp, create or reuse a bot, then start it and verify it is ready.
Added a local agent bridge so coding agents can run as private Inline bots, keep workspace context, and continue work in reply threads.

Improved bot setup and management, including profiles, chat controls, and commands such as /command@bot.
Added Copy as Markdown for threads, with clean text and media links ready to paste as reference.
Drop files or media onto a macOS sidebar chat to open it with the attachments ready as a draft.
Press and hold a chat on iOS Home to preview it and see its actions.
Command-K on macOS is faster, with immediate local results and better ranking over time.
Added Privacy settings for Appear in Global Search and Share Time Zone. Both are on by default.
Improved document, X, and Figma previews. Notifications now show document names and more reliable avatars.
Choosing All Notifications now follows the chat, so it stays visible in your sidebar.
Clear a conversation only for yourself, or privately share a thread with another Inline user.
Improved profile setup, including Memoji profile photos on macOS and new Account settings on iOS.
Improved macOS Settings, software updates, menus, emoji options, and email-code autofill.
The iOS share menu now suggests the Inline chats you share with most often.
Made reactions more compact and unread badges more consistent.
Improved OpenClaw and Hermes setup and thread support. MCP now supports ChatGPT apps.
Added Connectors on macOS and iOS. Connect Notion or Linear, reference pages with [[, and create tasks from Inline.

Released new plugins for OpenClaw and Hermes Agent with improved thread support.
Released an open-source Matrix bridge, so you can use Inline in Beeper if that's your thing.
Released a new version of the Inline CLI with new commands for agentic usage. The new transcript command gives agents a complete thread as Markdown, including files and media.
Released inline-sdk and inline-client for Rust.
Published llms.txt and made the docs more agent-friendly.
Improved our MCP server so it is more capable at finding and summarizing things.

🎙️ Added voice messages on macOS and iOS.
💫 Added a smooth new iOS send-message animation.
GIF GIF support on macOS and iOS!
👀 Added a Follow button for threads. Followed threads appear in your sidebar when they receive a new message.

We automatically follow threads you create, reply threads addressed to you, and reply threads you write in. If a thread is noisy, you can manually unfollow it and we won't automatically follow it again.
🏷️ You can now create user groups such as @eng, @design, or @support. They make it easy to mention or add multiple people to a thread at once. Create one from Space Settings.
🔍 Search messages from Command-K on macOS.

Added a new typing animation and a recording voice compose status.
The macOS reaction picker now sorts suggestions by your recent usage instead of using static defaults.
Choose whether macOS shows unread badges as dots or numbers.
Significantly improved large X/Twitter cards with larger media, author profiles, and long-text support.
The dock badge now includes unread followed threads, not only unread direct messages.
Added Copy Link for sharing threads with other Inline users.
Added an all-new Apple share-menu experience for sending content from other apps into Inline.
Added haptic feedback when reordering threads in the sidebar.

Thread icons now match across macOS, iOS, and notifications.
Fixed a bug on iOS 27 where the composer could move outside the viewport.
Improved voice waveform rendering and fixed composer state after sending voice messages.
Fixed message hover states getting stuck in minimal mode.
Fixed the emoji picker in the composer and switched it to our custom picker.
Reduced scrolling lag on macOS and iOS. There is still more to improve!
Fixed message-tap routing for documents, attachments, and URL previews on iOS.

💬 Bubbles now have tails! Thanks to Jace for her help polishing them.
🧲 Sticky avatars make scrolling chats nicer on macOS and iOS, in both minimal and bubble message modes.
🔗 Linking to a thread with [[thread]] now shows a backlink in the linked thread. This is the beginning of our multiplayer knowledge graph system.

Pinning a message now shows a small service message in the chat.
You can right-click a URL preview and exclude its domain from previews in your space threads.
Improved large URL previews across more card and media types.
Press and hold the macOS back or forward toolbar button to see your navigation history.
Configure what holding or double-clicking a message does on macOS.
Improved voice waveform rendering and reset composer state after sending voice messages.
Fixed macOS 26 toolbar and background behavior, including the glass composer height.
Fixed holding on reactions on macOS 15.
Added composer auto-pairing for [] and ().