Changelog
What shipped in GuideLayer for Mac. Installed builds update through Sparkle; new downloads always get the latest DMG.
1.5.0
Build 13 · July 25, 2026
- Improved— Time-sensitive lookups — weather, prices, exchange rates, schedules, scores — come back faster. They now take a single bounded pass instead of waiting on a second corroboration round.
- Improved— Stopping a spoken turn actually stops the work behind it. A discarded request is cancelled at the model instead of running on in the background, so there's no late reply and no usage spent on an answer you no longer wanted.
- Fixed— Asking for a new walkthrough part-way through a lesson now starts that lesson. Saying "show me how to send an invoice" mid-lesson was being folded into the step you were already on; short follow-ups like "walk me through this" still belong to the lesson you're in.
- Fixed— An Agent Mode task on a Claude route can no longer be quietly answered twice. Once it has started using tools, GuideLayer stops rather than falling back to a plain answer over work that was already partly done.
1.4.0
Build 12 · July 22, 2026
- New— GuideLayer now works out what you meant instead of matching keywords. Every spoken turn is read for intent, so it answers, asks one clarifying question, opens an app or folder, starts a lesson, looks something up, or takes on a longer task as the request actually warrants. How you phrase a request no longer decides what happens.
- New— Ask about something GuideLayer can't see on your screen and it now runs a quick live web lookup instead of stalling or guessing from memory.
- New— Longer jobs go straight to Agent Mode. When a request clearly needs real work rather than an answer, GuideLayer starts it directly instead of replying first and escalating afterwards.
- New— Unfinished lessons come back to you. If you step away part-way through, GuideLayer offers to pick up where you left off the next time you're back on the same task, and stops offering once you dismiss it.
- New— Check for Updates is now available in Settings, and GuideLayer detects when it's running from a location that invalidates its macOS permissions and offers to fix it.
- Improved— Each turn knows what just happened. What GuideLayer pointed at, the lesson you finished, the lookup it ran, the app it opened, and how an Agent Mode task ended all carry into your next question, so follow-ups like "why that one?" work.
- Improved— Pointing and lessons capture the whole display, so GuideLayer can see and point at the menu bar and other system UI instead of only the frontmost window.
- Improved— Voice understanding is less brittle overall: "got it" mid-lesson, ordinary conversation, and requests that don't match any expected phrasing are all handled on meaning rather than wording.
- Fixed— Saying "stop" during a web lookup no longer speaks a stale answer a moment later.
- Fixed— Fixed a crash that could happen when stopping GuideLayer mid-turn.
- Fixed— Voice replies no longer hang when two spoken turns overlap.
- Fixed— A confident direct answer is no longer turned into an Agent Mode task you didn't ask for.
- Fixed— Web lookups no longer fail instantly depending on which model you have selected or where your tools are installed.
1.3.0
Build 11 · July 17, 2026
- NewWatch & Review: ask GuideLayer to watch a single window while you work, then say "review what you saw" and it looks back over what changed and tells you what it found. The frames it keeps live only in memory and are cleared the moment you stop, switch to an excluded app, or close the window.
1.2.1
Build 10
- FixedVoice input works on Macs whose microphone reports more than two channels. GuideLayer heard silence on those machines, so nothing you said was transcribed.
- FixedGuideLayer speaks its answers again. It was playing only the short "let me look" filler and staying silent on the actual reply.
- FixedAsking about your screen works whatever words you use. Questions like "what do you see" were answered without GuideLayer ever looking, because it tried to guess from your phrasing whether a screenshot was needed. It now looks every time you ask a question by voice.
- FixedThe privacy promise, Visual Intelligence, What's New, and purchase windows no longer hide behind the main panel or disappear when you click away, and you can drag them where you want.
- FixedSliders in Settings move their knob instead of dragging the whole window.
- Fixed"Send feedback" opens the GuideLayer contact page. It was opening your local diagnostics folder instead; crash reports are still reachable from the Crash diagnostics row.
- ImprovedGoogle Workspace access through the local gogcli command has been retired, along with its bundled skills.
1.2.0
Build 9
- NewVoice tutoring is now a conversation: GuideLayer watches the screen while it talks you through a task, and your spoken turns appear in Home alongside its replies.
- NewLessons remember where you left off. Tutor steps are saved in order, so progress survives a quit or restart.
- NewPointing now snaps to the real control. GuideLayer reads the actual macOS button or field under the cursor and centers the reticle on it, falling back to the visual guess only where the system can't see the control.
- NewStop really stops. One press cancels voice, Tutor, Agent Mode, and computer-use work together.
- ImprovedGuideLayer only looks at your screen when you actually refer to it. Saying "this button" or "the one on the right" captures the screen; ordinary conversation stays text-only.
- ImprovedCapturing your screen no longer pulls focus away from the app you're working in.
- ImprovedAgent Mode now runs confined by default, limited to your workspace with networking off. Full access is a deliberate, per-task choice.
- ImprovedPrivacy defaults are consent-first: crash reports are off unless you turn them on, GuideLayer no longer adds itself to your login items without asking, and Incognito now suppresses every remaining plaintext record, including the app-usage log and agent memory.
- ImprovedPermission screens now request access directly instead of only pointing you at System Settings, and report what actually failed.
- ImprovedModel choices are discovered from your own account, and each provider is routed to the credentials you configured for it.
- FixedVoice works on a fresh install with no OpenAI key. GuideLayer now speaks with an on-device macOS voice by default and picks a voice model that matches the keys you actually have.
1.1.0
Build 8
- New"Show me around", a guided tour that walks you through GuideLayer's main features.
- NewSkills you already keep in ~/.claude and ~/.codex now surface in GuideLayer for one-tap approval.
- NewThe GuideLayer panel now appears in the Dock while open, can be moved freely, and has standard close, minimize, and zoom controls.
- ImprovedRefreshed toggles, pickers, and settings surfaces across the app for a more consistent look.
- ImprovedTutor Mode now starts off for new users.
- FixedDetecting the Codex runtime no longer stalls or trips a performance warning.
1.0.1
Build 7
- FixedQuit GuideLayer now exits cleanly from the menu bar.
- NewAdded a built-in Uninstall option that removes GuideLayer and its data.
- NewNew first-run welcome walkthrough for macOS permissions and your Claude API key.
- FixedThe GuideLayer panel and cursor overlay now layer correctly above other apps.
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