Chorus Changelog
0.6.8
2025-03-15
We’ve added web search for GPT 4o.
- Faster PDF uploads for OpenAI models (we switched to using the Responses API)
- Potential MacOS 13.0+ compatability (thanks Roman!)
- Free tier usage reduced to 50 Chorus requests for new users
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where submitting while an attachment was loading would cause the input to clear
- Ensure space at bottom for reading last message when text input is full
0.6.7
2025-03-12
You can now undo, regenerate, and hide reviews. They also look a bit nicer now.
- Fixed stroke width for @TheXeophon
- Modals blur background
- UI touch-ups
0.6.6
2025-03-11
Chorus is now more beautiful! We’ve updated the UI to be a lot more consistent and pretty.
0.6.5
2025-03-08
- You can now use GPT-4.5 through your own OpenAI API key
0.6.4
2025-03-07
- GPT-4.5 Preview is now Pro user only
- Improved permissions flow during onboarding
- Site now makes it clear how to download for Silicon vs. Intel Mac
- Added Windows waitlist
- Re-ordering suggested models
0.6.3
2025-03-06
We’ve added Perplexity’s R1, Sonar Reasoning Pro, and Sonar Deep Research. And fixed lots of bugs.
Fixes
- Update Ambient Chat permissions request during onboarding
- Fix code block rendering in Ambient Chat
- Change add -> select in model picker
- Update the reviewer order
- Don’t show update dialog in Ambient Chat window
- Make opening Ambient Chats less weird
- Less bold markdown headers
0.6.2
2025-03-05
We’ve added Perplexity Sonar Pro as a reviewer, and added support for PDFs for GPT-4o and GPT-4.5.
Other fixes:
- Agreement is more subtle
- We now ask for screen sharing permissions in onboarding if you want to use vision mode
0.6.1
2025-03-03
Bug fixes
0.6.0
2025-03-03
Introducing Reviews!
AIs now review each other’s messages for accuracy and clarity. Only one AI responds at a time.
If you prefer to see responses side-by-side, you can turn on Legacy Mode in settings.
0.5.36
2025-02-27
GPT-4.5 Preview and o3-mini-high are now live in Chorus.
We’ve also added a highlight to reply tooltip.
0.5.35
2025-02-26
Ambient chat now works on 2 monitor setups, and views whatever screen it is open on. It’s also more obvious :)
- Image resizing and uploading is now 10x faster
- Add toggle for URL auto-scraping
- Fix MELTY_PLACEHOLDER bug
0.5.34
2025-02-25
- Clean up the settings page
- Fix a bug where the scroll-to-bottom button would appear in Ambient Chat
- Add review mode (experimental)
0.5.33
2025-02-24
Show Claude’s thinking tokens.
0.5.32
2025-02-24
Claude 3.7 is live!
0.5.31
2025-02-23
Fix broken synthesis.
0.5.30
2025-02-22
- Allow skipping the ambient chat step in onboarding
- Markdown rendering fixes
0.5.29
2025-02-21
Lots of clean up!*
- Improve code blocks performance
- Fix Claude cache-control issue
- Widen responses
- Less fade on secondary responses
- Remove max height on messages
- Remove delete button
- Remove double scroll bars and hidden scroll bars
- New chats are faster to load
*(Fix some of Fred and Michael’s problems)
0.5.28
2025-02-18
Support for OpenRouter model image attachments.
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Settings moved to
Chorussection on menu bar - Address an occasional issue where enter would not cause a message to submit
0.5.27
2025-02-17
- Show time to first token and approximate tokens/sec (we’re using the 4o tokenizer right now)
- Ambient chat takes precedence over full screen apps
0.5.26
2025-02-17
- Fix sidebar button
- Show auth pop-up if you’re not logged in
0.5.25
2025-02-15
- Synthesis is easier to toggle
- Added a max height for non primary messages
- Fixed Ambient Chat not working in onboarding
- Automatic images resizing
- Improved error messages
0.5.24
2025-02-13
Redesigned, more intuitive chat flow.
- Messages that are part of the conversation now shift to the left
- Synthesize button moved to left
- You can now add any model to a response
- LM Studio base URL is customizable (Settings -> API Keys)
Let us know if the new flow is a regression in any way! We love your feedback :) founders@melty.sh
0.5.23
2025-02-12
Onboarding tweaks.
0.5.22
2025-02-11
Ollama models can now handle text files and web urls.
0.5.21
2025-02-11
- Ambient chats have their own folder in sidebar
- Better error handling
- Updated onboarding to include vision mode
0.5.20
2025-02-10
- Fix an issue affecting chat titles and sharing
0.5.19
2025-02-08
- Stop / Regenerate buttons
- Re-open Chorus by clicking dock icon (fix CMD+W bug)
- Taller code blocks
- Improved update dialog
0.5.18
2025-02-07
- Hotfix: home screen crashing bug
0.5.16
2025-02-07
- Ambient Chat shortcut is now configurable
- Fixed Gemini + OpenRouter failing if you used your own API keys
- Ambient Chat polishing (background changes on focus, easier to drag)
0.5.15
2025-02-05
- Add eye animation to Ambient Chat
- Fix a bug that causes vision mode to overflow context window after a few messages
- Fix misc bugs in Ambient Chat
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Add Ambient Claude custom prompt:
Respond concisely. Use one or two sentences if possible. If the user has vision mode enabled, whenever they send a message, the system will automatically attach a screenshot showing the current state of their computer screen. Use these screenshots as needed to help answer the user's questions. There's no need to describe the screenshot or comment on it except insofar as it relates to the user's question.
0.5.14
2025-02-05
New models from Gemini, and optimized image uploads for faster vision mode.
0.5.13
2025-02-04
Ambient chats can now see your screen while in vision mode. Toggle with ⌘I.
- Fixed Sonar Perplexity citations not rendering
- Rename quick chat to ambient chat
0.5.12
2025-02-03
You can now share chats! Click share or press ⌘⇧S to generate a private shareable link to your chat.
0.5.11
2025-02-01
Chorus can now run terminal commands for you!
Fixes:
- Image uploads now look nicer
- Fixed a synthesis bug
0.5.10
2025-02-01
Quick chat improvements:
- You can now change quick chat model from the quick chat window (no need to go to settings)
- Changing the model happens live (no need to make a new quick chat to try the new model)
- Shortcut for changing the model
Other fixes:
- Sidebar button appears when sidebar is closed
- Home screen page is now draggable
0.5.9
2025-01-31
-
Render
<think>tags as collapsible for reasoning models from DeepSeek and Ollama. - o1 and o3-mini are now better at markdown
- Allow for users to choose whether we convert long pasted text into file attachments
- Add option to view raw output
0.5.8
2025-01-31
- Fixed a bunch of jank. Scrolling is smooth, and new chats start faster
- Added o3-mini
- Quick chat max size is larger
0.5.7
2025-01-30
- New onboarding flow
- Make quick chat window resizable
- Quick chat window follows theme
- If main window is hidden and quick chat is initiated, don’t show main window
- Better OpenRouter errors
0.5.6
2025-01-29
Quick chat with any model, anywhere on your Mac. Activate by pressing Alt+Space.
- Max width on expanded messages
- Add status badge for pro users
0.5.5
2025-01-28
We’ve added Deepseek and Groq as providers.
- Expand message view
- Moved copy message button to top of message
0.5.4
2025-01-27
- Users now get 100 free AI messages through Chorus (plus unlimited messages through API keys).
- “Selected” messages are now called “included” messages
- Fix [object Object] showing up in code blocks
- Fix up search behavior in the new model picker
- Fix a bug where synthesis would display alongside original responses
0.5.3
2025-01-24
We made the model picker better, and added a new shortcut — open it with ⌘J in a chat.
Fixes
- Model pills wrapping weirdly on smaller screens
- New tooltip that explains which messages are in context
- Rename ‘Talk to a human’ to ‘Feedback’
- Design tweaks
0.5.2
2025-01-23
Anthropic models now support citations, and we’ve added the two latest models from Perplexity, Sonar and Sonar Pro.
Features:
- Citations
- Sonar + Sonar Pro
- You can now use any model as a base prompt for a custom prompt
0.5.1
2025-01-21
Code blocks now have syntax highlighting.
Features:
- Syntax highlighting
- Copy user message button
Fixes:
- Add model button is now a plus sign
- Model picker now always opens upwards
0.5.0
2025-01-20
You can now synthesize chat responses! Try it with ⌘S.
Features:
- Synthesize responses - New onboarding flow
- Company logos in model picker
Fixes:
- Our mailserver is back up – if the “Talk to human” button didn’t work for you, please give it one more shot!
- New model additions always add to the right side of the screen
0.4.5
2025-01-19
Restores chat title generation.
(Chat title generation on versions <= 0.4.4 is deactivated since 2025-01-19 2:20 P.M. PST so that we can rotate API keys.)
0.4.4
2025-01-17
Features:
- Renders GitHub-Flavored Markdown, including tables
- Add a “recommended” section in the model picker
Bug fixes
- Fixed: issue preventing some users from attaching webpages
- Fixed: switch chats while messages are streaming
- Fixed: click dock icon to open the app when it’s been quit
- Fixed: delete old messages
0.4.3
2025-01-16
Bug fixes:
- OpenRouter models are back online
- Fix “Attachment is not a webpage” error
- Improvements to URL handling on paste
- Add “Talk to a human” button
0.4.2
2025-01-16
- Paste a URL to attach it to a message
- Model selection once again persists across chats
Bugs
- Fixed an issue with dragging models
0.4.1
2025-01-14
- Autoscroll!
- New delete message button
- New max width on messages
- Attachments look better
- Sleeker updating flow
Bugs
- Fixed scroll jankiness on streaming
- Code block rendering
0.4.0
2025-01-13
- New model selection interface
- Better attachment support, including text attachments
- Models page is renamed to Prompts page
- Fixed API keys not saving
0.3.32
2025-01-09
- Intel Mac support
- Partial LaTeX support
- Styling improvements
- Make home page alert dismissible
Bugs
- Fixed copy/paste weirdness
- More reliable update server
- Fix switching chat jankiness
- Don’t override ctrl+k on Mac
- Scrollbar color on dark mode
0.3.31
2025-01-07
- Adding options to select all messages (or none!)
- Bug fixes
0.3.30
2025-01-05
Button to load more OpenRouter models
0.3.29
2025-01-05
- OpenRouter support. Run any model on OpenRouter, including DeepSeek and Grok. Bring your own API key, or use our proxy.
- Paste in image support. If you copy and image to your clipboard, you can now paste it into Chorus.
Bug fixes
- Chat titles generate again
- Chats are now deletable again
0.3.28
2025-01-04
- Image support for GPT 4o and Claude
- PDF support (with caching) for Claude
- Full width chat on wide screens
- Option to set LM Studio local network URL
- Faster rendering (React fixes)
0.3.27
2025-01-02
Fix bugs
0.3.26
2025-01-02
- Fix React mistake that was causing slowness on typing
- Optional sign-in
0.3.25
2025-01-01
Fixed some weirdness with markdown rendering
0.3.24
2024-12-31
Features
- Added Perplexity and Gemini Flash Thinking
- Added link preiews for Wikipedia links
- Improed title generation
Bugs
- Fixed O1 not rendering bug
- Added note about enabling CORS for LM Studio models
- Fixed code block rendering
- Allow for selection of parts of an answer
0.3.23
2024-12-30
You can now run local models! Download Ollama or LM Studio (or both) and go to the /models page (cmd+shift+m) to try it out.
0.3.22
2024-12-30
Add bring your own API key option
0.3.20
2024-12-29
Fixed O1
0.3.19
2024-12-29
Tweaks
0.3.18
2024-12-29
Updated styling, proxy
0.3.16
2024-12-29
Home page tweaks
0.3.15
2024-12-28
Settings page styling updates
0.3.14
2024-12-28
Redirect to / on chat deletion
0.3.13
2024-12-28
- Graph view
- Add a new model after generations
- CMD+L to focus on textarea
- Empty states
0.3.11
2024-12-27
Updater fixed
0.3.9
2024-12-27
CMD+index shortcut to select
0.3.8
2024-12-27
Tweaks
0.3.7
2024-12-26
New data model, UI improements
0.3.6
2024-12-24
Chorus is updated! Check the changelog for details.
0.3.3
2024-12-24
Renamed to Chorus, design updates.
0.3.2
2024-12-22
Fix new model bug.
0.2.18
2024-12-20
Multichat experiment
0.3.1
2024-12-21
Fix gemini
0.3.0
2024-12-21
Multi chats!
0.2.17
2024-12-11
Makeover!