Changelog.

Improved

• Snap Wheel shortcut. Open the radial window-layout picker directly from a configurable shortcut.
• Purge in palette search. Start app cleanup directly from the command palette.
• Local-model offload. Release model memory after inactivity and reload it when needed.

Changed

• Reduced idle animation work when Vehla windows are hidden.
• Tightened search-index memory limits and reduced unnecessary rebuild churn.
• Local AI no longer warm-starts by default; users who prefer a faster first response can opt in from Settings.
• Optional Messages integration now respects its saved preference at startup.

New

• Added first-class Lekh AI Pro integration for using its local MLX and GGUF models directly in Vehla.
• Added configurable Lekh AI Pro server endpoint and model selection with built-in connection testing.
• Added Continue in Lekh for sending selected text, clipboard content, Finder files, screenshots, Shelf items, and notes into a new Lekh chat.
• Added read-only discovery of compatible MLX models managed by Lekh AI Pro, including custom model storage locations.
• Added portable persona import and export for moving custom personas between Vehla and Lekh AI Pro without sharing app databases.
• Added macOS App Intents for opening Vehla, activating personas, and continuing text in Lekh AI Pro.
• Added Deep Research to Shelf with persistent progress, cancellation, reconnection, model selection, and automatic delivery of reports and source files.
• Added Vehla's standalone MCP client for direct HTTP/SSE and local stdio server connections, independent of Lekh AI Pro.
• Added a persistent .mcp workspace with agent tasks, live tool progress, one-time approvals, server management, manual invocation, and audit history.
• Added Keychain-backed MCP credentials plus per-server and per-tool Allow, Ask, and Deny controls.
• Added durable MCP agent-run history with transcript review and cleanup controls.
• Added a full SnapWheel layout editor with radial drag reordering, accessible list controls, customizable AI and app arcs, safe draft Apply/Cancel, and Focus-aware color profiles.
• Added Break Reminders with a customizable airplane banner flyover, configurable intervals, and a preview from Settings.
• Added a comprehensive Kanban workspace with folders, tags, board search, customizable columns, WIP limits, card priorities, due dates, labels, checklists, archives, and Markdown export.
• Added drag-and-drop card movement and reordering across Kanban statuses, plus draggable column reordering.
• Added kanban and board palette commands, including optional board-name matching for quickly opening a specific board.
• Added Kanban storage controls with iCloud Drive folder support and Recall indexing with actionable board citations.
• Upgraded Ask Memory into Recall: it now searches Shelf items, snippets, canvases, Deep Research reports, and user-selected folders alongside notes and clipboard — all indexed locally.
• Added actionable Recall citations: open the source, reveal it in Finder, stage it on a Shelf, or copy its full content from any cited chip.
• Added Recall source controls in Settings → Memory, including per-source toggles and read-only indexed folder management.

Improved

• Lekh AI Pro is treated as a local provider so private memory remains available without enabling cloud memory sharing.
• Simplified local provider settings by replacing the OMLX configuration with Lekh AI Pro.
• Available provider models now appear in discovered model dropdowns instead of requiring manual model IDs.
• Vehla now discovers Lekh research models through a secure shared catalog without requiring Lekh's local server.
• Lekh actions now appear only when Lekh AI Pro is installed and advertises the required integration capability.
• Added a setting to choose whether the menu bar icon opens Vehla's settings menu or command palette.
• Improved Folder Peek and Folder Dock glass rendering with cleaner rounded edges.
• Improved app responsiveness by keeping search indexing, large-model cleanup, and Deep Research coordination off the main thread.
• Kanban file reads, writes, JSON processing, exports, external-change monitoring, and debounced persistence now run off the main thread.
• MCP protocol, policy, transport, persistence, and agent orchestration run in isolated actors with bounded steps, cancellation, reconnect, output limits, and clean shutdown.
• Improved MCP support for local MLX models with relevant-tool ranking, compact schema prompts, malformed-output recovery, and Gemma padding safeguards.
• Enhanced SnapWheel with faster flick selection, more forgiving drag release, stable submenu traversal, reduced-animation controls, and optional automatic outer-arc closing.
• The command palette can now open around the mouse cursor on the monitor currently in use, with a setting to restore main-display positioning.
• Added an optional application-first search mode so installed apps can stay above matching commands and actions.
• Added a clipboard-management toggle for stopping clipboard monitoring while preserving existing history until it is cleared.

Fixed

• Fixed MCP authentication headers appearing to save while their placeholder names were discarded.
• Fixed MCP agent transcripts persisting into newly opened workspaces.
• Fixed local Gemma MCP sessions producing repeated padding tokens when large server catalogs were connected.
• Fixed SnapWheel briefly highlighting an opposite segment because two hover systems competed for selection.
• Fixed automatic SnapWheel outer-arc closing making distant child actions difficult to reach.
• Fixed exact action matches such as Speedtest hiding an installed application with the same name.
• Fixed the command palette intermittently opening on the MacBook display while the pointer was on an external monitor.
• Fixed Deep Research jobs remaining visibly queued while Lekh AI Pro processed recovered work.
• Fixed missed Deep Research notifications by adding automatic background job recovery.
• Fixed Continue in Lekh launching a second or outdated Lekh AI Pro installation when a Debug build was already running.
• Fixed Continue in Lekh requiring two selections and showing an unregistered URL-handler alert.
• Fixed portable persona exports failing when a custom avatar exceeded the transfer size limit.
• Fixed dark translucent edge artifacts around Folder Peek and Folder Dock surfaces.
• Fixed Folder Dock remaining visible and causing a white screen during full-screen video playback.
• Fixed Kanban cards not starting drag sessions when moving them to another status.
• Fixed a Swift compiler optimizer crash that could prevent Release archives from completing.
• Existing OMLX selections now migrate automatically to the Lekh AI Pro provider.
• General bug fixes and stability improvements.

Added

• QR code generator. Generate QR codes from URLs, text, and supported payloads directly from the palette.
• Folder Dock. Pin folders for fast opening, reveal, copy, and drag-friendly access.
• Color palette and symbol picker. Pick colors, copy common color formats, and search SF Symbols, Unicode marks, arrows, and punctuation.
• Smart Clipboard. Added AI-assisted clipboard cleanup, extraction, summarization, image tools, and clipboard context reuse.
• Port and process manager. Search processes, inspect listening ports, kill stuck ports, and quit apps with clearer feedback.
• Layouts. Save and restore common app/window arrangements.
• Notes and RAG chat. Added Quick Capture, Markdown note editing, and chat across notes, clipboard history, and local context.
• Notch / Island reminders. Show lightweight reminder prompts in the glanceable Notch / Island surface.
• Math scratchpad and command reference upgrades. Keep running calculations and browse commands, aliases, hotkeys, and examples in one place.

Added

• yt-dlp integration. Added a YouTube downloader powered by yt-dlp.
• File Downloader. Download files from URLs directly from Vehla.
• Fact Checker. Check claims with AI from the command palette.
• AI to Reminders and Calendar. Turn natural language into reminders and calendar events.
• Vehla Packs. Export and import custom snippets, workflows, personas, custom AI actions, custom searches, and aliases.
• Speedtest. Run a network speed test from inside Vehla.
• Canvas and Excalidraw. Added Canvas support with Excalidraw integration for visual sketching and diagrams.
• Notes. Added Notes support for quickly capturing and working with notes.

Added

• Speed Test. Added a fast network speed test from inside Vehla.
• Excalidraw integration. Added Excalidraw support for quickly jumping into visual sketches and diagrams.
• Notch / Island. Added a Notch / Island surface for lightweight glanceable interactions.
• Shelf upgrades. Improved Shelf for temporarily storing files and moving them back into other apps.

Added

• Brew Store integration. Search Homebrew packages, install formulae and casks, inspect info, list outdated packages, upgrade, uninstall, run doctor, and clean up from the palette.
• Model file relocation. Move downloaded local model files to a different storage location from Settings.
• Model picker upgrades. Switch between local and cloud models from the palette footer; unavailable downloads or missing API keys stay visible but disabled.
• Native command hotkeys and aliases. Bind global shortcuts to native commands and create short names for common commands, workflows, searches, and custom actions.
• Clipboard image tools. OCR clipboard images locally, resize clipboard images, and convert clipboard images without opening another app.
• Shortcuts, screenshots, and windows. Run macOS Shortcuts, copy/open/reveal the latest screenshot, and move focused windows to halves, thirds, corners, center, or maximize.
• Custom AI actions. Create your own prompt-backed actions and run them from the same palette as built-in AI actions.

Fixed

• Moved Homebrew package searching off the main thread to avoid beach balls while typing.
• Improved onboarding hotkey layout, command references, visual polish, and general reliability.

Added

• Recent apps and shortcuts. Added recent apps and shortcuts directly in the command palette for faster repeat actions.

Changed

• EmojiKit redesign. Redesigned the emoji picker experience for faster browsing, search, and insertion.
• Clipboard enhancements. Improved clipboard history and reuse flows.

Fixed

• Shipped bug fixes and reliability improvements across the app.

Added

• Snipe Text. Added a fast text capture feature for grabbing text from the screen and sending it into Vehla.

Fixed

• Shipped bug fixes and reliability improvements across the app.

Added

• Keep Display Awake. Added a menu bar control for keeping your Mac display awake when you need it.

Fixed

• Shipped bug fixes and general stability improvements.

Fixed

• Shipped bug fixes and small reliability improvements after the 2.0 release.

Added

• Native Mac command center. Expanded Vehla beyond AI actions into app launching, file search, clipboard history, contacts, calendar, reminders, system controls, browser data, utilities, web shortcuts, and workflows.
• File and clipboard workflows. Added Finder-aware file actions, file operation history, clipboard search, pinned clipboard items, and sensitive-app clipboard exclusions.
• Smarter AI workspace. Added editable AI results, follow-up chat, favorites, vision actions, webpage research, provider/model controls, and DeepSeek support.
• Personalization and sync. Added iCloud sync for snippets, personas, memory, palette preferences, custom searches, workflows, and command visibility settings.
• Product polish. Added the Liquid Glass theme, expanded settings, better onboarding, Launch at Login, licensing, and two-device activations.

Fixed

• Rewrite Selection now uses the correct ⌥⇧R shortcut and runs the focused rewrite flow reliably.

Fixed

• License activation now handles Stripe checkout completion more reliably and generates missing license rows when webhook delivery is delayed.

Added

• Local Gemma 4 E2B (4-bit) is the default on-device model, with E4B 4-bit and E4B 8-bit available for higher quality.
• Snippets with template variables for {selection}, {clipboard}, and {app}.
• New action: Translate Tone — keeps language, produces three versions (nicer / firmer / legal-safe).
• New actions for prompt improvement, decision memos, support triage, release notes, SQL help, bug reports, and sensitive-info redaction.
• Summarize Webpage can now fetch readable text directly from a URL.

Fixed

• Palette filtering now keeps snippet and action rows in sync with the typed query.
• Rewrite Selection now captures highlighted text and runs the rewrite action directly.
• SHA-256 verification checks the downloaded DMG before installation.

Changed

• Workflows, OCR screenshot, Ask About My Screen, Push to Talk, and clipboard-history shortcuts were removed from the app.

Added

• First-class support for Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon through the MLX-based runtime.
• Provider controls moved into Settings, with explicit cloud-provider selection and model choice.
• Memory notes: a tiny persistent context block that's injected at the top of every prompt.
• Personas: name, tone, vocabulary, and forbidden words.

Fixed

• Model download progress is shown during local model setup.
• Downloaded local models can be selected and activated from Settings.

Added

• DeepSeek and OpenRouter cloud providers.
• Cloud provider selection when local AI is turned off.

Fixed

• The active AI provider/model now appears in the palette footer and Settings sidebar.
• Provider-specific keys are stored in macOS Keychain.

Added

• Mouse-wheel scrolling while preserving arrow-key navigation.
• Markdown-rendered results with formatted copy support.
• Command palette action visibility controls in Settings.

Changed

• Pasted text becomes action input instead of polluting the query field.

Fixed

• Removed the intermittent system beep when opening the palette.

Added

• $29.99 lifetime license with two activation slots.
• Deactivate this Mac from Settings to free an activation slot.

Initial release

• Menu-bar app with global hotkey.
• Universal command palette over selection / clipboard / pasted text.
• Built-in rewrite, writing, translate, code, terminal, email, social, clipboard, and productivity actions.
• OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini providers.
• Streaming markdown output. Auto-copy to clipboard.