Changelog — Aurora

1.1.4 Latest May 15, 2026

Meeting Mode, Google Calendar, widgets, and polish.

A customer-facing rollup of Aurora's current Pro surfaces: calmer calls, direct calendar support, richer media, more widgets, clearer settings, and safer writing-help availability.

Headline feature

Meeting Mode for calmer calls.

Aurora adds Meeting Mode controls for reducing interruptions during calls, with clear status messaging in the top-edge surface.

Meeting Mode controls for reducing top-edge interruptions during calls.
Clearer meeting widget status messaging for active and upcoming calls.
Designed as a quiet call helper, not a full meeting assistant.

Added

Added Meeting Mode controls for reducing interruptions during calls.
Added direct Google Calendar support alongside iCloud calendars.
Added quick event creation from Aurora's calendar surface.
Added Apple Music playback state support with artwork and progress where available.
Added browser playback support for supported Chrome media sources.
Added camera preview, audio output, connected devices, file tray, quick toggles, and system stats widgets.
Added local/on-device writing actions for Clipboard and Quick Notes when supported.

Improved

Improved compact and expanded media surfaces with clearer source badges, artwork handling, progress display, and transport controls.
Improved lock-screen-style media overlay behavior and compact media notifications.
Improved Focus Timer and Pomodoro flows with session history and clearer completion states.
Improved Calendar event presentation, next-event countdowns, and meeting join actions.
Improved widget customization with reorder, remove, pin, and layout controls.
Improved Settings with clearer sections, search, shortcut management, and permission status.
Improved surface styles, themes, Light/Dark behavior, and Reduce Motion support.
Improved onboarding/update tour content so users can discover new features without guessing.

Fixed

Fixed media state refresh issues across Spotify, Apple Music, and browser playback.
Fixed cases where compact media notifications could show stale playback state.
Fixed calendar account grouping and calendar visibility edge cases.
Fixed focus timer display and completion-state inconsistencies.
Fixed clipboard notification reliability and saved-clip handling.
Fixed window placement behavior on Macs without a notch and across multiple displays.
Fixed permission guidance so users see clearer next steps when a feature needs access.
Fixed licensing activation messaging and trial state clarity.

1.1.3 April 24, 2026

Google Calendar support, writing-help polish, and media reliability.

This release adds direct Google Calendar integration, improves calendar setup and quick event capture, and includes a broad pass on Apple's on-device model availability and playback consistency.

Headline feature

Google Calendar, built in.

Connect one or more Google accounts directly, read events in the calendar widget, and quickly add new events from Aurora without leaving the top of your screen.

Direct Google Calendar support for connecting accounts, reading events, and adding events from Aurora.
Multiple connected Google accounts in calendar settings and quick event capture.
Events created outside Aurora now appear in the calendar widget through direct Google reads.

Improved: Calendar settings now provide clearer Google account grouping, default-calendar selection, and sync status feedback.
Improved: Add Event flows now handle Google and iCloud destinations more clearly.
Improved: Calendar fallback behavior is more reliable when a previously selected calendar is no longer available.
Improved: Google account avatars, provider badges, and grouped calendar pickers are more consistent across the app.
Improved: Apple's on-device model availability handling across the app is more robust and better aligned with system status.
Improved: Top-edge writing actions stay hidden when the supported on-device model is unavailable on the Mac.
Improved: Async image insertion flow in Quick Notes to avoid modal runtime issues.
Improved: More consistent fallback behavior when on-device writing help is not ready or disabled.
Fixed: Google Calendar read requests could fail for some events because of date formatting.
Fixed: Calendar widget and live meeting/calendar behavior are now more consistent when using direct Google calendars.
Fixed: Multiple calendar UI issues in Settings and Add Event flows, including picker sizing, grouping, duplicate labels, and stale calendar selection fallback.
Fixed: Warning-prone availability checks in TextAssistantManager.
Fixed: Several Quick Notes modal layout and spacing inconsistencies.
Fixed: Additional edge cases around Apple Music playback state and artwork fallback.

1.1.2 March 22, 2026

Notes, polish, and on-device intelligence groundwork.

A refinement release focused on Quick Notes, media polish, and on-device writing help when supported.

New: Writing actions for Clipboard history and Quick Notes using Apple’s on-device model when available.
New: Summarise copied text with short, medium, and detailed modes.
New: Extract action items from copied text and notes.
New: Suggested titles for untitled Quick Notes.
Improved: Quick Notes create and edit modals with updated glass styling and richer editor behavior.
Improved: Image paste and image insertion support in Quick Notes, including persistence after save.
Improved: Generating states and summary panels now match Aurora’s notes styling.
Fixed: Apple Music now distinguishes radio and live playback from normal tracks more accurately.
Fixed: Large artwork fallback now uses Aurora’s waveform placeholder instead of a generic empty-artwork state.
Fixed: Writing-help UI is hidden in top-edge surfaces when unavailable, while remaining visible in Settings with the correct status.

1.1.1 February 14, 2026

Media everywhere, faster focus.

More players, fewer compromises.

New: Apple Music and supported Chrome web playback in the live media surface.
New: Focus sessions with a gentle aurora glow at the top of your screen.
New: Clipboard snippets and quick text actions.
Improved: Lower idle CPU usage on Apple Silicon.
Fixed: External display edge cases in mirror mode.

1.1.0 January 9, 2026

Aurora is here.

The first public release of Aurora for macOS.

New: Live media surface with Spotify support.
New: Clipboard history with quick-paste overlay.
New: Quick Notes widget at the top of your screen.
New: Custom notifications with aurora-tinted chrome.
New: 72-hour Pro trial on first launch.

What's new in Aurora.