Every ambientChat release, newest first. Each release has its own guide with the full detail — this page is the map.

The version running on the App Store today is 0.14.11, released 30 September 2026.

To check which version you're on: Settings → About. If your version is older than the one above, update from the App Store to get everything below it in this list.

#How ambientChat is versioned

Versions look like 0.13.8 — read as major.minor.patch.

  • Patch (0.13.7 → 0.13.8) — fixes and small improvements.
  • Minor (0.12.x → 0.13.x) — new features.
  • Major (0.x → 1.0) — reserved for the first full public release.

Two things worth knowing:

  • Not every version number reaches the App Store. Some builds go to TestFlight only, and some version numbers are used internally and never published. This page lists only the releases that actually reached users, which is why the numbers skip.
  • The app and the web interface update separately. app.ambientchat.ai updates continuously and is often ahead of the iOS app. Where a feature landed on one surface first, the release guide says so.

#Releases

#0.14.11 — 30 September 2026 · current on the App Store

The iPhone catches up with the web: long-press anything to share, rename, move or trash it without opening it, tick off a shopping list as you go, and share where a tracked item — or a whole folder of them — has been as a live page anyone can open. A spreadsheet attached in chat imports into your inventory in one step, Claude Sonnet 5.5 replaces Sonnet 5, a shared note marked Can edit can have its words edited, and a deleted folder is one row in Trash.

It is on its way to the App Store; this entry becomes current when Apple approves it.

→ What's New in 0.14.11

#0.14.10 — 28 September 2026 · on the web

The release where the web learned to explain itself: rest the mouse on any icon button for a short label of what it does, act on folders, documents and items straight from their tiles, and follow guided tours of each section. Search now matches your words in any order and finds documents shared with you, a journey report turns a tracked item's travels into a live page anyone can open, and sharing can no longer change on a stray tap.

The web interface and the server have had it since 28 September 2026. The iPhone part — long-press actions, tickable lists and the new sharing sheet — arrives on the iPhone with 0.14.11.

→ What's New in 0.14.10

#0.14.9 — 26 September 2026

The release where you tell a scan what you want, and a tag in your hand becomes yours. Type or say "only office furniture" under the camera and the scan keeps just that, showing what it skipped so any of it comes back in a tap; every scan tells you what one like it has cost before you take it. A tag you are holding becomes yours to name and file, Radar shows you around a place, backups can be trusted to restore, and every control on the phone and the web says what it is to a screen reader.

→ What's New in 0.14.9

#0.14.8 — 14 September 2026

The release where a scanned code stops being a lookup and becomes something you own. Point the camera at a QR code or a tag and you get a document you keep, rename and ask questions about, rather than a description that vanishes. Deleting became safe — there is a real Trash you can restore from. Chat is the first thing you see when you open the app, Listen works again on the speaker rather than the earpiece, and VoiceOver reads the app properly throughout. You can also name your own places, and beacons now report temperature and battery.

Two builds in between, 0.14.6 and 0.14.7, went to testers only and were never released, so this is a bigger step than the number suggests.

→ What's New in 0.14.8

#Earlier releases

Version Released Headline
0.14.5 5 September 2026 The release where the app stopped lying about how much it could see
0.14.4 23 August 2026 The app learns about rooms: zones, several exhibits per beacon, "Last seen" you can set
0.14.0 13 August 2026 Features that hold up at real size, manageable sharing, the web app on a phone, venues and zones for beacons
0.13.8 24 July 2026 More dependable web search, context-aware answers, no more false "interrupted" message
0.13.3 9 July 2026 GPT-5.6, Image Studio, shareable Q&A threads, Digital Product Passport viewer, third-party connectors
0.12.3 26 May 2026 Inventory and Documents unified onto one engine, emailable answers, the exhibit Audio Guide, chat that changes your settings
0.12.1 24 April 2026 Voice Conversations, smarter photo memory, Trash & recovery, new AI models
0.10.3 15 October 2025 Smarter context retrieval, Documents tab redesign, local currency formatting

#Asking the assistant

You can ask ambientChat about its own releases in chat:

  • "What's new in the latest version?"
  • "What version am I running?"
  • "When did Image Studio ship?"
  • "What changed between 0.12.3 and 0.13.3?"
  • "Has voice chat always been there?"

The assistant reads these release guides the same way it reads the rest of Don't Panic, so it can answer from the actual record rather than guessing.

#Known Limitations

  • Release guides cover user-facing change only. Plenty of work in every release is invisible by design — performance, cost, security, infrastructure. If a release looks thin, that is usually why.
  • Dates are release dates, not build dates. A version is typically built a day or two before it reaches the App Store.
  • Nothing before 0.10.3 is recorded here. Earlier builds pre-date the public App Store listing.

#Version History

  • v1 — First published. Release history backfilled from the App Store record for 0.10.3, 0.12.1, 0.12.3, 0.13.3 and 0.13.8.

  • v2 — Added 0.14.0 (13 August 2026) as the current release and demoted 0.13.8. The 0.14.0 guide was drafted while the version was still numbered 0.13.9; the release shipped as 0.14.0 and there is no v0.13.9.

  • v3 — Added 0.14.4 ahead of its App Store review, explicitly marked not yet available, and demoted 0.12.3 to the Earlier table. current_version deliberately stays 0.14.0 until Apple approves — this page must never tell a user they have a version they cannot install. 0.14.1, 0.14.2 and 0.14.3 are absent because they were tagged but never released; their production deploys failed and no build was submitted from them.

  • v4 — 0.14.4 approved by Apple and live on the App Store 23 August 2026: promoted to current, its guide flipped from draft to published, 0.14.0 demoted. Also repointed every release-guide link at the site's real title-derived slugs (what-s-new-in-x-y-z) — the old release-x.y.z form never matched an article and returned 404.

  • v5 — Added 0.14.5 (5 September 2026) ahead of its App Store review, marked not yet on the App Store, and demoted 0.13.3 to the Earlier table. current_version deliberately stays 0.14.4 — same rule as v3: this page must never tell a user they have a version they cannot install. The 0.14.5 backend is live in production, so the web app has it; the iOS build was in TestFlight when this was written.

  • v6 — 0.14.5 approved by Apple and live on the App Store 5 September 2026: promoted to current, 0.14.4 demoted, and the "in TestFlight, not yet approved" paragraph removed. The flip was missed for three days after approval, during which the assistant — which answers "what version am I on" out of this page — told users they were on 0.14.4 and described 0.14.4's features as the latest. scripts/verify/verify-dont-panic-frontmatter.js --check-app-store now compares this page against Apple's public lookup API so the gap cannot reopen silently.

  • v7 — 0.14.8 approved by Apple and live on the App Store 14 September 2026: promoted to current, its guide flipped from draft to published, and 0.13.8 demoted to the Earlier table. 0.14.6 and 0.14.7 are absent because they were tester-only builds and were never released.

    This is the second time the flip was missed, and the v6 note above claims the App Store comparison means "the gap cannot reopen silently". The comparison was not the problem — it went red on 14 September within hours of approval. Nothing carried that red run to a person, and it checked only this page, so it would not have mentioned that release-0.14.8.md was unreadable even once someone looked. Both halves are now fixed: the check names the draft guide as well as the index, and a failing run opens an issue instead of a grey ✕ on the Actions tab.

  • v8 — 0.14.9 approved by Apple and live on the App Store 26 September 2026: promoted to current, its guide flipped from draft to published, and 0.14.0 demoted to the Earlier table. The flip was two days late; the App Store check opened an issue on the day of approval, and this closes it.

  • v9 — Added 0.14.10 (28 September 2026), a web and server release: live on the web interface now, with its iPhone part marked not yet on the App Store until the next iPhone update. current_version stays 0.14.9, the version the App Store installs. 0.14.4 moved to the Earlier table.