Changelog

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New features

• Project memory. The agent saves what you tell it about your project and recalls it in every new chat. Read, edit or remove saved memories in the project’s Settings > Memory.
• What Newly should remember. Write a note in Account > Profile, and the agent follows it in every new chat across all your projects.
• App Review recording and contact. Upload your screen recording for Apple’s reviewers and save the review contact and demo account from the Deploy tab. Organization owners and admins can save them. See What Apple asks a new developer account.

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Improvements

• The agent shows the credit cost and waits for you to pick Generate before making marketing videos.
• Ask the agent where your credits went, and it explains that replies use credits and points you to Support.
• On a phone, the simulator preview fills more of the screen and has an expanded view (web).
• The Deploy tab catches a version Apple already approved before you build it.
• The Deploy tab flags a paywall missing its price or legal links.
• The agent can use your app icon or a project image as a bought social account’s profile photo.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed skipping a question card naming the chat “Chat paused by user”.
• Fixed the preview occasionally failing with a false stylesheet error, sending the agent hunting for a bug.
• Fixed the Privacy Manifest check failing every app that uses a tracking SDK.
• Fixed a domain bought through Newly showing an error instead of your website.

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New features

• Project sources. Attach Figma designs and GitHub repos to a project from the composer’s + menu > Sources. They stay with the project, and the agent can read them in every chat.
• App Review notes. Write your notes for Apple’s reviewers in the Deploy tab’s readiness list, or ask Newly to write them. They save straight to App Store Connect.
• Builds page. Deploy > Builds lists every iOS and Android build of your project with its version, newest first. Download any past APK or the IPA sent to TestFlight. See Download a past build.
• Chat titles. New chats get a short title from your first prompt instead of a cut-off copy of it. Rename any chat from its menu in the chat list.

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Improvements

• The Deploy tab warns when your app is held out of the EU until you declare trader status with Apple.
• Signing in with an Apple ID that has no Developer Program membership now shows how to enroll.
• New apps get a bundle ID suggestion based on your Apple team, so it is less likely to be taken.
• The agent only reports the tab bar when it actually hides a control.
• The Deploy tab reminds new developer accounts to attach a screen recording for App Review.
• A single agent turn can now run for up to three hours instead of one.
• Swipe between the App Store and lock screen pages of the app icon card in chat.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed new App Store apps being refused as “bundle ID taken” when the app name had punctuation.
• Fixed Apple sign-in ending early over a long app name or a bundle ID with a space.
• Fixed backend deploys failing when a database migration had an earlier date than the last one.
• Fixed the web app crashing when browser translation or extensions changed page text.
• Fixed the Deploy tab not finding App Store versions in review or rejected.
• Fixed chat sometimes freezing for up to an hour after a dropped connection.
• Fixed the web app sometimes failing to start after you signed in.
• Fixed the iOS preview failing to install when it reused an older build.
• Fixed GitHub-linked projects unable to publish to TestFlight or Google Play, or restore versions.

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Removed

• The Attach Figma Design and Reference GitHub Repo buttons in a new chat. Use + > Sources instead.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed some new Google Play upload keys getting a certificate that failed verification.
• Fixed website and backend deploys over 1 MB failing with a “Payload Too Large” error.
• Fixed a chat left idle sometimes never answering new messages.

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Improvements

• Chat steps have plain labels, such as “Question for you” and “Wait for the build”.
• An answered question now stays inside the “Worked for” block, with the work it belongs to.
• Image requests refused for safety now return a clear error, with nothing charged.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed image generation failing every time in apps that use Newly’s built-in AI.
• Fixed the chat status line showing simulator ids and server names.
• Fixed the welcome message pointing to a “Change” button that does not exist.

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Improvements

• An open tab now updates to the latest version by itself, or offers Reload, keeping your drafts. (web)
• While your connection is down, the chat shows the agent is still working and reconnects.
• When a Google location prompt covers your Android preview, answer it, then choose Reload to verify.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the agent showing “Agent stopped.” and losing its reply after a dropped connection.
• Fixed messages sent while offline showing as sent without reaching the agent.
• Fixed key-value storage and browser sign-in requests failing in newly added backends.
• Fixed the agent occasionally stopping mid-reply with a server error.
• Fixed retrying an Android preview failing with an API connection error.
• Fixed the agent changing files in Plan or Ask mode after you answered its question.
• Fixed the agent sometimes finishing before your app rebuilt with its latest fix.

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Improvements

• Hitting the session limit now explains that sessions share one limit across projects, and how to free one.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Download ZIP in Settings exporting the starter template instead of your latest app.
• Fixed your simulator sometimes refusing to start after an earlier one expired.
• Fixed the iOS preview sometimes reporting a failed install while your app was still installing.
• Fixed the iOS preview showing an error for apps whose name starts with a number.

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New features

• Marketing videos. Ask the agent to make a marketing video for your app. It checks your budget and confirms with you first, and each video is paid from your Newly credits.

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Improvements

• The agent names a new app once it knows what you’re building, not from your first message.
• A new app’s icon card opens as soon as the icon is made, showing it on a lock screen and App Store listing.
• The agent offers TestFlight once your app feels ready, not right after its first build.
• Once your plan’s monthly credit is spent, the account card says whether top-ups or Newly credit is paying.
• A Google Play release refused for missing permissions now shows the Play Console steps to fix it.
• A TestFlight upload refused for dropping iPad support now explains the fix on the Deploy tab.
• Save your Google Play internal testing join link once, then copy it from the Deploy tab anytime.
• The Google Play upload key reset steps now say to wait for the date in Google’s email.
• A chat full of attachments now drops its oldest files to make room instead of refusing new ones.
• The agent can re-run typecheck, lint and tests as often as it needs in a turn.
• Social accounts now opens with the TikTok and Instagram accounts Newly can run for you.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed messages with more than 5 attachments failing to send. The composer now stops at 5.
• Fixed the preview jumping up and down as its Live and Walkthrough bar flickered.
• Fixed generated photos sometimes overwriting each other while each one was still charged.
• Fixed an icon card showing “Making your app icon” until the agent’s turn ended.
• Fixed the agent’s web search failing, so it can look things up again.
• Fixed Connect buttons for GitHub, RevenueCat and Google Play doing nothing in a phone browser (web).
• Fixed the agent still failing turns in chats with RevenueCat connected.
• Fixed a new chat occasionally failing to start, with the agent never coming online.
• Fixed the agent sometimes losing earlier context in very long chats after a restart.

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Removed

• The “Naming your app” and “Designing your app icon” steps on a new app’s first message.

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New features

• Account panel. The sidebar’s account card shows your credits and plan at a glance. Open Account to edit your name, see how you sign in, and sign out other browsers and devices.

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Improvements

• With Apple already connected, the TestFlight card now offers “Create a new app” next to your existing apps.
• A new app’s first message shows “Naming your app”, then “Designing your app icon”, while it starts.
• Press Escape to stop the agent mid-turn.
• Draft my App Store listing now also writes the review notes Apple asks new developer accounts for.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed renaming a project in Settings not changing your app’s name on the home screen.
• Fixed the sidebar keeping the old name after the agent renamed your app.
• Fixed Settings > App icon showing a different icon as in use than the one your app ships.
• Fixed Continue with Apple failing with an error after Apple’s sign-in screen.
• Fixed GitHub sometimes not listing you as co-author on the agent’s commits.
• Fixed projects left open for a day, or starting on a flaky connection, stopping unexpectedly.
• Fixed a second TestFlight build failing while the first was still in beta review.
• Fixed a new TestFlight chat card showing the previous build as already uploaded.
• Fixed the agent repeatedly failing turns in long chats after you connect RevenueCat.
• Fixed messages failing with “Could not reach the Newly cloud API” after a brief connection drop.

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Removed

• Launch details while the simulator starts. You see the simple progress card instead.

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New features

• Generated photos. The agent makes photos for your app’s dishes, products and rooms instead of leaving placeholders. They show in the chat as thumbnails you can open, and use your credits.
• Your image as the app icon. Drop a logo in the chat in Build mode and ask the agent to use it as your app icon. It’s free and shows in Settings > App icon. Not available for projects running on your Mac.

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Improvements

• The agent builds what App Review and Google Play require, like report, block and account deletion, as it builds.
• The release readiness check now covers the App Store side of your app and seven more store rules.
• The agent plans your app’s layout and picks a design direction before its first build.
• TestFlight now ships apps with home screen widgets or rich notification extensions, including their App Groups.
• At Apple’s certificate limit, the card lists your certificates so you can revoke one. See Connect Apple.
• The chat’s TestFlight card now matches the Deploy tab.
• The release readiness check no longer warns about input hint text or a missing layout file.
• Skipping all of the agent’s questions now ends its turn, so you decide what happens next.
• A run that stopped for credits continues on its own after you top up (web).

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the agent stopping for credits while you still had credits left.
• Fixed a TestFlight release staying “already running” after its build finished.
• Fixed “Combine the changes?” appearing when you answered the agent’s question.
• Fixed “Combine the changes?” appearing after a first build changed your app’s settings.
• Fixed app icons being built from the app’s generated name instead of your prompt.
• Fixed GitHub history and sync occasionally failing with “Repository not found”.
• Fixed the Deploy tab spinning forever when a TestFlight send lost its response.
• Fixed messages occasionally never reaching the agent after the chat showed “Sent”.
• Fixed Stop not stopping the agent right after you answered its question.
• Fixed your credit balance going below zero on the last call of a run.
• Fixed the agent losing track of its own results in long conversations.
• Fixed Ask and Plan mode asking you to repeat preview requests instead of switching to Build.

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New features

• Fix an App Store rejection. When Apple rejects your app, opening the project asks once whether Newly should fix it. Sign in with your Apple ID and the agent reads Apple’s message and starts the fix in chat.
• Your first TestFlight build on your iPhone. Connecting Apple adds you to a TestFlight group with no beta review, so every build reaches your iPhone once Apple processes it.

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Improvements

• The agent offers to put your app on your iPhone with TestFlight after it first works in the preview.
• TestFlight builds no longer stop at Missing Compliance: Newly declares standard encryption unless your app says otherwise.
• The Deploy tab opens on TestFlight and shows when Apple rejected your App Store version.
• A build Apple refuses during processing shows Apple’s reasons and an Ask Newly to fix it button.
• Apple sign-in says up front that you need a paid Apple Developer Program membership ($99 a year).
• Screen readers now announce which tab, option or checkbox is selected, checked or open (web).
• The chat shows a tool call as soon as the agent starts it, and a subagent’s steps as it works.
• The simulator opens your app a few seconds faster.
• While the simulator starts, open Launch details to see each step, the elapsed time and the typical launch time.
• The release readiness check no longer flags Firebase config keys, audio playback, or purpose strings your Expo plugins add.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed TestFlight rejecting apps for a missing photo library purpose string. Publish again to upload a fixed build.
• Fixed “Lost connection to the Newly cloud” appearing while the agent worked quietly.
• Fixed a message sent while your session was starting failing to send.
• Fixed agent replies sometimes arriving in two-second bursts.
• Fixed the simulator sometimes staying on “Preparing your app” after the build finished.
• Fixed the simulator failing to start for some projects with an analytics configuration error.
• Fixed the readiness check staying unknown after you connected Apple in the publish card.
• Fixed the agent refusing to fix your app after a build failed twice.

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New features

• Integrations tab. Push notifications, Subscriptions and GitHub now live in one Integrations tab, on the web and in Newly for Mac, no Developer mode needed.
• Subscriptions. Under Integrations > Subscriptions, connect RevenueCat, see your products and prices, and create new ones that go straight to App Store Connect. Project admins can make changes.
• App Store prices and languages. For each subscription, set prices by country, match every country to one base price, add languages, and upload a review screenshot.

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Improvements

• Disconnecting RevenueCat keeps your project, so reconnecting picks up where you left off.
• The Play Console setup step lists the usual causes when your app hasn’t appeared after 5 minutes.
• The copy button sits beside the feedback buttons once a reply finishes.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Android release builds failing when a single dependency download timed out.
• Fixed a Google Play release in review disappearing from the Deploy tab after a newer build.
• Fixed the chat showing nothing while the agent thinks through a long step.
• Fixed the agent slowing down after you connect RevenueCat.
• Fixed Connect GitHub looping back to GitHub when the Newly app was already installed.
• Fixed the simulator spinner staying on after your session ended.
• Fixed the simulator failing to start after your app’s native dependencies changed.
• Fixed a chat opening with its earlier messages missing. Affected chats get them back when you open them.
• Fixed the agent changing unrelated code to rebuild after fixing your app’s configuration.
• Fixed the Android simulator sometimes failing to start, saying no device was available.
• Fixed actions in the app occasionally failing with a server error.

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New features

• Download source as a ZIP. Under Settings > Project, press Download ZIP to save your app code, configuration, assets and backend code from main. See Get your code.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed GitHub collaborators in the Deploy tab failing to load a few hours after connecting.

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New features

• App icons. Generate an icon for 0.25 credits, or upload an image, under Settings > Project > App icon. New apps get a free one, and the agent makes one on request. (web)
• Backend secrets card in chat. When the agent needs an API key, a card opens in the chat where you enter it. The agent never sees the value. Project admins can save secrets.

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Improvements

• The preview switches from Tips to your running app once it’s ready, unless you opened Tips yourself.
• The agent tells you what changed in your source repository since your last chat.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the preview sometimes restarting while loading your app, doubling the wait.
• Fixed connecting GitHub failing after you had uninstalled the Newly GitHub App.
• Fixed an app started from GitHub losing its source after a repository or branch rename.
• Fixed AI features in your app occasionally never returning a finished reply.
• Fixed connecting your own domain to your published website failing with an error.
• Fixed a domain bought through the agent staying stuck in pending.
• Fixed a Remote chat stuck while starting counting toward your running-chats limit.

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New features

• Start from your Lovable or GitHub app. Press GitHub to Mobile App or Lovable to Mobile App on Home, pick a repository or paste a URL, and Newly builds the mobile version. Your original app is only read, never changed. See Start from your Lovable or GitHub app.
• Skills. Teach the agent how to do a task your way. Add skills to one project or all your projects from + > Skills, import them from GitHub, and type / to use one. See Skills.
• Connect GitHub. Keep your project’s code in a repository you own, in step with Newly both ways. Create one or connect an existing one, and invite collaborators, from Deploy > GitHub. Organization owners and admins can set it up. See Connect GitHub.
• Share TestFlight builds with a link. Under Share with testers in the Deploy tab, one press submits your build for Apple’s beta review, then gives you a public link. Invite testers by email too. Organization owners and admins manage it.
• Website tab. When your project has a published website, the preview shows it in a Website tab, with reload and open in your browser.

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Improvements

• The Ship to TestFlight card in chat shows one heading and one main button per step.
• Tips in the preview end on Start over, react to hover, and no longer move the buttons below.
• After you cancel your plan, Newly shows the date it stays active until.
• In Remote chats, ask the agent for your project files and it gives you a download button.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed text AI features in your app returning errors.
• Fixed AI features in your app stopping with “request limit has been reached” after a few uses.
• Fixed email sign-in sometimes failing with “Too many requests”.
• Fixed connecting a domain to your website failing.
• Fixed actions in the app occasionally failing with a server error.

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New features

• Publish to Google Play. Newly builds, signs and uploads your Android app to internal testing, then you release it to production from the Deploy tab or the chat. Organization owners and admins can publish. See Google Play.
• The Deploy tab. Every project gets a Deploy tab that walks you through TestFlight, App Store and Google Play releases step by step. In Newly for Mac, turn on Developer mode to see it. See From TestFlight to the App Store.
• Push notifications. Ask for push notifications in a Remote chat and a card sets up OneSignal for you, no OneSignal account needed. See Push notifications.
• Subscriptions with RevenueCat. Ask for a paywall in a Remote chat, set your price and an optional free trial on the card, and the agent adds the paywall. See In-app purchases.
• Download your Android APK. Ask the agent for your APK, or find every build under Deploy > Android builds. (web) See Android APK.
• Delete your account. Delete your account from Account in the account menu, and sign back in within 30 days to restore it. (web) See Delete your account.
• Tips while you build. New chats open the preview pane on Tips, with a switch to Simulator any time. One tip can email you when your app is ready to preview.

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Improvements

• Manage your app’s backend secrets under Settings > Project > Backend secrets. See Production and secrets.
• Rename a project from Settings > Project.
• Rate any agent reply with a thumbs up or down, with an optional note.
• A chat that hits a problem shows one card saying what happened, with Retry when that can fix it.
• Switch or disconnect your Google Play account with Manage after setup.
• Billing shows two plan cards, with a menu for bigger plans and what Yearly saves.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed messages sent while a chat was pausing never running.
• Fixed finished replies sometimes showing “The agent hasn’t sent any output”.
• Fixed chats with many or large images not saving across your devices.
• Fixed TestFlight uploads failing for apps with push, Sign in with Apple or universal links.
• Fixed apps with a file over 10 MB failing to publish.
• Fixed apps using Newly Backend rejecting requests from signed-in users.
• Fixed the preview button doing nothing on a finished chat.
• Fixed Apple sign-in ending after a mistyped two-factor code.
• Fixed the agent suggesting Newly’s shared preview bundle ID for your app.
• Fixed a domain bought through the agent sometimes never connecting to your website.
• Fixed Ship to TestFlight in chat offering no way to send a second build.
• Fixed an internal testing build restarting Google Play’s review of your production release.

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Newly v2 is here

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Highlights

• Cloud simulators for iOS and Android. The agent builds your app and runs it on a cloud iPhone and a cloud Android device, shown in the preview pane. There’s no QR code and nothing to install. See Previewing your app.
• Build, Plan and Ask. Build changes your app. Plan and Ask let you talk through an idea without changing code. See Build, Plan, Ask and Design.
• Credits based on the work done. Credits follow how much work the agent does, not the number of messages you send. See How credits work.
• Restore to here. Take your app’s code back to an earlier point in the chat. It changes your code, not your app’s data. See Undo and Restore to here.
• Ship to TestFlight from the chat. In a Remote chat, ask the agent to publish and a Ship to TestFlight card opens. Organization owners and admins can connect Apple there and upload an iOS build to TestFlight. See Ship your iOS app to TestFlight.

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Get started

• Build your first app
• The web app and Newly for Mac
• Newly v2 FAQ