Changelog

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New features

• Database tab. Open Database in the sidebar to browse your Newly Backend’s tables like a spreadsheet: sort, filter and search rows, edit dev data in place, and as the project owner view production read-only. See See and edit your data.

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Improvements

• Buy domains like .uk, .ca and .us that need the owner’s details. The buy flow asks for them.
• Domains with a minimum term over one year, like .ai, now say so before checkout instead of charging one year.
• Production Android APKs are about half the download size.
• After a project resumes, the agent knows which git-ignored files, like a local .env or native code, weren’t restored.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the preview sometimes failing to reopen when the agent finished a turn.
• Fixed recent changes sometimes going missing when a paused project resumed.
• Fixed the preview sometimes stopping while dependencies were installing.
• Fixed the preview retrying the same failure every time the agent saved changes.
• Fixed the preview sometimes building an older version of your project instead of your latest changes.
• Fixed the agent asking you for files Newly generates itself after a project resumes.
• Fixed projects with long chats full of screenshots crashing repeatedly when pausing.
• Fixed the simulator location address search spinning forever when search is unavailable.
• Fixed projects sometimes pausing while you were still working in them.
• Fixed the preview sometimes losing its connection while your project was running.
• Fixed a brief network hiccup showing “Preview status unavailable” in the preview.
• Fixed long chats showing “Conversation isn’t syncing” and never syncing.
• Fixed reopening the preview of a build older than 30 days failing.
• Fixed Android previews failing for apps that change their console output.
• Fixed buying a .uk domain failing when Business name was left empty.
• Fixed iOS and Android previews sometimes failing to update when both refreshed at once.
• Fixed Android builds sometimes failing while downloading build tools.
• Fixed apps with their own native modules building without that module’s iOS or Android code.

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Improvements

• When your project’s code or setup stops the preview, the agent learns why with your next message.
• Newly fixes conflicting lockfiles and a missing package manager setting when they stop the preview installing.
• Skip these designs now builds your app from your description, instead of waiting for your next message.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the preview failing to install dependencies for some projects that pin a Bun version.
• Fixed the preview sometimes failing again after a retry.
• Fixed the preview rebuilding the same failed version over and over.
• Fixed the preview sometimes failing to start because your project ran out of file watchers.
• Fixed reopening the preview failing for larger apps.

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New features

• Ask support from the chat. When the agent hits a problem it can’t fix, it shows an Ask support card. Press it to open a support conversation with the agent’s summary ready to send. See Getting help.

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Improvements

• Switch Apple team from the app step of Apple sign-in, without entering your password and code again.
• Continue as your Apple ID without a password or code until Apple ends your sign-in.
• Saved Apple keys show the team’s name, with its team ID underneath.
• Signing out of Newly, or deleting your account, also ends your kept Apple sign-in.
• Your simulator shows each startup step with timings, and says when it is rebuilding the native app.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the simulator stuck on “Connecting to simulator” after you left your app and reloaded.
• Fixed the preview breaking after an automatic retry of a failed live update.
• Fixed the preview sometimes failing to load while a project was resuming.
• Fixed the preview occasionally stopping during routine Git cleanup in your project.
• Fixed past support chats disappearing after restarting Newly for Mac or switching devices.

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Removed

• Buying credits without a plan, for workspaces created from November 8. Existing workspaces keep what they have.

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New features

• Simulator location. Test maps and nearby features by moving your iOS or Android simulator anywhere. Pick a spot on a map from the pin in the simulator controls (web), or ask the agent.

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Improvements

• Skipping designs no longer posts a chat message or starts a build, and stays skipped after a reload.
• AI presenters for marketing videos now belong to one app instead of every app in your workspace.
• Download a walkthrough as an MP4 from the download button in its player (web).
• Press Use my location in the simulator location picker to move the pin to where you are (web).

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Bug fixes

• Fixed paid invoices or credit top-ups sometimes not adding credits to your balance.
• Fixed the agent failing to apply backend changes when an imported app’s backend was asleep.
• Fixed address search in the simulator location picker never returning results (web).
• Fixed a page reload resetting your simulator’s chosen location (web).
• Fixed the location picker disabling Apply for some valid coordinates or pins (web).

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Removed

• Free designs for new apps on accounts that have ever had a plan. Your first prompt goes straight to the agent, which can still show designs.

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New features

• Live preview while the agent works. Your simulators show the agent’s code changes within about 30 seconds as it writes them, instead of waiting for the turn to end or a new build.
• Videos, PDFs and archives in chat. Attach a screen recording, PDF or zip and the agent sees the video as frames, reads the PDF’s text and pages, and opens the archive.

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Improvements

• The web app shows an outline of the screen you’re opening while it loads, instead of a spinner (web).
• New design-mode apps get their name from your first prompt, while the four looks draw.
• A design card is final once built, skipped or passed by a new message. Ask the agent for new designs.
• The agent now tells you to enable production App AI yourself instead of reporting your project missing.
• The preview opens one simulator. Add a second with Add a simulator, and close it when you’re done.
• On the Videos tab, Create a video shows who is on camera. Presenter settings holds the looks and your voice.
• Attach files up to 5 GB, and the agent can open files from earlier chats in the project (web).
• Attached videos show their first frame in the composer, and other files show a matching icon.
• New-app designs take in the videos, PDFs and images you attach to your first prompt.
• A study you create on the Interviews tab is live right away, with no Activate step.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed phone previews rejecting projects whose source was larger than 30 MiB.
• Fixed the simulator getting stuck on “Preparing app source” with no Rebuild button.
• Fixed the CLI saying “Project not found” after pulling with a pasted project URL.
• Fixed the support inbox looking empty when your conversations failed to load.
• Fixed iOS and Android previews failing for apps that use alternate app icons.
• Fixed Supabase actions failing with a server error instead of asking you to reconnect.
• Fixed videos in your own voice ignoring the presenter you picked.
• Fixed email domains not verifying at GoDaddy, which doubled the record names you copied.
• Fixed the email DNS records adding a second DMARC record when you already had one.
• Fixed the agent adding another email provider for sign-up and password-reset emails Newly Email already sends.
• Fixed the agent sending you to support when your subscriptions account had no project linked.
• Fixed iOS builds waiting about 30 minutes with no reason when no build machine was available.
• Fixed a second simulator failing to start with a Conflict error.
• Fixed connecting Supabase, RevenueCat, GitHub or Google never finishing on older projects.
• Fixed connect cards sometimes showing as expired the moment they appeared.
• Fixed attachments failing to upload with “Your file did not upload” (web).
• Fixed messages with attachments failing to send after the file finished uploading.

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New features

• Free designs for new apps. Describe a new cloud app on Home and Newly draws four home-screen looks for free. Pick one, or upload your own design, and credit is only needed to build it.
• AI presenters for your videos. Choose who is on camera before you pay. On the Videos tab, describe a presenter, draw new looks of the same person, and pick the one your videos open with.
• Narrate videos in your own voice. On the Videos tab, record yourself reading a short passage and clone your voice for 20 credits. Switch it off or delete it any time.
• Request access to a synced repository. If another Newly project already syncs the GitHub repository you pick, press Request access. Its owners and admins get an email and approve you from People in settings.

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Improvements

• Newly’s agent instructions no longer live in your repo; your next chat removes Newly’s files and keeps your notes.
• Install again on your iPhone reopens the last install link instead of rebuilding your app.
• Try on my device now offers Choose app when your Apple account is already connected from another project.
• The Generate or Cancel card for marketing videos now stays open for 15 minutes instead of 10.
• Pick one of your AI presenters right on the Generate card in chat.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed long simulator screen recordings failing to download after capture.
• Fixed the agent sometimes stopping mid-reply with a “Session is not active” error.
• Fixed preview failing with “package-manager version is unrecorded” for some imported projects.
• Fixed Install on iPhone asking again for the profile on registered iPhones.
• Fixed the GitHub repo picker showing other people’s repositories and missing your organizations’ repositories.
• Fixed the agent stalling for minutes, then stopping with “Prompt is too long”.
• Fixed marketing videos hitting a per-chat limit that made you start a new chat.
• Fixed GitHub imports with a branch being named “github.com” instead of the repository.
• Fixed a copied connect link saving someone else’s account on the sender’s project. Update the app if a connection no longer finishes.
• Fixed connecting an organization’s GitHub repository failing when GitHub briefly refused a request.
• Fixed videos with an app demo failing to render over short narration pauses.

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New features

• Record the simulator screen. Press Record screen in the simulator controls, then Stop to download the video as an MP4. (web)
• Your own OneSignal account for push notifications. When you connect push notifications in chat or under Integrations, choose your own OneSignal account and pick an existing app or create one. Organization owners and admins can connect it.

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Improvements

• Generated app icons are now more polished and better tailored to your app.
• Connecting your own OneSignal account no longer asks for an Organization ID unless it has no apps yet.
• Try on my device now shows Apple’s reason when an install can’t start, such as an agreement to accept.
• The Website view shows a page-shaped placeholder while loading and has larger toolbar buttons.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed creator videos with the three cafe presenters being refused.
• Fixed the Website view offering Make my website for a site that already exists.
• Fixed signing out in the web app not fully ending your session.
• Fixed a refused answer reopening the agent’s question without saying why.
• Fixed the Stop failed message being cut off in chat.

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Improvements

• Creator videos and clay animated ads cost slightly fewer credits and never charge more than the price shown.
• A failed marketing video now says why it could not finish.
• Stop now also ends background processes the agent started.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed apps from named projects installing as “expo-base” on your phone.
• Fixed a prompt sent right after Stop showing as finished while the agent kept working.
• Fixed the agent failing to connect to the original backend of projects moved from Newly v1.
• Fixed the send button’s loading spinner being hard to see.
• Fixed some creator videos costing several times the usual price.
• Fixed Save screenshot to Downloads in the cloud simulator saving nothing (web).
• Fixed Stop not stopping the agent after a reload or on another device.
• Fixed answers to the agent looking sent when they never reached it.
• Fixed social account and creator video cards losing your answer after a reload.
• Fixed tab labels being cut off in the preview’s tab row on phones.
• Fixed Try on my device still asking to connect Apple after you linked it.

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Improvements

• The new plan and credits purchase screen is now available to everyone.
• The iPhone profile step in Try on my device now shows where to install the profile in Settings.
• On phones and tablets, Enter adds a new line in the prompt. Tap Send to send it.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Write & set up my listing stopping with “Agent stopped” (web).
• Fixed the iPhone profile expiring while iOS’s Security Delay was still running.
• Fixed reinstalling the iPhone profile on the same phone showing “This link has expired”.
• Fixed Run failing again immediately after a cloud simulator app install timed out.
• Fixed deleting a collaborator’s account erasing the owner’s store credentials on shared projects.
• Fixed plan features on the pricing cards opening an unrelated page in a new tab.

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New features

• Fix GitHub conflicts with the agent. When GitHub and Newly changed the same files on a branch, click Fix with agent in the GitHub prompt and the agent merges both sides.

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Improvements

• The GitHub pull prompt now names branches that cannot merge, and Not now hides it for an hour.
• Cloud simulator previews and their controls now grow to fill larger screens.
• Use your own Apple key when connecting Apple from Try on my device.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Pull now failing with “Could not reach Newly” on repos with many branches.
• Fixed cloud previews and store builds missing public values from your project’s .env file.
• Fixed native builds waiting up to 45 minutes on a build that never finishes.
• Fixed some Google Play releases failing after the Android build had succeeded.
• Fixed the agent switching npm, yarn and pnpm projects to bun, breaking previews.
• Fixed some imported projects failing their first install.
• Fixed pressing Stop during an iOS build sometimes ending the agent’s session.
• Fixed follow-ups sent while the agent was busy stopping partway through the work.
• Fixed long file writes showing no progress in chat for up to a minute.
• Fixed answered question cards showing the wrong choice after a reload.
• Fixed a failed Apple connect asking for your password and code again on retry.

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Improvements

• The Support icon now hops and its unread badge pulses when a reply arrives, so it is easier to spot.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Support tickets sent from one device not showing on your other devices.
• Fixed Support replies from the Newly team not arriving while you chat.
• Fixed Support conversations sometimes failing to load.

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Improvements

• TestFlight sign-in now explains what to do when Apple stops at the verification code step.
• The Website view no longer shows the Try on my device card.
• Get a browser notification when a video you started finishes or fails, if agent notifications are on (web).
• Support now shows a count of unread replies from the Newly team.
• The Deploy tab now requires declaring your EU trader status before you submit, so your app reaches the EU.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed TestFlight releases blocked by Apple’s new license agreement blaming your API key. Your Account Holder accepts it at developer.apple.com/account, then you try again.
• Fixed downloading your Android APK failing with “Failed to fetch”.
• Fixed failed Android builds showing a garbled or cut-off reason instead of the error.
• Fixed the Website view showing “No site yet” while the agent builds your site.
• Fixed clay animated ads failing when your app’s store listing couldn’t be read.
• Fixed clay animated ads costing extra for projects with a landing page.
• Fixed creator videos with an app demo often failing over short pauses in the narration.
• Fixed Videos saying you lacked credits when you could afford a cheaper video.
• Fixed creator videos the agent couldn’t script offering a pricier video instead of stopping.

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Improvements

• The Website view scales each device frame to fill the preview pane, centered.
• Creators you hire now get a link to install your app and a short walkthrough video of it.
• Android push setup now explains how to get past a permission error on some Google accounts.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed clay animated ads and creator video tiles in Videos quoting higher prices than charged.
• Fixed creator videos sometimes showing a scene or voice that didn’t match the presenter.
• Fixed Generate a similar video on green-screen examples making a different kind of video.
• Fixed reopening a cloud chat sometimes taking up to 15 minutes to start.
• Fixed the Website view showing “Session is sleeping” or a 404 page instead of your site.
• Fixed cloud chats occasionally stopping mid-task after a brief connection drop.

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Removed

• The Creator testimonial, Green-screen demo and Music ad examples in Marketing > Videos.

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New features

• Make your app’s website. Choose Website in the preview pane of a cloud chat and the agent builds it. Check the live draft in desktop, laptop and phone frames, then Publish.
• Creator videos with an app demo, no recording needed. For a 15 or 30 second creator video, the agent builds a demo of your app from its code, and the creator narrates it.
• Clay animated ads. Ask the agent for one animated ad and you get a clay-style story about your app. It no longer needs a store page.

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Improvements

• 15 and 30 second creator videos and single animated ads now cost far fewer credits.
• 15 second creator videos use the same voice as longer ones.
• Simulator controls stay visible beside the phone, and each button shows its name on hover.
• The Deploy tab’s screenshot check asks only for the sizes Apple needs, including 13” iPad for iPad apps.
• New creator jobs run separately for each app, so creator messages no longer cross between your apps.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed slow-starting cloud chats showing “Agent stopped.” and hiding the agent’s first reply.
• Fixed replies landing under the wrong prompt when a slow cloud chat stopped with prompts queued.
• Fixed installing the iOS preview failing with a server error.
• Fixed cloud chats sometimes failing to start at busy times.
• Fixed the agent forgetting your chat after a run failed, timed out or was stopped.

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Improvements

• Preview and code editor links stop working once you sign out, leave the organization or the project is deleted.
• Android test builds of your app finish faster.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Android release builds and Google Play releases always failing to sign for apps named in non-Latin scripts. Press Retry to build again.
• Fixed TestFlight releases failing without explanation when the Apple Team ID was mistyped. Newly now shows the correct Team ID to enter.
• Fixed attaching files on iPad getting stuck on “Reading attachments…” (web).
• Fixed asking the agent for your APK showing an old failed build instead of building.
• Fixed earlier APK cards in chat switching to the newest build’s status.
• Fixed sessions occasionally dropping when your app’s builds ran out of memory.

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Removed

• Viewers can no longer open a project’s code editor. They can still open the app preview.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed a dropped connection silently losing an attached photo and stopping the agent. If it still fails, your message and file return to the message box to send again.

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New features

• Apple Search Ads. Connect your Apple Ads account with Continue with Apple in Marketing & analytics > Apple Ads, then plan, start and pause campaigns, pick keywords and bids, and follow the numbers there or by asking the agent in chat. Needs an Apple Ads Advanced account and an app live on the App Store.
• Download your APK with a QR code. Choose Show QR code on a finished Android build in the install card or the Deploy tab’s build history, then scan it to download on your phone without signing in.

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Improvements

• The web app’s welcome screen opens much faster when you’re signed out, especially on phones.
• Returning to choose a plan after cancelling now greets you with Welcome back.
• Cancelling a plan now warns that your apps’ backends, automations and marketing campaigns will stop.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed installing on your iPhone getting stuck at “Signing in to Apple” after a code arrived (web).
• Fixed sign-in buttons opening nothing when the browser blocked the popup (web).

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Improvements

• The iPhone install card has an Info button explaining Developer Mode and the iOS Security Delay.
• On projects moved from Newly v1 with their original backend, ask the agent to deploy that backend to production. Admins only.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the preview staying disconnected after a brief connection drop.
• Fixed an interrupted build blocking signing certificate changes for your Apple team.
• Fixed a damaged older signing certificate failing releases that had a valid one.
• Fixed empty attached files stopping the agent’s reply with an unclear error.
• Fixed Android builds and Google Play releases timing out in a queue at busy times.
• Fixed a chat sometimes being saved to a different project than its own.
• Fixed session file downloads on Android Chrome hiding the app behind a stuck tab (web).
• Fixed chats failing to save when shortened agent output split an emoji.
• Fixed GitHub sync stalling for hours when a linked repo had many branches.
• Fixed Edit database failing to open for projects moved from Newly v1.
• Fixed Deploy backend to prod creating a broken backend on projects moved from Newly v1.

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New features

• Try on my device. The card under the simulator builds your app and installs it on your own iPhone, over USB from Chrome or by scanning a QR code (web). Viewers can’t install.
• Built-in skills in the / menu. Type / in chat to see Newly’s built-in skills. Pick rossark-motion-skill to have the agent animate mascots, onboarding and paywall art smoothly.

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Improvements

• Emails about billing, checkout, previews, App Store rejections and your account are shorter, with key dates and prices up front.
• Emails from Newly link to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
• The web app loads much faster, with one steady loading screen (web).
• The agent offers to make a marketing video at a good moment, at most once a day, and not soon after Not now.
• The agent suggests the kind of video that fits your app, and Make one like this starts it in the same chat.
• Deleting your account now also deletes your saved App Store, Google Play and push notification keys.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed TestFlight builds failing to create a certificate when one Apple team publishes several projects.
• Fixed Download ZIP producing font files that would not unzip.

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Removed

• The Text wall format is no longer offered for marketing videos.

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New features

• Connect your own domain. Ask the agent to put your website on your domain, or open Deploy > Domains. Newly shows the records to add at your DNS provider and checks them for you. See Use your own domain.
• Buy a domain. In Deploy > Domains, choose Add a domain, then Buy a new one. The price shown is what you pay at checkout. See Buy a new domain.
• Pick a branch when you import a GitHub repo. After Check repo, choose the branch Newly builds from instead of always using the default branch.

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Improvements

• Your preview updates in place with Fast Refresh when code changes, instead of rebuilding.
• When a change needs a native rebuild, your preview keeps running and offers Rebuild.
• Everyone working on a project shares its one preview.
• A stuck or interrupted simulator preview reconnects on its own, without refreshing the page (web).
• Subscribe on status.newly.app to get an email about incidents and scheduled maintenance.
• Plans in Billing lead with what Newly helps you do, with See everything included for details.
• GitHub History now opens comparing your dev branches instead of main.
• Downloading session files now says your files are being prepared.
• The agent won’t post a UGC creator job until your app is built and named.
• Disconnect a custom domain from Deploy > Domains.
• The GitHub pane remembers the branches you compared and points out your newest work.
• Integrations show which services are already connected.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed chats queueing, timing out or failing to start while your preview was running.
• Fixed the agent’s simulator shutting down during tasks longer than 75 minutes.
• Fixed previews still failing to build after another chat added packages.
• Fixed Start sometimes not bringing back a preview that had gone to sleep.
• Fixed previews showing “The simulator request timed out” after one slow status check.
• Fixed some older subscriptions failing to cancel or change plan with an error.
• Fixed connecting Supabase from chat showing a raw message bubble.
• Fixed per-video credit estimates in Videos showing long decimals.
• Fixed the agent stopping with an error on every message.
• Fixed the agent stopping mid-task with some models you pick.
• Fixed App AI in your app failing to answer.
• Fixed disabled buttons looking like they could still be pressed.

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Removed

• The Stop preview button, and Cancel while your preview starts, since the whole project shares it.

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New features

• Use your GitHub repo. Pick a repository from Home and choose Use this repo to build in it, or Use as reference to let the agent read it. Paste a repo link in chat to add it as a reference.
• Reconnect GitHub. A project you disconnected from GitHub can connect to a repository again from the GitHub pane. Newly asks before putting your project’s code on top of newer commits.
• Report a problem with a creator. A hired UGC creator’s page has a Report a problem form. Newly’s reply shows in Help & support.

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Improvements

• Your preview is shared by every chat in a project, keeps running as you switch chats, and updates to the latest commit from any of them.
• The Share popover shares as soon as you press Share, without a separate check step.
• Notices float over the window instead of pushing the layout down.
• Google Play, push notification and in-app purchase setup accept Android package names with capital letters.
• When Apple refuses a pasted App Store Connect key, Newly says why, such as an agreement to accept.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed iOS previews failing to install.
• Fixed pressing Preview several times in a row blocking previews for a minute.
• Fixed previews failing to build in imported projects after adding a backend.
• Fixed previews failing to build after another chat added packages.
• Fixed previews showing a timeout error when the simulator was ready.
• Fixed large Android builds running out of memory.
• Fixed branch tags wrapping next to long branch names.

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Removed

• The starter chips under the video brief in Marketing > Videos.

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New features

• Hire UGC creators. Ask the agent to post a job for creators who post videos about your app on TikTok and Instagram every month. Review applicants and hire them in Marketing & analytics > UGC creators.
• Scheduled sessions. The agent can start new sessions on a task, or run a prompt on a schedule at most once an hour. Upcoming runs show under Awaiting jobs in your sessions list.
• Marketing ads and quick video formats. Pick a format in the Videos tab, such as text walls, app demos or meme edits, or ask the agent for ads made from your store page.
• Send Newly’s walkthrough to App Review. No iPhone to record on? The Screen Recording for App Review row can send the walkthrough Newly recorded on the iOS simulator. Organization owners and admins can send it. See What Apple asks a new developer account.

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Improvements

• A new creator video keeps the presenter from your last one unless you ask for someone new.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed a failed preview start offering no Try again button.
• Fixed the agent taking screenshots of the iOS preview while checking your Android app.

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Improvements

• Workspace owners and admins can now start a project moved from Newly v1, not only its original owner.
• The agent picks the presenter and setting of a marketing video to fit your app.
• Sharing a TestFlight build or editing a listing now says what Apple refused and what to fix.
• The GitHub repo picker refreshes while open, so repos you just granted access to appear.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Android builds failing by running out of memory.

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Improvements

• Subscriptions Setup now says when Newly still needs your Google Play service-account key to create products.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed choosing an existing RevenueCat project always failing.

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New features

• Designed store screenshots on the web. Press Design screenshots in Deploy or ask the agent. It designs App Store and Google Play screenshots from your running app, captioned in every listing language. See Screenshots for your listing.
• A new look. The web app has a refreshed light design, and the Deploy tab now uses the same card layout as Integrations.
• Google Play upload keys. Import the key your app is already published with, generate a new one, switch between keys or download them from the Google Play section of Deploy. Organization owners and admins can manage keys.

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Improvements

• After you connect RevenueCat, see the Apple agreement, tax and bank steps your app needs before it can sell.
• When Google Play rejects an upload’s key, the Deploy tab names the key Google expects and offers it if you have it.
• A TestFlight release too large to upload now names your biggest file instead of asking you to contact support.
• Sharing a TestFlight build explains when Apple’s beta contract is missing and that only Apple Developer Support can restore it.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed iOS previews stalling when your app launched but never came to the front.
• Fixed the first preview failing in projects just moved from Newly v1.
• Fixed the Store page waiting forever for Apple downloads on days nobody downloaded.
• Fixed TestFlight and Google Play releases failing for projects moved from Newly v1.

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New features

• Status banners. The web app shows a banner during scheduled maintenance or an incident, even before you sign in, with a link to details.
• Connect Supabase. Connect your Supabase project once, from the chat or the Integrations tab, and the agent deploys Edge Functions, runs migrations and manages function secrets for you.

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Improvements

• TestFlight releases no longer send your App Store Connect key to the machines that build your app.
• Close the migration card in a project moved from Newly v1 once it’s done. It shrinks to a bar that reopens it.
• Projects moved from Newly v1 that kept their original backend have Edit database in Settings > Project, for admins.
• The switch to collect analytics in your app moved from the Analytics page to Settings > Project.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the simulator showing a startup timer for hours when nothing was starting.
• Fixed the simulator startup checklist cutting off its spinner and timer in narrow panes.
• Fixed iOS previews that couldn’t use the Keychain or lost sign-in on relaunch. Affected apps rebuild once.
• Fixed Stop doing nothing while a new chat was still starting.
• Fixed the agent sometimes ignoring the model you picked for a chat.
• Fixed marketing videos failing with a credentials error.
• Fixed Settings refusing your Google sign-in keys for your backend.
• Fixed your backend’s development environment sharing file storage with production.

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New features

• Use your existing RevenueCat project. Connect RevenueCat from the chat card first, then pick one of your projects or create a new one. With an existing project, the agent keeps your products and only wires in its keys.

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Improvements

• The first preview of an app you’ve renamed is ready sooner.
• History loads each file’s changes when you open it.
• Long preview errors appear in a scrollable box you can copy.
• Newly emails you when an App Store rejection goes unanswered for 3 days.
• The Apple rejection prompt shows once per rejection across your devices, not once per browser.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed comparing branches in History failing for very large repositories.
• Fixed the first backend deploy of a new project failing on its database.
• Fixed backend deploys failing late on scheduled jobs, which aren’t supported.
• Fixed the Deploy tab blocking TestFlight for tabs in their own route groups.
• Fixed the Store page showing quiet days as not reported instead of zero.
• Fixed previews of projects moved from Newly v1 failing while still being prepared.
• Fixed previews of large projects moved from Newly v1 failing to upload.
• Fixed moved projects saying migration is free after the free month ended.
• Fixed previews and Android builds of large projects failing to upload.
• Fixed Android builds failing to install dependencies for some projects, including moved ones.
• Fixed Android builds sometimes failing partway with a timeout.
• Fixed Your simulator offering no Try again after a failed first build.
• Fixed Where you’re signed in listing the same device many times.
• Fixed the preview of an ended session showing a timer forever instead of Try again.
• Fixed marketing videos sometimes using a cartoon or illustrated presenter.

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Removed

• The agent no longer starts fixing preview errors on its own. Ask it when you want a fix.

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New features

• Store reviews in the Deploy tab. Open Reviews to read your App Store and Google Play reviews in one list, filter by stars, and reply yourself or have Newly draft it. The agent can summarize what reviewers say.
• Store page numbers. Marketing & analytics has a Store page tab with your App Store page’s views, downloads and conversion, with each release marked on the chart. The agent can read them too.
• Redesigned charts in chat. The agent’s charts show a total, its change from the previous period and each day’s value, with a 7, 30 or 90 day switch. Ask for App Store page numbers or store ratings too.
• Google Play listing numbers. The Store page tab shows your Google Play listing’s visitors, installs and conversion by day and traffic source. Connect your Play reports once from Store page to start.
• Team workspaces. Owners and admins add people as Admins, Editors or Viewers in Settings > Workspace, and work there uses the owner’s credits. Switch workspaces at the top of Home.

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Improvements

• Ask the agent how your hosted social accounts and their posts are doing.
• Settings shows backend controls only once your project has a backend. See Production and secrets.
• Side rails show bare icons, and App Store and Google Play use their own store icons.
• Production Android APKs are signed with your project’s own key. Uninstall an older APK first. See Android APK.
• Backend secrets in chat and Settings have an API / Sign-in switch for your sign-in service’s keys. See Production and secrets.
• Projects moved from Newly v1 show their 30 free days and what you pay after.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the agent starting a preview build after only reading your app.
• Fixed sign-in getting stuck after closing Apple sign-in on a phone.
• Fixed removing or updating a skill failing.
• Fixed screen readers not saying which preview platform is selected at phone widths (web).
• Fixed the chat for a reported migration problem appearing twice in the sidebar.
• Fixed publishing and readiness checks failing for apps with an app.config.js or app.config.ts.
• Fixed store builds not using the production env from eas.json.
• Fixed the readiness ring’s unchecked count leaving out optional rows.
• Fixed the backend secrets card saying keys were saved when sign-in keys never were.
• Fixed the Deploy tab and store numbers showing your previous app after switching apps.
• Fixed the agent’s first try at reading your analytics charts failing.
• Fixed switching the preview to Android starting a repair for an already fixed build.
• Fixed connecting GitHub for the first time getting stuck on “Waiting for GitHub…”.
• Fixed projects moved from Newly v1 being blocked after a push to their GitHub repo.

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New features

• Apple Pay, iCloud and more on TestFlight. Apps that use Apple Pay, iCloud, WeatherKit, Time Sensitive Notifications and other newer capabilities now publish to TestFlight. Newly sets them up when you sign in with your Apple ID. See Connect Apple.

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Improvements

• Each store listing row in the Deploy tab says how the field helps people find your app.
• Listing rows in the Deploy tab link straight to that field in App Store Connect or Play Console.
• The agent can add keys your app ships with, like a Google Maps key, to your native builds.
• Ask the agent which certificate signs your Android builds and it gives you the fingerprint.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed Apple rejecting TestFlight uploads of apps that use Stripe after Newly reported success.
• Fixed the agent stopping after you answer its questions instead of carrying on.
• Fixed the billing panel sometimes missing plans or failing to load pricing.

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New features

• Deploy your backend to production from Settings. Open Settings > Project, update main from dev, then select Deploy backend to prod. Project owners and admins can deploy. See Production and secrets.

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Improvements

• A banner in your project tells you when your production backend is behind dev or main.
• Asked to ship your backend, the agent walks you through deploying it from Settings.
• Settings has a section sidebar, with a People section to manage who shares your project (web).
• Marketing & analytics uses the same section sidebar as Deploy and Integrations.
• The Deploy tab’s readiness check shows whether your app asks for a store rating, and why it matters.
• Readiness items the store does not require are tagged Recommended or Optional.
• When asked for a rating prompt, the agent uses the store’s own prompt, which the stores allow.
• After a few prompts in a project without a video, the chat suggests creating one.
• Google sign-in for Google Play and Android push tells you which box to tick if Cloud access is missing.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed TestFlight uploads failing for apps that use Game Center.
• Fixed Google Play releases sometimes failing with “This edit has expired”.
• Fixed the Google Play card waiting minutes after signing in again with the same account.
• Fixed some Apple sign-in refusals saying your account was locked, with no Retry.

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Improvements

• Ask the agent for a marketing video of 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds, priced by length.
• The Builds page shows placeholder rows while loading, so the list no longer jumps.
• On phones, Live and Walkthrough move into the top bar, and a drag closes the controls sheet (web).

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the preview, tips, agent activity and project list being cut off on phones (web).
• Fixed the agent stopping without a reason when a content policy blocked its response.

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New features

• Database backups and restore. Use the newly CLI to snapshot your app’s database, restore a snapshot after checking a preview copy, export direct connection URLs and rotate passwords. See Database backups.
• Post from chat. Ask the agent to post a marketing video to a social account you bought. It opens a card with the video, caption and price, and posts only when you pick Queue post.
• Marketing & analytics for everyone. Open Marketing & analytics in your project to see your app’s active users and revenue, check social performance, or turn analytics collection off.

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Improvements

• Create post sends one video and caption to several of your bought social accounts at once.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed the agent sometimes setting up subscriptions so your release build crashes on open.
• Fixed resumed chats sometimes stuck on Working, then no longer accepting messages.
• Fixed CLI backend deploys showing the wrong commit, or none after newly pull.

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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.

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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, 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 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 a chat, 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. See From TestFlight to the App Store.
• Push notifications. Ask for push notifications in a 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 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 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 and Ask.
• 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 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
• Newly FAQ