Changelog
New features, improvements, and fixes in Acres.
v0.6.1
- Choose the toolbar’s position—top, bottom, left, or right—in Settings → General → Appearance.
- Hotfixes
v0.6.0
- Enjoy a refreshed workspace with floating whiteboard controls, a bottom toolbar, and a separate side panel that gives your notes more room.
- Move around large whiteboards more smoothly, with improved canvas navigation and more reliable view restoration.
- Sync your whole vault through your Acres account and connect another device without setting up a separate passphrase. Existing vaults use saved keys, with a one-time unlock when an older vault needs it.
- Sync now uses account-managed encryption: files are encrypted before upload, and Acres holds the keys needed to restore access through your account. This means Acres can decrypt synced content. Publish keeps its link-based end-to-end encryption.
- Refine everyday work with cleaner note pages, easier side-panel resizing, clearer connections when zoomed out, and more reliable PDF handling.
v0.5.1
- Bug fixes and UI improvements, including smoother sidebar resizing, easier Library filtering, and more reliable icon previews and first-use interactions.
v0.5.0
- Use Acres in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Japanese. Choose your language in Settings or the launcher, with translated menus, dialogs, onboarding, and help throughout the app.
- Write comfortably in Chinese and Japanese with improved input-method handling, readable fonts, and language-aware word counts, dates, and search previews.
- Add thousands of icons and illustrations to your whiteboards from a new offline library, including Lucide, Fluent Emoji Flat, and Streamline Color.
- Find icons by search, category, or style. Save favorites, reuse recent choices, pick variants and skin tones, and recolor outline icons. Creator credits travel with icons on published whiteboards.
- Click note text once to start writing and scroll long notes directly on the whiteboard. Keep your reading position while moving between notes, with fewer controls interrupting the page.
- Enjoy more comfortable spacing for text, headings, and lists in the side panel.
- Learn Acres through a shorter, hands-on first-board guide: write a note, turn a to-do into a task, add an icon, and enter a nested whiteboard. Pause and resume with your progress saved.
v0.4.0
- Read and annotate PDFs directly in the main editor or side panel, alongside your notes and whiteboards.
- Keep PDFs in the Library without adding them to a whiteboard. Rename, tag, pin, trash, and restore them like other content.
- Highlight text or areas, add comments, and browse annotations. Find text, follow internal links, and navigate outlines, thumbnails, and page labels.
- Turn highlights into notes or drag source-linked excerpts into existing notes. Jump back to the original passage, reuse an extracted note, and keep a saved excerpt when its source is unavailable.
- Restore PDF reading positions and keep annotations shared between views, with smoother scrolling and bounded memory use for long documents.
- Preserve more PDF highlights, figures, and source references when importing from Heptabase and Obsidian.
- Recover unsaved PDF comments after an interrupted save, handle external edits more safely, and wait for annotation saves before closing.
- Choose whether published whiteboards include PDF source files. Private PDF comments stay private.
- Edit Markdown source directly, insert and edit tables, and open or reveal note files in your own editor.
- See more of new cards with wider previews and Read more. Zoom to selected items, and use more reliable Escape and Close Tab shortcuts.
- Keep Library and PDF controls clear of the native Windows minimize, maximize, and close buttons.
- Find preferences quickly with search in Settings.
- Start with a personal first-board guide and an optional sample tour. Preview sample cleanup and undo it without removing your own notes.
- Work more smoothly on dense whiteboards, with less rendering and save overhead. Switch whiteboards without intermediate canvas flashes.
- This release upgrades the vault format for native PDFs and saves a migration checkpoint. Update Acres on every device before using the same vault with this version.
v0.3.3
- Choose $59 once for lifetime local use, or $9/month for Acres Plus with the app, Sync, and Publish included.
- Manage new subscriptions through Polar, with one account across devices.
- Keep working offline with a signed subscription pass for up to seven days.
- Simplify AI settings around your own provider keys and local models.
v0.3.2
- Use local AI models through LM Studio, with model discovery and an optional API token.
- Customize keyboard shortcuts in Settings, with conflict detection and one-click resets.
- Send feedback directly from Settings without leaving Acres.
- Open the changelog from a brief sidebar link after updating Acres.
v0.3.1
- Fix click-by-click lines disappearing when you finish drawing.
- Select drawn strokes with a click and remove them with the new Eraser tool.
- Add Nested whiteboard to the toolbar and make its icon easier to distinguish from Section.
v0.3.0
- Redesign the getting-started tour and add clearer guidance on empty whiteboards.
- Search note contents from the command palette, with recent items and a working Show all results action.
- Import from Obsidian or Heptabase directly from the launcher, review import warnings, and open the imported whiteboard.
- Reopen your last vault automatically, with an option to turn this off in Settings.
- Keep the canvas visible when opening the side panel, and fix zoom drifting away from the center.
- Make AI setup easier, with clearer provider status and suggestions that help you build on the whiteboard.
- Simplify card menus, improve text contrast, and make whiteboard names and item counts consistent.
- Extend the free trial to 14 days.
v0.2.0
- Release signed, notarized Mac builds for Apple silicon and Intel, alongside Windows.
- Add one-time license purchases, in-app activation, and a free trial. Your notes remain readable and exportable after the trial.
- Ask before adding Acres files to an existing notes folder, with a clear explanation of backups.
- Improve agent activity history and undo, including warnings when content has changed since an action.
v0.1.1
- Simplify Acres Cloud to optional Sync and Publish subscriptions.
- Use AI with your own API keys or local Ollama models.
v0.1.0
- Initial Windows release with local Markdown notes on an infinite canvas.
- Organize cards, nested whiteboards, sections, connections, images, and PDFs in a folder you own.
- Bring in notes from Obsidian and Heptabase, and find them through search, the Library, and Database views.
- Work with built-in AI using your own provider or Ollama, and connect external agents through MCP and the CLI.
- Add optional encrypted Sync and public publishing, plus in-app updates.