Nova
Every release
- v0.9.117 October 2026Latest
- Settings → Agents → Add an agent now shows the agents already on your Mac, including ones that come inside an app, like DeepSeek Harness. Click Add and you're done.
- For any other agent, choose its app. Nova works out how to talk to it and tells you in plain words.
- DeepSeek Harness is now one of the agents Nova knows.
- Every agent you add gets a quick test straight away, so you know it works.
- The technical fields are tucked away under Advanced, for anyone who wants them.
- An agent whose program lives in a folder with spaces in its name can now be added.
- v0.9.017 October 2026
- Say "build me a notes app" and your coding agent builds it in a new folder of its own, then tells you when it's ready. "Fix the failing tests in my-site" works on that project.
- Connect any AI service you have a key for. Pick one from the list - Kimi, GLM, Qwen, MiniMax, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and more - or add any other by its address. Models running on your Mac work too.
- Add any coding agent you use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kimi Code, Qwen Code, Goose, Aider, or a program of your own. Nova works with any agent that speaks the Agent Client Protocol, an open standard many agents use.
- Each agent can use its own sign-in, or one of the models you connected.
- Agents that aren't on your Mac yet can be installed with one click. The install runs in a Terminal window you can see, and Nova notices when it's done.
- Test any agent with one click: Nova gives it a small job in a test folder and tells you if it worked.
- A new "Who does what" page: choose who answers your questions, who builds things, and who works in the background while you're away.
- Work you hand over while you're away can now be done by a model you connected, not only by an agent.
- Share your agents with friends as a file. Agents someone shares with you arrive switched off, and Nova shows you exactly what each one runs before you turn it on.
- No agent is set up on its own any more: you add the ones you want.
- With nothing chosen, the first model you connected answers your questions.
- Settings → Models replaces API connections and Local models, and shows only what you added.
- The first-run walkthrough now helps you connect a model, add an agent and choose who does what.
- The privacy page says where each model and agent sends your work.
- "Build me a notes app" no longer opens the Notes app.
- Your iPhone now learns your Mac's Tailscale address as soon as Tailscale comes on, so it can reach Nova when you're away from home. Settings → iPhone tells you if your phone doesn't know it yet.
- v0.8.015 October 2026
- A new API connections page in Settings: paste your key from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, xAI or Together AI, and Nova checks it works.
- Pick one of the service's models and choose "Answer with this" - it then answers your questions, and can use everything Nova can do.
- See how many answers and tokens each service used this month, so you know what your key is spending.
- Your key stays on your Mac. It's never shown again after you save it, and you can remove it any time.
- Nova still understands what you say on your Mac, and your voice never leaves it - only the questions you ask go to the service you chose.
- The privacy page now says when your questions go to an online service, and which one.
- v0.7.015 October 2026
- Hand work over before you leave: say "while I'm away, research flights to Accra", or "keep working on that while I'm out". Your agent carries on, and Nova tells you what it found when you're back.
- When something needs your yes while you're away, your iPhone rings with a reminder. Open Nova there and answer with Face ID.
- While you're away, nobody at your Mac can say yes for you. The question waits for you for 30 minutes instead of two.
- Your iPhone also rings when work you handed over is done.
- Say "keep an eye on my mail", "watch my calendar" or "keep an eye on GitHub", and Nova tells you only what matters. It only looks - it never changes, moves or marks anything as read.
- Mail: Nova tells you about mail from the people you choose ("tell me when Ama emails"), or marked urgent - never newsletters or automatic messages.
- Calendar: Nova tells you when a meeting is added, moved or called off, and when one is about to start.
- GitHub: Nova tells you when someone asks you for a review, mentions you, or gives you something to do.
- Ask "what are you keeping an eye on?" to hear what Nova is watching, and "stop watching my mail" to stop.
- Settings no longer shows a warning about old entries in your settings file - Nova was already ignoring them.
- v0.6.015 October 2026
- Make a command for one app: say "in Warp, when I say deploy, run npm run deploy". The word "deploy" then only does that while Warp is open in front.
- Teach by doing: do something, then say "save that as deploy". You can also say "make the last three things a command called start work".
- Ask "what commands have I taught you?" or "what can I say in Warp?", and say "forget the deploy command" to remove one. "Undo that" brings it back.
- A new Commands page in Settings lists everything you've taught Nova. You can switch each one on or off, change it, or delete it.
- Nova notices when you keep asking for the same few things in a row, and offers to turn them into one command.
- Share your commands: say "share my Warp commands" and Nova saves them as a file in your Downloads folder. A friend puts that file in Nova's packs folder on their Mac.
- Commands someone shares with you arrive switched off, so you can read them before turning them on.
- Nova checks every shared file before using it, and refuses anything unsafe in it.
- Your routines moved from "Reminders & routines" to the new Commands page.
- v0.5.09 October 2026
- Open a file at a line ("open service.ts at line 120"), open a project in your editor, jump to a line or a function, and search the whole project. Works with VS Code and its relatives, JetBrains apps, Xcode, Zed and Sublime Text.
- Run commands in your terminal ("run npm test"), stop them ("stop that") and clear the screen. Nova always asks before anything that deletes or can't be undone.
- Message people: "message Kofi on Slack saying I'm running late". Nova writes the message and asks "Send it?" - nothing is sent without your yes. Works with Slack, Teams, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, Messages, Zoho Cliq, Mattermost and Signal.
- Write emails: "email Ama about the budget saying can we meet tomorrow", "reply all saying thanks", "forward this to Kofi". Nova asks before sending.
- Meetings: "what's my next meeting?", "join the meeting", and during a call "mute", "turn off my camera", "raise my hand" or "leave the meeting". Works with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, FaceTime, Slack huddles, WhatsApp and Discord.
- Nova finds the people you name in your Contacts. It asks for permission the first time.
- v0.4.05 October 2026
- Say what a menu says, in any app: "export as PDF", "show the sidebar", "new tab". Nova never guesses, and asks before anything you can't take back.
- Answer pop-up windows by their buttons: "save", "don't save", "replace", "cancel".
- Open any part of System Settings by name: "open Wi-Fi settings", "open screen recording permissions".
- Go to places on your Mac: "show downloads", "open iCloud Drive", "what did I just download?".
- Take screenshots of the screen, a window, an app or an area you draw.
- Type by voice with punctuation, edit what you typed ("select the last word", "scratch that"), or turn on dictation to keep typing as you talk.
- A new Apps page in Settings shows what Nova understands in each app.
- Short commands happen as soon as you stop speaking.
- Nova keeps a private log of what it did with each request and how long it took, to help make it faster.
- "New document" now works in apps like TextEdit.
- "Cancel" now closes open and save windows.
- v0.3.35 October 2026
- Nova's window no longer opens black on some Macs.
- v0.3.24 October 2026
- Ask for several things at once: "open Chrome, go to GitHub and open my pull requests". Nova does them in order.
- Say "stop" (or "wait", "hold on") while Nova is doing something, and it stops at once - no need to say its name first.
- v0.3.14 October 2026
- Nova checks for new versions and installs them for you. You can also choose Check for Updates in the menu bar or in Settings.
- See what's new in each version before you update.
- Nova now comes as a single app that has everything it needs inside it.