What's new
Every version of Nagbar, newest first. These are the same notes the app shows when it updates itself; to update by hand, choose Check for Updates in Nagbar's menu or in Settings › About. What's planned after this is on the home page.
0.2.1 A new design, Stay on task, and asks that wait for a natural pause.
- A new design. The menu bar shows a ring that fills as your next thing gets close. Alerts grow out of the notch: a card when something is due, full screen only if you don’t answer (meds and critical ones go straight to full screen). The panel has Inbox, Focus and Ding, the main window is new, and Settings fits in five panes.
- When a reminder asks again, it waits for a natural pause between tasks (switching apps, coming back to your Mac, a call ending), 10 minutes at most. Meetings, important ones, meds and anything Right on time still come on the minute; say “at 3 sharp” or “on the dot” to make one Right on time.
- Focus sessions: start one from a reminder (Focus on this), from Apple Reminders or Things, or by telling Ding “I’m starting deep work on the pricing page for 45 minutes”. Park a thought for after, and see at the end how long you stayed on task. Stay on task (beta, Settings › Alerts › Focus and breaks) notices when you drift to a video, a social site or a long chat, asks once, quietly, and offers the way back at the next pause. It never blocks anything.
- More focus in Pro: Resume brings back the exact browser tab, Stay on task learns what belongs to each task, This week shows your focus runs, and Ding says how the session went. Breaks come at a natural pause, never mid-call, and meetings get a wrap-up heads-up and one click back to what you were doing. Free keeps breaks on the plain timer. Pro
- AI agent runs: when a long Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI or Copilot CLI run finishes or needs you while you’re elsewhere, one card takes you back to it. Connect them in Settings › Sources › Coding agents. Pro
- Moments and your own commands, in the main window under Ding: “deep work for 2 hours” or “I’m joining a call” sets up your Mac for it, then puts it back. Free runs one command of your own; Pro runs the moments and as many commands as you like.
0.2.0 Send Feedback, and updates that download by themselves.
- Send Feedback…: tell us about a bug or an idea from the menu bar menu, Settings › About or Help. It goes straight to Abhishek and Sumit, and only what you type is sent.
- Updates now download by themselves. When one is ready, “Restart to update” appears at the bottom of the window’s sidebar and at the top of the menus; one click installs it.
- Check for Updates… while an update is waiting offers to restart into it.
0.1.2 Unlimited Free dictation, and fixes.
- Free dictation is now unlimited in As spoken and Clean. Pro adds every other style, your own styles and edit by voice. Free
- Reminder rows are never drawn cut in half.
- “Call Mom at six and nag me” makes a reminder called “Call Mom”, without a stray “and”.
0.1.1 Styles that really restyle, and safer links.
- Dictation styles really restyle now: each one changes the wording the way its name says, and list lines start with what to do.
- About shows just the version.
- Every model is a card in Settings › Models.
- Safer links: a reminder from a web page or an email waits in Quick Add until you press Return, and a link that would turn off Presenting, end a pause or change your focus session asks first.
- Reminders added by a link, by Claude or from an invite are marked as someone else's words, so Claude, “Do it for me” and Nagbar's own AI treat them as information, never as orders.
- An alert's “open the link” step shows the real website it goes to.
- The “Open Nagbar” button after buying Pro fills in your key; you click Activate. Pro
0.1.0 The first public version.
- Reminders that take over the screen when it's time, and keep asking until they're done. Free
- Meetings from your calendar, with a countdown and one-click Join. Free
- Dictation in any app: hold ⌥, talk, and clean text lands where your cursor is. Speech stays on your Mac. Free
- Pro: talk to Nagbar, the notch, nag tones, Do it for me, and every dictation style.
Questions about a version: hello@nagbar.app.