Changelog

What we've been building.

What is new and what is fixed in each release, newest first.

v0.23.101Oct 2026

Two people, one chore

A chore can now belong to two or more people. Laundry: Jordan & Sam. Any of them can tick it, and when it is approved each of them earns the full reward.

NewPick everyone doing a chore under Doing it with. The card, the list, the approval queue, a child's own view and the wall display show their faces together and read Jordan & Sam, or Jordan +2 from three people, on the web and the phone. Family plan
NewDone together: the chore completes once, whoever presses Done, and approving it gives each person the full points or money with the same early or late bonus. Undo takes back each person's share
ImprovedA repeating shared chore comes back with the same people. A chore that takes turns stays one person a turn
ImprovedMargin Intelligence and connected assistants can share a chore when they create or assign it, and list who is on each one

v0.23.100Oct 2026

The finish lines

More small moments in the page's ink, and a short burst of confetti for the few things worth one. Each plays once, when it happens in front of you.

ImprovedChecking off a habit fills today's mark with ink from the center out, and the streak number rolls up by one
ImprovedA streak reaching 7, 30 or 100, the last item on a shopping list going in the cart, and a savings goal being reached each get one short burst of confetti in your theme's colors. The shopping list's name also gets a hand-drawn line under it
ImprovedWhen a focus block runs out, its ring closes with one brush stroke
ImprovedDeciding the last capture in your Inbox underlines the empty Inbox with a small flourish
ImprovedA reached savings goal and a debt both sides agree is settled carry a wax seal
ImprovedNone of these replay when you open a screen or when the app catches up after being offline. Reduce Motion shows the finished state with no movement and no confetti. Web and phone app alike

v0.23.99Oct 2026

A tick in ink, a seal for a yes

Three small moments, drawn in the same ink as the rest of the page. The change happens at once and the motion only marks it.

ImprovedTicking off a checklist item, a card, a shopping item or a step on a chore draws a quick hand-written tick in the box. Unticking rubs it out. A list that opens already ticked just shows its ticks
ImprovedWhen a grown-up approves a chore, says yes to a reward or answers a pact decision, a small wax seal presses into the confirmation with a soft bloom of ink
ImprovedA capture that lands in your Inbox shows a folded note sliding into a tray, in quick capture, after a share and on the phone's Save and keep going
ImprovedAll three follow Reduce Motion and show their finished state with no movement. The same drawings run on the web and the phone app

v0.23.98Oct 2026

A quill while it writes

When something is being written or worked out, a small quill now writes in the margin instead of a spinner going round. In chat it tells you who is writing.

NewIn a chat thread you now see who is typing: a quill writes above the box beside Sam is writing…, on the web and the phone. It leaves a few seconds after they stop or the moment their message lands, and nothing about it is stored. Family and Team plans
ImprovedMargin Intelligence shows a quill writing while it thinks and while it works through a request, on the web and the phone
ImprovedA Team agent's run shows the same quill while it is still working, and so does a recording being turned into words
ImprovedA note saving on the web shows the quill beside Saving. With reduced motion on, the quill holds still and fades gently instead

v0.23.97Oct 2026

Late means late, and names stay put

A chore waiting for approval stops counting days once it is done, and a few small things that read wrong on a phone now read right.

FixedA chore done a day late and waiting for a yes now says 1 day late on the board, the list, the approval card and the phone, not how many days it has been since. Done on time reads On time
FixedA chore done on its due day earns its full points in every time zone. West of London, a date-only due day was read as the evening before, and an on-time chore lost a quarter of its points
FixedOn a phone, the chores list keeps each person's name beside their face. When the status pill does not fit, it moves under the name instead of pushing the name out
FixedThe portrait and emoji shelf names in the avatar picker wrap on a narrow screen, so Elders is no longer cut off at the edge
ImprovedEmoji search knows the official Unicode names and takes several words, so slightly smiling finds the slight smile, in the avatar picker and in chat
FixedImported due dates stay on the day you wrote. A Todoist task due Oct 14 no longer lands on Oct 13 west of Greenwich, and the same goes for board CSVs

v0.23.96Oct 2026

Portraits for every face

The avatar picker has a fourth tab: 64 watercolor portraits, from a laughing baby to a grandfather with a white beard.

NewA Portraits tab beside Drawn, Emoji and Photo, on four shelves: Kids, Younger adults, Older adults and Elders. Every face has a name a screen reader can say
ImprovedPortraits are part of the app, so the chore board, the wall display and the phone show them with no signal
IntegrationMargin Intelligence and connected assistants can set a portrait with add_family_member or update_family_settings, as portrait:p01 to portrait:p64

v0.23.95Oct 2026

Chores, as this week's list

The chores page has a List view beside the board: the week in one table, so you can see who has what without opening four columns.

NewA Board and List switch on the chores page. The List shows each chore this week with its mark, who has it, when it is due and its status, late ones first and marked late
NewEach row's menu marks a chore done, approves it, hands an open one to someone, or edits, undoes or deletes it
ImprovedPhones open on the List and laptops on the Board until you choose, and each device remembers its own choice. The phone app has the same switch

v0.23.94Oct 2026

Save from the browser, even signed out

Clicking Save to The Margin while signed out used to lose the page you were on. Now it waits for you.

FixedSave to The Margin, clicked while you are signed out, now brings you back to the save window after you sign in, with the page's address, title and the words you selected still there. A very long selection is left out so the page itself still arrives
FixedAny link into the app that asks you to sign in first now returns you to that exact link afterwards, not a plainer version of it

v0.23.93Oct 2026

Your pacts at a glance

The pacts list now shows what is going on in each pact without opening it, on the web and in the phone app.

ImprovedEach pact shows who is in it, the latest message and who sent it, when it last moved, and how many questions are waiting on you
ImprovedA pact with messages you have not read since you last opened it is marked New
ImprovedLong pact names wrap to two lines and long purposes fold to two, so one pact no longer fills the screen. The full text is on the pact itself, behind Show all
ImprovedPacts in your other workspaces are named above the list with how many are waiting on you there, and one tap switches to them
ImprovedThe Waiting on you tab always shows its count, and on a phone a waiting question sits as one line above the messages until you tap to answer it

v0.23.92Oct 2026

Agents in a pact hear each other without asking

When one agent writes to a pact, the others are told right away, instead of finding out the next time they happen to look.

NewA Claude Code plugin, margin-pacts, wakes a session the moment another agent posts in one of its pacts, with the first lines of the message and the call that reads the rest
NewAn agent with its own server can take each new pact message as a signed webhook instead. Five failed deliveries in a row switch it off and tell you
NewIf no other agent reads a pact message within 30 minutes, the pact's owner gets a notification and an email, at most once an hour per pact
IntegrationConnected agents call set_pact_delivery once to choose the stream, a webhook or nothing; any client that reads server-sent events can follow /pacts/stream on the MCP server and pick up where it left off after a dropped connection

v0.23.91Oct 2026

Assistants say why, and read your house rules first

Anything an assistant adds or edits can carry the reason it gave, and you can write notes every assistant reads before it works in your workspace.

NewThe small mark on anything an assistant added now says why: "Added by Alex through Claude: to keep the grocery run under budget". It covers cards, notes, checklist items, the shopping list, calendar events, expenses, income and chores, on the web and in the phone app
NewNotes for assistants in Settings → Workspace, and in a board's settings: a few plain sentences every connected assistant reads before it changes anything. Owners and admins write them; everyone in the workspace can read them
NewConnected assistants can read what other assistants changed here lately and why, so a second one picks up where the first stopped. Margin Intelligence gives a reason with every change it makes
ImprovedThe activity feed shows what each assistant did, with its reason

v0.23.90Oct 2026

The sandbox tells you when it clears, and offers to keep your work

Try it now still needs no email. It now says how long it has left, and once you have made a few things of your own it asks, once, whether you want to keep them.

NewAfter you add three things of your own in the sandbox (an item, a note, a card, a meal, a habit), a small card offers to keep them: we email you a sign-in link and everything moves into your new workspace. Not now closes it for the visit
ImprovedThe sandbox banner says when it clears, in days and then hours, and in its last day it turns the accent color with a full Keep button. On the web and in the phone app
ImprovedAn agent trying Margin through the no-account MCP sandbox now passes on a link for its person to try it themselves, on the first call and every fifth after it

v0.23.89Oct 2026

A roomier add bar, and staples that stay in the cart

The shopping list's add field gets a row of its own on a phone, and a staple you check off now shows in the cart until the shop is over.

ImprovedOn a phone the shopping list's add field has a full row to itself, so a name like "Greek yogurt" stays readable as you type. Amount, aisle and Add sit on the row below, on the web and in the phone app
FixedChecking off a staple such as milk puts it in the cart like anything else. It used to skip the cart and go straight to the staples tray, so the list said "Milk is in the cart" while the cart showed no milk
FixedClear checked and Finish run now move checked staples to the staples tray, and the cart's total no longer counts a staple left over from an earlier shop

v0.23.88Oct 2026

The agent sandbox opens in Claude Code again

The one line that lets an agent try The Margin with no account works in current Claude Code, which had been connecting and then dropping the sandbox with no tools.

FixedClaude Code now gets the sandbox's tools from the one documented line. The sandbox used to answer its first request with a sign-in challenge, and the client went looking for a sign-in page that the sandbox does not have
FixedA client that speaks only the newest MCP revision is told where to get a sandbox token instead of being asked to sign in

v0.23.87Oct 2026

Tabs that slide, and a playful break room

Every row of tabs now slides its highlight to the one you pick, and the break room and children's pages spring a little more.

ImprovedTabs across the app slide their highlight to your choice: money, settings, team, meals, recipes, people, Organize, the planner and family analytics. In a row that scrolls, the highlight scrolls with it and the tab you pick comes into view
ImprovedPill highlights keep their round ends while they move, where some used to stretch out of shape for a moment
ImprovedIn the break room and on a child's own pages, highlights, switches and buttons bounce and squash a little as they land. Everywhere else keeps the calmer settle
ImprovedThe phone app's settings tabs, the game level sets and the Mind's map view do the same, and the settings tabs open with the current one in view
ImprovedWith reduced motion turned on, the highlight moves instantly and keeps its colors

v0.23.86Oct 2026

Field notes you can read in order

The field notes now open as one series, front to back, in five parts. Topics and newest first are still a tap away.

ImprovedThe field notes list every chapter in order by default, grouped into five parts, from why The Margin exists to the app at work
NewSwitch the list between In order, By topic and Newest. The choice is in the link, so a shared link opens the same list
ImprovedEach chapter shows its part and how far through the series it is, and its previous and next buttons follow the series
NewCome back to the field notes on the same device and a card offers the chapter you last opened

v0.23.84Oct 2026

Keep notes that share a title all come across

Importing from Google Keep no longer folds two notes with the same title into one, and dropping a newer Todoist, Trello or Keep export brings in only what is new.

FixedTwo Keep notes with the same title made on the same day, like two grocery lists, both import. Before, the second was counted as a duplicate and left out
ImprovedDropping the same Todoist backup, Trello board or Keep Takeout again adds nothing, on the web and the phone alike, so you can import a newer export whenever you like

v0.23.83Oct 2026

Assistants told plainly, sandboxes kept whole

Every tool now turns away an argument it does not use, sign-in problems come back as sign-in problems, and keeping the sandbox brings its boards across with their columns and cards.

FixedEvery one of the MCP server's tools now refuses an argument it does not take and names the ones it does. About half of them used to ignore it and report success
FixedWhen a connected assistant's access to every workspace it was granted has ended, it is asked to sign in again instead of being told its request was malformed
FixedCalling a tool that does not exist gets the error the MCP spec gives for it, and the agent sandbox's sign-in errors say how to authenticate
FixedKeeping the sandbox after signing up brings each board's columns, labels and cards across, instead of leaving some behind with a "Some changes couldn't sync" notice

v0.23.82Oct 2026

Founding prices on the front page, and fairer seats

The landing page says when founding prices end, a child shared between two homes takes one seat, and a tapped calendar slot starts an hour long again.

ImprovedWhile founding prices are on sale, the top of the landing page says until when and links to pricing. It disappears by itself when the offer closes
FixedA child shared between two homes takes a seat only in the home that created them, including when an assistant adds someone to the household
ImprovedTapping a time in the week or day view starts the event an hour long. No end time still clears it
ImprovedWhen an outside assistant reaches something your plan does not include, it says plans are managed on The Margin's website instead of sending a pricing link. Margin Intelligence keeps the link
ImprovedSupport on Team is now a promise of two business days, the same as every other plan aims for

v0.23.81Oct 2026

Controls that answer your press

Switches, buttons and the layout pickers now respond the moment you press them and move to where you sent them, on the web and in the phone app.

ImprovedA switch leans toward its new side as soon as you press it, then slides there and settles when you let go. Slide off before letting go and nothing changes
ImprovedButtons and checkboxes give slightly under the pointer, the same press the phone app already had
ImprovedThe note layout picker, the Organize mode picker and the phone app's segmented controls slide their highlight to your choice instead of blinking it on
ImprovedWith reduced motion turned on, every one of these changes instantly and keeps its colors

v0.23.80Oct 2026

Remembered, filed and in reach

What Margin Intelligence remembers loads again, a note goes in the folder you name, and the whiteboard's tools sit clear on an iPhone.

FixedThe list of what Margin Intelligence remembers about you loads again, and finding links between your notes no longer stops partway
FixedAsk Margin Intelligence to put a note in a folder and it lands in that folder, instead of at the top level
FixedEnding a focus session through Margin Intelligence no longer suggests it kept a write-up; it offers to save one as a note
FixedOn an iPhone, the whiteboard's drawing tools sit below the zoom row instead of under it
FixedAn assistant that sends a word where a money amount goes is told the amount must be a number, and nothing is saved

v0.23.79Oct 2026

Know where you are sending your workspace

The screen where you approve an assistant now shows where approving sends you, and flags apps The Margin does not recognize.

ImprovedApproving an assistant shows the website you go to next, such as claude.ai, on both the consent screen and the workspace picker
ImprovedAn app that registered itself and sends you somewhere The Margin does not recognize is marked Not verified by The Margin, with a plain warning
FixedAn app can no longer call itself Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or The Margin unless it really sends you back to that company's site; otherwise the screen names the website instead

v0.23.78Oct 2026

Cleaner restarts for connected assistants

When The Margin updates, an assistant connected over MCP is told the stream is ending and can reconnect at once.

FixedDuring an update, open MCP streams close cleanly as soon as the restart begins, so a connected assistant reconnects straight away instead of sitting on a silent stream for about 25 seconds until it is cut off
FixedA tool call already running when an update starts gets the full shutdown window to finish its write

v0.23.77Oct 2026

Small things, put right

Live rooms follow the Team rules within seconds, a full-size mic on the phone's expense note, and each note listed once in the Mind.

FixedWhen a Team starts requiring two-factor or Google sign-in, members the rule holds out leave live presence and shared note editing within seconds instead of at the end of the hour, and the same happens to anyone who turns their own two-factor off
FixedA member removed from a workspace through sync also leaves the live presence of its boards right away
FixedOn a phone, the mic in the quick expense note is a full fingertip wide, like every other mic inside a field
FixedThe Mind's side panel lists a note once under Mentions, even when the note names the same person or page more than once
FixedA late-night Daybook greeting and a few family and money messages now read as plain sentences, without a dash

v0.23.76Oct 2026

Keys follow the plan

An API key adds cards and shopping items only while the workspace's plan includes integrations.

FixedAPI keys stop adding cards and shopping items once the workspace's plan no longer includes integrations, the same rule notes already followed

v0.23.75Oct 2026

More of the web, in your pocket

Importing, memory packs, people and things, webhooks, tokens, Team downloads and whiteboard tools: the next part of the web, now in the phone app.

NewImport notes, boards, checklists and bank statements from the phone app's Settings, Data, and bring an exported brain back in, with the same preview the web shows
NewMemory packs in the phone app: pack what Margin knows, share it with a person, and read a pack shared with you before you import it
NewPeople and things in the phone app, under Margin Intelligence: rename, retype, alias, merge, connect or hide a name, and see where it appears
NewWebhooks and API keys in the phone app's Settings, Connections: add, test, pause and delete webhooks, and make or revoke keys
NewGenerate an access token for an assistant from the phone app's Connected apps, shown once to share or copy
NewTeam owners and admins can download the workspace and its security log from the phone app's Team, Access
NewRefresh exchange rates from the phone app's Money menu
NewThe phone app's whiteboards gain the shape library, Annotate on a picture, and an up-to-date gallery picture after you draw

v0.23.74Oct 2026

Small things, set right

Fixes from the first week after opening the doors: the docs, the sandbox and two settings pages.

ImprovedThe short clips in the docs play on their own while they are on screen, with no player controls, and hold still on one frame if your device asks for less motion
FixedAdd this week's meals works in the sandbox: it reads the demo household's planned week and puts the ingredients on the shopping list
FixedThe sandbox's notes on what it leaves out say which plan each part comes with, instead of promising all of it to a free account
FixedSettings, Data says everything an export carries, the household's chores, recipes, shopping lists and pantry included, on the web and in the phone app
ImprovedSettings, Integrations shows the MCP address with a Copy button, and uses the same words as the page where you allow an assistant in

v0.23.73Oct 2026

The phone app catches up

Boards, planning, review, habits, money, security and free days: more of what the web does, now in the phone app.

NewBoards in the phone app: skip one occurrence of a repeating card, move a column left or right, save a card as a template, and see boards shared with you from other workspaces
NewEdit a template's name, body and steps in the phone app; whiteboards shared with you have their own section on the phone's list
NewThe planner in the phone app has a Matrix mode that sorts open cards into Do now, Plan it, Hand off and Later, with your finished counts at the top
NewReview in the phone app can accept all tags, connections or people links at once, and a who-is-this question has Don't track
NewSet what a habit partner hears about, and the streak milestone, from the habit's share sheet in the phone app
NewTwo-factor sign-in in the phone app: set it up, see the recovery codes left, make new ones, turn it off, and set a Team's rule from Team, Access
NewYour reports in the phone app's Settings lists what you sent and where it got to
NewSpending over time in the phone app's Money menu, one set of bars per currency, plus a Totals in switch and a line when the same person is owed in more than one workspace
NewEarn more free days in the phone app's Billing settings: the GitHub star is checked right there and Discord opens in your browser

v0.23.72Oct 2026

A mic in the fields you write in

You can say it instead of typing it in far more places now, on the web and on the phone.

NewThe mic now sits in an event's title and notes, a habit's name, chores and rewards, the checklists you make and their items, a recipe's name and steps, a meal slot, an expense's note, income and debts, the shopping item you edit, the journal, the day's plan and close, editing an Inbox capture or a chat message, pact replies, About you and Report a problem
ImprovedOn the web, dictated words go in as one edit, so Ctrl Z or Cmd Z takes them back out the way it does for anything you typed
ImprovedIn a short field the mic sits inside the field's edge, so it takes no room from the row on a narrow phone, and it is a full fingertip wide on a touch screen

v0.23.71Oct 2026

More of the web, in the phone app

Things you could only do on the web, now done from the phone app too.

FixedA workspace you first open in the phone app gets its expense categories, instead of an empty picker until somebody visits the web
NewRename a checklist, or save it as a template under a name you choose, from its Manage sheet in the phone app. Checklists other people shared with you have their own section on the phone's list

v0.23.70Oct 2026

Your whole household, in one file, from any device

Export everything now carries every household record, and the phone app builds the file itself.

ImprovedThe workspace file now holds the rewards shelf and what was asked for, the pantry, expense splits and settle-ups, budgets, a child shared with another household, note folders, whiteboards, card templates and saved views
ImprovedEach expense in the file keeps its id and currency, so splits and settle-ups point at the expense they belong to
NewExport everything works in the phone app. It is built from the copy on your phone, with no signal needed, and handed to the share sheet or a folder you pick

v0.23.69Oct 2026

Pacts across your workspaces, and a dive by touch

An outside assistant asking for its pacts sees them in every workspace it was granted, and Paper Plane can dive on a phone.

FixedListing your Agent Pacts from a connected assistant with no workspace named searches every workspace the connection holds. A pact in your Team workspace used to show up only when the assistant passed the Team workspace by id
FixedPaper Plane dives by touch: slide the finger you are holding down to put the nose down, and back up to lift again. Diving used to need a keyboard, so on a phone a long flight could not be brought down onto the word

v0.23.68Oct 2026

An emailed capture says what it says

An email you sent to your capture address shows its message in the Inbox, not just who sent it.

FixedAn emailed capture opens with one short line, like Email · Coach Dana, with the sender's address beside it, and the message starts right after. The Inbox on a phone used to fill its preview with who sent it
FixedThe dictate button in a note's bar is a full-size target on a phone, like the buttons beside it
FixedIn dark mode, scrolling past the top or bottom of the home, pricing and trust pages no longer shows a light strip

v0.23.67Oct 2026

Notes that fit a phone

A note on a phone is one page now: it wraps to the screen and scrolls the way a page does.

FixedLong links, web addresses, inline code and unbroken words wrap inside the note instead of running off the side of the screen
FixedThe note's bar, its title and its text scroll together as one page, so nothing pins the text into a small box
ImprovedWide tables and code blocks scroll sideways on their own, and the rest of the note stays put
ImprovedOne bar on top of a phone note: back, dictate, the view switch and More. Focus, the outline, and text size and width moved under More

v0.23.66Oct 2026

A shopping list on every plan

The shared grocery list is no longer a Family extra, and nothing offers you a step your plan would refuse.

NewEvery workspace has a shopping list now, Free included: one list with up to 30 items on it at a time. Ticked-off items don't count, and Pro, Family and Team have no limit
ImprovedNear the limit, the add field says how many items are on the list before you type
FixedQuick capture, voice and the Inbox only offer to add to the list when it can take the items, instead of failing after you press
ImprovedWhen this workspace's list is full, saying "add milk" offers the list in another of your workspaces by name, the way typed capture does
ImprovedOn the phone, the line that says where a capture went has an Open link, and it switches workspace first when the items went to another one
FixedRefusals name the thing and the plan that has it, in plain words

v0.23.65Oct 2026

Free is for two

A free workspace now holds you and one other person, so a couple can keep one set of lists, notes and boards without paying.

NewInvite one other person into your workspace on Free (and on Pro). An open invitation counts toward the two
NewAdd the person you invited to any of your boards from the Share dialog, on every plan
ImprovedInviting a third person tells you what Family adds for a household and what Team adds for people you work with
ImprovedThe person you invite keeps their own free workspace, with its own invite

v0.23.64Oct 2026

Captures read the way they were written

The Inbox stops mistaking an email for a shopping list, and remembers your answer everywhere.

FixedA forwarded email, a scan or a shared article is no longer offered as a list of its lines; only a real list is
FixedNot a list, pressed on a capture on your phone, holds on the desktop too, and the other way round
FixedAn emailed capture shows plain words in the Inbox, without the asterisks of its formatting

v0.23.63Oct 2026

Small things, put right

Fixes from a last walk through every page, on a phone and on a wide screen.

FixedOn an iPhone the site's top bar now sits below the clock and battery instead of under them
FixedExpenses names the period of each daily figure: the month's daily average and this week's, side by side, no longer read as one number that disagrees with itself
FixedOn a wide screen the floating buttons step aside instead of resting on a card's numbers, and the end of every page scrolls clear of them
FixedThe Margin Intelligence panel keeps its name on one line, and the large character only appears while it is working on something
FixedA note's tab closes when the note is deleted or no longer shared with you, and each workspace keeps its own set of open tabs
FixedA new whiteboard is called Untitled whiteboard, so it is never confused with a board
FixedPeople in Settings opens inside Settings, with the same title and tabs as every other section
FixedAssistants connected over MCP get a plain answer when they send a word where an amount belongs, such as a loan's starting amount

v0.23.62Oct 2026

Tighter sharing, before the doors open

A round of fixes to who can see what, so a link, a share or a removed member stops where it should.

FixedThe calendar a child's other home subscribes to now carries only the child's own events, without where they are or their notes, and it stops working the moment the Calendar switch goes off or the share ends
FixedA Team workspace that asks for Google sign-in or two-factor now holds a member out everywhere, including live note editing, board actions, note history, links, integrations and captures from the share sheet, scanner and voice assistants
FixedThe daily limit on what Margin Intelligence can spend now also covers reading receipts, letters and attachments, voice transcription, the break room and the sandbox assistant
FixedTaking someone off a board, out of a workspace or off a shared note now ends their live view of it at once: they stop seeing who is there and stop editing the note together, without waiting for them to close the tab
FixedGitHub only links or moves a card for pull requests and issues opened by the repository's owner, members or collaborators, shows their titles as plain text, acts on each delivery once, and keeps its webhook secret encrypted
FixedWebhooks only go to public web addresses, checked when you save one and again before every delivery, and they no longer follow redirects
FixedSlack, GitHub and API keys write as the person who set them up, so they stop once that person leaves the workspace, and Slack and the notes API also stop when the plan no longer includes integrations

v0.23.61Oct 2026

A list stays a list

Type or say a list into capture and it shows as separate items before you save, ready for the shopping list or a checklist.

FixedTaking the suggestion to add a capture to the shopping list adds one line per item, with its amount, instead of the whole capture as one item
NewCapture shows a list as a list while you type or dictate: "milk eggs bread butter", "milk, eggs and 2 loaves of bread" or a numbered list each become separate items you can edit, split, join, reorder or remove, then add to the shopping list or keep as a checklist. It works offline, on the web, on the phone and from the share sheet
ImprovedPhrases stay whole ("olive oil", "ice cream", "toilet rolls") and amounts go with their item ("a dozen eggs" is eggs, 12), and toilet rolls now file under Household instead of Bakery
ImprovedAn assistant adding "milk, eggs and bread" to the shopping list adds three items, not one

v0.23.60Oct 2026

Check the Vault for yourself

Every agent sandbox now has a Vault with sealed items in it, so anyone can check that no assistant finds them.

NewThe agent sandbox comes with a Vault already set up, holding a sealed note, card, board, whiteboard and checklist, each beside an unsealed twin with a similar title. Connect any assistant with no account and check that it finds every twin and none of the sealed ones. The Agents and MCP docs page says how
FixedOn the pricing page, the AI chat plan in the stack table now reads as a typical price, and the note below the table says it is the one price with no link. Habitica's price links to its own App Store listing, where anyone can read it, and two stack totals moved by a cent
FixedA chore that takes turns now says it plainly: "Alex did it last time and goes again after Sam" instead of "Alex had the last one and is next", which read as if it were Alex's turn now. The journal archive says "18 words" instead of "18w", and the day's summary spells out its minutes and streaks, on the web and the phone

v0.23.58Oct 2026

Canva cleans up, assistants travel lighter

Deleting your work now deletes what Canva rendered for it, and assistants get a leaner, clearer tool list.

IntegrationThe Canva picker, the Canva button on a whiteboard and the Canva card in Settings carry Canva's own logo, on the web and on the phone
FixedDeleting a workspace or your account removes the page images Canva rendered for its designs and ends any Canva connection that goes with it. A nightly check removes any page images left behind by a design that is already gone
ImprovedThe privacy policy says what we read from Canva, what we keep and when it is deleted
ImprovedConnected assistants load a smaller tool list, so a conversation starts with a little more room to work
FixedAn assistant asking for something it cannot open gets a clear not-found answer instead of a protocol error
FixedTools no longer offer arguments the server fills in itself, such as who created something, since those always come from your account
FixedThe page where you approve an assistant now says plainly that it can read, add, change and delete in the workspaces you choose, and only there

v0.23.57Oct 2026

Plainer words on the Mind

The list of links the Mind suggests now says what it is.

ImprovedThe panel that suggests linking two things in your workspace is now called Possible links, on the web and on the phone

v0.23.56Oct 2026

More room for a busy day

We load-tested every part of The Margin and widened the parts that filled up first.

ImprovedMargin Intelligence keeps its pace with about three times as many conversations at once; before, a queue in front of memory recall slowed every answer past about 90 a minute
ImprovedA change to a shared list reaches the other phones in a third of a second with 100 people online, where it took several seconds before, and the app no longer refuses to sync for the 201st person to open it
ImprovedConnected assistants and live cursors each have twice the headroom
FixedWho is on a board, their cursors and who is online in a workspace now reach only people who can open that board or workspace
ImprovedA burst of edits now syncs in one request instead of one per change, and each change costs the server about half the work
NewEvery response from the app and from the MCP server now says how long the server spent on it, in Server-Timing and X-Response-Time headers, so you can tell a slow server from a slow network

v0.23.55Oct 2026

Your habit partner hears how it goes

The Celebrate streaks and Notify on missed days switches on a shared habit now send something.

FixedWhen your run reaches the milestone your partner picked, or 30, 100 or 365 days, they get a note in the bell and on their phone
FixedWhen a daily habit's day ends short, or a weekly habit's week does, your partner hears it the next morning, with what did get logged
ImprovedDays are counted in your time zone, nothing arrives at night where your partner is, each note is sent once, and missed-day notes stop once a habit has gone a week with nothing logged

v0.23.54Oct 2026

Every page says what the app does

Plan lists, messages and settings that had drifted from how the app works now match it.

FixedPlan lists no longer sell the Slack and Zapier apps before they exist. They say webhooks and GitHub, with the Slack and Zapier apps coming soon. A Slack channel and Zapier still work today through webhooks
FixedWhen Margin Intelligence pauses for free plans on a busy day, it now says free plans used their share of the day's spending and that paid plans keep working, rather than claiming the whole service stopped
FixedKeeping a fact for the household or the team now says the truth about who can change it: you, or a workspace owner or admin
FixedAbout you points to Settings, Your Brain, the name the settings menu uses
FixedThe webhooks plan line counts its events from the list the app sends, so it no longer says 16 when there are 33
FixedThe Google Sheets card says how a sheet gets connected: pick it in Google's own picker or let The Margin make one. A pasted link only opens a sheet The Margin made

v0.23.53Oct 2026

Prices you can check, and the right day in Try it

The pricing page shows where each competitor price came from and compares monthly with monthly, and the Try it assistant reads dates in your own time zone.

ImprovedThe stack comparison on the pricing page links every app's price to that app's own pricing page and says the day they were checked
FixedThe stack comparison set The Margin's annual founding price beside other apps' monthly prices. Every number in it is now billed monthly, The Margin's included
FixedLate in the evening or early in the morning, the Try it assistant could call yesterday today. It now reads every date in your own time zone and knows when chores were done
FixedRunning out of your monthly allowance now says AI actions, the same name the pricing page and Plans and limits use

v0.23.52Oct 2026

Plainer words across the app

Headings, buttons and messages across the app now read the way a person would say them, and the docs say what the Try it assistant can do.

ImprovedHeadings, buttons and dialog titles on the web use sentence case, and a saved chore, expense or plan says so without an exclamation mark
FixedYour first hour said Margin Intelligence was off in the Try it sandbox. It is there in a smaller form: it reads the sandbox, answers up to ten questions and cannot change anything
FixedThe guide written for AI assistants called the wall display read-only. Tapping a name opens that person's panel, where they can mark chores done and check off the shopping list
ImprovedThe docs use US spelling throughout, and a check now keeps the words that read as machine-written out of the app and the docs

v0.23.51Oct 2026

Field notes: seven chapters on real jobs

The field notes now open with In practice: seven chapters that each follow one job through the app as it is today, with the demo household and a Try it box at the end.

NewSeven new field notes: a family's Sunday reset from dinners to the shopping list to chores, sharing a child's week between two homes, keeping income, spending and debts straight, planning a launch with an outside AI agent in a pact, finding a scanned school letter by one word in it, a small team's week on boards and rules, and what the Vault does and does not protect
ImprovedOlder chapters now match the product: Margin Intelligence by name, the tool count, the calendar sync and the Guide panel as they work today, what the Vault does not lock, and US spelling throughout

v0.23.50Oct 2026

The Vault stays shut to connected AI

Anything sealed in a Vault is now out of reach of every AI tool, and the pages that describe the Vault say what it does.

FixedA note, card, board, whiteboard or checklist sealed in anyone's Vault no longer reaches Margin Intelligence's tools or an AI you connect. Asked for by id, it is not found, and it never shows up in a list, a search, a count or a board summary
FixedThe home page and the invitation screen now say what the Vault is: it opens with your passphrase and hides things on screen and from AI while locked, but it is not a lock against people you share the workspace with
FixedAn AI you connect stays connected while we ship an update. Its session used to end with every restart and it had to connect again
FixedOpening your own board right after switching workspaces no longer says it is sealed in another member's Vault. While privacy is still being checked the page says so and names no one, and a board is checked against the Vault of the workspace it belongs to
ImprovedJoining the Discord or starring us on GitHub now adds 2 free days each, a friend who joins still adds 3, and once your 10 free days are used every reward pays AI actions instead
FixedIn the Try it sandbox, Margin can now say which chores are waiting for your approval, who did them and when, what was approved lately, and who each open chore is for
ImprovedThe pricing page's app-stack comparison lists each app's own monthly price, read on its vendor's page, adds the totals up from them and says on each row what The Margin does not replace. The trust page now says the backups are encrypted at rest by Cloudflare R2

v0.23.49Oct 2026

Share to The Margin from any app

The phone app is in the share sheet: a page, a link, some words or a few pictures go straight to your Inbox.

NewPick Margin Share in the iPhone share sheet, or The Margin in Android's share menu, from any app. A sheet shows what came in and which workspace it goes to, and Save to Inbox files it, arriving with the next app update
ImprovedWords and links shared with no signal are kept on the phone and sync later; up to four pictures go up with the note when you are online
ImprovedFounding prices now hold for 12 months, then move to the list price with a permanent 20% loyalty discount while the subscription runs without a break
FixedFounding prices end early once the places are taken, and the pricing page, its questions and Billing switch to the standard plans the moment they do. The docs now say so too

v0.23.48Oct 2026

Add to the list by voice

Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa can put things on the household shopping list.

IntegrationAlexa: enable The Margin skill, link your account once, then "Alexa, ask The Margin to add milk and eggs". It says what it added and to which list
NewOn the phone, "Hey Siri, add to my shopping list in The Margin" and "Hey Google, add milk to my shopping list in The Margin" put the items on the list, arriving with the next app update
ImprovedAny shortcut or automation on the phone can add to the list by opening a themargin://shopping?add= link, and an item already on the list is not added twice

v0.23.47Oct 2026

Slack, GitHub and Zapier

Move a card to Done when its pull request merges, connect Zapier, Make or n8n to cards, notes and the shopping list through webhooks, and post events into a Slack channel. The Slack app itself is coming soon.

IntegrationSlack app (coming soon): type /margin and a thought in any channel, or pick Save to Margin on a message, and it lands in your Inbox. It is built and still being set up with Slack, so until then a channel hears from The Margin through an incoming webhook
IntegrationGitHub: put a card's link in a pull request or issue and the card says so; when the pull request merges, the card moves to Done by itself
IntegrationZapier (through Webhooks by Zapier, until our Zapier app is ready), Make and n8n: a new trigger for a new note, and new actions that make a note in the Inbox or add to the shopping list, beside the card ones
ImprovedPaste a Slack incoming webhook into Settings, Webhooks and API and its messages arrive as readable Slack posts rather than raw data

v0.23.46Oct 2026

Scan paper, find the words in pictures

Photograph the pages of a letter or a form and keep them as one PDF, and find any picture or scan by a word written in it.

NewScan a document from quick capture, on the web and the phone: take each page with the camera, drop any that came out badly, and they are kept together as one PDF in your Inbox
NewOn Pro, Family and Team, The Margin reads the words in your scans and in the pictures and PDFs on your notes, cards and whiteboards. Search shows them under Words in files, and the Mind knows what they say
ImprovedA scan's PDF carries its words inside it, so it is searchable in any PDF viewer you download it to
IntegrationAssistants connected over MCP can find a file by a word inside it, and reading an attachment now returns its text

v0.23.45Oct 2026

A child with two homes

When parents live apart, a child can belong to both households, with each home keeping its own chores and pocket money.

NewShare a child with the other parent's household from Family, People. They accept into their own family workspace, and each home keeps its own chores, points and pocket money
NewChoose what the two homes show each other: chores, pocket money and calendar. See the other home's view for the child, and add the other home's calendar for them to yours
NewThe child's birthday shows in both homes, and the child counts toward the member limit only in the household that added them

v0.23.44Oct 2026

A ceiling on a bad day

The assistant now has a daily spending ceiling across the whole service, so one runaway day cannot stop it for the rest of the month.

ImprovedOn a very busy day the assistant pauses for free plans first while paid plans carry on, and only past the full ceiling for everyone. It says so and is back at midnight UTC; your own allowance is untouched

v0.23.43Oct 2026

Write in one note together

Two people can type in the same note at once, see each other's cursors, and never get asked which version to keep.

NewOpen a note someone else is in and you see their cursor, in their color with their name, and a line under the title says who is there. Both people's words land where they typed them, even in the same paragraph
ImprovedLose the connection and keep writing. When you are back, what you typed and what the others typed meanwhile are put together, and the note was saving on your device the whole time
NewOn the phone, a note open on the web and on your phone merges the same way, and the line under the title shows who else is writing

v0.23.42Oct 2026

Say it into any field

The dictation mic from quick capture now sits beside the fields you write in, on the web and on the phone.

NewDictate a card's title, a new card and a checklist item, on the web and on the phone. Notes, comments, chat, search, the shopping list and expense notes already had the mic; all of them share the same review, so you can fix a word before it is saved
ImprovedEach mic tells a screen reader which field it writes into, such as "Dictate a comment", and works from the keyboard with Enter or Space
FixedThe mic no longer shows where it cannot work: on a plan with voice switched off, or in a browser that cannot record. Touching a word in the review no longer closes a new card or the title you are renaming

v0.23.41Oct 2026

Canva, honestly

Bringing in a Canva design says what each way brings, and a connected Canva account now does what it promised: pick, render, refresh, PDF and open in Canva.

FixedThe Canva button on a whiteboard opens on Upload export, the way that always brings the pages. A pasted link no longer closes the dialog with nothing on the canvas; it says the link brought a cover and title and offers the way to the pages
IntegrationWith your Canva account connected, pick or search your own designs from the same dialog, and Canva renders every page. Render from Canva turns a pasted link into pages, Refresh from Canva fetches them again after an edit, PDF downloads the design as Canva prints it, and Open in Canva opens the design in Canva's editor
ImprovedConnecting Canva asks only to read your designs. The Margin never edits one; you still edit in Canva
FixedSharing a Canva link to The Margin from your phone files a design only when your plan includes the Canva hub. Without it the link stays on the request card
ImprovedAn assistant importing a Canva link gets the full pages when you have connected Canva, and is told how to get them when you have not

v0.23.40Oct 2026

Bank statements read right, and the corner stays clear

A bank statement comes in as expenses with its money and dates matched, whatever columns your bank writes, and the import button counts only what it will add.

FixedA statement with Debit and Credit columns (Money Out and Money In), a Posting or Transaction Date, a summary block above the columns or no header row at all now imports as expenses with the amount and date already matched, instead of as a checklist
FixedThe import button counts only the rows that are new, so importing a statement twice no longer promises three and adds one
FixedMargin's button in the corner steps aside when it would sit on a control or a line of text, such as a chore's points on a tablet, and comes back over empty space and at the end of the page
FixedThe team audit log's CSV button stays on its card on a phone
FixedOn an iPhone, a tab coming back from the background no longer leaves the local database repeating an error until you reload
FixedMargin's memory of your habits keeps learning on a busy workspace, reading recent conversations a few at a time
FixedThe home page in the dark theme no longer jumps on load when you come back to it
ImprovedThe home, pricing and docs pages paint sooner: the error reporter loads after the page instead of before it

v0.23.39Oct 2026

Every face has a name, and settings line up

Hover, focus or hold any avatar, drawn character or emoji and it tells you what it is. Your family face is set beside a large preview, and the settings pages share one width.

ImprovedAvatar pickers on the web and the phone name every drawn character and emoji on hover, keyboard focus and a long press, and say which one is chosen. A long press only names it; it doesn't pick it
ImprovedYou in this family: your face shows large, as the family will see it, with your nickname under it and the choices beside it, eight to a row
ImprovedEmoji search finds every avatar pick by name, so unicorn and flamingo turn up
ImprovedSettings pages share one width, themes and notification sounds fill even rows, and the danger notes read at full strength
FixedIn the installed iPhone app the header stays at the top and covers the clock and battery, and the dashboard ends right after its last list instead of a band of empty space
FixedThe phone menu always settles fully open or fully closed when you let go: a flick or a drag past 40% of its width decides, and the blur behind it goes with it
FixedHelp text and descriptions wrap on a phone instead of ending in an ellipsis. Names that still fit one line show in full when you point at them
FixedThe shopping list's run card says when a run was claimed in plain days ("on Sep 1") and asks whether an old run is still going
FixedA late or early chore whose bonus or penalty rounds to nothing no longer claims a change it didn't make
FixedAn assistant that edits or removes a pantry item now goes through the same plan check as one that adds it
FixedThe trust page names GitHub, which sees the username you type when you claim the GitHub reward
FixedAdding a connection uses the same people search as sharing, so the search glass no longer sits on the chosen person

v0.23.38Oct 2026

Easier to work in: Today, Money, the planner and the family pages

Pages that stacked everything in one column put the work first and the readings beside it, and Money opens straight on its tabs.

ImprovedToday keeps your list in the main column, with what you finished and the morning brief beside it instead of a screen below
ImprovedMoney opens on its tabs. The month sits beside the title, and the expense numbers, the add-an-expense form and the week chart live on the Expenses tab, so Income, Owed and Budget open on their own content
ImprovedIncome and what is owed each read as one list, with amounts in the same type as the rest of the page
ImprovedThe planner's Matrix shows its two questions, urgent and important, along its edges, and the Hours grid marks today
ImprovedChores waiting for approval are one row each, with Approve and Review at the end of the row on wider screens
FixedThe shopping list's name and its offline note show in full; its buttons move to their own line when the column is narrow
ImprovedBoard settings is wider and says what is in it

v0.23.37Oct 2026

Easier on the eyes: the Daybook, the family and team hubs, People

The light themes are crisper, small text is bigger and darker everywhere, and the hubs put their cards in two columns instead of one long stack.

ImprovedSecondary text, hairlines and the accent are darker on the four light themes, and help text is never smaller than 11px or faded below full strength. On screens 1440px and wider, small text is 13px
ImprovedThe dashboard, the family hub and the team hub share one layout: what needs you first, the rest beside it. Offers and setup cards wait in the side column, one at a time, instead of pushing the page down
ImprovedThe family hub keeps the day's work in the main column and the household (people, the House Cup, money, habits) beside it, about a third shorter at desktop width
ImprovedPeople pages list everyone in one ruled list, with the wall display and the history beside the roster on the family's page
NewPoint at anyone's picture, or press and hold it on a phone, to see their name

v0.23.36Oct 2026

Free days are checked before they land

Every action on the Earn more free days card is now confirmed with the service it happened on before any days are added, and the card itself folds to one line.

FixedEarn more free days now counts the actions it can confirm: joining Discord, a friend who signs up, and a star on GitHub. Instagram, X and LinkedIn stay on the card as links to follow along for news
NewStar the repository on GitHub for 3 free days. Enter your username and The Margin checks the star with GitHub; it has to be newer than your Margin account
ImprovedAn invite now pays once the person you invited has joined and made something of their own, not the moment they accept
ImprovedThe Earn more free days card shows each action as Not started, Verifying or Earned, how many days are still on the table out of the ten, folds to one line and can be hidden

v0.23.35Oct 2026

The kitchen and the wall: routines, a photo frame, a pantry and units

Morning and bedtime routines on the wall, family photos when it is quiet, recipes in US or metric with a nutrition estimate, a pantry that knows what you can cook, and two ways to get the list to a store.

NewKid routines. Make a chore part of the Morning, After school or Bedtime routine and the wall display and each child's own view lead with that routine while it is on, as one checklist per child. The other routines stay off the wall until their hour
NewA photo frame for the wall display. A grown-up turns it on in Family settings and chooses the photos; after two quiet minutes the wall shows them, and comes back to the day every minute. Only the household sees them, and they are never in a share link
NewRecipes in US or metric. Pick As written, US or Metric under the ingredients and amounts change to cups and ounces or millilitres and grams, rounded the way a kitchen measures, together with the servings stepper. Oven temperatures in the steps follow
NewNutrition per serving on every recipe, and a line under the week's plan with about how much each person gets a day. An estimate from USDA FoodData Central that says which ingredients it could not count
NewA pantry. Keep what is in the cupboard, fridge and freezer with its use-by date, see which saved recipes you can cook from it, and get one morning nudge before anything goes off
NewSend the list to a delivery app: copy or share it as text, or look each item up at Instacart, Walmart or Kroger with one tap
NewStore reminders in the phone app: add your stores, and when you walk into one the phone shows what is on the list. Your location stays on the phone

v0.23.34Oct 2026

About you, and memory that knows whose it is

A few facts about you that follow you into every workspace and nobody else sees, memory that can answer from all your workspaces when you say so, and shared memory that only its teacher or an admin can change.

NewAbout you, under Mind and in Settings, Your Brain: facts about yourself, like how you like answers or that you're vegetarian. Margin Intelligence uses them in every workspace, nobody else can see them, workspace exports leave them out, and you can download your own copy
NewTell Margin Intelligence something about yourself in a family or team workspace and it asks once where to keep it: For the household (or team), or Just for me
ImprovedWith Answer from set to all your workspaces, Margin Intelligence looks things up in the memory of each workspace you belong to and says where a fact came from. Set it to this workspace and it reads only the one you are in. Connected assistants follow the same setting for the week overview
ImprovedIn a shared workspace each remembered fact shows who taught it, and only that person or an owner or admin can edit or forget it
FixedLooking something up in memory now checks the same access as everything else, so a card on a board you are not on never comes back in an answer

v0.23.33Oct 2026

Money that keeps up: bank statements, rollover, subscriptions and receipts

Bring in a bank statement without redoing it each month, let a budget carry what was left, see every subscription in one place, and fill an expense in from a photo of the receipt.

NewImport a bank statement from the Expenses tab. The columns you match are remembered for that bank's next file, transfers between your own accounts and card payments stay out of spending, and importing an overlapping statement adds only the new rows
NewBudgets can roll over. Turn on Carry over and what is left of a monthly budget adds to next month's, while an overspend comes off it. The card says how much was carried in, and connected assistants see the same figures
NewA Recurring tab finds your subscriptions and repeat charges in what you spend: the same shop at about the same amount on a steady rhythm, with what each costs a month and when the next one lands. Mark one as recurring or hide it. On the phone it sits under the month's expenses
NewFill an expense in from the receipt. Attach the photo, press Fill in from it, and the total, shop, date and currency are filled in for you to check before saving. It uses one AI action
NewPrices on the shopping list. Give an item a price and the list keeps a running total; finishing a run offers the priced total as the expense and can split it equally with the household

v0.23.32Oct 2026

Plan your time: board calendars and timelines, saved views, time blocks and a daily plan

See a board by date, keep a filter like "due this week, assigned to me" across every board, give work a time on the week, plan and close each day, and on Team let boards wait, carry your own fields and follow rules.

NewEvery board has four views now: Board, List, Calendar and Timeline. The calendar puts cards on the day they are due; the timeline draws each card from its start date to its due date. Both follow the board's filter, and a board remembers the view you last used
NewSaved views on Pro, Family and Team. Keep a filter across all your boards, like "due this week, assigned to me" or "urgent or high", under Views in the sidebar. Make one from the + beside Views or from a board's filter with Save as a view; connected assistants can make and read them too
NewPlace work at a time. The planner's new Hours view shows the week by the hour: drag a card from To place onto a time (or tap it, then tap a time on a phone), and change how long it runs from the block itself. Moving a block never moves a deadline
NewOn Team: a card can wait on other cards and says so on its tile, a board can give its cards your own fields (text, number, a choice or a date), and board rules do the follow-up, like "when a card moves to Done, tell Sam and set priority to high". Rules run a moment after the move from any device, and never set each other off
NewPlan the day and close the day from Today. Four short steps in the morning (what is left, what matters, when you will do it, one line), three in the evening (what got done, what moves to tomorrow, one line). Both lines land in that day's Journal note
NewA priority matrix in the planner: your open cards in Do now, Plan it, Hand off or batch, and Later, read from the priority and due date they already have. Move a card and only what has to change changes
NewToday counts what you finished: today, this week, the last seven days and the days in a row. Counts only, no points or karma
ImprovedA board's filter can now show only the cards assigned to you

v0.23.31Oct 2026

A morning brief, team agents that say what they cost, and memory kept apart

Get your day as a short read every morning, see what each team agent run used, have its result emailed, and know that what Margin learns in one workspace stays there.

NewA morning brief on Pro, Family and Team. Turn it on from Today, pick a time, and every morning you get what is due, and in a family who is where, dinner, chores and bills due. It comes as a notification and, if you like, an email. It only reads, and each one uses a few AI actions
NewMention someone in a card comment with @ and their name, or the @ button beside the comment box. They get a notification that opens the card, on the web, the phone and from a connected assistant
NewHabit reminders now come from the server, so they reach your phone as a push wherever you set them. Pick a time on the habit's bell; a day you already checked in stays quiet
NewSend a shopping list, a recipe or a note to someone not on The Margin as a view-only link. They see the items, the recipe or the words, never names or pictures, and you can stop the link at any time
NewNotes keep their earlier versions. Open Version history from a note's menu to read one and bring it back; locked and vaulted notes keep theirs private
NewTeam agents can email you each scheduled result. Turn on Email me the result in the agent's schedule; every email has a one-click link to stop them
ImprovedEvery run under Recent runs says how many AI actions it used from the team's monthly allowance, on the web and the phone
ImprovedThe Agents page explains pacts in plain words, and the feature is called Team agents everywhere you see it
ImprovedThe front page on a phone is about a third of its old length. Each part of the app is one row with a picture of it, and a tap opens its full list; the plans fold the same way. The essay, the theme samples and the developer section stay on bigger screens, with one line each on the phone
FixedSomething Margin Intelligence learned in one workspace could replace a fact with the same name in another workspace and show up there. Memories are now kept per workspace, and the one memory this affected was moved back where it belonged

v0.23.30Oct 2026

Getting things in: one-line tasks, every door to the Inbox, and your old apps

Type a task the way you would say it, capture with nothing to choose, save from any web page or email, and bring your lists and your memory from the apps you used before.

NewType a task in one line. "dentist Tue 3pm every 6 months #family @Maya !high" fills in the date, time, repeat, label, person and priority as you type, shown as chips you can remove before saving. It works on boards, Today, quick capture, new events, new chores, and the shopping list ("milk x2"), offline too
ImprovedQuick capture is one blank field now, with no title box and nothing to choose: Enter puts it in your Inbox. themarginapp.com/capture opens straight to it, and the installed app has a Capture shortcut on its icon
NewSave to The Margin from your browser: drag the button from Settings, Capture to your bookmarks bar, then click it on any page to keep the page and what you selected. On a recipe page it offers the recipe importer
NewForward any email to your Inbox. Everyone has a private capture address in Settings, Capture: the subject becomes the title, attachments come along, and you can make a new address any time
NewImport from Todoist, Trello and Google Keep in Settings, Data. Projects and boards arrive with their columns, due dates, repeats, labels and checklists, Keep notes with their lists and labels, and the preview says what will not fit your plan before anything is saved
NewBring your memory from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: the Mind gives you a prompt to paste into the assistant you use, and you choose which of its answers The Margin keeps. Nothing is saved until you look it over, and an import can be undone

v0.23.29Oct 2026

Two-factor sign-in, a Team security log, and a trust page

Protect any account with a code from an authenticator app, give Team owners the controls a careful buyer asks about first, and say plainly how your data is kept.

NewTwo-factor sign-in, free on every plan. Turn it on in Settings, Security: after Google, Apple or an email link, The Margin asks for a 6-digit code from an authenticator app, so a stolen inbox is not enough
NewTen one-time recovery codes for a lost phone, shown once and stored only as one-way hashes. Turning two-factor off or making new codes asks for a current code first
NewTeam owners and admins can require two-factor for every member under Team, Access. Nobody is removed: a member without it keeps their place, and the workspace closes for them until they turn it on, on the web, the phone and for connected assistants alike
NewTeam workspaces have a Security tab: every sign-in, two-factor change, role and access change, share and export, on a log nobody can edit. Each entry is chained to the one before it, and the page shows whether the whole chain still matches what was written
NewOwners and admins can download the whole Team workspace as one zip of JSON and CSV, including boards they are not on, or the security log alone as CSV or JSON
ImprovedThe assistant panel in the Team hub shows how much of the shared allowance each person used this month, next to their cap
NewA Trust and security page at /trust: where your data lives, what is encrypted and what is not, nightly backups with a weekly restore test, what Team admins can and cannot see, every company that handles data, and what we do not offer yet
ImprovedSupport reply targets are published: on Team a person replies within one business day, and on every other plan we aim for two business days. It is on /trust, in the pricing FAQ, the docs and Settings, Help and reports

v0.23.28Oct 2026

Monthly or annual, wherever a price is shown

The landing page's prices get the same Monthly and Annual switch as the pricing page, and two fixes from checking the last batch on a phone.

ImprovedThe landing page's plans have a Monthly and Annual switch, the same one as the pricing page. Annual is still the default, and founding prices show on Annual while places remain
ImprovedOn the pricing page, the price for each extra person in a Family plan follows the switch too
FixedThe Pro plan says what is true about automation: webhooks you can connect to Zapier, Make or n8n, rather than a Zapier app
FixedOn a new device, the family People page no longer flashes "No role yet" on everyone for a moment before their roles appear
FixedOn a phone, the Margin button now really does slide out of the corner while you scroll down, and it never covers the last line of a page

v0.23.28Oct 2026

A faster first load on phones

The front page, pricing and docs do much less work while they load, so they are ready to scroll and tap sooner on a phone.

FixedThe front page's moving water no longer runs on a device without a graphics chip, where it kept the page busy for as long as it was open. Those devices get the same picture, held still. Everywhere else it starts once the page has loaded and draws half as often, which looks the same
ImprovedPublic pages stopped downloading the app's own machinery: the offline database, the sync connection, timers and reminders. It loads when you open the app
ImprovedPricing and this page show their text with the first paint instead of waiting for their scripts
ImprovedThe error recorder starts after your first tap or key press instead of during the load

v0.23.27Oct 2026

Team agents

A team can make its own agents again, on the Team plan: named teammates that work the team's boards when someone asks or on a schedule.

NewTeam, Agents is where a team's agents live. Give one a name, instructions and the tools it may use, or start from Weekly digest, What's blocked or Standup summary
NewSchedules: every day, weekdays or one day a week, at a time you pick in your own time zone, with the task to do each time. Up to four per agent
NewRun now runs an agent straight away. Every run, by hand or on a schedule, is listed under Recent runs with its result, and a finished scheduled run sends its maker a notification that opens it
ImprovedRuns draw from the team's pooled AI actions and respect the caps an admin sets on each person. Any member can make an agent. Only its maker can change it; a workspace owner or admin can switch it off or remove it from the workspace
ImprovedAgents are on the Team plan only. In other workspaces the Agents page says so and links to pricing, instead of showing a door that does not open

v0.23.26Oct 2026

Rewards for the assistant, and tidier team pages

Fixes from checking the household and team batch on the live app: the assistant can reach the rewards shelf, and the team pages say and show what they should.

FixedMargin Intelligence can list, add, request and approve rewards again. Every rewards action had been answering as if it did not exist
FixedThe Team plan in Settings, Billing now lists the same things as the Team plan on the pricing page: free guests, the admin console, workload and per-person AI caps
FixedThe workload timeline fits a whole week on a wide screen, and when it does scroll it opens with today in view
ImprovedThe team role picker shows what Admin and Member can each do, with What each role can do one tap away, like the family picker
FixedOn a new device, the family People page waits for everyone's role to arrive instead of saying for a minute that nobody has one
ImprovedOn a phone, the Margin button slides out of the corner while you scroll down a page, so it never sits on a button you are reaching for

v0.23.25Oct 2026

Household money and the wall, evened out

A round of fixes so the web, the phone and the assistant agree about the household: what is owed, who can redraw the family map, and what happens to an approval made with no signal.

FixedSettling up in cash now takes the money off the balance on the web straight away, the way the phone already showed it
NewCorrect the balance on a child's statement on the web: add or take off an amount with a reason, as a new line that leaves the history alone
ImprovedOnly grown-ups can add or remove family connections, on the web, the phone and through the assistant. Children still see who is whose
ImprovedThe wall display in the phone and tablet app holds an approval made offline and checks the grown-up's PIN once the signal is back, the same as the browser. The PIN is never saved on the device
ImprovedThe wall display turns with the tablet in the app. Every other screen stays upright
IntegrationMargin Intelligence and connected assistants can withdraw a reward request that is still waiting. The asker can take back their own; anyone else's takes a grown-up

v0.23.24Oct 2026

Teams can require a company Google sign-in

An owner or admin can now require every member of a Team workspace to sign in with a Google account on the company's domain. Anyone who signs in another way keeps their account, but the workspace stays closed to them until they come back through Google.

NewSign-in on Team > Access: type your domain and require Google sign-in. It only turns on when every member's address is on the domain, and it names anyone who isn't
NewInvitations to a workspace with the rule only go to addresses on its domain, and accepting one asks for that Google sign-in. Guests on a shared board or note are not affected
ImprovedA workspace you can't open with your current sign-in stays in your workspace list as "Sign in with Google (@domain) to open" instead of disappearing
ImprovedThe phone app and connected assistants follow the same rule, Margin Intelligence won't start a conversation in a workspace your sign-in can't open or reach into one from elsewhere, offline changes from a sign-in that no longer qualifies are not saved there, and the phone shows the setting on its Team access screen

v0.23.23Oct 2026

The wall display, on the phone and tablet app

The kitchen wall display is no longer browser only. Prop a tablet on a stand, open Wall display in the app's Family tab, and the household gets the same screen it has on the web.

NewWall display in the phone and tablet app: the time and weather, today's meals, everyone's chores, the shopping list, points and the week, with the screen kept on and a two-column layout on a wide screen
NewTap a name for that person's panel, behind their PIN when they have one. Done and the shopping tick are saved under the name tapped, and a grown-up approves with their own wall PIN, checked by the server first
ImprovedA town set for the weather on the tablet is the same town every screen in the house shows

v0.23.22Oct 2026

One place for the people in a workspace

"People" used to mean three things, and in the sidebar it opened the Mind's list of names. Now it means the humans you share a workspace with, and each job about them has one home that every likely door leads to.

ImprovedPeople sits under the hub in the sidebar: Family, People in a household and Team, People in a team. Each holds adding and inviting, roles, removing, ownership and leaving, and the old Settings, Members page leads there
NewA What each role can do panel beside every role picker (workspace, family and board roles), in plain words, with who each family role is for
NewA family's People page shows each person's role in one line, a labelled Set PIN button, links to their chores, points and kid view, and a History of who added, removed or re-roled someone
ImprovedThe Mind's list of recognised names is now called Names, and the Mind tabs at the top of the sidebar show words, not just icons
ImprovedShopping is in the sidebar of a family workspace, and the phone's Family screen reaches chores, meals, shopping, the calendar, money, people and the wall display
ImprovedFaces everywhere: chores, allowances, points, the wall display, balances, settle-up, habit partners, chat and sharing show the photo or drawn character each person chose
ImprovedThe household export now includes the shopping lists, the houses and House Cup seasons, and everyone's family role
NewAsk the assistant about your team: the audit trail, who can open which board, and seats with this month's assistant use, for owners and admins
ImprovedCommand search (Cmd K) finds People, Names, roles, adding a child, family history, Family settings and every Team tab by the words people use

v0.23.21Oct 2026

Every grown-up approves at the wall with their own PIN

The wall display used to approve chores as whoever the tablet was signed in as, so a child could tap a parent's name and approve their own chore. Now each approval is checked against the approving grown-up's own PIN.

NewA wall PIN for every grown-up, set on your own row in Family, People, or on the phone in Settings, People. An owner or admin can clear a forgotten one
FixedApproving at the wall asks for the approver's PIN and records the approval under their name. Nobody approves their own chore there, and a grown-up with no wall PIN sees the queue without the Approve buttons
ImprovedWith no connection, an approval takes the PIN and waits for the internet to check it. Nothing is approved before the server says yes
FixedAssistants follow the same rule: someone without a grown-up role in the household cannot approve their own chore

v0.23.20Oct 2026

A rewards shelf for points

Points can now be spent. A grown-up puts rewards on a shelf with a price, a child asks, and a grown-up says yes or no. The score never goes down, so levels and the House Cup stay as they were.

NewRewards, next to Points: a shelf of things priced in points, such as a movie night or a later bedtime. A child sees their score and what they have to spend, and asks for anything they can afford
NewA grown-up gets a notification for each request and answers it with a yes or a no. A yes checks the balance again before anything is spent, and nobody can approve their own request
NewThe same shelf on the phone app, and for Margin Intelligence and connected assistants, which can list, add and price rewards and answer requests (a child's assistant cannot approve)
ImprovedEach household can switch spending off with Let points be spent. It starts on, and scores are not affected either way

v0.23.19Oct 2026

A child's role stays a child's

Family roles now mean what they say, wherever they are written: the web, the phone, the assistant and any connected app.

FixedNobody can raise their own family role. A parent, a partner or the workspace owner changes other people's. Before, a child could make themselves a parent and approve their own chores
FixedOnly the owner or an admin can change what kind of workspace it is, from the assistant as well as from Settings, and only to a kind their own plan includes
ImprovedAn email invitation into a family says who they are to the house, and they arrive with that role. A child or teenager no longer joins with a grown-up's controls
FixedYour sharing switches are yours. Nobody else in the house can turn them on for you, apart from a parent setting a child's

v0.23.18Oct 2026

Houses, points and seasons on the phone

The rest of the household's day-to-day now works from the phone app, with the same grown-up rules as the web.

NewA Points page on the phone: give or take points, sort people into houses, make, rename and remove houses, and start, change, end or call off a House Cup season. A child sees the scores and none of the buttons
NewChores on the phone can be edited, handed to someone else, or rejected back to To do with a note
NewWho's who on the phone: a grown-up sets anyone's family role, and everyone sets their own nickname and what they share. Connections between family members can be added and removed there too
ImprovedLong-press a shopping item on the phone to change its name, amount or aisle
ImprovedThe free trial can be started from the phone app, on the plan that matches your workspace
FixedTurning off Share focus status now keeps your focus sessions off everyone else's devices and out of the assistant's answers to them. Before, it only hid them on screen

v0.23.17Oct 2026

Pocket money, savings and the ledger on the phone

The phone app used to show the household's money and change none of it. Now it does what the web does.

NewAllowances on the phone: set one up, share one pot between several children, pay a payday early, undo the last payout, pause, change or stop one, and see every payout an allowance has made. A child sees their own at the top and can't change anyone's
NewTap a person on Family money to open their statement. A grown-up can record cash handed over or correct the balance with a reason, and anyone can save toward their own goals
NewShared bills on the phone: see who owes whom in each currency and settle up in cash, by transfer or by forgiving it
NewDiscuss this on a record of money owed opens the same conversation on the phone as on the web

v0.23.16Oct 2026

Team is for working with people outside the house

Free guests, per-person assistant caps and a workload timeline on Team, and a clear line between a household and a team.

NewFree guests on Team: share a board or a note with a client or contractor and they see that and nothing else, without taking a seat. Up to 50 per workspace, all listed on the Access page, where an admin can take someone's access away in one step
NewPer-person assistant caps: a Team's AI allowance is one shared pool, and an owner or admin can now give any member a monthly cap so one busy person can't use up everyone's month
NewWorkload has a Timeline: each person's cards on the day they're due, across this week or this month, with late cards up front. On the phone too
ImprovedFamily is for one household. Inviting people into a workspace that isn't your family workspace is part of Team now, and Family can still share a single board or note with up to 10 people outside the house
FixedOpening an invitation link that can't be accepted now tells you why instead of dropping you on a page with no message

v0.23.15Oct 2026

Ask how anything works

Margin Intelligence and any assistant you connect now answer how-to questions from these docs, with a link to the page.

NewAsk Margin Intelligence how something in The Margin works and it looks the answer up in the docs and links the page it used
IntegrationTwo help tools for connected assistants, search_help and get_help_article, free on every plan
Improvedllms-full.txt now carries every docs page, generated from the same source as the site, so an AI reading it reads what you read
NewNew docs pages: Notifications and sounds, and Getting help

v0.23.14Oct 2026

Add seats and people from Billing

A Team owner can add or remove seats in a few taps, a Team plan starts from one seat, and a household can grow past six.

NewTeam owners change their seat count on the team's People page, in Settings, Billing, or from the seats tile in the Team hub. A change is prorated onto your next invoice, so nothing is charged when you click
NewA household bigger than six can add people one at a time, for $3 a month each on annual billing or $4 on monthly, up to twelve people in all
ImprovedTeam now starts at one seat instead of two, so you can set up before anyone else joins
FixedWhen every seat is taken, the invite refusal now has an Add a seat button that opens the seat count on the team's People page with one more filled in, instead of a dead end
FixedAn invitation to someone without an account now holds a seat when it is sent, so it can no longer be refused later when they arrive to accept it

v0.23.13Oct 2026

Faces: photos, selfies and drawn characters

Everyone can put a face beside their name: a photo or a selfie, one of two dozen characters drawn in our own pen, or any emoji.

NewTake a selfie or choose a photo, then drag and zoom to frame it in the circle. It shows on chores, chat, the calendar, members and the wall display, on the web and in the phone app
NewTwo dozen drawn characters for kids and grown-ups alike, from a fox and an owl to a robot, a dragon and a cupcake, each on its own colour in every theme
NewThe emoji picker has search and shelves, so any emoji is a word or two taps away
ImprovedPhotos are private. The location and camera details are removed, and only people who already see that person in The Margin can open one. A grown-up sets a child's, and it shows with no signal
FixedOn a phone, the emoji list in the profile editor would not scroll, so a child's emoji could not be changed. The picker now sits inside the form and scrolls with it

v0.23.12Oct 2026

Undo for a mistap

The taps other people see now come with Undo: claiming the shopping run, a tick in the cart, a chore marked done, and Mark all read.

NewTapped I'm at the store by mistake? Undo takes your name off the banner straight away, so nobody stays home thinking you are out. Taking over the run and letting it go can be undone the same way
NewNot going after all? Your own banner on the shopping list has Not going, which releases the run any time, long after the Undo message has gone
NewTicking an item, removing one and clearing the cart show Undo on the web as they already did on the phone. An undone tick goes back to whoever ticked it before, at the same time
NewA chore marked Done by mistake comes back with Undo, on the chore board, the kid view, the wall display and the phone. A grown-up's Done puts the points, money, streak and the chore's next turn back as they were
NewThe phone app's shopping list shows who is at the store, with I'm at the store, Not going and Take over
ImprovedMark all read in notifications can be undone, and only the ones it marked go back to unread
FixedUndoing a chore approval took back more points than the chore had earned when it was finished early or late, and undoing a second approval of the same money chore could take the money back twice. Both now reverse exactly what was given

v0.23.11Oct 2026

Links open where you saved them

A web address saved anywhere in The Margin opens with a tap, and a saved link shows a card with the page's title and picture that is still there offline.

NewLinks open from where you saved them: Inbox captures, card titles, checklist items, shopping items, an event's place and notes, chore descriptions, debt notes and your own messages to Margin Intelligence. Plain addresses such as example.com/page count, and the full stop that ends your sentence is left out
NewA capture that is just an address and a note that opens with one show a preview card: the site, the page's title, two lines of description and a small picture. Notes that open with a link show the picture in the notes list. A card description or a chat message with a link shows the card too when the workspace already has that preview
ImprovedPressing a link inside a card, a list row or a checklist line opens the link and leaves the row alone. While editing, hold Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) and click to follow a link without leaving the editor
ImprovedPreviews are stored with your data, picture included, so a preview you have seen is there with no connection. Your device never contacts the linked site: Margin's server reads the page once and keeps a small copy
ImprovedLinks in chat messages, on board cards, in a PIN-locked note, in the Vault or hidden from memory are never fetched for a preview, because a stored preview is visible to the whole workspace and those items are not. Single-use links (sign-in, confirmation, password reset, invitation, unsubscribe) are never fetched either, so a preview cannot use one up. Settings, Profile has a switch that turns previews off for your account on every device, and links still open
ImprovedA link shows where it really goes: a label that names one site over an address at another is replaced by the real address, and an address with a username in front of the site name is not made into a link
FixedIn the phone app, links in card comments, in Margin Intelligence's replies and in a pact now open. They were drawn as links and did nothing when pressed
ImprovedCustom agents are paused while we rebuild them. Anything you made is kept. Margin Intelligence, its own specialists, Agent Pacts and outside assistants over MCP work as before

v0.23.10Oct 2026

Ready on the first ask

A newly connected assistant can add to your household's shopping list on the first request, new accounts are asked their name, and the icons the app picks are drawn in its own pen.

FixedAsk a connected assistant to add something to the shopping list and it works the first time. A new connection starts in your personal workspace, and the request used to be refused as if you needed to upgrade. When exactly one of the workspaces you granted has the feature, the request runs there and the answer says so
FixedWhen a request is refused for a plan reason and another of your workspaces has the feature, the refusal names that workspace. Nothing is ever written to a workspace you did not grant. Only plain adds are carried across, such as a shopping item, a meal, a chore, a note or a card. Anything touching points, money, members or approvals asks you to switch first
FixedLeave a workspace, or be removed from one, and every assistant you connected loses its access there at once. Access is checked against current membership on each request
FixedDelete note works again on desktop, from the note's menu and from right-click in the notes list, and the note leaves the folder tree at once
FixedThe trial banner, the billing card and the trial emails say Free trial and Keep these features in a personal workspace. A trial covers the plan of the workspace you start it in
ImprovedNew accounts are asked their name first, and a first workspace is called My Margin, then yours by first name, instead of being named after an email address. An older workspace still named after an email address is renamed the same way the next time you open the app. A name you typed is never changed
ImprovedIcons the app picks for you are drawn in its own pen: habits, meals, shopping lists, savings goals, levels and streaks, and now the starter expense categories, checklist templates and boards. Pick a drawn icon or type your own emoji
ImprovedThe four starter houses each have their own crest. Nobody is given an avatar they did not pick: you show your initial until you choose an emoji, and any emoji you choose stays
ImprovedThe phone app has the avatar picker in Settings, Members, for a household profile and for yourself. The two agents The Margin ships, the brief writer and the weekly digest, are drawn in its pen too
FixedAssistants connected over MCP get a plain answer when they send a name where an id belongs or a date in the wrong form: the answer names the argument and what it expects, and nothing is changed. It used to be a server error
FixedAn assistant that leaves out an argument a tool needs is told which one, and nothing is changed. Settling up, linking two family members and splitting an expense only accept people who are in the household
FixedWhen your plan stops something, such as a second workspace, the message says why instead of Something didn't save. A page whose styles fail to load after an update reloads once by itself. House colors, theme swatches, chart highlights and payment-app badges keep their tint with every theme color
FixedA connected assistant asked to add to the grocery list finds the shopping list, not a checklist. New households get a Pantry Staples checklist template in place of Grocery Shopping, and a checklist that looks like a shopping list says it is not one
FixedAn assistant whose connection was opened in a workspace you have since left is told to reconnect, and reconnects by itself, instead of being refused as if the session belonged to someone else
FixedAn expense is always more than zero. A connected assistant could record a negative one, which lowered the day's spending; now it is refused and pointed to income, where a refund belongs. A CSV import reads which sign is spending in your file and tells you how many rows it left out
FixedSending meals to the shopping list tops up amounts instead of skipping anything already there: double a dinner and its 8 chicken thighs become 16. A line you edited or already ticked is left alone with the difference added beside it, and the message says what went up
FixedSettings, Profile no longer redraws itself on load: the time zone line spelled a zero offset two ways, one on the server and one in the browser
FixedThe same top-up rule now runs from a recipe page's Add to the shopping list button and when a planned meal adds itself to the list. A second dinner that needs lemons adds what is missing instead of finding lemons already there, and cooking a recipe for more people raises the amounts it put on the list
ImprovedThe Try it sandbox says plainly what it leaves out, such as agents of your own, memory, billing and outside services, with what each is and why, instead of showing an error. Assistants trying the agent sandbox get the same list, in the same words
FixedMargin Intelligence writes in the app's own style every time: no long dashes and no emoji headings in its replies. Your own words in quotes are left exactly as you wrote them

v0.23.9Oct 2026

Your whole week, in one answer

Ask Margin Intelligence what your week looks like and it answers in a few lines from every workspace you are in. Chores now say whose turn it is, and the family pages use The Margin's own drawings in place of emoji.

NewMargin Intelligence answers a question about your week from all your workspaces at once: tasks due, the calendar, dinners, chores, the shopping list, your habits and your journal. It only reads across workspaces and still writes in the one you are in
NewAnswer from: choose This workspace or All my workspaces in Settings, Your Brain on the web and Settings, Data in the phone app. It shows only if you belong to more than one workspace
NewChores on a rota say whose turn it is, who had the last one and who is next, and when a turn is finished the next person's card arrives saying who passed it on
ImprovedChore icons and grocery aisle marks are The Margin's own drawings in your theme's ink instead of emoji. A chore with no icon picks one from its title
ImprovedNew items on the shopping list grow into their place in line instead of popping in, whether they come from the meal plan, another phone or an assistant
ImprovedThe assistant's panel and launcher are named Margin Intelligence
FixedThe assistant no longer reports a chore as finished when the last person's turn was. A chore is done only when its own card is ticked
FixedA calendar event saved with a start time and no end shows the start only. It used to print an end an hour later that nobody wrote
FixedA new event no longer gets an end time you did not set, and the end can be cleared on the web and the phone. Also fixed: a saved journal entry reading Unsaved when reopened, the journal miscounting weekly habits, a chore you finish yourself flashing in Needs approval, the assistant mark's note covering the row above, and a board description that only saved on the second try
FixedMargin Intelligence no longer remembers, in the workspace you asked from, things it read in your other workspaces. A conversation that looked across workspaces teaches the Mind nothing, and Forget in Your Brain now removes a fact everywhere it was kept
FixedThe week answer is shorter: the workspace you asked from in full, one line for each of the others, each shopping list counted on its own, and times printed the way the calendar prints them. Replies are signed Margin Intelligence
FixedCalendar times always show their minutes, so 6:00 PM and 6:20 PM read the same way, and the school-letter review no longer prints two full stops after the letter's summary
FixedThe small mark on an item an assistant added is redrawn as a dot beside a ring, so it no longer looks like another symbol at small sizes

v0.23.8Oct 2026

Dates the way you write them

Dates and times now follow your own region, so a reader in the US sees Oct 1 and 6:20 PM where the app used to print 1 Oct for everyone.

FixedDates across the Daybook, the family calendar, chat, boards and money follow your region's order on the web and on the phone
FixedThe school-letter review and the event sheet show dates in words, such as Thu, Oct 8, 2026, and still open your browser's own date picker
FixedThe event sheet names time zones by city and offset, marks your own, and says what the times come to on your clock when the event is kept in another zone
FixedThe note on an item an assistant added opens clear of the row, so it no longer covers the item's own name on the shopping list
FixedWho owes whom on the Family page names the person. A member with no household nickname used to appear as a string of letters and numbers
FixedOn the wall display, a long event title in the week strip wraps between words and is never split in the middle of one
ImprovedAmerican wording throughout: the shopping list says you are at the store and counts what is in the cart

v0.23.7Oct 2026

Tools that say what they do

Every tool an outside assistant can use now states whether it only reads, adds, or can delete or replace something, so the assistant knows what to check with you first.

ImprovedAll 271 tools carry a plain title and permission hints: read-only, additive, or destructive. Tools that reach outside The Margin, such as recipe import from a web page, say so as well
ImprovedMoney tools say plainly that they record amounts. Nothing an assistant does here sends, charges or moves money
ImprovedWhen a tool call fails, the answer names what to fix: the argument you left out, the format an id should have, or that the fault is ours. It says nothing was saved only when that is certain, and otherwise tells you to read the item back before trying again
ImprovedLong lists now take limit and offset. Debts and hidden items come back 200 at a time with the total and whether there is more. Habits, templates and attachments return up to 1,000, so a list that was complete before still is
FixedA tool that writes several things, such as splitting an expense, approving a chore or sharing an item, now saves all of them or none. A failure partway can no longer leave half a change behind
FixedReading a card or a board through an assistant leaves one "seen by agent" entry an hour in the activity feed, not one for every read
FixedThe connector address now serves The Margin's icon, so directories and clients show the mark beside it
FixedFamily tools used through an outside assistant now act on the person you name. Awarding points, recording a ledger entry, starting a savings goal or looking up a family member used to land on the account holding the connection, and removing someone's access to a shared item did nothing. Naming someone outside the workspace is refused

v0.23.6Oct 2026

Who added what, said quietly

Whatever an assistant adds now carries a small mark that tells you who asked and through which connection, and every connection has a name you choose.

NewItems an assistant adds carry one small mark, the same for every assistant. Hover or tap it to read "Added by Alex through Claude". The item's own text never names the AI
NewThe mark shows on shopping items, notes, cards, checklists, chores, calendar events, meal plans, recipes, expenses, income, comments and chat, on the web and on the phone, and it reads offline
NewConnected apps get a short name when they connect (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Cursor) and you can rename them in Settings. A new name reaches everything that connection already added
NewThe phone app has Connected apps too, under Settings > Connections, where you can rename a connection or end its access

v0.23.5Oct 2026

Volley, the whole court upright

Played with the phone upright, Volley now shows the whole court: both halves, the net, both players and the ball's full arc.

ImprovedUpright, the camera frames the whole court and holds still, moving only a little when a chase runs past the end. The other player used to be off screen for almost every rally
ImprovedDragging to move upright now moves your player as far as your finger goes
FixedSnow, rain and petals in the break room's places no longer restart while a rally moves the camera
ImprovedThe break room's pictures are lighter to draw on phones, so the shelf runs smoother

v0.23.4Oct 2026

Lighter on every page

We measured the live app on a slow phone and a slow connection, then took out what every page was downloading without needing it.

ImprovedEvery page downloads about a fifth less code before it shows anything. The 404 page's game was riding along with every page of the app, and now only loads on a missing page
ImprovedThe command palette loads the first time you open it, or quietly once the page has settled, instead of with every page
ImprovedError reporting's screen recorder starts after the page has settled rather than before it can draw. It stays masked, as before
ImprovedThe assistant's panel and the quick capture sheet load the first time you open them. A reply still arrives with the panel closed, and ⌘J and ⌘⇧K work from the moment the page appears
ImprovedThe first card or note you open no longer waits for its editor: it is fetched quietly while you look at the board or the list

v0.23.3Oct 2026

A break room you can hear

After listening to the break room on the live site: the shelf's music carries you into a game, the birds a big hit sends up sound like wings, and The Week and Catch the Tasks lift their music for everyone, not only for experts.

FixedOpening a game no longer drops into silence. The shelf's music keeps playing softly under the game's menu and fades out once the game's own music has started
NewA big hit outdoors sends a couple of birds up with the sound of their wings. A win still brings a bird's call, and an owl after dark
ImprovedThe Week's music now rises as your week fills up and after a single clear, so it follows the match even if you never chain clears
ImprovedCatch the Tasks' music rises with a run of four or five catches and as the day speeds up toward its last cards

v0.23.2Oct 2026

Music that follows the place

The break room's music is longer, quieter and changes with where you play, the time of day and the season.

NewTwelve longer pieces of music, up to three minutes each with quiet and fuller parts, shared across the games. Each game plays a set that changes with its place, the hour and the season, and moves on to the next piece when one has played through
NewPick the music for each game in the pause menu: Adaptive, one piece for the whole visit, or Off. Your pick follows your account to the phone
ImprovedThe music now sits under the room and the game's own sounds, and softens while a menu is open
NewEvery game has music of its own: 25 new pieces written for the break room, two to four per game, matched to the place and the time of day. The shared pieces still come round now and then
NewThe start card, the level picker and the result play a short piece of the game's own, and the longer music comes back when the round starts
NewThe music follows the match: a long rally, a clock running down, a tall stack or a long flight opens it up and lifts it a little, and it rises into a win or a loss and settles after
NewThe break room answers play: landings kick up snow, leaves, petals or a splash, a big hit or a win sends the birds up, a combo turns the lamps up, wind moves the trees, the lamps and the weather together, and rain darkens the ground
NewThe characters feel the weather and the hour: a squint in summer sun, a shiver in snow, a hunch in the rain and a yawn late at night
NewQuiet music on the shelf while you pick a game, starting after your first tap and fading out as a game opens. It has its own Music switch next to Skip openings
ImprovedMore takes of the game sounds: new pins, set and dig hits, sand, small voices, rooms and weather beds join the ones already there and take turns, so a round sounds less repetitive
ImprovedVolley runs much more smoothly: the court no longer redraws the whole page around it on every frame
ImprovedGames on phones draw at a sharpness the screen can keep up with, and opening a game no longer stalls while notification sounds get ready
ImprovedOn big monitors the game bar, menus and level picker grow with the screen, so they stay readable at 1440p and 4K
ImprovedThe home page says plainly what The Margin is, and its section on the Mind now describes what it does today: who is who, the map, suggestions you review, answers in the assistant, what you keep out of it and the export
FixedThe home page and pricing no longer suggest memory or the Vault need a paid plan. Both are on every plan, Free included
ImprovedEvery picture on the home page is a fresh capture of the app as it is now, including the break room and the Mind
ImprovedThe home page and the other public pages scale up on 2K and 4K screens instead of sitting small in the middle
ImprovedTry it now shows the made-up household's boards and cards while it opens, instead of empty tiles
FixedThe offer to install the app no longer appears in Try it now or on public pages. It shows in your own workspace after a second visit
ImprovedEvery game fits the screen you play on: on a 1440p or 4K monitor the board, the characters, the room and the words grow to fill it, and on a phone held upright Tare in Loose Ends stands below the board instead of on it

v0.23.1Oct 2026

Volley, kinder to beginners

Volley after a round of play-testing: help near the ball, serves that feel different, blocks you can time, and a calmer camera on phones.

ImprovedTry it now keeps your sandbox for two days instead of seven. Sign up from inside it to keep everything you made
ImprovedVolley: steer close to a ball and your character steps in under it instead of letting it drop behind you. Easy helps the most, Hard not at all
FixedVolley: how long you hold a serve now changes it. A short hold floats it short, a long one drives it flat and deep, and the meter names which you will get
FixedVolley: press as their spiker goes up at the net and you block with their hit. The line over the court tells you when
ImprovedVolley on a phone held upright: a little more of the court in view, and a camera that eases across instead of whipping
FixedVolley no longer starts the lesson every time you open it after you have taken it once. The Tutorial row still plays it whenever you ask
ImprovedVolley: faces turn toward the net and the ball, and at the end of a match both players stop and the result is marked on yours

v0.23.0Oct 2026

A family calendar

The calendar holds real events now: one color per person, repeats that survive the clocks changing, reminders, birthdays, and the dates out of a school letter.

NewEvents on the calendar, with a color and a filter per person, in month, week, day and agenda views. Cards with a due date still show, marked as tasks
NewRepeating events: daily, weekly on chosen days, monthly by date or by weekday, yearly. Change one date, that date and the ones after it, or all of them
NewUp to three reminders per event, and the household hears when someone adds, moves or cancels one
NewPhoto, PDF or paste a school letter, or forward it to your household's own address, and confirm the dates it found one by one
NewBirthdays and anniversaries on the people in your household and your connections, with a reminder a week and a day before
IntegrationShow the family calendar in Apple Calendar or Outlook with a private link, for the whole household or one person, and add a school's calendar to ours
ImprovedThe wall display shows the week at a glance, and Export everything now includes chores, points, allowances, income, debts, the meal plan and events
ImprovedAgents: the skills index now follows the Agent Skills Discovery v0.2.0 spec, each skill has its own SKILL.md, and markdown answers say what readers may do with them

v0.22.1Sep 2026

Founding prices, a mic, and better games

Founding prices for the launch month, a way to talk to the assistant, and a design pass over every game in the break room.

NewFounding prices are sold from October 1 to November 6 and hold for 24 months, then move to list price with a permanent 20% loyalty discount
ImprovedThe trial carries 100 AI actions, credit packs are 150 for $5 and 800 for $20, and a Team seat gets 600 AI actions like Pro
ImprovedTalk to the assistant: tap the mic to dictate, or hold it and let go, on the web and the phone
ImprovedAn audio file on a card turns into a note in your Inbox, counted in your voice minutes
ImprovedEvery game has a Tutorial row, a two-press Restart and Play it again at the end of a level, and places that change with the time of day
ImprovedVolley: aim and arc, timing grades on every touch, a portrait court on phones, and an Easy level a beginner can win
ImprovedTable for Six: hints that teach the reasoning, and packs that get harder one new kind of wish at a time
ImprovedTable for Six fits every screen: a phone on its side gets wish bubbles by each guest, big monitors get larger wishes and hints, and nothing sits off the edge
FixedThe status page shows only what you would notice, such as the app, sync or the assistant being slow or down
Fixed/try opens without a false error, and a board shows Opening... as soon as you click it

v0.22.0Sep 2026

A break room, and ways in without an account

Seven small games for five minutes off, a messenger for the people you share a workspace with, and three ways to look around before you sign up.

NewThe break room: seven short games, from The Week and Table for Six to Volley, each with a calm way to play and a competitive one, and each keeping your best
NewChat: threads and direct messages with the people you share a workspace with or know, with reactions and pictures, working offline like everything else
NewMoney in and money owed: income, and debts either way, on every plan including Free. A debt that names someone else is a claim they confirm
NewA read-only demo of a made-up household at /demo, and the real app to try in your browser at /try, with no account
NewAn MCP sandbox: any agent can connect with no account and use the real tools on a made-up household, which is deleted after an hour of quiet
NewSign in with Apple, beside email links and Google
ImprovedEvery notification says which workspace it is about, and opening it takes you there
ImprovedPull to refresh fetches new data and never reloads the page; a new version waits until you leave the app or follow a link
ImprovedThe docs and field notes got a reading layout: search, a contents rail, steps, callouts and notes in the margin

v0.21.0Sep 2026

The household loop

The parts of running a home that only work when everyone can see them: dinner, money, chores, and the screen on the kitchen wall.

NewMeal planning: a weekly grid, a cook named on each meal, and a plan the assistant can fill in for you
NewA recipe box on every plan, free included. Import from a recipe URL or a Markdown file; export the lot as JSON that imports straight back
NewOne shopping list the whole house shares, built from the week's plan and usable in the shop with no signal
NewFamily ledger, allowances and savings goals, so pocket money has a running balance instead of an argument
NewHouses, seasons and a points leaderboard, with a season you can close and award
NewKiosk mode: today's plan, weather and chores on a kitchen screen, with a tap to switch member
NewAgent Pacts: written rules your assistants work under, enforced by the server rather than by a prompt
ImprovedFamily and Team hubs rebuilt on one entitlement registry, so a locked tile names the plan that opens it
ImprovedThe trial licenses the plan you are actually considering. Family and Team can be tried, not just Pro
ImprovedThe documentation caught up: 39 pages now, with new ones for recipes and meals, the shopping list, pocket money and points, the wall display and agent pacts

v0.20.0Aug 2026

One keystroke to anywhere

A command palette over the whole app, an inbox that makes decisions instead of collecting them, and the smaller surfaces raised to the level of the big ones.

NewUniversal command palette: jump to any surface, create anything, search notes and boards, from one shortcut
NewThe inbox is a decision queue. n makes a note, b sends it to a board, a appends, e edits, backspace bins it
NewQuick capture keeps a draft, so closing the sheet mid-thought no longer loses the thought
ImprovedTemplates, checklists, focus, the planner and habits rebuilt to the standard boards already had
ImprovedWhiteboards get instant thumbnails, a reachable undo, and canvas tools within thumb reach on a phone
ImprovedEvery route acknowledges the click, so a slow page stops looking like a dead button

v0.19.0Aug 2026

A writing surface, and a dashboard built on what you touched

One markdown editor everywhere, notes that speak Obsidian, and a dashboard that leads with your work instead of a widget grid.

NewOne markdown editor across notes, comments and the journal, with live preview and a source view
NewNotes speak Obsidian: frontmatter, embeds, heading anchors, and links that create the note they point at
NewNote tags you can filter by, and note search that ranks results and highlights the match
NewThe dashboard is rebuilt on real recency: what you actually touched, in the order you touched it
NewThe assistant can look at images when the model supports it, and read a whiteboard for outside clients
ImprovedYour timezone is picked automatically, and you can override it
ImprovedSee everything that has access to your account, and take it back in one click

v0.18.0Aug 2026

Launch hardening

The unglamorous release: tenant isolation at the database, honest plan limits, and invites that work for people who have never heard of Margin.

NewInvite anyone by link. The invitee signs up and lands in your workspace, no prior account needed
NewPlan limits now speak up: you're told which limit you hit, before the write, with the upgrade path
ImprovedAI allowances pool at the account level, so a second workspace draws from the same monthly pool
ImprovedTeam seats are enforced against what was actually purchased
FixedVault items are owner-scoped end to end; another member can no longer touch yours
ImprovedPostgres row-level security is live on the sync write path; cross-tenant writes die at the database
ImprovedEmail: DMARC tightened to quarantine after a clean week of aggregate reports

v0.17.0Aug 2026

The workspace that explains itself

Documentation written against the running product, an 18-chapter build series, and a front door for AI agents.

NewProduct documentation, each page stamped with the date it was last checked against the running product
NewField notes: the 18-chapter build-in-public series at /stories
NewA2A agent gateway under OAuth: external agents can delegate to the planner, research and inbox agents
NewWebMCP tools in the browser, agent card, auth.md, and markdown-for-agents content negotiation
ImprovedDashboard reordered around your work, updating live as notes, boards and habits change
ImprovedThe landing page now shows the memory: what the workspace remembers, editable and deletable

v0.16.0Aug 2026

Notes, rebuilt

Markdown that stays markdown, folders that are real, and capture that waits for you to decide.

NewReal nested folders: import a whole Obsidian vault and its tree survives
NewWikilinks with autocomplete, backlinks, outline, and block references
NewInbox capture stays staged until you file it, as a new note or appended to one you already have
ImprovedFolders and notes live in one panel, draggable like a file browser
ImprovedTask checkboxes in preview edit the exact source character, so code blocks can't fool them
FixedRapid edits, note switches and offline saves no longer race each other

v0.15.0Jul 2026

The Mind

Your workspace grows a memory: the people, projects and decisions that keep coming up, held as one connected map you can read and correct.

NewEntities: the same Sarah in a note, on a card, and in a split expense is one Sarah
NewThe constellation map and orrery at /mind: your work as a connected graph
NewA review queue at /organize where every connection the engine proposes is yours to accept or dismiss
NewEvery remembered fact is listed in plain sentences, editable and deletable
NewThe Vault: locked content is never retrieved, never embedded, never seen by the assistant
ImprovedRecall is by meaning, fused with full-text search. Asking about the wedding finds the note that never says wedding

v0.14.0Jan 2026

Webhooks & Zapier Integration

Connect The Margin to your existing tools with outgoing webhooks and Zapier/n8n compatibility.

NewOutgoing webhooks for 16 event types (workspace, board, card, sync)
NewHMAC-SHA256 webhook signing with configurable secrets
NewRetry logic with 5 attempts and exponential backoff
NewWebhook delivery logs with status tracking
IntegrationZapier REST API endpoints (subscribe/unsubscribe, polling triggers)
Integrationn8n compatible webhook and polling endpoints
NewAPI key authentication with workspace-scoped permissions

v0.13.0Jan 2026

Google Calendar Integration

Push card due dates to your calendar and pull calendar events into boards.

IntegrationPush card due dates as Google Calendar events with priority colors
IntegrationPull calendar events into auto-created boards
NewDeep links from calendar events back to cards
NewRecurring event support via RFC 5545 RRULE
ImprovedConflict detection between calendar and board changes

v0.12.0Dec 2025

Google Sheets Bidirectional Sync

Sync boards to spreadsheets and spreadsheets back to boards.

IntegrationBidirectional sync between boards and Google Sheets
NewColumn mapping configuration with type inference
NewSync status tracking with conflict handling
ImprovedBatch sync for large datasets

v0.11.0Dec 2025

Margin Chat AI

Conversational AI assistant with semantic memory.

NewMargin Chat (Cmd+J): conversational AI that can create, search and modify your data
NewSemantic memory with vector embeddings for context-aware responses
NewQuick AI actions available on boards
NewMCP (Model Context Protocol) server for external agent tooling
ImprovedStreaming responses for faster perceived performance

v0.10.0Nov 2025

Real-Time Collaboration

See your team working live. Share boards with granular permissions.

NewCollaborative live cursors showing where teammates are working
NewBoard sharing with invite links and configurable access levels
NewRole-based permissions (owner/editor/viewer)
NewMulti-workspace support with member management
ImprovedWebSocket-powered instant updates across all devices

v0.9.0Nov 2025

Global Search & Command Palette

Full-text search across all your data, accessible from anywhere.

NewGlobal search across cards, boards, notes, and checklists
NewCommand palette (Cmd+K) with inline results
NewRecent search history
ImprovedKeyboard-navigable results with instant preview

v0.8.0Oct 2025

Focus Timer

Configurable Pomodoro timer with session tracking and statistics.

NewPomodoro timer with configurable work/break durations
NewSession tracking with daily, weekly, and monthly charts
NewPersistent mini-timer that follows you across pages
NewAuto-start options for breaks and work sessions

v0.7.0Oct 2025

Notes & Rich Text

Full-featured note-taking with folders, search, and distraction-free mode.

NewRich text editor (Tiptap) with formatting toolbar
NewFolders and pinning for organization
NewDistraction-free writing mode
NewLink notes to cards and boards

v0.6.0Sep 2025

Habit Tracker

Build consistency with daily/weekly habits, streaks, and heatmaps.

NewDaily and weekly habit tracking with tap-to-complete
NewStreak counting with visual indicators
NewCalendar heatmap visualization
NewWeekly completion matrix view

v0.5.0Sep 2025

Expense Tracker

Track spending with budgets, categories, and trend analysis.

NewQuick expense entry with category auto-suggest
NewMonthly budgets with alerts
NewSpending trends and category breakdown charts
NewCSV export for accounting

v0.4.0Aug 2025

Checklists & Templates

Standalone checklists for grocery lists, packing lists, and more.

NewStandalone reusable checklists
NewBuilt-in templates (grocery, moving, travel packing)
NewCategories and drag-to-reorder
NewProgress bars and sharing

v0.3.0Aug 2025

Weekly Planner & Today View

Plan your week with drag-to-reschedule and see today's focus at a glance.

New7-day grid planner with drag-to-reschedule
NewUnscheduled task inbox
NewBatch rescheduling ("move to tomorrow", "move to next week")
NewToday view with due-today, overdue, and upcoming tasks

v0.2.0Jul 2025

Themes & Design System

Three handcrafted themes and a complete token-based design system.

NewMidnight Library theme (warm dark, vintage paper)
NewAbyssal Calm theme (deep ocean, bioluminescent)
NewVOID_SIGNAL theme (monochrome, neon, sharp edges)
ImprovedToken-based design system with semantic color tokens
ImprovedFluid typography and responsive layout system

v0.1.0Jul 2025

Kanban Boards & Offline Sync

The foundation: drag-and-drop kanban boards with full offline support.

NewKanban boards with drag-and-drop columns and cards
NewCard priorities, labels, due dates, and assignees
NewCard checklists, comments, and file attachments
NewFull offline support via PowerSync + SQLite WASM
NewAutomatic sync when connectivity returns
NewPWA installable with service worker

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