Gladys Changelog

What's new in Gladys 1.7.0

Jan 30, 2024
  • New item appearance in regular and wide mode, featuring edge-to-edge user content presentation that both showcases the content and also makes it more distinctive and easier to locate at a glance.
  • Paste button in the toolbar no longer requires requesting permission for pasting items.
  • New widgets for macOS 14 which can additionally be configured to display specific text searches or labels. Selecting an item opens Gladys and selects the item using your preferred action. The Today extension has been retired in favour of the new widgets.
  • New App Intent to open Gladys and paste the clipboard into it.
  • Under the hood updates to support future platforms.
  • A large amount of fixes, cleanups and optimisations; binaries built with the latest toolchain for stability, startup time, and performance.

New in Gladys 1.6.9 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • Corrects an issue that could cause data components to be listed multiple times

New in Gladys 1.6.7 (Jul 2, 2023)

  • This is a performance-focused release, featuring extensive work on sync search and data processing improvements, various quality-of-life implements and bug fixes, as well as creating the groundwork for future updates.
  • Ability to mark items to display with a specific colour.
  • New App Intents integration to make Gladys far easier to automate and work with on macOS.
  • Delete key will delete the selected item.
  • The minimum macOS version supported is macOS 12.
  • Corrected some functionality for x-callback that had become unavailable.
  • Option to auto-label items snooped from the clipboard.

New in Gladys 1.6.6 (Nov 9, 2022)

  • This update features another round of cleanups and performance improvements. There will be a few over the near future to help Gladys get into shape for new tech and features.
  • Includes an improvement to work around apps that offer same data in file and pasteboard formats.
  • Includes a workaround for opening various file types in the latest macOS versions, as well as an issue that locks up Gladys when dragging in URLs from Safari

New in Gladys 1.6.5 (Jul 27, 2022)

  • This update features another round of cleanups and performance improvements. There will be a few over the near future to help Gladys get into shape for new tech and features.
  • Performance improvements to item selection, sync prep for large libraries, and data caching
  • Corrects an issue where the action extension could hang if used while Gladys isn't running
  • Support library updates
  • Tweaks to help improve sync notifications from iCloud
  • Various bits of spring cleaning

New in Gladys 1.6.4 (Jul 18, 2022)

  • This update features another round of cleanups and performance improvements. There will be a few over the near future to help Gladys get into shape for new tech and features.
  • Performance improvements to item selection, sync prep for large libraries, and data caching
  • Corrects an issue where the action extension could hang if used while Gladys isn't running
  • Support library updates
  • Tweaks to help improve sync notifications from iCloud
  • Improvements for Watch sync
  • Various bits of spring cleaning

New in Gladys 1.6.3 (May 19, 2022)

  • Performance improvements to item selection, sync prep for large libraries, and data caching
  • Support library updates
  • Tweaks to help improve sync notifications from iCloud
  • Improvements to app badge indicator
  • Various spring cleaning

New in Gladys 1.6.1 (Feb 6, 2022)

  • Corrects an issue where items stored via the "Keep In Gladys" sharing action could end up with an infinite spinner.
  • Built with the latest toolchain for performance and stability.

New in Gladys 1.6.0 (Oct 20, 2021)

  • Lots of bug fixes, tidying, and cleanups.
  • Code optimisations, and built with the iOS 15 SDK toolchain for performance improvements.

New in Gladys 1.5.4 (May 27, 2021)

  • Multiple window support: Create Gladys windows and assign searches or labels to each one for fast access to often used items.
  • Option to badge app icon with the number of items in the last-used window.
  • Option to transcribe speech from dragged-in media items.
  • Added “duplicate” option to item context menus as well.
  • Significant tidying up of the preferences window.
  • When using auto-hide, Gladys will now show up on the current desktop space, not just on the original space it was created in.
  • Corrected an issue with time stamping that could cause Gladys to enter an internal periodic loop and use a (tiny amount of) cpu.
  • Bugfixes and performance optimisations throughout.

New in Gladys 1.5.3 (May 25, 2021)

  • This update includes further fixes from 1.5.2 related to window handling.

New in Gladys 1.5.2 (May 24, 2021)

  • This update corrects an issue from 1.5.1 related to using a hotkey in menubar mode.

New in Gladys 1.5.1 (May 19, 2021)

  • This update corrects an issue in 1.5.0 which caused the hotkey shortcut to stop working.

New in Gladys 1.5.0 (May 16, 2021)

  • Multiple window support: Create Gladys windows and assign searches or labels to each one for fast access to often used items.
  • Option to badge app icon with the number of items in the last-used window.
  • Option to transcribe speech from dragged-in media items.
  • Added “duplicate” option to item context menus as well.
  • Significant tidying up of the preferences window.
  • When using auto-hide, Gladys will now show up on the current desktop space, not just on the original space it was created in.
  • Corrected an issue with time stamping that could cause Gladys to enter an internal periodic loop and use a (tiny amount of) cpu.
  • Bugfixes and performance optimisations throughout.

New in Gladys 1.4.6 (Jan 31, 2021)

  • Corrects a crash that could occur on Touch Bar enabled Macs while filtering by labels.

New in Gladys 1.4.5 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Fix for adding URLs from Safari via the "Keep in Gladys" action extension in Big Sur.
  • A couple of stability improvements.

New in Gladys 1.4.4 (Nov 29, 2020)

  • Corrects an issue where a typed label for an item would not be remembered in "recent labels".
  • Corrects a layout issue with the label selector on Big Sur.
  • Corrects a crash that could occur when performing certain operations while viewing search results on a Mac with a Touch Bar.

New in Gladys 1.4.3 (Nov 21, 2020)

  • Support for Apple Silicon Macs
  • Minor bugfixes

New in Gladys 1.4.0 (Oct 21, 2020)

  • Option to perform OCR on images dragged in. If text is detected, a new text component is created for the item.
  • Option to apply ML options (detecting names / OCR / detecting images) to images that accompany URLs, and not only when adding plain images.
  • Uses detached windows instead of modal sheets for various popups, greatly improving handling when options such as auto-hiding are active.
  • Sorting by labels will place items without any labels behind other items with labels.
  • Shorter preferences window fits better on smaller screens.
  • Built with the latest toolchain and internal build improvements for better CPU and memory performance.

New in Gladys 1.3.1 (Oct 6, 2020)

  • Improves appearance of modal and preference views, especially on smaller screens, or when Gladys is set to auto-hide.
  • Corrects an issue that can lead to the app being unresponsive when accepting drops from the Safari 14 URL bar.