Changelog

1.6.0 — Full UI Automation

AI can now drag, scroll, manage windows, and navigate file dialogs, with visual screenshots to see what's on screen.

New Features

• New interaction tools — Drag & drop, scroll, click by position or fuzzy text match
• Window management — Close, minimize, fullscreen, move, and resize windows
• App automation — Navigate file dialogs and interact with Dock items
• Visual snapshots — Annotated screenshots with labeled UI elements for better context

Improvements

• Clearer element labels — Labels now reflect roles (B1 for buttons, T2 for text fields) for faster identification
• More reliable automation — Element references stay consistent across multi-step workflows
• Faster screenshots — Significantly faster snapshot rendering

Bug Fixes

• Mail — Fixed reading certain emails in IMAP accounts with nested folders
• Text input — Fixed append mode (clear_before: false) replacing text instead of appending to existing content
• Frontmost app — Fixed crash when querying frontmost app with no active window (e.g., all windows minimized)

1.5.0 — Mail Attachments & Smart Reconnect

Full attachment support for Mail and seamless CLI reconnection.

New Features

• Mail attachments — Read and analyze email attachments
  • View images and extract text from PDFs directly in conversation
  • Search for emails with attachments using the new filter
  • Send emails with attachments
• Interactive Tools toggle — Enable or disable interactive UI cards per connected client

Improvements

• Auto-reconnect — CLI reconnects automatically when the app restarts
• Smarter mail operations — Reply and forward work with any message format
• Better reliability — Responses no longer get cut off for large results
• Faster loading — Optimized MCP Apps bundle size

1.4.0 — Rich MCP UI Cards

Richer tool responses with dedicated UI cards for mail, notes, reminders, and calendar.

New Features

• MCP Apps support — Tools now return interactive UI cards instead of plain text, for a more visual and scannable experience
• Native app integration — Open items directly in Mail, Calendar, Notes, or Reminders with one click

Improvements

• Deep link reliability — More dependable app launching with proper URL handling
• OAuth resilience — Better error handling and client registration
• Performance — Faster UI rendering with improved caching

Learn More

• What are MCP Apps?

1.3.0 — Stickies & Stable UI Refs

New Stickies integration and more reliable UI automation.

New Features

• Stickies integration — Read and create Apple Stickies notes, list all stickies with search, and create new ones with custom colors
• RefID system — UI elements now get short refs (e1, e2, ...) instead of fragile XPaths, with flexible syntax (@e1, ref=e1, or just e1)
  • Inspired by vercel-labs/agent-browser
• Usage indicator — Free users can now see daily tool call count in the footer with real-time updates

Improvements

• License management — Activate and deactivate licenses through a cleaner modal interface with confirmation dialogs

1.2.1 — License UX Improvements

Small improvements to the license activation experience.

Improvements

• Clearer error messages — License errors are now more concise and actionable
• Auto-dismiss errors — Error messages automatically disappear after 30 seconds

1.2.0 — Low Context Mode

Better support for LLMs with limited context windows.

New Features

• Low Context Mode — Optimized responses for low context LLMs.
  • Only exposes 2 meta-tools (get_tool_definitions and call_tool_by_name) to minimize context usage.
  • Enable in Server Settings → Default Low Context Mode, or toggle individually per client in Connections
• Flexible input formats — Calendar events, reminders, notes, and apps can now be referenced using natural formats, not just structured objects

Improvements

• Smarter tool discovery — New get_tool_definitions supports wildcard patterns (e.g., calendar_*) and returns usage hints to help LLMs use tools more effectively
• Dynamic instructions — Server instructions automatically adapt based on which tools you have enabled

Bug Fixes

• Session stability — Fixed token refresh issues that could cause disconnections
• Local connections — Fixed OAuth validation for localhost aliases (127.0.0.1, localhost, 0.0.0.0)

1.1.1 — Stability & Compatibility

Bug fixes and compatibility improvements.

Improvements

• UI Viewer — New head/tail mode for extracting text from the beginning or end of UI elements
• Client detection — Now recognizes LM Studio, Msty Studio, and Perplexity

Bug Fixes

• Tool compatibility — Fixed issues where some MCP clients couldn't properly read tool parameters
• Text handling — Fixed a crash when processing text with Chinese or other multi-byte characters

1.1.0 — Flexible Authentication

New authentication options and improved compatibility for more MCP clients.

New Features

• Bearer Token authentication — Generate long-lived bearer tokens to authenticate MCP clients without OAuth flows, perfect for headless environments and automation
• Client detection — Automatically identify which application is connecting to the MCP server, with configuration snippets tailored to each client
• Legacy SSE transport — Support for MCP clients that don't use Streamable HTTP (e.g., older Claude Desktop versions)

Improvements

• CLI performance — Optimized CLI module with faster startup and reduced overhead
• Client limit modal — Improved UI with clearer icons and better user experience

Bug Fixes

• Mail tool compatibility — Fixed Mail tools not working with some MCP clients like Perplexity

1.0.3 — Streamlined Experience

Improved onboarding guidance, enhanced AI tool interactions, and Mail reliability fixes.

Improvements

• Onboarding guidance — The setup completion screen now shows where to find macuse in your menu bar, making it easier to access the app after onboarding
• Optimized AI tool descriptions — Simplified tool schemas reduce token usage and provide cleaner information to AI clients
• Keyboard shortcuts — Press ESC to close the panel, and use Enter/ESC to approve or deny OAuth authorization requests

Bug Fixes

• Mail forward & reply — Fixed forwarding and replying to emails not working correctly
• Mail message matching — Improved message identification with better sender matching and whitespace handling
• Gmail folder support — Fixed finding hierarchical mailbox names like [Gmail]/All Mail