Release notes

Perch for macOS. The direct download updates itself; the App Store version updates through the App Store.

Perch 1.6

October 2026 · 1.6 through 1.6.10

Every quick notice is drawn in the island's own dot grid: volume, battery, sound output, Caps Lock, microphone, camera, displays, unlocking and Bluetooth devices, which show their battery when macOS reports one.
The Agents section uses the sparkles icon unless you picked another.
Each display can keep its own section, so the calendar can stay on one screen and agents on another. A toggle in Settings and in the island syncs them again.
Finished sessions pulse too, more slowly than working ones, and needing you is a clearer crimson.
The needs-you notice is one line. Click it to jump to the session; click a session's pulse to mark it seen, and again to mark it done.
An agent going idle no longer reads as a question waiting for you.
Show terminal opens your terminal when it is not running.
Help & Support in Settings, About: report a problem, suggest a feature, or copy diagnostics.

September and October 2026 · 1.5 and 1.5.1

If Perch quits unexpectedly, it notices on the next launch and includes what happened in the diagnostics you send with a report.
Settings rows with a fixed-width control no longer run off their card.

September 2026 · 1.4 and 1.4.1

A calculator in the shelf. Type or tap a sum and read the answer as you go, with brackets, powers and percentages, so 200 + 10% is 220. The last eight answers stay, and one click copies a result or reuses it.
Sessions outside herdr say more: a row carries its git branch, and Show terminal lands on the right tmux pane rather than only raising the app.
Wave and Rio recognised alongside the other terminals.

September 2026 · 1.3 through 1.3.9

A pixel tide in your agent colour moves behind the agent list, seen from above. The equalizer stays where it belongs, behind music.
Snap zones work with apps that used to ignore them, Hyper and other Electron windows included.
Report a bug from Settings, About. Perch gathers its version, this Mac's displays and permissions, which modules are on and its own recent log, shows you the lot, and opens a mail draft you can edit. It sends nothing itself, and includes no session names or prompts.
Screen cleaning has a button in the open island, beside the gear, which you can switch off in Settings.
Settings opens onto whichever space you are on, so its menus work while another app is full screen.
A session waiting on you no longer speeds the glyph up so sharply.
Fixed a download that some Macs refused to open. The binary carried a search path into Xcode's toolchain, which Apple's distribution check treats as fatal. Every release is now checked against that same tool before it is published.
The island no longer freezes when a camera appears.

September 2026 · 1.2 through 1.2.19

Connect your coding agents with one button in Settings, Agents. No installer script, no Python.
Every session row, running or finished, has a button that raises its terminal, its herdr tab and its pane.
Snap zones: drag a window up to the island and drop it on a layout tile. They can also reset an Accessibility grant that macOS left stale after an update.
Screen cleaning blacks out every display and locks the keyboard while you wipe down.
The volume strip is drawn in dots like the island glyph, with the colour and its glow yours to pick in Settings, Live Activities.
The Calendar section is fast on busy calendars: months load once in the background, including the months either side.
Displays without a real notch get the floating pill again, with a per-display switch.
Animated weather skies for rain, snow, storms, cloud, fog and clear nights.
Quit Perch from the power button in the open island, the bottom of the Settings sidebar, or Command Q.
Download translation languages from Settings, Translation.

September 2026

September 2026

Agent status for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI and more, on an island at the top of your screen.
Allow or deny agent permission requests from the notch.
Perch keeps itself up to date. Settings, About has Check Now and switches for automatic checks and installs.