Perch
Release notes
Perch for macOS. The direct download updates itself; the App Store version updates through the App Store.
Perch 1.4
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.
Perch 1.3
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.
Perch 1.2
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.
Perch 1.1
September 2026
- Hover responds instantly on every display.
- Real album art in Now Playing, and an equalizer behind the open island.
- Open calendar events in Calendar and join any meeting with a link.
- Search in Settings.
Perch 1.0
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.