# Numa news

Source: https://numa.animiste.com/news

What we've shipped, changed, and learned while building Numa — newest first.

## Numa, native in Chrome
Capability · 2026-10-19 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.7.md

Numa now works inside Chrome through its own extension — steadier control, tabs marked in blue, and room to work beside you on the same computer.

## Numa — the beta has ended
Release · 2026-10-15 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.1.3.md

Thank you to everyone who tested Numa. From today it needs a card to set up — and every Beta Tester badge is worth three months free.

## Claude Code vs Codex: forget, or pay to remember?
Note · 2026-10-06 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.5.8.md

The re-read tax. Five long conversations, played through Claude Code, Codex and Numa: what every message carries, what survives, and what it costs.

## Frontier intelligence, without the frontier waste
Note · 2026-07-29 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.5.7.md

Use the best model for every task. Keep years of context. Get answers without paying the model to fight a bloated history.

## Numa on your phone
Compatibility · 2026-07-03 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.4.4.md

Follow scheduled work from your phone — what's queued, what's running, and when Numa needs you.

## Numa Code — in the thread
Capability · 2026-06-16 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.6.md

Plan, code, and iterate without leaving the conversation.

## Numa — open beta
Release · 2026-06-02 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.1.2.md

Anyone can ask for Numa now. Free, for the length of the beta.

## Numa on Windows
Compatibility · 2026-05-24 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.4.3.md

Numa is now compatible with Windows.

## Numa on Linux
Compatibility · 2026-05-20 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.4.2.md

Numa now runs on Linux.

## Canvas
Capability · 2026-05-13 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.5.md

A shared surface where you and Numa can think in the same place.

## Letting an agent work on the canvas
Playbook · 2026-05-09 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.6.4.md

Hand a task to a worker and watch it happen, in view.

## Numa 1.2.4 — quieter, steadier
Update · 2026-05-02 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.2.5.md

Lower idle weight, calmer takeovers, a steadier hand.

## Writing your first Numa flow
Playbook · 2026-04-30 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.6.3.md

Composing your first flow, step by step.

## Virtual Display — acting without taking over
Capability · 2026-04-23 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.4.md

Numa can drive an app without stealing your screen or your cursor.

## Folder chat
Capability · 2026-03-16 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.3.md

Point Numa at a folder and talk to it about what's inside.

## Numa Code
Capability · 2026-03-12 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.1.md

Working directly with code, in place.

## Recording a task for Numa to learn
Playbook · 2026-03-04 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.6.2.md

Teach Numa a workflow once by doing it.

## Numa 1.1.5 — the brain moves to the server
Update · 2026-02-18 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.2.3.md

Numa's reasoning moved off the desktop; the app got lighter for it.

## Numa 1.2
Update · 2026-02-18 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.2.4.md

Refinements to attention and presence.

## Watchers
Capability · 2025-12-15 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.3.2.md

Numa can keep an eye on something and act the moment it changes.

## On watching, not nagging
Note · 2025-12-02 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.5.4.md

The whole craft of an attentive tool is in when it stays quiet.

## Numa 1.1 — the notch
Update · 2025-11-23 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.2.2.md

Numa got a body: a small, always-there presence at the edge of the screen.

## On giving software a body
Note · 2025-11-11 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.5.3.md

Why presence needs somewhere to live, not just something to say.

## Numa on macOS
Compatibility · 2025-11-10 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.4.1.md

What Numa needs from your Mac.

## Setting up Numa
Playbook · 2025-10-02 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.6.1.md

Installing Numa and giving it room to work.

## What presence means in software
Note · 2025-07-15 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.5.1.md

What we mean when we say a program has presence.

## Numa 1.0
Update · 2025-05-30 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.2.1.md

The first stable release.

## Numa
Release · 2025-04-09 · https://numa.animiste.com/news/1.1.1.md

Our first attempt at an answer.


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