Changes to Ciciro, newest first

A public status page. status.ciciro.app now shows, at a glance, whether sign-in, writing and saving, AI writing help, chat, voice downloads, subscriptions, the website and app updates are available, having an issue, or down, each with a short recent history and a plain-language note on any incident.

Edits that land at the same moment save whole. Reordering chapters from two devices at once could leave two chapters sharing one place in the list, and a paragraph split while another edit reached the same chapter could keep only its first half. A chapter reorder, a paragraph edit, a password reset, an account deletion and an outline added to the canvas now each save completely or not at all.

Android: the system voice list opens at once. Choosing a system voice under Listening no longer freezes the app for several seconds on phones with Google speech, which report hundreds of voices. The list now loads only what is on screen, the phone is asked for its voices once, and the list scrolls.

Calmer taps on the phone. Choosing an option (a chip, a day of the week, a plan, a status, the Allow edits / Chat only switch) no longer bounces and springs back after the tap: the small pop eases down and stops dead, and the sliding highlight stops on its choice instead of overshooting it.

AI credits. Your monthly AI allowance is now counted in credits, one credit for each cent of AI work a request actually takes, so a quick spelling check costs a fraction of a long chat that drafts a chapter. Settings (web and phone) shows the credits you have used, as a number and a bar, and the day they start over, which is now your own billing or signup date rather than the 1st of the month. One very long chat request stops at a set size and keeps what it wrote; send a follow-up to keep going.

Verify your email to use Ciciro's AI. On the free plan, chat, drafting and checks now need a confirmed email address (a paid subscription does not); writing, notes and the story bible work as before. When an unconfirmed account asks for AI, Ciciro says so and offers to resend the confirmation email. Accounts created with Apple or Google are already confirmed. Sign-up also turns away temporary email addresses.

A Contact page. /contact says how to reach Ciciro support by email (support@ciciro.app), what to include for a faster answer, and where to find account deletion, privacy and terms. The phone's Settings has a matching Contact support link.

Quick drafts default is now Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), was Claude Haiku 4.5 (claude-haiku-4-5). It also serves spelling help, synonyms, chapter summaries and recaps. CICIRO_DRAFTER_FAST_MODEL still overrides it.

A clearer analytics choice on the phone. The first-run analytics question now makes Allow the main button and Don't allow the quieter one beside it, and says plainly that analytics is only for improving Ciciro: it never includes your manuscript, chat or titles, and it is never sold or shared with advertisers. In the United States outside California, Washington and Oregon the question is no longer asked; analytics starts on and Settings, then Privacy choices is now a simple switch (available to everyone, with a link to the privacy policy) that turns it off the moment you flip it.

A natural voice for Listen on the phone. Listening settings (Settings, then Listening, or the voice row on the Listen screen) now lets you choose who reads your chapters back. Next to the phone's own voices there is a more lifelike voice, Kokoro, that runs on the phone itself for English, Spanish and Hindi: download it once (about 380 MB, with a prompt on mobile data, and pause, resume, cancel and delete), and hear a short sample of each voice before you do. Nothing you write leaves the phone, reading continues with the screen locked, and if the phone cannot keep up the system voice takes over from that sentence. The system voice stays the default until you download it, and other languages such as Mandarin keep using it. This ships in a new app build (it adds native modules), not an over-the-air update, and the app now needs iOS 17 or Android 8.

Accents and Hindi read correctly on the phone. Chapters written on Android with accented or non-Latin letters (Spanish, Hindi and so on) showed codes like ñ in Read aloud and in the text Ciciro reads, and now come through as the letters you typed. Hindi chapters are also read, and highlighted, one sentence at a time.

A quiet nudge to rate Ciciro on the phone. After the first time you export a manuscript or finish a writing exercise, the app asks once for a store review through the system's own rating sheet, a couple of seconds after the moment has passed. It never asks again on that device, and the system decides whether to show it.

Android polish. Titles and the editor now use a serif face on Android (they were falling back to sans), the floating tab bar, headers and sheets no longer let page text show through, the chat box, screenplay element bar and exercise Next button stay clear of the tab bar and gesture bar when a floating keyboard toolbar is up, switches are visible in dark themes, the writing history heatmap lays out in even rows, and the onboarding exercises step no longer cuts a row off above its footer.

Four new writing exercises on iPhone. The writing exercise is now a list of five to pick from, under + on your manuscripts (and under the first-manuscript button when the library is empty). New: Pour it out, ten minutes of unfiltered writing after Julia Cameron's Morning Pages and Peter Elbow's freewriting; One true sentence, a way into a stuck page after Ernest Hemingway, ending by leaving yourself a note on what comes next; The terrible first draft, Anne Lamott's permission to write badly on purpose and then keep one good line; and A list of nouns, after Ray Bradbury's lists, where you list ten things that pull at you and write about the strongest. Each has a gentle timer that never locks the page, and can be kept as a journal manuscript or copied. If you pick Creativity or Writer's block when you set up Ciciro, it now tells you the exercises are there before you sign up. Observe, react, narrate is unchanged.

Highlighting text on the phone is easier to do and no longer collides with the system menu. The Comment, Describe and Fix buttons and a word's synonyms now sit in one row at the top of the manuscript, over the weekly progress bar, instead of floating over the page where the iPhone's own Cut / Copy menu could cover them. The row scrolls sideways, so a long synonym or a long list never runs off the screen. It waits until your selection has held still before it appears, so dragging a handle across a sentence is no longer interrupted. With the Smart header the small bold / italic / underline / strikethrough bubble over a highlight is gone, since the formatting bar at the top already has those buttons; "On highlight" in Settings still shows it.

Deadlines on the website. A manuscript can now have a due date and a word target on the web too, set from Deadline in the top bar's More menu (and changed or removed there; removing it offers Undo). A ring fills as the words arrive and closes with a tick when the target is met, and a card at the head of the chapter list shows the ring, when it is due and how it is going. Ciciro reads your last two weeks of writing against the words a day the deadline still needs and says plainly whether you are comfortably ahead, on track, or would do well to pick up the pace. It is the same deadline as on the phone, so one set on either shows on both.

Scan your handwritten notes into Ciciro (phone). Photograph handwritten or printed notes, or choose up to six photos from your library, and Ciciro reads them into text. You check and edit the text first (words it was unsure of are marked [?], with a button that jumps between them), then add it to your story bible, as a dated section at the end of any file you choose or as a new character or plot line, or onto the Canvas as one card per line. Nothing is overwritten, one scan uses one AI action however many pages it has (and is given back if nothing could be read), and your photos are not stored. Find it under the tools on the Chapters tab, in the Story Bible, and on an empty Canvas. This needs a new build of the app.

Write a script in its page layout on iPhone (Beta). Settings inside a screenplay has a new switch, Page layout while typing, off until you turn it on. With it on, the editor sets the script as you type: the page's type sized so 60 columns fill the screen, scene headings and action at the left, character names, parentheticals and dialogue indented as one block, transitions against the right edge. The keyboard types capitals on scene headings, character names and transitions, the element bar and Return follow the web editor (Return on an empty line drops back to action), and the script is saved exactly as before, with every line's element. This needs a new build of the app and is not on Android yet; Pages still shows the finished layout. The switch is grayed out with an info button when the app is in Chinese or Hindi.

Screenplays (Beta) get professional output. A script now has a title page (title, credit, author, source, draft date and contact, edited under "This screenplay" in Settings on the web and the phone) that opens the screenplay PDF and the Fountain and FDX files. The page count is now exact rather than "about": the header says "N pages", and the editor, the count and the PDF break pages in the same places, with (MORE) at the foot of a page a speech runs past and the cue again with (CONT'D) at the top of the next (each is a switch in Settings, and takes a line of the page). Dual dialogue sets two speeches side by side (Alt+Shift+D on the web, a Dual button on the phone), centered text is a new element (Alt+Shift+8), and scene numbers for a locked draft appear in both margins of the editor and the PDF. Export also gets FDX export (Beta), and .fdx files import as new screenplays; Ciciro does not claim Final Draft opens them unchanged. Fountain carries the title page, ^ dual dialogue, > centered < text and #1# scene numbers both ways. The phone shows and keeps all of it, exports FDX from its Export card, and edits the title page in Settings; its Pages view sets the same pages, with the dual columns, the (MORE) and (CONT'D) notes and the scene numbers, and its lists say "N pages" to match the editor. Script formatting remains English and Spanish for the PDF, and the (MORE) and (CONT'D) notes are English.

Screenplays (Beta) are faster to write. Scene headings, cues, transitions and shots are typed in capitals as you go. A list under the caret on the web (a row of chips above the keyboard on the phone) offers the names, places and times of day the script already uses, and the characters in the story bible before they have spoken. After INT. or EXT., Tab moves to the location, then the time of day, then starts the action, and Tab on a cue starts a parenthetical. V.O., O.S. and CONT'D buttons set a cue's extension, and a cue for a character picking a speech back up after some action gets CONT'D. A new Scenes view lists every scene heading with its page, jumps to a scene, and moves a scene (with its action and dialogue) up or down. The extension buttons are grayed out, with an info button, for a script in a language script formatting does not cover yet.

Screenplays (Beta) export and import. Export a script as a Screenplay PDF (US Letter, 12 pt Courier, page numbers from page 2, the same pages the editor's page count counts) or as a Fountain file for other writing apps, on the web and from the phone's Export card. Import a .fountain file as a new screenplay (one sequence for each # section, or one sequence), and paste Fountain text into a script on the web to have it sorted into elements. Script formatting is only available in English and Spanish for now: the screenplay PDF of a script written in another alphabet, and the phone's Screenplay choice when the app is in Chinese or Hindi, are grayed out with an info button that says so, and support for more languages is planned. The web no longer loads Courier Prime twice.

Ciciro understands screenplays. It reads a script by its elements (scene headings, cues, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions, shots) and by its scenes, so it can name, find and rewrite a scene by its heading, and what it writes, rewrites or auto-drafts lands as the right elements and continues from the element the script reached. The manuscripts list and a script's meta line say about how many pages it runs. On the phone, a new Pages tool shows a screenplay as printed pages (read only, Beta), the element bar sits above the keyboard and lights the right element the moment you press Return, and a script draft in the chat is set as a script.

Screenplays are tidier to write. Typing # , - , 1. or > at the start of a line no longer turns it into a heading, list or quote, and pasting several lines sorts them into scene headings, cues, dialogue and transitions. Tab and Shift-Tab change every selected line at once and no longer move focus off the page, Enter on an empty scene heading turns it into action, and Enter in the middle of a speech keeps both halves dialogue. The script uses Courier Prime on every machine. On the phone, a draft you insert from Ciciro arrives as script lines instead of plain paragraphs. Scene headings, character cues and transitions are skipped by spell check and the grammar pass.

On the phone, a manuscript can have a deadline: a due date and a word target for the whole manuscript, set from the new Deadline tool on its chapters screen (and changed or removed there). A ring fills as the words arrive and closes with a tick when the target is met. Ciciro reads your last two weeks of writing against the words a day the deadline still needs and says plainly whether you are comfortably ahead, on track, or would do well to pick up the pace, with the daily words it takes. Deadlines are optional and independent of the daily word goal.

On the iPhone, highlighting words in the chapter editor shows the same menu under the selection (above it, clear of the system Cut and Copy bar, when the keyboard leaves no room). One word offers its synonyms as chips, with the rest behind "more...", and tapping one swaps it in place and keeps your cursor.

On the website, highlighting words in the chapter shows a small menu over them. Two or more words offer Comment, Rewrite, Describe, Expand and Fix (each sends Ciciro a brief about that text, and Comment starts a chat with it quoted); one word offers Comment, Describe and Fix plus synonyms that fit its sentence, and choosing one swaps it in place. Cmd+K (Ctrl+K) moves into the menu from the keyboard.

On the phone, tapping anywhere around the page in the chapter editor (the margins, the chapter title row, the pills) puts the keyboard away. The selected tab in the manuscript tab bar now fills its whole segment of the bar, rounder at the two ends and flatter in the middle. The Ciciro chat shows its quick-action chips on an empty chat only; once you are talking they sit behind a sparkle button. "Previously on" is now two or three sentences (web and phone), and the phone clamps it to five lines with Show more.

Who knows what is now chapter by chapter (web and phone). A character can know, suspect, believe wrongly, or not know something, from a chapter until the chapter it changes in; facts saved as "believes" read as "suspects". The Knowledge screen opens at the chapter you have open, with a chapter scrubber, a timeline per character that shows what ended and what replaced it, and a grid by topic with an optional Reader column from canon.md. Ciciro's editing, the continuity check and What changed now see only what characters know by the chapter in question, never a later one.

Ask Ciciro in chat to record who knows what ("note that Joe suspects Suzy has the pen"): it records it against the chapter you have open, or the one you name, says exactly what it recorded, and can change or remove it. "What does Joe know at this point?" answers from the ledger as of your chapter. This works in Chat only too.

Fixed: on the phone, typing in a chapter after switching from another one no longer fails to save with an "Unexpected null or undefined value" error.

The phone's Ciciro chat now has the website's quick-action chips above the message box (What needs work most?, Critique this chapter, Tighten dialogue, Find loose ends, and the rest, different for a novel, screenplay, blog post or journal). A tap sends the brief; the ones that work on a passage need words highlighted in the manuscript first, and the ones that change the manuscript need Allow edits. This replaces the three starter prompts the empty chat used to offer. Rewrite from the writing tools now works on the words you have highlighted.

On the phone, a manuscript has a Manuscript details tool (in the Tools row on the chapters screen) to change its title, author and logline, move it between folders, or delete it. Chapters can be renamed from a title line above the page, which also says which chapter you are in. The chapters screen shows the manuscript's total word count.

Phone Settings is grouped under Appearance, Writing, Ciciro, Goals and reminders, and Privacy, and Writing history is listed there. The + menu on the manuscripts list is only for creating (new manuscript, import, new folder), and the writing-tools grid no longer repeats Chapters and Typography. Sign-in and sign-up move from field to field with Return and submit from the password. The manuscript tab bar now labels its three tabs (Chapters, Manuscript, Ciciro), the empty chat's prompt is no longer drawn upside down, and deleting a manuscript returns to a library that shows its remaining manuscripts instead of a blank list.

On the phone, Settings' Goals and reminders is now three rows (Word goal, Writing reminders, Writing history), each opening its own screen instead of adjusting the goal inline. A word goal is optional: pick No goal on the Word goal screen to hide the writing meter, and a writing reminder can be saved without a word count, so it simply says "Time to write".

The phone app has the website's Archive look as two new themes, Ciciro and Ciciro Night, now the default for anyone who has not picked a theme. The chapters screen is restyled in it (new typefaces, folder-tab chapter cards, paper-stock stage chips) and the app's text uses Newsreader, Instrument Sans and JetBrains Mono. Four themes are renamed: Sage is Marginalia, Ember is First Edition, Walnut is Bookshelf, Candle is Dog-Ear; Parchment and Inkwell keep their names, and everyone keeps the theme they picked. This needs a new app build; an over-the-air update does not carry the fonts.

New Allow edits / Chat only switch under Ciciro's chat (web and phone). It belongs to the conversation: a new chat starts on Allow edits, and Chat only stays on for as long as that conversation continues. In Chat only, Ciciro answers and discusses but never changes your manuscript; the server withholds its writing tools, so it holds even when a page or app is out of date.

Stop in Ciciro's chat (web and phone) now actually stops a request. Ciciro finishes the step it is on, then stops before its next tool call; anything it already wrote stays and can be undone.

Auto-draft and the chat's draft tool no longer put text that was cut off mid-sentence into your chapter. A beat that runs past its length limit now fails and can be retried, and Recap and chapter summaries keep their previous version instead of saving a cut-off one.

The website has a new look, the Archive design language: paper texture, richer color, and a light/dark toggle on the public pages. / is now the landing page for signed-out visitors (the library for signed-in ones), with app screenshots and short demos, and /launch redirects there. The pricing page shows an early-access discount when one is set up (see docs/billing.md).

New opt-in setting, Experimental writing prompt (Settings, web and phone, off by default): Ciciro's drafts follow craft defaults that avoid habits common in model-written prose (feelings mirrored by the weather, stated themes, "not X but Y" contrasts, tidy endings), and a check after each draft points the editor at any that slipped through. Your style.md, your voice notes, and anything a brief asks for still win. Off, drafting works exactly as before.

Em dashes stay off by default; a - Em dashes: allowed line in style.md switches them on for drafts, with or without the experimental setting.

Drafter default is now Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5), was Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5). Same per-token price. No request-shape changes were needed. Anthropic's migration guidance for Sonnet 5.5 is: "thinking: {type: "disabled"} returns a 400 - to turn thinking off, send thinking: {type: "between_tools"}" (a breaking change from Sonnet 5, which accepted {type: "disabled"}). But that only affects callers that explicitly disabled thinking. Per Anthropic's own thinking/effort reference table, omitting thinking already ran adaptive (thinking on) on Sonnet 5 - "Omitting thinking: Runs adaptive" - and continues to run adaptive on Sonnet 5.5 - "Omitting thinking: Runs adaptive". Every Ciciro drafter call (recap.ts, continuity.ts, weekly-review.ts, style-analysis.ts, tools.ts dispatch_draft, autowrite.ts draftBeat) omits thinking rather than disabling it, so the between_tools note does not apply and behavior is unchanged.

Ciciro now sends email: a link to confirm your address after signing up, a welcome once it's confirmed, password reset links ("Forgot password?" on web and mobile sign-in), and a note when an account is deleted. Settings shows when your email isn't confirmed yet and can resend the link.

Settings (web and mobile) can now export all of your data as one zip and delete your account. /account/delete explains account deletion publicly, for the App Store and Google Play deletion requirements.

Sign in with Apple and Google on the web and in the app, next to email and password. A verified email that matches an existing account signs into it. An account without a password confirms deletion by typing DELETE, and deleting it revokes Ciciro's Sign in with Apple access. See docs/social-sign-in.md.

Settings (web and mobile) now shows the models Ciciro is actually running: Editor, Drafter, Quick drafts, and the Groq router when configured. Current defaults, set in src/lib/anthropic.ts and src/lib/fast-lane.ts: - Editor: Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5) - Drafter: Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5) - Quick drafts: Claude Haiku 4.5 (claude-haiku-4-5) - Router (when GROQ_API_KEY is set): Llama 3.1 8B (llama-3.1-8b-instant)

Editor default is now Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5), was Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5). The drafter stays on Claude Sonnet 5.