Changelog

New updates, improvements, and product releases for Motus.

Multi-Tier Model Gateway Substrate

Architected unified Model Gateway with multi-tier routing (Luna, Terra, Sol), upgraded Voice Activity Detection for instant 1.2s transcription turnaround, added Whisper phonetic biasing, native Apple Reminders and Notes adapters, and dynamic multimodal vision decoupling.

Architected model-agnostic gateway separating logical tiers (Luna for conversational speed, Terra for balanced OS automation, Sol for frontier coding and reasoning) with prompt caching cost optimization and zero-latency failover.

Ultra-Fast Voice Activity Detection (VAD)

Calibrated trailing silence tolerance to 1.2s with a 400ms speech threshold, eliminating dead-air pauses and initiating instantaneous transcription the moment speech concludes.

Whisper Phonetic Normalization & Vocabulary Biasing

Implemented phonetic correction dictionary and macOS vocabulary prompt biasing for Whisper, eliminating transcription hallucination and phonetic confusion across all voice interactions.

Native Apple Reminders & Notes Handlers

Integrated native AppleScript adapters for creating scheduled reminders with dynamic relative date resolution and formatted Apple Notes directly from voice or text.

Dynamic Multimodal Vision Decoupling

Decoupled display screenshot attachments so conversational queries remain purely lightweight text, attaching high-res screenshots strictly when visual screen analysis is requested.

Retina Native Resolution Screen Coordinates

Upgraded screen capture to compute native display dimensions with Retina scale factors, ensuring pixel-perfect Ghost Cursor, spotlighting, and visual element circling.

Native Desktop File Organization Engine

Native Finder File Organizer, Slack/iMessage Automation & Search Anti-Hallucination

Engineered native desktop file organization, added end-to-end messaging automation, enhanced voice speech pause tolerance to 2.2s, and upgraded background web research without popup windows.

Motus can now automatically scan all loose desktop items and sort them into categorized folders (Screenshots, Documents, Media & Videos, Installers & Archives, Code & Data) while keeping existing project directories untouched.

End-to-End Slack & iMessage Action Handlers

Added dedicated messaging action executors that handle recipient search, conversation loading, safe clipboard transmission, and message dispatch inside communication apps.

Multi-Engine Background Web Search

Integrated real-time web search and live knowledge feeds directly into Motus intelligence without launching intrusive browser windows.

Notes & File Export Suggestions

Motus now intelligently offers to save research summaries directly to Apple Notes or as formatted documents on your Desktop.

Scroll-Triggered Interactive Media Showcase

Added sticky viewport media showcase with interactive demonstration playback, sound toggle, and synchronized capability steps on the website.

Interactive Demonstration Showcase

Interactive Showcase & Multi-Platform Installers

Shipped interactive product showcase experiences, multi-platform downloads with automatic architecture detection, and enhanced responsive navigation.

Experience live simulated multi-app workflows, screen vision understanding, and automated desktop tasks directly in the browser.

Smart Platform Installer Detection

Added automatic CPU architecture detection supporting Apple Silicon and Intel macOS hardware.

Smooth Scroll Anchor Navigation

Added dynamic navbar background transitions and responsive mobile menu with animated entry effects.

Automatic Over-The-Air (OTA) Updates

OTA Auto-Updater via GitHub Releases & Multi-Space Overlay Stability

Integrated automatic background updates, fixed multi-virtual-desktop window visibility, and resolved authentication token loss during login handshakes.

Motus now checks for new releases automatically in the background and applies instant updates with a single click.

Multi-Space & Full-Screen Overlay Support

The Voice Notch and Ghost Cursor status indicators now smoothly travel across all your macOS spaces and full-screen applications.

Native Application Adapters

Implemented native application adapters, telemetry monitoring, and multi-tier execution recovery.

Built structured intent discovery for Slack, Spotify, Notes, Calendar, Finder, and Safari.

Telemetry & Performance Monitoring

Added internal performance telemetry to monitor agent execution times, tool invocation frequency, and token usage.

Ghost Cursor Secondary Target Pointer

Ghost Cursor Target Highlighting & Comprehensive Settings View

Introduced secondary Ghost Cursor for interactive UI element pointing, built extensive Settings panel, and unified product visual branding.

Created dedicated transparent overlay window with secondary ghost cursor that glides to exact coordinates to point out buttons, errors, or controls for the user.

Comprehensive Preferences & AI Voice Settings

Built full-featured Settings UI covering General, AI Models & Voice Selection, Memory & Knowledge bases, Usage analytics, and Account credentials.

Compact Cursor Mascot Mode

Redesigned mascot window into an ultra-compact floating status indicator with expansion on hover/click.

Native Fast-Path File Search

Built native system binary for sub-100ms Spotlight file searches, added close app actions, and built administrative credit tooling.

Engineered standalone search binary leveraging Spotlight APIs to instantly search, reveal, and manage files from natural language.

Phonetic Normalization for Voice Commands

Added phonetic normalizer mapping speech transcription inaccuracies to correct macOS app names and commands.

App Force Quit Action

Added close and force quit commands with graceful application exit followed by process termination fallback.

Real-Time Vision Screen Awareness

Real-Time Screen Capture, Vision Routing & Stripe Subscriptions

Connected real-time screen awareness with vision routing, continuous multi-turn dialogue, and Stripe billing module with budget guardrails.

Added automatic desktop screen capture sent directly to vision models, allowing Motus to analyze code, UI errors, design tools, and windows.

Stripe Subscriptions & Credit Guardrails

Built billing module supporting Pro and Power plans, credit top-ups, Stripe webhook synchronization, and automatic credit guardrails.

Continuous Multi-Turn Voice Conversation

Implemented persistent message history allowing natural back-and-forth dialogue in Voice Notch and Voice Overlay without losing context.

High-Fidelity Voice Audio Streaming

Integrated high-fidelity speech synthesis streaming with Nova, Shimmer, Echo, Onyx, and Fable voice profiles.

Email OTP Authentication Pipeline

Built full authentication infrastructure with Resend email OTP verification, session guardrails, and native Apple Calendar scheduling.

Engineered user registration, login, 6-digit OTP verification via Resend email service, and session persistence.

Native Calendar Event Creation

Added calendar scheduling allowing natural language event creation (e.g. 'schedule team sync tomorrow at 3pm').

Light & Dark Login Interface

Implemented themed onboarding and authentication screens with step-by-step feature previews.

Physical MacBook Notch Voice UI (VoiceNotch)

MacBook Hardware Notch, Native Swift Space Detector & Accessibility Daemon

Major architectural leap to V2.0: Introduced physical MacBook hardware notch integration, native background daemons, global hotkeys, and fast-path system execution.

Created custom transparent window that fits exactly over the 14-inch/16-inch MacBook Pro hardware notch cutout with spring expansion animations, waveform visualizer, and menu bar pass-through.

Native Swift Space Detector Daemon

Compiled native background daemon to detect 3-finger Mission Control and App Exposé trackpad gestures, automatically hiding the Voice Notch to avoid visual artifacts.

Native Accessibility Crawler

Implemented accessibility tree crawler extracting UI element coordinates, titles, and roles from frontmost applications.

System Tray & Global Hotkeys

Added menu bar tray icon and global shortcuts (Control+Alt+M for Voice Notch, Control+Alt+Space for Mascot).

Zero-LLM Fast-Path Execution Engine

Added instant router to handle app opening, media playback, and basic commands in under 150ms.

Microphone Permission Handling

Added explicit microphone access handling, updated sidebar theming, and refined chat attachment constraints.

Integrated macOS system media permission prompts before initializing audio recording contexts.

Command Palette Launcher

Added universal keyboard launcher accessible via Cmd+K to search conversations, trigger system actions, and switch views.

Built keyboard-driven Command Menu supporting fuzzy search over chats, settings, and direct OS action shortcuts.

Typewriter Effect & Thread Renaming

Enhanced Chat component with smooth typewriter streaming animations, persistent thread renaming, and navigation badges.

Implemented character-by-character typewriter streaming for AI responses and automatic conversation title generation with persistent local storage.

Spotify & Apple Music Control

Added Spotify and Apple Music playback automation and integrated full GitHub Flavored Markdown rendering with table support.

Built native playback bridge supporting search and immediate playback of tracks, albums, and playlists.

Rich Markdown & Tables Engine

Updated response renderer to display structured comparisons, tables, and formatted code blocks.

Native App Icons in Attachment Popover

Redesigned attachment selector with crisp application icons for quick tool referencing.

macOS Icon Set & Packaging Assets

Generated high-resolution macOS application icons and updated visual branding across desktop views.

Built Apple iconset resolutions (16x16 up to 1024x1024@2x) and integrated icon assets into application bundle.

AI Reasoning & Planning Pipeline

Initialized the Motus AI architecture: backend reasoning engine with IntentClassifier, speech-to-text processing, and desktop UI with action automation skeleton.

Scaffolded core reasoning architecture with model routing, audio buffer decoding, and task plan generation.

5-Tier Intent Classification Engine

Built intent classification system (instant action, long running task, planning mode, research task, conversation only) to optimize latency and model routing.

Desktop Client Scaffolding

Initialized desktop application with clean interfaces, bridge communication, and action automation skeleton.

Audio Recording & Animated Transcript

Added audio stream capture, animated waveform component, and initial speech recognition UI.