Yuan changes most weeks. Here's what shipped.
The assistant in a desktop app runs in the cloud. When it needs the app's data, it reads it from your computer and changes nothing. It needs Yuan Desktop 1.6.0, which arrives as an automatic update.
When you start a new app, the Builder first lays out two or three design directions side by side, each drawn as a real preview of layout, style and colors. Pick one and it builds that. If none fits, write what you'd change and it comes back with another round.
For desktop apps each direction is drawn as a window, so you compare window layouts.
Invite people into your app and give each of them roles. A role decides which pages someone sees, which data they can read or change and which actions they can run, and the server checks every one of those.
Members sign in with their own Yuan account. You invite them and assign roles on the Members tab of the app's workspace, and one person can hold several roles. Turn on join requests and people who find the app can ask to join; you approve them.
Yuan Desktop is the macOS client. Create an app there as a desktop app and it gets its own window, menu bar and keyboard shortcuts, with its data kept on your computer. The client updates itself when a new version is out.
Desktop apps can also:
The install screen lists every permission an app asks for.
A published app can keep each visitor's rows to themselves, so people see only what they wrote. Sharing one set of data across everyone still works the same way.
When your app stores data, the Builder asks which one you want:
A published app can be switched to per-visitor. Not back: visitors wrote those rows expecting only they could see them.
An app used to be one screen. It can now have a home page, a list page and a detail page, with navigation between them.
A top navbar, a footer, and section anchors the navbar can jump to. Useful for landing pages, event pages and small sites.
Write a sentence, get an image. Results can be stored in your app's data and used as a cover, an illustration or an avatar. Generation runs against a monthly allowance you can see on the usage page.
Each app picks its own palette, type pairing and layout skeleton, and sometimes a piece of key art. Run the same brief twice and the two apps look different.
On narrow screens the sidebars and Builder panels become drawers, and generated apps collapse their layout. Editing an app and publishing it from a phone works.
A failed schedule, one that got auto-disabled, or an error inside a running app collects into a single notification in the notification center.
Every public app has an intro page covering what it does, what's in it and common questions. Apps that clear gallery review enter the sitemap. Links you share carry a cover image.
Upload a PDF, a document or a photo and the AI inside your app can pull out the text, read the image, and use either to summarize, sort or fill in a table.
Six more services in the connections page. Your app can post to Discord and Telegram, read and write Notion and Airtable, and look up weather and crypto prices.
Give an app a cadence (hourly, at set times daily, weekly) and it runs a sequence on its own: fetch data, let the AI work on it, write to a table, send the email.
A few uses:
New schedules start switched off. You turn them on from the Schedules tab of the app's workspace once you've read them over.