What's new

Changelog

Every update, improvement, and fix — in one place.

v0.18.0MajorAugust 11, 2026
  • Choose your model — Core and Ultra now let you pick between Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini for each conversation, right from a model picker in the chat header.
  • Gemini upgraded to the 3.x generation. Opus 4.8 is now Ultra's default model.
  • Fixed: Deep Think could silently ignore the model you'd actually picked.
  • Long replies that go quiet for a moment mid-stream (slow, not stalled) no longer look dead.
  • Fixed Android nav bar and keyboard overlap issues, plus a broader performance pass.
  • Fixed: the app could freeze — and eventually crash — if you backgrounded it and came back to certain screens, including a DM conversation or the profile customization screen.
  • General performance and battery pass: cut background battery drain from decorative animations that kept running after you'd left the screen, and smoothed out navigation into Vinyl and Marquee.
v0.17.0MajorAugust 7, 2026
  • Vinyl Stations — real radio and podcasts, playing live inside Selin. No Spotify or Apple Music account needed.
  • Marquee adds Live TV — real broadcast channels, with a genuine "now/next" guide for the ones we can get it for, Continue Watching, and "Ask Selin what's playing."
  • Vinyl Spotlight — your top 5 artists, songs, and albums, plus what's fresh.
  • Crates — build your own collections spanning artists, albums, and tracks.
  • Favorite any station, podcast, or episode, and pick up where you left off from Continue Listening — with a mini-player that stays with you while you do anything else in the app.
  • Vinyl+ and Marquee+ — get either one on its own, without needing the full Pro or Elite plan.
  • Capture a photo or video straight from your camera in the DM composer, not just from your library.
  • Fixed: AI-generated images and videos could drop out of the conversation view after being created — they now stay put.
v0.16.0ImprovementJuly 31, 2026
  • Vinyl gets its own look — dark mode, "synesthesia" colours that shift with whatever's playing, Selin-curated playlists and mood picks, and a music profile with your own diary and collections.
  • Report an AI reply that's wrong or off, right from the conversation.
  • The code sandbox and other in-progress tools now say so honestly instead of pretending to work.
  • Fair-use protections tightened across image, video, and Restyle generation, so heavy usage on one account can't degrade service for everyone else.
  • Tightened security and privacy disclosures ahead of the app's public store release.
v0.15.0LaunchJuly 28, 2026
  • Marquee and Vinyl — two new sections of Selin, included with Pro and Elite. Marquee streams movies and TV (a real public-domain catalog you can watch today, plus a mainstream discovery catalog and "What should I watch?" recommendations); Vinyl connects your Spotify to browse, search, and preview your music, right inside Selin.
  • Lumen — a real privacy browser as Selin's fifth tab. Blocks ads and trackers across roughly 99,500 domains, with light and dark themes and "Ask Selin" about whatever page you're on.
  • Three new artistic profile backdrops — Aurora Flow, Galaxy, and Neon Drive — plus a new free scene, Blossom Garden.
v0.14.0MajorJuly 24, 2026
  • Kotori 🐦 — Selin's Connect companion gets a name, a mark, and compose assist to help you write a better post.
  • Gardens — Spaces, reimagined: an immersive home feed, a cork-bulletin-board post format, and Hanami live audio rooms right inside your Garden.
  • Named Circles — organize who you're close to into groups you actually name.
  • Connect now opens with an animated intro — the mark unfolds into the wordmark every time you launch it.
  • Interactive calculators across Finance, Law, Math, Physics/Engineering, and Chemistry/Med — work the problem right where you're asking about it.
  • See what Selin remembers as an actual 3D map, not just a list.
  • Save any result — a calculation, a lookup, an answer — straight to Memory or a Project from wherever you are.
v0.13.0MajorJuly 19, 2026
  • Stories get real creative tools — add music with a scrubbable preview, interactive polls, questions and countdowns, freehand drawing, capture-time colour filters, and hold-to-peek to see behind your own overlays.
  • Reshare any story or post straight to your own story, in two taps.
  • Secret Chats — fully end-to-end encrypted conversations, opt-in. Built on the same Double Ratchet protocol as Signal, with a safety-number/QR code so both sides can verify who they're really talking to.
  • Every direct message is now encrypted at rest, even outside Secret Chats.
  • Personalize Connect — your own nav bar, feed header, and card colours, with text and icons that automatically stay legible against whatever you pick.
  • Shorts is now Blooms 🌸 — same feature, new name. Floating emoji reactions, a For You / Following / Close Connects feed switcher, and "Ask Selin" right on a Bloom.
  • Share any post or Bloom straight into a DM, with a real preview card instead of a bare link.
  • Restyle (Connect+) — turn a Story photo into a new style with one tap, powered by real AI image editing.
  • Choose which Selin assistant answers a conversation — and reopening a saved chat brings back the mode it was written in.
  • Chat and DMs stay connected on flaky networks — automatic fallback and self-healing reconnects mean less "why did this go quiet."
v0.12.0MajorJuly 13, 2026
  • Two-factor authentication — turn it on in Account → Security and Selin will ask for a code from your authenticator app every time you sign in, so a stolen password isn't enough on its own. Works with Google Authenticator, 1Password, Authy, and anything else that speaks TOTP.
  • Recovery codes — ten single-use codes, shown once when you turn 2FA on. Lose your phone and they're your way back in.
  • See every device you're signed in on — with the device, the last time it was active, and where from. Sign out any one of them, or all of them at once, and it takes effect immediately: the device is dropped mid-connection, not whenever its token happens to expire.
  • Changing your password now signs out your other devices automatically.
  • Edit before you send — crop, straighten, and flip a photo before it goes into a message, a post, or a story, instead of it firing off the moment you pick it.
  • GIFs and stickers everywhere — post them, comment with them, and set one as your profile cover. They were messages-only before.
  • Disappearing messages and media — set any conversation to clear itself after an hour, 8 hours, a day, a week, or a month. The media goes with it.
  • Read receipts and presence — see when a message is delivered, when it's read, and who's active right now. Turn your activity status off and you're hidden (and you won't see theirs either).
  • Profile customization v2 — 14 themes, a full colour wheel with RGB entry, your own header and backdrop colours, reorderable sections, and a Top Connects showcase you can switch off.
  • Profile pictures, banners, and message media now load from our global CDN.
  • Fixed: videos sent from mobile could get stuck on "Processing…" forever when the upload silently failed. They now fail honestly, and a failed upload is retried instead of hanging.
  • Fixed: signing up from the mobile app didn't work — the human-verification check was missing.
v0.11.0MajorJuly 12, 2026
  • Close Connects — your inner circle on Connect. Build a list alongside your friends, then tap the double-C mark in the composer to lock a post to just them. The two C's flip and clasp together when you do, and close-only posts carry the mark so everyone knows who they're for.
  • Manage your Close Connects wherever you manage friends — a dedicated list with an inline toggle on every friend, on both web and mobile.
  • Your usage, visible at last — your dashboard now shows the messages you've sent today, this week, this month, and all-time. Paid plans are uncapped; the free plan's fair-use ceiling is shown with a progress bar so you always know where you stand.
  • Selin Integrations went fully native on mobile — every domain now runs inside the app instead of opening a browser.
  • Selin Chemistry — look up any molecule in PubChem with its structure and properties, balance equations instantly with an exact solver, and use seven new calculators (molarity, dilution, ideal gas, pH, percent yield, and more).
  • Selin Finance — tap any stock or coin for a live price chart (1W to 5Y), search any symbol, and see upcoming earnings.
  • Selin Writers — a real thesaurus: synonyms, rhymes, near-rhymes, describing words, and sound-alikes.
  • Selin Law — read full court opinions in-app and search the U.S. Code. Selin Med — ICD-10 codes and PubMed literature. Selin Tech — CVE vulnerability lookup.
  • Every domain assistant now streams its answers word by word, remembers your conversation, and can read a photo you send it.
  • The code sandbox runs again — 13 languages, on a new execution engine.
  • Announcements now actually appear — site-wide announcement banners show across the top of the site.
  • Fixed: the Contract analysis actions in Selin Law no longer sit under the home indicator on iPhone.
v0.10.0MajorJuly 8, 2026
  • Hanami 🌸 — drop-in audio rooms on Connect. Go live with voice only, bring up to 12 guest speakers on stage, and gather under the blossoms. Named for the Japanese tradition of talking together beneath the cherry trees.
  • Live moderators — appoint trusted people who can mute or remove speakers, kick disruptive viewers, delete chat messages, and approve speaker requests across every stream you host.
  • Connect+ 🌸 — our premium membership: a double live stage (12 guests), 500 Selin Coins every month, keep 80% of every coin action as a creator (vs 75%), a $10 cashout minimum, exclusive Hanami room themes, permanent live-recording storage, and a member badge across Connect. $4.99/month, $49.99/year, or 550 coins — and included free with every paid Selin plan.
  • Hanami rooms are ephemeral by design — voice conversations are never recorded.
  • Speaker policy per room — open raise-hand or invite-only stages.
  • Reply to and react to comments on profile photos and cover photos — full threading and emoji reactions, on web and mobile.
  • Live notification toasts on web and real banner notifications on mobile — reposts, replies, gifts, and tips now announce themselves instead of waiting silently in the bell.
  • Notification taps now open the actual post, and gift / tip / superchat / new-member notifications show their real text.
  • Fixed photo and video shorts uploads on web (photos are now compressed before upload, like mobile).
  • Fixed the Trending page in dark mode.
v0.9.0MajorJuly 7, 2026
  • Connect is now a full social network — a community feed (For You / Following / Friends), photo & video posts, polls, reposts and quotes, hashtags with a Trending page, and universal search.
  • Stories and Shorts — share moments that fade, and vertical video or photo-slideshow shorts with licensed music.
  • Group chats and profile walls — talk together, and make your profile yours with a banner, profile song, pinned post, and media/likes/reposts tabs.
  • Live streaming — go live with your camera from Connect, with guest co-hosts, live chat, floating reactions, and host recordings.
  • Selin Coins — the Connect currency. Buy packs, tip creators, send tiered gifts (petal → bloom → storm → legend, with full-screen animations and combos), pin Super Chats in live streams, and climb the Top Supporter leaderboard.
  • Creator memberships — monthly subscriptions to your favorite creators with a member badge, members-only posts and live streams, and DM access.
  • Pay-per-view posts and creator signature gifts.
  • Creator payouts via Stripe — cash out your coin earnings straight to your bank.
  • Automated + human safety moderation across images, video, and live streams. Connect stays 18+, verified-human, and ad-free — forever.
  • Media on a global CDN for fast feeds, and mobile app parity across the Connect experience.
v0.8.0MajorJune 23, 2026
  • Selin Connect — a social layer for the community: find people by @handle, send friend requests, and message each other in real time.
  • Public or private profiles — choose whether anyone or only friends can see your profile and bio, and claim a unique @handle.
  • Message requests — messages from people you’re not friends with land in a separate inbox you accept before reading.
  • 18+ age verification for Connect — a one-time ID + selfie check via Stripe Identity gates Connect to adults. Selin stores only the verified result, never your ID or date of birth.
  • Real-time direct messages over websockets — conversations update live, no refresh needed.
  • Account page — manage your email, password, @handle, profile visibility, and billing all in one place.
  • Native iOS app — in active development. The full Selin experience (chat across Spark / Core / Ultra, every domain integration, Selin Ed, the Library, voice mode, and reminders) is coming to iPhone soon.
  • Profile customization — upload a profile picture, add a bio, and see your activity stats (chats, images, videos, memories, and member-since).
  • Reminders, reimagined — a month-calendar view with a per-day agenda and an exact-time picker.
  • Chat media viewer — tap a generated image to zoom, play generated videos inline, and save or share either to your device.
  • Redesigned welcome, reminder, and password-reset emails with the cherry-blossom brand.
v0.7.0MajorJune 1, 2026
  • Liquid Glass design system — four CSS surface classes (glass-card, glass-surface, glass-input, glass-cherry) applied platform-wide.
  • Landing page fully redesigned with sticky glass navbar, frosted feature and pricing cards, glass demo chrome, and glass CTA banner.
  • Chat updated: user bubbles now use cherry-tinted glass, assistant bubbles use elevated glass-card, input bar and sidebar use flat glass-surface.
  • All four hub sidebars (Admin, Agent, CS, Engineer) updated to glass-surface — engineer hub keeps its dark tint.
  • Login form card and all auth inputs updated to glass-card and glass-input.
v0.6.0MajorJune 1, 2026
  • Selin Engineering: expanded from 6 to 18 calculators — added pipe head loss, Carnot efficiency, torsional & bending stress, pressure vessel, factor of safety, three-phase power, RC circuit time constant, gear train ratio, thermal expansion, and bolt preload.
  • Material Comparison tool in Selin Engineering — side-by-side comparison of any two materials across density, tensile strength, hardness, and more.
  • Reactions Analyzer in Selin Engineering — 35+ common reactions between metals, acids, bases, elements, and compounds with hazard ratings, equations, products, and conditions.
  • Law Dictionary: replaced scrollable list with an interactive 3D CSS flip-book — opens, closes, and animates page turns through legal terminology.
  • Med Dictionary: same flip-book treatment for Selin Med with 54 medical terms in a teal-themed book.
  • Virtual Microscope in Selin Med — 8 biological specimens (RBC, Neutrophil, E. coli, S. aureus, COVID-19, S. pyogenes, Neuron, Platelet) with accurate SVG illustrations.
  • Microscope zoom levels: 40×, 100×, 400×, and 1000× with CSS scale simulation.
  • Microscope pan/drag — click-and-drag (or touch-drag) to pan the specimen at any zoom level; pan resets on specimen or zoom change.
  • Cyber Tools API: TCP port scanner (21 common ports via Node.js net.Socket) and WHOIS/RDAP lookup (domain + IP via rdap.org and rdap.arin.net).
v0.5.0MajorMay 2026
  • Introduced Selin Spark, Core, and Ultra model tiers — choose the right power for every task.
  • Canvas workspace — a persistent document editor with AI assist and autosave.
  • Elite plan launched at $80/month with unlimited messages and Selin Ultra priority.
  • Developer API portal with full documentation and code examples.
  • Expanded file upload support: DOCX and XLSX alongside PDF.
  • Selin Finance integration: stock lookup, portfolio tracker, options chain, and financial ratios.
  • Selin Law integration: case research, statute lookup, contract clause library, and legal dictionary.
  • Selin Tech integration: code assistant, CVE lookup, dependency scanner, and system diagnostics.
  • Selin Engineering integration: structural, electrical, thermal, and fluid calculators.
  • Selin Med integration: drug lookup, lab reference values, ICD-10 search, clinical trials, and drug interactions.
  • Employee Hub, Admin Hub, CS Hub, and Engineer Hub — role-gated internal portals.
v0.4.0FeatureApril 2026
  • Custom AI Assistants — build, name, and share your own Selin personas.
  • Projects — group conversations with a shared system context.
  • Deep Think mode — extended reasoning for hard problems using Selin Ultra.
  • Voice Mode — hands-free conversation with real-time STT and TTS.
  • Web search with live citations via Tavily integration.
v0.3.0FeatureMarch 2026
  • Selin Code CLI released — agentic terminal assistant with tool use.
  • Memory system — Selin remembers what matters across every session.
  • Image and video generation.
  • Persona system: Legal, Medical, Developer, Coach, Analyst, Creative.
  • Reminders — Selin can schedule reminders mid-conversation.
v0.2.0ImprovementFebruary 2026
  • Pro plan with Stripe billing and 7-day free trial.
  • Conversation sharing via public shareable links.
  • Dark mode support across all pages.
  • File upload and PDF parsing.
  • Conversation search and renaming.
v0.1.0LaunchJanuary 2026
  • Selin launches publicly.
  • Core chat with emotional intelligence and domain detection.
  • Free plan with 25 messages/day.
  • Conversation history and project folders.