Every improvement, fix, and new feature shipped to Visualist. Updated
weekly. Written by the team and by Vai.
August 2026
5 updates
Improved Proposals
Vai now builds proposals from your Hub context
Vai now gathers your Hub’s brief, scope, timeline, decisions, and confirmed pricing before drafting a private proposal for review.
See what Vai can do for your studio, then ask it to create a proposal from the work in a Hub. It gathers the project brief, decisions, scope, timeline, and confirmed pricing before drafting a private proposal for you to review.
Improved Vai
Vai chats show requests immediately and reopen reliably
Your first message stays visible while Vai responds, and each chat link reopens the same thread after a reload.
Send a new request and it appears in the chat before the response starts. Reload the page or return to its link to reopen the same thread.
New Client work
Hub overviews now show recent project activity
Hub overviews now show recent uploads, designs, palettes, comments, action items, Google Drive syncs, emails, and member changes.
The Latest activity card lists the five most recent updates. See how to review activity in a Hub, open the longer list with See all, and use Load more for older entries. Items moved to the bin remain labeled. Activity remains visible in archived Hubs, with entries and folder creation disabled.
Improved Other
Global search now works from the keyboard
Open global search with Cmd+K or Ctrl+K, move through results with Arrow, Home, and End, then choose one with Enter.
Use Cmd+K on macOS or Ctrl+K on other platforms to open search. Arrow Up and Arrow Down move between results, while Home and End jump to the first or last result. Press Enter to open the selected result.
New Vai
Vai now creates editable forms and collects responses
Ask Vai for a form, edit the fields, share it by link, and review every response from the same saved artifact.
The form opens beside your Vai conversation, where you can switch between Edit and Preview and save changes. Follow the full steps to create and share a form with Vai, including turning on Public link, copying the current version, and reviewing responses. Publishing to a visualist.pro address belongs to a separate publication flow.
July 2026
15 updates
Improved Vai
Vai now handles more studio work and remembers approvals
Vai now creates stickies, actions, documents, and images, catches you up on work, and remembers when you allow workspace changes.
Ask Vai to create or update everyday workspace items, or to summarize what changed while you were away. In Vai → Settings, choose Allow all actions or Do not send without approval to set how Vai handles future approvals. The current release covers built-in workflows; user-created Skills still show Coming soon.
Improved Vai
Vai images now stay in the Library with AI provenance
Visualist now saves Vai-generated and Vai-edited images in the Library, so you can find them later and identify their AI provenance with `Generated by`.
Improved Vai
Vai stays beside Canvas when you open a design
Opening a design from a Vai response now docks Vai beside Canvas while preserving the Hub or thread you were using.
Move from Vai’s answer into the design and keep the conversation that produced it in view. This handoff applies to design links opened from Vai responses. Visualist leaves ordinary document-link behavior unchanged.
Improved Client work
Create files directly at the Hub root
Create and view folders, images, designs, palettes, and notes at the Hub root, so project work can start without opening a folder.
Create new work from the top level of a Hub or inside a folder. Hub permissions and archive status still apply wherever you create it. Moving an existing item back to the Hub root is unavailable.
Improved Other
Canvas now supports touch navigation and object rotation
DOM Canvas now supports one-finger Move panning, two-finger midpoint panning and pinch zoom, plus twist rotation for one editable selected object.
Use one finger to pan while Move is active. With two fingers, drag from the midpoint to pan, pinch to zoom, or twist to rotate when exactly one editable object is selected. These gestures apply to the current DOM Canvas interaction path. See How do I use pages and the infinite canvas? for the full touch-control guide.
Improved Client work
Comment threads now reopen from exact URLs
The browser URL now preserves the open Comments panel, thread, and reply so collaborators can return to the same feedback.
Copy the URL from your browser while the feedback is open and share it with someone who has access. Browser Back and Forward also reopen the Comments panel, thread, and reply from each URL in your history. For the full workflow, see How do I comment on a design in Canvas?.
New Vai
About Me helps Vai understand you better
The more you share in About Me, the more Vai can tailor its assistance and recommendations to your work.
Open Vai, then About Me, to review and refine Voice & tone, Systems, Your Set, Signature, and Values & goals. Every plan can review the profile and answer Sharpen it questions; some editable fields require Core or Growth.
The profile combines the details you add with patterns Vai learns from the text, palettes, and designs in your work. Select Update scores to refresh how Vai understands you. For the full workflow, see How do I teach Vai about me?.
New Other
Power-ups make learning Visualist more fun
Work through themed packs to learn Visualist, reveal each poster, and earn bonus AI credits along the way.
Open Power-ups from the left rail and choose a pack. Complete each available action, then select the finished poster piece to reveal it. Each pack introduces a different part of Visualist. For the full walkthrough, see How do I use Power-ups?.
Fixed Client work
Invite returns to Hub designs in Canvas
Open a Hub design’s Canvas tab menu to invite a client or collaborator without leaving the file.
Select Invite from the Canvas tab menu. The shortcut opens Invite others to this file for the current design.
Fixed Billing
AI-credit usage now reflects your spendable balance
Usage now combines the current plan cycle with remaining top-ups, keeping the progress bar and low-balance state accurate.
The usage page now calculates used credits from the current plan cycle and includes remaining top-ups in the spendable total. This changes the display only; allowances, top-up prices, and charging policy stay the same. See How do credits work? for the full credit guide.
Improved Client work
Concierge now has its own workspace page
Concierge now opens from the left rail, with Dashboard and Sessions tabs for creating and reviewing client conversations.
Concierge no longer sits inside the Vai page. Open Concierge from the left rail to start a client conversation from Dashboard, then review responses from Sessions. See What is Concierge? for the full workflow.
Improved Client work
Emails now opens your workspace inbox
Emails now collects account-level inbox, drafts, scheduled sends, sent mail, archive, and trash in one workspace page.
Open Emails from the left rail to work across connected email accounts without choosing a hub first. Hub Message Centers still keep project-scoped threads with the client work they belong to. See How do I use the Emails page? for the full workflow.
Fixed Other
Home now starts new work faster
Home now includes the quick-create button for hubs, folders, notes, designs, palettes, and image uploads.
Use the action button from Home when you want to start work before choosing a project surface. The same creation menu gives you one place for common starting points and uploads.
Improved Client work
The left rail now keeps hubs closer
Pin up to five hubs in the left rail, search the rest from one picker, and keep the active hub visible.
Your most-used hubs can now stay directly in the left rail instead of living behind a separate stop. Pin and unpin hubs from the picker, search overflow hubs in the same place, and keep the hub you are already using in view even when it is not pinned. For setup steps, see How do I pin a Hub to the rail?.
Improved Client work
Action items now sort work by due date
Action items now use due-date tabs, one hub filter, and a `Show closed` switch so you can narrow the list faster.
The page now leads with All, Today, Upcoming, and Overdue, plus sort controls and one In: popover for hub filtering. If you narrow the list to one hub, you stay on the Action items page instead of dropping into that hub’s workspace. For the full workflow, see How do I track action items?.
June 2026
9 updates
Improved Other
Navigation, tooltips, and cards feel steadier
A round of UI polish fixes jitter, spacing, tooltip behavior, and alt text across core workspace surfaces.
This pass smooths out small but repeated friction across the workspace. Navigation feels more stable, tooltips behave more cleanly, file cards have tighter spacing, and image alt text is clearer where it needed cleanup.
Fixed Client work
Shared page audio now renders again
Audio on shared pages renders correctly again, so voice updates play back instead of disappearing.
Shared pages can show audio content correctly again after the rendering fix. If you send a spoken update instead of typing it out, the person opening the page can play it back in place.
Improved Other
Studio is now Canvas
Studio has a new name: Canvas replaces Studio across the app.
The Canvas experience is the same. Canvas is just a clearer name for the design and build editor in Visualist. Older /studio links remain accessible with automatic redirects to /canvas. See What is Canvas? for the current overview.
Fixed Client work
Multiplayer notes now save reliably
Live note edits now reach the shared note reliably, so recent changes stop disappearing during collaboration.
Edits now flush from the live note room to the saved note more reliably. Shared notes stay in sync without the last few changes dropping before they reach everyone else.
Improved Client work
Hubs now support unlimited invited guests
Invited Hub guests are unlimited, so client and collaborator access no longer depends on a seat cap.
Invite clients and collaborators to a Hub without planning around a guest limit. This applies to invited Hub guests, not paid seats across your workspace.
New Client work
Comments now support video notes
Comment threads now support video notes, so updates that are easier to show can stay in the same conversation.
Add a video note directly in a comment thread when text would take longer. Teammates and clients can play it back in the same place as the rest of the conversation.
Improved Other
Google Calendar connections now live in settings
Google Calendar connections now live in settings, with booking availability using that shared connection flow.
Connect or manage Google Calendar from Account settings instead of handling calendar setup only inside booking flows. Booking availability now uses that same connection path.
New Other
Search now finds saved products faster
Saved products are now searchable in your library, so you can find product details faster without manual browsing.
Search results now include saved products from your library. You can open the right product faster instead of scanning saved lists by hand. See How do I search my library? for the full search guide.
New Client work
Notes now update live for everyone
Multiple people can edit the same note at once and stay in sync while they work.
Changes appear in the note as each person types, so shared notes stop turning into duplicate edits or refresh checks. The note stays in one place while the conversation keeps moving. See Can more than one person edit the same note at once? for the full collaboration guide.
May 2026
2 updates
New Moodboards
Studio now turns selected images into a lookbook
Select eligible images in Studio to generate a lookbook collage on a fresh page with layout options.
Start from a multi-select in Studio under Tidy up, then generate a lookbook collage from the eligible images you already chose. The new lookbook opens on a fresh page with layout options for arranging the result. See How do I create a lookbook? for the full workflow.
New Proposals
Notes now preview YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
Notes now render YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok links as previews instead of plain pasted URLs.
Paste a supported social link into a note and Visualist turns it into an in-place preview. Supported platforms in this release are YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.