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Coffee 1.7

14 November 2026 · Mac

New

• Canvas: boards of cards, notes, links and groups with arrows between them, saved in the open JSON Canvas format that Obsidian uses. Arrows can carry labels.
• Query blocks show notes as a table or a board, from their properties.
• Today's note starts with the day's calendar events and the reminders due, and Note > Send Task to Reminders sends a task across.
• Share > Coffee saves a page or some text from Safari, Mail, Notes and other apps, as a new note or a line in your inbox.
• With Coffee on an iPhone or iPad, Use iCloud Drive moves your notes into Coffee's own folder there, shown with Coffee's icon.
• Six app icons to choose from in Settings: Classic, Espresso, Crema, Matcha, Midnight and Paper.
• Big news gets one screen, shown once. Help > What's New brings back the latest.
• A redesigned installer window.
• Links to headings and to other notes open inside Coffee: [[Note#Heading]], [text](#heading) and [text](other.md#part).
• Pictures from the top of the library, written /img/x.png as in Obsidian, and picture sizes: ![alt|300](x.png), ![[x.png|300]] or <img width="300">.
• Format > Bulleted List, Numbered List and Checklist (⌥⌘8, ⌥⌘7 and ⌥⌘9) change a list from one kind to another.
• Tables of any size with /table 3x4, and table columns you can move (⌃⌘← and ⌃⌘→), insert and delete.
• A line with [TOC] shows a live table of contents of the note's headings.
• Code blocks coloured by their language, about 30 of them, including Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, shell, SQL, Go, Rust, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, C, C++, C#, PHP, YAML, TOML, Markdown, diff, Dockerfile, Lua and R. Line numbers in code are a setting.
• Emoji shortcodes: :tada: becomes 🎉, with a list as you type.
• Mermaid gantt charts, class diagrams and state diagrams, drawn natively, besides flowcharts, pie charts and sequence diagrams.
• Chemistry with \ce{} and numbered equations with \tag{}.
• Settings > Sidebar when Coffee opens: as I left it, open or closed.
• In sums, a line starting with an operator carries on from the answer above (+ 20%, × 2), names can have two or three words (hourly rate = $80), and subtotal and grand total add up what's above.
• Loans and interest in sums: $200,000 at 4% for 30 years is the monthly payment, and compound or simple interest shows what it grows to.
• Past exchange rates from the European Central Bank: €100 in USD on 1 Jan 2025.
• Lap times written h:mm:ss, dozen, rem, download time (2 GB at 100 Mbps), fuel economy between mpg and L/100km, and cooking (1 cup flour in grams).
• Work hours between two dates, and workdays that skip public holidays in Portugal, the US, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Brazil.
• Total, average and count by #tag, over lines written Label: amount #tag.
• coffee calc works out sums in Terminal, and AI apps get a calculate tool over MCP.

Improved

• A diagram or formula that can't be drawn says why in a plain hint, with the line number.
• Numbers pasted in the other format, such as 1.234,56, come the note's way.
• In sums, a date without a year means the next one: days until 14 May, or 14 May + 4 days. Days since 25 Dec counts from the last one.
• Importing a Word .doc keeps its headings, bold and italics.
• Spelling no longer underlines the TeX inside a $$ formula.

Fixed

• A canvas changed by another app while it has your changes keeps both versions, and text typed in a card is kept.
• Reminders get their due dates, so overdue ones show and sort.
• The caret on a note's empty last line sits below a chart or query table, even one that loads later.

Coffee 1.1 for iPhone and iPad

14 November 2026 · iPhone and iPad

New

• Your notes are found by themselves, in Coffee's own folder in iCloud Drive. No folder to pick.
• Apple Pencil on iPad: write by hand and Coffee turns it into text, or keep it in the note as a sketch.
• Links to headings and to other notes open inside Coffee: [[Note#Heading]], [text](#heading) and [text](other.md#part).
• Pictures from the top of the library, written /img/x.png as in Obsidian, and picture sizes: ![alt|300](x.png), ![[x.png|300]] or <img width="300">.
• The list buttons above the keyboard change a list between bullets, numbers and tasks.
• Tables of the size you want, from a menu of sizes, and table columns you can move, insert and delete.
• A line with [TOC] shows a live table of contents of the note's headings.
• Code blocks coloured by their language, about 30 of them. Line numbers in code are a setting.
• Emoji shortcodes: :tada: becomes 🎉, with a list in the bar above the keyboard.
• Mermaid gantt charts, class diagrams and state diagrams, drawn natively, besides flowcharts, pie charts and sequence diagrams.
• Chemistry with \ce{} and numbered equations with \tag{}.
• In sums, a line starting with an operator carries on from the answer above, names can have two or three words, and subtotal and grand total add up what's above.
• Loans and interest, past exchange rates from the European Central Bank, lap times, dozen, rem, download time, fuel economy and cooking in sums.
• Work hours between two dates, and workdays that skip public holidays in Portugal, the US, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Brazil.
• Total, average and count by #tag, over lines written Label: amount #tag.
• Calculate with Coffee in Shortcuts.

Improved

• A diagram or formula that can't be drawn says why in a plain hint, with the line number.
• Numbers pasted in the other format, such as 1.234,56, come the note's way.

Coffee 1.0 for iPhone and iPad

November 2026 · iPhone and iPad

New

• Your notes as plain Markdown files in a folder.
• The same notes as on your Mac, through iCloud Drive, with pins and sort order.
• Sums answered beside their line, as on the Mac.
• Links between notes, backlinks and tags.
• Mermaid charts, maths formulas and canvases.
• Import Word, OpenDocument and rich text documents as new notes.
• Ask about a note or all your notes, answered on the device by Apple Intelligence.
• Themes and fonts, and a bar above the keyboard for headings, tasks and photos.
• One purchase unlocks Coffee on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Coffee 1.6

12 November 2026 · Mac

New

• Themes: make your own with a colour for each part of the app, and share it as one line of text.
• Plugins: small JavaScript plugins from a directory Coffee reviews, each off until you turn it on.
• Present as Slides shows a note full screen, a slide at a time.
• Mind Map draws a note's outline as a tree of branches.
• Word goals: a target for a note, and how far along it is.
• Window > Float on Top keeps a note above other apps.
• Export > Image saves the whole note as one tall picture.
• The coffee command works with notes, the Inbox and files from Terminal.

Improved

• Notes can live in Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and other cloud drives, through their own Mac apps.
• Inline maths comes through in PDF, Word, EPUB, HTML and books, and any font installed on your Mac can be chosen. The sidebar opens as you left it.

Coffee 1.5

12 November 2026 · Mac

New

• Inline maths: TeX inside a line is drawn as a formula.
• Nested #tags.
• A graph of how your notes link, around the one you're in or across the library.
• Folders from anywhere, external disks included, join the sidebar, search, links and tags, and stay where they are.
• Sidebar sections fold away.

Coffee 1.4.2

8 November 2026 · Mac

Fixed

• After installing an update, Coffee tries the relaunch again before going back to the old version.

Coffee 1.4.1

8 November 2026 · Mac

Improved

• Version History compares each changed passage word by word, so a small edit reads as a small change.
• Replace in All Notes leaves a gap between the struck-out text and its replacement in the preview.

Coffee 1.4

8 November 2026 · Mac

New

• Folders in the sidebar as a tree, pinned notes, and sorting by date modified, title or date created.
• Replace in All Notes: see every match first, leave any out, and undo the whole replace later.
• Notes can open as tabs of one window, if you choose tabs in Settings.
• A schedule for light and dark at the times you choose.

Improved

• Version History says what changed in each version, versions can be named, and Changes since shows what's new since one.
• Rewrite and Ask show only where Apple Intelligence can run them, with a switch in Settings to hide them.
• VoiceOver reads the names of icon buttons.

Fixed

• When another app or a Git pull changes an open note, both your text and the new text are kept in history.

Coffee 1.3

8 November 2026 · Mac

New

• A command palette built from the menus.
• Maths blocks in TeX and Mermaid flowcharts, pie charts and sequence diagrams, drawn natively and carried into exports.
• GitHub-style callouts and footnotes.
• Import Word, RTF, ODT and DOC documents as new notes, and export to Word and EPUB, including a folder or a tag's notes as one book.
• Tidy Note aligns tables, spaces headings and removes trailing spaces.
• Today's note, coffee:// links and three Services.
• Style Check, a hover preview for linked notes, and search that finds words inside pictures.
• Calculations in words: dates, percentages, rounding, durations like 3h 5m and rates like €40/hour. Select numbers to sum them, or drag a number with Option to try other values.
• AI apps can be limited to chosen folders, and notes hidden from them by tag. Coffee keeps a version before an AI app replaces a note.

Fixed

• Typing stays fast in very long lines, and searches no longer stall on huge notes. Many fixes for freezes, mixed line endings and rare data loss.

Coffee 1.2

6 November 2026 · Mac

Improved

• Currency rates say how old they are once a day old, and are fetched again.
• A last line's answer stays beside its sum.
• HTML, PDF and Quick Look follow table alignment.

Fixed

• Connecting AI apps over MCP, including Cursor.
• HTML export of wrapped lines, nested lists and escapes.
• Notes offloaded by iCloud, and notes renamed outside Coffee, are found.
• Command-click follows a link reliably.

Coffee 1.1

6 November 2026 · Mac

New

• Install and Relaunch: an update downloads, is checked and replaces the app in place, and the old version comes back if the new one doesn't start.

Improved

• Private notes handle their keys, conflict copies and pictures more carefully, and readable pictures are deleted for good when a note is locked.

Coffee 1.0.1

5 November 2026 · Mac

The version this list starts from, with review of what AI apps changed, sums beside each line, instant search, Ask, designed PDFs, version history, private notes, quick capture and connections for AI apps.