Changelog archive

August 2026

New features, improvements, and fixes shipped to Pally this month.

August 14, 2026

New features

  • Every Sunday evening, Pally now sends you a short recap of what shipped in Pally that week. You can pause it anytime.
  • Full auto mode is here: with one clear confirmation, Pally can act for you without asking each time, within spending limits you set. Everything it does on its own shows in a new Activity feed on your dashboard, and you can say "pause full auto" anytime.
  • You can now set standing permissions in plain language, like "coding work never needs approval, but always check before messaging anyone", and Pally follows them everywhere.
  • Pally now has a secure page for handing over API keys and passwords, so you never paste secrets into chat. Keys are checked the moment you provide them, and you can see and revoke them from your dashboard.
  • When Pally builds you a custom pipeline, it can use Pally's own transcription and summarization, so you don't need your own AI accounts.

Improvements

  • Building things with Pally on your Mac asks for permission far less: one project approval covers the work, simple look-only checks always run, and long builds no longer get cut off early.
  • New app integrations are quicker and less fiddly: Pally verifies its approach will work before building and collects everything it needs from you up front in one list.
  • Cloud Mac sign-in is faster: it opens the Apple Account screen directly instead of restoring a stale lock screen.
  • Pally now texts you the moment an important email lands, like a document to sign, a payment problem, or a direct ask from a real person.
  • Alerts arrive once per item, and Pally no longer follows up on its own unless you asked it to keep chasing something.
  • Your morning brief is leaner: no more counts of skipped items, lists of lingering open loops, or housekeeping notes.
  • Pally no longer alerts you about notifications sent by your other AI assistants.
  • Temporary requests like "mute alerts for 24 hours" now expire on time instead of sticking around.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed repeated retry notices about a message that was never actually queued.
  • Several waiting confirmations now arrive as one reminder instead of a string of separate texts.

August 13, 2026

New features

  • You can now book the exact flight you picked in chat: Pally sends a secure checkout that opens on your chosen flight at the live price, then confirms the booking and tracks changes. Cancellations refund straight back to your card.
  • Email signatures are here: manage your Gmail and Outlook signatures from your dashboard, let Pally suggest one from your past sent emails, and new emails Pally sends use them automatically.

Improvements

  • Connected-app status now keeps public read sources available and labels every WhatsApp account clearly, even when an account has no custom name.
  • Outlook signature detection now retries temporary provider failures and never overwrites a signature you save while detection runs.
  • HTML emails keep their formatting while removing internal identifiers and implementation errors before Pally sends them.
  • Booking a flight is smoother and safer: checkout opens with your details pre-filled, times show in each airport's local time, and a booking that fails after payment refunds automatically.
  • Pally can now clear big batches of LinkedIn connection requests in one go, and calmly explains when it spreads actions out to protect your account.
  • Pally stays sharp through AI-provider outages: backup replies keep full quality and work in progress carries over instead of failing.
  • Results from WhatsApp and other connected apps come back complete and readable, so Pally reasons from cleaner information.
  • Pally reports connections more truthfully: Apple Mail and Calendar count correctly, and "connected" reflects live proof, not just saved setup.
  • Calendar reads keep useful event links while bounding huge attendee lists, so one crowded event cannot hide the rest.
  • Coding tasks keep reporting progress through companion app updates, and can use temporary scratch files without asking approval for each one.
  • The exact text you approve is the exact text that sends, never a paraphrase.
  • Verification codes Pally relays keep their context line, and when your Mac is offline Pally always tells you a request is queued.
  • Pally never mistakes its own texts for spam, and its phone-line health monitoring got stronger.
  • Location sharing now runs fully through Pally's new iMessage provider; affected users got a one-time prompt to share again.
  • Emails Pally sends from your Gmail or Outlook now carry a small "Sent with Pally" link, so recipients can discover Pally.

Bug fixes

  • The email signature editor now locks while it saves or removes a signature, so changes made during the request cannot disappear.
  • Fixed a stretched Apple ID field on the dashboard's Apple connection form.
  • Cloud Mac setup is sturdier: sign-in retries recover cleanly without duplicate sessions, hosted Macs stay awake through Apple sign-in, and interrupted restarts resume on the same page.
  • Saying yes to a queued message just works: one confirmation sends it, a simultaneous text can't drop your answer, and a queued send can no longer quietly expire unasked.
  • Coding tasks can finish the whole job: sessions can ask permission to push branches and open pull requests, long sessions no longer hit a silent time limit, and any base branch spelling works.
  • Pally now notices when a coding task is stalled or waiting on your approval and tells you how to continue.
  • Outlook calendar searches match attendee names, and empty results from large reads no longer look like missing data.
  • Outlook calendar reads show the correct recurring events, exact totals for large date ranges, and correct times for events saved with Windows-style timezones.
  • Deleting your Pally account no longer silently blocks signing up again with the same phone number, and deletion removes your name and contact details right away.
  • Backup AI keeps custom automations running during provider outages.
  • Existing iMessage group chats stay connected when Pally moves a phone line to its new messaging provider.
  • Asking Pally to delete your account, unsubscribe, or connect an app now reliably reaches the right action.
  • The same verification code is never relayed twice in a row, and repeating background updates are deduplicated.
  • Stronger filters keep internal notes, placeholders, and system phrasing out of your messages, and offline errors name the right thing.

August 12, 2026

New features

  • Pally now works with Microsoft 365 and Outlook calendars: reading your schedule, briefing your day, prepping meetings, and creating events, just like Google and Apple.
  • You can now stop or redirect a longer errand while it runs: say "stop looking" or "actually only Italian places" and Pally adjusts on the spot.
  • When Pally shows you options like restaurants or hotels, it can include photos.
  • Custom automations can now send photos, files, and tapbacks, and generate images, just like the main chat.
  • In group chats, generated videos and songs can be delivered in the thread or privately to just you.
  • Pally can now send Apple Calendar invites with real invitation emails, and create true all-day events.
  • You can now connect Square: appointments, payments, and customer info, with your confirmation before any change.
  • Coding sessions now live in their own tidy Pally folder on your Mac: each task gets a fresh copy cloned from GitHub, and the first task on a repo asks which branch to build from and remembers.

Improvements

  • Smarter Outlook email alerts: Pally checks the whole thread, including your replies, so it stops nudging about emails you already handled.
  • Longer errands are faster and more communicative: several checks run at once, the best options arrive within minutes, and progress updates and time estimates are honest and specific.
  • Pally is better at finding the right capability for a request, so actions no longer disappear behind a wrong "I can't do that".
  • Connecting Apple is more forgiving: an early-pasted app password is still captured securely, and disconnecting says up front that iCloud mail, calendar, and contacts share one connection.
  • Pally remembers how you want it to talk to you, from style preferences to your language, across tips and background messages too.
  • Send confirmations are now bulletproof: every send carries a receipt from the real send record, shown once with the recipient's real name, so Pally can never claim something went out when it didn't.
  • Merging two contacts now asks you to confirm the exact records first.
  • Pally repeats itself less: connection updates arrive as one message, unanswered check-ins stop repeating identically, and watchers that promise to check less often actually do.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a setup gap where some users never got their morning brief created; once Pally knows your city, your brief starts and saved alerts reach you.
  • Approving a queued message is dependable: no endless re-asking, a quick follow-up text can't drop your yes, the draft is always shown, and waiting messages never quietly time out.
  • Contact records stay clean: no duplicate contacts from partial names, renames that wiped summaries, invented reminders, or facts folded onto the wrong person.
  • Multi-day trips and all-day events show the right end date everywhere, and birthdays show in your own timezone.
  • Briefs finish their own pass and never silently skip a day.
  • Emails can't mention an attachment that isn't attached, and a send from a specific account uses exactly that account or checks with you first.
  • Replies no longer arrive late behind an internal double-check retry, and background errands finish their write-ups reliably.
  • A connected app stuck showing as disconnected after a setup glitch now restores itself.
  • Forwarded verification codes always arrive complete: the code plus what it's for.
  • Fixed Mac disconnect failing at the last step, a rare iCloud hiccup duplicating a calendar event, some phone calls failing to start, and an iMessage bug where an international number without its leading plus sign broke proactive messages.
  • Reminders always produce a message at the promised time, generated images are confirmed delivered, and a misconfigured group chat gets told about instead of silence.

August 11, 2026

New features

  • Pally can now actually read what your coding sessions are saying: ask "what did the review find?" and it quotes the real output, and it alerts you promptly when a session finishes or needs you.
  • You can now pick the AI model for a coding session, and Pally shows which model each session runs.
  • Pally is much better at public research: Reddit, TikTok, Google Maps listings and reviews, Amazon products and prices, plus deeper company and people research.
  • Pally can now read YouTube video transcripts: send a link and ask for a summary.
  • You can now ask Pally to generate AI videos and full songs, approving the exact price first, billed at provider cost with no markup.
  • Pally now picks up your birthday from your conversations in any language and saves it to your profile.

Improvements

  • Every connected app now has a proper disconnect from chat, deleting its kept data and stopping the background helpers that depend on it.
  • Automation feedback is smarter: "stop pulling from Slack" adjusts the automation the way you meant.
  • Morning briefs remember what was recently resolved, so Pally won't chase something it already settled.
  • Proactive alerts always carry the substance of what Pally found, not just a suggested reply.
  • Approval requests spell out exactly who a message is going to before you say yes.
  • Connection status is clearer and more honest, and plan limits and pricing read accurately in your currency.

Bug fixes

  • Connections are steadier: a brief Apple hiccup no longer demands a new app password, silently broken apps get noticed proactively, and half-finished connections complete themselves.
  • Nothing sends without a clear yes to that exact action, and an approved action actually runs instead of expiring or getting lost.
  • Pally checks its own work before claiming something was sent or saved, and failed background work always tells you what happened.
  • Fixed Apple Calendar event updates and deletions, and stopped duplicate events.
  • Messages are cleaner in your language: no internal shorthand, raw codes, untranslated template lines, or stray foreign snippets.
  • Texting STOP after an unprompted message now immediately pauses proactive messages.
  • Proactive updates repeat less: no identical hourly lists, duplicate notices, or surprise pairing codes.
  • Fixed group chats that never replied because of how their chat identity was registered.
  • Coding task status is truthful about lost sessions instead of showing "running" for days.

August 10, 2026

New features

  • Flight booking is back: real bookable options, a secure checkout link, automatic confirmation, and Pally watches for airline changes to your trip.
  • Pally can now use your Mac for you, right from chat: look at the screen, click and type, open apps, and run commands, with you deciding how much runs without asking first.
  • Coding sessions now survive the Mac companion app restarting.
  • You can now connect Granola and X straight from the dashboard's app catalog.

Improvements

  • Pre-meeting briefs are much richer: each person's background, notable writing, press, recent posts, and what you have in common.
  • GitHub coding tasks work with whichever coding agent you use: @codex, @copilot, or any other bot, not only @claude.
  • Questions about a specific link come back quicker, and a smarter web reader gets past more blocked pages to the actual article.
  • Every connected app shows which account it belongs to, and Pally knows each connected email account's address.
  • Connection answers are live: LinkedIn pairing status included, and Apple health checks test your real credentials.
  • Browser errands now open phone-sized pages, so a tab Pally hands you fits your screen and you can actually see and type.
  • Removed the Sunday evening weekly recap message; Pally now only reaches out when there is something genuinely useful to say.
  • Pally paces its LinkedIn activity to protect your account, only reads your own network, and tells you when a rate-limited request is queued and for roughly how long.

Bug fixes

  • Coding sessions only ask before real changes (reading is always safe), and session status is accurate instead of a stale "starting up" or a stuck "running".
  • Fixed a confusing error page that could appear right after successfully connecting an app.
  • Background research reads your connected work apps directly instead of browsing the public site, and notices connections with missing permissions.
  • Fixed tagging Pally in a group showing it typing and then never replying.
  • Older connected accounts now show which account they are instead of a generic name.
  • Pally confirms LinkedIn actually completed a message or connection request before saying it's sent.

August 9, 2026

New features

  • Pally Max users can have Pally act on every new email or message automatically; other plans can do the same on an hourly schedule.
  • Coding sessions gained full lifecycle controls: run Claude Code or Codex, say "let it run" to skip step-by-step approvals, run battery-quiet sessions, cancel or remove sessions with full cleanup, and idle projects tidy themselves up after a heads-up.
  • Pally's background work now has full powers: long tasks finish jobs end to end with the same approval rules, instead of coming back read-only.
  • You can now hand Pally a whole list, like a hundred items to research, and it works through every one as a single long job with a first-example check-in.
  • After you connect your first account, Pally looks you up properly and opens with a friendly "here's what I found out about you".
  • You can now ask Pally to file a bug report: say "report this bug" and Pally records what went wrong for the team and confirms it's filed.

Improvements

  • Pally is much better at long, deep tasks: tight internal step limits are gone, and paid plans have much bigger monthly budgets for background work.
  • When something will take a while, Pally says so once up front, updates you only when something meaningful happens, and messages you when it's done. No filler.
  • Pally is much better at reading your LinkedIn, and it now watches LinkedIn for you: important DMs get flagged, your morning brief covers LinkedIn, and it catches up after your Mac was asleep.
  • Calendar answers are more reliable: leaner reads mean busy weeks and long event lists no longer get cut off.
  • Briefs are sharper: must-send briefs always arrive, they can mention what was filtered out as noise, and Pally checks whether you already handled something before reminding you.
  • When your proactive messages are paused, Pally offers to switch the right ones back on instead of promising alerts that can't fire.
  • Pally learns your name automatically from connected accounts, and asks early if it can't find one.
  • Big results from connected work apps come back clean and complete instead of cut off.
  • When Pally can't attach a finished file to your chat, it texts you the content itself.

Bug fixes

  • Missing Google permissions are caught right when you connect, instead of failing later.
  • Pally reliably finds its own tools for searching connected apps, instead of wrongly saying it can't.
  • Solo calendar events are truly attendee-free, and a Google Meet link is only added when you ask.
  • Pally tells you right away when it can't post to a group chat, and picks the right group when two share a name.
  • Location sharing under an Apple ID email now links up properly, and affected users get a check-in to reconnect it.
  • Receipt-forwarding automations actually forward instead of quietly expiring.
  • Pally digs in and retries before saying something isn't possible, and a retried action you already approved actually runs.
  • Pausing proactive messages covers every kind, stale "first look" recaps stopped, and a glitch that could cut a brief short is fixed.
  • Repeating events on your Apple Calendar show up on the right days.
  • Pally no longer says something was submitted while still working on it, and stopped offering features your plan doesn't include.
  • Scheduled tips got fixes: correct numbering, deferred tips still send, and a draft that would read as an internal note gets rewritten first.
  • Fixed garbled or missing Granola meeting reads, and an iCloud Mail glitch that wrongly called short emails empty.

August 8, 2026

New features

  • Pally now keeps real trackers for you: calories, workouts, medications, sleep, anything you'd use a spreadsheet for, with accurate totals and trends, browsable in your dashboard.
  • Pally can now work with your LinkedIn through your paired Mac: reading DMs, helping with replies, sending after your approval, and finding connections by meaning.
  • Send a PDF into a group chat and Pally can read it for everyone, including scanned documents with no text layer.
  • Pally can now actually unsubscribe you from unwanted emails using the email's own unsubscribe mechanism, with a dashboard page listing every unsubscribe it has done.

Improvements

  • Look-only commands on your Mac just run; anything that changes, sends, or deletes still asks first.
  • Pally is much better at reading PDFs and documents: straight from Google Drive, through shared links, with the full text of long documents.
  • Custom automations now have the same deep Slack and iMessage reading abilities as Pally itself.
  • Starting coding agents is smoother: Pally knows which repos are on your Mac, offers to clone missing ones, and folder access sticks once approved.
  • Pally double-checks before nudging you: it re-reads the conversation, counts voice-note replies as replies, checks inboxes fresh, and accounts for time passed when drafting late replies.
  • Browser errands are more autonomous and honest: sign-in links only when needed, plain explanations when something goes wrong, and no refusing a confirmed checkout over harmless observations.
  • Pally comes back with something useful from your first connected account within minutes, and its first reply just does the thing instead of asking you to connect more first.
  • Onboarding is smarter: tips pick up where you left off in your language, expired links get refreshed proactively, and Pally is upfront that the Mac companion needs only a couple of folder grants, never full disk access.
  • WhatsApp pairing instructions arrive as separate short texts so nothing gets lost.
  • When your feedback on a draft is ambiguous, Pally asks what you meant.

Bug fixes

  • Alerts from a connected account can't silently stop: Pally notices a broken subscription, repairs it, and tells you if it can't.
  • Scheduled recaps deliver the whole update you asked for.
  • Rapid back-to-back texts read as one thought instead of "looks like your message got cut off".
  • Reminders always carry the actual reminder text, never a stub like "done."
  • Secure browser links no longer arrive already dead, and Google sign-in windows keep the keyboard available.
  • A quick "ok" to a tip acts on that tip, and duplicate intros and connect links during your first days are gone.

August 7, 2026

New features

  • You can now personalize your referral link with a custom code; old links keep working.
  • Ask Pally to refer a specific friend: it drafts a personal intro you approve and sends it from your own accounts, then closes the loop when they join.
  • Pally can now work with your Apple Notes: grant its Mac companion just your Notes folder and you can search, ask about, create, and edit notes right from chat.

Improvements

  • When something on Pally's side keeps failing, you hear about it each time you're affected, not once followed by silence.
  • Pally is much less pushy about setup: no suggesting apps you've said no to, and connections only come up when actually needed.
  • Browser sign-ins now persist across tasks, and shopping, tickets, and reservations get all the way to the final review step far more reliably, keeping their place through follow-ups like "actually make it two tickets".
  • Pally always knows the full extent of what it can do: "can you...?" checks its real, live ability list.
  • Hitting your monthly usage limit no longer cuts you off from chatting; Pally can explain what's paused and help you upgrade.
  • Background work now runs on the same top-tier intelligence as live chat, and genuinely hard asks get deeper reasoning.
  • Better recall in long conversations, and short follow-ups like "yes, book it" connect to what you were just discussing.
  • Pally is more concise and faster: straight answers first, less waiting, and huge or stuck lookups no longer drag the whole reply.
  • When you text something from your email, like a sign-in code, Pally sends just the answer without tacking on links.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that made Pally go completely silent for some Max users.
  • Messages sent while your plan was fully paused now get answered when reduced service kicks in.
  • Mac companion setup always includes the correct download link, and Pally double-checks its own links before texting them.
  • "Checking now, back in a sec" is always followed by an actual check.
  • A quick "yeah" can no longer approve an older queued message by mistake; approvals stick to what you're actually replying to.
  • Location reminders say up front when Share My Location isn't set up, and start working the moment it is.
  • Fixed browser tasks breaking entirely after a staged purchase expired unconfirmed.
  • Quick reminders are precise: scheduled from the moment you asked, with mistakes caught before confirming.
  • Pally can tell you exactly which automations count toward your limit, "try again" retries the thing you just asked about, and a stray "---" divider glitch is cleaned up.

August 6, 2026

New features

  • Pally now shares its contact card automatically with its first message.
  • Pally can now run coding agents on your Mac: start Claude Code or Codex on separate copies of a project from chat, steer mid-run, and get pinged only when a session finishes, fails, or needs you. Risky commands ask first; sessions survive restarts.
  • Pally in group chats now has the full toolkit: it can use your own connected apps on your own plan, with private answers to your DM and approvals still yours.
  • Group chats got more personal: Pally can use your location for your own asks sharing only a general area, deliver sensitive files privately to your DM, and keep a real memory of the group's decisions and plans.
  • Friends can join Pally right from a group chat with the usual referral perks, and anyone in a group can schedule personal updates posted into it.
  • Pally can now send real photos: pictures of a restaurant or product arrive as actual photos, and recommendations come with a couple of photos for a feel.
  • Verification code emails have a fast lane: a 2FA or sign-in code gets texted to you the moment it lands.
  • Your morning brief now tracks the few most important open loops for you, with a quick way to drop any.
  • Pally now knows when its messaging provider has an outage and can warn you about delays.

Improvements

  • Onboarding tips are friendlier and hands-on: each leads with Pally doing the thing for you.
  • Updates in your own exact format keep your emojis and layout, and arrive as one message when you asked for one.
  • Approval requests show what and to whom first, with "good to send?" at the end, and dictated exact messages send without re-confirming.
  • When you tell Pally it missed an important email, it learns what mattered so the same kind gets surfaced next time.
  • Plans with friends that still need a confirmation are a top priority over routine email noise.
  • When you travel, briefs, reminders, and "tonight" follow the timezone you're actually in.
  • Pally is quicker to say it's on it, and typing dots show only while it's actually writing.
  • Group chats: Pally chimes in whenever a message says its name, and a simple "yes please" confirms an automation change.
  • Pally checks your calendar, email, and files before asking you for details it can look up, and tells you straight away if your Mac goes offline while auto-replying for you.
  • Ask about your LinkedIn network and Pally offers a real way to help via your connections export.
  • Interrupted browser errands now pick up where they left off instead of starting over.

Bug fixes

  • Pally's contact card always carries the exact number your chat is on.
  • Pally keeps track of WhatsApp and iMessage chats with similar names, remembering exactly which ones it offered.
  • A cancelled-for-reschedule meeting gets a heads-up, not an unnecessary "happy to reschedule" draft.
  • Finished background work always reaches your chat, with compiled documents as file attachments.
  • Usage limits reset fairly when a trial ends or your plan changes.
  • Fixed a jam that could run meeting prep, check-ins, and automations up to 45 minutes late.
  • Group memories save reliably, and messages you asked Pally to send either go out or you're told.
  • No more duplicate alerts when one email hits two inboxes, dropped texts, or vanished reminders.
  • Auto-send contacts no longer stop to ask permission, and automations watching a specific email account fire reliably.
  • Pally no longer mentions a suspicious "injection attempt" that never existed.
  • Texts from your Mac use the contact's existing service (iMessage, RCS, or SMS) instead of always trying iMessage.
  • Saying goodbye registers everywhere, so you stop getting active-user attention.

August 5, 2026

New features

  • Pally can now read PDF attachments and extract the exact text from screenshots and photos, word for word.
  • Pally can now create images in group chats, send files there, and react with tapbacks.
  • You can now connect Zoom for scheduling, updating, and cancelling meetings.
  • Superhuman users get first-class support, including extras on Business and Enterprise plans.
  • Alerts and briefs now come with the work already done: a ready-to-approve draft or a concrete proposed time when someone's waiting on you, across email, WhatsApp, iMessage, and Slack.
  • Pally keeps a precise log of every action it takes: ask "did you send that email?" and get a straight answer, including an honest "that wasn't me".

Improvements

  • Asking Pally to stop really stops everything, with confirmation of what paused and one message to bring it back, plus a dashboard toggle for scheduled briefs.
  • You can now text with Pally from Android phones: RCS and SMS as well as iMessage.
  • The monthly caps on web research and browser tasks are gone on every plan.
  • Web research is faster and more powerful, with stronger citations, and Pally can read many sites that used to block it.
  • Email search on personal Hotmail and Outlook accounts digs much deeper and says how far back it looked.
  • Codes you need to copy always arrive as their own message, and a stalled background job tells you instead of going quiet.
  • When the same thing keeps needing attention, Pally suggests a lasting fix like a standing rule or unsubscribe.
  • If a request needs a higher plan, Pally does the closest included version right away.
  • Pally's tone is warmer and more personal, and it learns your tastes before booking or buying, asking once and remembering.
  • Alert volume is smarter: it weighs how often it has already interrupted you, routes lower-priority items to your daily brief, and treats "quiet down" as a signal about all alerts.
  • Calls pick up where your texts left off, and call summaries plainly say when an in-call request didn't go through.
  • Pre-meeting briefs are sharper and cover same-day meetings too.
  • Reminders and calendar saves retry through provider hiccups, and Pally replies a few seconds sooner to short questions.

Bug fixes

  • Pally reliably sends the heads-up it owes you when a connection breaks.
  • Fixed stray internal words like "skip" occasionally being texted to you.
  • Pally always answers a friendly new message even if an earlier one tried to trick it into silence.
  • Promises tied to connecting an app are followed through automatically once you connect.
  • Custom daily summaries can read your Apple Calendar, and connection answers are accurate.
  • "Ignore messages from them" now sticks as a lasting preference.
  • If a message from Pally fails to deliver, it notices, catches you up, and re-sends the exact same draft.

August 4, 2026

New features

  • New users get a short daily onboarding tip during their first days, each a concrete idea worth trying; existing users get the series once too.

Improvements

  • Email and Slack watching is more dependable: subscriptions are verified at connect and re-checked afterward, so alerts can't silently stop.
  • Important-email alerts cover all your connected accounts, judge each email the moment it arrives instead of on a delay, and use Pally's own judgment instead of rigid keyword filters.
  • Pally is better at understanding requests phrased your own way: connecting apps, current-info lookups, and dashboard asks rely on judgment, not keyword matching.
  • Connected custom tools are much more reliable: inputs get checked against the tool's own rules first, and rejected steps get fixed instead of blindly retried.
  • Pally is faster and smarter at finding files on your Mac, and more reliable at reading email, Slack, and calendar on the first try.
  • Moving in from another assistant is smarter: only skills Pally can actually run come over, and dated notes are read with their date in mind.
  • Reminders you've already handled won't fire anyway, and read-only tool steps stop asking approval at every step.
  • More honest error messages, and notices about referral credits and call usage read like the rest of your conversation.
  • Background work is more dependable during busy stretches, and carrier "message blocked" responses get useful next steps.
  • Message alerts catch last-minute changes to today's plans without interrupting for routine chatter.
  • Connecting WhatsApp is smoother: expired codes get replaced right away, the code arrives in its own easy-to-copy message, and the security notice is explained up front.
  • "Stop texting me for now" pauses everything non-essential, and non-urgent updates wait until morning.
  • You can move an approved scheduled message to a different time, including "just send it now".
  • Calendar events got more capable: other calendars, repeating events, and reminders, with Meet links only on request.
  • Honest calling answers: US-only calling stated up front, and you can test-call Pally anytime.
  • Ask for a shared list or export and Pally offers a real shared Google Doc, Sheet, or Notion page it keeps updated.
  • Pally won't lecture you about messages to your own friends, and tells you the real reason when a send isn't possible.
  • Ask whether an automation actually ran and the answer comes from its real run history.

Bug fixes

  • Pally no longer replies to carrier auto-messages, so a blocked number can't trigger an endless loop.
  • Failed texts get retried automatically and only while still fresh, and Pally is truthful about which channel a message actually went through.
  • Late-night "remind me tomorrow" requests get the exact date read back.
  • Fixed an email alert that could text you a stray internal note like "not worth surfacing".
  • First replies to brand-new users deliver reliably, and a failed first welcome gets a friendly next-day check-in.
  • A garbled or unclear go-ahead gets a clarifying question instead of a send you didn't mean.
  • Telling Pally to back off actually switches off nudges everywhere, and dismissing one message won't silence future alerts from that person.
  • Fixed a Google connection trap where a missed permission checkbox looked fine and failed later.
  • Pally no longer notifies you about its own messages, briefs respect their scheduled time, and you won't get two morning briefs.
  • WhatsApp contact syncing survives partial failures without duplicating conversations.
  • Free reservation requests can be approved like any other action, and editing one detail of a calendar event no longer touches the rest.
  • Cleaner messages: no stray "*" bubbles or garbled dashes, and system notices arrive in your conversation's language.

August 3, 2026

New features

  • Ask Pally why an alert didn't text you and it checks its own monitoring history for a real answer.
  • You can now connect Fathom, so Pally can look through your meeting recordings and summaries.
  • During your first days, Pally occasionally suggests one thing worth trying based on what it's learned about you.

Improvements

  • Approving a draft is much simpler: "sounds good" or a thumbs up just works, and repeated approvals can't double-send.
  • Pally's first message gives you a quick sense of what it can actually do.
  • Dashboard connections land you back on your integrations page, and browser-powered website checks run faster.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a rare crash that could make Pally go silent on a request, especially with shopping links in the reply.
  • All-day calendar events save as true all-day entries.
  • Fixed a bug where Pally could send two replies to the same message.

August 2, 2026

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a WhatsApp bug where sending to a brand-new contact could fail right after connecting, and unreachable numbers get a clear explanation.

August 1, 2026

New features

  • The pally.com website has a new Recipes section: ready-made routines you can start with one text, at pally.com/recipes.
  • You can now give Pally one-time access to your whole home folder during Mac setup, and sign out of all devices at once from the dashboard.

Improvements

  • Pally's texting now runs on a new, more reliable iMessage backbone for new conversations, with Android (RCS/SMS) on the way.
  • Dashboard sign-in is much less annoying: you stay signed in while active and land back where you were.
  • Clearer Mac guidance: what to do when the folder-access window can't show, and when the companion app needs an update.
  • Pally has much more room to finish long answers without being cut off, and the dashboard navigation got a cleanup.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed Mac folder-access requests always failing without showing the Grant Access window, and terminal commands failing in home folders.
  • Calendar invites for meetings with someone now actually invite them, instead of quietly creating a solo event.
  • Fixed Slack alert automations stuck retrying under rate limits, WhatsApp contact syncing silently stopping, and a must-send update finishing without sending.
  • Revising a draft no longer risks a confirmation loop, and near-duplicate task updates save properly.