GlirOS 0.1.81
Remove background on one file, and a first choice for how
Web version
- Easier with the keyboard and a screen reader: a "Skip to the message box" link first, Tab stays inside Settings and dialogs (Escape closes them and goes back), the model menu moves with the arrow keys, and a screen reader reads an answer once it is written, not word by word. A dialog asked for twice shows once, and the media tools' download shows one progress note.
- The GlirOS Helper no longer runs out of memory on longer questions (for example a question about GlirOS itself, which brings the help pages along). It downloads its model once more. If a model in the browser still runs short of memory, GlirOS tries again with less and says so in plain words.
- Remove background in the web version: "Fast — for people" now runs in your browser, so a person can be cut out of a picture or a clip without a green screen. A picture comes back as a PNG with a see-through background; a clip is put on a colour, Blur or a screen as an MP4. Nothing is uploaded. A see-through video, "Best — any subject" and Corridor Key stay in the desktop app.
- More by keyboard: on Media Studio's timeline a clip moves earlier or later with Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ (or Earlier and Later in its part), and a screen reader hears its place. The welcome says each step to a screen reader, and its language choice works with the arrow keys. Choices in Settings that look like a row of buttons are one Tab stop and change with the arrow keys too.
- Media gallery: export pictures and videos into the chat (whole files in the web version) or save copies into a folder you pick; select several files and send them to Media Studio's timeline in order, each trimmed to the part you marked; and gather files from any of your folders into groups, with sub-folders shown as a tree. Your original files are never changed.
- Tasks: "Due soon" at the top of the Tasks view lists what is overdue or due within a week, soonest first, from this chat and, under its own heading, from your other chats (a click on a chat's name opens it). Tick them right there; each stays in its own list.
- My PC: the model button shows whether your PC can be reached: a grey dot and "offline" when it is off or asleep, green again as soon as it answers.
- Settings > Remote access shows which GlirOS account this browser is signed in to, with Sign out, or Sign in when it isn't.
- Media Studio's Looks: the Looks menu in Adjust (One file and a clip on the timeline) has 26 looks with a small preview of each: the ten colour looks, Film (Old film, Cinematic, Dreamy, Grain…), Print & art (Newspaper, Sketch, Pixel art…) and Fun (Heatwave, Thermal, Negative, Mirror, VHS). A look sets the colour and opens the effects it uses as their own panels under Adjust, so you can change any of it; Reset puts the look back, and Save as mine keeps your own. Or say it in the chat: "make it look like an old film".
- Import chats from Claude and Gemini too: Settings > Chat history > Import chats takes Claude's export (Settings > Privacy > Export data) and Gemini's Google Takeout (My Activity, Gemini Apps, as JSON) beside ChatGPT's. The file is read on your device only; importing it again adds nothing.
- Workspaces in Media Studio's timeline: the Workspace menu (top right) has Edit, Colour, Key, Sound, Text and Export (keys 1–6) and your own (Save, Update, Manage). A workspace keeps which panels stay in view, never a clip's values: in Colour, Colour and Looks stay for every clip you choose, quiet with "+ Apply to this clip" where they aren't on it yet. Each chat remembers its workspace.
- On the timeline, Ctrl+click (or Shift+click) more clips to change them together: a slider, Remove or a look goes to all of them. Copy parts / Paste parts (top of the side) put one clip's Colour, Looks, Crop and Key on others. Drag a panel's header (or Alt+↑/↓) to reorder, and P pins.
- Media Studio's timeline: a chosen clip or layer shows its name once with what is on it ("On this clip: Colour · Looks", each with × to take it off), its settings, and each part as a panel you can fold, reset to neutral, remove or hide. Hiding a panel never takes the part off. A rail of parts on the side (Colour, Looks, Crop, Key) adds a part with one tap, shows a dot when it is on the clip, and brings a hidden panel back.
- Looks on the timeline's layers too (a logo or a picture-in-picture: its own colour and look, its see-through parts kept), and a look asked for in the chat ("make it look like an old film") goes on the timeline's chosen clip or layer when the timeline is open.
- The welcome screen's suggestions fit the model you use: short, clear asks for a small model (five tips for better sleep, an explanation in three sentences, a short email), what to see on a day trip to Lillehammer for a middle-sized one, and the full Lofoten trip plan only for a big model or a cloud model.
- Media Studio's panels: the eye now only ever means "seen in the preview". On the timeline a panel is hidden with a tap on its lit part in the rail (or P), in Edit too, and the part stays. One file's parts are panels like the timeline's: fold, the name with its preview eye, and the bin to remove. Sliders keep their value on the same line, Colour starts with the Clip panel folded, and the top button says Remove clip or Remove layer.
- Media Studio: One file's colour part is now called Colour, the same word as on the timeline. The chosen clip's name keeps its room beside Remove clip, and One file's buttons at the bottom no longer squeeze their words onto two lines.
- Media Studio's One file now has the timeline's side: "On this file" with a chip per part, the parts as panels, and the rail on the outer edge (Look · Shape and time · AI · Out; a part this file can't take is greyed and says why). The Workspace menu is on One file's bar too, with the same six workspaces, keys 1–6 and your own, shared with the timeline: Colour pins Colour and Looks, with "+ Add to this file".
- Research reports: a long section folds after its first paragraph (printing opens it), a citation shows its source on hover, focus or a tap, and a Figures tab in the appendix lists every chart, map and set of steps. In the browser, Export's zip has no PDF: Save as PDF makes it. The plan has a question for each part of what you asked (Covers: shows which), adds no year you didn't give, and the Summary says what was partly found. A page that never names the subject is left out; Links lists every page read and why.
- Replace text has Translate beside the new words: it fills them with the found text in this app's language, translated by the chat's model (a cloud model asks first; only the text is sent, not the picture). You can change it before you replace.
- Follow the person in the web version too: a crop to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5 keeps the main person in the picture as they move (Crop in One file or on a timeline clip, or "crop to 9:16 and follow the person" in the chat). The small face finder comes with the web version and runs in your browser: nothing is sent anywhere.
- Research reports can show a picture from a source: only when the source's own page shows a free licence for it (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA), with its full credit, and saved with the report, so opening it later loads nothing from the site. Any other source picture is shown as a card that links to the page, with no picture. A page too long for the model is read again with less of it, and a second report of the same day and title gets its own folder. A chart of years is left out.
- Models in your browser get a lighter prompt: the tools are named, and only the calls of the tools a message is about go with it, so the right tool comes first far more often. Under each answer, How this answer was made shows what the model read, part by part.
- Fixed: the globe (web search) pressed in a new chat before its first message was lost; that message now searches the web, and the globe stays on for the chat.
- Skills: small functions the chat fetches the first time a question needs one, for exact answers a model gets wrong. The first: Exact maths, Calendar maths (working days, holidays, sun and moon), the Cube solver, Text and lines (counts, sorting, compare) and Everyday calculators (loans, savings, BMI; not advice). The chat asks first: "Fetch the Exact maths skill from tools.gliros.com? Nothing about your question is sent." The answer shows "Worked out by the … skill". Settings > Tools lists the skills fetched, with Remove; the web version keeps them in this browser.
- One file: Looks has a panel of its own beside Colour (as on the timeline), a greyed part says why ("A picture has no sound."), the side scrolls on its own in full screen, and the preview's background is no longer black.
- Settings > Pictures > Advanced: Ask before sending now says which companies you have said yes to (Ask again is greyed when there are none), and refreshing the picture model list has its own row that says what it does.
- Cloud models: Claude now reuses the unchanged start of each request from Anthropic's cache (much cheaper on long chats); a message a switched-on tool answers ("convert 5 miles to km", "how many days to Christmas Eve") is no longer also searched on the web; and "17.5 % of 2 348.60" is read with its space between thousands.
- When a switched-on tool should answer but doesn't (the model doesn't call it, the call fails or finds nothing), GlirOS searches the web after all and the model answers again from the results, with the sources under it. A small model's answer that says it's only a simplified version gets a bigger model offered under it.
- Code: a long code block has its buttons (preview, side panel, copy) at its end too, and in the side panel's list of files one click on a file opens it and shows its versions.
- A cloud model can now take up to 8 tool steps in one answer (a model on this device still 3). When the limit stops a call, a line under the answer says so: say "go on" to let it continue.
- How this answer was made > What the model read: the tools a cloud model can call (sent as functions) have a line of their own, so the other lines show their real size.
- Fixed: in the side panel, One file's View menu opened off the screen; it now opens just under the View button.
- Media gallery: Make a slideshow on a group's header or the Select bar puts its pictures and clips in the chat with the slideshow card (pace, your music, the title from the group's name, the shape), then Make it.
- Skills: Everyday calculators work out a pregnancy's due date, its weeks and trimester; general information, not medical advice, and its calls aren't written to the chat log.
- The cloud token limit for one answer counts tokens the company reads from its cache at a tenth, as they cost.
- Media gallery: Send to > The chat puts a picture or clip into the message you are writing, so the model can look at it, and from there One file can pick it.
- Media gallery: Send to Media Studio with one file opens it in One file — a picture stays a picture — while several files or a part go to the timeline as before.
- Asking about the picture in the side panel ("can you see the picture in the side panel?") gives the model what the open Media gallery shows, the file open in it included.
- The calendar answers "is it Halloween today?" and a short follow-up like "is it today?" after "when is Halloween?", and gives its answer to the model as the one to use.
- With the Calendar & seasons tool switched on, a question about a day ("when is Easter?", "is it Halloween today?") now gets the calendar's answer from the same rules too, instead of waiting for the model to call the tool.
- Special days: the chat knows every day of the calendar's rules that falls today, the world's too (Women's Day, St Patrick's Day, Halloween…), and mentions it once with a short greeting where it fits.
- The calculator no longer works out a range, a score or a fraction in an ordinary request ("plan a 3-4 day trip", "the meeting is 2-3pm", "1/2 cup sugar"). It runs by itself when you ask for a sum ("what is…", "regn ut…") or the message is mostly the sum, and "1500 kr pluss 25 % mva" is worked out.
- Everyday requests run by GlirOS itself, even with a small model: "remember to bring out the garbage every thursday" (it asks what time), "every morning at 7 tell me the weather", "will it rain tomorrow in Bergen?", "what is 5 feet 10 in cm?", "the exchange rate for pounds today", "pick one of pizza, taco or sushi", "how many words are in this text: …".
- My PC on a signed-out GlirOS account: your PC's models stay in the list, greyed with "sign in to use", and Sign out takes them off this browser.
- The first time you add a key, GlirOS asks "Is this your own computer?": on a shared or public one the key is kept only until you close the tab. Settings > Security has Forget this browser (keys, chats and settings gone; downloaded models stay).
- Opening GlirOS no longer asks Hugging Face for model sizes; the sizes come with GlirOS, and Hugging Face is contacted only when you download a model.
- My calendar answers "what do I have on Friday?", "what's on my calendar next week?" and "am I free on Thursday afternoon?" by itself, even with a small model. Adding and moving appointments still goes through the model, which asks you first.
- With many tools switched on, a cloud model now gets only the tools the message is about (and the one open in the side panel), not all of them: each request is much smaller and cheaper. Connectors keep their own limit.
- Reminders from plain words: "remember to bring out the garbage every Thursday" asks what time and sets it; "change the garbage reminder to 19:00" moves it, and each reminder in Timers has a ✎ to change its time, repeat or text. My calendar now shows your reminders on their days (🔔) and names them when you ask "what do I have on Thursday?".
- When the model offers to do something ("Would you like me to read the file?") and you say yes, GlirOS tells it to do it now with the tool, never from memory. The Everyday calculators skill is found for questions like "when is the baby due if the last period started 1 March?".
- Safer model downloads in the browser: every model is fetched at a fixed version, so a model's files can't be swapped later. A model you already downloaded is fetched once more the next time you use it.
- Reminders in plain words, answered in the language you wrote in: "remind me to call mom every day at five" gets "Reminder set …" even with another language chosen. When GlirOS asks what time and you answer "18", it sets the reminder and says so itself. A task for later, like "give me a recap of the news every day at two o'clock", isn't searched on the web now; the search runs when the task does.
- The note to check official sources for tax and money questions no longer appears under ordinary Norwegian messages ("dette" means "this", not debt), or under questions about a nav bar or the benefits of something.
- Skills: a question that names a calculator ("my BMI at …", "a loan of …") gets that calculator, a power written in words ("2 to the power of 100") gets Exact maths, and a calculator's caution line is under its card. With the globe on, a question a switched-on tool answers ("5 miles in km") is answered by the tool, not searched as well; asking to search still searches. A message in another language than the one before is answered in its own language, even with only a word or two that tell; and when a tool GlirOS ran answers, a model on your device answers with its result.
- Skills: a question a skill works out ("15 % of the working days left this year") isn't searched on the web by itself; How this answer was made names the skills that came with the message; and when Block all is on or the chat is offline, a line says why a skill that isn't on the device wasn't fetched. A due date, BMI or loan in your question is worked out by GlirOS itself for every model on this device, and a refused try isn't shown as a card. Skills you have are ready right after a restart.
- Web search: with the globe on, a question is searched even when a tool or skill shares a word with it (only a tool GlirOS runs itself, like a unit conversion, goes first); a small model's own web search is run by GlirOS, with Sources; Gemma's raw call marks no longer show; the search's line is in your language; How this answer was made names the tools that came with the message; and one Open button per tool.
- Remove background and Replace text: a pale sky or sea is no longer taken for a blue screen, and "with AI" in the message always means AI; the green-screen card says which question is still open, suggests plain black behind, and shows no stray words; "replace the text STOP with GLIROS" works on a clip added to the chat, finds text on a sign over a busy background, and keeps the sign's board; Media Studio's plan line and the slideshow card speak your language. A clip attached with "replace the text …" is the one used, and a sign in capitals is translated as a sentence.
- When a small model's own call to a tool GlirOS already ran fails ("how many km is 26.2 miles?"), the model gets GlirOS's result to answer with; a place it looks up keeps your town ("Karl Johanns gate 22, Oslo"); a stray "[/Web results]" no longer shows; How this answer was made and the buttons under tool calls use the tools' names ("Open Map"); and a question with no numbers only brings a skill when it uses that skill's own words.
- Slideshows: a tall (9:16) or square slideshow fills the frame and keeps what stands out in each picture; clips and pictures keep the order you picked; the plan line names the shape; "make the pictures 5 seconds" changes the slideshow on the timeline, which keeps each picture's name; "all these" with files attached takes them and the chat's earlier ones; a slideshow GlirOS made isn't counted as a clip; and a message that can't take all your pictures (8 at a time) says how many were left out.
- A music file sent with pictures isn't written down by itself; Stop before anything was sent puts your message back in the box and says so; a later round of an answer starts a new paragraph; and Cube solver 1.0.2: "solve this Rubik's cube scramble: R U R' …" is solved by GlirOS itself, also with a small model, from the moves in your message and checked; a model that calls it with the scramble gets the solution (Everyday calculators 1.0.6 also takes a model's own values first); a new scramble is never shown as a solution.
- Media Studio's Looks: a look's slider keeps focus, so the arrow keys move it step by step, and the side stays where it was scrolled (in One file and on the timeline); the look list opens fully in view when its section sits low; and Escape on the list closes the list without making Media Studio smaller. Workspaces: moving a slider with several clips chosen changes only that value on the others; Alt+↓ works right after a fold, Ctrl+Z right after a chip's ×. A workspace just saved is ticked in the menu.