What’s new

Approve and Deny come first. When you connect an app such as Claude to your Foveate account, the Approve and Deny buttons now sit at the top of the screen, right under the app's name. What the app may do, where you'll return afterwards and the account you're signed in as follow beneath them, instead of pushing the buttons below a long list of permissions.

Design a slide, not just fill one. Claude can now place text, pictures, shapes, lines and drawn marks exactly where they belong on a slide, the way you would in the editor. Ask for a page of photos in a grid, two large images side by side, a full-bleed picture with a caption over it, or a dense two-column page of text, and Claude builds it as an ordinary slide you can keep editing.

Typography, set precisely. For every piece of text Claude can choose the font (any Google Font), size, weight, line spacing, letter spacing, all caps or small caps, alignment and color.

Edit anything on a slide. Beyond rewriting text, Claude can move, resize, rotate and restack anything on a slide, swap or reframe a picture, recolor shapes and lines, lock or remove things, and add new ones. Anything you've locked stays as it is unless you ask Claude to unlock it.

Add, reorder and remove slides. Claude can add a slide (blank, a copy of another slide, or one of Foveate's layouts), move slides into a new order, and delete a slide when you ask.

Headers, footers and page numbers. Claude can give a deck a header or footer that repeats on every slide, such as a thin rule, your studio's name and the page number, and leave it off the cover.

Deck colors and fonts that stick. Colors and fonts Claude sets for a deck now show on its slides.

Inter on shared decks. Text set in Inter now shows in Inter when you share a deck by link.

Developers can do all of this through the Foveate API.

Switch accounts without signing out. The account menu now has Add another account. Sign in to a second Foveate account with your email and password or with Google, and you stay signed in to both. Your other accounts are listed under your name in the account menu, each with its photo or initials. Choose one to switch to it, and you land on its home page. You can stay signed in to up to five accounts.

Every tab switches with you. Switching accounts switches every Foveate tab in the browser, and the other tabs reload as the account you switched to.

Sign out of one account, or all of them. When you're signed in to more than one account, Sign Out signs out of the account you're using and switches you to the one you used before it. Sign out of all accounts signs out of every one.

Drafts stay with their account. What this browser keeps for you, like an unfinished Generate Deck draft or your Generate Media history, stays with the account it belongs to. Switching away puts it aside, switching back brings it back, and signing out of an account clears it.

Allow duplicating. A new switch in the Share window, under Advanced Settings, lets anyone with your deck's public link make their own editable copy of it in their Foveate workspace. It is off for every deck until you turn it on, and only the deck's owner can change it. The window notes that copies include hidden slides and full-size images.

Duplicate to your workspace. When the switch is on, people viewing your shared deck see a Duplicate to your workspace button in the bar at the bottom of the deck (on a phone, a copy icon), both before they press Start and while they are viewing it. One click makes the copy and opens it, ready to edit, with its slides, layouts, theme, fonts, images and videos. Your comments, viewer activity, people you invited, password, expiry and other sharing settings never come along. You and your team don't see the button, since you can already duplicate the deck from the editor.

A free copy for people without an account. Someone who isn't signed in sees Use this template instead. It takes them to create a free Foveate account and then straight back to your deck, where their copy is made for them. Links that point at a deck's copy action work the same way: signed in, the copy is made right away; signed out, the visitor is asked to sign up or sign in first and their copy is made when they return.

Your link's rules still apply. A password-protected deck can only be copied after the access code has been entered, and an expired link can't be copied at all.

See who copied your deck. You get a notification when someone duplicates your deck, under the Share Link Activity setting, and the Share window shows how many times the deck has been duplicated.

Sign-up and sign-in take you back. Signing up or signing in from a link like this now returns you to where you were, instead of to your home page.

Claude is on the Connectors page. Settings → Connectors now has a Claude card under AI assistants. Choose Connect and it gives you Foveate's address and the three steps: add it as a custom connector in Claude, then approve what Claude may do when it sends you back. The card then shows Connected, with when you connected and when Claude last used it, and a link to the permissions you approved. Disconnect takes Claude's access away on its next request; the decks and files it already made stay in your account.

The page describes itself accurately. Its intro used to say nothing flows back from the tools you connect, which is true of your drive and your CRM but not of Claude, so it now says so.

Connectors, from the account menu. Your account menu now has a Connectors item, right under Settings. It takes you straight to Settings → Connectors, the page for the apps you link to Foveate.

The account menu fits your window. On a short window, or with several accounts listed, the account menu now scrolls, so Sign Out is always within reach.

One menu at a time. Opening the notifications closes your account menu, and opening the account menu closes the notifications, so the two no longer stack on top of each other.

Saved views from two people are both kept. When you and a teammate each save a view of the same 3D model in a deck, both views stay, even if you save them at the same moment. A view one of you deletes stays deleted. A view a teammate saves while your new view's picture is still uploading is no longer lost when that upload finishes, and teammates see each view's picture once it has uploaded.

Play and Pause keep your deck saving. Pressing Play on a 3D model's saved views used to stop the deck from saving anything you did afterwards, so teammates stopped seeing your changes. Play and Pause now work, and everything you do after them saves as usual.

A clear notice when changes aren't saving. If your changes can't be saved, for example because you're offline, you no longer have permission to edit, or the deck has grown too big, a notice now says so and why, with a Retry button. The top of the editor reads Not saved instead of Saving… until your changes save again. A brief hiccup that the next try fixes shows nothing.

A heads-up before a deck gets too big. When a deck gets close to the most a single deck can hold, a notice tells you once, rather than on every save, and says what is taking up most of the space, so you can make room before changes stop saving.

Dropped files appear for teammates when they're ready. When you drop or paste an image, video or 3D model onto a slide, teammates now see it once it has finished uploading, instead of an empty frame in the meantime. You can still move it while it uploads. If you close the tab before it finishes, nothing is left behind, and if an upload fails, its placeholder is removed and you're told.

Splat files open in the splat viewer. A .ply or .spz file dropped onto a slide, or swapped in with Change model, now opens in the splat viewer, in the editor, when presenting and on share links. 3D widgets added this way before now open correctly too.

Embed links apply when you've finished typing. A link typed or pasted into an embed's link field now takes effect when you press Enter or click away, instead of reloading the embed with every keystroke, for you and for teammates. Esc puts the previous link back.

Viewing without edit access stays quiet. In a deck you can only view, an embedded Foveate file loading its preview no longer shows Saving… or asks you to confirm before you leave the page. A 3D model's Play button works for you without changing the deck, and saving views is left to people who can edit.

Add a document you found online. After Deep Research, every brief now ends with a next step called Add a document. Paste a link to the RFP, or pick one of the brief's sources. A link to a document (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or text) is added straight away. A link to a notice page lists the documents that page links to, with the ones named like an RFP, addendum or scope already ticked. You can also keep the page itself as a text document when the notice spells out the opportunity. Gather the RFP and its addenda, then choose Start RFP steps: the chat reads them and offers the RFP steps, from key findings and Go / No-Go to the response plan and proposal. Everything you add is saved to your Library. Adding a document costs no credits. You can also reach this from the + menu with Document from a link, and in a chat that already has an RFP, it adds an addendum to its sources instead.

Go / No-Go shows the verdict it gives. The colored label on a Go / No-Go could say GO while the recommendation under it said NO-GO. The label now comes from the recommendation's own wording, including on recommendations you already have, in the sidebar and in the chat.

Client Research checks your credits before it starts. When you paste details about one or more people into the composer to research and profile them, each person costs at least 60 credits, as before, and reading what you pasted to find the people in it costs 10 credits per batch. If your balance can't cover it for everyone you pasted, Foveate now tells you how many credits you need before any research starts. If your credits run out partway through a batch, the people already profiled keep their profiles and the research stops there.

Teammates' photos in the header. When teammates have the same deck, previs or walkthrough open, the header now shows each one's profile photo, and their initials when they don't have one. If a photo can't load, you see their initials instead of a broken image.

Up to three faces, then a count. The header shows up to three teammates, each person once even if they have the file open in more than one tab. When more people are here, a count such as +2 follows, and clicking it opens Team Activity with everyone listed. Hover over the faces to see who they are.

Team Activity lists everyone who's here. Team Activity lists each person once, with a green dot and Online beside them, and you appear at the top marked You. The number on the tab counts the people other than you, so it matches the faces in the header. People appear as soon as they open the file, and drop off when they close it or switch to another tab.