What’s new

The badge sits at the top right of a shared deck. On a deck shared from a plan that shows the Made with Foveate badge, it now sits in the top right corner of the page header, level with the other controls, instead of over the slide. It stays there while you present, when the header slides away, so the slide is never covered.

The badge follows light and dark mode. It takes the header's own quiet tint, with the matching Foveate wordmark, in both themes.

Overlays can fade in from a side or darken the edges. In the Slide panel, on a slide with a photo or video background, the overlay is now Off, Solid, Linear, Vignette or Center. Linear is dark at one side or corner and clear at the other, so text over a photo has a darker side to sit on. Pick from eight directions or set any angle. Vignette keeps the middle clear and darkens the edges, and Center darkens the middle. Each shape has its own colour and opacity, and Vignette and Center have a size.

Off turns the overlay off. Choosing Off removes the overlay from the slide instead of leaving a faint one behind. A slide you already made keeps its overlay exactly as it was, and the panel shows which shape it matches.

The PDF and PowerPoint exports draw these overlays. A vignette or a fade from the bottom comes out as a gradient, not as one averaged tint.

New slides start with no transition. Slides you add, and decks you generate or import, begin with no transition instead of Fade. Pick one in the Slide panel when you want it. Slides already in your decks keep the transition they have.

Apply one transition to every slide. Under Transition, Apply to all slides gives every slide in the deck the transition you have picked, including its duration, in one step. Undo puts every slide back at once.

Deep research checks its own work. After its first round of searching, Deep research now reads what it found against each part of your question. When a part came back empty, say the census figures, the list of venues or the county budget, it searches again for that part before it writes, and it aims to answer every part of a multi-part question.

Answers follow your question. When you ask for numbered items, the brief answers each one in order under its own heading and puts the figures in tables. Where it could not find something, it says exactly what is missing instead of guessing. It marks what it concludes rather than reads as "inferred", and puts a source beside each figure. Questions about where to win work still get the full pursuit brief.

A run costs about 105 credits. The second look adds up to four more searches, so a Deep research run now costs about 105 credits, shown next to Deep research before you start. When the first round already covers every part of your question, the run costs less.

Switching on a Pro setting without Pro opens the upgrade window. Password protection, asking viewers for their name or email, your company logo, the client conversation and letting viewers ask the deck are part of Pro. On a plan without it, turning one of them on in Sharing Settings now opens the upgrade window for that setting and saves nothing. A form's own settings panel does the same for "Use company logo".

The client conversation switch shows what your viewers can do. A deck that never had this setting still lets viewers leave feedback, and the switch now shows it on instead of off. On any plan you can switch it off; switching it back on needs Pro.

Switching a setting off is never blocked. On any plan you can switch off a password, a name or email request, your logo, the client conversation or viewer questions. A link that already has a password or a name or email request keeps it when an account moves to a plan without Pro, until you switch it off.

Passwords through the API need Pro too. Creating or changing a share with a password through the public API or a connected tool now answers that a Pro plan is required, as the app does. Clearing a password is always allowed.

Webhook addresses are no longer shown. In Settings → Notifications, a workspace owner who has connected Slack or Zapier now sees that it is connected, not the address itself. To change one, paste a new address and save. You can also send a test message to Slack, or disconnect either one. Everyone else in the workspace sees whether each is connected.

Only Slack and Zapier addresses are accepted. A Slack webhook has to be a hooks.slack.com address and a Zapier webhook a hooks.zapier.com address. Anything else is turned down with a message when you save, and comment activity is only ever forwarded to those two.

Click the Pro badge to see what it unlocks. In Sharing Settings, each setting that comes with Pro (password protection, your company logo, asking viewers for their name or email, the client conversation, and letting viewers ask the deck) shows a blue Pro badge on accounts that don't have Pro. For password protection and for asking viewers for their name or email, the badge shows while the setting is off. Clicking the badge opens the upgrade window for that setting. The separate "See plans" link under the company logo is gone.

Create a deck from a Miro board. When you create a deck, choose Import, then A Miro board, and pick a board, or paste its link. If you haven't connected Miro yet, you're asked to connect it first. Each frame on the board becomes a slide, in the order you'd read the board: rows from top to bottom, each from left to right.

Everything stays where you put it. Sticky notes, text, shapes, cards and pictures land where they sit inside each frame, as pieces you can edit, move and restyle. Arrows between two things on the same frame come in as lines. You review every slide before the deck is created, the same way as importing a PowerPoint.

The review tells you what didn't come across. Pictures Miro would only give in a small size, arrows that couldn't be read, pictures left out of a board with a great many large ones, and anything past what one import reads are listed on the review screen before the deck is created.

A board without frames becomes a brief instead. If the board has no frames, there are no slides to recreate, so you can use the board's notes, text and pictures as the brief for a new deck. A board too large to read completely is described as that, not as having no frames, and using what was read as a brief is optional.

You can stop reading a board. Cancel from the message that appears while the board is read, or go back, and nothing opens afterwards.

Notification settings are per person. The switches in Settings → Notifications now change only your own notifications. Before, they were shared by everyone in your workspace, so turning one off turned it off for your whole team. Anything you hadn't changed yourself stays exactly as it was, and once you change a switch your settings are your own.

Changes stay saved. Settings → Notifications now waits until your settings have loaded before you can change them. A switch flipped right after the page opened could look saved and then come back after a refresh.

Slack and Zapier belong to the workspace. The Slack and Zapier webhooks that forward comment activity are now in their own Workspace integrations section. Only workspace owners see and can edit those fields on this page. Everyone else just sees whether each one is connected.

Pictures in a PowerPoint saved from Google Slides now come in. When you downloaded a Google Slides deck as a PowerPoint file and imported it, the slides arrived with their text but every picture was missing. The pictures now appear where they were, as images you can move, crop and replace.

A YouTube video stays playable. A YouTube video on a slide of a deck saved from Google Slides now comes in as a video player in the same spot, named after the video, instead of being left out. Before the deck is created, the review shows the video's picture with a play button, and the file summary counts the videos.

"Recreate this deck" uses the file you attached. On the home page, attach a PowerPoint, PDF or Word document and ask to recreate it, or just type "import", and it goes straight into the import. Before, it often opened the import options and asked you to choose the same file again.

Font notes only when a font is missing. If a typeface in the file is already available, the import no longer lists notes asking you to upload it, and the same note no longer repeats.

Connect Miro from Settings → Connectors. Miro now sits under Files, below Google Drive. Choose Connect, sign in to Miro and pick the Miro team to connect; the card then shows who it's connected as and which team, with Change team and Disconnect. The connection is yours alone and isn't shared with your workspace, and Foveate only reads the boards you choose, never changing them.

Bring a board in as context. In the composer on the home page, on the prompt page and in a deck's brief, choose From Miro to pick boards: search, paste a board link, or choose from the ones you opened recently. Each board comes in as an attachment named after it, with its sticky notes, cards, text and pictures, so the deck or chat can draw on what your team worked out there.