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Follow the story of how Ophie has grown — every release, every refinement, every step toward a warmer, more present companion.

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April 2026

v0.18

Waitlist and Landing Revamp

A new tabbed landing hero, a fuller FAQ, and a public waitlist with referrals.

  • New Feature

    Tabbed hero with a six-tab product carousel and editorial typography.

  • New Feature

    Expanded FAQ covering differentiation, safety, and policy.

  • New Feature

    Public waitlist with referral links, tier benefits, and a referrer leaderboard.

  • New Feature

    Email verification and username claiming for waitlist members.

  • Improvement

    Mobile responsiveness pass across landing and waitlist pages.

  • Improvement

    Breathing border and halo on the Watch Demo button.

  • Fix

    Fallback orb rendering when WebGL is unavailable.

Under the hood
  • Waitlist backend migrated from Next.js API routes to FastAPI with hCaptcha and hashed-IP rate limiting.
  • SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY removed from the frontend — all admin paths now route through FastAPI.
  • ILIKE wildcard sanitization and PostgREST group-char stripping in admin search.

April 2026

v0.17

Text Sessions, Countdown, and Extensions

First-class text sessions, a graceful session auto-end countdown you can extend, and voice-driven activity answers.

  • New Feature

    Full text-session experience with chat bubbles, smart input chips, and inline insight markers.

  • New Feature

    Voice-driven activity answers — submit, pause, resume, and undo by voice.

  • New Feature

    Session auto-end countdown with one-tap extensions.

  • New Feature

    Summary bloom reveal animation when your summary is ready.

  • New Feature

    Proactive dashboard check-ins tied to real session signals.

  • Improvement

    Dashboard design-system pass across classic and focused views.

  • Improvement

    Scroll-driven typewriter reveal on transcript bubbles.

  • Improvement

    Moments of Play card on profile tracking arcade and orb interactions.

Under the hood
  • Shared SessionTransport abstraction across WebSocket (text) and LiveKit (voice).
  • Per-turn activity-answer schema injection with validation and retry.
  • Sentry profiling and per-deploy release tracking enabled.
  • Entity backfill pipeline with circuit breaker, cost caps, and admin controls.

April 2026

v0.16

Arcade, Breathing, and Reliability

Mindful games to fidget with, a breathing exercise, and a major reliability refactor of the voice agent.

  • New Feature

    Breathing exercise activity with live orb sync.

  • New Feature

    Arcade — Bubble Pop, Snake, Stacking, Color by Number, Ball Sort, and Fruit Catch, all designed as fidget-friendly grounding.

  • New Feature

    Ophie can suggest an arcade game when you seem to need a break.

  • Improvement

    Post-session summary redesigned as a scrollable card stack with bloom reveal.

  • Improvement

    Constellation list view and graph legend for the memory map.

  • Improvement

    More informative session-end reasons in history.

  • Improvement

    Context-aware crisis resources with hotline schedules and identity-tag matching.

Under the hood
  • OphieAgent decomposed into ten focused managers (Lifecycle, Crisis, Memory, Transcript, and more).
  • Summary-generation state machine with bounded retries, atomic claims, and a /health/failsafe endpoint.
  • Cross-tab session sync via BroadcastChannel.
  • Agent crash detection via participant_left webhook with a 5-second grace window.

April 2026

v0.15

Warmer UI and In-Session Insights

A warmer visual refresh, richer in-session insights, and safer responses for crisis, crime, and threat disclosures.

  • Improvement

    Warm-toned UI pass with softer shadows and gradient accents.

  • New Feature

    In-session insights with threading, types, toast notifications, and inline evidence.

  • New Feature

    Redesigned session overview with emotional arc, narrative, and tappable quick actions.

  • New Feature

    Text-only session mode with a full hybrid voice-or-text experience.

  • New Feature

    Brain Map memory library with a force-directed graph, topic cards, and place tags.

  • New Feature

    Constellations — clusters of connected themes with a cinematic unlock animation.

  • Improvement

    Safer responses to disclosures of crime, threats to others, and abuse, with appropriate resources.

  • Improvement

    Name recognition via STT keyword boosting so Ophie hears people's names correctly.

  • Improvement

    Privacy controls cascade — disabling analytics disables data sharing.

Under the hood
  • Session analyzer upgraded with a fallback path.
  • On-device parent-speaker verification.
  • Uncertainty-clarification rules in the system prompt (v5.12).
  • Category-aware crisis routing for threat and abuse signals.

March 2026

v0.14

Voice Personas and Richer Memory

Previewable voices, auto-titled sessions, monthly minutes instead of per-session caps, and a deeper memory pipeline.

  • New Feature

    Voice preview buttons on signup and in Settings.

  • New Feature

    Auto-generated session titles from conversation content.

  • Improvement

    Monthly-minutes usage model replaces per-session time limits.

  • Improvement

    Memory extraction captures richer emotional context and personal detail.

  • Improvement

    Hold-the-Thread rule keeps Ophie on topic across turns.

  • Improvement

    Session detail page reorganized with rich memories, topics, feedback, and notes.

  • New Feature

    Journey page gains Action Items, Connections, and Topics Explored cards.

Under the hood
  • Background LLM tier tuned for cost and latency.
  • Two-layer memory deduplication with mention-count tracking and editable memories.
  • Recently Deleted memory tab with restore.
  • GDPR data export expanded to all 26 user tables.

March 2026

v0.13

My Journey and Route Refactor

All your reflective data consolidated into a single My Journey page, with a faster app shell and progressive disclosure in how Ophie speaks.

  • New Feature

    My Journey page — story, emotional pulse, patterns, reframes, wins, and a sessions timeline.

  • New Feature

    Streak milestones with 3-day confetti, 7-day glow, and 30-day celebration.

  • New Feature

    Since Last Time dashboard card that resumes where you left off.

  • New Feature

    Two Doors sign-up — a quick path or a full path with deferred location verification.

  • Improvement

    Ophie gathers preferences conversationally during early sessions.

  • New Feature

    Content filters — configure topics Ophie should avoid.

  • New Feature

    Scroll-jacked How It Works animation on the landing page.

  • Improvement

    Significant mobile responsiveness and perceived-performance improvements.

Under the hood
  • Route groups: (marketing) and (app) with per-group providers to keep auth off of marketing pages.
  • Progressive-disclosure retrieval tied to per-topic engagement.
  • Upgraded embedding model with native sparse/hybrid search.
  • Parent-child chunking and multi-factor importance scoring for memory.
  • BVC noise cancellation enabled on agent audio input.
  • Zustand selector tuning cut re-renders dramatically.

March 2026

v0.12

Ophie v5 — Evals, Emotion, and Captions

A model change, a systematic evaluation pipeline, speech emotion recognition, and a brand-new landing experience.

  • New Feature

    Voice emotion recognition — Ophie senses how your voice feels and can respond to it.

  • New Feature

    Emotion dots on user transcript messages.

  • New Feature

    Optional closed captions during voice sessions.

  • New Feature

    Post-session feedback card.

  • New Feature

    First full landing-page redesign with editorial hero and Why Ophie bento.

  • New Feature

    Ten new marketing pages and a More dropdown in the navigation.

  • Improvement

    Post-session summary redesigned as a single-viewport tab carousel.

  • Improvement

    Calmer default voice at a gentler speaking rate.

Under the hood
  • New primary LLM with reasoning-token stripping and mid-response emotion-tag buffering.
  • 61-scenario therapeutic eval suite with multi-turn drift analysis.
  • On-device speech emotion recognition with thread-pool inference.
  • Streaming LLM pipeline with chunk processors.
  • Deferred summary generation via room-finished webhooks and stale-session fallback.

March 2026

v0.11

Latency, Naturalness, and the 3D Orb

A major voice-quality leap — new 3D visualizer, dynamic content cards Ophie can author, a second TTS provider, and a big latency drop.

  • New Feature

    Interactive 3D orb visualizer replacing the 2D canvas.

  • New Feature

    Emotion-driven orb colors that shift with the conversation.

  • New Feature

    Dynamic content cards — Ophie can draft markdown notes, reframes, and prompts mid-session.

  • New Feature

    Save to Library and a Library page for everything Ophie writes for you.

  • Improvement

    Transcript lives inside the ActionBar with a smooth expanding animation.

  • New Feature

    Voice waveform morph animation on user input.

  • Improvement

    First-session specialization — a gentler, more guiding first conversation.

  • Improvement

    Enriched post-session summary with reframes, action items, and emotional arc.

  • New Feature

    Full transactional email system (check-ins, reminders) with preferences in Settings.

  • New Feature

    Beta access system with invite codes and a waitlist banner.

Under the hood
  • Three.js InteractiveBlob with GLSL shaders and a real Web Audio AnalyserNode.
  • System prompt rewritten from ~20K to ~6K tokens for better latency and quality.
  • Parallelized context injection, crisis detection, and transcript writes.
  • Second TTS provider added with an emotion adapter for per-user voice choice.
  • Parallel tool calls enabled on the LLM.
  • Resend-backed email with APScheduler jobs.

February 2026

v0.10

Natural Conversation and Safer Foundations

Ophie learned to listen, pause, and yield — plus a ground-up hardening of security, monitoring, onboarding, and email.

  • New Feature

    Backchannels — light mm-hmms and I hear yous while you speak.

  • Improvement

    Intelligent turn-taking with therapeutic pauses for heavy moments.

  • Improvement

    Graceful interruption handling with audio fade instead of abrupt cutoffs.

  • New Feature

    Branded welcome overlay and first-session floating tips.

  • New Feature

    Branded Ophie email templates for password resets and notifications.

  • New Feature

    Reset-password and unsubscribe pages.

  • Improvement

    Richer per-page SEO and Open Graph previews.

Under the hood
  • CSP, CORS, and security header middleware across frontend and backend.
  • SlowAPI rate limiting on the voice creation path.
  • Sentry error monitoring with PII-safe config on both ends; React error boundaries.
  • Session ownership verification on end and status endpoints.
  • useVoiceRoom decomposed into smaller composable hooks.

February 2026

v0.9

Billing and Insights Polish

Foundation for subscription plans, cost instrumentation, and usage limits — plus a polished transcript experience.

  • New Feature

    Usage limits with an empathetic modal and an admin dashboard.

  • Improvement

    Stable transcript identity and accurate event-time timestamps.

  • Improvement

    Transcript as a bottom sheet with auto-scroll, pause detection, and an unread-count pill.

  • Improvement

    Chat-bubble styling with grouped timestamps.

  • New Feature

    Feature-gating foundation for subscription plans.

Under the hood
  • Stripe integration stubs and usage-limits schema.
  • Per-turn LLM metric and cost tracking.
  • Dependency probes added to health checks.

February 2026

v0.8

An Authentic Companion

Ophie's personality was rebuilt from the ground up — less scripted, more specific, and with a deeper memory across sessions.

  • Improvement

    Rewritten personality with response variety and a phrase-freshness rule.

  • New Feature

    Cognitive distortion recognition during conversations.

  • Improvement

    Voice-aware response adaptation.

  • New Feature

    Memory management page with category filters and deletion.

  • New Feature

    Explicit memory recall ("do you remember when…") with a dedicated tool.

  • New Feature

    Topic tracking — conversations are clustered so themes become visible.

  • New Feature

    Emotional Arc page visualizing how you've felt over time.

  • New Feature

    Weekly and monthly AI-generated synthesis of patterns and themes.

  • Improvement

    Floating pill navbar with shared app layout and better accessibility.

Under the hood
  • Dedicated MemoryService and MemoryRetrievalService in the agent.
  • Topic clustering with embeddings; correlation and pattern services.
  • Static image imports for logos to fix deployment breakage.

January 2026

v0.7

Activity Insights

Activities became a longitudinal view — your reflections now power trend charts, AI-generated insights, and in-session context for Ophie.

  • New Feature

    Insights page with emotional trend charts and check-in history.

  • New Feature

    AI-generated insights summarize patterns across your sessions.

  • New Feature

    Body-sensation diagram and cognitive-pattern cards surface correlations.

  • Improvement

    Ophie references your past insights during voice sessions.

  • New Feature

    Dashboard carousel highlights recent insights at a glance.

  • Improvement

    GDPR compliance and region gating for EU, EEA, and UK.

Under the hood
  • Activity responses persisted per privacy mode with cascade deletion.
  • LiveKit Agents upgraded to 1.3.4.
  • shadcn/ui charts for trend visualization.

December 2025

v0.6

Naturalness and Reliability

Ophie's conversational style softened, and the session summary flow got significantly more robust.

  • Improvement

    More natural acknowledgments and smoother emotion transitions.

  • New Feature

    Conversation style controls in Settings.

  • Improvement

    Enhanced post-session summary reliability.

  • Improvement

    Dual-path ML crisis detection for safer hard moments.

  • New Feature

    Navigation guard dialog warns you before leaving an active session.

  • New Feature

    Location verification step with biometric privacy compliance.

  • Improvement

    Redesigned 3-column sanctuary dashboard layout.

Under the hood
  • Upgraded voice-activity detection with smoother interruption handling.
  • Unified LLM provider across all services.
  • Dedicated background LLM client for cost-optimized analysis.
  • Hybrid retrieval and reranking for RAG.

December 2025

v0.5

Production-Ready Voice

Voice quality jumped with a new TTS engine and emotion adaptation, backed by a more reliable session lifecycle.

  • New Feature

    New TTS engine with expressive SSML delivery.

  • New Feature

    Emotion-adaptive TTS so Ophie's tone follows the conversation.

  • New Feature

    Voice persona selection — pick the voice you want to hear.

  • New Feature

    Ambient sound island with ocean, rain, and night sounds.

  • New Feature

    GDPR data export and account deletion from Settings.

  • New Feature

    New 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, journaling, cognitive reframing, PMR, and mood-wheel activities.

  • New Feature

    Crisis detection with contextual resources.

  • Improvement

    Minimum session length guard and a microphone permission check before starting.

  • Improvement

    Dictionary-style hero on the landing page.

  • Improvement

    Avatar and timezone fields on your profile.

Under the hood
  • Multi-provider TTS support with persisted voice settings.
  • Server-authoritative session state over LiveKit webhooks and SSE.
  • Single-session enforcement with active session banner.
  • LiveKit Cloud agent deployment; Netlify and Render production config.
  • React 2 Shell CVE-2025-55182 patched.

November 2025

v0.4

Warmer Voice, Calmer UI

A full design-system pass unified every screen, and Ophie learned to speak more naturally.

  • Improvement

    Natural turn-taking with pause detection for smoother conversations.

  • Improvement

    Enhanced emotional check-in with multi-modal input.

  • Improvement

    Unified visual language across landing, dashboard, and session UI.

  • Improvement

    Redesigned audio visualizer as a single shared component.

Under the hood
  • LiveKit turn-detector plugin for natural conversational flow.
  • Docker and uv-based build consolidation on Python 3.11.

November 2025

v0.3

Memory That Stays With You

Sessions began remembering prior conversations through retrieval-augmented memory, plus a redesigned dashboard and privacy-first controls.

  • New Feature

    Cross-session recall — Ophie can draw on things you said before.

  • New Feature

    Post-session summary with user-controlled data deletion.

  • New Feature

    New dashboard with stats, goals, and a calendar view.

  • New Feature

    Resources and Support pages, plus profile bio and pronouns.

  • New Feature

    User-visible memory management so you can see and prune what is stored.

  • Improvement

    Settings page warns before losing unsaved changes.

  • Improvement

    Faster response latency and session-end loading feedback.

Under the hood
  • Pinecone-backed RAG with entity extraction and hybrid vectorization.
  • Critical privacy fix: ephemeral-mode sessions never write to memory.
  • Dashboard History and Dashboard nav links; Ophie-branded favicon.

October 2025

v0.2

Dynamic Island and Live Activities

Ophie gained an expandable Dynamic Island that can spawn therapeutic activities in the middle of a conversation.

  • New Feature

    Draggable Dynamic Island panel replaces the blocking modal.

  • New Feature

    First therapeutic activity — a conversational emotional check-in with LLM-generated questions.

  • New Feature

    Voice-driven activity progression — Ophie can suggest and advance exercises by voice.

  • New Feature

    Session notes appear live alongside the transcript.

  • New Feature

    Persistent session transcripts, synced to the database and displayed in real time.

Under the hood
  • Data-channel-based RPC for activity state (replacing an earlier RPC prototype).
  • Transcript storage integrated with LiveKit agent output.

September 2025

v0.1

Foundations

First working voice-first prototype — scaffolded from a blank slate into a real-time conversational session.

  • New Feature

    Initial product scaffold with a calming landing page and sign-up flow.

  • New Feature

    Early Supabase-backed accounts, profiles, and dashboard.

  • New Feature

    First end-to-end voice session over LiveKit with live transcription.

  • New Feature

    Floating session interface with an action bar and audio visualizer.

Under the hood
  • Next.js App Router migration from Vite/React.
  • LiveKit WebRTC voice pipeline (STT → LLM → TTS).
  • Backend containerized with Docker and deployed with FastAPI.

See it all in action

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