07 Aug 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6 is LIVE

Freeform Canvas boards, a living Nucleus graph, a home page that is a board, a refreshed Task board , a global Ctrl+K search, 50+ rebindable shortcuts, and a whole new season. Free, Lite and Plus all get a free upgrade. Canvas Home (Plus only), Canvases available in Lite too The

Freeform Canvas boards, a living Nucleus graph, a home page that is a board, a refreshed Task board, a global Ctrl+K search, 50+ rebindable shortcuts, and a whole new season. Free, Lite and Plus all get a free upgrade.

Canvas Home (Plus only), Canvases available in Lite too

The flagships

Canvas 🔵 Lite & Plus — freeform boards where you place, drag, link and arrange your nodes by hand.
Task board 🔵 Lite & Plus — grouped, counted, swipe-to-complete.
Nucleus 🟣 Plus — a living, self-arranging graph of your entire mesh.
Canvas Home 🟣 Plus — an opt-in home page that is a canvas board, launcher and all.
Ctrl+K quick search 🔵 Lite & Plus — a command palette across everything.
Pinned bar 🟣 Plus — a taskbar-style bar for the nodes you pin.
Configurable shortcuts— 50+ rebindable shortcuts with an in-app editor.
Season 4 — Return to Bliss — fresh skins and two new UI modes.

Canvas

🔵 Lite & Plus. Freeform boards you build by hand — then tune to taste. Canvas is the
most customizable surface in the app, so here's the whole toolbox:

Boards & nodes

Multiple boards — create, rename and delete them from the Canvas launcher (deleting a board keeps your nodes). Open a canvas node to dive into its board.
Node display mode — switch each node between card, chip and title.
Resize in both dimensions — drag or use grow/shrink buttons (with per-display min/max limits; buttons disable at a limit).
Richer cards — a subtitle plus up to five description lines, all sized to content; image cards render at a compact landscape height.
Move & tidy — drag anywhere (links redraw live), arrow-key nudge (Shift = 10px), duplicate, and Delete/Backspace.

Links & layout

Choose which links show — all types, a subset, or hand-picked individual links; the link-type label appears at the line's midpoint on hover.
Auto-arrange connected nodes — Force-directed, Grid or Radial, re-arranging in real time as you drag.
Quick add-link to an existing or brand-new node (Esc cancels), and create a node on the spot from the Add dialog.
Layers — a node can live on several; its badge lists them.

Look & highlight styles

Highlight styles — highlight a node and its connections light up, in six per-board styles: Glow, Ring, Pulse, Stream, Halo, Spark (several animated).
Circuit-board link effects — connected links animate to match: a directional or both-ways flow, a breathing glow, or a twinkle — each in that link's own colour, with travelling packets over dim solder-pads. Effects keep a constant on-screen size at any zoom and scale with link thickness.
Highlight by Favorite, Focus, World or Tag — the palette shows which filter is active.
Link appearance controls — tune lightness, thickness and saturation (shared with Nucleus) for readable links on any skin.

Background & board customization

Per-board background image that behaves like a node image.
Live background scrim — a colour wash with adjustable opacity and blend mode, previewed live, removable, following the board's rounded corners.
Show task status — outline nodes red / yellow / green by to-do / in-progress / done.
Favourite / focus right on the board with zoom-sized hover buttons and a skin-themed highlight chip.

Navigation

Zoom & pan remembered per board; zoom out to 5%; double-tap the empty board to fit everything.
Full undo / redo — buttons and Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y.

Canvas Home

🟣 Plus. Flip one switch in Settings and your home page becomes a canvas board
you browse, search and manage without ever leaving it. It's built to be shaped to your
workflow:

Layout & the side menu

Three menu modes — hidden, rail (icons) or expanded (full launcher) — and you can pin it open. It remembers its mode, pin state and which sections are expanded across restarts.
The whole launcher on your home — every feature box plus a single Add button (left-click opens the Add box, right-click the quick-add switcher).
Translucent glass drawer so your board shows through — and in this release its text, icons and accents are legible on every skin, with feature icons on a contrasting circle so each one stands out.

Search & filters

On-board node search — type to highlight matches live, then press Enter to escalate straight into the global Ctrl+K search, pre-filled with your query.
Board-wide Focus / Favorite — toggle those filters for the whole board, and list the matching nodes honouring your current filters.
Tag & world filters live in the menu, apply app-wide, support multiple tags, and are remembered between sessions.

The canvas switcher & board management

Centred, self-hiding switcher — it sits at the bottom and fades out of the way while you pan, drag nodes or draw a link (and is inert mid-gesture, so a drag can't hit it by accident).
Page between boards with arrows, PageUp/PageDown, the mouse-wheel, or a quick-jump menu; the landed board's name flashes as a centred toast.
Reorder the current board (on-board arrows or Ctrl+Shift+←/→), rename (double-tap / F2 / ⋮ menu), set any board as home (Ctrl+H), duplicate (Ctrl+D), delete (with Undo) and create (Ctrl+N) — right there.

Comfort & resilience

Resumes on your last board, repairs a deleted home board, and shows a friendly empty state (create button focused, so Enter makes your first board).
Respects child lock and "disable animations", and falls back to your usual home wallpaper when a board has no background of its own.
Discover every hotkey via the shortcuts help popover (Shift+? or the cycler's ?).

For everyone (including free)

Configurable shortcuts & Help — 50+ rebindable shortcuts, an in-app editor, a Ctrl+? help dialog (shortcuts + gestures + a types legend), and a copyable cheat sheet. Global undo / redo on Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y.
Season 4 — Return to Bliss — 12 new skins and two new UI modes: Aurora (free, soft glowing outlines) and Monolith (🟣 Plus, bold slabs).
Optional remote database — point the app at a remote SQLite file instead of the local one (experimental; single-writer recommended).
Faster & calmer — INSANE mode (Ctrl+Shift+I) for turbo + density, loading skeletons instead of spinners, precached wallpaper, and localised repaints.
Everyday QOL — recent-nodes switcher (Ctrl+Shift+E), quick-add task (Ctrl+Shift+T), world context in the top bar (Alt+1…9), persisted sort, delete/pin confirmations with Undo, relaunch reopens your last feature, node backlinks, copy id / deep-link, relative timestamps, inline title editing — and a broad localisation sweep across 11 languages.

🔵 Lite & Plus

Canvas — freeform boards (full details above).
Task board — collapsible Focused / Other groups with counts, cleaner status headers, slicker cards, and swipe-to-complete.
Ctrl+K quick search — nodes, worlds, types, tags and features; scope chips (remembered), recent searches, fully keyboard-driven.
Solid colour background — black, white, cream, or any custom colour.

🟣 Plus

Nucleus — a self-arranging graph of your whole mesh, centred on Everything or started from any node; 5 layout algorithms and several importance metrics, driven by your library filters, re-weighting and animating in real time, with link lightness/thickness/saturation controls.
Canvas Home — your home page as a board (full details above).
Pinned bar — a taskbar-style bottom bar for pinned nodes: auto-updates, highlights the node you're viewing, drag-to-reorder, translucent so your wallpaper shows through.
World creation — the Add World flow, now reliable; Alt+1…9 switches worlds.
v2 views — a new opt-in toggle to use the redesigned version of a view wherever one exists. Plus gets the redesign first.
More customization — background blend mode + colour, custom background image (desktop), the Monolith UI mode, and the classic-grid ↔ canvas-board Home view switch.

Thanks for being here for version 6, it genuinely means alot to us. Definitely feels great to be back. ENJOY!

- ImmaterialAI team

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02 Aug 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6 leaves the test branch NEXT WEEK

Freeform Canvas boards, a living Nucleus graph, a home page that is a board, a refreshed Task board , a global Ctrl+K search, 50+ rebindable shortcuts, and a whole new season. in-app footage- Canvas Home (Plus only), Canvases available in Lite too Full updates notes coming with t

25 Jul 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6.1.9

Good morning family- Today we bring you our last big update on the test branch before we push IAI 6 to everyone. From now on until release it will be only about bugfixes, your feedback counts so feel to reach out about any issues with the release. 🟢 All Users multiple fixes and

Good morning family-

Today we bring you our last big update on the test branch before we push IAI 6 to everyone. From now on until release it will be only about bugfixes, your feedback counts so feel to reach out about any issues with the release.

🟢 All Users

multiple fixes and QOL changes across multiple features

🔵 Lite & Plus

Task board

A cleaner, slicker task board: collapsible Focused / Other groups with counts, tidier status-column headers, and redrawn task cards.

Canvas

New background scrim — give a board a color wash with adjustable opacity and blend mode, previewed live and removable at any time; corners are rounded to match the board.
Richer node cards — cards show a subtitle and up to five description lines, and size themselves to their content
image cards are taller and keep their proportions.
Height-aware resizing — resize nodes in both dimensions with per-display min/max limits (the resize buttons disable when you hit a limit).
Show task status — an optional toggle outlines nodes red / yellow / green by to-do / in-progress / done.
Multi-layer nodes, board background that updates on save
more readable links on light (dark-text) skins.
With child lock on, canvases are scoped to the child's own world.

🟣 Plus

Canvas Home (new — Plus only)

Canvas Home is a Plus feature. Turn it on in Settings and your home page becomes a full-screen canvas board

the classic grid stays the default until you opt in.
A collapsible side menu brings the whole launcher onto your home: every feature box, quick-adds, and a node search that highlights matches right on the board. It has hidden / rail / expanded modes, can be pinned open, and remembers its state across restarts.
Page between your boards with the on-board arrows or PageUp / PageDown, set any board as home, and create, rename, delete or reorder boards right there — no trip to the launcher (delete has an Undo).
Reorder in place with the cycler's arrows, jump around with Ctrl+N (new board), Ctrl+B (menu) and Ctrl+F (search), and see where you are with a position indicator (2 / 5).
Confirmation toasts on set-as-home, rename and create; ESC clears the search and hands focus back to the board; the home board fades cleanly out when you focus a node
Canvas Home resumes on your last board, repairs a deleted home board, shows a friendly empty state, and respects child lock.

Nucleus

Link display settings — lightness, thickness and saturation controls, now at parity with Canvas.

See you in, superstar.

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19 Jul 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6.1.4

Our 2nd batch of fixes for update 6.1.0 is here- still only on the test branch until we bring 6 to where we want it. Enjoy! All Users Fixes Toggling Personal development features in Settings no longer bumps the Settings page off-screen. Opening a node from the pin bar or command

18 Jul 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6.1.2

First batch of fixes for update 6.1.0 is here- for now still only on the test branch until we bring 6 to where we want it. All Users Backgrounds Image backgrounds (nodes, library, canvas) are now vertically centred instead of starting from the top and cropping the bottom. A backg

First batch of fixes for update 6.1.0 is here- for now still only on the test branch until we bring 6 to where we want it.

All Users

Backgrounds

Image backgrounds (nodes, library, canvas) are now vertically centred instead of starting from the top and cropping the bottom.
A background now scales smoothly as its box expands/collapses, instead of snapping straight to the final size.

Look & feel

Links on light (dark-text) skins now render as a uniform, moderately darker shade of each link's own colour across every tree — genuinely dark and readable, no longer forced so dark they all read as flat black, and no longer washed-out either.
The home top-bar filter tooltips (focus, favorites, old/new me, todo, ancestry, world, truth) now have rounded corners to match the rest of the UI.

Data mode

The old/new me filter no longer appears in the top bar while in Data mode — it's a self-improvement filter, and Data mode already hides those features (including the Me board).
Data mode now hides the personal-development features immediately on launch, instead of only after toggling the switch off and on again.

Fixes

On the cluster / graph boards, hovering a link now shows the two nodes' names and tapping it opens the relation — it previously read "? → ?" and did nothing.

Plus & Lite

Canvas

A board's background now behaves just like a node image: it shows on the home page and in search, sits below the box title and date, fills the whole box with cropped corners, stays centred, and scales smoothly when you open the board. (Existing boards migrate automatically.)
Open a canvas straight from search or the library — tapping a canvas opens its board (on Lite or Plus), not the node editor.
Resizing a node now scales its floating action buttons and its layer label along with the box; the layer badge moved to the top-centre of the node.
New nodes land at the centre of your current view (not off-screen at the board's top-left), and duplicating a node now selects the copy so you can move it right away.
The Layers panel is wider (responsive), so long layer names no longer get cut off with a "…", and the toolbar Layers button shows which layer is active at a glance.
The active highlight / focus chip moved to the bottom-left (it used to overlap the board's title) and is now skin-themed to match the surface. The Nucleus "no other nodes match" hint moved off the title for the same reason.
The link-between-two-nodes dialog (right-click a node while another is selected) no longer lists internal, data-storage link types — only real relations you'd actually draw. And when a relation reads differently from each side (e.g. "parent of" vs "child of"), you pick the wording directly as two options instead of a plain forward/back arrow; symmetric relations stay a single option.
You can no longer accidentally hand-create canvas / view / timeline node types (or their internal link types) from the add-node / add-link flows.

Settings

The Remote DB status chip is now tappable to open Settings (matching the model and world chips).

Plus

Expanded content no longer overlaps the pinned bar at the bottom of the screen.

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18 Jul 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6.1.0

Reminder The 60% discount on Lite and Plus that came with the 6.0 release is still available until tomorrow, I'd grab any of them if I were you- the Canvas feature alone + what 6.1.0 brings to it (in Lite and Plus) is a game changer I always wanted to add and something I see so m

Reminder

The 60% discount on Lite and Plus that came with the 6.0 release is still available until tomorrow, I'd grab any of them if I were you- the Canvas feature alone + what 6.1.0 brings to it (in Lite and Plus) is a game changer I always wanted to add and something I see so much potential for growth in. Who knows, some insider leak might say Canvas looks so promising you might be able to soon add features as nodes to canvases, rearrange and resize them alongisde actual nodes, and make any canvas your home page whenever you enter the app + easily cycle through multiple home canvas left/right/top/bottom, with a side menu and many filters, for Lite & Plus only. We refuse to comment on such great ideas. Anyway-

Update 6.1.0

Today we're wrapping up 6.0 with update 6.1.0 on the test branch- canvases get layers, more error handling, QOL changes, UI tweaks, more localisation fixes, additional improvements to new features, bug fixes + new functionality.

Some bugs are to be expected for this and other test builds! The upcoming 6.1.X updates will be about perfecting what we just released, with 6.2 being something I'd rather not talk about yet, too many leaks, but it's really exciting stuff.

(6.1.1 is already live addressing some found issues; changes are in the in-app update notes- when we see 6.1 is stable enough we'll move it to the default branch too).

(picture: a multi-layer canvas with only one layer selected, the links from the other layer being dimmed)

All Users

Data-only mode & Models

Turning off Personal development features now persists across restarts, and the home rebuilds for the saved mode on launch (no more hidden features flashing back).
The selected data model and its filters are restored on restart, not just a pinned default.

Add & Chat boxes

The Add and Chat container boxes no longer clip, their lists sit inside the box, and the add forms fit their box and scroll — the type list and Create/Save button are always reachable. Add-node is more compact, the name field autofocuses, and Enter saves. On Plus/Lite a live hint shows how many nodes a comma-separated name will create.

Look & feel

Tooltips everywhere now match your skin (rounded, subtle border + shadow) instead of the default grey box.

Database

A dedicated Database settings section holds the local/shared database and the network (remote) database (Plus only) — plus a desktop Reveal database file shortcut.

Additional fixes

50+ small fixes, changes and tweaks

Plus & Lite

Canvas — layers

Boards can have multiple named layers. Switch the active layer (number keys 1-9, 0 for all, or the Layers panel) — everything not on it dims. Add / rename / delete layers, move the selected node onto a layer, per-node layer badges, a layer count on the toolbar, and the active layer is remembered per board.

Canvas — background & actions

Set a background image for a board (URL or a picked file) with cover / contain / tile fit; it renders behind the graph and pans/zooms with the board.
Node actions live in a floating pill above the node on hover/selection — open, smaller, bigger, add-link, duplicate, remove (with an Undo toast).
Highlighting a node (or two) now dims the links that aren't part of the highlight.
A Fit-to-content toolbar button, keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+D duplicate, Delete removes), and the launcher no longer shows a redundant title over the box heading.

Canvas — link wording

The "links between two nodes" hover and dialog read each relation from the first node's side — "parent of" when it's the source, "child of" when it's the target — with the link-type name shown when it differs. Long lists wrap neatly. Nucleus gains a Fit button.

Fix

Opening a canvas on Lite now opens the board (not the node's details), and Canvas appears in the premium section for free users.
image backgrounds in nodes stretch to the whole node size

Plus Only

World selection

After typing a filter, results keep their include/exclude buttons; Enter picks the sole match; the Confirm button shows selected/excluded counts; and there are Select-all / Exclude-all filtered shortcuts.

Nucleus

link wording fixed like in Canvas

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16 Jul 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6.0.4

A third of you are already on the test 6.0 track in less than a week... THANK YOU, maybe we'll get over how insane that is at some point. Also over 20x more installs compared to the previous period. Anyway, 6.0.4 is live on the test track for free and Plus users, thank you and en

A third of you are already on the test 6.0 track in less than a week... THANK YOU, maybe we'll get over how insane that is at some point. Also over 20x more installs compared to the previous period. Anyway, 6.0.4 is live on the test track for free and Plus users, thank you and enjoy!

If you haven't already, you can join the test track from Steam if you right click on ImmaterialAI in the library and go to Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> select test.

(picture: in-app editable canvas in 6.0.4, where you can change styling, sizing, highlight heuristics and positions, layouts for nodes all you want + can quickly link nodes, add and remove nodes, and change the layout of related nodes not already present in the canvas, with each canvas remembering where you positioned your nodes and your camera; Canvas is available only to Lite and Plus users)

Lite users will get the update most likely tomorrow, we found some issues there and we had to rollback the update. Don't forget to report any bugs here or in DMs, I'm sure we won't catch all of them ourselves.

All Users

Data-only mode

New 'Personal development features' toggle in Settings > General. Turn it off to run ImmaterialAI as a pure knowledge tool: the AI chats, the Me board, Return to Bliss, Bundles, the Sanity check and the old/new-me filters and actions all disappear in both home layouts - so nothing distracts from your nodes and links.
Turn it on to restore all.
With it off, Return-to-Bliss insight nodes are no longer auto-unlocked.

Getting started

First-run onboarding now asks whether you want the guided Paths experience or a Data-only setup before you choose a path (localized across all 11 languages).

Home

You now add nodes, links, node and link types, worlds and tags from one Add box on the home page
Similarly, all AI chats are now in one Chat box (hidden entirely in Data-only mode).

Graphs & tree views

The library's big-picture graphs and node trees now match Canvas/Nucleus: hover an edge, click through multiple relations, and see parallel edges fan apart.
Drag a link between nodes (press-drag one onto another; prompts for the type); double-tap opens a node so a single click never navigates.
Drag-to-connect polish: source node + guide line focus first, the hovered target highlights, an animated dot pulses to it, and a SnackBar confirms each link.
Links are abit more clickable in trees (bent edges got a wider hit tolerance); rewrite should come of the whole tree algorithm somewhere in version 6
Link hover reworked: a prominent outline of the link and its two nodes; edges thicker/brighter and adapt to the skin's text color.
Fit/zoom corner controls on every graph and tree; graphs centre in the viewport on open and on change; no more zoom-out jump. Our own Sugiyama tree layout fans edges too.

Search & pickers

Node search, change-node-type and unravel node-search dialogs get an empty-state message ('No matches for ...') and close on Esc.

Shortcuts

New: Alt+A opens the Add switcher, Alt+Q opens a Quantum recommendation, Alt+B opens Bundles.
The home Focus / Favorites / Old-New-me filters (Ctrl+Shift+1/2/3) can now be rebound from the shortcuts settings.

Dialogs, settings & import

Reusable skin-aware dialog + field helpers, so every simple dialog reads correctly on any skin - no dark hint text on a dark background; washed-out hint text fixed.
Settings: landscape master-detail layout - sections down the side, click one to see its settings.
Import now surfaces success / failure feedback instead of failing silently.

Localization & consistency

Full 11-language localization sweep: world picker, search / type-picker empty states, shortcuts settings, import/export, delete-node confirmation, and Canvas / Nucleus strings.
Duplicate-name guards (case-insensitive, with a SnackBar) for worlds, node types and link types.
Shortcuts settings can be filtered by name, key combo or scope, with a clear button and empty state.
INSANE mode turns fully off again (blur/animations restored); preferences no longer pile up duplicate rows; node background images persist; 'Untitled' shown for blank names on the boards.

Plus & Lite

Canvas - parity & actions

Add to Canvas from anywhere - a Ctrl+K palette and node-details action drops a node onto a board you pick (offset placement, duplicate guard, confirmation SnackBar).
Node action parity with the Library: open details, favorite, focus, pin, to-do; cards show favorite / pinned / to-do badges.
Revealing connected nodes honours the active world and your Library filters, like Nucleus.
Quick-link rework: right-click a node to search a link type then pick direction; preselects the sole matching type (Enter creates), Esc closes.
Drag a link between nodes with animated drag-to-connect and a drop-target highlight; clicking a node selects it (8px deadzone stops a click from moving it).
Ctrl+D duplicates the selected node; a help (?) panel lists every board gesture and shortcut.
Node images render as a card background; transparent board + launcher backgrounds; links thicker, darkened and saturated against light skins.
Launcher: canvases sorted alphabetically, item count in the header, delete SnackBar, and an error + retry state with a 5-second Undo to restore a deleted node.
Transparent top/bottom bars and a full-height board, so content shows through and isn't clipped under the action bar.
Thicker edges; hovering a link between two nodes lists every relation between them; the drag-to-connect guide is a flowing pulse stream starting at the bottom of the source node.
Discoverable resize (- / +) and delete buttons on the selected node; resizing scales its text.
Highlight rework: highlighted nodes clearly more prominent, the rest solid but desaturated.
Image backgrounds cover-fill the whole box instead of leaving empty edges.
Board shortcuts: Esc clears a connection/selection, Enter opens the selected node, Ctrl+S saves, Ctrl+= / - / 0 zoom and fit.

Plus Only

Nucleus

Toolbar floats at the bottom so the graph fills top-to-bottom.
Opens centred (first fit instant and centred); double-tap the empty board to fit-to-content.
Link handling: hovering between two nodes lists all relations between A and B; reworked link dialog (clickable A/B with type + subtitle, read-only relations, ancestry ordering, flip toggle).
Drag a link between nodes with focus-source + pulse-to-target animation and a drop-target highlight.
Filters: a clear (x) button, a Reset chip that clears all filters, and type-filter chips that show the active count (e.g.'Node types - 2').

Worlds & filtering

World selection dialog: autofocus + clearable filter, an empty-state message, keyboard support (Enter confirms, Esc closes, arrows move), and hover/press feedback on SELECT / EXCLUDE.
Layout fixes: the Confirm button always stays on-screen; SELECT / EXCLUDE keep labels on one line.
World exclusion re-enabled correctly - excluding a world no longer drops nodes from your other worlds.

Pins

Dragging a pin no longer flashes a white square behind the rounded item.
The pinned bar no longer overlaps focused box content.

If any of the Plus or Lite features sound interesting, we STILL have a 60% deal running for both.

See you soon, thanks for coming, Happy Birthday to you and your loved ones perpetually every year, and truly thanks for staying with us through all these years.

-Claudiu

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12 Jul 2026Developer post

ImmaterialAI 6 is LIVE on the test branch +60% OFF DLCs

ImmaterialAI 6 (2 years has been enough) Today we're introducing ImmaterialAI 6 as a free update to all free, Lite and Plus users on the test branch on Steam, which you can get to if you right click on ImmaterialAI -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> select tes

ImmaterialAI 6

(2 years has been enough)

Today we're introducing ImmaterialAI 6 as a free update to all free, Lite and Plus users on the test branch on Steam, which you can get to if you right click on ImmaterialAI -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> select test version

Once it's stable we will move it to the release branch. If you switch to the test branch, we strongly recommend you first back up your db.sqlite file somewhere as the changes might affect your current data. Also some features have been disabled while we're fixing them but most of them should be in.

To celebrate the release, Plus and Lite are both 60% off for a week starting today.

Enjoy!

All users

50+ rebindable shortcuts — remap almost anything, feature launchers, live toggles (blur, animation speed, graph quality…), Copy cheat sheet.
Getting around — recent-nodes switcher (Ctrl+Shift+E), relaunch reopens your last feature, consistent back/forward history.
Node details — backlinks, inline title editing, relative timestamps, copy ID / deep link up top, safer delete with confirmation.
Help center (Ctrl+?) — tabbed shortcut reference, Gestures tab, Types tab, tooltips across the app.
Return to Bliss season 4 — 12 new skins + 2 UI modes (Aurora, Monolith), unlocked through missions.
More clickable — links soon tappable across trees, graphs and clusters.
Import/export — import validates and confirms; export gains one-tap copy to clipboard.
Reliability — Enter-to-save everywhere, tidier input, "Untitled" placeholders, no crashes on malformed data.
Polish & speed — loading skeletons, clearer empty states, status chips grouped bottom-right, release logging gone, debounced search, independent repaints.
INSANE mode (Ctrl+Shift+I) — turbo (no blur, fast animations) + denser home columns, persisted and reversible.

Lite & Plus

Canvas - freeform infinite board

drag nodes by hand, pan/zoom (remembered per board), and keep as many boards as you like.
auto-arrange — pull in connected nodes with Force-directed, Grid, or Radial layouts that re-settle live as you drag.
linking & editing — hover to draw links (or spawn a new connected node), resize/duplicate/nudge nodes, switch card/chip/title display, full undo/redo.

Other

Ctrl+K global search — jump to any node, world, type, tag, or feature; keyboard-driven with scope chips and recent searches.
Solid background colour — flat colour (any colour via picker) overriding the background image, clearable any time.
Tasks — swipe to complete, quick-add from anywhere (Ctrl+Shift+T).

Plus only

Nucleus

an all-new living graph of your whole mesh, centered on Everything or any node, driven by your library filters. (Quantum field removed, Nucleus is its replacement)
5 layout algorithms + adaptive importance (most-connected, roots, recency…), re-weighting and animating in real time.

Other

Pins — pin nodes to a translucent bottom bar; drag to reorder, wheel-scroll, auto-highlights your current node, instant undo.
Worlds — reliable creation, Alt+1…9 to switch, picker search box, Enter-to-save.
Quantum recommendations — graceful on empty/bad draws, no more duplicates.

For feedback, bugs, and requests for new features or changes to existing or upcoming ones- write to us on the Steam 6.0 Megathread

We have alot planned for IAI 6- stay tuned!

-Claudiu

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10 Mar 2026Developer post

FutureSoup 5 year anniversary sale

FutureSoup turned 5 years old this week, LA MULTI ANI! Thank you to over 47000 users! Here's something about our next 5 years: to celebrate we're doing 50% off ImmaterialAI Plus and Lite until the end of the week on Steam this year we're helping publish the work of friend of the

23 May 2024Developer post

Sequel to ImmaterialAi announcement

Combust With Combust, you'll be able to quickly describe everything, compute new insights based on your data, custom views and dashboards, integrate any 3rd party providers, and that's just scratching the surface Think Excel combined with Word, Powerpoint, Notion, Plex + potentia

Combust

With Combust, you'll be able to quickly describe everything, compute new insights based on your data, custom views and dashboards, integrate any 3rd party providers, and that's just scratching the surface

Think Excel combined with Word, Powerpoint, Notion, Plex + potential for local or online 3rd party integrations- how Jira or Jenkins or any other of those monstruosities should've been. You won't have to worry like with Notion about constantly having to load online data on startup as your data will be offline-only by default, and you don't have to navigate 10 apps for 6 spreadsheets, 3 word documents and a presentation. Server code will be open source.

From IAI to Combust

While we're bringing some of Combust to IAI 6, we're going to have to start the app side over for Combust so it will take some time. IAI 3 and after (the Steam/Web/new Android version) were built fancy with alot of styling and animations, paths, logic, etc+ for it to be as welcoming to those that need help first. Combust will be data-first, so much will have to go. On top of the wild data-centric features we currently support in IAI 5.31 like automatic data clustering or infinity^3+ dimensions of data, here's what to get excited for:

Convert

- basically the import/export from IAI on steroids
- convert your spreadsheets, JSON, XML to Combust data
- specify what world, tag, model the data gets
- manually exclude parts of the data

Compute

- compose your own functions, e.g. for all feelings, find all concepts dependent on them and their source
- premade selectors: nodes, node types, worlds, tags, first, all
- premade filters: has link of type X, has link data Y for link type X, node type
- premade functions: earliest, root node, dependency

Communicate

- Infrastructure to easily talk to external APIs and convert them to Mesh functions and data
- e.g. add your own API keys for 3rd party services and interact with them from the app (think Postman, RestNinja, etc)
- + convert response data to nodes, node types
- (SERVER ONLY) set up timers to call endpoints and perform actions

Transform

Convert Compute outputs to views like
- timeline view (on map/not)
- map view
- lists
- sum
- Compute results
- condensers (e.g. flatmap, reduce)
Outputs of Transform functions can be used as inputs for new Transform functions

Host your own data servers

We've been working on an on open source server codebase that will enable you to host your own Mesh 2.0 server
- adjust default data, meta data, cross data etc
- manage user access, CORS, etc
- can connect to same server from ImmaterialAI 6.0 and perform Sanity check (or other IAI Plus-only features) on the data

New data type: MODEL

- imagine having projection views across meta-data
- i.e. models contain node and link types, hiding every other data or meta data that doesn't match this
- e.g. only western-psychology-epistemics, only code-related types, etc.

Combust will be 50$ for a lifetime license (and lifetime free updates), expected to come in 2027, early access ASAP. Much more to come- like with IAI- we will be releasing things as soon as we can in early access first, getting out of early access when we have everything we wanted for release.

Also looking into addon support, currently considering LUA for front-end only plugins, if you have experience reach out

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21 Mar 2024Developer post

ImmaterialAI 5.32.1

Changes Welcome back! This is no 5.33, we're just fixing some things so it will be easier for everyone to see their auto-generated trees from nodes. There's many other changes we have in store for 5.32, especially with on-the-fly node creation, stay tuned! Node AI tab design for

03 Feb 2024Developer post

ImmaterialAI 5.32

Bug fixing The tests from 5.31.3 look successful so far, with users that weren't able to previously use IAI now having no issues- so we're elevating it to all users and out of the test branch. Advanced node editor available to free users That's not all! We previously made the adv

28 Jan 2024Developer post

(test branch) ImmaterialAI 5.31.3

Great to be back, hope and wish that you are all well, and if not to remember how much can change in just one day, whether externally or internally, and that we can all quit sleep today to have more time to get our ducks in row or to move forward faster, just sayin. For our first

Great to be back, hope and wish that you are all well, and if not to remember how much can change in just one day, whether externally or internally, and that we can all quit sleep today to have more time to get our ducks in row or to move forward faster, just sayin.

For our first update of the year we're focusing on fixing all outstanding errors + starting with a way to find what is happening in those errors/crashes + pushin the current season of unlocks forward.

Error fix + tracking

Theres been breaking issues for some new users since 5.30 or so that we havent been able to reproduce on our devices. This update works to address that- now when a warning or error or crash occurs, a file will be made in the /ImmaterialAI/logs" folder inside your My documents (or regional equivalent), the files containing additional info and the stack trace of each issue (if available).

LE: We've seen the game-breaking issue not appear anymore for users that switched to the test branch, we don't know why, may be due to us upgrading our pipeline, either way we're here for it, it means IAI can now get to all the users that were looking for it!!!

Share your logs anywhere here on Steam or on our new Discord if IAI isn't working for you and we'll have a closer look!

For now you can find 5.31.3 only if you opt into the "test" beta when you right click on ImmaterialAI on Steam and go to Properties (free app-only update atm)*. The solution is not perfect, or scalable at all, it is though something on a shoestring budget to hold us over until we automate the error reporting process.

LE 2: We've uploaded builds for Plus and Lite on the test branch too, try them out and let us know!

Unless there's any issues on the test branch, we'll push the 5,31,3 from the test branch to the main branch next Sunday in a week

Season 3 extended

We're also extending Season 3 until 1st of Aug 2024 (from Jan 2024), get your skins this year or never ever again, they might go for billions in a few weeks(?!)

GG team!

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10 Dec 2023Developer post

Base price for Plus lowered store-wide

Enjoy, this is not a timed discount! If you haven't yet voted for what features you'd want most in IAI 6, check this post

14 Nov 2023Developer post

Generate IAI-compatible data with our new AI on ChatGPT

The results have been so good that this has to come out of early access: Access here We enforced ChatGPT to return Mesh 1.4 data (in use since ImmaterialAI 5.0), meaning you can tell it to convert anything into nodes, links, node types, link types, worlds and tags (+linktyperequi

The results have been so good that this has to come out of early access:

Access here

We enforced ChatGPT to return Mesh 1.4 data (in use since ImmaterialAI 5.0), meaning you can tell it to convert anything into nodes, links, node types, link types, worlds and tags (+linktyperequirements, worldconstraints, tagreferences etc) with or without existing data to use (it keeps in mind IAI-wide default data and types). The JSON it returns can be imported into IAI once properly formatted.

It can generate IAI 5.X+ compliant data for information such as
- all countries and their continents
- all religions, their founders and branches
- all philosophies
- all scientific findings since some year in some area
- geographical information
- compiled demographic statistics per region
- rulers of states over years
- all named emotional states in a language

The AI client has support for
- crawling the web to get all information needed
- compiling and running python code to give you complex output
- file input
- real-time fine-tuning of output by you telling the chat other info to add after a response, how current data has to be changed, etc
- customization for each node (e.g. you can tell the AI to add a city's population in that node's subtitle)
- change language of export

SOON:
- proper handling of properties: We're still at Mesh 1.4 where there isn't full support and parsing of properties, when that will be out we'll update the AI too (properties will be fundamental to IAI functions, coming soon).
- enable the GPT to write node descriptions with inline nodes, links etc with Mesh formatting

The AI chat can crawl the web, write scripts to get the info you need and bring it back to you. In theory, it often doesn't listen to all instructions we give it, so

What to do if data can't be imported or you don't get data/the right data in a response

- if it just tells you that the data would be too long to bla bla without generating the required JSON, reply with "generate" to generate the data
- you can translate returned data by telling the chat to translate the returned data in any language
- if it adds comments to the JSON tell it to remove them, we already tell it but it doesn't always listen
- if it generates sample data (against our instructions), tell it to generate all data and that you're okay with continuing the generation manually if the response is too long
- might be useful to generate some sections of your logic at a time e.g. first query all continents, then use that in a query for all countries and their continent, then for countries in X continent their polyline, etc, as it doesn't properly handle ultra-complex queries
- if you want all the nodes to be put in a new World mention that and its id and whether it already exists or should be created, and you'll get a new JSON will all the nodes tied to that world

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16 Sep 2023Developer post

Vote on the next major and minor features of IAI

As you might know, we started winding our development for the year down since 5.30, with 5.31 coming out of nowhere only through Sergei's contribution of full RU support, GG man Even tho we're done with major expected functionality for the year, you can help out on what's going t

10 Sep 2023Developer post

ImmaterialAI 5.31

This update marks a milestone for the ImmaterialAI community, being the first one to bring an entirely-community-contributed language to the platform, thanks Sergei for making this possible from the whole team! Full Russian language support contributed by Сергей Романович Рыжков

29 Aug 2023Developer post

ImmaterialAI 5.30.1

ImmaterialAI 5.30.1 is now live, bringing stability and more to the latest major update in the IAI 5 lifecycle- let us know if you find any other bugs and we'll have to make another update :P Changes (Plus only) deleting a world now gives you the option to move all nodes tied to

01 Aug 2023Developer post

ImmaterialAI 5.30 "Copilot" now live as an upgrade to all IAI 5 users

Here we finally are everyone, the conclusion to the ImmaterialAI 5 lifecycle! With more back-to-back changes than double the entire development of ImmaterialAI from version 0.1 to 2.5, ImmaterialAI 5 has more of everything for every type of user. ENJOY ! Rollout of ImmaterialAI 5

Here we finally are everyone, the conclusion to the ImmaterialAI 5 lifecycle!

With more back-to-back changes than double the entire development of ImmaterialAI from version 0.1 to 2.5, ImmaterialAI 5 has more of everything for every type of user. ENJOY!

Rollout of ImmaterialAI 5 now live for all Windows free, Lite and Plus users.

1. Highlighted

Quantum node (Plus only)

unlocks at level 50
quickly open a node recommended by quantum noise from the home page
(desktop only) CTRL+Q+N to open a new recommendation in the navigation stack from wherever you are
- node pool is affected by search query and current filters
requires
- setup with Australian lab (from Quantum Noise)
- internet to get quantum noise latest data

Child lock

enable/disable from Settings
- enabling requires just tapping the option
  - disabling requires a birthday at 18 or above to be entered on a keypad in-app
- while child lock is on you can't change or delete nodes made while child lock wasn't on
can create nodes while child lock is on
- nodes while child lock is on get assigned pre-made world "Child lock view"
  - new default world added: "Child lock view", created when you make your first node while the child lock is on
- these nodes can be editted or removed while child lock is on

Season 3

now live, lasts until Jan 1st
finish all quests on gold/diamond to
- unlock 4 skins for free and Lite users
- unlock 2 more skins and a new UI mode for Plus users

Languages

Arabic added
- with right-to-left UI conversion

2. Data

Tags (Plus only)

can create tags and set them in nodes, node types, links, link types, worlds and tags
every item can have 0..* tags
every tag displays all items tagged with it, tap elements to open each item

Worlds(Plus only)

World filter (app bar)
- can now exclude worlds
- hover the icon to see all excluded worlds at a glance
- UI reworked in dialog to support individual world exclusion
- nodes tied to excluded worlds won't show up everywhere in the app (including backups)
deleting a world will now ask you if you want to also delete all nodes inside that world

Task board (Plus, Lite only)

new filter available in the task board
- tap it to cycle through seeing 1. all tasks, 2. only root nodes, 3. all parents, or 4. only child tasks
if any task nodes are marked as focused => those nodes will be displayed in a separate 'Focused' section at the top of the task board
Nodes on the board each get these actions:
- change task status
  - tap to cycle between 'to do', 'in progress' and 'done' states
- change focus
  - tap to focus/unfocus a task
- open/select world
  - if node has a world => opens that node's world in the navigation stack
  - if node doesn't have a world => open the world selection dialog to choose a world for your node, automatically saving the node's new world on selection and updating the board
tasks design changed
- tasks that are root nodes (aren't children in parent links) are now highlighted
- tasks that are children of other nodes are more diminished and smaller
all task actions get tooltips on hover

Node types

(/Plus, Lite only) create and open nodes of type X from inside node type X
new default node types: process, location, state

Link types

(Plus, Lite only) link type constraints re-introduced
new default link type: at location, truth status

Nodes

can now set the truth status of any node
- requires level 50
- can choose between relative truth, absolute truth or no value
- shortcut CTRL+5
(Plus) new property: image
- used as a background for the node in your library
- can be file paths (Desktop only) or URLS
(Plus) new property: file
- can now connect nodes to files and folders
- tapping the section will open the folder or run the program
Lite users get the advanced description editor that allows for easy embedding of other nodes, images, files into a nodes' description
Tree view inside nodes is now top to bottom instead of left to right
exporting nodes from Big Picture, Tree view, (Plus) Quantum field or Clusters now available for Web users

Other

every item now has a tags section
- tap any tag to open it
- tap "+" to add a new tag
automatic backups work in the web version too

3. UI/UX

Sorting

5 sorting options available, tap the magnifying glass icon on the navigation bar to change sorting option
- alphabetically (& backwards)
- by date (latest and earliest)
- vanilla (prioritize meta data and unlock level of features in sorting)
can persist sorting choice from Settings

Shortcuts

CTRL+SHIFT+F to open the file or folder tied to the current node
CTRL+I to trigger the image selection dialog while in a node
CTRL+SHIFT+S to open sorting
opening files tied to nodes opens the file or folder in a separate detached process

Upgraded node actions

Certain actions inside nodes now have a secondary use, being able to change filters or open new pages in the stack on tap:

(Lite, Plus) go to Task board from task state change
(Plus) go to Me board from me state change
go to backups from copy to clipboard
show only focused from set/remove focus
show only favorites from set/remove favorite

Filters

Truth status filter

unlocks at level 50 for all users
tap it to cycle between all nodes, relative truths, absolute truths, and back
can combine with category filters, focus, favorites, me status, ancestry

Task filter (Plus, Lite)

new state : "Not done" showing all tasks that are not labelled as done
new hot words for the search bar: not done, !done, open to automatically show all tasks that are not done
- e.g. search "not done|cat:system" to search for all systems in your library that are marked as tasks that don't have their status done
search "tags" to see all tags

Me filter

new hotwords
- searching "new me", "new_me", "old me", "old_me" automatically turns on the filter
- can be combined with other searches e.g. "new me|test|cat:feeling" to search for feelings that contain the text "test" and are labelled as "new me"

Main menu

New screen featuring

Continue button or "Select path" for new users
Settings
latest updates' patch notes
more download/upgrade options depending on the platform and license
list of scrolling reviews
quickly change language
more in later versions

Other

unlock your path's 2nd and 3rd AI chats at level 7 and 10 (from 4 and 5)
(Lite, Plus) 45 new icons for node types, worlds and tags
can now go from the path selection page back to the main menu
can go from settings to main menu
changes that require a restart (e.g. changing to/from a custom database) lead to a new "Restart now" screen
UI updated for all item details
app bar actions' icon colors now darkened or lightened based on the current skin
closable content bubbles (with 'X's for removal e.g. in ancestry tree children/parents lists, dependency tree dependents/dependencies, etc.) now feature icons
searching by node id now works, paste the id to find the item with that internal id (tied to debug mode)
new default skin: clear
night mode skin reworked
colors for unlocked & locked widgets updated
performance mode light and dark modes updated
portrait resolutions (where window height > width, e.g. phones)
- advanced node editor buttons are now smaller to have more room for typing
- additional UI and UX fixes
path selection UI updated for mobile
dialogs for deleting a node have the styling fixed for their titles

4. Settings

accessible from the new Main Menu
- limited features for users that haven't selected a path yet
can now select skin from the path selection page
data debug mode
- used so we can investigate issues while not accessing any user data
- if on
  - obfuscates text in nodes, node types, links, link types, worlds and tags when creating backups
  - shows the item's id in the item's description, tap to copy to clipboard
locally tracking data changes
- useful in the future for merging databases
- can make exports not include change info
- can opt out of tracking change info from Settings
shared database mode
- can select a custom database location from Settings and path selection
- can be used to run multiple Mesh apps simultaneously
can configure animation speed
- slow, normal, fast, faster or fastest
- persists across restarts

5. Other

backups contain tags and tag references
AI chat session nodes are not visible in searches
further localization added to nodes, settings, imports
IAI supports Mesh 1.4 data model

Fixes

you can now long press on content bubbles to get the same usability as when tapping them
world constraints would interfere with the world selection dialog
multiple fixes for searches
search dialog sizing fixed in AI chats
home page searches now exclude intuition training results, the selected path and AI chat sessions
fixed filtering while there is no text searched
font sizes on the splash page adjusted to better fit on mobile
fixed cases where inner link data wouldn't be restored in backups
fixed home not refreshing after node deletion
can search for worlds while searching in parallel for other data/features
more

- the ImmaterialAI team

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15 Jul 2023Developer post

ImmaterialAI 5.28 "Copilot" feature list

Full update notes for the final ImmaterialAI 5 update (ImmaterialAI 5.28, Copilot) - coming on August 1st : Most important new features Tags (Plus) can create tags (Plus) tag any data, meta-data or cross-data Quantum Node (Plus only) - open the node in your library recommended by

Full update notes for the final ImmaterialAI 5 update (ImmaterialAI 5.28, Copilot) - coming on August 1st:

Most important new features

Tags
- (Plus) can create tags
- (Plus) tag any data, meta-data or cross-data
Quantum Node (Plus only) - open the node in your library recommended by entanglement
Child lock (with ability to create child-only data while in child lock)
Shared database mode (Plus, Lite only)
5s
- 5 new sorting options
- 5 new ways to quickly navigate from a node
- 5 new animation speeds to choose from
- 5 new timed skins
- 5 x 12 new icons for meta and cross data

Distribution

MacOS version fully tested, release coming soon: free, Lite & Plus
ImmaterialAI now available (with Plus) on Steam PC Café

Season 3

Season 3 is now up until Jan 1st 2024
unlock UI modes and skins for plus, lite and free users

Languages

Arabic (with right-to-left conversion)
quickly change language or skin from main menu and path selection screens
additional localization for nodes, settings, imports

Tasks

(Plus, Lite) Task filter can now show all tasks that are not done
(Plus, Lite) Task board shows/hides nodes based on the current world filter
(Plus, Lite) Task board first shows all the tasks that are marked as focused before all non-focused tasks (if there are any focused tasks)
(Plus, Lite) Can change focus status of nodes from the task board
(Plus, Lite) Can change task status from task board

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Worlds

(Plus) world filter can explicitly exclude worlds
(Plus worlds can have constraints
(Plus) deleting a world can now delete all nodes in that world
(Plus) changing the world filter automatically updates Task board and Sanity Check if you're in them

Node Types

(Plus, Lite) node types can have parents
(Plus, Lite) node types get auto-generated ancestry tree
(Plus, Lite) search for node type A with subtype B, you’ll see all nodes of type B too (and all other descendants of A)
new default node types

Nodes

(Plus) nodes can have images (files or urls) as backgrounds
(Plus, Lite) nodes can have files tied to them (desktop only)

Other

search by item id
(Plus, Lite) link type constraints reintroduced
Sanity check is calculated based on selected worlds

Performance

startup faster by 2+ seconds
app smaller by 4+ megabytes

Utility

data debug mode, exports while in this mode have data obfuscated for easy debugging while maintaining anonymity
optionally track fine data changes
Mesh 1.4 data support

UI

new skin: clear
skin updated: night mode
top UI mode updated to feature data timestamps
UI streamlined on mobile
ability to change your skin from the path selection page
performance mode light and dark modes updated

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Updates & announcements

The flagships

Canvas

Boards & nodes

Links & layout

Look & highlight styles

Background & board customization

Navigation

Canvas Home

Layout & the side menu

Search & filters

The canvas switcher & board management

Comfort & resilience

For everyone (including free)

🔵 Lite & Plus

🟣 Plus

🟢 All Users

🔵 Lite & Plus

Task board

Canvas

🟣 Plus

Canvas Home (new — Plus only)

Nucleus

All Users

Fixes

Look & feel

Node details

Lite & Plus

Canvas

All Users

Backgrounds

Look & feel

Data mode

Fixes

Plus & Lite

Canvas

Settings

Plus

Reminder

Update 6.1.0

All Users

Data-only mode & Models

Add & Chat boxes

Look & feel

Database

Additional fixes

Plus & Lite

Canvas — layers

Canvas — background & actions

Canvas — link wording

Fix

Plus Only

World selection

Nucleus

All Users

Data-only mode

Getting started

Home

Graphs & tree views

Search & pickers

Shortcuts

Dialogs, settings & import

Localization & consistency

Plus & Lite

Canvas - parity & actions

Plus Only

Nucleus

Worlds & filtering

Pins

ImmaterialAI 6

All users

Lite & Plus

Canvas - freeform infinite board

Other

Plus only

Nucleus

Other

Combust

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