This is probably the biggest update so far. I feel so excited and grateful to work on this one. But since no one really wants to read a wall of text of release notes, I'll be concise and tell you what's new in this update.
- Download: Planet 0.22.0
Continuity Camera — You can now import photos and videos from your iPhone into Writer. Pick up your phone, take a shot, and it lands in your article.
Video Compression — Writer now shows info for attached video, and you can compress by selecting from H.264/HEVC presets. The compression is hardware-accelerated.
Paste anything into Writer — Images, videos, markdown files. Just paste or drag them in. Title field and body both accept media now. It feels like how things should have always worked.
Cloudflare Pages — You can now publish your sites to Cloudflare Pages. SSH rsync is also available as a destination. There's a new Publishing settings tab that keeps everything organized, with a new toggle for IPNS.
AI Chat — There's a new AI server setting, and you can now chat with your article. The chat supports tool use. This is the beginning of a big feature, and it will get more updates. The endgame is that one day we will need much less copy and paste.
QuickPost got better. The editor auto-expands as you type. Numbered lists and todos autocomplete. There's a discard confirmation so you don't lose things by accident.
Prevent sleep. A toggle to keep your Mac awake while Planet is running. Useful when you're using a Mac mini as a server.
External change detection. If something outside Planet modifies your planet JSON data, Planet notices and updates live. No restart needed. This will enable many new integrations.
Beyond the new features, there's a list of things that work better now. Article selection restores on launch. Sidebar scrolls to your last pick. Writer auto-focuses the title field so you can start typing right away. Performance is improved when you have a lot of unread items. Search with better CJK support.
That's it for this one. Thank you for using Planet.
If you're already on macOS 26 and Planet's auto-update didn't work for you, this is a known issue with Sparkle, the software component we use for auto-updates. Please download the latest release and drag it into Applications to upgrade.