Tidebreak is in alpha. This page is the honest list, not a launch calendar. Statuses change when the product does.
The desktop app is the Tidebreak experience. It is where you sign in, grant a folder, pick a model, and get a file back.
Packaged builds ship for macOS as a Universal binary, Intel and Apple Silicon. Windows and Linux still run from source.
Intel and Apple Silicon. Local-first, no Tidebreak account. State in SQLite on disk.
Start on the subscription you already pay for, drop in a key, or stay fully local. Switch mid-chat.
Plan, Ask, Auto, and Allow all. Overwrite of a connected file always asks.
The tree builds. Packaged releases are macOS-only until those lanes are back on.
Outputs are a catalog, not a transcript. Same filename appends. Restore appends too.
Work saved to output/ lands in the chat catalog with who produced each version and when.
Spreadsheets, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, and images open without leaving Tidebreak.
Restoring v2 from v5 produces v6. A wrong file is a recoverable event.
Ask once for a triage view and keep a sandboxed mini-app in the sidebar.
Same exec tool. Different backends. Credentials stay out of the sandbox. The model never sees an absolute path.
The default execution backend, with per-chat network policy.
Available today. Only a chat set to no network is fully enforced there.
Managed sandboxes for the same exec tool when you want the work off-box.
A native picker, attached to that chat. Nothing about siblings or your home directory.
Host folders reach the sandbox on macOS. Managed providers cannot see them.
Parallel jobs from one turn, while the app is open. Not a worker that keeps going after you close the laptop.
Screen capture and consent-gated app control. In the product, not finished.
Today Tidebreak can search the web. Connected apps, MCP, and REST are the next surface, not the product yet.
Exa, Tavily, Brave, or self-hosted SearXNG.
stdio, HTTP, or a gateway endpoint, behind the same approval gate.
A base URL, an OpenAPI catalog, and a keychain credential.
Slack, Google, or Microsoft through a model gateway, not a Tidebreak-owned OAuth catalog.
Tidebreak is pre-1.0. The local profile is rebuilt when the data shape changes. This is what we are willing to say is next, and what is still only a direction.
A modest local scheduler on the existing run journal: one-time, daily, weekly. Not cloud cron.
Optional chat organization has landed. Project context is specified, not built.
Sentence-level sources on the work product, so a claim can be walked back to the file it came from.
Its own profile, visible control, and a reset path. Not your everyday browser.
Pinned sources, explicit updates, no background auto-update.
The Brightwave focus after the research engine: infrastructure for the agentic era, not a second desktop app.