Changelog

New features, improvements, and fixes — what's changed in Penlo.

Last updated 16 June 2026

Penlo AI

16 June 2026

New — Chat built into Penlo. A chat window is now part of the Penlo dashboard. Type a question, get an answer drawn from your OCR'd notes — no MCP setup, no external AI client, no API keys required.
New — Answers grounded in your notes. Penlo AI uses the transcribed text from your notebooks to answer questions. The responses reference what you actually wrote, not general knowledge.
New — Searches across your entire library. Penlo AI draws on all your notebooks at once, not just one at a time, so it can surface connections that span multiple documents.
New — Available on the Power plan. Penlo AI is included alongside MCP access, unlimited OCR, the REST API, and webhooks.

28 May 2026

New — Original note dates, not sync dates. Penlo now reads the embedded date inside each PDF so a note is dated when you actually wrote it, rather than when it synced to the cloud.
New — First-sync fallback for Onyx Boox. Boox re-stamps every file on each sync, so Penlo falls back to the first time it ever saw the file. The result is a stable date that doesn't jump forward. The logic is device-agnostic and works across Boox, reMarkable, Supernote, and others.

18 May 2026

New — Penlo MCP server. Your handwritten notes are now reachable from AI assistants that support the Model Context Protocol — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and others.
New — One-click desktop install. The connector ships as a packaged .mcpb bundle, so connecting no longer means hand-editing config files.
New — Time-aware search. You can ask things like "what did I write about last week?" — search now understands when notes were created and last updated.
New — MCP on the Power plan. AI assistant access is now part of Power, alongside unlimited OCR, the REST API, and webhooks.
Improved — Privacy Policy & Terms updated to describe how data flows when you connect via MCP.

15 May 2026

Improved — Search covers titles and content together. Cross-notebook full-text search now matches both notebook titles and transcribed text in a single query.
Fixed — Duplicate search results. Notebooks with more than one saved version were showing up multiple times. Search now returns only the latest version.
Improved — Clearer pricing page. The plan comparison was rebuilt to reflect what each tier actually includes.

15 May 2026

Fixed — OCR stalling and timing out. A truncated deployment was causing OCR to start but never finish. The full pipeline has been restored.
Fixed — Failed deployment. A corrupted line in the search route was breaking the build. Repaired.
Fixed — Thumbnail flicker on refresh. Updated notes briefly flashed a placeholder. The crossfade now keeps the existing image until the new one is ready.
Fixed — Missing thumbnail on the newest note. The most recently added note no longer shows up without a thumbnail.
Fixed — Removed the "Pending" badge that didn't convey useful information.
Fixed — Tab alignment. The tab bar height now lines up with the top bar.

14 May 2026

Fixed — Google Drive files not syncing. Drive folders could be connected and PDFs would appear, but stay stuck on "No PDF yet." Files now flow through and start processing as expected.