What's new in Flexor.

Hide and seek. Once a day, from its right-click menu, it hides somewhere in Flexor with only a sliver showing: round the window's edge, between the cards, or deeper in, on another range, in Settings, on the wheel or the darts. The sooner you find it, the more points, up to 50. There's a hint halfway, and if time runs out it shows you where it was.

German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Your mascot talks in these too, with lines written for each, and each country's own days and humour. It follows Flexor's language, or pick another in Settings › Language.

More to say. Hundreds of new lines about its little life through the day, late nights, coding, water and stretching. Cross with you because you're tired? Tap it and it offers a deal: a short walk, and all's forgiven.

Its right-click menu opens every time, with a control-click too, and it never shows an empty bubble or notification.

Move your profile. Settings › You › Move your profile saves your name, code, friends, points and finds as a file, once Touch ID or your password says it's you. Import it on another Mac, or after reinstalling, and it's all there. Key counts stay on each Mac.

Your best days. Hover today's count for your five best days and your fastest moments, each with its date. Part of Plus, like your history.

Keys shows your five most and five least used side by side, and five shortcuts with what each one does.

Nothing shifts when you pick a tab, a range or a chip: the others stay put and the charts keep their size.

Sending is one pick. Choose the line, and the move, how it comes in and where stay as you last set them, a tab away.

Every way in plays its preview, the ones you own as well as the ones to buy, and the tiles all line up.

A new language shows everywhere the moment you pick it, with no click needed.

A duel waiting for you stands out. A red badge by your friend's name and on their darts tab says when they've challenged you or it's your throw, and the friends tab counts it.

Picking a message no longer nudges everything below it down.

Hellos and darts duels are Plus. Sending your mascot to a friend's screen and playing darts with them come with Plus, as gifts already did. What friends send you always comes through, saying no to a duel is free, and darts on your own stay free.

Sixteen languages. Flexor now speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, simplified and traditional. It follows your Mac until you pick one in Settings.

No more guessing. A friend's page says how long they've been away and when a hello would reach them, instead of guessing what they're up to.

Hi back sits beside the replay button, so the card it's on keeps its size and the page fits the window.

Hidden stays hidden. If a friend doesn't show when they're at their Mac, a hello's delivered and seen marks arrive an hour later, so they can't give it away.

Duels finish. Leaving your last darts unthrown no longer dodges a loss: when time's up, they count as misses and the winner gets the prize.

Tighter limits on friend requests to one person, and on names that pass for Flexor or spill over the screen.

See it before you buy it. Tap anything that isn't yours yet and your mascot shows it off in full color: wearing it, doing it, saying it. A new mascot says its name in its own voice, and a way in can be watched coming in on your own screen. Bought, your mascot jumps for it, and it's a tap to put it on.

The board heats up. Good throws heat it, a level a bullseye, and a hotter board is a harder one: stronger wind, farther off and smaller. Misses and breaks cool it. A flame under the wind shows how hot it is, and your dart glows with it.

Every throw pays its ring, as in a duel: no odd amounts. Darts win up to 2,000 a day; once that's won, the board says so and waits till tomorrow, your darts kept.

Esc closes a card or a picker without closing Your Flexor behind it.

The market. Your Flexor's collection now holds everything there is, on five shelves: moves, things to wear, mascots, notes and ways in. What's yours is in full color; the rest is dimmed with its price, a tap away from buying it. A note from 100 points, a mascot from 1,000.

Nothing's a secret any more. What isn't yours yet shows, faint and priced, wherever things are picked: the stage's slots, a hello's moves, lines and ways in.

The points button is a coin and your points, nothing else.

A hello's arrival, a step of its own. Move, message, arrival, where: the light, a puff of smoke, a door or a portal.

Darts, all told. On the darts tab: who's won how many between you, who's on a run, and the duels before the last.

Picking a theme no longer sends Settings back to the top.

"Past your bedtime" only when it is. Up from a night's sleep, it's your morning, whatever the clock says: no more bedtime talk at noon for a night owl who got up early.

A good morning that knows the night. How long you slept, and whether you were up or in bed earlier or later than usual. Two in the afternoon is morning, if that's when yours is.

A new rhythm, noticed. Two nights running at a different bedtime, and your hours follow, with a word from the mascot.

Your fingers say when you're flagging. The last twenty minutes' typing speed and backspaces against your usual: still waking up, slowing down late at night, a slump in the afternoon. Only counts, and none of it leaves your Mac.

Darts against the clock. Ten seconds a dart in a duel, from the moment its board is up, or it's a miss. The clock counts down beside your darts.

How long a friend's been away, right in the list: away for 12 min, for 2 h 30 min.

A click on the menu bar opens the dashboard in front, even while Flexor isn't in the Dock.

A clearer coin. Points wear a coin you can tell is one at any size: its edge, a rim, and the mascot's smile struck on the gold.

A friend's points by their mascot, top left on their page, rather than in a card of their own.

Darts with a friend who'd just updated no longer says their Flexor is too old.

Darts, the two of you. A third tab on a friend: challenge them, and once they say yes you each throw five darts in your own time at the same five boards. Their score for a board shows once you've thrown at it too. The winner gets 30 points, for one duel a day.

Ways in. A hello can come through a little door, in a puff of smoke or out of a portal, found on the wheel. Pick one in the last step of a hello.

A quick hi. Hover a friend and your mascot leans in round the edge of their screen and says hi.

Hi back, free. A hello straight back to one that reached you in the last two days costs nothing, once.

Watch it again. Any visit in the list plays again on your screen.

A week of Plus, as a gift. From a friend's menu, for points. It starts when theirs ends.

More on a friend. Their points, a Plus badge, which Flexor they're on, their own time on the dot, and roughly how many words their keys came to.

Notes for someone dear. Loving ones, and playfully sulky ones, to send with a hello or a gift.

Last active, plainly. The friends list says when each was last at their Mac, the same way for everyone. The jokes about it are on their page.

Shushed means shushed. Visitors wait at the door while Flexor's quiet, and come in once it isn't.

Half-picked stays picked. Choose a friend by mistake while you're putting a hello together, and what you've picked goes with you to the right one.

By the hour. Points come in as the day goes, not only the next morning, with a flame by them when they're coming in fast.

The coin. Points wear a coin with the mascot on it everywhere, and there are gold and silver coin necklaces on the wheel.

Where points come from is on the points button, on hover. The mascot says when there's enough for a spin.

It gets about. Now and then it wanders round the dashboard. Right-click it for hide and seek.

It notices. A new version, a screenshot taken just as it spoke, and which day of the week it is: no meetings on a Sunday.

Moves arrive whole. A visitor comes in doing its move, in a soft light, and nothing of it is cut off.

Two clicks. A click on the count opens Flexor; a right-click opens the little panel.

+1K, every time, with or without the window open.

Four new keyboards, a deep thock among them, each played as you pick it. Clicks can make a sound too.

Just one thing quiet. The speaker's menu silences only the typing sounds, or only the notifications.

Typing sounds that tell nothing. Each letter's sound is picked afresh on every press, so a recording can't be read back as what was typed.

Four new themes: paper, cream, peach and lilac.

Your favourite app of the day, and the top five on hover.

A Plus screen worth opening, and Settings stay where you were when you pick a theme.

Updates must be signed and are checked before they're opened.

Names can't be faked with lookalike letters from other alphabets.

Nothing new is shared unasked: a new thing friends could see stays off for anyone who'd turned something off.

32k. A new menu bar count in Settings: the compact one without its decimal, the letter right against it. It turns over with each thousand. The compact count with its decimal stays the default.

The mark presses as you type. With every key the finger on Flexor's menu bar mark presses its key, the key gives a little and the lines around it flash; let go and it springs back up for a moment before it settles. Light: it runs only while you type. Off in Settings if you'd rather it kept still, and still anyway with Reduce Motion on.

Typing sounds. A soft mechanical key's sound as you type, anywhere, each letter its own. Soft, medium or loud in Settings, or off. Quiet on a call, and light: it only runs while you type.

The speaker button silences everything. Your mascot, notifications, typing sounds and every other sound, for as long as you pick, and it says so.

Sooner. Flexor looks for a new version every three hours instead of once a day; one that's out waits over the gear till it's in.

Rarities that make sense. The green characters, a thumb by another name, are common and rare now; the ones made of something else altogether are epic and legendary, with Crumb, Goldie, Marble and Pixel the legendary four. The eye patch, pacing and falling over came down a level too. Whatever you've found stays yours.

Bottom first, in its corner. Doing it on its own in the dashboard, its bottom now pokes in well inside the corner, where you can see it wiggle.

A dark theme. Dark from 7 pm to 7 am by your own clock, or whenever your Mac's in dark mode. The button by the download picks it yourself.

Free throws. A bullseye wins a free throw on top of its 150: no points and no dart to it, up to three a day. The dart in your hand turns gold for it, and a gold one waits in the corner with the rest.

Just the darts. The corner shows the darts in hand and a bar filling toward the next, without the words under them.

Fall from the top. A legendary move: your mascot drops from the very top of their screen down to the corner you picked, lands flat with a splat, lies there dazed a moment and gets up to say its piece.

Bottom first. A legendary move: bent over at the edge of their screen, only its bottom pokes in, wiggling. Then it tumbles in, flat on its back, has a laugh and gets up.

Head round the edge. An epic move: just its head leans in from the side, hangs down from the top or peeks up from the bottom, says its piece and ducks out again.

Preview. Before you send it, watch the visit on your own screen, coming in from where it will on theirs.

The ways in are moves now. Every other visit hops in. Drop in, pop up, skid in, roll in and cannonball are moves of their own: send them like any other, and your mascot does them in its corner too.

A dart an hour. Instead of three a day, a dart comes back every hour, and you can hold up to ten. Ten small darts in the board's corner show how many are left, with a bar and the minutes until the next ("4/10 · next in 20m").

Out of the way. What a throw costs and what each ring pays now sit behind the info button beside the wind, rather than under the board.

Short of points, the dart stays put. It fades and can't be picked up until you have enough to throw; the line under the board says how many more you need.

Its words come from Flexor's server. Its lines about your apps, its tips and each character's own lines now arrive a few times a day and are kept, sealed, on your Mac, so it says just as much offline. With per-app stats on, all that's asked with them is a number from 0 to 255 for each app you've used lately, one several apps share; never the apps themselves.

It notices when you're offline. Without the internet, now and then it has a word about that.

Away when your mascot naps. A minute without touching your Mac, your mascot falls asleep on friends' screens and the dot beside you turns amber, "away", at the same moment. Before, the dot stayed green for five minutes while the mascot already slept. Back at the keys, both turn back straight away.

Right from the start. Opening Flexor, or reconnecting, says whether you're about and how your mascot looks at once, not half a minute later.

Gone means gone. Put your Mac to sleep and friends see you away from it straight away. If it crashes or drops off the internet, they see it within a few minutes instead of up to two hours.

Back without missing anything. If the connection quietly dies (new Wi-Fi, a restarted router), Flexor notices within a minute and reconnects, and catches up on friends' presence and looks it missed meanwhile.

Stats first. Clicking a friend opens their stats, with send right beside it.

Every bubble sings. A speech bubble pops up with a little tune in its mascot's own voice: Gramps low and wavery, Tiny the highest, Robo and Pixel beeping, Boo a breathy oo, Goldie all bell. Tap a mascot in your collection to hear it.

Every button clicks. Each kind its own: a soft pop for cards and friends, a fuller one for send and spin, a tick for tabs, two notes up for pick, a pop falling away for close, two ticks for a switch.

Typing speed. Words a minute while you're actually typing, in the activity tab with your fastest stretch. Click it for today against your usual, how much was right first time, the day hour by hour and the last two weeks. The mascot says so when you beat your record.

No help from apps. Keys another app makes up (an auto-typer, a macro) aren't counted, and stretches faster or steadier than hands type earn no points.

Friends as they are. Their mascot looks as tired as they are, or asleep while their Mac's away, in your list and when it drops by.

A favorite move, under your lamp. Pick a favorite with the heart on a move in your collection. Friends see it played under your lamp when they look at you.

Typing speed for friends. Today's and their record, against yours, if they show it.

Where they are. A friend's page says whether they're at their Mac, stepped away, or when they were last seen.

The lid. On a MacBook with a hinge sensor, the mascot feels the lid: squeezed nearly shut, laid right back, bolt upright, fiddled with, and what that might mean with the app you're in.

The camera and the battery. When a camera comes on (Flexor never opens one), the battery's cycles and health, the charger, the heat and Low Power Mode.

Displays, nights and updates. A monitor, a TV or a projector plugged in, how the Mac's night went, and a macOS update that's waiting, said plainly, with where to find it.

Tidier friends. Someone seen a moment ago is "just now", one friend is "1 friend", visits in "lately" wear your friend's outfit, and time at the computer fits on their tiles.

Little sounds. The wheel ticks as it turns and rings for what it lands on, a dart thuds into the board, a friend's visitor pops in, a hello whooshes off, the morning's points jingle. Only while you're watching: never with Flexor in the background, the mascot shushed, on a call or in your quiet hours.

A switch for all of it. Sounds in Settings turns every sound Flexor makes off, the chime included.

Who's at their Mac. A green dot when a friend is at the computer right now, a yellow one when they've stepped away. They choose whether to show it, with the eye on their card.

Ways in. Five new moves on the wheel for how your mascot comes onto a friend's screen: dropping from the top, popping up, skidding, rolling or flying in like a cannonball. Once you have some, a visit comes in one of them now and then, or with the usual hop.

The gift badge, whole. In your collection, the little gift on something a friend gave you no longer gets cut off at the edge.

Their screen, bigger. Picking where your mascot pops up, their screen fills the space, and the send button sits right under it. Nothing to scroll.

Pick buttons in their place. On a line, the pick button sits in the middle and keeps clear of the words. On a gift, it no longer covers what you picked.

A dot only for something new. The stats tab shows a dot when a friend has numbers you haven't seen today, and it's gone once you look.

A calmer dashboard. No more dot blinking by “right now”.

Your day, for your friends. The eye in your card's corner picks what they see: today's keys, time at the computer, your streak, the week, your fastest minute, the app you're in most and how much of the collection you've found. All on to start with, and each one turns off on its own. Numbers only, never what you type.

A stats tab. Next to “send”, a friend's day as they show it, with yours beside it.

Their finds, as they happen. When a friend who shows their collection lands something epic or legendary, it turns up in “lately” right away.

Always dressed right. A friend's new look, name or hours reach your friends page the moment they change, with nothing to refresh.

Pick, then send. The steps sit above your choices, and a “pick” button on whatever you've chosen takes you on. Quiet hours and what your friends see are buttons in your card's corner now.

What's gone between you. Under when they're about: what you've sent them and what they've sent you. How long you've been friends sits by their name.

Points you earned, and only those. Your points, finds, spins and darts are kept on Flexor's server now, worked out from how many keys and clicks each hour had, never which ones. Hours no person could type are left out. What you had before comes along once, up to 3,000 points and 60 finds.

Plus codes. Got a code? Type it into the Plus sheet and Plus opens up.

An ear for the sound. It notices when you turn the volume up or down or switch to headphones, and it keeps quiet while you're on a call. Only the level and the device, never what's playing.

Shortcuts, now and then. Six hundred quick tips for the apps you use, from ⇧⌘T to ⌥⌫.

A word about your friends. It has things to say about what comes and goes between you, without going on about it.

A new typeface. IBM Plex Sans, all the way through.

Updates you won't miss. When there's a new version, a note sits over the settings gear until it's in.

Flatter cards. No more dark smudges behind things.

Locked tight. Flexor runs with the hardened runtime, so nothing can slip into it and borrow its access to your keyboard. The server is stricter too: limits on everything, gifts that can't be copied, and nothing sent to anyone who isn't your friend.

What's new, from settings. Under “about”, next to your version, a button opens this page.

No more waiting window. Flexor doesn't quit when you press ⌘Q, so it keeps counting, and that also kept it from stepping aside for an update. Now it does: “install and relaunch” puts the new version in place and opens it again.

The version, in plain sight. At the bottom of settings, with a button to check for a newer one, and quietly next to “check for updates…” in the menu bar.

Seen, at a glance. In “lately”, the little arrow next to everything you send tells you where it is: dashed while it's on its way, a ring once it's arrived, filled in when your friend has seen it.

A calmer layout. Your friends now sit right under your profile, the composer has the middle to itself, and “lately” moved to the right, where it's easy to scan.

Pages instead of scrolling. Long lists turn a page at a time with ‹ and ›. Same list, a lot less work for your Mac.

Lowercase all the way. Flexor is “flexor” in the Finder and the Dock now, and the download is flexor.zip. No capitals anywhere, which is how it likes it.

This page. So you can see what changed without having to go looking.

Updates that wait for you. Flexor looks for a new version once a week, quietly. When there's one, a small “update” button shows up by the settings gear. Nothing pops up over your work.

Check whenever you like. From the menu bar, any time. Every update is signed, so only real ones get in.

Plus. Your whole history, every character, the epic and legendary finds, unlimited friends and gifts, and the features that are easy on your eyes. Every download starts with 14 days of all of it, no card needed.

Free stays free. After the trial you keep counting, reminders, your mascot, today's dashboard, two friends and hellos. Nothing you found or recorded goes anywhere.

Instant. What you send arrives the moment you send it, instead of whenever the next check comes around.

Gifts and notes. Give a friend something you found on the wheel, or tuck a few words into your hello. You can also pick where on their screen your mascot pops up.

Visitors that wait. If your friend is away from the keys, your mascot waits and shows up when they're back. If the wait was a long one, it mentions it.

Their hours, on their page. A friend's quiet hours show as a small ring under their mascot. Hover it to see when your hellos get delivered. Quiet hours are off unless you set some.

No more missing hellos. Several in a row could get lost on a busy day. Now every one of them gets there.

Tidier bubbles. A long gift message stays inside its bubble, and a visitor in the middle of an edge talks from right above its head.

The way to a sure epic. A meter fills with every spin, and every tenth one lands on epic or better, on a golden wheel of its own.

Rarer, so it means something. Epics and legendaries come up less often. And if you get lucky along the way, your progress toward the sure one stays where it is.

A tidier market. Items and darts switch on the left, your points sit on the right.

It notices your apps. It has a word for nearly a thousand of them, from your code editor to your fourth video call of the day.

More about you. About half of what it says is about you and your day, and it never says the same thing twice in a row.

Opens right away. On some Macs Flexor could take a while to answer when it first opened. It starts at once now, and only one copy ever runs.

Reminders keep their place. One waiting its turn could get lost if you paused at just the wrong moment. Not any more.

Smoother and lighter. Visitors move smoothly again, switching steps when you send something costs nothing, and time & trends fills the whole window.

A stricter server. Friends has tighter limits and double-checks every gift that's sent back, so nobody can play tricks with it.

Counts, not content. Every key and click, by the hour. Never the text, never what you wrote.

A dashboard. Your day, a heatmap of your keyboard, and time & trends, with yesterday and the whole year a click away.

It knows when you're tired. Tiredness builds from the last few hours of work and fades while you rest.

Breaks that happen. Gentle reminders for breaks, bedtime and your eyes. Capped, so they never nag.

Easy on your eyes. The screen dims as the evening goes on, too slowly to notice, and sudden bright pages can be softened if you ask.

Thumbo and friends. Moods, dozens of moves, grand entrances, and hundreds of things to say. It picks up your habits, and if you shush it, it sulks by the lamp for a bit.

Things to find. Points from typing and from real breaks, a wheel full of characters, moves, outfits and lines, and three darts a day.

Friends. Add each other with a code and send your mascot over to say hi on their screen.