Hey there,

OpenMates v0.10 was mostly about making the product feel more useful in normal day-to-day situations: clearer answers, smoother chats, more apps and providers, and better ways to learn and get things done.

✨ The highlights

1. Wikipedia links directly inside answers

OpenMates can now highlight relevant Wikipedia topics directly inside assistant responses. When a concept is worth exploring further, you can click the highlighted term and quickly learn more without leaving the flow of the chat.

This is especially useful for learning, research, travel planning, history questions, science topics, or anything where the answer opens up a new rabbit hole.

2. Message highlights and comments

You can now highlight parts of assistant messages and keep notes on them. This makes longer answers much more useful: save the important paragraph, mark something you want to revisit, or keep a comment next to a specific claim or recommendation.

3. New apps and app skills

OpenMates got more useful app skills across everyday categories. Travel searches became more practical with train connections and booking links, Events gained more useful event sources, Code became better at understanding repositories, and several embed types became clearer and easier to act on.

Instead of only answering from the model's memory, OpenMates can increasingly use dedicated tools: search, compare, summarize, create files, inspect source material, and show structured results directly in the chat.

4. More providers for real-world results

v0.10 added and improved providers behind the scenes, for example for travel, events, payments, and content safety. This matters because a skill is only useful when the result is current, source-backed, and specific enough to use.

For users, the visible effect is simple: richer cards, better source attribution, more direct links, and fewer generic answers when a provider can return real data.

5. Better embeds and previews

Embeds became more useful throughout the app. Search results, booking links, generated files, code outputs, images and public examples got clearer previews and fullscreen views, so you can inspect results without losing the conversation context.

6. More useful examples and public pages

Announcements, tips, legal pages and example chats became proper public chat pages. That makes it easier to share what OpenMates can do and to open useful examples again later.

7. Smoother signup and payment options

OpenMates also added SEPA bank transfers via Revolut Business, improved Stripe checkout for users outside the EU, and added account email changes. These are not flashy features, but they make the basics less fragile when you actually want to use the product.

What this means for everyday use

OpenMates should feel more like a useful workspace now: answers can contain learning links, you can mark and revisit important parts, more app skills can return real structured results, and public examples are easier to share.

As always, a lot of the work was also invisible bug fixing and reliability improvements — especially around encrypted chat sync, embeds, signup, and Safari behavior.

Greetings,

Marco
Creator of OpenMates