The homepage is brighter and clearer, every Token Pal stays fully in view, and the companion now visibly receives a document, follows its real task status, and offers the actual result when it is ready. The web converter remains available; no Desktop download was added.
Changelog
Release notes
Every release, newest first — what changed, and the day it shipped.
The site now opens on the Token Pals homepage, adds pages for the character atlas, downloads and this release log, and says plainly that the desktop app is not out yet. Conversion adds five plain-text formats, and an over-length scanned PDF is refused up front instead of converted in part.
A fix to the private operator dashboard only: on a phone the submissions table crushed the email column until it wrapped one character per line and the headers overlapped. It now stacks into one readable block per entry. No change to how documents are converted.
The privacy page now says usage measurement may include the country or region a request comes from. Unchanged: your documents never enter measurement, are still deleted on the published schedule, and are never sold or used for advertising. No change to how documents are converted.
The first screen now opens with the companion and the drop target instead of a paragraph, and a short series teaser shows that sixteen characters exist. No Desktop download or checkout was added; conversion is unchanged.
Home now accepts files through its companion stage, preserves readable headline phrases, and shows all 16 companions. The Desktop page now leads with the full roster and five source-complete function previews. No Desktop download was added; conversion is unchanged.
The homepage now guides each document from upload through a truthful task journey, with a clearer first screen and a locale-correct route to the Desktop Companion boundary. No Desktop download or checkout was added, and document conversion behavior is unchanged.
The homepage purpose disclosure is easier to read. No checkout or Desktop download was added, and document conversion behavior is unchanged.
A brighter, more balanced Home and Desktop Companion layout improves scanning, reading comfort, and visual hierarchy. Document conversion behavior is unchanged.
Four text-free visual stories now explain the document journey across Home, PDF and screenshot OCR, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Desktop Companion. Phone and desktop crops are included. The Companion stays a generic sealed egg, no installer was added and conversion is unchanged.
The mobile sealed-egg scene now brings the subject into the first screen, while Home, Result, History, five format journeys and Desktop Companion place secondary detail in keyboard-accessible disclosures. Facts remain available, D-180 stays sealed and document conversion is unchanged.
Home upload, Result risk and Desktop Companion now use a selective liquid-glass layer with clear fallbacks for phones, reduced motion and higher contrast. The pre-hatch Companion remains a generic sealed egg; no public installer was added and document conversion is unchanged.
Home, Result, History, five format journeys and Desktop Companion now lead with clearer visuals and shorter copy. Result risks and retention limits are easier to scan without relying on colour. The pre-hatch Companion remains a generic sealed egg; document conversion is unchanged.
Four Desktop functions finished in source: supported screen-capture exclusion, honest power retreat, local session-only pinned-image references, and a 12-item file/folder shelf. Their limits are now explained on the site. There is still no public Desktop installer; conversion is unchanged.
Desktop Companion now offers a GET-only retry when account status cannot be read, without spending a draw. Availability notifications use Desktop-specific consent. If copy fails, the real share URL stays selectable and no false copied event is sent. The egg stays sealed; conversion is unchanged.
The site now has text-free art for Home, Converter, Desktop Companion and Sign-in, with phone/desktop and light/dark versions. The pearl-and-cloud D2 icon now serves browser tabs and Apple touch. Upload and sign-in stay first; the Companion stays a sealed egg. Document conversion is unchanged.
No change to how documents are converted. Behind the scenes, the Token Egg's companion-sound engine landed in source: study and sleep, generated live on your own machine, with no audio files, no streaming and no account. It is not finished and cannot be switched on yet.
Desktop Companion source now rests as a board-free 160x160 pet. Account, close and focus timer move to the right-click menu; transparent pixels pass clicks through; temporary surfaces expand to 300x440. Document conversion is unchanged.
Fifth Token Egg function finished in source: read-aloud. The egg reads its own cards - key sentences or smoothed text - with the voices already on your Windows machine, offline. Chinese gets a Taiwan voice; without one it declines honestly. Conversion is unchanged.
Fourth Token Egg function finished in source: a focus timer. Ask the egg to call you in 5 to 50 minutes - it salutes, keeps you quiet company, then taps the screen edge with a soft chime you booked. Done celebrates; snooze gets a yawn; cancel never pretends completion. Conversion is unchanged.
Third Token Egg function finished in source: paste broken PDF text onto the egg (Ctrl+V) and it hands back smoothed, reflowed text with an honest tally of what changed - lines rejoined, split words repaired, stray gaps closed. Pure rules, no AI, nothing invented. Conversion is unchanged.
The Token Egg app's second function is finished in source: hand the egg any files and it holds them while you change folders, then drag them back out - one at a time or all together. The Companion page now describes both finished functions. Conversion is unchanged.
The Desktop Companion page now tells the real plan: the app is LessTokens Token Egg, its first function is finished - feed it a document, get the key sentences back verbatim - and the three helper waves after it are listed. Nothing is downloadable before the Store release. Conversion is unchanged.
The life-stage gallery had every companion growing up backwards — each row ran adult, adolescent, child, baby. It now reads left to right the way growing up does, youngest first. Our automated checks were also failing on busy machines, not real problems. No change to how documents are converted.
The LessTokens mark is a character now: it leans toward your pointer, and it lives in the upload area, perking up when you drag a file over. The drop area itself is rebuilt. Reduced motion is respected. No change to how documents are converted.
Pasting a screenshot into the converter now works the instant the page appears. A paste in that first moment used to be quietly ignored: the image never arrived and the page looked as though you had done nothing. Pasting text is unaffected. No change to how documents are converted.
LessTokens has its new look: our designer’s pearl mark and hand-lettered logotype now appear in the header, footer, browser tab and share cards, and the whole site wears the brand palette — cream and deep navy by day, night navy by night. No change to how documents are converted.
Dropping a file on the converter no longer risks losing the page. A file dropped the instant the page appears, or slightly outside the box, used to make the browser open that file and discard the page. It is now picked up as a normal selection. No change to how documents are converted.
After drawing an egg, the page no longer tells you to open the Desktop app — there is still no signed installer, so that step was impossible. It now says nothing is required of you yet and marks the Desktop stage as waiting. No change to how documents are converted.
On a phone, the sign-in offer on the Companion page no longer overlaps itself. The heading, the explanation and the Google button now sit on their own lines, instead of the button printing over the sentence above it. No change to how documents are converted.
After a sealed-egg draw, the page now shows the egg, confirms where it is saved, and gives one clear next step plus the path to a future baby-companion hatch. VVIP members can draw another egg instead of seeing an inactive repeat button. The signed public Desktop installer is still being prepared.
Explore sixteen adolescent-stage actions for every companion, with four authored key poses, character-specific pacing and reduced-motion support. These are Web concept frames, not final Desktop animation or a hatch. Pre-hatch remains a sealed egg; document conversion is unchanged.
Sealed-egg transfer is now ready on the server and in the Desktop source: a verified claim moves only the sealed egg to the lower-right window and reveals no pet. Public use still needs a registered Google Desktop sign-in client and signed installer; nourishment and hatching remain undecided.
Companion visuals now use a rounder sealed egg, seamless life-stage crops and a continuous footer gradient. Draw results say the egg remains in your Web account, not Desktop. Repeated art-review captions are gone. A second authorized Google test account can receive VVIP; safety gates remain.
The configured founder Google account now has VVIP access: no hourly, daily, OCR, Owner-burst or sealed-egg draw quota. File-size, format, content-validation, sequential-processing and sign-in safety limits remain; ordinary accounts are unchanged, and every Web egg stays sealed.
Companion capsules now open in layered 2.5D: separate shell halves reveal a sealed egg through restrained light and varied motes. Reduced motion keeps a static ending. Uploads continue if optional activity logging is unavailable. Desktop hatching remains a review preview.
Explore sixteen child-stage actions for every companion in the interactive motion studio, with character-specific pacing and a reduced-motion view. These are Web concept key poses, not final Desktop animation. Document conversion is unchanged.
The design record now includes sixteen child-stage motion poses for each of the sixteen companions. These are concept references, not animation playing on the site. The public Companion experience and document conversion are unchanged.
Housekeeping only: the production image no longer carries design review artwork that no page could ever show. Nothing on the site changed, and there is no change to how documents are converted.
The Desktop Companion page now previews how the sixteen companions are designed to grow up: adult, adolescent, child, and the baby the capsule delivers. Concept renders only, not final artwork. The draw still ends at a sealed egg. No change to how documents are converted.
The companion page now shows your draws left, eggs held and fragment balance. An account can hold more than one egg; the first draw stays free and once only. Fragments come from duplicates, which only a future Desktop hatching can tell apart, so none can be earned yet.
The Companion capsule machine now has expressive eyes with pupils and highlights, a hinged delivery flap, and larger capsule and sealed-egg states that stay distinguishable at its smallest size. This remains a Web prototype; no Desktop app or hatch is included. Conversion is unchanged.
Signed-in activity now supports internal product analysis: login frequency, conversion format/mode, file-size range, outcome, and sealed-egg claim. Raw activity expires after 395 days. No document content is kept in this activity log, and it is not used for marketing. Conversion is unchanged.
Google sign-in now saves your Google-confirmed email with your stable account id for account services. GitHub email retention remains disabled. The Privacy policy explains retention, correction or deletion, and that login is not marketing consent. Conversion is unchanged.
The free draw now hands you a sealed egg, and the machine is rebuilt. What is inside stays hidden until a future Desktop hatching, so no name, portrait or rarity is shown or sent to your browser. Locked concepts are veiled, not flattened into black shapes. Conversion is unchanged.
Drawing a companion now really does require a Google sign-in. The previous release said so but shipped a page built without the sign-in check, so a signed-out visitor could still draw. Conversion output is unchanged.
Meeting a companion now starts with a free capsule draw, and it needs a Google sign-in so the companion stays yours across browsers. You can turn the draw into a share card and hand a document to the converter from there. OpenDocument (.odt) files now convert. Conversion output is unchanged.
Sixteen pets now have distinct personalities, movement rhythms, recovery and SSR encores across five browser interactions. Mobile navigation, keyboard focus, reduced motion and dark contrast are improved. Browser concept only: no installer, purchase or entitlement. Document conversion is unchanged.
Choose all 16 named concept pets and try hello, document and play in Standard or SSR browser previews. Still a concept preview: no installer, formal Desktop release, purchase or membership entitlement. Names and final art remain under review. Document conversion is unchanged.
The Desktop Companion preview now tells a warmer product story and gives five concept characters distinct silhouettes, body language and keyboard/touch reaction previews. It remains a concept preview with no installer or released interactive pet. No change to how documents are converted.
Homepage keeps the full named 16-pet concept atlas. Desktop groundwork adds pet performances, atomic sessions, stale-callback protection and a Main-owned Standard/SSR boundary. It remains a concept preview: no installer, formal Desktop release or interactive pet. Document conversion is unchanged.
Internal Desktop Companion groundwork adds deterministic interaction priority and pet-specific playback/recovery contracts for future motion. No Desktop installer or interactive pet is released, and there is no change to how documents are converted.
The homepage now shows the complete named sixteen-pet concept atlas. It remains a concept preview: no installer or formal Desktop release is available. No change to how documents are converted.
No behavior change from 16.551.0. A local CLI timeout caused two concurrent identical Fly deployments (v148 and v149); this patch restores one-product-version-per-deploy traceability.
Integrates fail-closed Desktop lifecycle, localization, accessibility, account-access boundaries, share reauthorization, and distinct per-pet interactions. No installer is released; assets and real account access remain blocked. Document conversion is unchanged.
Security and compatibility maintenance updated the website and PDF-processing foundations, explicitly disabled PDF scripting, and added internal gates for companion production assets and Desktop packaging. Supported formats and the public conversion workflow are unchanged.
Adds an honest in-development Desktop Companion preview to the homepage and its own page, with original concept art and no installer claim. The footer now has one clear conversion entry and a deep-blue mobile layout. No change to how documents are converted.
Internal browser verification now checks that rate-limit refusals never retry automatically and that the manual Retry control can recover after temporary upload failures are exhausted. No change to how documents are converted.
Internal browser verification now checks Owner batch behavior, upload errors, client-side file refusal, and retry/network-failure handling across both languages and desktop/mobile. No change to how documents are converted.
Some Traditional Chinese PDFs that use a standard character map without embedding it can now extract readable text instead of returning an empty result. Scanned and image-only PDFs still require OCR; other document formats are unchanged.
No change to how documents are converted. This release strengthens internal validation and release-traceability safeguards.
Scanned-PDF OCR now has a bounded 240-second deadline instead of 60 seconds; other formats remain at 60 seconds. Review the Markdown, then take it manually to your chosen AI tool—nothing is sent automatically. The 100 MB and 20-page OCR limits are unchanged.
Footer navigation is now grouped as Product, Format guides and Legal, making the existing document-format guides easier to find. No change to how documents are converted.
The "notify me" form inside each proposed plan is now counted separately from the general homepage signup, so each records what it actually asked for. Nothing became purchasable — the plans still cannot be bought and nothing is charged. No change to how documents are converted.
The proposed monthly plans on the homepage now say plainly that they are still in preparation, cannot be bought, and will charge you nothing — with an optional email if you want to hear when that changes. Added a short list of recent conversion improvements. No change to how documents are converted.
Security maintenance updated the image-processing dependency and added regression guards for admin authorization and accepted image formats. No change to how documents are converted.
Security maintenance: updated dependencies with confirmed exposure. No change to how documents are converted.
Internal quality work: every public page is now automatically checked so a new page can never launch without its own tests. Nothing visible changed, and no change to how documents are converted.
A new FAQ page answers the 11 most common questions honestly - including what we can't do. The privacy policy now names the operator in English only, and the footer gained a subtle scroll-reactive gradient. No change to how documents are converted.
Homepage text now meets accessibility contrast standards in light and dark mode, fixing 18 dark-mode readability problems, and each section gained its own subtle motion that respects reduced-motion settings. No change to how documents are converted.
The homepage audience cards are easier to read and livelier: darker high-contrast headings, an eighth card inviting you to try a document right away, and subtle hover and scroll animations that respect reduced-motion settings. No change to how documents are converted.
Added browser tests for all 18 guide pages in both languages - each must load, show exactly one heading, fit on a phone screen without sideways scrolling, and offer the email signup where it belongs. No change to how documents are converted.
Added internal quality checks that verify rare Chinese characters (CJK Extension B) and emoji survive conversion intact in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, CSV, and plain-text files. No change to how documents are converted.
The homepage now illustrates each audience card with artwork drawn in-house - one illustration per profession. No change to how documents are converted.
CSV and text files that are not valid UTF-8 now get a clear, actionable error - save or export as UTF-8 and retry - instead of a generic failure. Legacy encodings such as Big5 are not decoded; files that are valid UTF-8 convert exactly as before.
Added production-browser test coverage for the complete upload-to-result, copy, download, and privacy-minimized analytics flow. No change to how documents are converted and no user-visible change.
PowerPoint conversions now include text that was previously omitted from grouped and nested shapes, ordered using the groups’ slide coordinates. Image and chart marker behavior is unchanged; SmartArt, chart reconstruction, and master/layout text remain unsupported.
Word conversions now include an _[Image]_ marker for each embedded image and preserve source-authored alt text when available. Image pixels are not OCR'd or described, and unconverted-image warnings remain.
The full document-conversion comparison now has a permanent, shareable page carrying the same results, method, limitations, versions, dates, and trademark disclosure already published on the homepage. No change to how documents are converted.
Homepage email signups are now measured separately from guide-page signups, and the homepage signup says clearly what it is for: notifications when new document-preparation capabilities ship. Historical signups stay grouped as guides. No change to how documents are converted.
Internal groundwork for a future 'cite your sources' capability: measurement tooling only, with no AI model run. No user-visible feature and no change to how documents are converted.
Internal quality checks and evaluation/measurement groundwork were strengthened. No user-visible feature and no change to how documents are converted.
Internal housekeeping to our own measurement code (making one list the single source of truth). No user-visible change and no change to how documents are converted.
Excel fidelity: a very small negative number that rounds to a displayed zero (like -0.001 shown as 0.00) no longer picks up a stray minus sign in the Markdown, matching what the spreadsheet actually shows.
An internal founder-only reporting view (a day-by-day activity breakdown). No cookies, no third-party tracking, no user-visible feature, and no change to how documents are converted.
A wording and accuracy fix to our own first-party activity measurement so a started download is recorded as an action begun, not as a saved file. No cookies, no third-party tracking, no new visible feature, no change to how downloads or documents work.
A correction to our own first-party activity measurement so a single result taken away more than one way is no longer counted twice. No cookies, no third-party tracking, no new visible feature, and no change to how documents are converted.
Behind-the-scenes measurement so we can tell whether the new homepage actually helps: our own privacy-preserving analytics now note which kind of page a visit started on and whether the AI-chat hand-off was used. No cookies, no third-party tracking, and no change to how documents are converted.
New homepage section on checking a document before you hand it to AI — the broken-source problems we can flag, like garbled text, missing figures and weakened numbers. No change to how documents are converted.
The public head-to-head section now cites the measured LessTokens build using the current version-numbering rule. No change to how documents are converted.
The result page can now copy a ready-to-use AI chat prompt with your Markdown. It keeps review metadata visible to the receiving AI; that is a caution, not an accuracy guarantee.
Measured conversion risks now travel with copied and downloaded Markdown as machine-readable review flags. The warning stays with the document after you close the result page; it still does not certify source accuracy.
Results now also flag one repeated, known text-corruption pattern even when no replacement character appears. It is a narrow, catalogued warning — not a claim to detect every form of garbled text.
Results now flag and count explicit unknown-character markers (�) in the final Markdown, so you can check the matching source section before relying on it. This detects that marker only: no warning does not mean there is no other form of garbled text.
New Figures matter mode: choose it when a document's numbers drive a decision. It keeps non-lossy cleanup, makes you acknowledge a source review before copying or downloading, and marks the Markdown as requiring that review. It does not claim the figures are verified.
No change to how documents are converted. We advanced the version so each production deployment remains traceable after a deployment command timed out locally while the remote deployment continued.
Every conversion now compares numbers in the extracted source against the final Markdown. If one is not found exactly, we show a count and ask you to check the original — this catches changed or missing values, but cannot prove the source itself was read correctly.
Scanned pages: we now separately check how confidently the OCR read digits. When the number score is much lower than the surrounding text, we show both figures and ask you to check the original — it is a warning, not proof that a number is right or wrong.
Spreadsheets: we now tell you when a cell displays a rounded number. Excel can show 1,234.57 while the file actually stores 1,234.56789 — the Markdown follows what is displayed, and now says which cells that applied to, so you can check them against the source.
New page: "How do you know your document actually converted correctly?" It explains what we check on every conversion — and, with equal prominence, what we still cannot detect, such as a dropped decimal point or garbled text.
PDFs now get the same disclosure: if your PDF contains figures, we say so. Small marks like logos and rules are not counted, so we say "at least N images" rather than pretending to an exact number.
Your result now tells you what did NOT make it into the Markdown. Images, charts, SmartArt and embedded files in Word, PowerPoint and Excel files are counted and disclosed — the text can convert perfectly while the chart your document was built around quietly does not. Not yet available for PDFs.
No change to how documents are converted. This release only fixes an internal reporting tool we use ourselves.
No change to how documents are converted. We now count how often the Copy button is used, so we can tell whether a conversion actually helped someone — previously only downloads were counted. See the privacy page for exactly what is recorded.
No change to how documents are converted. We changed how releases are numbered: the version now carries a build number instead of a date.
Published the head-to-head test we ran against another converter — including the pass mark we set in advance and did not reach. Added a way to hear about new guides.
Two- and three-column PDFs now read down each column instead of across the page, so sentences stop being stitched together from different columns.