v0.4.0April 8, 2026
Context-aware release — silent during meetings
- +Context-aware tip filter — Pebl polls the frontmost app every 3 seconds. When it sees Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, Discord, Webex, Loom, Skype, or any fullscreen app, it stays silent.
- +168 of 169 shipping tips are now fully mapped with safety metadata across 9 dimensions (posture, space, privacy, time, mobility, social, equipment, intensity, safety flags)
- +Optional body profile in onboarding — 5 soft chips (pregnancy, hypertension, herniated disc, cervical disc, vertigo). Pebl automatically filters contraindicated stretches. Fully skippable, never leaves your Mac.
- +Pregnancy-safe filtering — automatically skips 6 categories of tips (balance-required, head-below-heart, lumbar-flexion-twist, breath-hold, hyperventilation-risk, explicit pregnancy-contraindicated)
- +Safe-core fallback — 49 universally-safe tips (gratitude, affirmations, micro-resets) guaranteed when the context filter eliminates everything else
- +"Why now?" transparency link on every whisper — explains exactly why Pebl interrupted you. "You've been working 47 minutes. Your setting: Normal (~25 min)."
- +Silent mode — a fourth frequency option that disables all proactive nudges. The orb stays but never speaks.
- +New BreakMode screen — teal orb, breathing ring, countdown, warm welcome-back phase
- +Dashboard rewritten as a "companion moment" card next to the orb, not a fullscreen page
- +Settings rewritten as a 5-step guided conversation with progress dots
- +Nudge redesigned as a warm cream card matching Whisper's palette
- +Profile-first onboarding — asks how you work before asking your name
- +Trader profile default changed from gentle to silent — onboarding copy now matches code
- +6 risky tips removed after wellness-science review: Kapalabhati breathing, standing forward fold without knee cue, advanced thread-the-needle, and 4 large-rotation eye exercises (BPPV risk)
- +7 safety cues added to borderline tips: "back off if it pinches", "small and slow, stop if sharp", "shorten the holds if lightheaded"
- +Click-1 race fix — the wellness engine can no longer fire a tip mid-menu-click
- +Orb color drift — warms up the longer you work, with a 6-mood palette (fresh → warming → overdue → burnout → break → goodnight → twilight-indigo quiet hours)
- +Idle CPU: 55% → 3.7% total Electron footprint (92% reduction)
- +Universal binary — runs on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs
- +Existing v0.3.0 users auto-upgraded to v2 see a mini-onboarding flow for the new body profile step
- +Update notifications: no more silent installs. Pebl asks before restarting.
- +Apache 2.0 license — open source from day one
- +21-agent expert review panel across 11 disciplines + 50-persona × 14-day longitudinal simulation before ship