The latest from Sunrise.

First Light

An overnight agent that preps your morning before you open the app. The morning just arrives knowing more.

• Pre-loaded context. While you sleep, Sunrise scans your calendar, open PRs, and inbox. Your morning brain-dump becomes a confirmation, not a cold start.

• Carry-forward intelligence. The overnight layer prepares yesterday’s rollover items, ranked by urgency and horizon alignment. Half the morning work is already done.

• Horizon nudging. If your horizon is “ship the beta” and you haven’t committed in 3 days, the morning check-in opens with a gentle nudge, before you even start typing.

• Pattern memory. Over time, Sunrise learns when you’re most productive, where you overplan, and what kind of days need a different opening. Invisible configuration.

First Light runs entirely silently. No new settings panel.

Faster check-ins, smoother billing

Replies land quicker, and free/Solo billing edge cases got cleaned up.

• Faster replies. Check-in responses no longer wait on a background sync before appearing — you see and hear the reply immediately, the sync happens behind it.

• Free to-dos, unblocked. Adding a to-do as a free user could wrongly trigger an upgrade prompt. Manual add now always works, no AI required, trial or not.

• Solo subscription sync. Fixed a stale-cache bug where Solo subscribers could briefly see AI and voice check-ins locked right after subscribing.

Sunrise for iPhone

Sunrise leaves the menu bar. Voice check-ins, streaks, and Horizons, now in your pocket.

• On the App Store. The full check-in loop, native on iPhone. Sign in with the same account to sync goals, streaks, and history with Mac.

• Sign in with Apple. Sign in on Mac or iPhone with your Apple ID — no Google account required.

• Native billing. Solo subscribes through StoreKit on iPhone, no separate checkout flow.

Billing, hardened

Subscription state moved server-side, so it can no longer drift out of sync between devices.

• Server-verified entitlement. Subscription status is checked against Apple and Stripe records directly, not just trusted from the app — plans stay correct even after an offline stretch or a reinstall.

• Smarter "Manage Subscription". Opens Apple’s sheet for App Store subscribers, the web billing portal for everyone else — automatically, no guessing which one applies.

Recap, history, and check-in polish

The shareable artifact gets meaningful depth. History gains pattern intelligence.

• Milestone badges. Streaks of 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, and 100 days earn a distinct moment. “30 days. This is now just who you are.”

• GitHub on recap card. When GitHub is connected the card shows which repos you touched and how many commits shipped. The merge-vs-intention read made visible.

• Week shape strip. Mon–Fri completion dots on the recap card, coloured by outcome. Makes the Friday card a weekly artefact.

• Day-of-week bar chart. Your completion rate per weekday, visualised once you have two weeks of data. Tuesdays are your strongest. Now you know.

• Pattern insight line. A single computed observation (overplanning, momentum, or best/worst day). Only appears when there is enough data to say something true.

• Thinking dots. Three breathing dots appear the moment a proactive check-in fires. The gap between the chime and the first word no longer looks like a crash.

• D1–D7 progress bar. During your first 7 days the footer shows “First week · Day X of 7” with an amber fill bar. Disappears automatically on day 8.

• Privacy one-liner. “Voice runs on secure infrastructure. Goals stay on your machine. GitHub tokens never leave your device.” Always visible in Settings.

• Voice mute button. A single icon in the header. Toggle it and Sunrise goes text-only, persisted across restarts.

Horizons

Durable long-term intentions that connect daily goals to what actually matters.

• Horizons. Up to 3 ongoing intentions (“ship the beta”, “get healthier”, “build in public”) that daily goals can link to. The AI names the connection when it sees it.

• Horizon nudging at EOD. If a goal you completed today served a horizon, the wrap-up names it explicitly. The daily ritual starts to feel like it goes somewhere.

• Voice fallback chain. ElevenLabs → macOS say → text-only. The app works regardless of API status and switches silently.

EOD rollover and clean AI context

The wrap-up gets memory. The AI stops mentioning things that no longer exist.

• Rollover picker. At wrap-up, Sunrise asks which unfinished goals carry to tomorrow. You choose. Nothing rolls forward without your say-so.

• Ghost-goal fix. Deleted or completed goals were sometimes referenced in later check-ins. Fixed: the AI context now scrubs removed, pending, and completed items.

• Waitlist infrastructure. Resend-powered confirmation and launch emails, ready to fire when the public release goes out.

Voice and subscription

Sunrise speaks. Stripe is wired. The habit loop gets a price.

• ElevenLabs voice. Flash v2.5 at 16kHz, word-by-word reveal timed to audio so text and speech land together. Under 1 second end-to-end.

• Stripe checkout. Solo tier with a sunrise:// deep link to activate after checkout. Google identity verifies the tier on sign-in.

• Bulk directives. The AI can now clear all goals or mark all goals complete in a single move, useful for the “forget yesterday, start fresh” morning flow.

Sync, subtasks, and timing

The app gets a backbone: identity, cross-device state, and a sense of time.

• Google OAuth + sync. Sign in once. Goals, history, and settings follow you across machines via Cloudflare KV.

• Subtask breakdown. The AI breaks a complex goal into sub-steps when the task warrants it, one level deep, never recursive.

• Workday-timed check-in. Tell Sunrise when your workday starts and the morning check-in fires two minutes later, every day. “Timing as coincidence.”

• Sunrise audio cue. A synthesised audio tone plays when a proactive check-in fires, so you always know one arrived.

Hello, Sunrise

The first build. A tray-bar app that turns your workday into a daily ritual.

• Morning brain-dump. Tell Sunrise your must-dos in natural language. It captures them as goals and confirms back in one sentence. Under 60 seconds.

• Midday and EOD check-ins. Scheduled voice conversations from your menu bar. No dashboards. No notifications. Just a short conversation at the moments that matter.

• Goal directive pipeline. Set, add, complete, update, remove. The AI manages your goal list through structured directives, invisible to you, precise under the hood.

• Calendar context. Sunrise reads your calendar so check-ins are aware of what’s coming. Works on day one without configuration.

• GitHub cross-reference. Connect GitHub and Sunrise can see what you actually merged today. The gap between intention and output, made visible.

• Cloudflare Worker backend. All AI calls proxied at the edge. Your API key never lives in the app. Fast, private, deployable in seconds.