Every Facet update, in plain words. Facet updates itself, so you always have the newest one.
Facet 1.0.484
Fresh names: Spaces are now Facets, Favorites are Gems, Tidy is Sweep, Boards is Gallery, private windows are Ghost and the ad blocker is Shield.
Facet Together: Fling tabs and Drop files between your Mac and iPhone, Mirror your iPhone tabs in the sidebar, share a Stash, and keep a video playing across devices.
Coming from Arc? Facet now brings over your passwords, logins and extensions too.
Tabs remember their Back history after you quit, and Peek summaries show up faster.
Less battery used with video, and a flame marks tabs that drain the battery.
New tools: find in all tabs, page notes, reading progress, Live Text, Mark Up, full-page screenshots, clean PDFs and Translate Text in Image.
Agent can now use the AI you pick: Apple Intelligence, your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini key, a local model, Codex or Claude Code.
⌘Z undoes browser actions, a cleaner AI chat, calmer animations, and dark sites no longer flash white.
New Help › Report a Problem, so you can tell us when something breaks.
Facet 1.0.447
Tidy gives tabs shorter, clearer names, and a name goes away when the tab moves to a different page.
Facet 1.0.444
The Library is easier to find: the menu button at the bottom of the sidebar now has Library, Boards and Read Later.
News messages from Facet show only once.
Facet 1.0.442
Uses less battery when idle: fewer background wake-ups for the menu bar drop, live scores, Mac Sync and media.
Small fixes can now reach you without an app update.
Facet 1.0.437
Fixed: downloading the Chromium engine in Settings › General › Browser Engine no longer fails.
Facet 1.0.433
Bitwarden and 1Password now work in Facet. Settings › Extensions shows any extension problem with a Try Again button.
Inspect Element opens in its own window instead of flashing.
Optional Chromium engine: pick WebKit, Chromium or Automatic in Settings › General › Browser Engine. Chromium only downloads if you choose it, and you can right-click a tab to reopen it in the other engine. WebKit stays the default.
Facet 1.0.411
Dragging a tab to the menu bar is much easier: Pin and Send to iPhone drop down as soon as you get near the Facet icon.
When a site wants a passkey Facet doesn’t have, Facet explains it and offers Open in Safari instead of timing out.
Hover summaries only appear when you rest on a link’s words, show up faster, and are shorter.
Facet 1.0.391
Folder icons are back in the folder menu.
Setup’s import list shows only the browsers you actually have, each with its real icon.
Settings › Passwords is smooth again.
Easier to read: brighter sidebar tab names, a crisper selected tab in dark mode and a clearer start page search box.
Facet 1.0.387
Many more Chrome extensions work now, and side panels open as popups.
Import from many more browsers: Helium, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Comet, Firefox, Zen, Orion, DuckDuckGo and more. Zen Spaces and pinned tabs come over too.
Facet officially runs on Intel Macs too.
Use All My iCloud Passwords: one click and Touch ID bring them into Facet, and they fill by themselves after that.
Passkeys work on every site, kept in Facet behind Touch ID.
Faster page loads. A page that crashes now reloads instead of staying blank, and background tabs rest early when your Mac is low on memory.
Hover summaries show a headline, a few bullets, page facts and a thumbnail.
The Facet menu bar icon is on by default. Drag a tab or link onto it to Pin it or Send it to iPhone.
Make it yours: start page widgets, page zoom and fonts, a search engine per Space, launch options and settings backup.
Tab folders, snooze tabs, Read Later with offline copies, mouse gestures, Boards, a morning brief and sync between Macs.
Facet 1.0.357
New: Facet Sync with iPhone. Pair with a QR code, share tabs and send pages between devices.
Moving old passwords into Facet now happens fully inside the app.
Facet 1.0.351
Extension icons live behind one puzzle-piece button at the bottom of the sidebar. Pin up to 3 favorites.
A new History page with search.
Closing a tab stops its video or music right away.
Faster launch and command bar, smoother downloads, and text on glass is always readable.
Facet 1.0.347
Every site icon is a clean rounded square, so dark icons no longer disappear into the sidebar.
Sharper buttons, Space icons and back and forward arrows.
New tabs: choose Popup (search over the page) or Full Page in Settings › General.
Turn AI and agents fully off in setup or Settings › AI & Agents.
Facet 1.0.310
Hide My Location (Tor) in private windows now connects reliably, with clearer status text.
A cleaner first-run setup.
Facet 1.0.303
Hide My Location: browse privately through Tor, right from a private window.
More privacy in private windows: a panic key, anti-fingerprinting, erase when idle, vanishing downloads and Secret Favorites.
The roomier touch layout only turns on after you actually touch the screen.
Facet 1.0.293
A cleaner video controls panel, styled like Now Playing.
Facet 1.0.291
Live activities in the sidebar: what’s playing, live scores, calls, downloads and working agents.
Circle to Search is rebuilt: much faster and easy to exit.
Touchscreen support: bigger targets, swipe from the edge to go back or forward, pull down to reload.
Private Browsing (⇧⌘N): a window that forgets everything when you close it, with an optional Touch ID lock.
Facet 1.0.269
Themes for each Space, and new Customize settings: sidebar size, fonts, toolbar buttons, corners, blur and more.
Facet Agent: press ⌥⌘A for one assistant beside the page that can answer and act across your tabs.
Faster AI: hover summaries and Tidy answer almost instantly.
Facet 1.0.259
Force Click a link for a big live preview of the page.
Links to Mac apps open the app: Zoom, Slack, email and sign-in links.
Facet 1.0.251
The first official Facet release. From now on, Facet keeps itself up to date.
Enter in the address bar always searches or opens what you typed.
Inspect Element and the Web Inspector for building websites.