What's new in keepup

0.1.2 · October 11, 2026

keepup lives in the menu bar, with its own mark. Click the mark for a short menu; double-click it, or choose Open keepup, for your list.
keepup is in the Dock only while one of its windows is open. Closing the window or pressing ⌘Q leaves it running in the menu bar. Quit keepup, in the menu, is what ends it.
The number of people waiting no longer shows beside the mark. Settings → General brings it back.
keepup sends no notifications unless you turn them on: Settings → Daily brief, or Nudges. If you had left those settings as they came, the brief and nudges are now off; settings you changed yourself are kept.
Settings → Email sweep shows what the sweep would mark read right now, before you switch it on.
Updates install by themselves while keepup sits in the menu bar, unless you chose to be asked first (Settings → General → Install them without asking). If you're asked, the update waits in keepup's menu.
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The email sweep no longer depends on the daily brief. In 0.1, switching the brief off also stopped the sweep, so nothing was marked read.
The sweep runs as mail arrives. You can choose every hour or twice a day instead: Settings → Email sweep → When.
A sweep that was missed, because the Mac was off or asleep, is caught up when keepup next runs.
Settings names the senders of swept mail by their names.

The first public beta: keepup for Mac, and the iPhone app on TestFlight.