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Ikuna 1.1.0: a more complete, reliable Ikuna experience

Ikuna 1.1.0 is a meaningful step forward from 1.0.0, and it reflects a lot of work in the areas people feel most during a real workday. This release makes workspace restoration more dependable, turns the Dashboard into something much richer and more useful, smooths out switching and onboarding, adds iCloud sync across computers, and strengthens a lot of the security and recovery foundations behind the scenes.

If 1.0.0 introduced the core Ikuna experience, 1.1.0 is where that experience starts to feel much more complete. The app does a better job of bringing you back into context, showing you what your time actually looked like, and keeping your data consistent as you move between Macs.

What improved in 1.1.0

More reliable workspace restore and switching

Ikuna is at its best when you can leave one context and come back to another without feeling like you have to rebuild everything by hand. In 1.1.0, a big part of the work went into making workspace restoration more dependable across the apps and edge cases people actually run into every day.

What improved:

• Better restoration for Chrome, Arc, and other Chromium-based browsers

• Better Finder and iTerm restoration behavior

• Improved Spotify launch behavior during workspace switching

• More robust multi-monitor window positioning

• Better cleanup behavior when switching workspaces

• Safer handling of malformed or incomplete tab and window data

What this means for you:

• Fewer broken restores

• Less manual cleanup after switching contexts

• More confidence that your workspace comes back in a usable state

• Better behavior on more complex desk setups

A faster, more useful Dashboard

The Dashboard got one of the biggest upgrades in this release. In 1.0.0, it was much more basic. In 1.1.0, it becomes far more capable: faster to load, more stable while you use it, and much better at showing the shape of your work across the day, week, and month. We also spent time making the numbers themselves more trustworthy, which matters just as much as adding new views.

What improved:

• Faster dashboard loading and cache handling

• Fixes for month-view freezes and lag

• Live Active Time restored

• Better graph scaling and empty-state behavior

• More accurate week and month totals

• Better handling for deep work attribution inside Ikuna workspaces

• Better counters for hours worked, breaks, productivity split, and context switches

New insight layers:

• Attention Span tracking

• Focus and energy flow indicators

• Historical AI briefings through the Performance Journal

• More polished AI summaries and action-oriented coaching

• Richer performance reporting tied to live productivity data

What this means for you:

• The Dashboard feels faster and less fragile

• Your productivity data is more consistent and believable

• You can understand not just how long you worked, but how your focus changed throughout the day

• The coaching side of Ikuna becomes more useful instead of just descriptive

Better onboarding and first-run flow

We also reworked onboarding so the app is easier to understand before it starts asking for permissions or nudging you into new workflows. The goal here was not just polish for the sake of polish, but a smoother path to that first moment where Ikuna actually starts helping.

What improved:

• Overhauled onboarding UI

• Clearer permission prompting

• Better explanation of shortcuts and setup flow

• Better Pro Preview entry points

• Quick Switcher is gated until onboarding completes, avoiding confusing first-run interruptions

What this means for you:

• A smoother first impression

• Less confusion during setup

• Faster time to value

Quick Switcher improvements

For people who move between workspaces constantly, the Quick Switcher now feels much more polished and much less fussy. We improved the small interaction details that end up mattering a lot when you use a feature over and over throughout the day.

What improved:

• Optional "open Quick Switcher on launch" setting

• Better Enter key behavior

• Better workspace selection flow

• Improved layout and centering on the active display

What this means for you:

• Faster keyboard-first switching

• Less friction when changing context

• A more predictable switching flow

Better workspace editing and transition feedback

We also made workspace editing easier once you have already started building your setups. Instead of treating workspaces as something you define once and leave alone, 1.1.0 makes it easier to refine them as your real working habits evolve.

What improved:

• Inline tab insertion inside window rows

• Better browser and Finder tab mapping

• Cleaner editor behavior with fewer accidental app launches

• More reliable Create/Edit panel behavior

• Progress feedback while Ikuna is cleaning or loading a workspace

What this means for you:

• Less friction when editing workspaces

• Better visibility into what Ikuna is doing during transitions

• Fewer annoying edge cases while saving and refining setups

Stronger iCloud sync and recovery behavior

iCloud and CloudKit support are one of the clearest differences between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0. In 1.0.0, Ikuna did not support iCloud sync across computers. In 1.1.0, your workspaces and related data can now follow you across Macs, and we put real effort into making that behavior more controllable, more resilient, and less likely to leave you with messy state when something goes wrong.

What improved:

• Granular iCloud sync controls

• Better CloudKit transaction handling

• Better merge behavior for workspaces and dashboard-related data

• Better cache invalidation during sync

• Support for CloudKit sync on existing on-disk SQLite stores

• Better startup auth restoration for iCloud-related flows

• Hardened local backup and restore behavior for data safety

What this means for you:

• Fewer sync surprises

• Your workspaces and related data can follow you across your Macs

• Better continuity across sessions and devices

• Less risk of stale or fragmented productivity data

• A stronger recovery path if local persistence gets messy

Stronger security foundations

1.1.0 also includes a lot of work that improves trust in the app, even if much of it is not immediately visible in the UI. This is the kind of work that tends to stay behind the scenes, but it matters because it affects how safely and predictably the app behaves once it becomes part of your daily workflow.

What improved:

• Better keychain access isolation

• Fewer unnecessary auth and keychain prompts at startup

• Safer account bootstrap behavior

• Audit logging and enterprise data-isolation groundwork

• Additional hardening across persistence, sync, and account flows

• Better backup and recovery behavior for local app data

What this means for you:

• A safer foundation for account and local data handling

• Fewer fragile startup and auth edge cases

• More confidence in how the app behaves behind the scenes

Clearer telemetry handling and sensitive-case protections

In 1.1.0, we also expanded telemetry infrastructure for product, diagnostics, and research use cases, while trying to make that behavior clearer and better structured at the same time. The goal was not to make the app feel noisier, but to be more explicit about what belongs in which stream and to handle sensitive browsing cases more carefully.

What improved:

• More consistent analytics identity and opt-out handling

• Better separation between diagnostics and other telemetry flows

• Optional anonymized productivity research flow

• Redaction for Chrome and Arc incognito tabs and URLs

What this means for you:

• Clearer analytics-related behavior

• Better handling of sensitive browsing cases

• More explicit control over telemetry participation where available

Broad stability improvements across the app

A lot of this release is invisible work, but it matters precisely because you feel it in the absence of friction. The app should stall less, recover better, and behave more predictably in the kinds of moments that used to create small but constant interruptions.

Included improvements:

• Threading fixes

• Memory leak fixes

• Safer AppleScript execution

• Better persistence recovery

• Hardened SQLite backup behavior

• Reduced UI glitches across settings, dashboard, and editor flows

What this means for you:

• Fewer freezes

• Fewer restore failures

• Fewer odd regressions during long workdays

In short

From 1.0.0 to 1.1.0, Ikuna became:

• More reliable at restoring your work

• Faster and more useful as a productivity dashboard

• Easier to set up and switch between contexts

• Able to sync across your computers through iCloud, with safer recovery behavior

• Stronger in its security foundations

• Clearer in how telemetry and sensitive cases are handled

Ikuna 1.1.0 is about helping you get back into focus with less friction, more continuity, and more confidence that the app will hold up as part of your real day-to-day work.