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Happy Independence Day to everyone celebrating in the United States! We hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July. It felt like the right weekend for a declaration of our own.
Today we are pointing Nowing at a single mission: give your AI agents the primitives to research the open web.
For the past couple of months we set out to build the best general research agent for your own knowledge. That chapter treated us well. As the open-source alternative to NotebookLM, Nowing earned a community we are genuinely proud of: more than 15,000 GitHub stars, self-hosted deployments everywhere from homelabs to enterprises, and users who pushed the product further than we imagined.
That same period settled a bigger question. Agentic tools like Claude, OpenCode, Hermes, and OpenClaw have proven themselves. Agents that plan, use tools, and finish multi-step work on their own are no longer a demo, they are how work gets done. General research assistance is becoming something every capable agent does out of the box.
So we asked what these agents still lack. Not reasoning. Not tools. Live data from the places where answers actually live, and the workflows around it. An agent asked "what is Reddit saying about this product since launch?" or "what do the reviews of these ten places actually complain about?" has nowhere trustworthy to look. Official platform APIs are rate-limited or missing, scraping plumbing is brittle, and driving a browser with an LLM burns minutes and tokens per page. We want to be the open-source platform that gives agents those primitives.
This is an addition, not a replacement. Your knowledge base, chat with citations, reports, podcasts, presentations, automations, and collaborative chats all keep working exactly as they do today. You can still upload files and sync Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. Self-hosting stays free and open source, and your existing deployments keep running without any action from you. What changes is where we invest: expect deeper connectors, sharper agent workflows, and broader coverage of the open web.
If you are building agents, grab an API key or add the MCP server, and start with the connector catalog. Tell us what you are building on Discord or GitHub.
We think the next great research tool will not be another dashboard or another chat window. It will be an agent that can actually reach the live web. We are building the platform it runs on.
v0.0.26 is our biggest workflow release yet: AI automations land in Nowing. If you've been looking for open source AI automation, a self-hosted AI agent that runs on a schedule, or document workflow automation that reacts the instant a file shows up, this release is for you. Describe what you want in plain English, let Nowing draft the automation, approve it, and your agent runs on its own: on a cron schedule or triggered by real events in your knowledge base. Best of all, automations work across your connectors, so one workflow can search and act on Notion, Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, Linear, Jira and Confluence. This release also brings connector @-mentions into chat, a faster anonymous chat experience, and a redesigned homepage.
Turn one-off prompts into repeatable, hands-off AI agent workflows.
document.entered_folder eventv0.0.26 turns Nowing from a place you ask questions into a place that does the work for you. Whether you want scheduled AI workflows, event-driven document automation, or a self-hosted, open source AI agent you fully control, this release lets you build it from a single sentence.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.25 focuses on making Nowing agents faster, cheaper to run, and easier to trust. Agent turns now do less unnecessary LLM work, citations are improved, memory extraction gets more useful, and users can edit memory directly from the document panel. The release also cleans up backend URL handling across the web app and tightens CI triggers.
v0.0.25 makes Nowing agents more efficient and easier to inspect. Faster turns, lower LLM cost, better citations, and more direct memory editing all move Nowing toward a smoother day-to-day AI knowledge workspace.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.24 is a major product and runtime release for Nowing. The interface gets a broad UI revamp, multi-agent chat gains a hierarchical timeline with live subagent streaming, and human approvals become more natural with inline and parallel approval flows. Behind the scenes, this release also introduces a full E2E test harness and hardens Docker build migrations.
v0.0.24 makes multi-agent Nowing easier to trust and easier to follow. With a clearer UI, live subagent streaming, parallel approvals, and a real E2E safety net, this release turns the multi-agent runtime into a more visible and dependable part of everyday knowledge work.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.23 introduces the next major step for Nowing chat: opt-in multi-agent orchestration with bundled human approval. Agents can now coordinate work through a more modular runtime, while improvements to memory extraction, prompt caching, subagent resilience, and document chunking make the system more dependable for complex knowledge tasks.
v0.0.23 lays the groundwork for Nowing's multi-agent future. With orchestration, approval, caching, and better document chunking, Nowing is better prepared for complex research, retrieval, and action-heavy workflows.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.22 is a compact backend performance release. The headline change is 24-hour CORS preflight response caching, which helps browsers avoid repeated preflight work when calling Nowing APIs from approved origins.
v0.0.22 is small by design, but it improves the everyday feel of Nowing API calls in browser and self-hosted environments by cutting down redundant CORS preflight traffic.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.21 is a focused reliability release for Nowing agents and chat infrastructure. It adds agent-side caches, fixes invalid prompt cache configuration paths, moves chat persistence to the server, and closes security leaks in manual authentication endpoints.
v0.0.21 keeps the momentum from the connector and desktop releases while strengthening the foundation: safer authentication, more reliable Docker behavior, and better server-owned chat state.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.20 is a platform-wide upgrade for connectors, desktop workflows, and chat. Nowing now supports live connector tools through MCP OAuth and native APIs, adds an Obsidian vault sync plugin, introduces local file editing in the desktop app, and makes chat smarter with thread-level model pinning, structured errors, and live usage visibility.
Connectors are no longer just places to index data. They can now expose live actions to Nowing agents.
v0.0.20 makes Nowing feel more connected, more local, and more agentic. Whether you are syncing an Obsidian vault, editing desktop files, giving agents live connector tools, or tracking model usage in chat, this release pushes Nowing closer to a full knowledge-work operating layer.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
v0.0.19 brings a new AI resume builder into Nowing, giving users a practical way to turn structured information into polished, previewable PDF outputs. This release also improves the anonymous chat experience across cross-site deployments, adds desktop startup options, strengthens accessibility, and tightens several dashboard interactions for a faster, cleaner product experience.
Turn your knowledge and profile details into export-ready resume documents.
v0.0.19 expands Nowing beyond search and chat into deliverable creation. With the new AI resume builder, PDF previews, stronger anonymous chat behavior, and desktop startup controls, Nowing becomes more useful both in the browser and as a daily desktop companion.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
If you've ever wanted to try an online ChatGPT alternative or a free AI chatbot like ChatGPT without creating an account, v0.0.16 is for you. This release makes Nowing instantly accessible with a no-login online experience, adds durable long-term memory for users and teams, brings full token-usage visibility to every chat, introduces AI file sorting, and ships a brand-new knowledge base export feature. It turns Nowing into an even more practical free alternative to ChatGPT for real knowledge work.
Nowing agents now actually remember.
Token visibility is now first-class.
v0.0.16 makes Nowing the easiest open source AI assistant to actually try: zero friction, no login, online. Whether you're searching for a ChatGPT alternative free online, a free Claude AI alternative, or a NotebookLM alternative you can self-host, Nowing v0.0.16 is built for you.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
This release continues to push Nowing as a fully self-hostable, open source ChatGPT alternative and NotebookLM alternative for teams who care about where their data lives. v0.0.15 is all about bringing your local files into the knowledge base effortlessly and making the Nowing desktop app a first-class always-on assistant.
Your files already live in folders. Now Nowing can watch them.
We've rebuilt how Nowing turns raw files into searchable knowledge.
The Nowing desktop app becomes a serious always-on AI like ChatGPT that actually sees your screen, without leaving your current window.
If you've been looking for a tool that works across your cloud connectors and your local machine, v0.0.15 is exactly that. It's also one of the most compelling NotebookLM alternatives and free ChatGPT alternatives for private team use, with full control over your data, your parsers, and your models.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
This release pushes Nowing further as an open source, privacy-first, self-hostable knowledge platform and a serious ChatGPT alternative for teams. It ships two major connectors (Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive), a new approval system for sensitive AI actions, a full report generation and export pipeline, a brand new desktop app, a one-command self-hosted installer, and a faster real-time sync backbone.
Nowing now treats every sensitive AI action as an explicit, reviewable step. This is the right default when you're letting an AI agent send emails, create calendar events, or edit tickets on your behalf.
v0.0.14 is one of the largest Nowing releases to date. If you're looking for a NotebookLM alternative or comparing free alternatives to ChatGPT that you can actually self-host, this release is built for you.
Nowing connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
This update brings public sharing, image generation, a redesigned Documents page, and numerous bug fixes.
Nowing is your AI-powered federated search solution, connecting all your knowledge sources in one place.
This release brings major improvements to collaboration and user experience. We've completely redesigned the main interface to be chat-first, introduced real-time notifications and live collaboration features, and added a powerful commenting system with @mentions. These changes make Nowing faster, more intuitive, and better for team collaboration.
This release transforms Nowing into a truly collaborative, real-time platform with a redesigned interface that puts chat front and center. The addition of comments, @mentions, and live collaboration features makes it easier than ever for teams to work together without leaving the app.
Nowing is your AI-powered federated search solution, connecting all your knowledge sources in one place.
This release focuses on connectivity and ease of use for your enterprise search software. We've begun a comprehensive UX overhaul, streamlining how you connect your data sources, alongside a fully responsive mobile interface that lets you access Nowing's AI enterprise search capabilities from anywhere.
Nowing is an open-source AI enterprise search solution that connects all your knowledge sources, from Google Drive to Slack to meeting notes, in one intelligent, federated search platform. Whether you're looking for enterprise search software for your team or a personal knowledge assistant, Nowing delivers powerful enterprise search solutions with the flexibility of self-hosting.
🚀 Connect more, search smarter!
This release introduces the Nowing Agent, a shift from pre-determined workflows (DAG) to dynamic, LLM-driven decision making.
Nowing is an AI-powered federated search solution that connects all your knowledge sources in one place.
🎄 Merry Christmas from the Nowing team!