Silo Changelog

• Pages that ask before acting, such as "Discard this draft?" or "Leave without saving?", show their dialog again. These dialogs were dropped, and the page behaved as if you had cancelled.

• The file chooser opens again when a page asks for a file, such as attaching to an email in Gmail or uploading to Drive. Drag and drop always worked; the chooser button did nothing.

Silo is now a native Mac app on the Mac's own web engine instead of a bundled browser. Same Google apps, same profiles, same license.

• Much smaller and lighter: the app is about 4 MB instead of 310 MB, the download about 2 MB instead of 131 MB, and it uses far less memory.
• Your profiles, pictures, apps and zoom levels come across from Silo 1, and your license stays activated. Google needs a fresh sign-in in each profile, once.
• Sign-in works as it does in Safari; no more browser workarounds.
• Google's "Choose Chrome" cards are dismissed for you.
• Downloads ask where to save, show progress on the Dock icon, and post a notification that reveals the file.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Macs on older versions stay on 1.3.5.

• The first profile can be edited like any other: rename it, give it a picture, choose its apps. Any profile can be deleted as long as one is left.
• Deleting a profile signs it out and removes its Google data from this Mac. Deleting the profile you are on moves Silo to the next one.
• Profile pictures show up. Silo keeps its own copy of the picture you choose, so pictures from iCloud Drive, Desktop or Documents no longer appear blank.
• Clicking your profile picture in the sidebar opens a menu to switch profiles, instead of opening Settings.
• Settings has two tabs, Profiles and Notifications, so each shows on its own. Manage Profiles in the profile menu opens the Profiles tab.

• Zoom is remembered. Each Google app keeps its own zoom level, separately for each profile, across launches. Cmd+0 forgets it.
• Clicking a notification opens the app it came from. Click a new mail notification while Calendar is showing and Silo switches to Mail.

• Silo now asks for notification permission the first time it runs. macOS only asks when an app first shows a notification, so in 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 the question did not come until a download finished or new mail arrived, and until then Silo was missing from System Settings > Notifications. If you are on one of those versions, finishing any download brings up the question.
• Settings has a Notifications section. macOS notifications for new mail need notifications allowed for Silo and New mail notifications turned on in Gmail, in each profile. Each has a button that opens the right place, and clicking the first-launch notification opens Settings.
• A notification that macOS refuses is now logged instead of vanishing.

• Cmd+P in Mail with no email open (or with Gmail in a language other than English) used to print the whole Gmail window. Silo now says to open an email first, and offers Print This Page if that is what you wanted.
• The first update delivered by Silo's own updater.

The first version sold as a product. (1.3.0 was tagged but never built: the release run failed at signing, so no 1.3.0 exists anywhere.)

New

• 14-day free trial, then a license key from Lemon Squeezy. One key activates Silo on 2 Macs. Silo menu > License shows the days left, takes a key, and deactivates a Mac so the key can move to another one.
• When the trial ends, Silo opens on the License screen instead of Gmail. Profiles and Google sign-ins are left alone, so entering a key picks up where you left off.
• Silo now updates itself. It checks at launch and every 6 hours, downloads in the background, and asks before restarting. Check for Updates is in the Silo menu.

Changed

• Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 13 or later. Intel Macs are no longer supported, which halves the download to about 125 MB.
• Electron 39 to 44.
• The bundle id is now com.inklinglabs.silo. macOS treats 1.3.1 as a new app, so on a Mac that had an earlier version, choose Silo as the default email app again (Silo menu). Profiles and Google sign-ins carry over.
• Copies of 1.2.3 and earlier have no updater. Download 1.3.1 once from https://inkling-labs.com/silo/download; after that updates arrive on their own.

Privacy

• Silo now makes two kinds of connections of its own: license checks to Lemon Squeezy (the key, this Mac's name, and an activation id; at most once every 7 days) and update checks to inkling-labs.com. Still no tracking and no analytics.
• A licensed Mac that is offline keeps working for 30 days between checks.

• New app icon: the eclipse mark.

• No change to the app. First release through the Inkling Labs standard release flow.

• Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. Silo opens with a double-click, with no security warning and no right-click workaround.
• Runs under the macOS hardened runtime.

New

• Cmd+P prints the open email as a formatted page instead of the whole window. Outside Mail it prints the page.
• Clicking the profile you are already on in Settings returns you to the view you were using.
• New app icon.

Fixed

• Google sign-in is no longer blocked by "This browser or app may not be secure".
• Printing an email no longer triggers the open-location prompt or Google's popup blocker warning. Popups that belong to the current app open directly in Silo.
• The app identifies as "Silo" everywhere (product name, user agent, support folder).

New

• Silo can be your default email app. A mailto: link anywhere on your Mac opens a Gmail compose window with the address, subject and body filled in. Turn it on with Set as Default Email App in the Silo menu.
• Gmail's unread count shows as a Dock badge, with a dot on the sidebar mail icon.
• Downloads show progress on the Dock icon and post a notification when done. Click it to reveal the file in Finder.
• Right-click a misspelled word for suggestions and Add to Dictionary.
• Zoom the current view with Cmd+Plus, Cmd+Minus and Cmd+0.

Changed

• Apps load on first visit instead of all at launch, which roughly halves startup weight and idle memory.
• Signing in no longer restarts the whole window. Other views refresh to pick up the new session.

Fixed

• Google Workspace sign-in being rejected with "browser doesn't support JavaScript".

Security

• Stricter domain matching, so lookalike domains cannot render inside the app.
• Popup and compose windows follow the same link policy as the main views.
• The settings page and internal IPC reject malformed input.