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Never the same money twice
We found a whole day of purchases in Artha twice. The cause was a slow connection: an import reached Artha, the answer never came back, and pressing Import again saved everything again. Now every statement line keeps a fingerprint, so importing a statement again, or sending it twice, adds nothing, even after you rename or recategorize the first copy, while two real purchases on the same day still both come in. Adding something that looks like one already there asks first, and a Possible duplicates card on Activity finds older doubles for you to remove or keep. Statement import gained Select All, and everyone testing the apps on TestFlight now keeps Artha Pro free for good. On the website now, and in the newest beta build of the apps.
Pins you can always spot
A tester told us they could not tell where their pinned mail ended. So every pinned email now carries its pin and a soft tint wherever it appears, and the rest of Primary starts under its own Everything Else heading. Fold the Pinned section and its heading still says who is in it, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. In the beta now.
A calmer mailbox
After looking closely at how Gmail, Outlook, Fastmail and Spark lay out a mailbox, Corres stopped repeating itself. Pinned mail now sits only at the top of Primary, and other mailboxes keep your pins in place by date. Needs You leads each email with why it needs you, then the subject. On the Mac, section headings stay at the top as you scroll, and a pinned email always keeps its own row, so clearing out a sender never sweeps it away. In the beta now.
Proton Mail on the Mac, signed mail you can trust, and calmer settings
Corres for Mac now works with Proton Mail through Proton Mail Bridge, and asks you to confirm Bridge’s certificate rather than trusting anything blindly. Signed work email shows who signed it once Corres has checked the signature and the sender, on your device. Settings were regrouped so the Daily Brief, rules and snooze times are where you would look for them, and a full review of the app fixed some eighty smaller things, from drafts keeping their attachments to long tables of numbers never slowing Corres down. In the beta now.
Reports that count what has happened
Artha’s Reports now stop at today, so a bill due later in the month isn’t counted as spent before it is, and it shows on its own line as still to come. Today’s spent figure works the same way. Income shows who paid you when it’s all in one category, Spending tells you when much of it isn’t sorted yet and offers a quick way to sort it, and Cash flow shows how your net worth moved over the same stretch. The forecast now sets aside the same monthly share as what’s safe to spend, and budget alerts, reminders and emails arrive in the language you use Artha in. On the website now, and in the next beta build of the apps.
A month that starts on payday
If you’re paid once a month, Artha can now start your month on payday instead of the 1st: a date you choose, or the last or second-to-last working day, moved earlier when it lands on a weekend, Friday and Saturday weekends included. What’s safe to spend, the pace chart, Plan and the widgets then count to your next payday, while Reports and the month in review stay on calendar months. It’s offered once, only to people it fits, and the switch is in Settings. On the website now, and in the next beta build of the apps.
Money set aside for the bills that come once a year
A bill can now repeat every three or six months, once a year or on any cycle up to twelve months, and Artha puts a share of it aside each month, so the month it’s due doesn’t knock your number down. A savings goal can come out of what’s safe to spend the same way. Today now shows one card at a time instead of a stack, Reports has its own tab, and Activity can show the month as a calendar, each day shaded by how it went against an even pace. Money a friend pays back counts against what you spent on them, a #tag in a note gathers a trip or a project, and every way to log spending on its own now sits in one place, with the best one for where you live first. On the website now, and in the next beta build of the apps.
Go through what needs you, with a reply ready
Corres can now take you through Needs You one email at a time: reply, mark it handled, snooze or archive it, and the next one opens, until everything is clear. When an email asks you something, a reply in your own style is waiting in it, written on your device and never sent or saved without you. Search understands from:, subject:, before: and the other filters people know from Gmail, and can stay inside the mailbox you are in. Promotions and Updates show one row per sender, and every notification setting now lives on one page. In the beta now.
Rewrites on the Mac, in your own voice
Corres for Mac can now rewrite what you wrote: shorter, warmer, more formal or proofread, on your Mac, from the toolbar or the Format menu. It only touches your own words, never the email you’re answering or your signature, and one Undo takes it back. Shorter and warmer keep how you write, on the iPhone too. In older plain-text emails whose lines were cut at a fixed width, the sentence behind a reason in Needs You now comes back whole, in Japanese and Chinese as well as English. In the beta now.
A month in review, a debt plan and your subscriptions
At the start of each month Artha now offers a look back: what you spent and kept, how it compared with your budget and a usual month, and where most of it went, with a picture to share that carries no amounts. Plan can now map a way out of debt, highest rate first or smallest balance first, with a slider that shows how much sooner an extra payment gets you there. It also lists your subscriptions with what each costs a year and links to the official page for cancelling the common ones. Wealth now holds the shares, funds and crypto you own, at prices you enter. On the website now, and in the beta apps.
Starting on the Mac, and names that read right
Corres for Mac now starts the way the iPhone does: choose your email service, see what Google will show before you sign in, and watch Corres read your newest mail, then see what needs you. Over the first week, one small card a day helps you set it up. Without Pro, Needs You shows how many emails need you and why the first few do. Tap a reason and its sentence is marked in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Bengali and Ukrainian mail too, and mail sent without a name now shows who it’s from, Erie County Water Authority rather than “Ecwa”.
Purchases from your bank’s texts
Artha can now log a purchase from the text your bank sends, with no bank login and no service in between. A Shortcuts automation hands each text to Artha, and your iPhone checks it first, so anything that isn’t a bank alert never leaves the phone. It works with any bank, including the banks in Bangladesh and India that text every card purchase, set up once on a word your bank’s purchase texts always use, and only the purchase is saved, never the message. Your bank’s alert emails can log purchases too, forwarded to a private Artha address. Stopping a bill in Plan now clears its upcoming copies, renaming one keeps it a single bill, and when Artha asks to use AI it now says Allow or Don’t Allow and names Anthropic’s Claude. In the beta now.
Needs You in every language
The sharper Needs You now reads mail in all 29 languages Corres speaks, so a signature request, a failed payment or a bill due comes first whichever language it’s written in, and codes and support replies stay out. Pinned mail on the Mac now sits in its own section that folds away, and a crash some testers saw on opening Corres is fixed.
Apple Pay logging in a few taps
Making every Apple Pay purchase log itself used to mean building a Shortcuts automation by hand. On iOS 27, Artha now hands you a ready-made shortcut with everything already connected: add it, turn it on, and pay once. On earlier versions the guide opens Shortcuts in the right place and walks through each step, and it tells you as soon as the first purchase arrives. The new start and setup from a statement are in testing now.
Start from a bank statement
Getting started with Artha now asks its three questions before the account, and the account only needs a name, an email and a password. Or drop in up to three bank statements and Artha fills in your pay and bills and brings the transactions in, still with no bank login. You add a first purchase and watch your number move, the first week brings one small thing a day, and a streak of days on pace can be shared as a picture with no amounts on it.
The first five minutes, and a sharper Needs You
Starting Corres now shows instead of tells. Choose your email service, watch Corres read your newest mail on your iPhone, see what needs you with the reason for each, then clear a practice email with your own swipe. Notifications are asked for only after that. Needs You was checked against thousands of real emails and retuned, so receipts, codes and support desks stay out and bills, signature requests and deadlines come in. Pinned mail now sits in a section you can fold, so it never pushes new mail down.
Your real number in about a minute
Starting Artha no longer means a blank screen. Three quick questions, what you get paid, the bills that repeat and how much you want to keep, and you see what’s safe to spend for the rest of the month, with no bank login. Every question can be skipped, and a Getting started card on Today keeps the rest until it’s done: a first purchase, a statement or Apple Pay, a reminder, an account.
Ready for 1.0, and made for iPhone Duo
The build we plan to send to the App Store as 1.0 is with testers. On iPhone Duo, Corres keeps the email’s buttons on the side bar when it’s closed, and puts your mail and the open email either side of the fold when it’s open. Emails have more room to read, tapping a reason in Needs You opens the email with its sentence marked, and trackers stay blocked even after you show images. Its privacy policy now says how long every record is kept and every way to delete it, and a new switch erases Corres’s choices from your iCloud.
The basics, before anyone has to ask
Artha now works without a connection, and a purchase you add offline, Apple Pay ones included, goes through once you’re back. Money moving between your own accounts can be marked as a transfer, changing your email waits for a link sent to the new address, and you can sign out of every other device. An evening reminder to log and a Sunday summary are there if you want them. Credits on a card statement now count as money back, the assistant answers from whole months of totals, and the icons and labels read more clearly.
Made for iPhone Duo, and your own categories
Unfolded, iPhone Duo shows Artha with a sidebar like an iPad, and any iPhone now turns sideways. Make categories of your own with an emoji, hide every amount with one tap, import several statements at once with an account made from each, and choose light or dark for Artha alone.
Right to left, and counting properly
Corres now speaks Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Romanian, Arabic and Hebrew, twenty-nine languages in all. Arabic and Hebrew read right to left, with swipes that follow your finger, and every language counts the way it should, from Polish few and many to the Arabic dual.
Twenty-three languages, and a cleaner inbox
Corres now speaks Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Traditional Chinese, Canadian French, European Portuguese and British, Australian and Canadian English, and reads bills and deliveries written in them. You can also move everything from a sender to Trash or the archive in one go, with an undo, and sign your mail with your logo.
The Brief on your Home Screen and your wrist
The Daily Brief is now a widget on the Home Screen and the Mac desktop, and sits at the top of Apple Watch and on the watch face. Its morning notification no longer skips a day. Dates are read the way the sender writes them, your own last message shows what you asked, and mail is sent over Apple’s own secure connection.
Every picture, and a Brief that reads your month
Emails now open the way their sender made them, with the pictures and text that Corres used to miss. The short line at the top of each email was rebuilt and checked against thousands of real emails, and the Daily Brief now reads a month of mail for today’s plans, bills, deliveries and the replies you owe.
Money the way you write it
Amounts get their commas as you type, rupees and taka are written in lakhs, and a phone set to Bengali or Hindi can type its own digits. Adding a house you already owned no longer shows as net worth jumping overnight.
Artha on Apple Watch
Safe to spend in a pace ring on your wrist, a number pad for a cash purchase, and complications for the watch face. Search now reads months in eight languages, and a refund counts against what it refunds.
Deadlines in every language
Corres now reads deadlines, receipts, deliveries, sign-in codes and questions in all nine of its languages, follows your region’s weekend for Snooze and Send Later, and shows mail in older Japanese, Chinese and Korean encodings in full. An optional Brief at the top of Needs You lists what’s due today, and Corres for Mac gained Undo Send.
A proper home for the studio
anwarcreativestudio.com is now the company site of Anwar Creative Studio: who we are, what we make, how to reach us, and the legal pages to go with it. Artha gained a public front page and its own terms on the same day.
Thirty-six builds in
The newest Corres betas keep what you do offline: mail written without signal is kept and sent the moment you are back online, and your moves, snoozes and rules merge between your devices. Search is about ten times faster on a big mailbox.
Corres on Apple Watch
Read what needs you on your wrist and reply by voice. Send Later and today’s deliveries also reach the Lock Screen, and Siri can write and send an email in Corres.
Artha for iPhone, iPad and Mac, in beta
The native Artha app went to TestFlight, with a Mac version a day later. It opens on what’s safe to spend, and shares one design language with the website.
Nine languages
Corres now speaks Japanese, Chinese, German, Korean, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Bengali as well as English.
corres.app, and Corres for Mac
Corres got its own website, and a native Mac app joined the iPhone and iPad versions on TestFlight.
iCloud Mail and any IMAP account
A new mail engine of our own brings iCloud Mail and other IMAP accounts into the same inbox as Gmail and Outlook.
Outlook joins Gmail
One mail app across Gmail and Outlook, with every account in a single inbox or one at a time.
Corres reaches its first testers
The first Corres beta went out on TestFlight, less than three weeks after the first line of code.
Work on Corres begins
An email app that answers the first question of the morning: which of these need me?
Artha begins
The first version of Artha, a personal finance dashboard, built because no budgeting app would say how much was safe to spend.
Logos, screenshots and the fact sheet are in the press kit.