What's new in Tuple

Added

• Speaking-while-muted notification — get a heads-up with an "Unmute Me" action when you start talking while muted
• Tuple now lets you know if your audio output device is muted during a call
• "Mute Audio" action in the launcher, grid, and toolbar participant menus
• "Ask to Unmute" action in the screen-sharing window and webcam window participant menus
• "Ask to Share Webcam", "Ask to Unmute", and "Mute Audio" are now available in the compact webcam view participant dropdown

Changed

• Lowered the screen share minimum bitrate floor so screen share can throttle further under congestion without starving audio
• Webcam window in conversation mode redesigned for smoother layout and animations

Fixed

• Incorrect layout in the conversation mode when joining a call with participants sharing their webcams
• Spurious empty annotation when the emoji picker was open
• High CPU usage when viewing the screen share window

Added

• Sending GIFs: you can now send animated GIFs via the reactions menu when viewing a shared screen. Because why not?
• Alternate menu bar icon: choose between the Tuple logo and our cute lil' "Pear Buddy"
• Pick-window mode: in the partial screen share chooser, you can now set the screen share boundaries to match the dimensions of a specific window. Note that this just sets the screen share boundaries - if the window moves or gets hidden, the boundary won't change.
• Emoji picker support for text annotations
• Caller's email is now shown in incoming call notifications

Changed

• Zoom modifier changed from Command to Option, so it no longer clashes with Cmd+V paste or Ctrl+Cmd+Space emoji insertion
• Faster reconnection after a network drop
• Toolbar is now more visible in light mode

Added

• Support for annotations in Wayland: the annotation overlay now renders natively in Wayland! Be sure to set XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland to enable this functionality.
• New CLI commands: we've added call (to call a favorite contact), ls (to list contacts), and favorite $USER_ID (to favorite a contact). See more in our docs.
• App icon: Tuple now has an icon 😅 This should make it way easier to find Tuple in your task bar / app switcher
• Email address shown in incoming call window
• Error message when screen capture fails
• X11 vsync support

Changed

• Incoming call window has been redesigned

Fixed

• Crash that could happen after logging out
• Crash on the Sound Check window

Added

• Integrated text annotations: We've made it possible to add text annotations while drawing - just start typing with the drawing tool selected. This works when viewing a shared screen, and when sharing your own screen. We've also updated the visual styling on text annotations.
• Push-to-talk hotkey
• HID device support for hotkeys
• You can now decline calls with a message

Changed

• Make veiled windows opaque
• Added more efficient pooling of resources when resizing/resampling video frames on the GPU.
• Smoother line drawing
• Incoming call window redesign
• Status item in call redesign
• Annotations persist by default for new users
• Improved cursor color contrast
• The drawing tool is selected by default when viewing a shared screen

Fixed

• Fixed a time unit mismatch that may affect audio echo cancellation
• Changed audio initialization order to reduce artifacts at the beginning of the call
• Clicks on status item secondary displays unmuting unexpectedly
• Coalesced call notifications disappearing when first user's notification is cancelled.